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Year: 1875

An exchange, referring to the serious
losses in the silver mine stock specula-
tions in the West, says: Our readers
will find it good rule to remember the
words of Emerson, that they can find
gold wherever they choose to dig for it.
There have, no doubt, been many cases
in the rise of petroleum, coal, gold, sill
yer, copper and other industries where
fortunate speculators have become sud-
denly rich. If people go into the pur-
chase of mining stocks and other
property as speculation they must
not complain if they fail. 1t is gambling.
All gambling is based on chance. If
people gamble and lose it is their own
fault, committed with open eyes. The
true way is, after all, to dig for gold and
find it wherever fate places us; to dig for
it by industry, thrift, economy, patience
and good humor; not to buy what we do
not want; not to sell what we do not
have; not to purchase property ON
margin in the hope that it will be worth
80 much more within six months. These
simple rules underlying the success of
our richest men will, if followed pru-
IDENTIFY, prevent these "Big Bonanza"
excitements, and the suffering that so
frequently happens with the collapse
of petroleum wells and fanciful gold
mining stocks.
Year: 1875

The lesson taught by the present great
strike in Massachusetts,, and the still
more extensive ones in Great Britain,
says the New York Times, is of the
highest Importance to employers and
operatives everywhere. It has Justly
been said of the thousands of Golfers
who recently "struck in South Wales,
that as the result of their strike neither
capitalists nor laborers will attain any
advantage which could not have been
secured ut the outset by the exercise of
q little moderation and sacrifice. Pre-
cisely the same remark may with truth
be made of the striking men and women
and the capitalists in New England.
The eirreconcilable attitude of the strikers
has been productive of nothing but fresh
obstinacy and misunderstanding on
both sides. The property owners, firmly
established i'll their right to pay such
wages rs they chooseto give for a certain
amount and quality of labor, scoff at all
violent and threatening efforts to change
their determination, just as the master
colliers in South Wales have for some
weeks ridiculed the demonstrations of
the fifteen thousand men who threaten
to compel them. When employers and
employed disagree in such times as the
present, there is little sense in q pro-
longed struggle on either side. It is
likely enough that justice may be fully
gratified by that concession on both
sides which can be gained only through
the medium of arbitration. At the sug-
gestion of the members of the Social
Science Congress ut Belfast, in Ireland,
lust year, strike then in progress there
was successfully settled by the arbitra-
tion court. There is no reason why the
same effective and pacifcatory method
should not be adopted everywhere when
ever disagreements occur between large
numbers of operatives and the capitalists
who employ them.
Year: 1875

One of the officers Mt West Point re-
Gently resorted to the following expert
ment to determine whether the ice on
rivers and creeks thickens on the bottom
or on the top. He cut hole in the ice
opposite West Point, and bolted piece
of board to the under side Examining
it three or four days afterward he found
the bolt head on the top just as he left
it; and cutting through the ice found the
board sandwiched between tho upper
layer of ice to which it had been bolted,
and about four inches of solid ice which
had formed underneath it, showing con-
clusively that leo thickens on the under
side, and not on the top.
Year: 1875

In the days when earth was young,


Love and laughter roamed together:
Love took up his harp and sung,


Round him all was golden weather.
But there came sign anon
What will be when life is gomez
Laughter then would try his skill


Sang of mirth and joy undying;
But he played his part 80 ill,


lie set echo all assigning.
Ever came an undertone-
What will be when life is done.
Then for ever since that time,


Love no more can live with laughter
For bright as is the summer-prime,


Winter pale will follow after
Love henceforth must dwell with sighs ::
joy was left in paradise.
Year: 1875

The regatta Of the nineteenth instant,


while great success, and satisfactory in a.


marked degree. yet left undecided two very


Important contests. The word undecided


is used, for though decisions in both cases


have been rendered. the general public and


the contestants themselves do not appear


decided as to tho correctness of tho award.


1t would therefore definitely settle a


vexed question if the the skff and barge
races should be rowed again. And, as the
course at Milneburg is objected to as some


what difficult of access to the river clubs,
and its points Of observation not the
best, the suggestion offered is, that the
races take place at the terminus of the
New Canal. The barge race not having
moro than three entries might be
rowed in the canal, and the course from a
point opposite Bayou Tchoupitoulas to the
lighthouse would afford an uninterrupted
view to spectators on the revetment levee
and full play to the contestants. When the
fotilla entered numbers more than SIX an
open course Is great desideratum, and it
will be remembered that the confusion at
tending the last skiff race was mainly due
to The narrowness Of the course and the
crowdine Of outside boats. To make this
affair moro exciting single sculI race
might be introduced, and q pair.oared race
would not be out Of order to enable tho
brothers Donnelly to demonstrate what
they can do under more favorable auspices
than attended them in their late contest.


Should this suggestion meet with favor,
it is understood that Major Hoyt offers
gold medal as the first prize. The River.
sides, being now champions Of the oar.
should take the matter in hand, for the
public is by no means sated with the aq uatic
sports that have been offered them. T,eir
,ry is still for more.
Year: 1875

The State and the city and the butchers
and the free market men have at last get
down to an issue in tie First District Court.
As matter of course the court room was
crowded with tho interested Of both sides.
The panel was soon exhausted, and the
whole session taken mp in filling the jury
box with talesmen. At . quarter OF three
the jury was complete, and then the ques-
tion was what should be done with them.
The defense was willing they should 60
tree, and believed they were honorable
men and would be more likely to give
attention to the trial it they had their
breakfasts at home. etc. But the State
thought they had better remain, and the
court therefore ordered Captain Tobin to
take charge of them.
Year: 1875

CARPET-BAG rule has been one Of ca.
lamitous consequences to the Republican
party. 1t has shown the cloven foot of the
present administration. In point of mo-
rality it is a fair representation of Repub-
llcan rule throughout. 1t is the one idea
of gain, and impositions of the vilest to
CRAFTY personal and political ends. The
South to-day is mere wreck of its former
self upon which Radical vultures have fat
tened until its people are ruined and i'm
poverished, and in mocking sympathy
those who have worked this woeful picture
throw the taunt in their teeth that the
southern people recuperate slowly and are
100 lazy and shiftless to even drag. them
selves from their impoverished state. But
even In. their down trodden and oppressed
condition they are slowly but surely rising
10 an independence and driving these vul-
lures from their midst. One by one the
carpet-baggers have been driven from their
feast until only few relics of it remain
Governor Ames, of Mississippi, one of the
nnest specimens of this rule sits trembling
In the chair anticipating the defeat that is to
oVertake him and throw the State once
more into the hands of honest government
1he people of the South are recovering
from their ruinous situation and an era Of
prosperity seems to be dawning upon them.
Manufactories are being established; the
yield Of crops this year has been better
than ever before since the war, migration
Is invited to the soil of each State, indus
tries OF all kinds are gaining life and this
section Of the country bids fair to again
become rich and prosperous. So much for
the honest efforts of a people dishonest
administration kept down for years at the
point OF the baysnet and declared incom-
petent to govern themselves. Carpet.bae
rule has breathed its last and its father
Republican administration, will follow after
in 1876.
Year: 1875

THE decidedly Independent course that
eJudge Pershins has taken does not seem
to have met with very general satisfaction.
1t is thought that he should have by all
means vacated his seat upon the bencl,
and taken the stump in a canvass Of the
State, Judge Pershing thinks that this is
entirely useless as the people are fully in
formed as to the issues of the campaign.
There are none who doubt the ability of
Pershing to stump the State of Pennsylva-
MIA and make rattling fight, and we are
Of the opinion that it makes no difference
whether he takes the field or not he will
certainly be elected. His refusal to resign
his present official duties and take to the
stump is by no means an acknowledgment
OF his inability to battle his cause.
Year: 1875

IT is stated by the Philadelphia Bullc-
tin that the workingmen in their despera-
tion and ignorance are focking to the
Democratic party. In this they show their
wisdom, for they see ruin and despair in
the present administration, and they want
men elected to Office who will conduct its
affairs honestly, and not those who will
prey upon the peoples money and cause
the workingmen to suffer from it more
than any one else. It's not ignorance that
brings them over, it is wisdom. and no
more of desperation than to see dishonesty
succeeded by honesty.
Year: 1875

The wonderful results and immense
sale Of HALE's Couch CORDIAL the
past season, ought to convince the most
skeptical; still we are going to con-
tinue the same liberal offer that we have
made heretofore. viz: Any person suf-
fering with cough, cold or sore throat
who will call at F. 4. Poole's, Hawley
& Kellogg's Or any other Drug Store
and purchase bottle of HALE's CouGH
CORDIAL, use one-half of it, and if they
then conclude that tits doing them no
good, they can return the balance and
receive back their money. Who would
not test this medicine on such liberal
terms? No medicine ever sold in this
vicinity that produced such wonderful
results. All we ask is that you will
try it. 5m6
Year: 1875

ANNOYING. THE freight train arriv.
ing here at 0 o'clock in the evening, Is
In the habit of stopping just over the
crossing of Third street and Railroad
Avenue, much to the inconvenience
of pedestrians on that thoroughfare.--
On Thursday evening several ladies
were compelled to climb over a fiat
car to proceed on their Journey.
Year: 1875

NEW WEEEL.-The wheel of the


Water Witch Steam fire engine which
was so badly broken short time ago
turning the corner ofFront and Shipley
streets, has been replaced with 8 new
one
Year: 1875

New YORK, Dec. pat the seven
tieth annual dinner of the New England
Society tonight, President Bailey presided
having at his right President Grant and
Gn his left General Sherman. President
Grant did not speak, but Gvporal Shar
man, in answer to the toast, The army
and navy" said:


Upon the civilization of New England is
based the civilization OF North America.
The black man is as free as | am. The
japanese are free to come here and so are
the Chinese but the civilization of New
England governs this continent. A New
England man, go where ne will, carries a
centre which, enlarging, will affect every
thing he comes in contact with. He is
the embodiment Of all English speaking
people who believe in honesty, truth and
patriotism. Referring to the result of
the late war, he declared that never was
| there such an example of the conquerors
giving the conquered the same rights they
themselves possessed. The moment the
vanquished laid down their arms we said
to them, Go home; 20 to work for the flag
which is to be the common protection of
our homes" | say to every southern man
who will go with us, heart aud hand, to
| build up this land; that they are welcome
just as if born on the very surface of Ply
mouth Rock. But if they cherish any
hopes for the old conflict storm will arise
over their heads ten times as heavy as the


last one. | speak for the army and navy,
the men of bone and muscle, the brain and
sinew, the aggregate American. He re-
terred to the hard tunes, and said: TIE
trouble is that the people flock too much
to cities. | ask them TO come west


Laughter. There is no trouble in ST.
Lonis--plehty to eat and to drink, and We
will give you hearty welcome and God
speed to the best land of the United States


If the people of New York will learn les
son of the Pilgrim fathers and go back tC
some what of their economy, the national
debt will be extinguished in FIVE years aud
specie payments would come naturally


Let US go back to the times as before the
war. and it necessary, |, myself, will give
the example of earning my own living. bu


in doing so let US still keep ourselves pre-.
pared for war whenever it comes LIE


u keep the art of war before so that W,


will not haye the modification of seGdins
to Germany for soldiers to drill our sol
diers in the next war. lGreat cheering.
Year: 1875

There is hardly a city in the United
States which does not contain more peo


pie than can get fair, honest living, by
labor, or trade, in the best times. When
times of business depression come, like
those through which we have passed. and
are passing. there is large class that
must be helped. to keep them from cruel
suffering. Sill the cities grow, while
whole regions OF the eountry especially
its older portions, ARE depopulated year
by year. Yet the fact is patent to day
that The only prosperous class is the agri


cultural. We have now the anomaly oil
thrifty farmers and starving tradesmen.
The agricultural classes of the West are
prosperous. They had good crop last
year, aud have received good prices for
all their prodacts; and while the cilies
are in trouble, and manufactures are
running on halt time, or not running al
all, the Western farmer has money in bis
| pocket. and ready market Tor every.
Year: 1875

The West has been wise in clearing off its State indebtedness in times of prosper ity. so that to these later times of adversi- ty is not added the burden of severe tax ation. In the East We have not been so lucky, and the hand of the tax-gatherer is still heavy upon us.
Year: 1875

Occasionally Q tragedy happens in real life that seems more awful than any the bOldest writer dares to imagine in work of fiction:

 An old woman bade her daughter good by in the Rochester depot, the other day, to return to her Chicago home, saying: ''It isn't likely will ever see you again I'm getting so old" As the train started, she put her head out of the car window to catch . final glimpse of her daughter, who was standing on an adjacent track, waving her handkerchief, when a locomotive dashed in and ran over her, the last thing the mother saw, as her train moved out of the depot, being the maneled corpse of her daughter. r
Year: 1875

AAAo Ao4AAA va pSSoJ OtSA "OAA0A ways is not confined to the greatest men and the greatest places. Every hamlet is liable to have its petty.tyrant who takes his liberties with the women of his pre- cinct, and they submit to them with more or less dislike, because it is >''his way" He is probably an estinable person who means no evil, yet he unconsciously shuts the hearts of the best women of his &C., quaintance against him, while he becomes the subject of ill-grounded envy, and of humble imitation by many other men of the community he dominates. It is, in- deed, very noticeable fact that the real freedom of intercourse between the sexes is much the greatest in the grades of socie- ty where the woman is underno constraint from fear of disagreeable familiarities.

 Now the remedy for this Brooklyn mal- ady will come not from the closer subiec- tion but from the greater independence of women. The kissing business will never leave its proper limits so long as her real wishes control it. and we are glad to see in this so-called evil age that man is com. ing to understand woman better in these matters than was the case in the old and evil age of Gallantry. In society where I the gentleman finds no pleasure in any ia l niliarity that is displeasing to the lady where he dreads her shyness more thar he. .dreads her rebuke-there is no dange, that kissing will become social evil.

 l We sincerely trust there will be no re. action into Puritanism. The New Eng lander of a past generation, whose lips never metlthe lips of the Iwonen of his own near blood, and whose recollection
Year: 1875

A WRITER in the Boston Gl0be, chatting
of trip to town from a suburban place,
gives the following glimpse into the pos
sibilities of feminine emulation: lone
day On the trip up, reading magazine,
my attention was attracted by the glitter
of gold bracelet, which, look where l
would, flashed before my eyes, and fur
tber scrutiny revealed the fact that the
young lady who wore it was particularly
anxious that l should be attracted by it.,
and, to further her design, began cutting
the leaves of her magazine with silver
fruit-knife. For the purpose of showing
her that l was not particularly daz-
zled in fact, that there was another such
in the world, l took a gold pencil from
my pocket and marked a passage in my
book, for my bracelet was equal to hers.
Observing that fact, she drew off her
left glove and carefully arranged her
veil, that ] might not fail to see the
heavily chased ring which encircled her
finger. could 60 her one better or SO
taking off my glove, / drew down the
blind, flashing a rare topaz and soli-
taire diamond before her appreciative
eyes She saw, and, quickly pulling of
her other glove, displayed splendid
cluster diamond and gigantic anne
thyst. | was slightly nonplused, but,
as she wore no earrings, felt that, after
all, was even with her. At that instant
she drew an elegant little watch from
her belt, which she studied attentively
two whole minutes, holding it up in full
view, then turned to me as if to say,
Well, go on | had done my best, and
could not answer her challenge, but
thought mournfully of my poor little
! locket in a drawer at home, with one side
all jammed in. When, at last, the ag-
gravating creature took a jewel-case
from her sachel, and held up lovely
coral set, turning it this way and that
to exhibit all its beauties, furtively glanc-
| ing ut me to be sure that l observed,


was utterly vanquished, completely rout


ed, and SO greatly absorbed in my book
! that / did not see thing"
Year: 1875

A QUAINT old gentleman, in speaking
of the different ailotments of men, by
which some become useful citizens and
others worthless vagrants, by way of H.
lustration remarked SO one slab of
marble becomes useful doorstep while
another becomes lying tombstone"
Year: 1875

A rich man, in answer to the ques-
ton how he became so very successful,
recited the following story:


II will tell you how it was. One
day when was lad, party of boys
and girls were going to pick blackber-
ries. l wanted to 60 with them, but
was afraid father would not let me-
When 1 told him what was going on,
he at once gave me permission to 60
with them. I could hardly contain my
self. I rushed out into the kitchen,
got big basket, and asked mother for
luncheon. had the basket on my
arm, and was just going out the door
gate when my father called me back.
He took my hand and said in very
gentle voice, " Joseph, what are you
going to do?' To pick berries. I re-
piled. Then, Joseph, I want to tell
you one thing. 1t is this: : When you
find pretty good bush, do not leave it
to seek better one. The other boys
and girls will run about picking little
here and little there, wasting a great
deal Of time, and getting few berries.


l went and had capital time. But
it was just as my father said. No soon
er had one found good bush than he
called all the rest and they left their
several places and ran off to the newly
found treasure Not content more than
a minute or two in one place, they
rambled over the whole pasture, got
very tired, aud at night had very few
berries. My fathers words kept run
ming in my ears, and l stuck to my
bush.' When l had done with one l
found another and finished that; then
| took another. When night came l
had large basket of berries, more
than all the others put together, and
was not half SO tired as they were. l
went home happy. But when | en-
tered 1 found my father had been taken
ill. He looked at my basket full of ripe
blackberries, and said, "Well done.
Joseph Was I not right when | told
you to always stick to your bush ?"


He died few days after, and l had
to make my way in the world as best |
could. But my fathers words sank
deep into my mind. and1 never forgot
the experience of the blackberry, party
Il stuck to my bush When had
fair place, and was doing tolerably
we'll, I did not leave it and spend weeks
and months seeking one little better.
When other young men said, "Come
with US, and we will make fortune in
few weeks" I shook my head and
stuck to my BUSH Presently my en-
ployers offered to take me into business
with them. I staid with the old house
until the principals died, and then l
had everything wanted. The habit
of sticking to my business led people to
trust me, and gave me a character. I
owe all have and am to this motto
"Stick to your bush :"
Year: 1875

When one speaks cross the other just meets it


with laugh.
And the 6r.t ones ready to give mp consider


able more than half.
Maybe you'll think me soft, Sir, a-talkin' in


this stylr,
But somehow it does me lots of good to tell it


once in while;
And do it for a compliment-'tis so that


you can see
That that there written agreement of yours


was just the maxim of me.
So make out your bill, Mr.. Lawyer: don't


stop short of an x;
Make it more if you want to, for | have got


the checks.
I'm richer than a National Bank, with all its


treasures told,
For I've got wife at home now that's worth
her weight in gold.
Year: 1875

And then in the mornin' I'll sell to tradin'


man | know
And kiss the child that was left to US, and


out in the world I'll go.
And one thing put in the papers; that first to


me didn't occur:
That when am dead at last she bring me


back to her;
And lay me under the naples planted years


ago,
When she and was happy, before we quar-


relied so.
And when she dies, wish that she would be


laid by me.
And lyin' together in silence, perhaps we will
agree;
And if ever we meet in heaven, | wouldn't
think it queer
If We loved each other the better because we
have quarreled here.
Year: 1875

A few days ago a very handsome
young lady entered dry goods store
and inquired for "beau." The polite
clerk threw himself back and remarked
he was at her service. "Yes, but I
want buff, not a green one" was the
reply The young man went on meas
uring goods Immediately.
Year: 1875

Only a woman's hair! Who has net,
some time in his life, picked such Q
golden thread from his best coat collar,
and felt his heart beat quicker for it
Or gazed upon tress laid away in
some nook, and not felt the influence
Of tender memories :? Only woman 4
hair! and yet we don't like it in q
biscuit.
Year: 1875

A Plainville clergyman insists that
he saw snake forty feet long and as
big round as barrel of whiskey. A
pretty good sized insect that. We have
no doubt that he saw it, but be un-
questionably saw the barrel of whiskey
before he saw the snake. 1t seems
more reasonable, somehow.