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ATTORNEYS.
. a H rrT. i. w. KKWMAX.
. . HEWETT & NEWMAN,
jlVrOTlNEYS it COUNSELORS AT LAW,
Oflice. No. 70, MrPhersonBloolc. upstalra.
rETFRKNTH. W. T. BOOEKS.
FRENCH. & ROGERS,
TT0ttF.YS V COUNSELORS AT LAW.
. Office In Court House Bulldinif.
1 Wifl five diligent attention to any legal business
ntniited to i heir care. 4S-tf
JOB A. DILLON,
ATTORNEY - COUNSELOR AT LAW
and General Land Agent,
Terumwli, Johnson (Vuinty, Nebraska.
7 J. N. RKYNOLDH.
ATTORNEY COUNSELOR AT LAW,
OFH -k No. f0, Re ynohU IIoteL
THOMAS BROADY,
'ATTORNEY! AT LAW AND SOLICITORS
IX CHANCER V,
OFFICE District Court Room.
T vtm. 11. Mclennan,
ATTORNKV AM) C'OUXSrXOIt AT LAW,
braska City, Nebraska.
R. F. TERKINS,
ATTORNEY ANI COUNSKIX)R AT LAW,
Ternmseh, Johnson County, Neb.
NYE A HUM I'll HEY,
ATTORNEYS Jt COUNSELORS AT LAW,
I'.viiw City, Iawtiee Co., Neb.
N. K. GRIGGS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW AND LAND AGENT,
Beutrlce, Gge County, Nebraska.
PHYSICIANS.
S. COWLES, M. D.,
nOMnOPATIIIC PHYSICIAN, SURGEON
AND OBSTETRICIAN.
A rriultiate of Cleveland College. Office at Ilauk
-A AroiiutKe's More room. Njet;ml uttention given
to diMsu of WoBien andC'liildren.
W. II. KIMBERLIN, M. D.
PHTSiri AN ANE SURGEON TO NEB.
E1K ANL EAR WFIKJIAKV.
Orriii-KMain-st. Okkick Horns 7 a.m. to 6 P.m.
H. C, THUKMAN,
FHISICIAK AM) SURGEON.
Offlce No. 85 Main Street,
Oliirf tivuni from 7 to 11 a. m. and 1U4 p. m.
II. I MATHEWS,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office InCIty Iru(rStore, Maln-ft.
C. K. STEWART, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Offlre In D. H. Iwls & Co.'s Drug Store.
(idicr hoars from 7 to 9 a. m.; and 1 to 2 and d'i to
p. m.
LAND AGENTS.
0 II. V. HUGHES,
REAL ESTATE AGENT & NOTARY
PUBLIC.
Ofllrf ovrr ITannnford t McFull's Furnituie store.
WM. H. HOOVER,
REAL ESTATE fc TAX PAYING AGENT.
Otlioe iu District Court Hooui.
Will five prompt attention to the sale of Real Es
tmir atl 1'ayineiil 61 Taxes throughout the Nemaha
J JUKI Jh.su um.
JONAS HACKER,
LAND AND TAX PAYING AGENT.
!Tlce with Probate Judge.
Will afi nd to the Payment of Taxes for Non
Heident ijinil n ners in NeuiahaCcunty. Corres
IHinUence uiK'llel.
NOTARIES.
J AS. C. MrNAL'GHTON,
NOTARY PI BLIC , CONVEYANCER,
Oftitv In J. L. Carson's Rank.
K. IL KERIGHT,
IOTAHY PUBLIC . CONVEY" ANCER,
( No. 7U Muin-ft second fiiwir.
Arnt for the luilalile and Anierican Tontine
I All- insurance Companies,
DRUG STORES.
MoCREERY A NICK ELL,
DEALERS IN DRI GN STATIONERY, JLc.
No. ."C Mai list.
Full assortment Drills, I'Hiiits, Bonks. Stationery,
:c. on liand, and sold ut u hoieMile or retail.
D. II. LEWIS CO.,
fsfct KSSORs TO MIII.UDAV CO.
DEALERS IN DRI GS -MEDICINES, Ac.
No. l Main-sU
GRAIN DEALERS.
" EVAN WORTHING,
FORWARDING AND COMMISSION
MERCHANT,
And denier tn all kinds of Grain and Ceuntrv
frwiuce, Itniunville. Nebraska.
GEO. G. START & HRO.,
DEALERS IN GRAIN, PRODUCE, &c.
Asplnwall, Nebraata,
Th bltrhest market price paid for anything the
"'BUT can raise. We will buy and aell everything
ncn to the market.
MERCHANDISE.
k. e. johnson co.
Dealers in general merchandise
Xo. 71 Matn-st., McPherson Block,
WM. T. DEN,
DEALER IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
Forwarding & Commission Merchant,
No. 62 Main-st., Brownvtlle,
rorn l'lnntern, plows. Stoves. Furniture, c. al
Jrtr. Highest market price paid for Hides,
Y iirs. and Cuntry lroduce.
HARDWARE.
KHELLENBERGER BRO'S
DEALERS IN II ARD W ARE,;STOVES.
No. 74 Maln-st.
ruTr' ,la"l"are. Carpenter's Tools, Blacksmith
niWimgs. Ac., constantly ou hand.
JOHN C DEUSER,
"EALER IN STOVES, TINWARE, &e.
. ' No. 79 Main-at.
SADDLERY.
JOHN W. MIDDLETON,
CAAXESS, BRIDLES, COLLARS, Etc.
No. 64 Maln-sL
"hlp and Lashes of everv description, and Plas
JfJlUir. kept on hand. Cash paid lor H Utes.
J. H. BAUER,
HAB.XESS, BRIDLES, COLLARS, Etc.
No. 9 Maln-st.
-!ng done to order. .SuUsfaction guaranteed.
CONFECTIONERIES.
- NACE & HANSEN.
n BAKERY" AND CONFECTIONERY".
Ko. 31 Mainu, opiosite City Jrug Store,
ou T' (,,lles. Fresh Bread, -ife-tionery, Light
fajicyjroceries, consuuitly ou iutud.
t WILLIAM ROSSELL.
OXFECTIONERY AND TOY" STORE,
T No, 40 Maln-ot.
-J''. Cukes, Oysters, Fruits, etc., on hand.
DEAL
J. P. DEl'SEIL
ER IX CONFECTIONERIES,,
Ki). 44 Maln-st.
MUSIC
MRS. J. M. GRAHAM,
IsACHEH OF MUSIC,
. Rooms, Maln-st., bet. 4th and Mh,
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- o e iann, iwtr. Aieioneon.
: '"w."1 Vocfcllrjttlon. Having had eight years
W;.r ! teachnr of M uslc tu New York U con
' or giving satisfacUon.
OUNTY CLAIM AGENTS.
" ' ED. D. SMITH,
C WAR CLAIM AGENT,
v. Washtngtoa CiLr. II C.
utu. to the prosecution of claims hefore the
,a,-.Ij'B'"'s. and all claims accruing against
i "Timlin dnrlnir tl.a la.l u
SALOONS.
JOKj.ru HUDDAKD & CO.,
eCE AND QUIET SALOON.
o. s jaani'Si.
Lesand Liquors kept on hand.
Utt, R-C. BERGER,
j nBRA BILLIARD SALOON, ,
x.4, Whitney's Block.
and liquors vomlanlly on band.
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ESTABLISHED 1856.
general uslncss
HOTELS.
STAR IIOTEL.
STEVENSON 4 CROSS, PROPRIETORS.
Front-t, between Main and Atlantic.
This nouse has Just been remodeled. Inside and
out. SUire Oflice for all pointa West. Omnibuses!
to all trains.
REY'NOLDS HOUSE.
NATnAN N. (iREEN, PROPRIETOR,
88 90 Main Street, Brownville.
Best accommodations In the city. New House,
newly fhrnislied. In the heart of business part oi
city. Livery stable convenient, 4o-Wm
AMERICAN HOUSE.
L. D. ROBISON, I'ROPRfKTOR,
Front-st., bet. Main and Water.
A good Feed and Livery Stable In connection with
the House.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
A. ROBINSON,
BOOT AND SHOE MAKER,
No. 53 Maln-st
Has constantly on hand a eood assortment of
Gent's, Ijidie's, Misses' and Children's Boots and
Shoes. Custom work done wilh neatness and dis
patch. Repairing done on short notice.
JUSTICES.
A. W. MORGAN,
PROBATE JUDGE AND JUSTICE OP
THE PEACE.
Office In Court House Building.
STATIONERY.
A. D. MARSH,
PIONEER BOOK AND NEWS DEALER,
City Book Store, No. SO Maln-nt.
BRIDGE BUILDING.
C. V. WTIEELER,
BRIDGE BUILDER & CONTRACTOR.
Brownville, Nebraska.
Sole agent for R. W. Smith's Patent Truss Bridge.
The strongest and best wooden bridge now in use.
TAILORING.
CHRIS. IIAUBOLDT,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
No. C2 Main-tit.
Has on hand a splendid stock of Goods, and will
make them up in the latest styles, on short notice
and reasonable terms.
AUCTIONEERS.
ULISS & HUGHES,
GENERAL AUCTIONEERS.
Will attend to the snle of Real and Personal Prop
erty in the Nemaha J,and District. Terms reason
able. BLACKSMITHS.
J. W. & J. C. GIBSON,
BLACKSMITHS & HORSE SHOERS.
First-st., bet Main and Atlantic.
All work done to order and satisfaction guaranteed.
SheUcxiberger . Bros.
IliDinBE HEBCUUTS
No. 74,
3IcPlicrsons Cllcck,
BROWNVILLE, XEB,,
SOLE AGENTS FOR
CANTON CLIPPER PLOWS!!
THE BEST PLOW 'MADE!
MS.m ORI & HOWARD,
ARCHITECTS BUILDEHS
Are prepared to furnish
DESIGNS & SPECIFICATIONS
for all kinds of
BUILDINGS,
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE,
of the latest and most approved styles.
ALSO TAKE CONTRACTS!
All kftut of Job Work done tn order!
Shop, corner Main and Second streets,
XKOWXVILLE, XEB. 43-y
T- C. SNOKE,
aB00USB0E
MAKER.
No. 15
v Main Street,
BROWNVILLE, NEB.
Has constantly on hand a superior stock of Boots
and Shoes. Custom work done with neatness and
olspatcn.
H. H. BRYANT,
HOUSE, AND CARRIAGE
PAINTER,
Grftiitcr V Paper Hanger,
No. 60 MAIN STREET,
Brownville, Nebraska.
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J. K. FRETZ,
CARRIAGE, 0IHI1L1EIIT1L
AND SIQN PAINTER.
OVER HELM EU'S WAGON SHOP,
Rrownvillc, AebrasKa.
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FFERS his services to the public,
with the confident twnof that Lis work
will meet the approbation of his patrons.
LivtfJ
IR. J. RLAKE,
DEIIIIST
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jQ:i Would respectfully
j m -J INlUUUlt'UIHl llf
-o. at oited in Brown v
4 ( 1 1 1 1 1 1JJ- rd is now prepa
-vp rMJ.JJ-. ,.M-rr.rm,!nthel
Vi) . '"V-i?" niunner, ALL oj
nnouncetliat lie has
.cated in Brownville
ared
'best
niunner, ALL oper-
i ' 1 1 i u tuirtuinimr fn
the science of I)fn-
" ti.stry.
Orrn E over city Trug Store, trout room. Nrt
FRANZ HELBIER,
AGON sgLACKSMITH$KOP
ONE DOOR WEST OF COURT HOUSE.
7AGOX MAKING, Repairingr,
i Plows, nnl tUl work done in the liost
msnner and on short notice. Satlsfattion pnarnu
anteed. Give him a call. W-ly.
VIT ABOARD !
Th8 Brownville Transfer line,
Uiider the wir.agemctt of
JACOB ROGERS,
mow RooniQg Regular Omnibnsses I rom
Brownville to tie Railroad Terminus
of the Council Blofli and St. Joseph Kallread,
At Nortli StarvIJo.. .
Two tlls from Brown Ti lie snd North Slar Ferry
Landlog.
Good Omnibnsses. Close Connection
Charges tloderate. SO-tf
TOB .PRTXTIXO. i
V kS?!?"' P!? done t Uie Advertiser
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COMMUNICATED. ,
Schools.
We notice in one of your late issues
a letter from an individual terming or
naming himself "Edux," on the sub
ject of "Select Schools;" and we wish
by your permission, to review someof
his arguments on that vital and all
important question. "NVe feel deeply
interested in this cause. We" have
labored In it for years, and we believe
there is too much at stake to leave
such infatuations and frivolties go un
answered in a sheet of so wide and
extensive publication. Hence, we
will hold Pome of the weightiest of
the gentleman's argument up before
you so that you may see what his hy
pothesis or base is ; and first, he pre
sents the interrogation : "are trans
cient schools" beneficial or injurious
to the cause of education ? We would
inquire what is meant by a 'trans
cient school. " In the first place, we
understand a transcient school to be
one conducted improperly, .incom
pletely. And again, a transcient
school is one that passes around from
place to place, such a3 horse tamers,
&c. The first we believe to be inju
rious; the last profitable if conducted
by energetic men. We hold that ev
ery parent should see well to the in
terests of their children in point of
education. We would rejoice to see a
high school in every four districts,
and one in every town if possible.
And again, we rejoice that the people
are awake to their own interests, not
trusting to pedagogues; also, toman
age their children's many interests,
for there are more who labor merely
for the dollars and cents than who la
bor for the substantiation of the va
rious high schools and public schools
throughout our own country.
Here we claim is the sole cause of
the failure of the schools refercd to.
We are sorry that the gentleman
has a poor opinion of Nebraska, but
he will find the same impediments
in other States with more age than
ours. I have had the privilege of vis
iting eleven States in my life time,
and I can say of a truth, that I found
none more alive to the cause of educa
tion than the young State of Nebras
ka. "Give honor to whom honor is
due," is my motto.. Every parent ap
pears to be alive ; every child seems to
be invigorated with a zeal to press
forward to the mark of his high call
ing. If teachers' would labor to earn
the remuneration they do receive in
time, the standard would be raised;
but it is a lemantable fact that many
teachers do not try to earn what they
receive, hence there is poor encour
agement for an increase in the wages.
And again, let us see what an Ac
ademy implies. He remarks "that
we must have a large audience room
and at least two recitation rooms,"
which we believe to be a sophism;
and we would only refer him to Prof.
Reed's School Report, of Edinburgh,
for the use of the. word Academy.
He defines an Academy as a place of
learning; a place of education iu its
broadest sense. Hence, every public
school is an Academy which is prop
erly taught and properly conducted.
I would naturally suppose by the re
mark.s that a demand for greater wa
ges was his object, and that he was
a candidate for a high .school or an
Academy.
I believe that teacheis can be ob
tained for less pay than $800 per year,
and that contingent expenses would
be less than $300 per year. We don't
propose to supporfr these schools
wholey by tuition, but by taxation,
which the people are more willing to
pay than railroad tax, and which
they deem more profitable. We re
mark that these problems have all
been worked out long since, and hence
they are not barriers in the way.
Now, let us see what a select school
is. It is one in which the pupils are
select to study certain branches, such
as grammar for instance, and then
count your costs in this and where are
you ? It requires just as much to pay
your teacher. It does not lessen the
incidental expenses in the least, by
calling it a select school ; nor does it
naturallv follow that an institution of
this kind must, of necessisy, be kept
open twelve months in the year.
We contend nnd do aver that itmat
ters not what we call the educational
enterprise. If it is properly conducted
it will redound to the future awaken
ing of greater interests in t lie cause of
general education, and that it will
arouse an enthusiastic spirit of emo
tional ambition in the hearts of our
youth, male and female. That they
may become efficient scholars, we only
ask an unprejudiced perusal of our
reasons for establishing such institu
tions, and we are not forgetful of the
decision.
J. C. Helterbrant.
A Queer Thin? In the Tovrcr
of London.
The rail Mall Gazette says :
.We have heard of a most mysterious
and disagreeable occurrence at the
Tower of London,' which is enough to
set the nerves of the nation on edge.
For some days, or rather nights past,
the shadow of an axe has appeared on
one of the walls of the building; this
sliadow made its last appearance un
less we are misinformed in 18-18, but
what it lias been doing since then we
cannot say. , There, is no shyness
whatever about it now; If does not
object to bo stared at, and excites the
curiosity of all who have the privilege,
if not the pleasure,. of inspecting it. i -
The Lynchburg -Virginian is in
formed that, within, the last few
weeks. lands to the- amount of a mil
lion and a half of dollars have been
sold to Northern capitalists along the
line of the Chesa peak and Ohio Railroad.
BROWN VILLE, NEBRASKA,
Secret Vaults benealli Con
stantinople. A correspondent of the French
Journal OJficiel, writes as follows :
"About forty years ago when a
large .house in Constantinople had
sunk beneath the level of the soil, an
immense series of subterranean vaults
were discovered, supported by magni
ficient marble pillars, which, judging
from their rich decorations, were the
work of Greek artists. Underneath
the vaults is a lake of unknown ex
tent and considerable depth. This
mysterious construction, of which his
tory makes no mention, i3 supposed
to extend under a considerable por
tion of the .City. The principle en
trance, being the only one accessible
to visitors, is situated in the court
yard of a private palace, the proprie
tor of which has a boat in which
he amuses himself sailing about with
in a hundred yards of the entrance.
Last month an Englishman accom-
anied by a sailor, desired to explore
the lake-thoroughly. Having obtain
ed the necessary permission, he set
forth on his adventurous journey, but
never returned, he and the sailor hav
ing been asphyxiated beyond the
reach of help. Another Englishman
volunteered to go alone in search of
them in another boat with six torches
attached to it ; for a long time the re
flection of the torches upon the water
was visible to the outlookers at the
entrance, uniil it was lost In the gloom
of darkness. After an absence of two
hours, he returned from his unsuc
cessful search completely exhausted,
and nearly choked with the foul air
he had inhaled, having in his whole
course seen the ranges of vaults and
pillars uniformly continued. The
Turkish authorities have ordered the
boat to belifted,and prohibited parties
from sailing on the lake, but still per
mit the curious to inspect this singular
construction at the entrance, which
reminds the beholder of the architec
tural wonders of ancient Egypt.
TIic End of Women of Fashion.
Another moving spectacle was wit
nessed yesterday morning in the
Court of General Sessions, Maria
Smith, middle-aged was arraigned on
a charge of larceny from the person.
The prisoner was neatly attired, and
although suffering under paralysis,
still retained marked traces of former
beauty. From the testimony of tlfe
complainant, also a woman, it seems
that while riding in a Third avenue
car on the Hoth of October last, the
prisoner was detected in the act of
taking her wallet, containing forty
cents. 1
Mr. Charles S. Spencer eloquently
addressed the jury, but the address of
the District Attorney and riie Judge's
charge did the business, and thepnso
was found guilty.
The poor woman, when told her
sentence, which was three years in
lnr I
rison, went bitterly. With
a ow
step and, broken heart, she
was conducted from the Prisoner's
Dock.
Rut before leaving the poor woman
to her fate, and while she vet lingers.
on the threshold of her living tomb,
we will take a view of her past career,
iJaiia Leese, (that is her name), was
born in Birmingham England, and is
about thirty-five yeats of age. She
came to this city with her parents
while very young. Being an only
chihl no money or pains were spared
in her education. She lost both her
parents just when she was budding
into womanhood, 1 brown upon her
own resources for awhile she accepted
the hospitality of some friends, and in
the course of a year or two married
George Lesse, who afterwards became
a notorious thief, and finally abandon
ed her altogether.
Being an energetic woman in the
prime" of life, and possessing rare
charms, she experienced no difficulty
in obtaining sutneient tunds to estab
lish a hotel, in which business she
was highly successful, amassing i
large fortune, estimated ot over $100,
(KM). But her star at length began to
wane. Surrounded by a number of
admirers, all eager to supplant each
other in her good graces, she forgot
herseil and became the paramour ot a
man who isconspicuous in the politics
ot this city.
Deeper and deeper into the she sank
into t lie abyss of dissipation, and at
last all her hard-earned money had
been squandered, and her beauty fad
ed, and she found herself a forsaken
woman. The rest is briefly told
Want exposure and much suffering
invited the malady with which she is
afllicted, arid to buy bread she made
an attempt to steal forty cents, was de
tected, received a severe sentence, and
now goes to the State prison to expi
ate ner oiience.
The friends of her better days assert
that she was exceedingly liberal to
charitable objects, sometimes givinga
thousand dollars to a church or el
cemosynary institution.
Changing: Clothing:.
. .Many persons lose nie every year
by an injudicious change of clothing,
and the principles involved need re
petition almost every year.
If clothing is to be diminished, it
should be done in the morning, when
first dressing. Additional clothting
mav be safely put on at any time.
In the Northern States the under
garments should not be changed for
those less heavy, sooner than the
middle of May: for even in June, a
fire is very comfortable sometimes in
New York parlors.
Woolen flannel ought to be worn
next to the person, by all, during the
whole year, but a thinner material
may be worn after the first of June.
A blazing fire should be kept in
every family nxmi until ten in the
morning, and rekindled again an hour
before sundown up to the first week
in June, and from the first day of
October.
Particular and tidy housekeepers
by art ranging their fireplaces for the
summer too erly, oftentimes put the
whole fami'y to a serious discomfort,
and cnoViuger health, by exposing
them t sit in chilliness for several
hours every morning, waiting for the
weather to moderate, rather than to
have the fireplace or grate all blacked
up; that is rather than be put to the
trouble of another fixing up for the
summer, they expose the children to
croup, and the old folks to infbima
sionofthe lungs. The old and young
delight in warmth ; it is to them the
greatest luxury. Half the diseases of
humanity would be swept from exist-
ance if the human body were kept
comfortably warm all the time. The
discomfort of cold feet, or of a chilly
room many have experienced to their
sorrow ; thej' make the mind peevish
and fretful, while they expose the
body to colds and the inflamations
which often destroy it in less than a
week. -atf Journal of Ifcalth.
I I I I j I I 1 1 i I I k I
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1870.
DARLING DO YOU LOVE ME J
In the sweet reollnn harp,
Strung with willows in the dell,
In the chanting of the waves.
In the murmur of the shell.
In each one her voice now echoes,
From the shining angel shore.
Asking, "Darling, do you love me?
Do you love me as of yore ?"
In the shining of the stars,
In the soft moon's silv'ry beams,
In the pictures bright that come
In my purest, sweetest dreams.
In each one her eyes are shining,
From the distant angel shore,
Asking, "Darling, do you love mo?
Do you love me as of yore?"
In the carol of the birds.
In themuslc of the sea,
In the chorus of the winds.
In the billows wild and free,
In each one her song is thrilling.
From the shining angel shore,
Asking, "Darling, do you love me?
Do you love me as of yore?"
ANSWER.
Sweetest fragrance of the rose,
. Ever mingling with the winds.
""Wafted on where purest love
Is the only chain that binds ;
Mountain echo as you float
On vibration's music tide.
Through the dark and silent cave,
ITp the steep rock's craggy side.
Will you bear to her my answer,
On the shining angel shore.
Tell my darling, yes I love her.
Dearly love her as of yore.
Whlsp'rlng night-breeze when you slg.ta.
'Mid the fadeless perfumed ilow'rs.
In the Summer Land afar.
Through the ever blooming bow'rs;
Golden hope of future bliss.
Ever bringing to my view,
Silken tresses, nnael eyes,
Beaming bright'with love so true.
Will you bear to her my answer.
On the distant cm'rald shore,
Tell my darling with the angels.
We shall love forever more ?
"Bled Poor."
"It was a sad 'funeral to me," said
the speaker; "tire saddest I have at
tended for many years."
"That of Edmonson ?"
"Yes."
"Poor poor as poverty. His life
was one long struggle with the world,
and at every disadvantage. Fortune
mocked him ail the while with gold
en promises that were destined never
to know fulfillment."
'.'Yet he was patient and enduring,"
remarked one of the company.
"Patient as a Christian enduring
as a martyr," was answered. "Poor
man ! He was worthy of a better
fat he ought to have succeeded, for
he deserved success."
"Did he not succeed?" questioned
one who had spoken ou his patieuce
and endurance.
"No sir. He died poor, just as I
have stated. Nothing that he put hi.-
hand to ever succeeded. A strange
fatality seemed to attend every enter
prise,"
"I was with him in his
ments," said the other, "and thought
he (lied rich."
"No he has left nothing behind,"
was replied. "The heirs will have no
concern as to the administration of
his estate.""
''He left a good name," said one,
"and that is something."
"And a legacy of noble deeds, that
were done in the name of humanity,"
remarked another.
"And piecious examples," said a
third.
"Lessons of patience in suffering;
of hope in adversity ; ofheavenly con
fidence when no sunbeams fell upon
his bewildering path," was the testi
mony of another.
"And high truthes, manly courage,
heroic fortitude."
"Then he died rich was the em
phatic declaration. "Richer than the
millionaire, who went to his long
home on the same day, miserable in
all but gold. A sad funeral did you
say? No, my friend, it was a taium
phal procession ! Not the burial of a
human clod, but the ceremonies at
tendehtou the translation of an angel.
Did not succeed ? Why ! his whole
life was a scries of successes. In every
conflict came ofT victor, and now the
victor's crown is on his brow. Any
grasping, soulless, selfish man, with a
moderate share of brains, may gather
in money and learn the art of keep
ing it, but not one in a hundred can
conquer in the ' battle of life, as Ed
mondson and step forth from the
ranks of men, a Christian hero. No,
no; he did not die poor; but rich
ich in neighborly love, and rich in
celestial affections. And his heirs
have an interest in the administration
of his affairs. A large property has
been left, and let them see to it, that
they do not lose precious things
through false estimates and ignorant
depreciations."
"You have a new way of estimating
the wealth of a man," said the one
who had first expressed sympathy for
the deceased.
"Is it not the right way?" wasasked.
"There are no higher things to gain
in this world than wealth that perish
es. Riches of princely value ever re
ward the true merchant, who trades
for wisdom, buying it with the silver
of truth, and the gold of love. He
dies rich who can take his treasure
with him to the new land where he is
to abide forever, and he who has to
leave all behind, on which he has
placed his affections, dies poor indeed.
Our friend Edmonson died richer
than a Girard, or an Astor ; his mon
ument is built of good deeds, and no-1
bie examples. It will abide forever,
Two Meals a Day. If any man
or woman of forty-five or over, not
ensraged in hard manual labor, espe
cially the studious, sedentary and in
door livers would take but two meals
a day for one month, the second not
being later than three in the after
noon, and absolutely nothing after
wards, except it miht be in some
cases an orange or lemon, or cup of
warm drink, such as tea, broma,
sugarwatcr, or ice creanr, there would
be such a change for the better in the
way of soui d sleep, a feeling, on
waking, of having rested, an appe
tite for breakfast a buoyancy of dis
position during the day ."with a geni
ality of temper and manner, that few,
except the animal and the glutton
would be willing to go back to the
flesh pots of Egypt. "Ben. Wade."
as he is frequently called, one of the
political lions of the west, has taken
but two meals'a day for twenty vears,
and if all sedentary persons, those
who are in doors a greater part of
their time, would, after, the age of
forty-five, observe the same inflexable
rule", there can be no doubt other
tilings being equal, that long years of
happy exemption from the ordinary
ills of life would be the result. The
reason Is that the stomach would have
time to rest for recuperation, and
would thus be able to perform its part
more thoroughly, making purer blood.
giving better sleep and securing good
apj etite for breakfast. Let any man
try it for ten days, taking the second
meal seven hours after the first, and
abandon the practice if he can- -
Hall ,s Journal of Healths : I
7 PAaAO.' A
HUMOROUS.
"Lenny, you're a pig," said a father
to his little five-year-old. "Now do
you know what a pig is, Lenny?"
"Yes sir, a pig's a hog's little boy."
Josh Billings says : "It is a statis
tic fack that the wicked work hard
er tew reach hell than the riteous do
tew git tew heven."
"I say, Jim, what mechanical work
did you do first ?" -asked one darkey
of another. "Why, cut teeth, ob
course," replied the other instantly.
Parents often see their faults reflec
ted in their children, and want to
break the glass. The difficulty is not
with the mirror, but the object before
it.
An Irishman recently stopped at a
hotel in Des Moines, Iowa, Avhere
prettey high bills were charged. In
the morning the landlord made the
amount of damages and presented it
to Pat. After he had glanced over it
the latter looked the landlord in the
face and exclaimed : "You put me in
mind of a snipe." "Why?" asked
the landlord. "Because ye're very
nigh all bill."
A minister of fine discriptive pow
er was on one occasion preaching
about heaven, and to show the absur
dity of Emanuel Swedenborg on the
subject drew a graphic picture of the
Swedenborgian heaven, with its beau
tiful fields, fine houses, pretty women,
and in the midst of hi3 glowing de
scription, a good old sister, carried
away with the scene, went into rap
tures, and exclaimed :
"Glory, glory, glory !"
The preacher was so disconcerted
that he paused, seeming hardly to
what next to do, till the presiding
elder in the stand behind him, cried
out to the shouter :
"Hold on there sister; you're shout
ing over the wrong heaven."
Chronio Lithography in Amer
ica. Mr. Parton, in his essay on "Popu
larizing Art," published in thelttcm
tic Monthly for March, gives an inter
esting sketch of the early history of
the business (already grown to be a
great commercial interest) of chromo
lithography in the United States.
He tells us that- Mr. Louis Prang,
then the owner of a small lithographic
printing-office in Boston ( somewhere
up in the lofty regions of a building
in Merchant's Row ), found himself
completely ruined, to all appearances,
by the outbreak of the civil war. His
presses were covered with dust; he
had dismissed his workmen ; no on?
came near him ; and being still in debt
for his presses and stones, he was not
to be reckoned,, just then, among the
fortunate of his species. Suddenly, in
the midst of his strugglings, a friend
threw the drowning man an oar, by
suggesting the publication of .T null
tary map of Charleston harbor. This
was when every eye was strained to
see the strange doings cf the South
opposite the doomed walls of Fort
Moultrie and Fort Sumter. Mr. Prang
eagerly made the experiment ; and it
proved to be the tide in nis atiairs
which led him on to fortune. Says
Parton: .
"A few days after, the occupants of
the lofty building in winch Mr. Prang
had his small shop, were at first sur
prised and then annoyed by the thun
der of newsboys tramping up and
down the stairs leading to the litho
grapher's room. Four presses were
soon running. The master of the
shop, with surprise and pleasure
beaming from, his countenance, of
late so dejected, was handing out cop
ies of the map by ones, twos, dozens,
twenties and hundreds, damp from
the stones, as fast as the presses could
print them. On the first day . before
the maps had got into the shop win
dows and upon the news-stands, so
large a number of single copies were
sold, at twenty-five cents each, by th
publisher himself, that he had at
night r hatful of silver coin. The
flow of cash caYne so'suddenlj' and so
unexpectedly that ho did not know
where to put it and was obliged to use
his hat for want of a reservoir more
convenient. The little map was a
marvelous hit. It sold to the extent
of forty thousand copies before the
public mind was turned to other
scenes."
Mr. Prang followed up this success
by other equaly popular maps; then,
by card portraits of the Union Gene
rals and heroes ; and in this way he
accumulated the capital upon which
his present business was founded.
His first attempts at chromo-litho-
graphy were his album cards of flow
ers, fruit, mosses, birds, autumn leaves
and miniature landscapes all painted
from Nature by artists whom he em
ployed for the purpose; and so well
did these unpretentious publications
please the public, that one series of a
dozen roses, fo example, fifty thous
and sets hrve been sold.
"And so." savs Mr. Parfon, "by
successive steps thi3 able man arrived
at the production of fuJI chromo-litho-graphs.
His first attempts were fail
ures. A set or four uuuan scenes,
the first of the Prang chromos, which
were sold together in a paper portfo
lio, did not strike the public favora-
bly. There was nothing to hang up
in the parlor. Mr. Prang next tried a
nair of landscapes, which also failed
to aliure five dollar bills from the
passers by. His third attempt was
Tait's Group of Chickens, and this
was an immediate, great and perma
nent snccess. This encouraged him
to persevere, until now his list of full
chromos embraces forty subjects, and
he has been able to build the first
factory that was ever erected for a
chromo-lithographic business in any
part of the world. With seventy
men and forty presses, he is only just
able to supply the demand. It would
now be hard to find a house or school
room in which there is not somewhere
a bit of briliancy executed at this
establishment.
Mr. Parton discusses (and very ef
fectively demolishes ) the vulgar error
that the production of chromos will
lessen the demand for excellent origi
nal works. He treats the singular
notion in this felicitous manner:
"The ostentation of the rich in this
kind of luxury ministers to the pleas
ure of the rest of mankind; just as
the pride of a class pays for the opera
which the poor man can enjoy for next
to nothing in the gallery. The reason
why I, in this city of New York, own
a fine park of eight hundred acres, is
because sundry rich men felt the need
of a more convenient place for dis
playing their equipages on fine after
noons. We may' rely upon it, that
the persons who now buy expensive
works will continue so to do and that
these chromos will enhance rather
than diminish the value of originals ;
because the possession of an original
will confer more distinction when
every one has copies; and itisdiatinc
tion which the foolish part of our race
desires. r Nor is it a slight advantage
rv.-
VOL. 14.-NO. 14.
to an artist to have in his works two
kinds of property instead of one; the
power to sell them and the power to
sell the privilege of multiplying cop
ies of them. Neither art, literature
nor science will have fair play in this
world until one success, strictly first
rate, will confer upon the producer of
the work a competent estate; or, in
other words, until every one who re
quires property in a proportion of art,
literature or science will pay a just
compensation to the producer. Before
many years have passed, we shall see
artists mounted on horseback riding
in my Central Park, who would have
gone on foot put for the production of
their works by chromo-lithography.
Copyright will pay for the oats."
After a humorous discription of an
establishment in New York, in which
"original oil paintings" were manu
factured by the dozen, Mr. Parton
closes his paper with these excellent
remarks on the true position of art as
an educational agency :
"It is possible to overvalue the edu
cating influence even of excellent
pictures. In strengthening or in
forming the intellect, they aro'of no
more use than mother's kisses or the
smiling loveliness of a flower-garden ;
and truly, a man may spend his life
among pictures and fill books with
eloquent discourse about them, and
yet remain a poor, shortsighted react
ionist, filled with insolent contempt
of his species which he does his best
to mislead, But we can say of good
pictures that they are a source of ii.o
cent and refined pleasure; and that is
enough to justify their existence. .-I
think therefore, that this new art,
which enables me and others to buy
for five dollars all that we can enjoy
of a thousand-dollar picture, is one
1 hat deserves the encouragement it is
receiving ; and I cannot but regard It
as a kind of national blessing that
the business of supplying us with
these product. ons has fallen to the lot
of honest, painstaking and tasteful a
person as Louis Prang." Christian
Register.
Spanish Tyranny.
Hon. Matt. II. Carpenter, in his re
cent speech in the Senate, on the Cu
ban question, gave interesting particu
lars respecting Spanish rule over the
Cubans. It appears that since 18-'2,
the Island has been partially govern
ed by martial law. Governor Gener
al is in reality the Government itself,
and receives a salary of $o0,0MJ in gold
and fees and perquisites amounting to
$.h0,0(H) more. The Superintendent of
Finance, the deputy extortioner of
the Captain General, receives a salary
of $13,000, besides fees, and thirteen
principle judges, for deciding what
they are commanded to, receive sal
aries as follows: The Chief Justice,
$10,000. -and the other Judges com
pensation varying from $4,0()0 to $G,
000. The entire expense of civil and
military administration prior to the
rebellion wasabout $3-j,!00,000 in prold
per annum, of which about $0,000,000
was annually paid to Spain as a royal
ty. In addition to this regular and
annual extortion, Cuba is subject from
time to t me to such occasional and
eccentric exactions as may suit the
mother country to demand. The en
tire cost of the expedition to Mexico
under General Prim, in connection
with the British and French forces
was levied upon Cuba, amounting to
about 10,000,000, and th vntire cost
of subjugating San Domingo by Spain
amounting to about $32;O00,00O, Cuba
was compelled to pay.
Notwithstanding the heavy pay
ments of taxes, for more than forty
year?, with rare exceptions, not a
Cuban has held an office under the
government. The people have no
voice in electing their rulers, except
ing a partial voice, alwaj'9 capable of
being defeated by the Government, in
in the election of muncipal ollicers v.
towns and cities. For the protection
of his dearest rights of liberty, life and
property, the Cuban has no safeguard
except in the long suffering and fore-
bearing charity ot a Spaniard. &t. Jo.
Union.
-
Anecdote of Jenny Li nd.
I remember hearing a stage-driver's
story of Jenny Lind, when she was
riding' in the country :
A bircr-mUbriLiant plumage was
perched on a tree as they drove slow
ly along, and trilled out such a com
plication of sweet notes as to perfect
ly astonish her. the coach stopped,
and reaching out she gave one of her
finest roulades. The beautiful crea
ture arched his head on one side, ami
listened deferentially; then as if to
excel his famous rival raised his grace
ful throat, and sang a song of rippling
melody that made Jenny rapturously
clap her hands, and caused her heart
to beat as quickly as though she were
before severely critical audience in
Castle Garden, and she delivered some
Tyrolean mountain strains that set
the echoes flying. Whereupon Little
Birdie took it up and sang and trilled,
till Jenny, in happy delight, acknowl
edged that the pretty woodland
warbler decidedly outearoled the
great Sweedish Nightingale
. . .
An Old Story.
It is said that, at one time, when
Lorenzo Dow preached under a large
spruce pine in South Carolina, he an
nounced another appointment for
preaching in the same place, on that
day twelve months. The years passed,
and as Lorenzo was entering the
neighborhood, iheevening preceeding
his appointment, he overtook a color
ed boy who was blowing a long tin
horn, and could send out a blast with
rise, and swell, and cadence which
waked the echoes of the distant hills.
Calling .aside the blower, Dow said
to him :
"What is your name, sir?"
"My name? Gabriel, sir !" replied
the brother in ebony.
"Well, Gabriel, have you lccu to
Church Hill ?"
"Yes, massa, I'se been dar many a
time."
"Do you -remember a big spruce
pine on the hill?"
"O yes, massa, I knows dat pine."
."Did you know that Lorenzo Dow
had an appointment to preach under
that tree to-morrow ?"
"O yes, massa, everybody knows
dat."
"Well, Gabriel, I am Lorenzo Dow,
and if you'll take your horn and go
to-morrow ' morning and climb into
that tree and hide among the branch
es before the people begirt to gather,
and wait there till I call you by, your
name, and then blow such a blast with
your horn as I heard you blow a min
ute ago, I'll give you a dollar. Will
you do It, Gabriel?"
. "Yes; massa, I takes dat dollar."
Gabriel, ' like Zaccheui, was hid
away. in the tree-top in fine time. - An
immeuse concourse, of all sizes and
colors, assembled at the appointed
hour, anil Dow preached oh the judg
ment of the last day. . By his power
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T
of description he wrought, the multi-
tude up to the opening scenes of tho i
resurrection, of the grand assize, at tho
call of the trumpet peals of the na-
tions. ,4Then,"aidhe, "suppose ny t
friends, that we should hear at thij
moment, the sound of Gabriel's trum
pet." Sure enough, at that moment '
the trumpet of Gabriel sounded. Tho
women shrieked, and many fainted;
the men sprang up and looked aghast;"
some ran; others fell and Called for
mercy; and all felt for a time that
the judgment was sent and thetook3 1
were opened. Dow stood and watch-
ed the driving storm till the fright .
abated, and some one discovered the '
colored angel who had caused tho !
alarm, quietly perchedon a llmblof
the spruce, and wanted to get bizxr
down and,' whip4 him, and; then re
sumed his theme, saying : ."I forbid'
all persons touchingthat Tbov up there. '
ii acoiorea ooy;witn a tin horn tan '
frighten you almcst out of your wits, ;
what will you do when voushnll b
the trumpet of the arch-angel?" How
will ye be able to stand in -the"wrath '
of Gd?" lie made a verv rf"rtira-
application."
'
Our LIvIes Authors. , ,
Appleton's Journal ci ves the follow
ing as the ages cf living American .
authors, announcing that the list has ,
been compiled, with great care : . ;
Gulian C- Verplanck, $7 ; P.ichard
II. Dana, S3; George Ticknor . and. -Charles
Snrasrue. 78: John Noah 7i ?
John P. Kennedy, 7 ; Sarah J. Hale, '
74; Wra. Cullen Bryant, 73; Stephen,'
ii. iyng, irancis i,ieier ana George
Bancroft, 70; Win. H- Seward ami
Catharine E. Beecher, CD; Lydia M.
Child and Leonard W. Bacon. M;r
Wm. II. Furniss and Balph WalJo'
Emerson, 07; Horace Bushuell and.
George D. Prentiss, 6G; Wm. Gill
more Slmmns and M. F. Maury, 61 ;
Theodores. Fay, John G. Whitticr,
Louis AgassizandH. W. Longfellow,
G2; Janus Freeman Clark, Isaac Mc
Lellan and ()livr Wendell Holmes,
60; Charles Sumner, Horace Greelev'
and Alfred B. Street, r0 ; Harriet
Beecher Stowe and Samuel Osgood,
M; C. II. Cranch and John S. Dwight, .
o7; J..T. Headley, W. H. C. Ho-ruer,.
II. T. Tuekerman. Hen.y W. Bellows,
Henry Ward Beecher and E. H. Chap
in, 5b; Richard H. Dana, Jr., at. J.
John Lathrop Motely, 5-j; Jchn G. .
Saxe and Epes Sargent, 54; E. A.,'
Duyckinck and Parke Godwin, 53:
James T. Fields, John Bigelow and
Authur Cleveland Coxe, 5'; William
E. Charming, Henrv Gilen. Mrs. E,
D. N. Southworth.'Mrs. E. F. Ellit,'
F. S. Cozzens, E. P. Whirrle and'
James Russell Lowe, 51 ; Julia' Ward 1
Howe, Thomas W. Parsons, C. A.C
Bristed and Herman Mellville, 50: T..
B. Bead, Samuel Elliot, J. G. Hal-'
land, Edward Everett Hale, 48; Alice
Cary, Win. Ii. Alger, James Parton :
and .Donald O. Mitchell, 47; Francia
Parkman and George W. Curtis, 4'i ;
Richard II. Stoddard, Georjre H. Bo
ker, Bajard Taylor and Charles G.
Dcland, 45; Mary A. Denison and
Charles L. Brace, 13 ; Paul II. Hayne, .
Mary L. Booth and Wm. Cioswell-,
Doane, 38; Wm. Swinton, 3'; lUIen
Louise Chandler and James Grant
Wilson, 35; Tboma B. Aldrich and
E. S. Hand, Jr., S,?.
The yotmjr men of our country
will film ;:: the biography of the lato
General John E. Wool many acts
worthy of imitation, but none morn
so than his economical habit and hi-j
determination through life to sccuro
pecuniary independence for his, de
clining years. At the close of the
war of 181-', General Wool was taken
to be treated for terrible wounds re
ceived in battle. When he was con
valescent he had to pay a surgeon's,
bill which left him almost without a
dollar. ' As soon as he was well ;
enough the Government sent hint on '
a military mission to the West,
where he remained five years, and .
never drew his pay Ju full, but took'
enough only to defray actual expen- ,
ses. At the' close of U appointment
the United States owed him $JJ,iXX).
'This," said General Wool, just l-e-fore
he died, "was the only money X (
ever made In the whole course X1 my
life! But I always kept that out in
safe investment at good interest. In 1
fifty years this $-0,000 has grown to
$700,000!" Here, then, was the se
cret of his great wealth, which not
only astonl-hcd his friends but tho
hundreds of military men who served :
with him, ani who had superior op-'
portunitiea for making money. If
any of our youriir readers can ii;t
away $1,000 now they will find them
selves rich when old and feeble, even -if
they add nothing to the nucleus .
after tho first investment. .
A GltACF.FUL COMI'LIMFXT Til 4
Wife. The following neat nnd 1it?-
tiful reply was trade "by the lato '
Daniel O'Connell, in response to a
toast given in compliment to- hu wife.
who" was tho object of his Ion" nn.!
affectionate attachment. It u-n i-!vn
at a political meeting5. - The English .
language can furni,h nothing mora
touchingly tender and graceful : ; ; -"There
are some tonics nf so snrpd .
and, sweet a nature, that they may be
comprcnenued by those who are hap- 1
pv. but thev cannot rossiblv
scribed by any human. All that I .
shall do is to thank von in the
of herwho was the disinterested choico "
of my early youth ; who w as the ever
cheerful .companion of my manly t
years ; and who is the sw eetest o!aeo
of that 'sere and yellow leaf a-e. at
which I have arrived. In hern.imfT
thank you ; and this you may readily
believe; for experience- I think will
show to us all that turn can not b.ittla
and struggle with malignant enemies, -
unless ins nest at nome.i.s waim and
comfortable unless the honey fl ha
man life is commended byahandthas '
he loves."
. California Tlx. Cornwall, Ban
caand Borneo have hitherto furnish
ed the manufacturing world with the
constantly called for article of tin, but
it seems probable that the Golden
State may yet render Arneircan mar
kets independent of the foreign mines,
just as it has already in the case f
quick-silver, enabled us to dispense
with the yield of the cinnabar mines
of Idriaand Almaden. At the late
State Industrial Fair, held at San
Francisco, ome of the products of
the San Jacinto tin raincswere ho.vit,
including specimens of the ore, which
yields from thirty to sitry jtr cent.;
of pure tin. There are large pigs jast
from the smeltincr works, rolled -heets
and, finally, different ctens!is mn-Jo
from the -native tin, demonstrating
beyond a doubt the welcome fact that
tin does exist -iu-paying quantities
and of a superior quality in oar oyrx
country. ., , '. ........... T -
- - -. . - - ..
The'CoIosi .m is outdone by the',
building for the Macron, Georgia fair. '
The structure U 7D feet Ion '.-.
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