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Year: 1871

At late hour last night messenger
came from Odd Fellows Hall, bearing a
bountiful supply of refreshments from the
table of Mrs. Elder, one of the ladies'
worthily engaged in the good work of aid
ing the fair for the benefit of the Louisiana
Retreat. This fair merits the public conf
dcnce in an eminent degree, and we hope
the table of Mrs. Elder will be paused at
and patronized by the multitudes who Cock
there to relieve the distressed.
Year: 1871

WHAT TO DO WIEN ANGRY"
get mad so quickly, and then I'm
sure to say something that Pm sor.
ry tor ever afterwards"


When angry, count three before
speaking" answered the boys
father.


The next time the boy fell into
a BIT OF anger with one of his
school fellows, he remembered the
advice Of his father, and counted
three. BY this time he was able
to keep hack hard words that were
ready to leap from his tongue, aud
80 saved himself the grief Of
shame and repentance.


Try this remedy, quick temper.
ed boys and girls. 1t is best, of
course, not to get angry bat if you
do happen to lose your self
control, then put seal on your
lips, and remain silent until your
hot blood has cooled a little, and
after a while you will be able to
keep your temper from breaking
out and doing both yourself and
others harm.
Year: 1871

GBBoN says: Every person
has two educations ; one which he
receives from others, and one more
important which he gives himself"
Hard conditions draw out man,
and you and I are better for such
an education. A man needs to be
hackled and spun just as much as
raw cotton does. And the best
gin for him is, first oxygen (gin for
bodily healthy and secondly the
gin of grinding circumstances, to
make mental man of him.


lie needs to be pulled through
narrow places as mnch as the wire,
before he will be fit for bridging
the great gorges and chasms of
life, which swallow up the bloated
and capon-lincd. ID


If man were offered ten times
as many gold eagles as he could
carry, he had better send them
twenty miles from home and swear
that he will never use one of them
except that he walks back and
forth for each one by one, before
he spends it. A dollar is never
worth a dollar to man until he
has given dollars worth of work
for it by hand on brain.
Year: 1871

Sidney IL. Stuart, the celebrated
New \ lork criminal lawyer, who
died the other day, was a self.
made man. He started out i'm life
as saddler's apprentice. and at
the age Of twenty was scarcely
able to read and write. Bnt the
boy had energy, ambition and
faith in himself. A few years of
hard and solitary study enabled
him to leave the saddler's shop,
and step by step, to ascend the
ladder OF professional success. He
made both fame and fortune.


There is a lesson in the lives of
such men, and it should not be al
lowed to pass UNDECIDED. 1t is a
very common thing to hear cur
young men remark that the war
ruined their educational prospects.
They could fall into no greater
error. If they would begin the
work Of self.culture in earnest,
they could soon make up for lost
time and obtain first.class educa.
tion. Begin the work this winter
We have a good library in the
city, and books are in reach of
every one. Organize literary So
cieties, debating clubs, and private
classes. Let billiard rooms and
saloons alone. They are the
avenues to perdition, and ruin
those who frequent them, mental.
ly, morally and physically. An
hour or two every night devoted
to mental culture would be pleas.
ant, stimulating and Improving
Great progress could be made even
in one winter, aid the result would
be that grandest triumph of hu.
man energy-a self.made man /!
Year: 1871

1t will hardly be possible (writes o cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune from
Berlinl for an American to conceive OF the
stiffness of the objections to allowing
newspapers to be sold in the streets of
Berlin. In an addres sent by the presi


dent of the police to tIe editors of the diff
ferent journals, he exclaims in perfect hor


ror that "boys of every age offer copies Of


newspapers, fy-sheets and dispatches to
any chance passerby, and often shout
aloud the contents of their papers, so that
| they evidently disturb the citizens on the
streets and the peace of those in private
houses, where there are not infrequently
sick and wounded soldiers


If anything appears in newspaper dis
tasteful to the censors OF the press, its pub


lication is prohibited. If it should escape
their notice, and 30 appear in print never
theless, the whole edition will be confs
Gated, so that neither editor nor cores
pondent can venture anything out of the
| ordinary channel. We hear nearly every


day that some editor has been arrested or
| his issue confscated. What makes it still


harder for the newspaper to flourish in


Berlin is, that almost nobody reads them


in the American sense. Three or fonr


families sometimes club together to take q


paper, but the great majority Of families
| take none.
The people who Tish to read go into the


beer saloons and restaurants, and accord


ingly, in every one of these are found the


principal dailies and weeklies. SALOONS
are about the only regular subscribers
| here.) And it is thought to be enough if
one ordinarily reads the paper every few
days, or if he reads one three or four days
old. AS to war news. the official dis
patches are thought sufficient to keep the
people posted. Zone hundred and six, in
all, have appeared since the beginning OF


the war; I have talked with some very


intelligent men on this subject, who said
that if there was anything more in the
newspapers it would have TO be false that
the German papers contain about all the
news of importance, and what more could
we ask
Year: 1871

In the Gossip" the following story il
told of visit made by Captain Alexander
Murray, OF the American navy, to the
King of Denmark


The king remarked to his guests that
this was residence he had owned while a
private gentleman, and he was sure tbsv
would appreciate his receiving them there
as a higher compliment and greater eyi-
dence Of his friendship for their country
than if he had treated them with more Ger
emony. This country house was built of
white marble with French windows OPEN
ing upon verdant lawn, and in size and
appointments not much superior to the
country residences OF some of our merchant
princes. After the preliminary COURSES
had been despatched, his msiesty filed an
immense goblet, and, with a grand sweep
OF his arm, designed as signal to the band
stationed on the lawn in full view of the
windows, he proposed, The United States
OF America Crash went the instruments
but, to the horror of those present. ipstead
of pouring forth, as had been intended ona
of Columbia's national airs, they str11ck m
ponderous melody of Scandinavia.
The King said "never q word" bnt put-
ting down bis glass, he strobe through the
open window on to the lawn, and seizino
the band master by the collar, kicked him
around the enclosure several times, and
dismissing him at last with vigorous
shake. walked quietly back to his eeat.-
AS may be supposed, a sudden silence fell
upon the assembled company, the code OF
etiquette furnishing no rule or preceden,
whereby guests might guide themselves
when royal hosts kicked their band mast
ers. Onr worthy representatives relied
upon a state of mastery inactivity and
fortunately the delinquent leader coon
scrambled to his place and gave them full
blast of democratic harmony.
Year: 1871




Don Piatt writes to the Commercial


If Surratt's story is true, and we have
no reason to doubt it, the conduct of the
court here, under Judge Fisher, and of
the government, as controlled by the pros
ecutor, was perfectly infamous. If Surratt
was guilty of completely with the assasins
of MIR. Lincoln of course the country want
ed him punished. If. on the contrary, he
was not guilty, the country desired that he
should be acquitted. This does not seem
to have been the spirit that animated the
court. It seemed determined to convict,
regardless of evidence, and steps were
taken to secure this result; that ought to
damn with infamy forever every official
connected with it. Surratt's counsel sought
to prove tina at the time of the assassina-
ton he was at Elmira. Of course if this
could have been sustained it was not pos
sible to convict him of having a part in the
assassination. His counsel, to susta in this
abb, relied upon two hotel registers. and
one telegram sentl by Surratt under the
name of Robinson to Booth, whom he sup
posed to be in New York. One of these
hotel registers and the telegram could not
be found, and from the fact that the regis
ter preceding the one required and the re-
gister following were at the hotel, and that
the entire files of kilograms were perfect
except this one. the inference is conclusive
that they were abstracted by some inter-
ested party. OF course this could only be
done by some one concerned in the prose
cution. The remaining register which the
defence succeeded in obtaining, Judge
Fisher ruled out, upon the extraordinary
ground that Surratt might have returned
from Canada subsequent to the apparent
date, and SO registered the name. doubt
whether in the whole annals of criminal
jurisprudence such trial with such rulings
can be found. A thirst for blood seemed
to animate every creature, except a por
ton of the jEry. concerned IN this pre-
tended Investigation.


John Surratt was to be hung because he
Year: 1871

ened, falling hair checked, and bald
ness often, though not always, cured
by its use. Nothing can restore the
hair where the follicIes are destroyed,
or the glands atrophied and decayed.
But such as remain can be saved for
usefulness by this application. Instead
of fouling the hair with a pasty sedi-
ment, it will keepit clean and vigorous.
Its occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray Or falling off, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those deleterious substances which
make some preparations dangerous and
injurious to the hair, the Vigor can
only benefit but not harm it. If wanted
merely for
Year: 1871

that the Most High has deigned 20 accord 70 an army
ave times superior In number by delivering to this
army places crushed by q formidable artillery The
destroyer of mankind. William, has arrived before
the gates OF Paris with his pietistical mask In
yoking, with his eyes TO heaven, the God Of Bat.
ties against his enemies, hut forgetting that Ger
many Is already. and viii be still more
IN future, plunged into greater misery than
the country OF the enemy Itself II
society that the slfbugaon Of France II tantamount
10 declaration Of war against the sovereignty OF
tho people or every country AS for the republicans
OF Berlin they become a legion. There are thou
sands OF republicans In Germany worthy OF the
name, who think as do. ana who know very well
that the dlSpemberment OF France will not only be
crime bur deco which will react on US, annihi-


aung all liberty not only In Germany but in every
country IN Europe.
Year: 1871

Yesterday evening an unknown man
hired a small boat and moved out on
the lake, at Chicago, considerable
distance, when he was seen TO kneel on
a seat as If in prayer, and then jump
overheard. The boat was recovered,
but the body o; the man was not found.
Year: 1871

though l see not that we have shown
ourselves wanting in capacity to enjoy
I il.


But war is not pleasure, or only a
pleasure i'm the sense that drunkenness
and debauehery are-exciting the pas
sions of men and leaving women to
those lonely hours of waiting and sus-
pense, which Mrs. Browning has writ
ten of with so much feeling and tender
ness.


/ want to relate to yOu-Or at least
recall to your minds-a little incident i'm
Ancient History. l think it is the
Egyptians who have n superstition in
regard to cats; and their veneration for
these feline animals is so great that they
would not harm cat for their lives. or
under any circumstances. On a certain
time the party a, war with these super
stitious people marched into the field,
each warrior bearing in his arms and
nestled closely TO his heart beautiful
cat. The consequence was that instead
of a field of carnage, not one in either Of
those vast armies was harmed. The
enemy dared not attack the men fer
fear of harming the eats.


Now your chivalry for woman surely
equals the Egyptians veneration for
cats. And what want to suggest is
this : That you take us with you to the
battlefield. Take us close to your
hearts in war, and see if the chivalry
which prompts you to rush across the
ballroom floor to pick up a lady's
handkerchief cannot be of some noble
use. See if woman's presence on the
field of battle cannot hold warlike man
spell-bound, and learn him at last for
beaanee with his brother.


SALEM, September Il, 1871.
Year: 1871

and lives in the same house with them,
both sharing the couch of one, but bear
ing the name of the other, Ito Indicate
her impartiality perhaps), and cause
and candidate will be so well and fifty
mated that there will be no occasion,
even under the most Liberal, progress
sive, enlightened regime, to sue for
class be persuaded to Overbear her
shrinking modesty and nominate her
self?


In a spirit of hearty hatred for Free
Love and all its Internal delusions,


l remain, yours,


HORACE GREELEY.
Tribune Office, August Z, l7Sl.
Year: 1871

PooR Mans Plum PUDDlNG.-One
cup chopped suet, one cup mOlasses, one
cup sweet milk, one egg, two cups -four,
pinch Of salt, nutmeg and cinnamon.
Stir all together: ten add one pound
raisins and one pound currants: wet the
cloth in cold water previous to putting the
pudding into it. Boil four hours. To he
eaten with wine sauce.


To prevent cake burning round the sides
and on the bottom, place the pan con
tanning it in one or two earthen or iron
pans, and if the oven is too bot on top
place over the pans two thicknesses Of
white Japer. This should always be done
with large cakes, requiring considerable
time to bake thoroughly.


CUR1Se PoRK.-It has been asserted
bv chemists that scurvy will never arse
from the use of salt provisions, unless salt
petre be used in curing that salt alone
answers all the purposes, provided the ami
nal heat be entirely parted with tefore
sailing. The pork should he rubbed tho
roughly with dry salt after i has entirely
parted with the animal beat, and before
decomposition or faint commence round
he bone. The fluid running from the
meat should be poured off before packing
the pork in the barrel.


To SroP BLEEDING 1t is said that
bleeding from a wound, on a man or
beast, may be stopped BY q mixture Of
wheat flour and common salt, ID equal
parts, bound on with a cloth If the bleed
ing be profuse, use large qnantity, say
from onr TO three pnts. 1t may be left on
for hours, or even days, II necessary. The
person who gave us this recipe saws that,
in this manner, he saved the life Of borse
which was bleeding from wounded az
tery. The bleeding ceased in five MINUTES
after the application.


, A WESTERN editor, going home late,
saw "a young lady and gentleman holding
} q gate on its hinges. They we're evidently
indignant at being out 50 late, and we saw
/ thsn bite each other several times"
Year: 1871

came either grateful convert or a reticent
opponent. In The latter case be renounced
Pirt Of his independence. But an honor
able man could always afford to serve the
Prussian Government and accept it's pay
A high tone pervsded the whole admins.
ration, and everybody felt proud Of it, ir-
respective of political sentiments.
Year: 1871

It is usually supposed that the French
man Papin was the inventor Of the safaty-
valve, which be first applied about 1852 70
bis digester in such way that i was kept
closer by lever and movable weight, 50
that the pressure on it conld be varied BY
sliding the weight along the lever in this
way he kept the oalve in place, and. could
regulate the steam pressure, so that il
would not surpass the limit to which The
valve was charged.


1t appears now that Papin was only tht
inventor Of tho Improvements just men
toned, but that fifty years bafore, the Ger
Year: 1871

THERE was death from trichina spiral
is in Bridgeport, Conn. A post mOrtem
examination showed the presence Of about
fifty thousand Of the parasites to the square
inch, and one Of the physicians declared
that be had never seen better specimens.
Year: 1871

There was very largely attended meeting OF the
Sixth ward republicans held last evening, In the
three story brick building on the northwest corner
Of Court and sackett Streets south Brooklyn, for
the purpose OF enrolling the voters OF tnat district
The assemblage was gathered on the third floor OF
the house, and considerable enthusiasm and
applause prevailed, when sudden crash
aud gradual sinking Of the floor caused
fed precptately from the Apartment and down
the stairs, out into the street. The accident was
caused by the breaking OF the girder which sup.
ported the floor, causing the latter TO sink depth
OF two leet. No one was Injured, and the meeting
was reorgantZed in o more substantial building in
the vicinity. The damaged structure is owned BY
Mr. COie, OF Eighth avenue, New York.
Year: 1871

ne are compelled to notice these
things because they are becoming a nui-
sance to Us. There is not a mail that
docs NOT bring Us one or more letters re-
quesling US to advertise some lottery, book
or newspaper, and take opr pay in trade.
And these requests evince an amount Of
cheek that is surprising even to us. On
Monday we received letter requesting
rs to insert a column advertisement, "and
give it local notice" for the qualification
Of receiving for year Christian period
ical, valued al SO. Several lotteries have
sent us advertisements 10 insert, prouided


we would take our pay in tickets. Once
for all, we do not do an agency business,
neither do we gamble with the ARGUS;
If we indulge in the latter it is, at least,
outside Of our business. Sensational, po-
litical, religious and other newspapers are
nOtiird that we do not advertise Fix or
eight times the value OF their price foi the
purpO of effrcIing an exchange" We
will advertise lotteries if they send tile
cash in advance to pay for the same We
will not take the responsibility of giving
them local puff. Patent medicine ven
doTs and manufacturers will please take
notice. that We afs not desiruns of filling
ups" that tie IDEA Of filling the pockets Of
such is en- exploded one with uk. Our
business is legitimate one, and in order
tO'suecesd in it we have adppied the rule
to do alike by all: Therefore we canuot
charge less for outside advertising than we
do tor local advertising. 1t is a well
known fact that printers iuk has made
the fortunes Of scorps OF individuals who
bave gone into the patent medicine bust
Hrss; but we seriously doubt it those in
dividuals, or their business Lave ever
made the printer rich, nor even paid him
fair compensation for the work he has
done.


II it is an object to advertise in the
columns Of this paper we are willing TO
accommodate at fair price; but We will
rot extort from one and give to another,
especially when that other is a stranger.
Year: 1871

NEW YORK, August a.


The frauds in the city government
continue TO he discussed in social and
political circles with unabhtel interest.
At the city clubs Democratic and Repub.
lican members alike censure the conduct
Of the Tammany ring. Al the Union
club room threats are made openly by
prominent members to take such course
rs may relieve the club from the Odium
which may attach from the continued
membership Of those whose peculations
are suspected, the principal officers Of the
Tammany association being members Of
the club.
Year: 1871

amid the stirring incidents of the battle
field, for future labor.


He was present at the battle of Sedan


and witnessed all the changing phases


of the fight. But little did he think, as
! he gazed upon the lurid grandeur of the


battle scene, and his impassiOned soul


drank in inspiration from the sublime
| spectacle-ready to breathe in living
song the emotions which swelIed with
| in his heart-that the grim messenger
| who TiOted on that CORY field was so
soon to level at his breast his DESTROY
ing darts, and hurry him also to his
eternal sleep. An, had the King Of
TerrOrs but deferred the execution of his
ineXOrable decree, how might not the


world have become indebted to the pen


of Powell for such pOrtraiture of that


historic scene as would live in the DEATH


less annals of poetic IOre-the proudest


monument of the authors genius! How


might not the hearts of the surviving


veterans of that fieTcely contested fight,


perchance at no distant future day,


have become aroused and thrilled by


the the gush of music, whose strains


would recall in all the vividness of TeaIi-


ty the bursting shell and the battle
shout, and the terrible onset of contend


ing troops which marked the varied


events of the sanguinary struggle! But


the kindling fires Of his ardent ambition
which burned still more brightly with
each successive task taken upon himself


which the most insupeTable obstacles
could not abate, were destined suddenly


to become eXGnguished by the hand of
fate, which even his indOmitabIe energy
could not arrest. During the last few
weeks of his life the admouishiug voice


oF O qEaTraor rTaccCIrufSnr, l..
solicitations of his intimate friends, who
saw but too plainly that he was fast
sinking before the ravages of disease,
had little influence in causing him to
IealiZe the critical condition in which
he was placed. All his faculties were
apparently engrOssed in one all absorb
ing thOUght-the accomplishment of
the last great work he had undertaken.
Not until his physical endurance COM
pletely failed him, and his feet rested
upon the very threshold of another
world, did he seem conscious that his
hours were numbered, and even then
he reluctantly abandoned the routine of
his self-impOsed duties, as though his
only regret on taking his final departure
from the scenes of life was the unfinish-
ed condition in which this work must
be left. Yet he surrendered himself to
the decree of the inevitable without a
and in the midst of intense
bodily suffering maintained till the last
his usual serene and cheerful DISPOSE
ton.


AS he lay upon his deathbed, Just be-
fore he drew his expiring breath, while
the death damp was gathering thickly
on his brow, he called upon the name Of
his mother; and when he saw her form
bending above him his glazing eyes
were illumed for a moment with all
their wOnted brilliancy, and as the
glad light of recognition and untold
affection rested in their depths, he soft
ly murmured, in a scarcely audible
voice, Mother, mother y With the
last accent of that sacred name still
on his lips, his eyes became
closed, and the spirit of 'Penered
Gualia' took its fiight.-BeUefontadne
Press.
Year: 1871

ant lake that awakened thoughts of 9th
er days. -.


Poor Floridep he murmured; Il did
you a foul wrong, and -


who calls Floride p
A figure clad in boys apparel sprang
! from behind rock, and stood facing
| him. The cap was removed from the
head, and the black hair glistened in the
sunlight like cTystalIized coal. He knew
her in an instant, and put out his hand
implOringly.


Liar! betrayerv = she hissed from be-
tween her white teeth. This is
The rest was lost in the report of q pis-
tOI.


She had not praetised in vain. The
sound called the rest of the party to his
side. .


They found him already dead-the
bullet had cleft the heart! Beside him
lay the pistol the verdict of every one
was suicide, though no one could faith
Om the motive.


And no one knew that the man buri-
ed near the top of the eternal mountain
had justly fallen by a wOman's hand
Of such 8 person as FIOride LIE Brun
they had no knoWIedge; and the sea
that swept her corpse ashore near the
residence Of old Hubert Walden told no
tales.


The wood and water both kept taeir
secrets. Earth has many such. They
are sealed for all time. Eternity alone
can tear away the veil.
Year: 1871

There Is no medicine equal to HOOland's German
Bitters or Tonic in cases of Debility. They impart


tone and vgor TO the whole system, strengthen the
appetite cause an enjoyment Of the food enable the
stomach to digest it, purify the blood, give good,