For Everybody from Buffalo, New York • 17

FOR EVERYBODY. CM i ii if tut Mir- in HE Chronicler, as you may sec. To sadness is inclined. And, ccrtcs, in this History The reason you may find. For it relates the noble deeds 1 i Her prophet rose, with terror white, He got his garment on It must have been a goodly light, To see the prophet run.

The creed of Lust is exile, None knowcth where it is; Now may Cod send as just an end. On all buch heresies. The end is near, would I might say, That all my tale is told But when the turf with flowers i gay, Above my mortal mould. Men still will tell their children, That list with with bated breath, How the great city of the West, Fought one long night with Death. How, crouched upon the prairie gray, When the cold morning broke, Where palace walls stood yesterday, They saw but glare and smoke.

How hunger slew her thousands, And babe and mother died Till, through the land, a succoring hand Was stretched from every side. And all the sister cities, Upon that ruined plain, Heaped of their plenty bounteously, Till strength came back again. A giantess she riscth, In beauty and in might, Already grappling destiny, She hath renewed the fight. And now the year is ended, Its chronicle is done; Cod send us peace and plenty, In this one just begun May all men yet be brothers, And might maintain the rignt And freemen watch their liberties, The world around, Good Right 7 Harrison Mills. '-fiyl So well and bravely done ''TzZQ'" By him we mourn his head stone reads Here uetii Seventy One.

of any work they undertook. This they accomplished, adding to the Lithographing and CoppcrpUte Engraving, firtt the Job Printing Department, then a Map Mounting and next a complete Book Bindery. This nearly completed the chain, but the rapid increase of the Job Printing Department, caused a demand for Fine Wood Engraving which the company found it difff cult to obtain promptly when obliged to take their chances with other customers of the houses they employed; and the result was the purchase of the New York Bureau of Illustration, and its removal, artists and all, to Buffalo. Afterwards an Electrotyping Establishment was added, and this was the final and completing link; and to-day the only house in the United States, possessing the facilities required to complete certain classes of work combining these branches, is that of Messrs, White Brayley, As evidence of this, the old company have for years held contracts with houses in New York and Boston, for the manufacture of maps, which no house in cither city could execute without a division of responsibility. These contracts are continued by the present firm.

But the business increased much more rapidly than the means of the company could Jurnish facilities for; and the old, old story, told by all who have undertaken to carry on the manufacturing business in this city without abundant capital of their own, might be repeated here. Additional capital could only be obtained in limited amounts, and with each addition an office and salary must be created, sapping the vitality of the concern, and resulting in drawing out for living the very means put in for working capital To those who bore the brunt of this state of affairs the situation had, long ago become irksome; their public spirit had "oozed out," for they saw no prospect ahead beyond a moderate and hard-earned living, and it is not surprising that they were ready to accept a proposal which, while it guaranteed the success of the business they had built up, relieved them of this heavy responsibility. Fortunately their successors are not compelled to seek capital on such terms. With a public spirit that none who know them can question, with ample means of their own to provide every facility that the growing business may require, and the prestige of the hard-earned reputation of their predecessors, coupled with the possession of a corps of artists and workmen that it has taken many years to gather together, this is now an establishment of which every citizen may justly feel proud. Our paper will, as heretofore, be printed by the same careful workmen, and we shall take pleasure in making it the exponent of the best abilities of the new firm.

In conclusion, we cannot refrain from expressing our sincere gratitude for the encouragement we have received from our citizens in our new enterprise, and it is a pleasure to know that this encouragement comes mainly from the live men and women of our city, those who, like ourselves, are spending the best years of their lives in contributing to its welfare, and, though we regret to say it, whose zeal is for the most part rewarded by "cheap words and buttoned pockets," in evidence of which let any one recall the urgent appeals that have lately been "made through the'press for capital for manufacturing pur-' poses. OUR HOLIDAY NUMBER. We do not call this a holiday number, and regret to be compelled' to forego the pleasure we have long anticipated, in presenting our subscribers with the finest array of holiday, engravings eve issued The Fates seem to have been against us for bur engravings have not come to hand, although we have positive evidence of their having arrived at the New York Custom House ov.er two months ago. are now useless to us, and may travel the -continent over for what we care. l3ut we think our readers will agree with us that the engravings which we do present, and which left Europe long after the missing ones, are fully up to our promises, and that we begin the year with the same earnest deter- minatiOn to make "For Everybody" the leading illus- -trated monthly, If Our subscribers will interest themselves to aid us in "still further increasing our subscription list, we shall make ample returns by enhancing the beauty of our paper.

His birth and parentage wc know. Born to a destiny He sprang at once, full armed, into The world, no less to be Its hero, battle waging, than A messenger of peace To raise new lights for struggling man And bid old wrongs to cease. No less, that some have fallen where They stood and blocked the way, No less, that Art and Fashion wear No weed for him to-day. For landmarks fall that boundaries May widen, and upon The ashes of the Old shall rise The New and True anon. Less those great throes than these my theme, Their scope no man can tell.

I trust the Hand, how'er it seem, That doeth all things well. So let the spiked helmet rest, The ruin clear apace, And turn we to the things that best Beseem the time and place. And first, lo, England, at the front, Her Queen still in the van, Prepares to bear the battle's brunt Where Freedom fights for man The hand that dared to mingle The blood divine of kings Prepared the way, that happy day, For what momentous things. Lo, Kings and Commons, each to each Approach; no hate repels. And rising on the equal Speech Of men, the Right prevails.

And Labor locks the good right hands Of Birth, and Blood, and Brain. 4 1 And peer is but a name that stands For man compared to man. The wilderness hath blossomed With goodly rose and vine, And, thankful to its conquerer, Gives freely corn and wine. The axeman was theleader, The plow came next, and lo, A road that spans a continent, Where nations come and go. It reaches hands from coast, to coast, It's tendrils wander out They seek the valleys, and the lakes, That hide, the land Where all these years that harlot Had lain, her lake beside i A locomotive shrieked one -And Mormonism died.

THE SAGE, SONS CO. LITHOGRAPHING, PRINTING MANUFG CO. By reference to the advertisement on the cover of this number, it will be seen thatthis large and complete con cern has changed hands, and is now under the management of Messrs. White Brayley, In publishing this announcement we take occasion to refer to the past career of the house, for, being now, as it were, "ah outsider1 we can say more for its facilities, its aims and prospects, than our modesty has heretofore permitted. About the year 1850, Mr.

Richard J. Compton a young and enterprising engraverconceived the idea of establishing a complete Lithographing Establishment in this city. Up to that time the field of operations had been so limited, that only the largest eastern cities could find sufficient business to keep a corps of artists and printers steadily employed, andthose who felt most interested in his welfare, were most earnest in their opposition to young Compton's projects But his answer was invariably, What man has done, man can do," and he worked faithfully, building up a business such as few, if any of his -friends had imagined could be realized in a suburban city like Buffalo. But want of capital and excess of zeal, found him in 1855. extended beyond his ability and heavily in debt, and in spite of, the efforts of his friends the crash came, and poor Compton succumbed The establishment was purchased by the, then, firm of J.

Sage; 8c Sons, vho took upon themselves the burthen of continuing and building up a business that should be credit and benefit to our city, drawing together a class of artists and skilled workmen that would contribute to its population and real worth. --V Starting with only eighteen employees, the business has so steadily that now nearly one hundred artists and workmen find steady employment, and iri the busy season that number is often exceeded. -2 It was the aim of the Sages to make this thenost complete establishment in the couStry, in one combining every useful process of engraving and printing', and possessing all other adjuncts necessary to the completion Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal tree fumes the axe which 'strikes it. 1 EXTRAORDINARY will furnish our Paper and Chromo, together witk the RURAL NEW YORKER, for Four Dollars per yean In dubs of Five for Three Dollars and a half, and in clubs of Ten or more for Three Hollars. Aaaress, Jtl, n.

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