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C EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. i i! v y 1. 1 1 ,,i I i ,, ,; i -i r ; i I -I I 1 1 1 "J 1 1 : 1 1 1 1 ' . B I I I -1 I - II' II I II U Mr I I I 1 1 I I i 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 . 1 1 . I in. llt . .... I ' -' ' j ' i 1 ' I : "' " " i i ' f ;ir " 'i -! ' . ;' ' : : if'"'" -' 'i '' ' 1 - ' ' . J " " ;' - - ' .' - f ; - , . ' " : . t' 1 1 1 . ' . ! 1 f, . , r - . - j " 1 t: I if;'' !3i ? .fc,. M Ml x i t i mi-. ;li i r --. JV 1ft' -. : si S 1 ,! I to , bx. mAjna. ..." . My dear, dumb fciaml, few ylai tiMra, ' - A wilHnf yMArft my (6t, ; - -Oted ttow of my booM and fua, v Myaaadowtatttare5i r jl lot la'td your-great brown ayea, " ' ' ' ' : 'Wbere ioViaad loyal homaga Alia, ' And rnopxar wharatae dlffereno Uaa Taen yaor aanl and mlnal , . or an of food that I haya foand . Witbin nyaolf or boman kind ' 1 ' j Hath royaUy Informed and crowned , Toor gentle heart and mind, , j ; ; I ecan tha whole broad earth around ' - For that one heart which, leaf and true, -: - iBeara friendship without end ar boua , And And the prlae In y oa. 1 : " ," ' ( trnst yoa as I trnst tha stars; ; -; Hot rvai loss, nor acoff of pride, , , Kor baggary, nor dnngeon-bara, , ' , Qk'a more yon from ay aide I As patient under injury . - - . ; ; Aa any Christian saint of old, i As gentle aa a iamb with me, ' Bat with your brothers bold. More playful than a frollo bey, - V ; Hore watchful than a aenttaeL .,- ' By day aad night your eonstantdoy ; To guard and please me well. ; a I .', . 1 clasp your head upon my breast-- ;. ! r Tha while yon whine and 11 my hd 1 , ft" And thus our, friendship is oeaf eased, f And thu? we understand. V Ah, Kanool Ad I worship od Aa truly as you worship me, . . "Or follow where my Master trod ';, ., With your humility; . ' , - Did I sitfondly at His feet, , :- : " As'you, dear Bianee, sttat mine, And watch Him with a lore aa swet, My life would grow dirlne. t - . PUTTING ON STEAM, Railroad Engineer! "Story. j -1 i if i I am a railrcacl engineer. ; Away along , ,?in';i857, durjjjrg the recent; panio, I was lrajining on the F. and O. railroad. The 1 railroad, companies were going under in 11 directions. Eyery day we heard of I in'jw failures, anduite often in a quar Jj ter where we least expected it. Our road 1 was generally looked upon as one of the I'.Jictfpst substantial in the nation ; pobody Be'exned to have any fears that it wouli ' ail to survive the .'gehgsfll sssaash-up ; feut yet I did not fujiy share in .the gen ser'al confidence. 'Wages were out down, ' iearages colkted, and a great many 'other litth matters seemed to indicate to - me t)y:t th road had got into deeper ftvaer than was agreeable all around, fAmong other things, the master me-1 chanic had told mo' in the spring that Jthe company had ordered four first-qual-uty TauDton engines far the all passen ,gcr business. The road was put in the tvery best condition and other prepara- ;;tions were made7 to cut down the timo ; r&nd put the" trains through quicker than . ! was ever known before when! the new r Ipngiprcs should come. Well, there was Iju'u one of the engines came. S si said that there was but on engine .Jime ; but she was, in my opinion, alto gether the best ever turned out of the iTaunton works, and that is saying as t inuch as can be said of any engine. She ' jjas put in my charge immediately, with . - I ho understanding that she was mine. jrti; was &iturday when she came out of jhe shop, and I was to take a special train up to Y . The .train was to carry up the President and several offi- Icers of the road to meet some officers of another road, which crosses ours thre, arrange some important btisiness twith them. I had no trouble at ail in laking my forty miles an hour going ifait. ; The engine handled herself most Jieautifully. We were just holding up tT- ' when Aldrich, the 1 Treasurer, ; Ifwho had come out ou the platform to put the brake on,, supped and fell. As Nro were' still under good headway, he jtv-as much injured and carried off to the liotel ' insensible.' , According: to Ihe President's direction, I switched off my ' .-Lr x ! - .liu ,to start back to U - at a moment s no tice. Aldrioh's presence was of so mnch iai- r fortanco that the business could not be itxansacted without him, so all those I ' ,. ihad brought out, except the President d Aldrich, went back to O on the y ' .o'clock express train. This was ; the y ;tast regular train hich-was topass over r f the road until next Monday. . Foarly in "i I the evening I left the machine in charge i ot my fireman, and went over to an eat- ing-house to see if I could not spend the I time more pleasantly than on my eu- ?onno.r Th hnrira irno-.red themselves away slowly.- I was playing a game of f dominbes with the station agent when in V I Came Roberts, the President, in a state of j " Harry," said he, "I want you to put ' v t me down m C at 12 Vclock" - : ;4f :& ka 4f orofl nAnrW 11 nVlnnk then, and '."t'f thedis.fc'nce'was,. seventy-five' mles. I 5 -5thought he was, joking at first ; but -wlten l We got outside tie door Wcaut me by ll thearatand hurried. me along bq fast- If? that I saw be was in earnest: '' If:. 4 "Harrr."slidhe, if you don t set me I down 'in! C - 'at ' 12yp?clock,! I am' a f tiined manv and'-this s road 'is a. ruined .roaU ; Aldrich5 ia'dead j but!he tol4 me before he died that he .hiembezed f from time to time $500,000 of our money, .rand hisclerkis to start:, with it ' onthe, .12 o'clock boat from C- for 5Canada; If we don't have that money on Monday' . . morning to- make some payments , with, the road goes into other hands 4 and. if yon put 'me down in 0 at the right I ; iime, so that I save my mdneyi you shall have $5,000. ; tJnderstand it, Harry Of CQurwf I understood it. : I saw liow the reason' why the' wages had been cut down. I understood it all, and my blood boiled. . I felt that I wduld aave ;the road, if I lived, and told Roberts so. - "See that yon do it, Harry," he re plied, as he climbed up on the steps of the coach whioh was coupled, jto my engine. .; ''' '; ; : ll : I sprung' tip on to the footboard, 'got up the switoh tender to help iny fire man, opened the throttle, andy just as we commenced moving, -looked, at ; my watch ; it was just 11 o'clock, so that . I had one hour to make my seven ty-five miles in. FrpmT- to B there were few curve on the road, but there were several heavy grades, I was .per fectly acquainted .with every rod of, ;it, so that X , knew exactly what had to encounter, and when I ; saw how the en-- gine moved I felt very little few: for the res alt. The road for the first few miles was ari air line, and so smooth tiiat inj engin e "flew along with soarcely a per ceptible jar. I. was so busy posting my telf up as to the amount of wood and water aboard, etc., that we danced by the . first station almost before' I was aware of it, having been, five minutes out and having five miles accomplished. " Ton are losing time I" yelled a voice , from the eoach. I looked around, and tiiere stood I Roberts with his watch in his hand. j. knew very well that we would have to Increase our speed by some means? if we carried out our plans of reaching C by midnight, end looked anxious ly around to see what I could do to ac complish that purpose. She was blow ing p2 steam fiercely at 110 pounds, so I turned down the valve to 200, for I knew we should need it all to make some of the heavy grades which lay between us and G- . It was tiiree miles to the next station. With the exception of a few curves, the. track -was as good as the 'last. . As we darted around what Com monly seemed a rather long curve at the station, but whioh at our rate of speed was short enough, I looked at my watch, and we had done it in two min utes and a half. : " Gaining J" I shouted back to, Rob erts, who was standing on the platform of the coach. tiook out for the heavy grades," he replied, and went inside the car. The. next six miles rose gradually from ' t i i m 0 a. a level to a ten-ana-a-nau-ieet graae, the last of which lay between us and the station. My fireman kept her full, and now she began to get hot. The furnace door was fed, and the steam raised continually, so that she' kept her speed and passed the station like a streak of light in five minutes. Now came ' nine miles like the last, over which he kept pace with her time, and passed the Btation in seven and a half minutes. . -i ' Here foa ten miles we had a twenty- tfoot grade to encounter ; but the worst of it all was, at this place we would be obliged to stop for wood. I was just If - . -i i -rVv j T i. 'i. 1 gomg to speaK to lwODeris auoui it, wueu I looked around and saw. him filling the tender from the coach with' wood which had been placed there before starting, while he had gone after me; I believe we would have gone these ten miles with the same speed as before, but, through the carelessness of .the fireman, the fountain-valve . on the left- hand side of the engine got opened, and the water rose in the boiler so fast ai. to run the steam down to 100 pounds be fore I discovered where the difficnlty was, At first Roberts didn't appear to notice the decrease of speed, and. kept at work at the wood as fOr ; dear " life. But presently he looked up,1 and, seeing that tnA BDefHl IUH1 uevniUHSU,, u. shouted ; r flin. comma over to where I was, he said s ( "- ,- , ; t Why, here we have been ten rninntes , J'- i -i x t on the last ten miles, aud I:, believe ;we , j . j -i tv.; S - . . m t. '.11: slacking. Whats the matter ? ; .. ' : ' ' I explained th cause. He1 was a parently aatisfied with my explanation, and after having tied down.' , the safety- valve he climbed over the tender, ex- horting me to fpnt her through,-'for dod's sake, or we are' all beggart to- gether." ' -", ,: ' ; , Just then .we passed the next station, having taken nine; minutes ior eignt miles.. We were ; n6w-more than half over the road, but we had lost nearly i fima oti V.ofl onlvleft twen I Ml I III I 111! Llik3 111 sir 1 1 1 1 J " ! tyrseven minutes to do thirty-seven miles in. I 'had shut the water off from both my pumps - a little distance back when I discovered, what was the matter, and she ..was ! how makihjj steam finely down a slight grade, From less than 100, with which we started over , that 'ten-mite stretch, she had 200 pounds be- f fore we finished it, :and, 'as the gauge in dicated no higher thai thai and as the valve, was .tied down, I could hot tell how much over .200 pounds she carried ; but she certainly oarriea none .jess remainder of- ?,the ijourney,' AM she might carry sttdh laa enormous head oz aieain, mjc uikx passing over uiai ten miles ; iit eiht .rninntes there layten miles of five-feet up grade and fourteen miles of twenty feet to the inile depress ion j)etweek ' lis and O, and it ": was now 13 minutes to 12 o'clock. ; 'Now the , engine -as hot in earnest. The furnace dodf, smoke-arch and chim ney were all Ted, . while she seemed to fly ;,onwar4 as if the: very evil one hini--seli operated hex mhineryi j Six rnin ntes carried us over : that ten miles, and we darted by the last station that had lain' between ns ; andO -i: Now we hadV fourteen miles to go, and my time showed threef minutes rpast 11 .o'clock. V If Z live," .' said T to myself, L will make-it."!, And Je, plungea -3own that twenty-foot grade with all 3team on. Persons, .who. saw the tram 3n that wild run said:i was so soon after Shey heard : the first sottnd of .her ap-. proacn when the straQ2& object, which looked as if it was a flame of fire, darted by, and then the sound of its traveling died away in the distance, that they could hatdl convince themselves they Imd really seen anything. It " seemed more like the creature of . a wild dream than a sober reality.; ; ' And now let me tell you that no' en gine. ..ever beat the time we made on those fourteen miles,. Those great wheels seYenVfeet in diameter, spun around so swift that: you couldn't begin to count the revolutions." The engine. barely seemed to touch the track as she flew along ; and; although the track was as true as if was possible for it" to be, she swayed fearfully, and sometimes made such prodigious ; jolts '-that it re quired considerable skill for one to keep bis feet. No engine could' hold to gether if crowded to a gre ater speed. ' ! wr w i sf - m t m ' m - wen, just as i came to a stanastiu in the depot at O , the big clock boomed out 12, and the steamboat was getting her steam on. . Roberts got on board in time, and nothing '! to spare. ' But he saved the money. He found it hid away in some old boxes.' as Aldrich had di rected him. ' '- ' A- JUDGE OK. CHAR A CTER. few of the ; broad distinctions of physiognomy depend on the forms of the features, but all it nicer eliades have far more to do with t expressions ; and in. this, indeed, he real character ia often seen where the conformation of the features seems to contradict it. There are some general and well-knowx rules for the deterniination of physiog nomical character, as far as it has- to do with the shapes of the 'features ; the aquiline nose and eye, for instance, be long to the heroic 1 class;;-thick lips to the sensual, and thin to the selfish ; yet all these may be liable to many excep tionsthe first certainly are ; for Nel son, Wolf e, Tnrenne, and many other heroes had nothing of the eagle physiog nomy.' It is natural to associate beauty with goodness, and' ugliness with wick edness ; and children generally do. this. But an acquaintance - with the . world soon shows us tiiat bad and selfish hearts may be concealed under the handsomest features, and' the highest virtues hidden under 'the homeliest; and that goodness ' may .even -exist with conformations of face absolutely ugly. We then begin to look for the character In the expression ; rather than in the forms of the features, and to distinguish assumed expressions from natural ones ; and s& we go on, aftd, as we grow older, become better physiognomists, though we never arrive at the certainty of judg ment whioh seems not to be ' intended we ever should. Oharle Robert Leslie. ... ;' ." : : ' -i -4 A 2TEW STOKf OIT ZLSTCOZir. r When Iincoln was . practicing in the old Sangamon count j Court House, in the days of the old-fashioned; settees, a n.n slim lawTCT. noted for "wearing a very short coat, slid long on tiie seat to mjuciun uio, uuivi""'. v--0 jury. A protruding nail tore the seat of Mia" lawver'a nantaloons. ' OblifiTed to follow his opponent- immediately; thers was no time to sew up the rent in the .t tA varment. A legal wag "present wrote a l4,A . - 0 sdnscnption paper: We, the unoler- signed, agree to pay the sums set oppo- -. .;. .-. - . of purchasing Brother Brown a new pair ; of pantaloons." Several of the lawyers; put jown sums ranging from 50 cents' to 10 cents. " The paper was presented to Lincoln, who f sat;! opposite the rear of the advocate; who'bending' oyer in gee-; ticulation, made i quite an exposure.! Lincoln took out his ; pencil and wrote upon tiie paper ;: '1 hav nothing to.- 1 wuvu. w....-v. - lawyers roared with laughter; the Judge asjteu p-t , - tin turn, had to roar. All thia , time' the I unconscious victim of the fan was igno rant bf the cause of the laughter, and at' last joined in the merriment Thhkb is a man Brooklyn who lives so fast that he isnow absolntBly older than bis father; and .it is thought-he vrin soon overtake his grandfather. His mother; a quiet, elderly lady, he has left rbhhjd 0ong,asoj as well as two inaiden-annts,;;' -j-.:.. . JOAcjciN Mnxra says he has wept tue 1 jeading some 01 ins, own pocuw. K$q aaM-yt-U we, had written rjErjf I?-L.Z 'i-ivL-i 1 iff . 'the5 -fnal'e the future, for Aise in our dwelling-houses, will be. see kind.xi cma fHstrihrttftd throuorh - th'n V citv. Tjrei 1 mlv'mnminktinff fas inow delit- ered. j The .nstt of coal is extravagant;: got ;ccmtttaitot iifeeBfeMi ' bir astefui and inconvenient, and the nst ;:I0u to decide, bt l can wwt for a day and smoke arising from it add much, to or two . . , . . , .. . - , l the impurities of the air, while the Ve-; "No, I can attend to yon now, Be moval of iromioO to 200 pounds of ashes; 1 seated," and the writer turned from his for every ton of coal burn4;is a great; 1 desk .with' suddenly-awakened interest, annovance. Several substitutes for solid ! tot a constitution4 question is always in fuel have been proposed of .which: j have strong advocates. Thkefare sleam i heat, hot water and ffaseousifuel. Sd ! far as the warming of dwellings is con cerned, it must be admhted , that Mr. Holly has succeeded in demonstrating that steam can be generated -at a central station and economically distributed ,for tMs .purpose, ' But f or cooking purposes steam Kea supplied in thiway cannot be made available. At the rsent ime it is the custom to use steamer heating purposes at-higher pressure? than-formerly, sometimes asf higtt:4as twenty pounds to the square inch,! The pros , pecta for the hot-water system do not .i- ' ' . 3 i...f' -tJ 1 ! ' seem promising of great success. ; The practical difficulty of maintadning a con stant Circulation through a great number lof pipes running in every direction seems to be almost insurmountable, ! Moreover, granting, that this .difficulty 3s overcome in practice, . a fatal objection still re mains, which is; that the rieinperature of an apartinent heated :by hot-water pipes cannot be easily regulated; for, if the room is too warm, the water cannot be shut off. like steam, but must remain in the.j pipes if the circulation is .inter-!, rupted, and part with its h,eat gradually, or, if more heat is required, the fires must be quickened, and the; water Urns to make an entire circuit before the ben efit is felt. The temperature of 'the water in the Prall system' "which is, perhaps, the best known of ;all is to be about 400 to 425 degrees'" Fahrenheit, guoh a! high temperature involves a pressure at the boiler of not: less than nineteen or - twenty atmospheres, and it is doubtful if such a pressure can be regarded as quite safe. The system of heating that is destined toanpersede all others is by means of a k&aeous fuel. For this purpose a suitable, gas can be need, be no more difficulty jor danger at- : tending; its use man is msv waui ntiw m the use of iUuminating gasp t By passing a current 'of steam through an incandes cent mass of coal, in a suitable furpace, the oxygen of the steam combines j with the carbon of the coal to! form a com bustible tras, while the othjef constituent of the steam, hydrogen gis. wnlen is also combustible; is set free. The mixt ure of carbon oxide and hydrogen "thus I produced is the so-called :;;water gas, "and it is this gas which seems likely to r,ome larerelv into use for a - household fuel. A not unimportant fact m con nection with, this gas is that; although it . will explode when mixed wijb the prop er proportion of air, its explosive ehergy is much less than that of ! ordinary illu- minating gas. Xhe lnusoaucuon 01 gaseous fuel would not necessitate very, great changes in the stovef and ranges now in use. The poDvenienoe and econ omy of the system commend it to every one.- New Tor h Times. - CLIMATE JTOM COXBWtlTirE8. Some fifteen years ago; we . published an article on the subject of; localities of gted with the' result of his last p eonsumpiion. .'The' generpl idea for loit line in Hatwich that hejin- which we pontended was this, that warm climates hastened consunipifon ; that ah inseparable attendant o consumption, under all circumstances, .was, debility. The healthiest of us feel the debilitate ing effects of summer heats; And how an invalid is1 to be strengthened by what debilitates a healthyinan, We can not understand. ' Consxunpiive people do not need the warm, damp, Tapor laden atmosphere of Cuba; and Florida, hiA the cool, dry, still air' of high lati tudes. A maih in consumption will more certainly get well in Greenland than in the est Indies. ' i I: ' Jftam the details ftxrnisjTed from many Bources, a member of the Massachuseta Medical Society has prepared a jpaper, eonolusive'pf the fact that all low and damp places originate jttd aggravate eonsumptive i diseases, and tnat restora tion and exemption musi.be found m cool sad dry latitudes. And for similar reasons sea voyages, and sea coast and lake shore and prairie "localities have a perniotons effect upon all persons whose tangg &re diseased. ITeMs yXnirnal of SsaWt Z" ' . ' ' P' , jrEWSPAPEE TEEEeRAJPBS. ThA desirabilitv of havuisr immediate I to tne ; leasing 01 Kiegiu newspapers. ' The Ixndon1r 2775 has some short ones ; the ew York Tribune has 'a 'wiwtween- 'Tofk'- and WashmgtonTther leatnewspapers of Cincinnati are inarlr connected xuiriU. Aecentlv: the ru;A 7A w mv'h H&.Afcefc What probkbiy thridngeitwire ieased'by any . . : swni-iai oM. newspaper, cuiniecuug uo , 1 ... V. nnKDOTT .11 W U.M III1IM. on ton. Alt messages are i Sent direct, ar havmir exclusive !nst of the the wire and employing its own operators r or AM OHIO MAX. "Are you buy?'' . asked the visitor. Pproaching the editorial sanctum. "TeSi' "Well, 111 .drop ih some other time. 1 ' ' -r - - : H -,-."Ie..W arguing with, my wife and my eldest son, imianwyon;aro not ac. qaainted with WOliam, are; you? niiiTTfA1 with William, are von? N6. . WeU, you ought to get him . to write for your paper. He writes the slashenet letter you ever jead, and bars down on. his pei like a lawyer. Yes, I'm getting to the point. :,WeU the question is this : Suppose a man and his wife are .visitinjg a foreign . country, and while they are away a sen is , born 7unto them. . Could that son, everything else being favora ble, be elected President of the United States?" . - - . ; j f " Yes, for the son would.be an Amefi can citizen." . s: . j ':. ' But don't the law say that a man must be a native of this country ?" ; " Certainly j but the parents being natives would in this case render the child a native. "w . i " Id jrather you'd consult some au thorities. It's my child that I'm refer ring to. My little son .Ned, who was barn last summer in foreign parts. j : The boss writer took down the Re vised Statutes, and the visitor continued : Z Yes, last summer, my wife and I went abroad, and ever since Ned's birth I've been bothered about it " Being assured Ned was in the line, of promotion for the Presidency the father being an Ohio man the parent depart ed, satisfied. XBT THE WEST INDIES. Strange as it may seem at first sight, everybody in the West Indies eats very large meals. The climate is so hot that ! yon take food freely to make up for the j losses, and the appetite has to be stimu lated by a great variety of dishes, as well as by the copious use of those very insidious capsieums, and the still more delicious little red and yellow bird-pep- A few of these tempting: fruits , pja in the salt-cellars at every meal, and, with the bright tropical , flowers which invariably garnish the table in pretty specimen vases, they give a general air of pleasant aesthetic refinement to the whole arrangements. Breakfast is a really solid and substan tial repast, usually put off till half -past 10 or 11 o'clock, the pangs of .pressing hunger being stilled before the I early morning canter by a cup of coffee in the bedroom. With it sometimes comes a 1 cassava-cake, one of the best Jamaican institutions, made by the negro villag ers from the roughly-scraped meal jof the arrow-root plant This meal f is rolled into a thin pasta, and than baked hard and dry into roond cakes about the thickness ef a Hootch oat-meal bannock, butmueh mow delicate in taste. JBel- '. ' - ' ' ' "; i' , jr greWM. :- ., j ' i' SEII.IKQ OUT AETEXt ELECTION. ' Mr. Tomline, of Orwell Paafc, neui Ipswich, so well known by his many Un successful ' attempts to represent bor- nnirTia and eounties in Parliament, is;; so Rllinff the whole of his Vail Suf .. -w - w ? a v f . "i at fS-l 4 r folk property, including the house and estate of Orwell Park, with its'1 splendid all nntin a. The preserves extend ' oyer 28 000 acres of land;5 almost" In a ring- tence. This property is now offered it) m.vt fnT fl .'200.000 :' and. consid-' J n m(uav j j y m . erinff that the. partridge-shooting is if rkrA na any in Enrfand ; that the farms are'1 well cultivated, and" that .Or tvv with the river of that name nm- nine through the grounds, is one of the most" beautiful places in the country, Mr. Tomline cdnsiders ' that he w tnot askin ir too higli a price ; but who is j the millionaire who cat give such a sum t t at, onl v be sdmer ' one from overl the A.V va- v 4 - 2 . . . . 4 1 ,a;r - - sea but then colonists ana innKeca -generally An rtot ' aTiDreclate, swort o . . . i - ; sporting properties. fmdon Worlf i Thb following advertisements, are tat en from a San Francisco newspaper "The gentieman who sat; down' gnja cream pie in a Market street car ;Wknown to the ladv who had just purchased it, and, even though he may have no regard for the hungry orphans for whom it was destined ne is urgea a 1 Krt nd tha exriehse of once to remit this ad'vertiao- o - , f - , neath it this Janiiscl a J0.)1 accepts tne - Z VWk the subjoined will testify JH) the Bligktly mindcated f i gontieman to spoil a:$10parf of jbeavet nanta bv Thnn a let of slmah wrapped isl no in saOer on the seat he was;about-to Loccupy: does not nnmeoW remwt r-nhn the oars of A. Ji: at this; ov . , .uU . - . - . j. 1 CT. W " .MW ?-T ' . . I shortly be given to the press. -r i wlrl . Anr i llBJl mor CUT - ftSe I ' hn the averase' lawni1-?-' .'A The Majority Point (ID.) Republican has had a 'visit fronf the traveling jOUT,' and talks thus about him: "By a seem ingly intuitive knowledge; the newspa perman seldom fails to recognize a mem- 4 bei of the craft at first sight. There la a peculiarity about him especially the jority'of these traveling artiste" are' frauds, and experience teaches that it does not pay to harbor or' encourage them. ' NaturaHy there is1 a feeling tf sympathy for a fellow creature in dis J tress or destitute circumstances, but dis crimination is necessary, lest the idle' and dissolute be encouraged. From the habit of these traveling knights of the stick and rule it might be presumed that it is necessary for" a printer, after he; has spent ten or fifteen years at the trade, to start out. upon a dead-beating tramp, ostensibly in. -.search -of rwdtk. Such is not the case, however. In the days of thorough apprenticeship it was customary for printers to travel from of 4 -' fice to office, as journeymen, in a lauda ble endeavor to render themselves as expert as possible. . While there may be still a few worthy, honest men ' on the road,' yet the most of them are of the nlM who think 4 the world awes me a Uving,' and IH go forth and collect it But let our visitor tell hia own story: Am a printer of eighteen years expert ence, in search of work; came here from Decatur, where I had work at$10 a week; wages were cut down to $8, and conclud ed to leave; spent my last cent for board and lodging last night; started for Ev- ansville, Ind. Would like to set or throw in some tvte for you.' He: was told -f w that there was nothing in that line to do, but to help him along he might devote a few hours to a pleasant woodpile exer cise," which impertinent proposition was treated with dignified scorn, though: a little money donation would have been' acceptable. The Republican asks : fIs it charity to assist persons who refuse honest .work because they have learned i trades, or does it not tend to encourage them in their false ideas ofr the true nobility of all honest labor ? It is not urged that it is wrong to aid those who are desti tute, nor that it is right to -turn the needy and truly deserving away, empty. It would even be better to give to many undeserving than that one deserving per son suffer. Let doubts, as well as deeds, be always, on the side of mercy.' .It is urged, however, that the practice of giving to persons who are : unwilling' to work tends to make begging respectable and to encourage dissolute, lazy men to; travel about and impose upon the credur litv of the charitably disposed. All per sons who refuse to work unless they, can do something they consider genteel have a false idea of the grandeur 01 la- bor. The honest man, wno xous witn hand or brain to earn his daily bread, and to make the world better and hap pier, is one of earth's noblemen, no dif ference how menial theservice performed, bo it is done well and faithfully whether blacking boots, sawing wood, shoveling "dirt or sweeping crossings. HThe sooner the tobacco-chewing, , whisky-drinking tribe of beggars known as, 'tramp-prin ters ' learn this fact the better it will be for the country." . :, . 'A POLITE PEOPLE. r . . . . I l The citv of LucknoWj India, is. re nowned for the potitenes3t of its people, exceeding, it would Beem, that of, ; tne French, -who are generally Regarded, .-as. e ppiitest people in the , world. A' cor respondent, writing from tne spot, gives- a ludicrous illustration of tne extent, to, which the ' natives carry ' their ideas of courtesy. Two native . gentlemen, on their .way to the railway station,, aceir dentally fell into a ditch. One would suppose that both would have been on their. feet in a. twinkling; out no, tne law Nrf politeness interfered, and one said to the other : " When , your Honor rises then I may, get up." i " No, your Honor' thdnld get ;np first, ;irepUed the ntW "Never ; how scould I take precedence of your Honor fand, thus ihe contest went on for an hour, it is said, because neither genueman woma. consent to violate ; the laws' of good breeding. ' t .i . : ! EXAMPLES OP WATLRED BTOC& A little less than three years agw in September; 1 1878 the entire- issue j oI Louisville and v Nashville- stock was worth, current prioes, $3,041,100 j a dav or two ago also at current pricee:i H KaVA tAkfm S19.196.UUU. ana tms i . i -. TT T " " a v w '") T m r aa ax a. .w A. after a stock dividend or aw per ecu. Itock. Island, one of the steadiest ; of Btocks. could hare been bought Tip en tire for $29,375,000 in 1878; now it would take $60,742,000 to buy the out. standing stock. New Jeisey, Central, at the same time in 1878 audit wasnot then. atr its lowest , point would Jiave oet $7,773,500 ;.today..withr a heavier !debt before it and very little increase m property, $18,mQ0Awould,,.be needed hnvit iiar instances mign dc riven without-iinmbeXrJMat. these must or J T4 wi'11 faa-Ar nnmA-nrcttV close, thinking to find out where, ail. jae difference comes in. New York ,0 VjtiiUr J PLEASANTRIES. yy ' - : !' Aa with m woman," so with i horse: ,His back htdr i his mane trouble; Thb Knights of the Middle Ages ari ' historically dark. ' ' ' Evebt Custom House clerk ought to know how to ad valorem. is a good time to plant holiday adver- Thb author of the " Little Brown-, a iutrular. vein. . Jug" .was probably in when he wrote that sometime popular- - - . ,. - -1 ditty. . V . . . ' "Kissnto your. sweetheart, says a. trifling jroung man, "is like eating soup with a fork ; it takes a long time . to get enough." 1 A TOUNa man in love is not neoessarily a mathematician, but is nearly always a sigh for her. If you can't cipher this, , out we sigh for you. "Aiii seems to hinge on tiiis, . re-r marked the lover when, he proposed to, his sweetheart while swinging on the. gate in front of her house. ., ,j Whxk two men fight a duel about af woman there is almost always, some- t where, a third man, who laughs heartily , at their folly, and while risking, nothing . gains, perhaps, everything. . . v Ii is now claimed that Satan pre vailed over Eve by imp-ortunity. Aet For Herald. Has it been demon strated 1Oommerciat Bulletin. Yeey . it is the latest devfl-obment 2krT Marble. . .; ; A Jebsxt Crrr man in the act of ad ministering a hearty kick to hi wife slipped and fell so heavily as to fraoture. his leg .in two places. Wife-beaters; see. that your feet are well braced before. beginning work. ,x , , . Spbaexno of Mr. Forbes lecture on " Kings I Have Met," a Western paper says that some day he will come across three kings and a pair 'of sevens, and J then he will learn something about the really great resources of this country. Miss Susie M. Russemi, editor of the Dulnth Weekly, says : "When things go to D K liow 0 D they become." The most O I thing we know of thia season is .the Q cumber. , Beware of it, Susie, ; or it will W up. Watch fbrjt, wait fox it Peck's Sun. - , 'V Ax EngfisbT magashML, discourses oa "Cheap Girls," It says : "No young! man, not even the worst, wants any,. thing,to do with a cheap young lady."; ; This is a mistake. No matter how cheap a girl may; be, her young man always thinks she is a." little dear." .'Pot out -your tongue a little fur-, tixer," said a doctor to a fair invalids 4 A little further, if you, please." "Why, k doctor, do you tninx a woman s tongue. has no end ?," said the. gentle sunerer. "An end, perhaps, madam'," replied the physician; " but no cessation." . " ' , Taa bashful young man who asked a lady on the beach if he " could sete her home," was much surprised to bear her reply " that, he could go up and see it if ne wanted to. but she : didn't tliink .her HAY FEVER. . ... The writer of this communication has. .been a sufferer from hay fever , periodic caUy for the 'past twelve yearsduring, half of which period she. could get no satisfactory relief. The intolerableitch-, ing of the eyelids and almost constant sneezing which characterizes' the com--plaint in its worst form she had to e dure until six years ago, when the; fol- lowing remedy was "brought to, her no-, tice' in the- columns of a ; newspaper : Into a four-ounce wide-mouth, bottie- half filled with . cotton, and. havag i close stopper, put . the following- mixt-, ore : 2 drachms carbolic acid, 9 drachms aqua ammonia (specific gravity 0.960), 5 drachms .distuied water, it drachms alcohol. Inhale througn tne nostrils.- Thisfmixture, being oi a voia-i tile nature, must be kept as' much a nossible from exposure in order to pre- rVe its strength aind prevent too deep dis&loration. A It does not purport to be a Ppeci&c.'for that has not yet been dis- -coveted, but it has -proved itself a ready relief in the case of the- writer and x i l - tti a aamA many.. wno nave Buuei wayl-iiVer: York Sun. w . .?' jl SMALL BOrS . WAJfDERLW "'" ! THOUGHT. , : ) A good mother, whose 5-year-old boy is . exceptionally conscienuous and de Vout, has often been smitten with a pang o? apprehension Jest her darlmg might be too good foy this world. Ane wougna eame into, her mind the other day, wnen her head was Ibowed by the side of ; hex eiuld'aat prayer-time ; but tms pain was I quickly . banished by a yery oiaeren . ' v it ViilV it m. feeling, wnen me umofwj - jpw whisper : " Mamma, can't l go the circus to-morrow ? There's going tobeahorse on Stilts." Sunday-School Times. ' ' - ; . -; . , L Loy may exist without jealousy, al- J without love, and this is common ; WtMUUA I UaaaV Bhsmm f , ri wtanaV can feed 'on that which it' which is 4 w ; t-'.-ll.. laaa tl.n OB that oixiica. . av - weet, and is sustained by pride asoften as by affeouos. IK Bi - - m r. m liWf ISSt tw r f. i 1: ij-f '
The Rutherford Banner (Rutherfordton, N.C.)
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Sept. 16, 1881, edition 1
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