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The New York herald., 1873-09-02
A JERSEY SQUIRE IN TROUBLE

A Jersey Justice OF the Peace ~ named Reictci
was before the Mayor OF Trenton recchty on
charge preferred against him by MIR. Arnold Tor
keeping a disorderly house. The complainant
stated that fighting had been carried on In tho
''Squire'su house ior two days In succession, and
that the neighpors we're much annoyed In conse-
auence He had ofrcfed to give Reichel $40 if he
would change his residence. The latter refused to
accept the OFFER saying that his better hall was the
cause OF the tumult, and he exhibited some blood
stained clothing TO prove his allegation. The squire
End his vile we're comwittad to the Conntv IaAL
The New York herald., 1873-09-02
HORSE NOTES,

The Goshen Park Association commence their
horse fair, at their grounds In Goshen, Orange
county, to-day, with two trotting contests-the
first for horses that have never beaten three min
utes and the second for horses that have never
trotted better than 1921. There are thirteen en-
tries for the first and eight for the second On
Wednesday there will be two trots and a running
race, and on Thursday a trot and a hurdle race.
The purses are liberal, and there Is no doubt about
the result in the minds OF the managers.
The New York herald., 1873-09-02
THE GOOD SAMARITAN IN TRENTON, N. J.

A hospital is building in Trenton n. j., under
the auspices Of the Sisters Of st. Francis, which,
when completed, will present an imposing appear
ance Access will be had to 1t by all classes Of In
valids, without dis ncton OF race religion or color,
and all patients will be treated alike, without favor
or partiality. As there is no institution OF SINH
lar nature IN that city, tS Inhabitants take deep
interest In the success OF the undertaking. pic
mic was held yesterday Tor the beneht thereon.
winch was largely attended by citizens of ever
class the members OF the different lodges oil OC..
Fellows being most conspicuous.
Richland beacon., 1873-08-23
How to Read.

The first step to be taken in self-im-
provement is to try as hard as the SELF
teacher can to understand every word
he reads, and, as a consequence OF this,
TO put aside all books and all writers
that he cannot understand. Such books
burden and fill the mind with useless
lumber. Such writer's themselves, too,
1t NAV be added, do not always express
clearly what they wish to convey, and
therefore are obscure, wordy and dry
to the humble student. The duty OF
the self-educatOr, therefore, is to seize
keagerlv that which he does understand,
and to nOurish his mind with it, and to
reject that which he cannot cOmpre-
hend, to defer it till he shall be able to
master it. How to read book is a
much heavier task than many take ii to
be. From careless readers we have now
| MANY careless writer's but where the
book is good it deserves to be well
treated. One may take it also as fact,
that the reader really takes up book
to use it, not to gallop through it. 1t is
we'll he should know what he is about :;
that he should read and think over the
title-page, acguaint himself If he can
with some little history of the author,
some hint as to whether he is trustwOr-
tby or biased. Then he should carefully
read the preface and master the idea
that the author had when he wrote the
book. He should then glance over the
contents, look at the subdivision OF
chapters, and finally read the book if he
choose to do so. This, which may seem
a roundabout way to some, is in reality
the shortest way. Some books, says
Lord Bacon, are to be tasted, some read
and digested. Suppose the work IS OF
the common class, without any thought
in it. The self-imprOver will save all
his time by preliminary study often
times the title will tell him all he
wants to know; more often, the title,
the preface and table of contents will
assure him that he has little to learn,
and he will put aside the book and pass
on to worthier food. For books are
like men, sometimes their prefaces and
addresses are by far the worthiest parts
of them. As the reader progresses in
his studies and gains in experience, ne
will find that there grows up to him al
most an intuition, by which, he can tell,
in a very few pages at least, bad, emp
ty and pretentiOus book from one that
will inform and render him wiser.
Hahn Fris,UeU.
Richland beacon., 1873-08-23
Study Beneficial to Health.

True study is an eminently leisurely
process, the great condition of success
in it being deliberation, and though it
always sufficiently interests the student
to keep his faculties lively, it seldom
excites him to any dangerous degree.
Hence l believe that genuine study is
much less injurious to health than is
often supposed Certainly much less in
furious than many things which are
scarcely reputed injurious at all. The
processes of genuine and well directed
study positively save the brain by their
rational and orderly sequence, by the
safe advance from step to step. Study
of this kind is like a well-built stair.
case by which You can climb to a great
height with minimum of fatigue, nev-
er lifting the body more than few
inches at a time. But as there might
be such thing as racing up stair
case, so when we study against time,
there is strain in the mere speed, how.
ever good may be the system We are
following. There may also be strain
on the faculties in the direction OF
them toward kind of study which is
not adaptt d to our natural gifts. If We
learn what nature qualified us to learn,
and learn it step by step, without hurry,
We incur a minimum of cerebral fatigue,
and gain maximum of requirement.
Study of this kind gently stimulates
and does not fatigue, unless prolonged
for an unreasonable length of time. II
is positively favorable to health, be-
cause it is favorable to cheerfulness. IT
makes life pleasanter and more inter
esting, and so far from being injurious
to the nervous system, gives it tone and
vigor, exactly as manly exercises give
tone and vigOr to the muscular system.
There can be no doubt that men were
intended to bear intellectual labor with
out injury to their health We are con-
stituted to think and to learn just rs a
fish is constituted to swim or a bird to
hy.-LOndOn Globe.
Richland beacon., 1873-08-23

the mildest and the fiercest county edi-
most congenial to his disposition. They
did so. The state courts gave members
of the administration IA fair maens of
redress, and some of them appear to
have thought of bringing suits for libel
Jefferson avowed their right to do so /:
but said he, in various forms of ex-
preston, "Let us prove to the world
that an administration which has moth
ing to CONCEAL has nothing to fear from
the press. 1t is the means which the
press has of giving publicity to events
which makes it one of the great powers
of the modern world. When it utters
falsehood, the party injured is itself.
" / admit, he wrote to an old friend,
in 1908, "that restraining the press to
truth, as the present laws do, is the only
way OF making it useful. But have
thought it necessary first to prove that
it can never be dangerous. Again, in
his second inaugural, he spoke of the
importance to mankind of this expert
ment to ascertain whether government
that did no act which it would be un-
willing the world should witness, could
be written down. "The experiment has
been tried" said he. "YOu have wit
messed the scene; our fellow-citizens
looked on, cool and collected they sa =
the latent source from which these out
RACES proceeded they gathered around
their public functionaries, and, when
the constitution called them 10 the de-
cision by suffrage, they pronounced
their verdict, honorable to those who
had served them, and consola;or to the
friend of man, who believes he may be
trusted with the control of his own
a&airs. flames Parton IN atlantic.
Richland beacon., 1873-08-23

33G,345 to 32S, 742 Maine, 900, 600 to
2S7, 434 Maryland, 365, ,546 to 342, $50
Massachusetts. 56S. $50 to 80, So; New
Hampshire, 7,69S to 140,99l /; New
Jersey. 361 SOS to 35S, 4S5, and New
York, 1,647, ,2l4 to 1887, 1872. Virginia,
Vermont, Tennessee, both Carollnas,
Rhode Island, Pennsylvania. ONO and
New Mexico show a like excess OF female
population. In Utah there are more
males than females, %, 9.4 to 21,oUO.
A New ExpLosIvE.-Dr. Sprengel, an
English chemist. introduces a new kind
of explosive and new principle at the
same time He takes some oxldlzlng
agent and places it in the chamber pre-
pared for its reception he then adds
his fuid combustible substance, and
explodes the mixture with detOnatlng
cap. Neither of the agents is explosive
when they are separate they become
violently so after being united. Good
results are obtained by adding to 100
parts of chlorate of potash 20 parts OF
bi-sulphate of carbon, or by mixing
nitro benzOle with nitric acid. BY fol-
lowing ont the indications of DIR. Spren-
gels patent we have no doubt but ex-
y, p,osive agents of extraordinary power
may be nsed by the miner or quarry
man with the utmost safety.
INvIsIBLITY OF PERFUME.-No one
has yet been able to analyze or demon
strate the essential action of perfume.
Gas can be weighed, but not scents :;
the smallest known creatures, the very
monads of life, can be caught by micro
scopic lens and made to deliver up the
secrets of their organization, but what
it is that emanates from the pouch OF
the musk deer that fills a whole space
for years and years with its penetrating
odor, an odor which an illimitable num-
Der of extraneous substances can carry
off without diminishing it in size and
weight and what it is that the warm
summer air brings to us from the flow
ers no man has yet been able to deter
mine.
Richland beacon., 1873-08-23

A LAUDABLE AMBITIoN.-I honor the
man whose ambition it is not to win
laurels in the state or the army, not to
be iurist or a naturalist, not to be a
poet or a commander, but to be master
of living well, and to administer the
offices of master or servant, of husband,
father and friend. But it requires as
much breadth of power for this as for
those other functions, as much, or more,
and the reason for the failure is the
same. I think the vice of our house
keeping is, that it does not hold man
sacred. The vice of government, the
vice of education, the vice of religion
is one with that of private life.-Enaer-
| SON
Richland beacon., 1873-08-23
The Relation of Worship to the Inter
Loot

1t is certain that worship stands IN
some commanding relation to the health
of man and to his highest powers, so as
to be. in some manner, the source OF
intellect. All the great ages have been
ages of belief. / mean, where therSwas
any extraordinary power of perform
ance when great national movements
began, when arts appeared, when heroes
existed, when poems were made, the
human soul was in earnest and had fixed
it's thoughts on spiritual verities, with
as strict grasp as that of the hands on
the sword, or the pencil, or the trowel.
It is true that genius takes its rise out
of the mountains of rectitude that all
beauty and power which men cOvet are
somehow born out of that alpine dis
trict: that any extraordinary degree OF
beauty in man or woman involves
moral charm. Thus, / think, we very
slowly admit in another man higher
degree of moral sentiment that our own,
a finer conscience, mO.a impressiOnable,
or which marks minuter degrees; al
ear to hear acuter notes of right anc
wrong than we can. think we lister
very suspiciously and very slowly Il
any evidence to that point. But once
satisfied of such superiority, we set ne
limit to our expectation of his genius
For such persons are nearer to the Sc
cret Oh God than others, are bathed b,
sweet( waters they hear notices, the.
see lions, where others are vacant
We lieve that holiness cOnfers Ger
tain sight, because not by our private
but our public force, can we shar
and low the nature of things.-R. "
Enl SON.
Richland beacon., 1873-08-23
The Zone of Life.

insignificant as is the spot we inhabit,
the zone of life, the area which not only
all that live and breathe and move in
habit but in which all vegetation is con-
tanned, is still more limited. From the
submarine forests in the lowest depths
of the sea, to the highest altitude to
which the condor scars, above the per-
petual snow is but twelve miles. Within
those scanty limits, six miles of air above
us, six miles of water beneath, every
thing that has vitality is confined. If
the salamander lives in the central fire,
the exception is so small as scarcely to
be worth mentioning The air presses
upon the earth with force equal to 33
feet of water, and upon every average
human body with a weight of Is tons,
which only does not squash us fiat as
pancakes, because the air surrounds us
on all sides, including our insides, and
thereby the weight is balanced. To
most of us nature is one vast mirage,
suggesting intimate delusiOns and even
to the learned many things still remain
to be cleared up by slow moving science
in future ages. Who would imagine,
upon the face of the matter, for instance,
that in an airless world not a sound
could be heard. On the contrary, in
still and silent space, one would con-
cieve that we might hear pin drop
from the moon. Hawksbee demonstra-
ted the contrary of this fact in memo
rable experiment before the royal socie-
ty, $50 years ago. He placed cork
under the receiver of an air pump in
such way that the striking of the
clipper would continue after the air had
been exhausted while the receiver was
full of air, the sound was quite audible,
when it was empty all was silent. Again
when the air was introduced there was
feeble sound, growing in intensity as
the air grew denser. At the top of
Mont Blanc the report of pistol is no
louder than that of common cracker
let off at the level of the sea. "AbOve
two miles," SAYS Mr.. Glaisher, who, as
everybody knows, is an RrOnaut of con-
siderable experience, all noise ceases.
never encountered silence more COM
the atmosphere, in those chilling soll-
tudes to which no terrestrial sound
reaches" On the other hand, clouds
absolutely facilitate the transmission of
sound. Above a great city, to the
height of from /, 200 to 1900 feet, there
is always noise, immense, colossal
and indescribable The whistle of a
steam engine is beard at 10000 feet, the
noise of train at 5000, says NJ. Flam-
marion; but Mr. Glaisher testifies to
having heard this latter when $4,000
feet up in the air the barking of dog
and the report of gun rise each up to
5000 feet; the shonts of crowd OF
people, the Growing of cock, the toll
ing of a bell, to 5000, and the shout OF
human being to $500 feet Chambers
Journal.
Richland beacon., 1873-08-23

moon, a wall sinking here, or crater
vanishing elsewhere? The wonder
rather is that the steep and lofty luna
mountains have not been shaken long
aimee to their very foundations.
Our moon presents, in fact, a strange
problem for our investigation. 1t is
gratifying to us terrestrials to regard
her as a mere satellite of the earth, but
in reality she deserves rather to be re-
garded as a companion planet.
Richland beacon., 1873-08-23

Il % amusing answers of the son OF
a WI ktern senator at West Point are re-
cor| I'D. On being asked how many
pic Is discharged spherical shot will
bu At, he replied, "Into two, at least.
sir. I should think" and on being asked
what was the uses of the vent in piece
of ordinance, replied, after mature con-
sideration, that it showed the upper
aide of the gun, and was useful H
ke it with.
Richland beacon., 1873-08-23

An exchange says that the dying
words of Delaware woman were: Hen
nv, if you marry again, remember that
it only takes a cupful of sugar to sweet
quart of gooseberries. 1t is painful
to think of human being departing
this life with such n whopper on her
lips, when every lady knows that the
more sugar you put to gooseberry
the sourer it becomes.
Richland beacon., 1873-08-23
SNO WDROP.S.

There was "A fierce monster, who made
His home in vale, woodland and glade.
He laughed in his terrible might
Aud chilled every heart with alright
As he scattered the powdery snow
Iio. no!
Three poor little maids lost their way,
As homeward they wandered one da
How lovely they were, and how sweet!
This monster said, "These ! will eat,
But Ill wait until darkness sets in
To begin"
The little maids heard him, and wept;
Then closer together they crept,
And each kissed the others pale cheek.
u who could harm darlings so meek?
Close under a snow-bank they tried
To hide.
The sun went down, lurid and cold;
shrOud of snow round them were rolled
They heard the grim monster go by,
These three little maids to espy;
But, blinded with anger, no three
Found he.
Now the morning sun warmed them, and 10
They peeped from then shelter Of snow
These darlings were snowdrops; and he
Who bowed to his will every tree
Pine maple, and locust, and larch-
Was March
Little Corporal.
Richland beacon., 1873-08-23

If YOUNG ladies don't smoke, what is
the reason they so frequently have little
round holes burnt in the front ireadth
of their summer dresses? ASKS the
Once.a-week. We should think it showed
merely that the young ladies had been
among the sparks. Only this and moth
ing more.
Richland beacon., 1873-08-23

A veteran observer declares that
the people who spend tle most money
at the watering places, are the old ~
witkiYoung wives.
Richland beacon., 1873-08-23
The Terminus of the Northern Pa
cifc Railroad.
tKalams (Oregon) Beacon.l ]

We understand that the Northern Pa
cific railroad commissioners, Judge Rice
and Captain Ainsworth, appointed to Sc
lect terminus for the main line of the
Northern Pacific railroad on Puget
sound, have, after a very careful ex
animation of various harbors on the
sound, and after having given full hear
ings to all parties interested, and ma
turely considering all propositions for
aid by different localities, some of which
have been exceedingly liberal, finally
selected q point on the south side of
Commercial bay, in township 81, range
3 east. of Willamette meridian, for that
terminus.
In this we think the commissioners
acted wisely, as the hardor selected can
not be excelled for salubrity of climate,
extent, safety, and ease of access both by
sea and land. Persons interested in
any particular locality may for the mo-
ment be disappointed in the action of
the commissioners, but the commercial
world viii unhesitatingly approve.
By reference to a map of the country
it will be seen that the location selected
is at the head of deep water ON Com
mencement bay, south of the present
town of Tacoma, and combines more ad-
vantages for a great commercial city,
destined to represent and become a
great emporium of trade, beyond any
other mart on the Pacific coast, and we
sincerely feel assured is to become the
second city of the new world.
As an earnest of the faith reposed in
the location, we hear that material for a
$25, 900 printing Office is being prepared
to be shipped at once to Tacoma, to
include newspaper, job printing and
book bindery.
THE TRUE HARVEST OF LIFE.-No
man ever followed his genius till it
missed him. Though the result we're
bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one
can say that the consequences were to
be regretted, for these were a life in
continuity with higher principles. If
the day and the night are such that you
greet them with Joy, and life emits a
fragrance like flowers and sweet scented
herbs, is more elastic, more starry,
more immortal, that is your success.
All natures your congratulation, and
Won have cause momentarily to bless
yourself. The greatest gains and values
are farthest from being apprehended,
we easily come to doubt if tn y exist.
Perhaps the facts most astounding, and
most real are never communicated by
man to man. The true harvest of my
daily life is somewhat as intangible and
understandable as the tints of morning OF
evening, 1t is a little star dust caught,
9 fragment of the rainbow which I have
clutched. -ThOre0u.
Richland beacon., 1873-08-23
Modern English Poetry.

u1OuCIA IL huS S1loA OC9Ays
There is more poetry written now in
one year than was written during the
whole of the eighteenth century. Much
of it is fairly good, quite as good as
would have sufficed to establish great
reputation among our grandfathers.
The standard collections Of British
poetry contain the works of many poets
who would have no chance of a hearing
from us. Still, the best of ours is not
supremely good. Tennyson, Browning,
Arnold, ROssetti, Swinburne, Morris.
A goodly array, no doubt. But they all
belong to what may be called the litera-
ry class of poets. Now, it is theory
of mine that no poetry can live long
which is not born in the open air. The
poetry of the study is delicate and
perishable commodity. Browning is, in
one sense, the only exception to this
rule. Though the most studiOus of our
poets, he is the only one who manifests
the vital insight of Burns, Shak-
speare or a Scott there is the direct
pathos, the breathing energy of life, IN
"The Ring and the Book" 1t is i'm
possible, think, that "The Ring and
the Book" can live. Yet it is, in many
respects, stronger and greater piece OF
work than anything we have had since
Shakespeare. It's author is clearly one
one of the great masters of the art which
purges the soul by pity and terror. But
the pathos of the others is not the
pathos which they have found in life,
but the pathOs which they have found
in books. 1t is rank heresy, no doubt,
yet 1 confess 1 prefer the "Morte
d'Arthur," as a whole, to the " Idylls OF
the King" An exotic, nursed in the
hot-house, may be developed into vel:
vety perfection but the simple and
modest wild flower native to the soil il
the harder plant of the two. What
will they know of our poetry a thou
sand years hence? 1t would not sur
prise me very much to learn that the
whole of it had died out, except Sil
Walters "Proud Maisie is in the
Wood" and (perhaps) Allingham
"Up the airy mountain,
Down the reedy glen."
Morris is always charming; 80 iform
ly charming, in fact, that he gel Just il
the least degree mOnotonous 1t last
The greatest poetry has some Ing NOR
than Morris reaches, sonnet ing NOR
fervid, some inJenser stra -LOradO'
Quarterly.
THE INsPIkArIoN XAxuRR-h
good health thu sir oedia1 of in
: IS: =: :,::.;:! &C.; y! !; i; 81 :; !
Richland beacon., 1873-08-23

IT il better to decide oast ynpgly
u11G1kipto . wrong ss,tA Of I'D
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-02

The alterations and improvements in the
store of Ross u Pitts are nearly finished.
They now have Il large room, more con-
ycnient and the crowded appearance of
the room is relieved. With the enlarge
ment of their premises, they have enlarged
their capital by joining the Brandon Manu-
featuring Company with the old firm, and
the firm title will he Ross, Pitts Il Co.
a new landlord takes charge of the
Brandon House on the first of May-Mr.
r. l.. Dcming, of Chester, young man of
energy and perseverance, and promises to
make Il tirst-class landlord Mr.. Mcbride
rctires to rest upon his laurcls, and will
not engage in active business at present
We have had IL few days of pleasant
weather, after Il three weeks storm of
snow and rain. The roads are nearly set
tied and the dust in our streets is very an
noying. People are planting their gardens,
while the snow in sight ON the mountains
at the east is any way from three to five
feet deep, the breczes from which are de-
cidedly chilly. There is no crossing from
Brandon to Rochester only ON foot, and
the snow up to the knees at that
Protestant Methodist people at Forest
dale are building new church cdifce, to
better commode their increasing congrcga-
tions. The frame is nearly ready to be
erected and it is expected that they will
raise it this week. 1t is located on the
cast side of the street, opposite the Gene
terry.
A valuable COW, belonging TO widow
Nancy Arnold while going to drink and
frisling along, broke her leg, which ncccs-
stated that she be killed. This is the
second COW that Mrs. Arnold has lost in
the same way within the past year.
The Rutland DAILY GLOBE can be had
of +. b. Gibbs d Co., at the Brandon
news office.