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Marshall County Republican., 1873-07-03
Boxing ChiIdren'S Ears.

"Children's ears should never be
boxed" So writes an eminent surgeon
In the June number of The Popular
Science Monthly. Though the state
ment will doubtless be received by many
a juvenile reader in the light of " self
evident proposition, there may yet re-
main few parents and rural peda-
gogues to whom the reasons for the abo-
interest. eve have seen" writes Prof
Hinton, that the passage of the
ear is closed by thin membrane espe-
cially adapted to be influenced by every
impulse of the air, and with nothing but
the air to support it internally What,
then, can be more likely to iniure this
membrane than sudden and forcible
compression of the air in front of it -? If
any one designed to break or overstretch
the membrane he could scarcely devise
a more effective means than to bring the
hand suddenly and forcibly down upon
the passage of the ear, thus driving the
air violently before it, with no possibility
for its escape but by the membrane Civ
ing way" So reasonable are these con-
clusions that there was not needed even
the high authority of the writer for the
subsequent statement that "many chill
dren are made deaf by boxes on the ear. :"
1t is unfortunate, however, that this and
many other rebukes of the same order
precede the reason, and hence safer
general order might be issued to the in
tent that no child should ever receive
any form of corporal punishment until
the parent or preceptor has stopped to
reason-frst with the child, and then
with himself. .-Appleton's Journal.
Marshall County Republican., 1873-07-03
RAIN AND SHINE,
Rain. rain. rain

Rain, rain, rain,
NO sun to be seen for many long day. -
Inc nelos erfect mortar a mire the highway
NO cnance Tor crop of rye, wheat, corn or hay -
What will the poor farmer do? "a
Why, SIT the in house and sigh and repine
An ana pour out impatientlF line upon line ~ #f
VI prospective woes, should the sun not soon shine
That's what he's likely to do
Shine, shine, shine,
No cloud to be for many a LONG dav
The fields hard and dry the dusty highway
NO chance for crop OF rye, wheat, corn or hay
1t IS shine, shine, nothing but shine
What will the poor farmer do Z?
Why. wander ibout and moan and comnai,,
Ihat work and no work equally vain
unless we soon have good shower of rain
That's what he's likely to do
Rain shine,
we hear from too many the sad, sad strain
1t is nothing but shine or nothing but rain
Both equally death to the life of the grain
And the cause of many whine
What should the poor farmer do?
why, smile when it shines and smile when it rains
And take it for granted from all his past gains
Ihat God knows what's best for all kinds of grains
That's what he could and should do.
Marshall County Republican., 1873-07-03

A TEMPERANCE doctor lately told an
old soaker W ho complained of sore eyes
that he must quit drinking or lose his
eyes. He resignedly said " Farewell,
eyes,
Marshall County Republican., 1873-07-03

WHAT do singers do With all the
g fresh laurels they win.
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Should Women Advocate the Death
Penalty?


SARAToGA SPRINGS, N. L, March "a, 1873.
To the Editor Of the Tribune
SIR: 1t is all very we'll for sensation
alists, whether clergymen or philanthro-
pists, to announce their ideal of human
ity and then push forward its realization,
but this does not change facts. One Of
these facts is, that there are men, who,
were it not for the restraints of the law,
would sacrifice the safety of their fellows;
especially would the life and honor of
women be endangered And it were well
if the sex who are now making such
strenuous efforts to obtain their rights
should turn their petitions to the law
makers for the just and adequate securi-
ty of their safety 1t is plain that Of all.
the restraints of the law none has such
power over the violators of the public
peace as the death penalty. All that
man hath he will give for his life I'm
pri3onment for life is but q nominal ulti
mate. A score of chances for an alterna-
tive renders it not only endurable, but
in q measure attractive. Not the least
of these chances is that of official pardon
after the lapse of years. Escape is always
present to the imagination. Maintenance
at the public expense is sure, which, in
the vicissitudes of a debased and unequal
| life is not disregarded. 1t is said that
| the object of all punishment should be
reformation, not vengeance. The for
| feiture of life for crime is not vengeance.
| If it were fortuitous and elective by Off
cial vote or decision, it might be termed
vengeance; but it is the penalty annexed
by well-known law to the commission of
crime 1t is as plain as problem in
mathematics, wherein the first term
stands for a crime, the second term for
the penalty; the third term is the appli-
cation of the second to the first viz :
I death 1t is admitted that reformation
is, or should be, the object of punish
ment But death is the first step to re-
formation. / have no doubt that an op-
portunity is presented to every offender,
on entering into the next state of eXis-
tence, to choose his final destination,
and this under inconceivably superior
advantages to the best in this world.
The same Spirit by which Christ went
and preached unto the spirits in prison,
which sometimes we disobedient. when
once the long-sufiering of God waited in
the days of Noah, ever l'veth to fulfill
his office of intercession, instruction, and
consolation The death of the offend
er strikes an unparalleled dread to the
souls Of sinful men, for the sting of death
is sin Then let the wise conservators o
the public peace look we'll to the history
OF crime in all ages and under all condi
tions Of society," before they abrogate the
last real safeguard TO our security.
4. Il, II. II.
--aNns York Tribune.
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From the chronological Journal.1
The Cheerful Face
BY ANNA CLEAyEs.

Next to the sunlight of heaven is the
sunlight of cheerful face. There is no
mistaking 1.-THE bright eye, the un-
clouded brow, the sunny smile, all tell Of
that which dwe4ls within. Who has not
felt its electrifying influence? One glance
at such face lifts us at once out of the
arms of despair. out of the mist and
shadows, away from tears and and repin-
pining into the beautiful realms of hope.
One cheerful face in household will
keep everything bright and warm with
in. Envy, hatred malice, selfishness,
dependency, and q host of evil-passions,
may lurk around the door, they may
even look within, but they can never en-
ter and abide there; the cheerful face
will put them to shame and flight.
1t may be very plain face, but there is
something about it we feel, yet can not
express and its CHEEKY smile sends the
blood dancing through our veins for very
Joy; we turn toward it as the leaves of
the plant turn toward the sun, and it's
warm, genial influence reireshes and
strengthens our fainting spirits. All,
there is a world of magic in the plain
cheerful face! 1t charms us with a spell
that reaches into eternity, and we would
not exchange it for all the soulless beau
ty that ever graced the fairest form on
earth.
1t may he a very lille facei one that
we nestle on our bosoms or sing to sleep
in our arms with low, sweet lullaby
but it is such bright, CHEEKY little face
The scintillations of a joyous spirit are
flashing from every feature. And what
power it has over the household bind
ing each heart together in tenderness,
and love, and sympathy Shadows may
darken around us, but somehow this lit
/ tie face ever shines between and the
shining is so bright that the shadows can
not remain, and silently they creep away
into the dark corners where the cheerful
! face is never seen.
1t may be very a0rinkled face, but it is
all the dearer for that and none the less
brighter. We linger near it and gaze
| tenderly upon it, and say, God bless
this happy facel We must keep it with
US as long as we can, for home will lose
much of lis brightness when this sweet
face is gone"
And after it is gone how the remem-
brance of it purifes and softens our way
ward naturesl When care and sorrow
would snap our heartstrings asunder,
this wrinkled face looks down upon us,
and the painful tension grows lighter,
the way less dreary, and the sorrow less
heavy.
God bless the cheerful face! Bless it
He has blessed it already; the stamp of
| heaven is on every feature. What a
dreary world this would be without this
| heaven-born light and he who has it not
should pray for it as he would pray for
| his daily bread.
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OF life being uninterrupted. The gradual
union OF the parts was shown by faint
but gradually increasing movements of
the limbs of the jaws and of the muscles
of expression in the face Speech did
not become possible until the close of
the third week, and then it was hesitat-
ing, stammering, as child learns AL
though it was evident that the patient
tried to utter words and sentences, it
was very gradually that the power of in
telligible articulation returned
The Gazette contains the report, in a
tabular form, of the increasing voluntary
power over the arms and hands, as meas
ured from day to day by the dynamome-
ter, the measurement given in kilogram-
mes, also, the daily temperature of the
limbs. as shown by the thermometer in
degrees of centigrade; ALSO the return
ing sensibility of the fingers and lips, as
given by an instrument called Psthesi-
ometer; but l omit these, as your read
ers will be interested in the main facts
only.
When speech became ineligible, it
was found that the soldier, as he seemed,
had forgotten entirely his military train
ing and disciplIne on the other hand,
he told at formal examination, in the
presence of witnesses, the prices of all
keeper had been in the habit of buying
and selling, manifesting the unimpaired
cerebral activity of the latter. His mem
ory recalled the saloon-keeper's relatives,
friends and customers whom he called
by name. The soldier had been ugly,
taciturn revengetul; he now had the sa-
loon-keeper's frankness and even garruli-
ty, in spite of his stammering utterance.
He was totally blind Although the
nerves of smell and sight had been ap-
proximated in the operation, they failed
to unite. II was both sad and strange to
hear the soldier cropping iE his infirmity
of blindness and giving proof of all the
patient endurance and goodness of heart
Which had made the saloon-keeper de-
servedly esteemed and prosperous. These
are the main facts in the case as fa- as
detailed in the Archioe, but the subject of
experiment presents so many important
problems of the relation between blood
and brain, of heart-power and nervous
energy, thatwe may be we'll assured that
no facts of interest will be permitted to
escape notice and record
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No Imprisonment for Life.

When it is proposed to substitute i'm
prisonment for life, for death as the pen
atty of murder, it should be distinctly
understood that practically there is no
such thing as imprisonment for life in
this country. The Nation SAYS: 1--WE
have before US medical report made in
1868 on the Auburn State Prison, which
has for fifty years been one of the glories
Of New York Between 1918 and 1868,
2l4 persons were committed to that pris-
on under life sentences. OF these, "a
died from natural causes; s went mad;
committed suicide; / escaped; and 10
were transferred to other prisons; leav-
ing l5q to be accounted for. Well, of
these l59, twenty-five remained in the
prison at the date of the report, and l34
had been pardoned Perhaps, however,
they were pardoned after long years of
suffering, and were discharged when age
or confinement had made them harmless?
Nothing of the kind; their average pc
riod of servitude was six years and six
months. In other words, when a man is
sent to Jail for life in this State, he has
over sixty-three chances in one hundred
of liberation inside seven years. This
experience is very much that of all the
States In Massachusetts, so per cent. OF
the life prisoners are pardoned; in Penn.
sylvania, l34 of the whole number i'm
prisoned for all periods in Ohio, 40 pei
cent of the life prisoners; in Wisconsin
33 per cent. In short, we repeat that
Imprisonment for life is, to all intents
and purposes, an unknown punishment
in this country, and the machinery fol
lntiicting it does not as yet exist. ~
7. Observer.
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WHOLE NO. 1851.
Effects Of Public Corruption.

There is no end to the evils of Aagi-
tious example. We must believe there
were a few men who voted for the salary
robbery who would not have done it if
they had reflected upon their act.
Think of what it means It is not only
robbery in fact. But to the public mind
it is robbery. II is known and regarded
as just one big steal. The tutored and
the untutored mind alike consider it
public stealing; bold, defiant robbery.
What an example! 1t is stimulant to
every scoundrel in the land 1t keeps
vlllainy in countenance everywhere. 1t
prompts men to take money they have
not earned and do not own, wherever
they can get chance. The bank officer
or the clerk of every grade, in every pro-
tesslon and every pursuit, who thinks he
IS insufhciently paid, under the shelter
OF this example, will consider he too may
rob his employer at will The slave was
q thief, because his master stole him and
all his earnings and all his. belongings.
1t Congressman may march up in a body
to the Treasury and rob it of $4,000
apiece, because there is nobody to pre-
vent them, then anybody and everybody
else in circumstances of temptation may
do the same. And, stimulated by this
high example, they will do the same.
Congressman will thus infuse fresh vital
ity into thievery and corruption all over
the land. All the garroter wants is your
money. He garrotes for money All
the carpet bagger or South Carolina ne
gro is after is money He lies. to get
money. He steals to get money. He
wrecks q State to get money Are not
he and everybody kept in countenance
and inspiration by the example of q ma
jority of United States Congress, who
rob treasury and disgrace a nation in
order to get money!
1t is the great industry-em pub
lie that is most affected by the shocking
example. 1t is the men who employ la
Dor and require integrity 1t is the men
who know and feel the value and the
necessity of honesty that are more inter
ested in this business than anybody else.
1t isn't moral question only, by any
means. 1t is question of safety to the
indispensable morality of the commun;-
ty. Men in private life must have
standard OF integrity, and of. honor, and
of truth, which must be maintained, or
their affairs, and even society itself go to
ruin. If financial -looseness in public
life is to pass unrebuked and unpunished,
why not in private as well2 Every pull
lie mans detection or detection from the
paths of honesty is public calamity, in
somuch as it is an authoritative example.
One public villain is the father of thou
sand private ones. Hence the alarming
progress of demoralization in any society
in which it once gets headway.-N 7.
Tribune.
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The Decay of Wood.

Wood, being vegetable matter, is of
course liable to decay; but how to turn
it to the best account with this known a.
tribute to contend with may be worth
inquiry The closer the grain and the
heavier the wood, the less liability there
is to decay; but for building purposes, as
at present carried on, light and open
grained woods must be used We cal =
not, in these times Of excessive compet' :
ton, go back to the old oak timbered
and foored houses of our ancestors 1t
would, however, pay landlords to build
solid, substantial houses, and let them
even at the present scale of rental For
instance, in digging away the foundations
of the Savoy Palace, built upwards of six
centuries ago the oak piles were found
perfectly sound, as was the planking
which covered the pile heads. But hou :
es are built on very different principle
now, namely. to sell again, and perhaps
again, before the permanent owner in
vests in them, and then coat of paint
and judicious use of putty cover all
imperfections.
The flooring boards, being kept in
sheds, present quite a different appeal
ance to the same quality of wood expose d
on the quays. Putting on one side Il @
question of expense, the practice of ma :
ting up the end of the piles, as practiccd
in the north of England, cannot be rec
ommended. 1t certainly preserves the
fresh appearance of the wood, and max,
it appear as if just discharged from IL e
ship; but it impedes the tree circulate N
of air. and anything that does that is
strictly to be avoided. Better by far
have the wood shaken at the ends th; n
sweating inside. with here and thel g
places where the penknife blade sinks in
with hardly any pressure.
The decay of wood arises from intern,
and not external moisture; hence tie
danger of s--akes, as they admit it often
to the very centre; and so long as free
evaporation is allowed, decay will not
very readily set in. 1t would be very al
surd to say that no paint ought to be
used in the interior of house, but it is
certain that a piece of wood painted n
both sides viii not last nearly so long as
one not painted at all. The reason is
evident. The paint etfectually closes all
the pores and prevents the evaporation
of the moisture, which even the best sea-
soned plank will contain, and hence de-
cay sooner sets in, in one shape or other.
For the same reason wood painted on
one side only will last longer than that
painted on two sides. Thus in an old
building, the wainscot, doors, windows,
etc will be found TO be affected when the
staircases will be sound, because never
painted. The old houses in the quaint
city of Chester prove the truth of this.
Some years ago, a Liverpool builder who
had some contracts there told the writer
that the numerous exposed beams were
generally sound, and they are all unpaint-
ed, but the inside work had apparently
been renewed. The best that can be
done, under all circumstances, is to give
n coat of paint before leaving the work
shop and this is generally done, at least
in the large establishments- Buiitlinq
NetcS.
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A Diet of Leather, Iron, Felt, etc.

Some physiologist has been giving a
contemporary the results of some inves-
legations and calculations in this field of
diet. His statements are curious enough
When we pour milk into a cup of tea
or coffee, the albumen of the milk and
the tannin Of the tea instantly unite and
form leather, or minute flakes of the
very same compound which is produced
in the texture of the tanned hide, and
which makes it leather as distinguished
from the original skin. In the course Of
a year a tea-drinker of average habits
will have imbibed leather enough to
make a pair of shoes, if it could be put
into the proper shape for the purpose
A great many things go into the mouth
This is not an original remark We have
seen it somewhere. But it is an alarming q
fact. We drink, every one of us, a pair
of boots year. We carry iron enough
in our blood constantly to make horse
shoe. We have clay enough in our
frames to make, if properly separated
and baked, a dozen good sized bricks
We eat at least peck of dirt a month
no, that is not too large an estimate
The man who carelessly tips a glass of
lager into his stomach little reflects that
he has begun the manufacture of hats,
yet such is the case. The malt of the
beer assimilates with the chyle and
forms sort of felt-the very same seen
so often in hat factories. But not being
instantly utilized, it is lost Still fur
ther: it is estimated that the bones in
every adult person require to be fed with
lime enough to make marble mantel
every eight months.
TO sum up, we have the following as
founding aggregate of articles charged to
account of physiology, to keep every poor
shack on his feet for three score years
and ten:
Mems shoes, 20 years, at l
pair a year,.................... 70 pairs.
Horse-shoes. 70years, at one
q month, as our arterial
system renews its blood
every new moon............ $40 shoes.
Bricks, at ~ per 7 years.. 12O bricks.
Hats, not less than IA
year,. ..................... $50 hats.
Mantels, at 3 a year......... 105 mantels.
Here we are surprised to observe that
we eat as many shoes as we wear, and a
sufficient number of hats to supply a
large family of boys; that we float in our
blood-vessels horse-shoes enough to keep
a span of grays shods all the while; that
we carry in our animated clay bricks
enough to build modern fireplace, and
in our bones marble enough to supply all
our neighbors with. mantels. We have
not figured on the soil, at the rate. of a
peck month; but it is safe to say that
the real estate that hearty eater masti-
Gates and swallows in the course of a
long and 'eventful career would amount
to something worth having, if sold like
the corner lots on State Street, at So, 600
front foot.-PhrenOlogicat Journal
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CHURCH DIRECTORY.

Methodist Episcopal Church. Portsmouth st.
-Rev. j. E. .SowERS, Pastor. Public preaching
every Sabbath at I012 O'Clock A. NJ, and Sc
Z. Nj. Prayer meeting every Thursday night.
Sabbath School and Bible Class every sabbath
at 8 o'clock, A. NJ.
Presbyterian Church, on Church Street
REV j. X GIBSON, Pastor. Public preaching
every Sabbath at l015 n. NJ. and 612 p. NJ. Sab
bath School and Bible 6laSSat O'Clock A. Nj.
Christian Church, on Broadway Street-Elder
r. j, BACKUs, Pastor. Public preaching the
list and 3d Sabbaths in each month, at lO19 o.
clock A. NJ, and 6% p. NJ. Sabbath School at
8 O'Clock, A. NJ. Prayer meeting every We'd
nesday night, and every Sabbath at 1O12 o'clk.,
when there is not public preaching
ATethoSaist Protestant Church, corner Church
and Pearl Sts.-Services at the usual hours
by Mrs. Mary A. Bradford.
Baptist Church, on Broadway Strcet-Services
at the usual hours, in the Welsh language.
Free Will Baptist Church, Petrea.-REv.
THOMAS E. PEDEN, Pastor. Covenant meet
ing the 4th Saturday and Sabbath of every
month. Sabbath school every Sabbath at
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"The Goodrich murder with a pistol,
the Draining of Mrs, Davis with an AK in
Brooklyn, the fracturing OF George
Thompson's skull with a hammer, and
the assault on officer Adams with shov-
ell, form an impressive sequel to last Fri
DAYS execution ~. !. SIN.
There is but one remedy-hanging J;
quick and certain The courts are too
Slow and uncertain. Brute Foster lived
t,co gears with fair prospects of escaping
the gallows, after numbering Putnam.
Let hanging follow murder so quickly,
and positively, that the taking of human
life will come to be regarded by murder
ers as equivalent to taking their oacn, and
there will be precious little use for the
gibbet. What the country needs just
now is not one or two executions per
anuum, but fifteen to twenty daily, for
about month. Think of an attempt to
weed garden by pulling two or three
weeds, yearly, The only wny to stamp
out murders, for the next twenty years
is to organize vigilance societies, com
posed of about five hundred members
zach, in every county, and thens. elect
Judge Lynch for q short term. .-1Atan.lS
| burg RuliEtiH.
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Don't.

Don't spit, on the floor: don't at all if
you can help it. Don't drum with your
fingers or feet; don't sit with your feet
higher than your head; don't go with
dirty nails; don't trim or clean your
nails in company; don't clean your nose,
ears or teeth in the presence of others;
don't eat with your knife; don't blow
your nose at the table, don't make sip
ping tea or eating soup vocal exercise;
don't eat fast; don't drop orange peel or
peach skin on the sidewalk; don't inter
rupt others in conversation; don't use
profane language; don't whisper in
church or at concerts; don't pull out
your watch in church; don't sleep in
church. don't run in debt, but if you do,
don't forget to pay; don't borrow your
neighbors newspapers.