geration. Six hundred millions of dollars! 
The mi ml 3 of few persons can comprehend 
this vast sum, which is worse than wasted 
every year. It would pay for 100,000,000 
barrels of flour , averaging 2% barrels of flour 
to every man, woman and child in the coun¬ 
try. This flour, if placed in wagons, ten 
barrels in each, would require 10 , 000,000 
ATTACHMENT TO NEWSPAPERS. 
RETICENT PEOPLE. 
HE WOULD BE A SAILOR BOY. 
The strong attachment of subscribers to 
well conducted newspapers is fully con¬ 
firmed by publishers. “ Stop my paper,” 
words of dread to beginners in business, 
lose their terror after a paper has been es¬ 
tablished for a term of years. So long as a 
Valuable in society, at home the reticent 
are so many forms of living death. Eyes 
have they and see not, ears and hear not, and 
the faculty of speech seems to have been 
given them in vain. They go out and they 
come home, and they tell you nothing of all 
[see illustration.] 
near me sailors win oi the sea. 
On such occasions he was wont 
to try his hand at climbing the 
rope ladders which lead up the 
tall masts of the vessels, and when 
he had accustomed himself to 
such dizzy liights, he would sit on 
the cross-trees and fancy himself 
a sailor hoy, and almost wish he 
was one. Presently the quiet of 
farm life became very dull to him, 
and he would be singing of “A 
Life on the Ocean Wave," and 
such like romancing, till finally, 
after much teasing of his parents, 
he got, their consent to let him 
enter as an apprentice on the old 
schOolship Sabine, where likely 
boys were taught how to become 
skillful sailors. 
Master John now became Mas¬ 
ter Jack, and was soon very ex¬ 
pert,in climbing to all parts of the 
rigging, and learned the names 
ami uses of the many ropes, blocks, 
yards, &c., and how tlie ship was 
steered, the sails furled, the ropes 
spliced, and many oilier like 
things. While these things were 
new to him, and sea life was fresh, 
Master Jack was very happy ; 
; but there came a lime when (lie, 
poetry of the sea gave place to 
the tediousness and monotony of 
daily duty, and then the sailor 
boy began to think of his easy 
and careless life on the old farm ; 
he thought of his mother and little 
sisters at home, and thus we see 
him in our picture, silting upon a 
yard-arm of the vessel, and lean- 
! ing upon the main-brace in a long, 
sad day-dream of home. But the 
Sabine is sailing in the fur-off 
Mediterranean Sea, and it will be 
full half a year before she drops 
anchor at a home port, so that the 
sailor boy can return to his home 
on the farm. 
ond conditions. The figures giv¬ 
ing the cost of liquor-drinking— 
the bans of American social life, 
in many localities—are sufficiently 
startling to cause both moderate 
.md excessive consumers of alco¬ 
holic beverages to not only think, 
but take some action in a reforma¬ 
tory direction; 
Washington, Ausr. 16,1871. 
Jly Dear Sir:—I have the 
honor to acknowledge the receipt 
of your letter of the 4th Inst., in 
which you request a statement of 
the aggregate annual value of the 
cnles of liquors in the United 
States, and in reply to say that I 
have not, as you intimated, made 
any official report respecting the 
same. Tables prepared by me 
on the subject were published In 
the Appendix to the Report of 
the Special Commissioner of the 
Revenue for 1807; but the facts 
were so grossly misrepresented by 
ni iiiy temperance men, even after 
explanations were made, that I 
urn now extremely careful in pub¬ 
lishing an estimate of the annual 
sales of liquors. As a consistent 
temperance inan (and boy) for 
forty-one years, my experience' 
and observation have convinced 
me that on this question, us well 
as on ill! others, “honesty (of 
statement) is the best policy,” and 
1 have no sympathy with thu per¬ 
nicious maxim that “ tiie end jus¬ 
tifies the means.” I wish to im¬ 
press upon the youth now fight- j 
ing under the temperance banner, 
ns well as upon all other persons, 
that it is always safe to do right. 
Temperance, in common with 
almost every good work, has suf¬ 
fered from the intemperate zeal 
■ if its advocates, and from no 
cause to a greater extent, perhaps, 
than from the exaggerated state¬ 
ments of alleged facts. When¬ 
ever a temperance lecturer tells 
the sellers and users of intoxicat¬ 
ing liquors that the annual sales 
amount to from 1,600 to 2,000 mil¬ 
lions (sometimes it is stated as suf¬ 
ficient to pay off our national debt, 
nearly 2,400 millions, or $60 for 
every man, woman and child in 
the country), every intelligent I 
hearer knows that it is a gross ex¬ 
aggeration, and has, therefore, no 
confidence in the statements of 
such a man. An enterprising | 
nimseller, whose victims arc ex- ; 
posed to public gaze, does more 
for the temperance cause, I firmly 
believe, than an advocate who : 
uses such exaggerations. 
The tallies above alluded to were | 
estimates founded on the receipts 
of internal revenue of the sales of 
merchandise, including liquors, by 
retail liquor dealers, and not of \ 
hquors alone. Cigars, tobacco, j 
groceries, and other merchandise \ 
"ere included in such sales, liq¬ 
uors being in many instances but 
a small part. The estimated sales 
(, i such merchandise, including 
quors, were as follows:—In the 
fiscal year 1867 *1 4S3i<ll RrtK 
A GOOD DOCTOR, 
1 “ 1 An exchange gives its readers 
some advice how to choose a doc¬ 
tor. The advice is as good for the 
doctor as for the patient, Here it 
is: 
Avoid a mean man, for you 
may he sure he will be a mean 
doctor, just as certain as he would 
be a mean husband. 
Avoid a dishonest man ; he wifi 
not he honest with you as your 
physician. 
Shun a doctor that you can buy 
to help you out of a scrape—a 
good doctor cannot he bought. 
Avoid the untidy, coarse, blun¬ 
dering fellow; for the man who 
is clumsy in hitching his horse 
: you may he sure is not handy at 
_midwifery or surgery. 
Avoid the doctor who Hatters 
you and humors your appetites. 
Avoid the empty blow-bom 
- who boasts of bis numerous cases 
and tells you of seeing forty or 
- ~_ - fifty patients a day while lie 
spends two hours to convince you 
: of the fact. Put him down as a 
-— r fool. 
To he a good doctor one must 
T . -. first be a man in the true sense of 
- the word. 
- : l He should be a moral man, hon¬ 
est in his dealings. 
He must, have good sense, or he 
cannot be a good doctor. 
He should he strictly temperate. No one 
should trust his life in the hands of an in¬ 
tern pernle doctor. 
It is a good sign if he tells you how to 
keep well. 
It is a good sign if the members of his 
own family respect him. 
It is a good sign if the children like him. 
It is a good sign if he is neat and handy 
in making pills and folding powders. 
It is a good sign if lie is still a student, 
and keeps posted in all the latest improve¬ 
ments known to tlie profession for alleviat¬ 
ing human suffering. 
THINKING OB H o 4VL B 
paper pursues a just, honorable and judicious 
course, meeting the wants of its customers 
in all respects, the ties of friendship between 
the subscribers and the paper are as hard to 
break by an outside third party as the links 
which bind old friends in business or social 
life. Occasional defects and errors in a news¬ 
paper are overlooked by those who have be¬ 
come attached to it through its perusal for 
years. They sometimes become dissatisfied 
with it on account of something which had 
slipped into its columns, and 111 tty slop tak¬ 
ing it; but the absence of the familiar sheet 
at their homes or office for a few weeks, be¬ 
comes an insupportable deprivation, and 
they hasten to take it again, and possibly 
apologize for having it stopped. This wo 
may believe to be the common experience in 
the history of all established newspapers. 
No friendship on earth is more constant than 
that contracted by the reader for a journal 
which makes an honest and earnest effort to 
merit his continued support. Hence, the 
newspaper which is conscientiously con¬ 
ducted becomes a favorite in the family. 
they have seen. They have heard all sorts 
of news, and seen no end of pleasant, tilings, 
but they come down to breakfast next morn¬ 
ing as mate as fishes, and if you want it, you 
must dig out your own information bit by 
bit, by sequential, categorical questioning. 
Not that they are surly or ill-natured; 
they are only reticent. They are disastrous 
enough to those who are associated with 
them, and and make the worst partners in 
the world in business or marriage; for you 
never know what is going on, or where you 
are, and you must be content to walk blind¬ 
folded if you walk with them 
The Hoad to Eminence and power 
from obscure condition ought not to be made 
too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If 
rare merit be the rarest of all rare things, it 
ought to pass through some sort of proba¬ 
tion. 'flic temple of honor ought to be seat¬ 
ed on an eminence. If it be open through 
virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue 
is never tried but by some difficulty and 
some struggle. 
Do daily and hourly your duty; do it 
patiently and thoroughly. Do it as it, pre¬ 
sents itself; do it at the moment, and let it 
be its own reward. Never mind whether 
it is known or acknowledged or not; but do 
not fail to do it. 
Really to inform the mind is to correct 
and enlarge the heart.— Junius. 
exag- I Caution is the lower story of prudence, 
