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The New York herald., 1873-12-20
CLOSING PROCESS O'CLOCK P. M.
COMl6ERCIAL REPORT.

Cotton Lower - Flour Dull - Wheat
Lower-Corn Steady-Oats Firmer-
Pork Easy-Lard Firmcr-Groceries
Quiet, but Firm-Petroicum Quiet and
Easy-Naval stores Dull-Freights
Steady-East India Goods Quiet-Nletals
Quiet-Wool Firm-Whiskey Easy.
FRIDAY, Dec. 1876 M.
Business was moderate to-day in nearly every
department OF trade. The weather was unfavor-
able and tended to check the movement OF mer-
chandIse from point to point, that commercial
transactions were comparatively light. on 'Change
the depression OF the gold premium, combined with
uniavorabe advices per cable, checked the de-
mand for wheat and prices were lower. Corn and
oats were frmer. Whskey was easier. Pork was
easy Lard hrmcr but closed quiet were
generally quiet but firm for all descriptions particularly
coffee. Petroleum quiet and easy. Naval stores
duh and values to extent nominal Cotton
quiet and lower both for spot and future Wool
active, but remained nrm
AsHES-Rcceipts for the past three days 20 packages
market quiet Small lots pots sold at &c.
BUILDING MArKRrArs-The demand for brick continued
light being made only to sIpp pmsda's
y s per H. Jersey, 50 Ss 81 up river 81 8 ss
Ssr Say % oTS0n a r9ns Srown 81
SIS $50 s.: Bslsmorss $50 SIS Lots dsiisered
SsFs y s agsSs'ed up 1vsr sversrsy% ssFsy
sn I'd ss Ss sES~n s
S37 So Lime remained quiet and steady. sales Rock
::; ssEs
in hight request and quoted steady at 81 90 So lor
Ss SSsss
S,s sds New zsa
&c hs % ws
s;ssrs, ssc psrine, sse sc adsmaniine, isc
hands, but in dis,rbutlns Way trade was lair at ai
ns ao Ordinary
prime do se g. s Sc ssifsms @ s0na ssnss aS os
sss. sSs per ID % and ss % days credit
4 I,ssssy5s. s $a;;s S,i: s:
ass hasa so ID credit
FUTURE re 'ssi e. Sc With
only moderate tSaa Assss n orleans rua
4; EI;:; ::!.:.; & E.
4SS sSsiasn: 5s.:a "a in ;,. running IN
Quality No. more than halt grade above or below the
- '''~ Today Last Esensns. Toto:
Rs5sIi;i;.::::.:.:. S$ % y
4: t..
@ s Is sssnns ss rs i 3 @
l6 6c 800 at 16 ls2c 200 at loci April 100 at l6 1l6c.
Toa! sp I bales So Today up 70 three MIDecembeS,
sIsS.c 200 ii$sc iStc 100 al isssc 90
at 7Sc 200 is isslc., at Is 7Sc 200 az lS2c
February 500 az 10 $50 At l6c 2 at I5 32c 1
: sIsss, isS At { IS ,siss S o. a. Is SIZE
100 st is iies;, 100 at y gesSc,, 800 at iS;.s,i
at iS 5i6c loo al ie 200 AZ Is Side ioo al is Sc
2ooat l6 es2c 100 at Is 5l6c 400 al 10 9s2c., 800 at
s LIE ISs sEr Is 9 s g s & az oS Il s Toss 10 1905 q
bales Grand total io,Soo bales The receips at the
bales; New Orleans l1,2i4; Mobile. 47ls; savannah
72lu Charleston, 1896, Wilmington, 37S Norfolk 2483
baltimore, 67i New York l. iSO Boston, 1893; Phlla.
ddephis SO Total, lo7S bales. This day last week.
FLouR GaAIS-Rccep pts-Flonr, Is 800 bbls wheat
l0a 6f5 bushels; corn, $500 do meal 2,I05 bnls
0ats, M,4I3 bushels barley LQN do, TUG n0ur market
The New York herald., 1873-12-20
$4,000 Tenn 6's, old.

4OlO Tenn 6's, DID,.
iC0O Tenn 6's, new. =.
lUGU0 Missouri Us. -.
Too Tn L RR LIST m...
1000 Un Pac los, inc.
1000 Pac X rs, gtd Mo.
1000 G, p 4 A, old. b c
10000 TOl 4 w con c. =.
MOO N j Cen lst m. n.
1000 st L 4 l NJ I'd. =.
1000 do. :.
1000 G, g AIC I'd. -.
4U00 MAS r LIST, La CD
1000 @, q, G 4 l lst..
5000 Cen Pac gid BIDS.
5000 do.
900 West Tn Tel 7's..
80 shs Fourth Nat Blk
rs Ninth Nat Bank. be
100 Con Coal. b c
The New York herald., 1873-12-20
DOMESTIC MARKETS.

Cotton cuIl and dropping; demand limited; good or
dnary 4isc ordinary I2Ac Net receipts, $40 bales.
Exports-To GREAT Britain, LOO coastwise 2l6 sales,
The New York herald., 1873-12-20

At Philadelphia to-day stocks were steady, Penn
sylvania skies, 109K; Philadelphia and Erie Rail-
road, 2l; Reading Railroad, 5511; Pennsylvania
Railroad, ASK. Gold, 11lh.
MEMORANDA.
The International and Great Northern Railroad
Company advertises to pay the gold interest due
on its January indebtedness, on and after that
date. 1t is understood the through connection to
st. Louis is set down for that time for completion
Estimated earnings OF the Denver and Rio
Grande Railway marrow gauge,, for the first week
no. 4 RI y
The New York herald., 1873-12-20

The quotations based cotton In running In
quality not than halt grade above below the
i grade quoted. The rates were:-
/ To-day Last Eveeiag. Total
The New York herald., 1873-12-20

HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES.
The following table shows the opening, highest
and lowest prices OF the daY.-
The New York herald., 1873-12-20
NEW YORK HERALD SATURDAY DECEMBER 20 SUPPLEMENT-

was aI and heavy and lower tg s 70 any extent The
safes since iast REPORT foot $500 bbls including all
xmas =, prices within the range of the subioned quota
mpns s OoIh meal continued in good demand and firm
me safes Ioot up LOO bb at 81 90 tor Brandywine and
y for Western and J sacks OF coarse Jersey At 81
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-15

The New York Tribune puts the case
against the u S. Senate strongly, whilst
referring to the confirmation of Shepherd
as governor of the District of Columbia, as
follows:
TT was the senate that undertook to de-
grade Charles Sumner and honor Simon
Cameron that refused to confirm +. Rock
wood Hnar and finds noobiection to George
II. Williams; that let one Patterson go out
with Credit Mobilier profits in his pocket
and shameful record at his back, and
another Patterson come in with proofs in-
disputable that he bought his seat; that
let Pomeroy go off after an open attempt at
bribery, without so much as censure !;
that never so much as rebuked Harlan for
taking a $1,000 bride from a
great corporation; that rarely
gives heed enough to evidence
against its party TO investigate, and never
investigates but to whitewash-it was this
senate, under its illustrious leaders, Conk-
ling, Carpenter, Chandler and Cameron
which yesterday lin caucusl agreed unani
mously upon Matt Carpenter as its fttesi
presiding officer.
And it is party of moral ideas thai
rules it. A party that through all its or
gans throughout the country has jeeret
the nomination of Fernando Wood fol
speaker because he took the back pay. A
clean party selecting Matt Carpenter fol
the third place in the nationl An hones
party protesting that it opposes the salary
grab, and giving the chief defender of tn,
grab its unanimous support
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-15

No. 277 & s79 5. Clark ST., Cor. Van Buren,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ILLS
II T. well known ny all readers of this paper that
tm. &. Biseow is the oldest Established phy sciai,
Chic go who has made he treatment of all chronic
and sexuti dlseest specially Science aud expei-
it.s Ct b We made Dr. IS the most renowned ~PE-
Ci Al lNi OF III age, hOuUrcd by the press esteemed
{ the highest medical attalnHentS by all The med-
al institute of the day. hrying devoted TWENTY
YEARS OF Hts LIFE in perect' z rem. dies that
w1tl cure positively the Cases CT CHR MIC
AMI PRiFATt DISEASES # the uENlr,' URi-
NARY ORG Ms in b IN sexes, Seminal Weaknrs-.
producing Nervousness, Aver ion 10 Socie Y, I'M
pared vision. Loss of Memory and MANN cd, pei
fecIIy cured. Ii i evident hat one who 'nfines
himseH 10 the study t'f cetISsn discas treating
thousands OF Eases every year must have create T
skill than physician IN general practice Read
his MEDICAL TREATISE tor ladies and gentfeman.
zen FIRE any add eS- in seated envelope ,ionsuf-
alion free The finest rooms in the city with sep
irale par os Tor ladies and Gentlemen. Cail; yo'4
see nifty The doctor, correspondence c,,irfdeniia
aid ess ali letters 10 sR G BIGnLaW, No ~
Clark ST Office hours from "a NJ to Pm; sun
days p NJ. to
PessdgSe ReMedet, The best prevention Of conception
known Sent I" any addres enclose STAMP,
The following testimonial as TO the skin and sue
cess of Dr. c. Bigelow was published in this city
Re FOR rAE AFFLIcTED-D Diseases of a pc
cnliar natary relhire more than Ordinary care and
attenti by skillful anu well educated ply sician
There art sre&t numb oi rctyhatre TO thyslca
cirnce, who gull tue unwlry. who issue long d
V, rtiseme'ts. and bring pre- Unded testimonials
from all pa is of the world as to thei wonde fu
K owl> age, INT who, ~hen IL ted by p rson o
Ordinary good common sense, are found TO be un
c.luanted with al no the first riiicsples of medi
scien e, and ign ant of the very .ames of ce,
| TAI parts II the hum IL system, xperimenteC
nd expressed b. the me ical world. such mel
| ahound in Chicago and who take car 10 refer tc
distant places Ior medical C ardcter, instead o
ere, where the cheat could be detected
DR.. Bielow is n lis ass He is re MIA
b ed physi an. His rep tation IS hee kno n her,
n ON. a. M q
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-15
DR.. C. BIGELOW,
Confidential Physician,

No. 277 & a7s 5. CLARK ST., Cor, Van Barren,
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-15

In Iowa the Democratic party is aband-
oned as an active organization. The Anti
Monopolists, composed OF the honest men
from both parties, have the field, and in
stead Of demanding a simple repeal of the
late salary-steal, they will demand that thu
salary of Congressman be reduced to at
ante bellum basis, namely $4,000, and thi,
will be made the issue of tie next campaign
Since produce has come to that basis anc
in fact almost every thing else it is MOI
more than just that Congressman SHOULD
come to it also. The President will be in
Guided as we'll, and the Reform thus com
pleted. -DeS MOines Leader.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-15
VHB MEDICAL Womb

AN INFALLIBLE SPECIFIC ron DISEASES ol
n the LlVEN, BLOOD, KIDNEYS and bOMEl's
and great corrective OF all female arrangements. J
contains no alcoholic spirits, and If the eegetdoi
Eubsfilufe for catOntei
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-15

will extend to all the States in the Union,
the avenging power of an outraged and,in-
suited public. No amount ofequiyocation
or chop-logic will meet the demands Of the
situation. An unconditional repeal of the
act, the repeal applying to all salaries from
the date of the increase, will alone meet
the popular demand, and, to make that de-
mand punishment for the past and warn
ing for the future, the people propose &c
take the election of the next Congress intc
their own hands. -Chicdgo Tribune.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-15
MEDICAL.
CONSUMPTION, SCROFULA,

0sMuNS COD LIVER OIL AND LACTo
" Phosphate OF L me cures Con umn ion Scroiu-
a, Coughs and Colds, Asthma, Hoarseness. Bron-
chit &c. In Pm monary Consumption. this prep
combination Of remedies, ever employed In the
various scrof lous disc SEES such a. external CLAN
dular scrofula dis asses of the joints and spine ca
rioa- ulcers, riekets &c, the result has been mo-
gratifying. Id by druggists at 81; q bottles Il
CHARLES A. OSMUN, Chemist and Druggist
10, 7th avenue, New York
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-15
CLIMAX! CLIMAX!

P;-e's ca max Salve, Family
D-essing for % cents.
1t heals without a scar. No
family should be without it.
We warrant it tOcure Screfula
Sores, Salt Rheum, Chilblains,
Sore Breasts or Nipples, Burns,
Scalds, Cuts, and Sprains.
1t has been used over twenty
years, without one failure.
1t has no parallel-haying per-
fectly eradicated disease, and
healed after all other remedies
had failed. 1t is a compound OF
Arnica, with many other Elk.
tracts and Balsams, and put up
III larger boxes for the same
price than any other Ointment,
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-15
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A NovELEY JOB PRINTING PRESS
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MOFFAT's LIFE Pulls
PHOENIX BITTERS.

The most Successful Medicines
in the world.
Established in 1885, by one of
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and now used throughout North
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Liver, Blood, or Skin, Indiges-
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plants, Rheumatism, and Fever
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Thousands of certificates are
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They regulate the System, and
put all the functions of the body
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eT Sold by Druggists everywhere.
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-15
Read This:

A COMPLIMENTARY TESTIMONIAL TO
N ESSHS. j. Il &. MANURE. ST Louis, Mo. Gen
tlemen:-The undersigned having known you Tor
many years as reliable chemists aud Pharmachutsts
and observing the effective action "i your remedies
tor whatever recommended. wish 10 bear voluntary
evidence the efficacy of you rs and IN orr npin-
ION best prepArs,Iun, IA Act RES rUNDEiiAN-
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alteratrye pur.ative depuratur and diuretir BE-; IN
specially upon the DIVER, blood, kidneys ant h9wrls
JOSEPH BROWN, Mayor. who adds i have
found this the pleasant and eleciye medicine
have ever used.
MILES SELLS, Staic insurance HOm.cis.i"nei,
who adis: II endorse the MAJORS np Mon
TIIUS RICHEspS, SHsiEFEiN%.
Pres White Lead & Ill oi .edia 8 itand Powder
Co 60.
d. NJ HOUSE g. As d. GJNTER,
Prop. 81 Louis Globe "a ian Dem Cen Com.
W. Il, WAGNER. q, g. FUHGESON,
Clerk Probate Court jerks" OF Mo Dem.
BRITAIN A.lllaI., ltENHY q. MJpD
Attorney az Law. LateCity 4 tuuaty ASS
: BLOOD, FLANK VALE,
Late prest Btpi ms. SAVINGS Gls. Nourt Criminal
S6i MAN j. CuIaAN, = NJ. CHAMBERS.
ub t:uraI Home Tres But X Drov Bank
j. HA frNETT. EsGttEENNpup,
Late CITY Collector rs l. ~ Z, A
rios WALSH Z A. SHY pUk.
Architect OF ShryUck " Co
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orMuudy NJ ichael & Co. Orday. iIarnenkanp & "
THERON BARNUM. JAMES AHCHER,
of Barnum's Hotel enver, Col
And many others too numerous TO mention.
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sole froprietors,
Price 7sc par bottle III L"u's Mo.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-15

II - Hnieat Tor boys ur girls, it IL ent ely
without rival. Most youths, aside from their
tudi,s perfectly capable Of doing all the job
printing in tn ir father business.
Branch Office. 543 Bro dway and 80 NJ 'rcer SIS.
y 70 K. Kelly Howell s. Lupwig, 927 Market
street, Philadelphia. 10-17 dtf
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-11
The Home Clip.
From the Danbury News.I


You can always tell a boy whose
mother cuts his hair. Not because the
edges of it look as if they had been
chewed off by an absent-minded horse,
but you tell it by the way he steps on
the street, and wriggles his shoulders.
When, a fond mother has to cut her
boys hair, she is careful to guard
against any annoyance and muss by lay
ing sheet on the carpet. 1t has never
vet occurred to her to sit him over
bare floor, and put the sheet around his
neck. Then she draws the front hair
over his eyes and leaves it there while
she cuts that which is at the back. The
hair which lies over his eyes appears to
be surcharged with electric needles,
and that which is silently dropping
down nnder his shirt-band appears to
be on FIRE. She has uncOnciOusly con-
tinued to push his head forward until
his nose presses his breast, and is too
busily engaged to notice the sufing
sound that is becoming alarmingly fre-
uuent. In the meantime he is sIezed
with an irresistible desire to blow his
nose, but recolIects that his handker-
chief is in the other room. Then a fly
lights on his nose, and does it so unex-
Dectedly that he involUntarialy lodges,
and catches the point of the shears in
his left ear. At this he commences to
cry and wishes he was a man. But his
mother doesn't notice him. She merely
hits him on the other ear, to inspire
him with confidence, and goes on with
the work When she is through, she
holds his jacket collar back from his
neck, and with her mouth blows the
short bits of hair from the top of his
head down his back. He calls her at
tention to this fact, but she looks for a
new place on his head and hits him
there, and asks him why he didn't use
his handkerchief. Then he takes his
awfully disfgured head to the mirror
and looks at it. and, young as he is,
! shudders as he thinks of what the boys
on the street viii say.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-11

on the land while it was covered by said
homestead, were trespassers, and the home
stead claimant is the preferred party under
the pre-emption laws.
o The commissioner of the public land ef-
fee has decided that, while the provisions of
the first section of the timber culture act of
March 8, 1873, do not in terms limit quail
fed person in the number of entries he may
make Hereunder, yet the policy of the gov
ernment, as expressed in the public land laws
generally, is so opposed to a speculative mo-
nopoly of the public domain that, under the
authority vested in him by the said section of
the said act, hehas ruled that an individual
shall be allowed to make but one entry.
Gen. o. o. Howard had the handling of
some 800, 900, COO of the Freedmen's Bureau,
and, as security for honest dealing, he was
required by law to file bond for $50, 900. His
associate sub-commissioners were held IN
bonds of 500, 900 each. The unpleasant fact
is reported from Washington that mono of
these bonds can be found on record They are
not in the first comptroller's Office, where they
should be ; they have been looked for in the
war department, where they ought not to be,
and are not there The question is did Gen.
Howard ignore the law and neglect to file the
bonds, or were they fled, and then quietly
stolen back? The probabilities are that,
whatever may be done by the department of
justice, the secretary of war will order a court
of inquiry, or d court-marti4l in Howard's
case.
The treasury disbursements for June, ex-
elusive of interest and principal of the public
debt, amounted So S13, 79O, O0O Appropria-
tions by congress now being available, the dis
bursements for July viii be greater.
1t is ascertained that for the present fis-
cal year, the salaries of senators, representa-
tives and delegates would amount to SO, ,020, 900
against 81, 100000 during the past year; and
the treasury will have disbursed $2,028, $50 in
salaries to congressman before ever the ses-
sion begins, next December. The new pay,
S625 per month, is gent to members every
month, and none of it has been eturned as
vet
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-11

The lovely daughter of the rich and ell
egant Mrs. Eth eloped with her teach
er." Poor Thuse would do high TRACE
dy, wiring her hands, and talk of the
disgrace to their noble house of Ellis
worth. 1 should think her delicate
shoulders would ache from carrying
our noble house SO long. Now, don't
You breathe a word about it, and I will
stand by you if you run away with a
shoe-black.
Married at fourteen! Just think I
shall beat Thuse out and out. Then,
too, something might happen to Mon
sieur Fontaine. OF course, I wouldn't
have anything happen to him for the
world; but then something might, you
mow-the railroads are always smash
ing up and if there should, why then
Iwould be a young an interesting wild
ow; and black Grape with my fair
complexion would be so sweet,
and o Allie, do you think that
I am too young to wear a widows cap {?
What blow that cap would be to Ar
thusa! She would rather receive a
whole paper of needles in her side, that
is, gold headed ones, not your common
steel things. Now, Allie Wyndham, if
you tell you'll be just as mean as you
can be. CELIA ELLSWORTH Cfor a little
yhiIeO
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-11
News of the Week.
EAST


"A Washington special says a second expe-
dition to the arctic regions promises to prove
perhaps as signal a failure the FIRST and
from some cause the Juniata Commander
Braine, is hardly under way, when Commander
Greer, who is to have charge of the Tigress,
writes to Commodore Ammen, Il viii be in
Annapolis Thursday, and hope you will have
instructions there for me to the effect that
when I fall in with Braine he shall not, with
out my consent, interfere with the persOnel
of my vessel. care nothing for newspaper
articles, but thus far the public mind seems
to center on Braine, entirely emitting the Ii
gress and its officers. Now 1 don't care to
have other men steal my thunder. If find
the Polaris before Braine comes home, I wish
to have full charge of her, and power to de-
tail such officers as 1 deem fit to assist in
bringing her home. hope under Provi-
dence, to have a safe and prosperous voyage.
"A sharp thief presented a forged order on
Gov. Henry d. Cooke, to the Bank Note
Engraving Company, at Washington, for all
certificates of indebtedness Of the District of
Columbia which were finished. Under this
order about $4,000 in certificates were de-
livered, and thus far no trace Of the thief has
been discovered.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-11
oourtship and Marriage.


There was much more than a mere
witticism q the remark of the old
bachelor who paid attentions to a mai
den lady for twenty years, visiting her
regularly every night, when rallied for
not marrying eff I were married I
should have nobody to court, and no
place to go at night" He had deeply
felt the contrast between his own deli
cate and ethereal enjoyments, and the
hard, discontented, fretted life of too
many married people; and his answer
was irony. He saw there was some
thing in courtship which too often ex-
pires after marriage, leaving a cold,
dull, monotonous burden where all was
beauty and buoyancy before.
Let us see what that something is :
In courtship nothing is taken for gran
ted. Both parties are put on their good
behavior. Love keeps itself fresh and
active by constant expression in word
and act. But strange to say, courting
usually ends with marriage. Very soon
both parties yield to the sense of pos
session, and the feeling of security robs
gallantry of motive and extracts the
poetry from the mind. The beautiful
attentions which were so pleasing be-
fore marriage, are too often forgotten
afterwards the gifts cease, or only come
with the asking the music dies out of
the voice, everything is taken for gran
ted, and the love that, like the silver
jet of the fountain, leaped to heaven,
denied it's natural outlet, ceases to flow
altogether. Then comes dull, heavy,
hard days, with two unhappily tied to-
gether and wishing themselves apart
not always content with merely wish
ing.
This is unnatural and wrong. What
marriage wants to give it new tone and
sweetness, is more of the manner as
well as the spirit of the courtship
which come from the constant attention
of the parties to each other. Their
affection voices itself in all possible
ways, every sentence is edged with
compliment and spoken in tender tones.
Every look is a confession. Every act
is a word IN the exhaustless vocabulary
of love. Kiss and caress are paren-
thetic clauses and gestures in the dia-
Iect of love; gifts and sacrifices are the
most empathetic expressions of the
spirit no language can fully articulate
and no devotion can declare. And it is
the fact that affection confesses itself
continually in look and word and act,
making the voice musical and the fin
gers poetic in their touch and doing,
that makes experience so beautiful, the
only Eden many woman ever has on
earth.
Love must have expression or it will
die. It can be kept forever beautiful
and blessed, as at the first, by giving it
constant utterance in word and act.
The more it is allowed to flow out in
delicate attention and noble service,
the stronger and more satisfying, and
more blessed it will be. The house be-
comes home only when love drops its
heavenly mamma IN it every day, and
the true marriage vow is made not
once for all at the altar, but by loving
words, and hopeful service, and delicate
attentions to the end.