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New-York tribune., 1873-08-01

Another cherished belief gone! We are now told,
at day which is certainly rdiculously late, that
the Car of Juggernaut, so far as the crushing of
voluntary victims is concerned is humbug. DR..
Pringe writes to The London Times that the deaths
inflicted by the Car are entirely due to accident
though the native priests have sort of objection
to such accidents being exceedingly glad when they
occur 1t takes crowd of 1900 1900 devotees to
drag the monstrous Car, with its sixteen huge
spiked wheels and confused and entangled in the
four or five long ropes which they hold, many of
these poor wretches naturally fall and crushed
out of life under those great wheels. Since an
English Commissioner ordered nets to be fixed to
the Car for the protection of the people the deaths
have become fewer. For the sake of humanity, we
arc glad to know that these barbarous performances
have not been voluntary. But what, we ask, is to
become of all the primers and primary Biographies
to which Juggernaut has so long been precious
boon of picturesque awfulness.
New-York tribune., 1873-08-01

The old dispute over the alleged unfairness
and extortion Of railroad freightng rates is
renewed. We print in another part of The
TRIBUNE statements made by both sides to the
controversy. The freighters, represented by
one OF two heavy firms are decided in their
charges of discrimination against New-York
interests and oppressive rates. On the
other hand, it is replied by some of the rail-
road agents that the rates are lower than
usual and that business is lighter than it has
been for years. There is wide difference in
opinion here. There can be no reconciliation
of these two great interests without candid
and frank conference. The revival of this
topic now is a preparation for the Fall trade.
We would be glad to hear that the various
parties interested had agreed to canvass the
whole question in a friendly spirit.
New-York tribune., 1873-08-01

Rather peculiar powers of eloquence Southern
clergymen must possess. Concerning recent Com
mencement sermon we are told that the minister
"seized upon the rens of eloquence, and drove his
flaming chariot athwart the very threshold of per-
fectionr He furthermore INDUCED in various illus
tratiye jumpings and gestures which were apparently
dispeasing to some of his hearers for the enthus-
astic reporter takes occasion to remark that with
him violent gesticulaton Is but the exuberance Of
his fervent and sensitive nature, and if nature bids
him leap as high as the summit of Mount Blanc in
the excitement of the moment, why should dignifed
proprlety command him to be put in the stocks |"
For no reason, we admit, save that the coming down
again after that pious Jump might be slightly ncon-
venient and painful.
New-York tribune., 1873-08-01

A fiery radical. whose European letters to
THE TRIBUNE are always read with pleasure,
entertains us to-day with a budget of
brilliant talk about matters and things in
London Her letter, printed on our second
page, rings down the curtain on the Shah in
England. and fairly completes the unwhole-
some impression which the great Persian has
made on the minds Of those who know him
now by common repute.
New-York tribune., 1873-08-01

These supernatural revelations are really becom-
ing impressvely common. One of the most interest
ing of recent cases is that of lady in Columbus,
Ohio, who was awakened from her sleep by myste-
rious voice exclaiming your brother William is
dead" She screamed; she swooned; she refused to
be comforted; and the remainder of the night she
passed in tears. What is remarkable is that she
ceived letter the very next day from her brother
statIng-that he was dead BY no manner of means
He wrote that he was quite we'll and had just made
a profitable contract with the town authorities
Considering this, perhaps the dream meant that he!
was dead in SIN and iniquity.
New-York tribune., 1873-08-01

Uncrystallzed as political opinions now are
in France, any popular sensation may be the
shock which shall bring the floating atoms
together. Even the Shah, it appears, has
given occasion for the exhibition of more pro-
nounced imperialism than Paris has for long
time known. The King of Kings, with his
pomp and autocratic magnifcence, reminded
the dropping Imperialists OF the shows of the
defunct Empire, and the reviews and Presi-
Dental levee were revival Of the good old
days. The Bonapartist comments on this
miserable business, given in our Paris corre-
spondence, compel one to consider whether
these people think life without royal theatri-
Gals worth the having.
New-York tribune., 1873-08-01

The best that can be said for the state of
things in Spain is that it has grown no worse
in the last few days. The Government, in
fact. appears to exercise reasonable degree
of energy and discretion in its treatment OF
the Cantonal instructions. The loyal troops
are completely successful in Seville, he at
tampt at firing the city having failed SevHiAi
New-York tribune., 1873-08-01

Careful investigation shows that the losses
by the burning of the U. s. Appraisers stores,
Wednesday night, will not be nearly so large
as at first estimated. Some experts put the
total amount at $i25,O0O or $t5O,OOO. AS init
mated in THE TRIBUNE, the more embarrassing
loss will be that which must attend the con-
fusion caused by the destruction Of invoices
and arrangement Of business. But tho fire
very nearly gave q severe blow to the i'm
pOrteTs
New-York tribune., 1873-08-01

Col Hughes, who has just been nominated
by the Virginia Republicans, made an easy, Off
hand, extemporaneous speech-a mere trife
of three or four columns of fine type-in ac-
cepting the honor Considering that this is an
" off" year in national politics, it must be con-
fessed that it is hard to account fol the total
absence of all local flavor in the somewhat
florid burst of eloquence which appears in the
Washington papers almost simultaneously
with its delivery in Lynchburg. In dispatch
from Washington we have brief epitome of
this truly admirable effort its character is
illustrated by the following bewildering an
nouncement with which it opens: The flag
." of the Republican party is the flag of the
"nation." Does the orator mean that the
party flag is the national flag
New-York tribune., 1873-08-01

1t is gratifying to observe that the Admin
istration is pursuing toward the Ku-Klux the
lenient treatment which later events have
proved to be wise and humane. 1t has been
shown that the majority of arrested culprits
were young and thoughtless or very ignorant
men. The bolder plotters managed to
elude search and defy conviction. The
Attorney General informs q committee of
South Carolina gentlemen that except in
very few uncommonly fragrant cases, the
pending prosecutions will be suspended, and
fugitives may safely return. OF course, it is
not to be expected that any new violations of
the law can be pardoned in advance; and
notice to that effect is accordingly given.
New-York tribune., 1873-08-01

Even hardened editor must sometimes wonder
over the things full of bitterness and anmOsiy said
by man concerning his brother gentleman from
the country possessing feeling soul writes sadly
that such little epthets as liar and thief" are
of no consequence to speak Of in his eyes he sht
even be accused of being a Credit Mober Christian
statesman and bear the calumny nobly but when
it comes to people going around saying that he wrote
Betsy and are Out then he does rebel. We are not
surprised that he should feel this abuse so deeply
the only wonder is that human being could have it
in his heart to speak thus of an innocent man.
New-York tribune., 1873-08-01

The young women do not seem to take kindly to
the study of the law. Thus at the Michigan Uni
versly at Ann Arbor while there on the lists for
next term thirty-seven medical there are only four
law students. This is natural. All women are born
nurses and all nurses doctors in their way Then
the uncertainty of admission to practice in the
Courts NAV have something to do with the small
number We are not sure that women. at least the
majority Of them. are fitted TO become lawyers.
Their little hearts are not hard enough and though
they may DO sued. tho preesdents arc al agoiust
their euejng.
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most four hundred, and he has put these
horrible old peas here instead
" The fact is said Susan unsparingly
" he has been trading with YOU for the same
ones over and over, and as fast as you have
put them in here, he has taken them out
Have you any in your pockets pn
Yes, The tour children had Just five apiece,
which they had bought of Jem not more
than an hour before
That's all there are, you may depend ON
it, said Susan. He has used them over
and over. But you shall have all your little
notions back anyhow
So, saying, she MARCHED home again, and
filled her apron from Jem's chest with dolls,
boats, beads, boxes, all sorts OF toys and
keepsakes, and did not stop till she had
laid them all down in heap on Mrs,
Bowen's table The children crowded
around % sort them, and divide property.
Ii was something TO have all the old treas
ures back, but they felt TERRIBLY defrauded
about the black-eyed-S IL was al
most impossible for them to believe that
there were not nearly four hundred some
where, and 1t seem SO poverty-stricken TO be
lett with only five apiece.
But have free planted in my flower
pot" said little May, with "a CLEAN of hope
But Maggie too suspicious now TO believe
anything, went to the little fower-pot which
had been so carefully tended and watered,
and dug up the earth with her fingers.
She found three peas there Just beginning
10 sprout, and no black-eyod-Susans at all J
That broke poor May down completely.
1t was Just as Susan Towne said, and
Jem did not deny il when he found he was
discovered. But he laughed and said he
meant 20 tell them all about 1t when they
opened the Bank of Africa and that it
was only good joke,
1t is great while ago that all this hap
pened, and don't know as | should ever
have heard the story if l had not been
walking drought the Salom's Bazaar some
weeks since with friend, and we presently
reached a counter where stood box full OF
black-eyed-Susans selling at ten cents a
cupful She bought cupful AZ once, and
told me with a smile that one of the long
ings of her life was now satisfied, for she
had always wanted hundred black-eyed-
Susans ever since she was little five-year-
old girl, called May Bowen.
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it will begin its work. If a few hens
are put together--say twelve or fifteen
they viii be a little family among
themselves, on intimate footing, yet
having, like other families, their little
quarrels, which gives piquancy to their
otherwise tame lives. 1t is these small
domestic groups that are the success
full egg producers They need but be
repeated, group added to group, with
partitions between, so that each is dis.
tiact. in no way connected, as though
but one existed. Thus you have the
principle of the one in all You can
increase the number of communities at
Will Each is by itself, aud oontented.
There is peace and prosperity. But
remove the partitions, and Babel is
the result. There will be strangeness
introduced, and fear and insecurity
with it, that will be fatal to domesticity
and check the maternal desire. And
though time be given it, the foreign
cast will never be dispelled from SO
large number; the thought of insecu-
rity will always accompany, especially
with the more timid. This is the
secret of the poor success with large
communities
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rhe Drivers story.
From the New York Evening Post.


" An, sir, this is going to be hard
winter" SAID a great burly car-driver
to us The other evening land | saw
yesterday what such as you don't see
very often, and hardly believe when it's
told to We. One OF the men who drove
on this line nigh three years sent his
little gal to ask me to come and see him,
and laid off last night and went,
Now | heard how he was sick with
consumption, but ! didn't know how
sick until got there.
As sure as live. sir there was that
fellow what one year ago was as strong
and hearty young man as you ever
saw, with his legs no bigger than my
wis and him lynn on the floor and
heavin' and choking all the day and
nightj
He told me he hadn't sent for me UNI
til he had to, and on looking round, sir,
] saw there wasn't any furniture left !;
and altho' year ago he had his little
room fixed up comfortable like, he had
sold even the straw IN his tick and was
a lynn on the floor Il wouldn't care
10 live, Jim, said he (speakin' very
hoarse and troubiesome-like), but for
my poor wife and children for altho
am only in their way | like to see
em round, and | shan't trouble 'em
much longer. And here he looked at
hisswife and smiled, when she cum up
and, takin' hold of his hand, told him
not to talk like that, put TO pluck up
hope for her sake and the little Ones
Bye and bye, after looking at her aud
then round the room at the children,
his lips commenced TO tremble and the
tears to fill his eyes, in spite of his
tryin' to smile; and altho' | think I'm
as hard hearted as any man, | couldn't
stand It and just burst out cryin'.
Well, it seems he hadn't had anything
to eat that day so | gave him two dol
lars (all | had aud sent for some
bread, and bundle of straw, and, best
of all for him, do believe, | got his
/ babies a stick Of candy and a whistle,
and left 'em almost happy. My old
woman has been over to-day to take EN-
an old bedstead we amt usin', and we
collected eight dollars for 'em from the
drivers, and we're thinkin' of getting
up a ball, hoping 20 make enough TO
send him to an hospital and to give his
wife a start So they're not so bad of
now as they might be. But there's
lots just like EN-, and there's goin' TO
be more afore the winters through.
Hold ON till | slow mp bit, sir.
There Goodnight, sir; goodnight. p"
And we walked away bordering on the
terrible words OF that kind-hearted
man: "There's lots just like EN-. "
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CuILDREN'S CORNER.
Wink.
BIZ Mas. E. D. KENDALL.


| have a kitty, aud, what do YOU think
Her name is Puss, but call her - Wink. y
And the reason why / call her so
Il this Oh, ever so long ago,
NV mother brought her home one day
In little ba-ket, all the way
rrom-dear ne wbere was IT FL can't re.
member,
;, IL was SO long-the name Of the town.
but the month, I'm sure, was June or Decem-
bon
And whyo other set the basket down
0n the kltahea floor she said. Little Grace.
Just peop 10 here, but take care of your face.
Fof IL something live, aud It may jump up. "
'houglt much as could be, II must be q pup,
For brother Jum had been teasing hard
For black one, II tuzzy, and full Of his
fun,
Lake the one that lives in Joe Cassidy's yard f;
lie rolls over and oyer-he's too fat to run,
But, no when looked in, there lay kitty,
All cuddled no close, so silky and pretty
blue eat Auut Eleanor says she's Maltese ;
i don't know what that is, it may be her
fleece,
Cause it shines so but soon as my new kitty
saw
That the basket was open she stretched. ont
her paw
To shake hands with her distress, and just
seemed to know
She had come TO a 200 a t,,,,,, ,ebere ,o,,,Io
would treat her
throw
STONES ana nrl Jkbats to hurt her. or cruelty
So she Loo ed np A. me and said softly
g youY yoaPp
md wlnked lgst as hard as ever she knew.
Yes, t's ], little GracIe," | answered hel
then,
And. oh, don't you think, rhe began wiuking
acain
,Jemmg iaughed-so did but she didn't get
cross
At orr fun, ike May Fisher and Lillian Morse.
but was JUS as good-Gatu7ed a. could be, and
As still as q mouse, with nothing 30 say.
E.aught her up then, and Rugged her and
Kissed her
They were little soft hugs, aud she liked
them, guess
But Jenny screamed out, " You are choking
Aud frightened her so she bid in my dress
She's got used TO INN now, and don't care for
his noise,
For she's found out he's like the rest of the
boys.
Jem says she's a stupid, and can't tell a rat
From rose-bush, but l know better than
that
And she lent afraid of them either, but think.
II ish ga f. ,ight TO Kill them for sport.
SO she lies on the mat IN the wood-shed aud
winks
AT their pranks. and they never get caught.
don't care !! am sure, ior rats like to live
just as well a. we do, and if people would
give
Them then food every day in little in dish
Thed learn to be honest perhaps, and eat
fish.
AMI PICK bones, like the cats and behave
very well,
As poor Wink docs. That's all I've no more
to tell.
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Lsyering shrubs,

II il often 90 Iis a subject of surprise
to tind so few persons, especially those
residing in the country a distance from
nurseries, who attempt 10 increase
their stock of shrubbory by layerlng
the branches. Almost every variety OF
shrub can be THUS multiplied Even
among those who do this II is not often
that the queen of flowers, the Rose, Is
thus treated. II is usually propagated
10y sticking cuttings from the new wood
IN August, and nursing carefully
through the winter. BY layering the
growing branches, however, il is by
the succeeding season bloomer; and
this too can be done easily, that il,
without the use of sash or hot bed,
usually resorted to- with the cuttng
In laying down, slit the part Of the
branch that enters the ground, from
one joint to another, then cover with
two inches of soil, and fasten down
with forked stick. Not only roses,
but almost every kind of shrub can be
thus prCpagated. And the person who
does not know how 10 do this should
60 without them All the days Of hif
life. Ger. Ieiegrdph.
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A Good Use Tor a Nuisance

The nuisance is old tin cans fruit,
vegetable or oyster cans. Throw them
in the fire and let them unsolder,
punch holes through each of the ioul
corners, large enough-take piece OF
twIne, put through the holes, and tie
the can together Set it on piece Of
board or shingle, cut Just large enough
for 1t to rest upon. Fill up the car
with prepared soil, and you have SUI
perb pot, or can, TO start flowers or 9th
er plants in.
When your plants are large enough
to put out, dig hole large enough to
set the can in, take away the bottom,
set the can, cut the strings. and the
can flies open, slip 1T up over the plant,
fill up with dirt, and your plant won't
know it has been disturbed. The old
way, We sometimes ruin the plants by
iarring the plants to loosen the dirt SO
that it will come out. With the cans
l have never lost any, nor even check
ed their growth in the least. / even
start p, ppy, larkspurs, &c, in them.
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NXYgen a Prison.

Oxygen, on the plentifulness ofwhich
in the air we breathe, the bounding
blood OF health is supposed to depend,
is as fatal as a dose of strychnine ii in
hailed in condensed form. Paul Bert,
a French ccientist, has demonstrated
this by some recent experiments with
birds and animals. Placing sparrows
under pressure of three and half
atmosphere, the birds were seized
with violent commissions. The same
results followed when sparrows Were
confined III common air, under pres
sure of seventeen atmospheres. In OK
ygen at a pressure of three and a half
atmospheres, or in air at twenty-five at
mospheres, the commissions were very
violent and soon fatal. In the latter
case the symptoms were as follows:
Commissions commence after four or
five minutes. The bird hobbies in
moving about, as though walking on
hot Goals. 1t then hutters its wings,
falls on It's back, anu spins about with
its claws doubled up. Death super
venes after few such spasms. In or
der to produce commissions in dog,
oxygen was found to require a pressure
I of three and a half atmospheres, and
a pressure of five atmospberes is fatal.
The amount of oxygen IN the arterial
blood of a dog, in commissions, was
found TO be considerably less than
twice the normal quantity. From these
facts. Nj. Bert draws the startling con
clusion that oxygen is the most fearful
poison known.
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nhIpI.nllding.

A London periodical, Moller's Trade
Cir,Atlar. states that the high prices
nov charged in England, owing to the
increased cost 81 coal and iron, for new
steamships, has given great impetus
TO their building IN Sweden, Denmark,
and the north OF Germany, where the
cost Of the material is much lower than
IN England. The same journal says
also IN America, where shipbuilding
had almost ceased a few years ago,
great progress rs now making OK.
tensive IRON aud coal fields having been
discovered m different parts OF the
country, have supplied the means OF
working ~ cbeaply as IN this country
Within barely eighteen months sin
gle shipbuider has actually launched
or put on the stocks iron steamers OF
the aggregate capacity OF $4,000 tons,
two al which were 1900 tons each.
Under these circumstances great com.
petition may be expected abroad in the
iron shipbuildlng, provided a reduc
ton in tue price of Jaw material doe
not enable the builders in this countr.
TO check the same, and maintain thei
+ former superiority"
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Duty.


BY JOHN A. D0RGAN,
The lady of the legend ulden,
Ia DRAGON f0lm Imprisoned,
With mann. colorcd scales bcdizencd,-
Violet, crimson, green, and golden,
Doomed her weary wlcrd to dreC
Lonely IN some desert fearful.
For the champion waiting fearful,
Who should give hcr kisses three,
Who should nerve hlmse { 20 death.
Who should dare her poisonous breath,
And from the foul enchantmcn set her lreei
Her name II duty -still she iiveth
Still in lonely plain she Waitrth
(Dreadfnl form, which each one hateth y
BIT sire woepeth and iorgiycth.
Only one can set her FREQ
VIII he sigh and PAYS her ooldly
Or viii he dare the venture boldly
Give the awful kisses three,
Find the 'uthly horror ied.--
Blushin" lovrllnCss instead,
And IN his heart delight and victory
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
saving and Restoring the Forests.

saving and Restoring the Forests.
Dr. Hough, in an earnest plea for
SAVING and restoring our forest lands,
argues that the State Government
should interfere, and presents these as
means by which they may do the work;
l. by Withholding from sale lands re-
turning to its possession from non
payment Of taxes. q BY exempting
from taxation for a limited period, and
by Offering bounties for lands planted
and lnclosed for the growth of forest
Trees 3. BY Offering reward for the
largest number OF trees planted in a
year. 4, BY requiring railroad aud
turnpike companies to plant the sides
OF their roads with trees. 5. BY i'm
posing tree tax, payable by planting
trees. 8. BY fixing penalties for the
destruction of trees by the wayside or
IN private grounds. z. BY requiring
the elements of forest culture to be
taught in our public schools
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Propasa,ing from Cuttings.

As the season for fall work among
the flowers is near at hand, | viii be-
gin with that. | have spent many
years in cultivation of plants, propa-
eating from seeds, layers, cuttings,
etc. The most satisfactory results
from cuttings were obtained from those
made from the fall prunings of shrubs,
roses, &c. This is done in November
| have a good sized dry goods box,
with the bottom taken out plant in
the ground to the depth of three feet ;
at the bottom throw in brickbats,
stones, &C., for drainage then a mix
ture of sand and good garden soil to
within eighteen inches OF top; in this
put your cuttings, quite close together,
the cuttings having one bud at the
lower extremity, aud one or two above.
The box is then covered with a glass,
and left without further care until
spring. II should, however stand
towards the south, so as to get all the
benefit of the sun. Many OF the cut
tings will be rooted by the middle OF
MAY. Rural No,O Yorker.