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Year: 1873

A CLERGYMAN MISTAKEN FOR A HIGH
wAYMAN.-The Memphis Presbyterian
tells the following story: Travelling in
his buggy alone, not long ago, in going
to one of his appointments, one of our
good brethren in the Plesbytery of Men,
phis, overlook tramp with his carpet
bag in his hand. The roads were mud
dy and he was just at the time about
entering miry bottom. With the po-
liteness for which he is noted he asked
the pedestrian (an entire strangely if he
would not like seat in his buggy. un-
TIL, at least, they had crossed the mud
and mire. The invitation was readily
accepted, and the conversation was for a
time free and easy about things ordinary
and general. Presently, however, the
good brother, with view to make the
conversation proftable, asked the stran-
ger if he was ready to die Not know
ing the character of the person who in
vited him to seat with him, and mis-,
apprehending his meaning, and suspect
ing foul play, he waited not to reply
but sprang from the buggy Immediately
and ran for life through slush and wa
ter. The clerical brother, wishing tt
assure the stranger that he meant nc
harm, called to him at the top of hi
voice to stop. But this only hastene(
his speed, and like scared hare he raj
beyond hearing and sight. In his has
ty fight he left his carpet bag whicl
our brother has now in his possession
being the richer for his faithfulness b
the addition of coarse shirt, pair Q
threadbare trousers, and little ..bacB
er."
Year: 1873

A certain political speaker closed an
address in behalf of his party with the
following peroration: Build warm
fence around the winters supply ofsum-
mer weather; skim the clouds from the
sky with teaspoon; catch a thunder
cloud in bladder; break hurricane
to harness ground-sluce an earthquake;
lasso an avalanche pin a napkin on the
crater of an active volcano I; have all
the stars in a nail-keg; hang the ocean
on grape vine to dry; put the sky to
soak in a gourd; unbuckle the belly
band of eternity and paste, To Let on
the sun and moon but never, sir, for a
moment, delude yourself with the idea
that-any ticket or party can beat our
candidates
Year: 1873

OLD AND YOUNG MEN.--There is no
finer sight on earth than a, wise and ma
jestic man of seventy five. whose sunny
face and beaming eye at once draw chill
dren to his cheerful companionship, and
whose ine and intelligent enthusiasm
makes young men glory in accepting
him as leader and model. 1t would
be hard to find a young man of twenty
five who has moro of the best qualities
that quicken and inspire true and sus-
ceptible souls, than DR.. Tying of New
York. 1t will prove much, touch
ing the rarity of our own wisdom and
the abundance of Gods grace, if we can
carry as young heart through as many
decades as he. Doing that, we shall
not repel young men as antagonists. but
bring them to our side as allies and
friends.


And there is danger that our young
men will grow inpatient and exacting,
call the caution of old men cowardice
and become jealous and repellant be.
cause their opinions are not moro readily
Year: 1873

A HINT FOR YOU'VE MEN.-Not long
ago young man of this city had a most
favorable opportunity to entera business
house in this State. at large increase
over his present salary, with the pros
pect of soon getting place in the frw.
His recommendations were first. class,
and the officers of the institution wire
decidedly pleased with his appearance
They, however, made him no proposals,
nor did they state their favorable i'm
impressions. A gentleman of this city
was requested to ascertain where the
young man spent his evenings, and what
class of young men were his associates.
1t was found that he spent several nights
of the week in billiard room on Maine
street, and Sunday afternoon drove a
hired span into the country with three
other young bloods He is wondering
why he didn't hear from the house con-
corning that coveted position.-Sprimg
field Union.
Year: 1873




It is easier to be good business man
than poor one. Half the energy dis
played in doing that which is required
to catch up when behind will save credit,
give more time to business and add to
the profits Of your work. Honor your
engagements. If you promise to meet
man, or do certain thing at a GER
tain time, be ready at the appointed
time. IF you 60 out on business, attend
promptly to the matter on hand, and
then as promptly 60 about your business.
Do not stop to tell stories in business
hours.


If you have place of business be
found there when wanted. No man can
get rick by sitting around stores and
saloons. Never ..foop' on business mat
ters. Ifyou have to labor for a living,
remember that one hour in the morning
is better than two at night. If you en-
ploy others, be on hand to sec that they
attend to their duties, and to direct
with regularity. promptness and liberal
ity. Do not meddle with any business
you know nothing Of. Never buy a
thing simply because the man that sells
it will take it out in trade. Trade in
money. Time is money. Make your
place Of business pleasant and attractive
then stay there to wait on your custom
ers.


Be obliging. Strive to avoid harsh
words and personalities. Do not kick
every stone in the path more miles car
be made day by going steadily on thar
by stopping to kick. Pay as you go. A
man of honor respects his word as he
does his bond. Ask, but never beg
Help others, when you can, but nevel
give when you cannot afford to, simply
because it is fashionable. Learn to say
mo-. No necessity of swapping it ou
dog-fashion, but say it firmly and re
spectfully. Have but few confdants
and the fewer the better. Use you
own brains rather than those Of others
Learn to think and act for yourself. B
vigilant. Keep ahead, rather than be
hind the time. Young men. cut thi
out; and if there is folly in the argu
ment, let us know.
Year: 1873

A Washington dispatch state that the
President has decided to make no ap-
pointment for the vacant Chief Justice
ship until after reassembling of Congress
and that as yet no one has been offered
the position. Delay in this matter will
be useful if it result in the selection of
the best man without regard to political
influences. We have confidence that
the sterling common sense of the Presi-
dent will give us Chief Justice whose
legal learning and abilities will qualify
him for position which should never
be the prize Of professional incompetency
or Of political ambition. -
Year: 1873

In the southeastern part of the town
of Dandy, near the marble lodges, is
cavern which descends like well into
the solid rock. Persons have been let
down by rope l50 feet perpendicularly
into this cavern without discovering any
bottom 1t is we'll worth visit to see
this natural curiosity. A dog is said to
have been thrown into this cavern a few
years ago, and was heard to howl long
after he disappeared. 1t is supposed by
some that this communicates with the
cave in Dorset, on the south end of this
mountain. A party intend exploring
this soon.
Year: 1873

The following poem was found in an old newspaper
title of paper lost), and credlted as taken Irom
vermonter though unknown to us The poem is wor-
thy of being treasured up among the gems OF thought
of Old Vermont.-GREEN MOUNTAIN POETS.
Year: 1873

Having full faith in tho country, they mean to stay by it until the day of gen eral jubilee shall come, when all can re- 1oice together in its peace and prosperity.

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Year: 1873

ATTENTION is directed to the card of Messrs Rountree 6J Lubbert, Of GUaymas. They are in everyway a reliable frm and prompt in disposiug of business intrusted to them. We today give considerable space to the freight business as regards the Guaymas route, but we very much doubt if our merchants can be induced to ship that way hereafter The administra- ton of law in Mexico is uncertain and is liable to continue so Then again it is found 10 be more advantageous to the public to confne the freighting as much as possible within Arizona. For several years past, this subject has been discussed and practically tested, with unfavorable results SO far as the Guaymas route is concerned. No matter how the facts may be acceptel hy the business men of Guaymas, they are as we have stated them
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman has tested the following
method of measuring trees which proved
to be satisfactory: GA stick of timber
is desired, say fifty feet long; select
your tree, measure fifty feet in q direct
line from the foot of the tree on as near
level ground as possible; now cut a
stick the exact height Of the observer
on his back, his feet 'S against the is stick lex
and head in the line of the tree and
stick, and look directly over the top of
the stick, and where the line of vision
strikes the tree will be the length of
stick, fifty feet, desired. If the ground
is not level the measure will not be ex-
act, but allowance must be made.n .-
Year: 1873

There were fifteen travellers who
stopped at a public house, and called
for a dinner. Tt was served ND and
placed on three eornered table, five
sitting on each side. They invited the
landlord to dine with%hem. After they
had finished their meal, they proposed
to count, commencing at some one. and
count five, and whoever counted five
was to leave the table, or in other words,
every fifth man step out. They further
agreed that the last man left was to
pay the bill. They so counted as to
have it fall upon the landlord. Now
what seat did the man occupy who
started the count?
Year: 1873

STOCK RAIs1NG.-A writer in the
Farm and Home throws out the follow
ing hints:


If the farmers of Kentucky find it
pays to devote themselves almost ex-
clusively to raising mules, horses, fine
cattle and sheep on their lands, which
are so much higher III price than the
best lands in the cotton States, why
should it not be profitable for us on our
cheap lands to go into the business !?
Our climate is as good, we can raise
corn, oats, grass, clover as well as in
Kentucky, and we certainly have land
enough and to spare.


If we do not mean to take the trouble
Of raising the mule colts, we can do as
many Kentucky mule raisers do, buy
yearling colts in Ohio or Indiana at
from $50 to $40 per head, take them
home, feed them literally, and at three
years old have mules for which we now
have to pay the drOver $500 a head.
Liberal feeding and well bred stock
| constitute the secret of successful stock
raising.


am strongly in favor of our trying
to raise our own stock of every desCrip-
ton, but il we want to make the buSi-
ness pay and compete successfully with
the professional stock raisers of the
| blue grass region, we must discard the
| scrubs we now have, and introduce the
breeds of cattle which by high feeding
will be prepared for market and for
| home consumption at the earliest period.
To raise hogs with the greatest profit
they should be ready for the butcher at
twelve months old at the furthest
| This is impossible with the saW-backs
| of our Diney woods, .-
Year: 1873

A gentleman who had left his wife
alone in the theatre while he went out
to get whiffof fresh air, "apologized
on his return. Dear me,n said she, 81
thought you went to give me chance
to t1irt with that man with that lovely
black mOustache." She has had no cause
to complain of any want of attention
from her husband since.
Year: 1873

A popular preacher thinks that hell is
within twenty miles of the earth's sur
face in the latitude of Kentucky, and
his congregation have resolved not to do
any more subsOil blowing.
Year: 1873

FowLs.-Fowls, tObe fattened, should
be shut up in flocks of twelve, in light,
airy pen, five by six feet; feed them
three times day all they will eat (no
more), on scalded horse feed. Mix with
this plenty of powdered charcoal At
night throw them all the corn they will
pick up. Furnish plenty of gravel and
pure water, and in one week they will
do for market. The yellow legged
fowls will always look best when fat.


TFxchange,
Year: 1873

EARLY MARRYING. - Morally, men
tally, physically, premature marriage is
a mistake among women; and vet everv
day we see this mistake sanctioned by
the officers of religion, blessed by the
consent OF friends, and entered into with
the ectGt which should be reserved for q
triumph rather than a trial


Morally" it is mistake, because
few women are fit, at an age when they
should be under authority" to rule a
household prudently; since no atmos-
phere is so dangerous for an undevelOp-
ed soul as that of the almost absolute
power which is generally delegated to
the young wife. She may now do what
ever is pleasing in her own eyes. She
has been freed from parental restraint,
and any other has a circumference SO
underlined that it is narrowed and en-
larged according to the will and moral
sense of her who draws it. Angels might
fear to walk in such broad freedom as
is given by love and sufferance to the
majority OF our young married women
women by courtesy, children in the
regard of both law and wisdom.


Mentally" it is a mistake, because
with marriage all mental growth is sus-
pended in the large majority Of women
Education being regarded as simply q
means toward an end, is abandoned as IS
soon as the end is obtained. It NAV he
argued that all education from such a
motive is a mistake to begin with. True.
but then it is one which keeps the cul-
prit in the society of wisdom, and it is
just possible the mind under such infu-
ence might arrive at a juster conception
of it's worth and value.


physically" it is mistake, because
at the early age at which many marriages
are made the human form has not ar
rived at perfected strength; and duties
and responsibilities are laid upon it fo1
which nature has made no adequate
provision. Vitality is destroyed quicker
than it is generated, and early and rapid
decay of both mind and body are the
results. Then the woman is said to die
"by the visitation Of God,1 though in
nine cases ont of ten it is only the sim.
pie and inevitable result Of laws of ma,
ture pitilessly and persistently broken
| FGoianon nf HooJ4b
Year: 1873

Max Adeler says that Mrs. Smith was
thus addressed by her new Chinese ser
want, when he wanted to know if he
should bring up pail of water:


"Would the beauteOus dove who
broOds like an angel of peace over this
fair heaven of domestic felicity cooling
soft to her affectionate mate, desire me
to conduct the wooden vessel from the
sublime mesubtewaneanappartment where
it is excluded from the glance of her
soft eyes2n


Mrs. Smith thinks the Chinese much
excel the French in politeness.
Year: 1873

A very quaint comment on the manner in
which the Republican press of Massachusetts
was treating the Butler candidacy O few weeks
ago, was the solemn assembly of respectables
in Boston ON Friday to concert measures to
defeat the aspirations of the Essex County
statesman. The TRIBUNE's statement some.
time ago that the candidacy was formidable,
and that there was very fair prospect of Mr..
Buffers success, excited the derision of the
respectables, while the calm philosophy with
which the probable event was considered
as being on the whole quite logical
and in the natural order stirred some
of them to hasty and unkind remarks. They
said as VIII be remembered, that there was
no danger whatever, scarcely even posi-
bility of it that Butlerism was altogether on
the surface and had no real strength, and
that when it came to the test of vote in the
Convention it would be seen how ridiculous
were the representations of his success.
That THE TRIBUNE should be content with
such cOnsummatiOn was attributed to It's
natural depravity and a malicious desire for
the destruction of the Republican party.


That Butlerism is on the surface is true
enough; that it has no strength and is not
formidable is a delusion. The respectables
have discovered it this year just as they did
two years ago, after they had pOOh-poohed it
and talked in the same-large, airy way about
the absurdity of it. The Worcester man who
said there was ono need of any scare; three
Republicans out of four are opposed TO
Butler; but the trouble is the three
"men don't go to caucuses and the
Fourth always does" described the stu
alton accurately. Twenty-Five out of every
hundred of the voters in party carry great
deal Of strength-if they happen to be the
twenty-five that attend caucuses-and Mr..
Buffers men are that kind for they either
hold or want Offices, and the caucus is the
natural atmosphere of such. The hundred or
more respectable Republicans, represent
ing different sections of the State, who
came together last week to discuss the
prospect seriously are convinced that fhere is
danger of hlr. Buffers nomination, and that
organization, system, and unusual labor and
effort are required to prevent it, Judge Hoar


Mr. Dawes, Harvey Jewell, and the other dis
Year: 1873




have not q value as currency, inde-
pendent of their value as an evidence
of debt, as the greenbacks have. AT the same
time we are unable TO look upon the unneces-
sary and indefinite postpOnement of specie
payments by the United States Government
as exactly honest still there is difference
between that and the employment by bank
rupt of his cash assets for the purchase at
auction of part of his overdue notes to the
prejudice of those held by the rest OF his
creditors.


The Treasurer of the State, Mr.. Dubuclet'
a colored man, elected as a Republican, in
1870, refused to pay warrants IN this
way. A mandamus was Immediately obtained
from Judge Hawkins, sort of New-Orleans
Barnard, commanding him to pay. Mr.. Du-
buclet, persisting in his refusal, was commit
ted to prison. Subsequently he decided to
obey the order of the court. 1t is understood
that he holds that having complied with the
order under compulsiOn, he will still have
right to appeal to the Supreme Court, which
appears to be the only tribunal in the State
of Louisiana worthy of being dignified with
the title of court Of justice.
Year: 1873

manufacturers and others living in the large
cities.


Ia il any wonder that he looks upon the
whole thing as an unjust discrimination
against him and against his businessQ In
deed, is it any wonder that when he sits down
and thinks it over, looking at his own half
paid labor and his hard, unpromsing
lot, and then at the fortunes OF his city
friends, and above all, at the large
dividends of the railroad companies
that control his highway to market
and impoversh him with the tolls they take-ls
it any wonder that he cries out Tor some
remedy and relief, or that he goes TO the
Legislature with his grievance and demands
redress? 1t was under this stress that the
farmers of Illinois demanded the pro rata
freight law, which they hoped would SET theln
right. 1t was declared unconstitutional, ana
then they made their raid upon the court,
proposng to elect judges who would construe
the law according to their notions and there the
matter now stands so far as they are con-
cerned A new law went into effect on the
first of July, from which they hope for better
and more satisfactory results Against thls
the railroad companies have taken stand,
and from present appearances propose 10 snow
that its practical operation will be simply aD-
surd The reasons for their opposition to IL
have been stated very much at length and very
clearly in the correspondence of The TRIBUNE.
There is, as we have stated, good ground for
complaint on the part of the farmers The
railroad companies think they have as much
and as good reason for complaint against the
law. 1t is a warm and bitter fight, and neither
party talks yet of compromise. But the IN
terests of farmers and railroads are, as has
been repeatedly said, identical, and by and by
there must be some satisfactory adjustment.
Year: 1873

wants which will survive the arms strength
and the minds cunning, why may we not ed
ucate head and heart in habits which will
survive much decay and operate by their own
inherent force, even after our will has grown
feeble and our judgment untrustworthyi
Though we may seem to go on by a kind Of
mechanical momentum, yet the credit of it as
well as the benefit of it will be ours, since il
will have had its origin in our own wise pro-
vision and forethought.


The Old Men in Portland have taught tho
hot and hurried youth of the Republic lesson.
They have shown that life need not be 80
short as most men make it--that Old Age need
not call despairingly to God to ask if lie has
forgotten it-that our days, however pro-
longed, need not expire in the degradation Of
complete decay.
Year: 1873

The Committee of the Supervisors who are
inquiring into the irregularities of assessments
in certain wards are developing some curious
facts and furnishing good arguments for the
adoption of some better method OF valuing
property. 1t has been thought and not with
out reason, that many of the inequalities OF
taxation resulted from favOritism shown to
adherents of the Ring; but this investigation
reveals clearly that the cause of the trouble
is deeply seated and cannot easily be eradl-
Gated.
Year: 1873

New-York has given the patent wooden
payements a thorough test, and found them
exnensive and inadequate to our uses The
official report of Commissioner Van Mort, which
THE TRIBUNE publishes this morning in full
win confirm the conclusion already very gem
orally reached that the city must return to
good stone pavement, and waste no more
money in testing a material which answers in
Chicago or Brooklyn or other cities where
travel is comparatively light, but which cannot
sustain the heavy traffic of the metropolis.
Year: 1873

the army and aristocracy, and
Parliament on the masses of
the people. Whenever the
contest assumes this shape we
want to be counted on as
against the King and in favor
Of the Legislative Assembly
that combats him.
Year: 1873

The Baton Rouge La)
Gazette Comet says: "Instead
of the prompt and energetic
man he was once thought to be,
Kellogg is now known to be a
weak vacillating creature-a
mere toy in the hands of the
worst and most corrupt set Of
men ever known in any State.
We had hopes that so long as
the taxpaying people of the
State were compelled by force
to submit to the de facto
government set up by fraud
and force, that thatgovernment
would at least protect them
from the ravages of the politi-
cal moths, but such is not the
case. We are now ten times
worse off than we have been
under any previous govern
ment since Louisiana has
become a State"
Year: 1873

a young lady at Montgome-
ry in this State, has committed
suicide because she was too
poor to live like a lady and too
proud to "do ,housewoFk." "
Well, it is sad that human
nature should be so weak but
the young lady did perhaps
the most sensible thing possible
under the circumstances. There
is no occasion for any one so
afflicted to stay in this world.
Year: 1873

Gentlemen accustomed to wearing Tasteful Clothing
will fnd in our Large Stocks Of Ready Made Garments
an elegant variety of Suits for Dress and Business wear
and OvercoatS for Fall and Winter from which they can
select at much less cost than if made to order This
is practical economy which demands no sacrifice of
quality or taste.