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Year: 1870

The following article has so
much truth and sound practical
sense in it, we give it a prominent
place in our editorial pages, and
commend it to the careful persual
OF every parent.-Ed. Farmer and
artisan.


In nine cases out Of ten, no
mans life will be a success unless
he bears burdens In his childhood.
If the fondness or vanity Of father
or mother has kept him from hard
work; If another always helred
him out at the end of his row if,
instead of taking his turn at pitch
ing off, he moved away all Of the
time--in short, If what was light
always fell to him, and what was
heavy about the work, to some one
else if lie has been permitted to
shirk till shirking has become q
habit unless miracle is wrought,
his life will be failure, and the
blame will not be half 80 much his
as that of poor, weak, foolish pa
rents.


On the other hand, if boy has
been brought up to do his part |;
never allowed to shirk any legiti.
mate responsibility, or permitted
to dodge, work, whether or not it
made bis back ache or soiled his
hand, until bearing heavy burdens
became matter of pride, the
heavy end Of the wood his from
choice-parents, a. they bid him
good. bye, may dismiss their fears.
His lite will not be q business fail.
ure. The elements of snccess are
his, and at some time and in some
way the world will recognize his
business capacity.


Take another point. Money ia
the object Of the worlds pursuits.
1t 10 an object. 1t gives bread and
clothing, and homes and comfort.
Tie world has not judged wholly
unwisely when il bas made the DO.
sition q man occupies to hinge
more or less on his ability to earn
money, and somewhat upon the
amount Of his possessions. If he
is miserably poor, it either argues
some defect in his business ability,
Year: 1870

some recklessness in his expendi.
lures, or q lack of fitness to- cone
with men in the great battle for
g, Id.


When a country.bred boy leaves
home, it is generally to enter up.
on some business, the end of which
is to acquire property, and he will
succeed just in proportion as he
has been made to earn and savein
childhood.


IT the money he has had come
OF planting q little patch in the
Spring, and selling it's produce af
ter months Of watching and toll in
tie Fall, or from Killing wood.
chucks at six cents a head or from
trapping muskrats, and selling
their skins for a shilling; setting
snares in the Fall for game, .and
walking miles to see them in the
morning before old folks were up !:
husking corn for neighbor, moon
light evenings, at two cents bush.
ell; working ont an occasional day
that hard work at home has made
possible-he is good to make his
pile in the world.


On the contr ary, if the boy ney.
er earned a dollar: if parents and
friends always kept him in spend
ing money-pennies to buy candies
and fish hooks, and to satisfy his
imagined wants-and he has grown
to manhood in the expectancy that
the world will generally treat him
with a similar consideration. he
will always be a make shift: and
the fault is not 30 much his as those
about him, who never made the
boy depend on himself did not
make him wait six months to get
money to replace q lost jack knife.


Everybody has to rough it at
one time or another. If roughing
comes in boyhood, it does good /; #
later, when habits are formed, it
is equally tough, but not being
educational, is entirely useless.
And the question whether young
man will succeed in making money
or not, depends not upon where he
goes or what he does, bnt upon his
willingness to do "his part" and
upon his having earned money,
and so gained a knowledge of it's
worth. Not 3 little Of this valua.
bie experience and knowledge the
country boy gets on the old farm,
under the tutelage of parents
shrewd enough to see the end from
the beginning, and to make the la
Dor and grief of children contri-
butte to the success of subsequent
life.-Hedrth and Home.
Year: 1870

To You've MEN.-Let tho bust.
OF every one alone and attend


to your own. Don't buy what
you don't want. Use every hour
to advantage, and study to make a
leisure hour useful. Look over
your books regularly. If a stroke
OF misfortune comes upon your
business, retrench, work harder,
but never fly the track. Confront
difficulties with unlinohing per.
severance and you will be honor
ed, but shrink and you will he de-
spised. Seek to acquire the pow
er of continuous application, with
out which you cannot expect sue.
cess. 1t You do this, yon will be
able to perceive the difference
which it creates between you and
those who have not such habits
Yon will not count yourself, nor
will they count you as one of them.
Thus you will find yourself emerg.
ing into the higher regions of in.
tellectual and earnest men-men
who are capable Of making place
for themselves, instead of stand.
ing idly gaping, desiring place
Year: 1870

this to each other. Renew the
vow at each temptation. You will
lind your account in It. Your souls
will grow as it were together, and
at last they will become as one.
All, If many young pair had on
their wedding. day known this se>
cret, how many marriages were
happier than, alas! they are!"
Year: 1870

A NEW loom, exhibited a few
days since at Providence, was
operated by the inventor in the
presence of large number of
manufacturers and business men,
and produced cl.th of the best
quality at the enormous rate of
1000 yards a day.
Year: 1870

LET no one suppose that by act
ing a good part through life he
will escape scandal. There will be
those even who hate them for the
very qualities that ought to pro-
cure esteem. There are some folks
in the world who are not willing
that others should be better than
themselves.
Year: 1870

VINO killed the most poultry Z
Hamlet's uncle, for he did "most
foul murder"


AUTUMN Leaves-The leaves
which people take of the country
every summer.


AN extremely "Serious turn
The twisting of ones neck.
Year: 1870

Rev. H. Ward Beecher, in a recent
sermon on the text Sufficient unto the
day is the gift thereof" said:


A man may take bearings by the head
lands away down the future, but only
that he may steer better to-day.


If wholesome industry drives man,
he will have enough to occupy his mind
and keep it in a healthy condition. A
ship under full headway steers easily,
and it is only when drifting that she is
unmanageable. Work is not a curse; it
is Gods medicine Adam and Eve
would have died, had they not been OBJ
iged to labor You cannot meddle with
tomorrow without subtracting from the
fidelity of to-day. Each hour is the
legitimate product of the hour which
went before it. If q man prepares for
tomorrow by making to-day right, he will
never have any trouble when tomorrow
arrives. He who is over-worked thinks
that he has no friends on arising in the
morning, but by noon, when his system
has been screwed up, he looks back at
the clouds of the morning with smile,
and says was fool.


Most all of our troubles are unreal and
imaginary. A broker once saw so many
chances for making money that he was
inclined to speculate, but after listening
to a friend one day, he promised to walk
within the legitimate channels OF his bus
mess. He, however, kept fictitious ac-
count of the stocks he would likely have
invested in, had he not given his pledge,
and at the end of three months he struck
balance, and great was his surprise to
find that he had lost four times the sum
necessary to bankrupt him. :,


Men are so conceited they imagine all
their thoughts are true. When trouble
actually comes, then the Lord will help
the sufferer to bear his burdens. There
is nothing which so rebukes those who
take forethought as dying. ! have seen
many families scattered, but have never
known the righteous to be forsaken. We
should never bear burdens until they are
laid upon us. When troubles come
Christ always comes with them. Where
are the troubles of last year? Those before
YOU are always the worst Many people
bring troubles back from the past.
"Ifs" are the dragons which haunt
mems lives. We need divine grace.
No man can be happy without being
aided by something more powerful than
his philosophy. will never leave nor
forsake thee, says the Lord. The Lord
is my shepherd" F" says the prophet We
should let God turn over the leaves in
the book of life, aud be content TO read
what is written thereon. tits enough to
know that we have q Father who will
watch and protect us unto the end.
Year: 1870

THE only daughter of an humble woman,
betrayed and deserted, went to ruin. Inces-
sanity that mother sought her child from
haunt to haunt, pleading and beseeching her
to return. If for moment she left home,
the key was with sympathizing neighbor,
who in turn watched for the daughter. Eight
long years that mother watched in prayer and
hope, sometimes losing all trace of her child,
but never doubling her ultimate restoration.
Eight long years and in the early gray of
winters morning she saw form fit by the
window and falter for moment. She opened
the door, "Frances, "said she, "you have come"
She took her in her arms and bore her to
that couch which had so long stood ready
She saw all the ravages OF sin and disease
and turned toward her the same look of un-
utterable love and pride that had rested


upon her in innocent girlhood; she cherished
and nourished and fondled her and brought
her up from the grave; she made no inquiries; !;
she bore herself in word and look as if there
never had been a moments separation.
"Mother," said this poor child in the first days
of her recovery, "Mother, reproach me-" II
can't" said the mother, II love you; love me
little in return" Such a mother, suing to
such daughter for little love! "Mother,"
said this child at another time, "if l recover
and 60 back to my old ways, what will YOU
dO?" Exactly what have always DONE"
answered that unfaltering mother. "Love
you, and pray for you, and seek after you."
She never went back. A mothers undying
love saved her. The little home, sanctfied
by the sacrifice of lifetime, became Beth
Year: 1870

FINE - SING SING PRIs0N.-At an early hour on
fry 4 morning o frame building used as o store
70 ON In connection with the buckle shop at Sing
ting Prison, was discovered to be on fire. and IN q
short time was totally destroyed. 1t is believed that
the building was willully fired by some OF the
c0nvlcts.


M0NsTFdoUs PARENT.-Wilan Berwick, q har-
ness maker aged forty, living at Yonkers, was ar
raigned before Justice Shannon. OF that village
last Friday, on warrant obtained by his
wife, charging MIN with q criminal assault
on the person OF HIS own daughter, aged
eleven years. The chiid's testimony was most re-
voting In its details, revealing the fact that her
worse than brute parent had first committed the
offence about two years snce ana terrified her into
keeping the guilty secret from her mother. This
libel ON the genus h0a0 1t appears, mas in
duiged his horrlfying propensity without intermis
sion until night or two ago, when ne came home
drunk and was detected by his wife In tue act OF
peatng the shocking crime The prisoner who is a
native OF this State admitted his guilt and fully
committed for the action OF the Grand Jury.
Year: 1870

Conspiracy.


Before Judge Barnard.


NARY Gotedn Us. John Goran.-Tn this case o
motion was made by Edwin James and A. J. Wander
poe counsel for the defendant for an order to sho
cause why referee should not be appointed by the
court TO inquire circumstances under which
the decree OF divorce was OBTAINED IN this case.
The aiiidavits alleged that conspiracy and subor-
nation OF perjury could be clearly established.
Some OF the witnesses who gave their testimony
before the referee now came forward and asserted
that the defendant was not the man, and that they
were deceived into making their statements by one
Henry Geston, who offered them money for their
testimony.


Counsel stated that they were prepared with other
aIfdavlts which they would not at present use, but
which would be read upon any Investigation the
Court might direct.


Judge Barnard granted the motion, returnable on
Monday next
Year: 1870

The counsel for Jack Reynolds IN r. Howc) has
recovered hts health and will be ready to proceed
with the trial OF his client tomorrow He had q
protracted interview with Reynolds yesterday at
the rOmbS
Year: 1870




The above rates are as low as those of
any first-class newspaper published


The social and political principles which
the New York EVENING PosT has SO long
and faithfully supported. it will continue
in the future to advocate What these
principles are. our readers well know;
they may be summed up in few words:
National Unity, State Independence, and
Individual Freedom and Equality of
Rights. The perpetuity and supremacy of
the Union. as the guaranty of our national
strength and glory; the Independence Of
the States. in all their local affairs. as the
guaranty against an oppressive and dam
gerouS Capitalization the Freedom and
Equality of the Individual, without regard
to birth or accident, as the rightful end of
all government, and the surest means of
social development, personal happiness
and national progress.


These principles the EVENING Posi- will
support and recommend to the people.
without regard to party associations. We
shall never support any party in its de-
partures from them, and shall endeavor,
so far as our influence extends, to cause
them to be recognized by men of all par
ties
Year: 1870

Single Copy one year - 10
Two Copies IS ss roo
Five Copies or over, for each copy 100


As newspaper, the EVENING Posi-,
edited by VIM. CULLEN BRYANT, as
sisted by an able corps of writers, will be
conducted with the same care which has
marked it hitherto, to exclude from all its
columns, those devoted to advertisements
as well as its reading columns. everything
which would offend against morality and
correct taste. 1t shall be the care of its
proprietors to see that all its departments
which liberal expenditure of money and
unflagging industry can command. Its
editorial discussions will be bipartisan,
and devoted to the elucidation and ad-
yancement of sound principles; its literary
criticisms shall be impartial. and as able
as we can make them; its foreign cores
pondence, which has been greatly inn
proved during the past year, will during
the present year be more varied and inter
esting than ever before; its home cores
pondence also, and especially that from
such central points of interest as Washing
ton and Albany, will be full and accurate.


Its financial and commercial reports,
which have made the paper necessity to
business men in all parts of the country,
shall be made with the same vigilance,
accuracy and impartiality which now
characterize them It's agricultural, ship
ping market and other reports shall be rs,
trustworthy and complete as industry and
the expenditure of money can make them.


In short, we mean our journal to be so
conducted that it shall be read with inter-
est and benefit by all the members Of the
family; and as it is one of


1 H e OIL E = It
it shall also be one of the best newspapers
published in America.
Year: 1870

Long experience and the utmost care are neceS-
sary to ensure good metal, even with knowledge
of the best Observation-Disclosures, the safest way
is to buy of the oldest established Foundry
Year: 1870

The white of an egg has proved OF late


the most eificacious remedy for barns.


Seven or eight successful applications "t
this substance soothes pain and ettectuallN


excludes the burned parts from the air


This simple remedy seems preferable to


collodion or even cotton. Extraordinary


stories are told of the healing properties


of q new oil which i easily made from the
yolk of hens eggs The eggs are first
boiled hard. and the yoks are then re-
moved. crushed and placed over fire.
where the whole substance i lu~t ON the
point ot catching fire, when the oil Seper-
ates and may be poured off. One yolk
will Weld nearly two teaspoonstul OF oil.
1t is in general use among the coloniSts OF
| South Russia as a means of curing cuts.
bruises and scratches


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\ NEW STYLE OF FLOOR Gov ERiNG.
papers, and when You get enough for the
purpose, make IA paste as for putting on
the wall. and lay them down one by one.
pasting them till your floor is covered,
then let it dry; then lay another in the
same way When again dry get some
wall paper of suitable color, and paste all
ever it. When dry, go over it again with
a coat of varnish, and you have "A nice
covering for your floor, which will wear
as long as Il carpet, and look ~ well as
oil-cloth. This is cheap method of Gov
ering bedrooms which are not much used.


Corn cobs make the best smoke. Place
under the hams while smoking piece of
birthstone as large rs a small hickory nut
on three successive days, and they will
smoke in that time; the birthstone leaves
no taste or smell whatever; without the
birthstone, from six to ten days will be
required to smoke them.
Year: 1870




DELIGHTFUL NIGHrS.-The nights we
are enjoying now are truly delightful
They are pronounced so by gentle low
yers who wander meath the moons pale
rays, talking sweet nonsense while he
=wears that the blue of her eyes is
deeper than the arching heavens and so
bright as to make the moon ashamed of
herself in comparison. As we tret
round of night picking up stray items,
these moonlight nights, we see good
deal OF this love making and deeply
svmpathize with each enamored pair.
We used to be a dabster at it ourself
Year: 1870

PRIHTER's PRovERBs.-Nevcr inquire
thou of the editor, for the news, for behold 1t
is his duty at the appointed time to give it
unto thee without asking


When thou dost write for lIis paper, never
say unto him "What thinkest thou of NY
piece 2" lest the truth will offend thee


Il is not ft that thou shouldst ask him who
Is the author Of an article, for mis- duty requires
him TO keep such ihings TO himself


When thou d0st enter into his Office have
care to thyscIf that thou doat not look at
what may be lying open, for that Is not mtto
in TIE sight of good breeding
Year: 1870

- The adultcration of butter is said to be
going on successfully in some portions Of Ohio
We believe it has lately been discovered that
butter can be made cut Of the mud Of the
river Thames, in England
Year: 1870




Tt must be apparent to all who have
made the various branches Of husbandrv
a study, that OF late years cattle Using,
in connection with the production OF
butter and cheese, is the most satisfac-
tory and profitable. The high prices OBJ
tanned for beef, butter and cheese during
several years past, are the result, not of
any diminution of supply but of de-
mand increasing day by day with the
growth of population. No fear need
therefore obtain, especially within area
sonable distance of large markets of any
permanent diininution of the prices of
such products. The demand is constant.
is seldom satisfied, and must increase
with the increase of population. We re.
gard, therefore, every effort made TO
supply this demand as wise and pru
dent, and if conducted with skill and
Judgment, as certain to yield hand
some return. IN this connection we
would observe that there are large tracts
of land in this State which should be de-
voted to stock raising, to the exclusion
of the chronic corn crop. We refer to
what are called low lands, which, though
producing large crops of corn in favora-
BILE seasons, two years in three bring the
proprielors in debt by reason of their
mcist condition in the Spring of the
year. lt is hard for the owners of these
lands to resist the temptation TO try to
make II crop of corn, yet their frequent
"a 81 lof Inc
blowing and planting, year after year,
with the chances always against them.
AS general th.g various kinds OF
grass will flourish on these lands, yield
ing from two to three tons of hay to the
acre, or affording luxuriant pasturage
eight months in the year. How much
better it would be to keep such lands in
grass, is a question that farmers should
attentively consider. If we take twenty
bushels of corn as their average Yield
year in and year out, and deduct tho
cost of seed, fertilizers, cultivation and
garnering, corn must sell unusually
debt. From a crop OF timothy hay. two
tons to the acre, twice rs much money
would be realized. The profits Of graz.
ing are not so readily seen as IN graz
farming. Account must betaken of the
yield of butter or cheese, the value of
the whey.for feeding hogs, the increase
of the herd, the growing value of beef
cattle, and the annual return of large
quantities Of manure to the land. A far
mer who can sch twenty head OF fat cat
tie year, besides other things, would
feel very comfortable.-E,rc
Year: 1870

1t was the hardestof hard times OLD,
we'll established houses were failing all
around; no wonder that the smaller con


Germs were fairly swallowed up in the
crashes going on in the business world.
No wonder that Harry Tyndall, young
city merchant, sat in his Office gazing
with pale face and despairing eyes at the
specter ruin, which stared at him from
no great DISTANCE, He had weathered
the storms, of three brief years-ho had
hoped soon to weather this, but the loss
of a thousand pounds hold by a friend
deprived him of the means of making a
payment due in three days: and he folt
Year: 1870

We have already shown by statistics that the
attendance of the colored population in the
South at church had shown an alarming
decrease since the war. A correspondent in
Virginia, formerly slave owner, endeavors to
explain the cause for this. Before the war
Sambo, by the proceeds of his labor, contri-
buted to the support Of religious communities,
and churches We'd with each other in efforts to
save his soul-in other words, caring for his
religious and moral training. Since the war
Sambo finds that instead Of paying for religious
culture in labor he has to pay for it in cash I;
and that being the case he prefers to pay it to
preachers of his own color, or, as it happens
in too many instances, not to pay anything at
all. Hence it is that he is growing careless
and Indifferent about religious matters, and
unless something be soon done by his North
ern friends and sympathzers to rescue him
there is danger that he will eventually relapse
into his original condition of barbarism and vou-
dooism. Here is an opportunity for some of the
self-sacriicing, strong-miaded schoolmarms,
and others philanthropcally inclined in New
England, to lend hand to save the perishing
soul of poor Sambo ere it sinks into darkness
and oblivion forever.
Year: 1870

building up, after our great struggle, with un-
paraleled energy and rapidity, aud why shall
we stop this process? Is the chance that we
may make Cuba what Mexico is sufficient
motive? Certainly not. Consider the conse-
quences of embroiling ourselves in the quarrels
of the Cubans-immediate interruption of the
payment Of the debt, immediate decrease in
the price Of the bonds, financial confusion, a
new lease Of life for all tax laws, the cessa-
ton of the vast emigration that is pouring IN
upon us. These are but the more Immediately
obvious of train of evils. Let the people
only weigh all this against the mere sentiment
and rhetoric on the other side, and they will
see how clearly and practically Grant is in the
right. Unfortunately, however, our SYM
pathies are too apt to run away with our
practical ideas, and it is highly probable that
the clear common sense of the President will
be overslaughed entirely to-day by the senti-
mentality of such dashing leaders in the
House as Logan and Banks.