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Year: 1871

Burleigh tells this story in the Bos
ton JouyHoi:. Coming up in the cars,
quite an amusing incident occurred
The palace cars need custom The
common cars are few and crowded, and
those who would be comfortable arc
compelled to pay extra. and have seat
in the palace saloon. Several gentlemen
stood. A lady took whole seat to her
self, and piled up her baggage on the
spot whore weary gentlemen would be
glad to repose. The lady left her seat
for a moment and went to the rear, \
gentleman at once went for it, piing
the bags on the seat the lady had occu
pied, and sat down. All watched the
operation. Soon the lady came on with
a quick step. She came to halt and
said : Sir, you have my seat. Il think
not your luggage is on your seat |
have had the seat all the way from
Albany. Yes, ma am, and [ have
stood all the way from Albany, and |
intend to ride the rest of the way to
Rutland. Not an inch did the woman
bulge; she held her ground iull ten
minutes. The intruder was quietly
rcading-.the only one in the car not
absorbed in the affair. The silence was
painful. AT last the woman gave way
In huff, she seized her bundles, made
for the palace car. and paid for all the
room she occupied. Her eAit was at
tended with short, sharp cheer, and
the audience recovered"
Year: 1871

often occupy the prominent places in
their early calendar. They are often
sorely in need Of money, and they are
strongly tempted to abandon their hard
pursuit of remote success, and turn
into the hy~way, where easy incomes
are to be acquired with little effort
But if they hold on they will in the
end achieve both fortune and reputation
enough to compensate for all their self
denial There are many men found
lamenting in later life that they did
not select that vocation which their
youthful instincts and preferences indi


Gated them to be best fitted for; they


turned away from their callings to
serve temporary purpose, and never


return to them Such rcproaches may


be spared by beginning right, and pur-
suing the wall>known course to the end,


Life is too short to be fvittcd away in
varied pursuits There is a place III
the world for every man, and it should
be his object to gil that place CON
plctely, and leave other places to other
PERSONS.
Year: 1871




AS rule every young man should
adopt that vocation in life for which he
is best fitted he should DO thar which
he can do best. What this is will pretty
surely be revealed to him by the cx,
preston of his aptitude. There are
many youths Of versatile geuiu- who
seem to have an equal capacity for all
calllngs, and no especial aptitude for
any; and We sometimes encounter one
who seems to be unit for nything, and
out Of whom nothing can be made.
There are few of the latter class, and
concerning them we have nothing to
advise. The versatile, all sided class
may select their vocation at random,
or yield themselves mp to the influence
and direction of accidents if they will
their talents will guarantee them
against failure, provided, after they
have chosen their profession or trade,
they stick faithfully to it, aud turn all
their versatile capacities into the pur
suit Of it. But the great mass Of young
men develop a desire or preference for
a particular calling this preference is
the safe instinct to follow it is the
fuger- board that points out the road
for one to pursue, and as general rule
the road it points out ought to be
adopted. The difficulty is, that in this
impatient age the first thing he desires
to do after he reaches The age OF
twenty -one. is to make money; and in
obeying this impulse he is apt to lose
sight of the calling that he is best fitted
for. The laborIous trades aud profess
sons and trades that require much
study and experience do not yield
money at the beginning; their harvests
are in the future and the temptation
to abandon them aud turn to the vari-
Gus vocations that require little prepar-
alton and that yield fair income at the
outset, is hard to resist. But it ought
to be remembered that he is not the
most successful in the end who com
mences to be successful frs:. The
smart boy who begins to make money
while yet in his teens, and is pointed
out as an example to others, very fire.
quently fails to exhibit proportionatc
capacity as a man, as preeocious talent
soon exhausts itself, and the smart boy
does not become smart man. The
cases in which men have met with any
very decided success in any occupation
or profession have almost always been
those for which they have shown
great prediction and they have en-
gagged in it frequently under the most
discouragiDg circumstances, and pur
sued it persistently, when ordinary men
would have abandoned 1t in despair
They found their reward in their labor;
and if they were progressing towards
their goal, it mattered little to them
whether they were accumulating a
golden store or not. They work for the
future, taking good care to make dill
gent use of the present, we'll satisfied
that the future would bring its reward
Such men hardly need to be pointed to
their goal it is shrined in their inmost
hearts; what they most need is words
or encouragement and cheer, coupled
with suggestive advice lest they faint by
the wayslde in the dark days which 50
Year: 1871

THE plan of hanging little basket on
the front door, to receive the cards of New
Years callers is becomming yearly more
general. The Albany Ecening Journal
tells the following story of a practical joke,
which this custom enabled young man to
play upon some young ladies of that city:


"There was one heartless joke played
New Years of which we must make men
ton. 1t deserves universal scorn and how
can it get its deserts sooner than by being
told of, and held up in these columns? At
the house of one of our most wealthy and
generous hearted citizens, ample prepara-
tions were made for the reception of guests.
Three young ladies of much individual
and collective bewilderment, wore their
brightest eyes, their most climacteric
clothes, their fashiest jewels for the de-
lectation of callers, a table containing
everything to tempt the palate in the way
of fish, flesh and towel was set out, and
everything good to drink that didn't make
mock was in abundance. And yet, al
though the host had troops of friends, al
though the hostess and her charming
daughters were petted in many circles and
general favorites, they had no calls until
| nearly 8 o'clock in the evening, and, when
! the house was closed, a lis6 which should
have contained at least one hundred and
| fifty names showed some twenty five re-
cords.


"The strange state of things was pro-
duced by the perpetration of the heartless
joke of which we spoke. A young gentle
man, a friend of the family quietly went
to the door of the house where such
good time was expected, about noon, and
hung nice little basket on the door-bell,
smiled, and passed off OF course, would
be callers saw the basket, desposited cards,
and withdrew. About o'clock, an old
uncle of the young ladies thought he'd go
in anyway, basket or no basket, and he did
SO. Finding his nieces with red eyes, as if
they had been weeping, the old uncle beg
ged to apologize for coming in-in spite of
the basket. In flash the mystery OF their
uncalled-for solitude was unveiled, and the
basket was taken in--with no pet name al
lusion to the young gentleman who hung
it there Not pet name for him indeed,
one of the young ladies remarked, with
flashing eyes, that she thought 'twouldi
serve him right to treat him as he had
treated the basket"
Year: 1871

THE following from the New York
.J0urndI Of Commerce. is well adapted to
every locality: There is far too much
negligence, everywhere, about the pay
ment Of small amounts of money 1t not
unfrequently happens that men will have
a small account charged, when they have
money sufficient in their pockets to pay it,
and subject the creditor to the trouble of
sending it for collection when he needs il,
taking the chance Of learning the debtor
is away from his place of business, or from
home, and perhaps subjecting him to the
imputation of being in a needless hurry
for payment


More attention to this point, and es-
pecially by those to whom the time of
payment is smmategial, who can pay at
one time as well as another, would be u
vast improvement upon the present mode
of many persons in doing business.


The prompt payment of small bills is a
matter of much more importance than is
generally attached to it. There are not a
few who, in times when business has been
a little depressed, and the prospects for the
future seem more than unusually unsettled,
will hold on to their cash in hand, and tell
all the collectors who wait upon them
with overdue bills to " call again." while
the payment would not give them any
serious inconvenience and would greatly
accommodate large and deserving class
of creditors.


Indeed, we know of nothing that in a
! quiet way would go so far to give life to
! the markets throughout the country as the
universal payment of these obligations at
the first opportunity. If all the little
debts, for the discharge of which the
debtors now have the cash in hand. were
paid at once, the wheels Of business would
be fabricated, and general jollity" soon
prevail throughout the land. The first
serious effect of any public excitement
comes from the sudden check of these
! little streams. 1t is true that large trans
actions are arrested, but if everybody went
| to paying these little debts the check
would be but momentary, as business
would be forced along by the current thus
continually renewed Let every one whose
eyes fall ON these lines pay out his ready
money for bills he knows to be due, and
stop not until his pocket be emptied,
Probably before this is realized the re-


turn current will reach his pocket too, and
he will be able TO fulfil all his obligations


there is as much money as ever Who
stops its flowY Let it move on by q
prompt payment of all bills now due, and
new business will catch the inspiration
and start off upon fresh gallop.
Year: 1871

The last number of the Rocky Mountain Herale received at this office bears 8 faint resemblance to tract of land shattered by an earthquake. The columns run erosswise and every other way. It would seem as though the pressman had pulled the stainless sheet from bis pAntaloons pocket, placed it on the form" printed and reprinted it, and then stretched it into shape. Did you see that sheet Ere. GoIdrlekf It is marvel
Year: 1871

Brides and bridegrooms of 1871 may
be amused by the description of the
toilet of couple on their wedding day
one hundred years ago. To begin with
the lady, her locks were strained up
ward in an immense cushion, that sat
like an incubus upon her head, and
plastered over with pomatum, and then
sprinkled over with white powder. The
height of this tower was somewhat
over foot. One single white rosebud
lay on it's top, like an eagle on hay
stack. Over her neck and on her bo.
som was folded lace handkerchief,
fastened in front with a bosom-pin,
rather larger than copper cent, con-
tanning her grandfather's miniature .set
in virgin gold. She was braced up in
satin dress, the sleeves as tight as the
natural skin on her arm, with waist
formed by bodice, worn outside,
whence the skirt flowed off and was
fastened at the top by an ample loop.
Shoes of white kid, with peaked toes,
and heels of two or three inches eleva-
ton, inclosed her feet and glittered
with spangles as her little pedal mem
bers peeped curiously out. Now for
the swain. His hair was sleeked back
and plentifully befoured, while his
queue projected like the handle to
skillet. His coat was sky blue silk
lined with yellow, his long vest of
satin embroidered with gold lace, his
breeches of the same material, and
tied at the knee with pink ribbons
White silk stockings and pumps with
laces and ties of the same hue COM
pleted the habiliments of his neither
limbs. Lace rufles, clustered around
the wrist, and portentous frill work
ed in correspondence, and bearing the
miniature of his beloved, finished his
truly genteel appearance.
Year: 1871

upon the flowers that bloomed without
and within-upon the glorious breadth
of blue sky.


And when strength came, and she
found hew beauties in the soft summer
sunshine, she became the companion
of the merchants sickly daughter, and
taught the child such lessons of love
and patience, that that sick room be-
came as her own had been, little
heaven on earth.
Year: 1871

Many of the wool growers wintered
their focks poorly last winter on the
ground that they could not afford to
feed them well, and probably have done
the same this winter. This, in our
opinion is cruel and suicidal policy.
Less returns are thus obtained from
given amount of food. Thirty half
starved sheep will produce less good
merchantable wool than twenty proper
ly kept ones; will lose twice or three
times as many by death; and will not
raise half as many lambs And what
farmer possessing a spark of humanity
is willing to see these poor defenseless
animals slowly growing thinner and
weaker-all of them tottering before
March closes many of the in-lambed
ewes incapable of raising with their
burthen, and dying in parturition. A
more painful spectacle of brute suffer
ing than a flock in such condition
near the close of winter, cannot be
witnessed, and we believe that moral
ity has a voice in this matter as well as
humanity.


Every flock master who has more
sheep than he can keep properly or sell,
should kill the surplus when winter
sets in, if he gets nothing from them
but the pelts.-Dr. Randall IN Rural
NeaO Yorker.
Year: 1871

Preserve the Young Forest Trees.


In almost every part of our country it
is the common practice to pasture the
lot which contains the reservation of
growing timber. Sheep, cattle and
horses eat every young tree as it starts
from the seed, SO that in few years
when the old trees are gone, none will
be growing to take their places. AS
man raises lambs, calves and colts to
perpetuate his live stock, SO he or his
will find it necessary to pre-
serve the young trees. Look out for
the wood-lot. If you have farm desti-
tute of growing timber, plant young
trees and take good care of them. By
so doing you will show love for your
country, and wise foresight for the COM
ing generation. n.-E,rcha,age
Year: 1871

The paths of pain are thine Go forth
With healing and with hope;
The suffering of sin-sick earth
Shall give thee ample scope
>,Inlte down the dragons, fell and str ong,
Whose breath Is fevef~ire;
No knight of fable or of song
Encountered foes more dire
The holiest task by heaven decreed,
An errand all divine,
The burden of our mortal need
To render less is thine. ~
No crusade thine for cross or grave
But for the living man.
= Go forth to succor and to save
All that thy skilled hands can.
Before the unveiled mysteries
Of life and death, go stand
With guarded lips and reverent eyes,
And pure of heart and hand.
So shalt thou be with power endued
From him who went about
The Syrian hill-paths, doing good
And casting devils out.
That holy helper iveth yet,
Thy friend and guide to be
The healer by Genesaret
Shall walk the rounds with thee


-TStton's Golden Age.
Year: 1871

A correspondent Of the Mobile Regis


ter says that common sense teaches,
that, after plant has exhausted itself
in the production of crop, it needs
recuperation. 1t is demand of nature
that cannot be disregarded with impu-
nifty. Therefore as soon as the straw
berry crop has been removed, every
thing calculated to rob the crop of it's
legitimate food must be destroyed, and
an additional supply provided. Either
remove or plough or spade in all the
grass, cultivate thoroughly, apply
good dressing of some appropriate fer
tilizer; keep the ground mellow during
the summer, and clip off all the runners
as fast as they appear. The next fall
the plants will strong and healthy, and
the reward will be a heavy crop of fruit
the ensuing season.
Year: 1871

The southern outrages committee
will not be prepared to report until after
holidays.


The WAYS and means committee have
had had one meeting, but the members
do not expect to proceed to business un-
til after the holiday recess.


The first official act of the new dis
trict of Columbia delegate was to present
a bill asking a grant of land of 100000
acres for school purposes.


The Fish h-Catacazy-C Curtin correspon-
dence was sent through mistake to the
committee room instead of to the presi-
dent of the Senate, where the newspaper
reporters got hold of it, and when Sena-
tor Cameron went for it he found it dis
tributed among them and they hard at
work making copies of it. He forbid the
publication of what they had taken.


-Messrs. Kelley of Pa, Hooper of
Mass, Conger of Mich, Lynch of Me.
Perry of O., Willard of VT, Wood of n.
Y, Marshall of H., and Holman of Ind
were announced as the select committee
on the reorganization of the civil service.


The Mormon question promises to be-
come the exciting one of the present
session.


The rumor in regard to Attorney
Genera Akerman's retirement has not in
it the merit even of novelty, to say moth
ing of truth. II the attorney general
chooses to send in his resignation it would
be as gladly accepted now as last spring.
when this rumor was put forth even more
parsistently than now.


A New England Senator will offer
resolution of inquiry into the extrava-
CANT course of expenditures for street i'm
provements entered upon by the board of
public works Of Washington. 1t is antici-
pated that the government will eventual
ly be compelled to pay the debts which
the local authorities here are now contract
ing for improvement purposes.


The new civil service committee ap-
poiuted in the House, do not expect great
things of themselves in the direction of
either work or reform. Leading mem
bcrs complain that the selections were
made by the speaker more on account OF
non.assiqnments elsewhere, than because
of any syecial taste or fines, for the du-
ties peculiar to this undertaking.
Year: 1871

sun AND OcEAN.-The following para
graph is from the description of a scene
witnessed in the north of Norway, from q
cliff one thousand feet above the sea:


The ocean stretched away in silent
vastness at our feet the sound of the
waves scarcely reached our airy lookout /;
away IN the north the huge old sun swung
low along the horizon. We stood silent.
looking at our watches. When both
hands came together at twelve, midnight,
the full round orb hung triumphsntly
above the wave, bridge of gold running
due north spanned the water between us
and him. There be shone in silent ma
jesty that knew no setting. Combine, if
you can, the most brilliant sunrise and
sunset you ever saw, and its beauties will
pale before the gorgeous colors which lit
up the ocean, heaven and mountain. In
half an hour the sun had SWING by per-
the colors changed to those of
morning, fresh breeze rippled over the
food, one songster after another piped mp
in the grove behind us-we had slid into
another day.
Year: 1871

The apples are lipa in the orchard,
The work Of the reaper is done,
And the golden woodlands redden
La the blood of the dying sun.
At the cottage door the grandsire


S t., pale, in his easy chair,
While gentle wind of twilight


Plays with his 81 yer hair.
A woman is kueeling beside him
A fair young head is pressed,
In the first wild pa sion of sorrow,
Against his aged breast.
And far from over the distance


The f+lt5ring echoes come
or the flying blast ofthe trumpet,
And the rafting roll of drum.
Then the grands're speaks, in a whisper
''The end no man can see
But we give him to his country


And we give our prayers 10 Thee"
The vioIets star the meadows,


The rose buds fringe the door
Aud over the grassy orchard


The pink-white blossoms pour.
But the grandsires chair is empty,
The cottage is dark and still;
There's a name'ess grave on the battlefield
And a new one under the hill.
And a pallid, fearless woman


By the cold hearth sits alone;
And the old clock in the corner


Ticks on with steady drone.
Year: 1871

Nothing presents a sadder commenta-
ry upon the present unhealthy condition
ofour once loved and prosperous country
than the large number of families, both
in the city and country, but more espe-
cially IN the latter, that subscribe toSno
paper of any kind. Hundreds and thou
sands of families are thus growing up in
utter ignorance of what is daily transpir-
ing in tho world around them-ignorant
of the mighty events of to-day.


But who can tell the vast amount of in
jury that is, being inflicted upon the rising
generaticn-thosa who are5to take our
places in the busy world at no distant
day-growing-up without any knowledge
of the present, the past, or any study
OF the future; and this ignorance, too,
being imbued into them by the sanction
of those who should, and doubtless do,
know better, did they only think of the
injurious effects of their insane course
Let the head Of every familythink Of this
and place in the hands Of those for whom
he is responsible the means Of acquiring
a thorough knowledge of the moving
panorama in which we enact our parts.
Year: 1871

gent fund to buy himself q cooking
stove, placing it in the lower room,
and warming the school room by tax
ing the pipe through to the chin
nev. He then installed his wife as
teacher Of her own children (and no
others), fixing the salary to please
himself. This man would make an
member of the; South Car
olina Scott Ring"
Year: 1871

easier to build two chimneys than to
keep one going. Ii you give all to
back and board, there is nothing left
for the savings bank. Fare hard and
work hard while you.are young, and
YOU have chance 10 rest when you
are old.
Year: 1871

This band of mysterious person
ages (says the Fairfield Herald, Sd,)
passed through our town on last Sat
urday night about u o'clock, We
are informed by those who saw them
that they were we'll mounted, not a
word could be heard from any oil
them, every movement was made in
silence. They were variously estl-
mated at from eighty to one hundred
and fifty.


On entering our office Sunday
morning we found tho following no
tice which we are ordered to publish


X X X
Year: 1871

BY request of one of the Oldest farmers


OF Morgan county who is stopping at my


house for day or So send you self


mixer which accidentally discovered, and
is within the reach of every person. So
tar have seen no person who has seen the
hen feather used, and it was original with me-


had COW that was about to calve and
required TO be MIXED, and her bag was
badly swollen and about to spoil. One of
her teatS was also badly cut, and could not
be MIXED by hand Myself and neighbors
tended her, and after working an hour or
So on one of her teats with common hair
pm, succeeded in getting it tolerably clean.
While working at this lcat for an hour or
50 thought that if | could only get some.
thing that would pass above the muscle or
the point uf the teat the milk would run
ont. SO sent Il boy to get me some chicken
feathers aud cut one rs the sample enclosed;
put it in, and found it a success | immedi-
ately put in twomore, and in n short time had
bag clean of milk and the three teats that
! used the quill on shrunk up and looked
natural, while the one | had been tuggino
NJ for an hour was swollen, and, compared
vita the others, looked $ though it had
not been MIXED at all.


This transpired on last Sunday. and on
Monday morning the cow had a calf. She
would not let the calf suck the cut teat
tied her up again and put in the quill, and
III n few minutes the sore teat was as clean
AS the others. | have no doubt but this
may have been used by others, but after
showing to old stock raisers around me
and finding them as ignorant as was about
it, | concluded that | had better let the
public have the advantage OF it, and maybe
it would do somebody as much good as it
did me, after working an nour or so on a
cows bag. ID. B. WATT.


Thc sample sent was Il small wing or
tail feather, the quill of which was one
inch long, aud its diameter, at the largest
part. was about one-nnth of an inch
About an eighth of an inch had been cut OFF
from the small end of the quill, the sides
being neatly rounded SO as not to injure |
the teat when it was put in place. On one
side of the other end of the quill a notch |
was cut for the milk to pass through. In
other respects the feather was entire, so
that it could be easily withdrawn. Eds. |
Prairie Farmer.