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How tO.ShOH Love for a Wife.

SHOW love for your wife and your ad-
miratiOn OF her, not in nonSensical COM
pliment; not in picking up her handker-
chief or her gloves or in carrying her fan /,
not, though You have means, in hanging
trinkets or baubles upon her; not in
making Yourself a fool by winking at
and seel ling pleased with her foibles or
follies or faults; but show them by acts
of real goodness toward her; prove by
unequivOcal deeds the high value YOU set
on her health and life and peace Of mind !;
let your praise Of her 90 to the full ex-
tent of her deserts, but let it be consist
ent with truth and with sense and such
as 10 couviAce her Of your sincerity.
He who is the fiatterer Of his wife only
prepares her ears for the hyperbolical
stuff Of others The kindest appeilation
that her Christian name affords is the
best that you can use, especially before
other people An everlasting " my dear
is but 9 sorTv compensation for the want
Of that sort Of love that makes the hus-
band cheerfully toll by dag, break his
rest BY night, endure al sorts Of hard
ships If the life or health OF his wife de-
mands II.
Let your deeds and not your words
carry 70 her heart q daily and hourly
confirmation OF The fact that sou value
her health and life and happiness beyond
all other LhinCs N this world and let
lis ba 2a-.tasc . ha-, particularly 81
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, 1874-12-19
4 Modern Spanish Bull-Fight-Re-
VOltiRg Scenes.

r After the procession Of the
performers across the ring to salute the
President and obtain his permission 70
begin, q trumpet sounded and the doors
Of the bulI-pen were opened in such u
way as 10 make passage to the arena.
4 few seconds breathiess suspense and
a bull came dashing through the opening
into the sunlight large, nagnificently-
built animal with long, sharp pointed
horns and massive shoulders The i'm
mense. noisy audience and the glare Of
light seemed to daze him for moment
and ne stood mOti0nless; then, catching
sight Of performer on fOot-a cilSo, 50
calIed-he turned and made for him
with head lowered, only TO find him dis
appeared Half way up the inner wall
OF the arena Is a ridge, and the nlrnbie
fellows only need to reach this wall to
have an easy scramble TO its safe side
There were more than a dozen ag-
gTessOrs in the ring with the bull, the
cb3Ll0s unarmed, save with red cloth,
and two picad0r5 on horseback with
lances, and having their garments heav-
Ily padded Never was anything 50 far
removed from the chi7alrUus knight OF
romance on MS noble steed as these
clumsy pt3ldors On their blindfoldec
hacks. We Lad been 70 sec tie horses
osfcze rhs o4-[C--2rIs began. e-1 -
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, 1874-12-19
What He Wanted.

They had live lord at the Westmin-
ster, New York, the other day, attended by
a fall bloOded English valet. The morn
ing after arrival John put in an appear
ance at the Office and accosted the clerk
who was ION duty with: Hawl | say,
young man, can 1 have fiyy'
With an imperturbable cOuntenanCe
the clerk blandly responded:
- Rather late in the season for flies,
sir; might scare YOU up Z COCkrOaCh or
few crOton bugs"
The Briton stared for moment At the
serious face of he hotel man and then,
with a gleam Of pity breaking over his
ruddy CountenaHce, said:
Il don't want anv bloody hinseCts,
you knaw-want-well,a brougham."
a broom? Yes, sir; chambermaid
will accommodate you. Better let her
do the sweeping, though
"Haw, yaas. | don't mean that kind
of a broom, but ODe-hOTse brOugham. z
Don't think there are any One-hOrse
brOoms in New York said his torment
or, blandly; but there" as the street
sweeping machine scraped by in Six
teenth street, there is a twO-hOTsc
broom"
Good gracious! ! don't want any
such blarsted machines as this; | want
a ODe-hOrse ve'icle, We knaw, something
to ride in, said John, desperately.
"Oh, yes" said the clerk, his face
lighting up as if he had just caught the
idea of the other Front, coupe for
1912 right agay"
Thanks" said the valet, his dis
turbed features settling in the calm eX-
preston of the trained English servant
again; that will do; you have such
blarsted bodd names for things in this
country that sometimes | don't know
whether / am on my ed or on my 'eelS; !"
and he marched of TO report to his mas
ter that he had "hengaged an Hamerican
EOpD nav"
, 1874-12-19
CanVaSsing for the Heathen.

\ >'>S about thirty year, old, wearing
a battered plug hat and scedy clothes,
I looking as hungry as man who had
| been wrecked on An iceberg. and cvi-
IDENTIFY an impoStor, softly entered "A
GraIiOt avenue saloon yesterday and
| leaning over the bar whispered e. the
proprietor.
My dear sir, I am canvaSsing for
subscriptions for the benefit os the
hcathen-'
Ish dat zos" replied the saloon keep
CT, rInsing Il glass.
Yes. my friend that Is 81, ," continued
the man, taking out q very greasy pass
book. Yes, | am collecting money for
the benefit Of the poor heathcu who are
living in a state Of vice and ignorance
Some put down ten dollarS-somc five
some one, all give sOmrthing- Here Is
the book and YOU can sUbsCTiba sla- aa
amount as you think best
" ISh IL a bctitiOn 20 dem common
souncil:' inquired the saiOuni,t, rs hc
looked at the book.
'' No. sir. You do not understand my
object. am collecting subscriptions Tor
the benefit Of the heather, and You can
write your name and give me such an
amount as your conscience Directs
We're iSh dem hcalhcnSs' inquired
the hcer-Scller, looking culdly ut the
strangers battered hat
In Africa" replied the agent, i'm
far0H Africa. where all is gloom and
loneliness because tie heather has Rucd-
ucation"
And vat COUNTY is dat Africa in" in
quircd the salooni~t.
Ny dear man, Africa Is 70 cuUDtrv-a
great big country. f1r o'cr the drrp blue
sea i II possible that you never heard
of African
Il haf lived in Toledo and Chicago.
but didn't hear some one ever say 20
word about Africa"
Well, that Is neither here nor there l
am authorized 10 collect subscriptions
for the heather. who is running about in
"a state of nakgdncSs and >iniUluc>S. and
who must have bread for his mind and
be brought 10 realize tha, he should live
Tor something besides this life
All, dat is 10 replied the Salooni-t
IN Il reflective lone
You contribute whatever sum you
may think best. and forward ir 60 Bos-
ton bv first mail. where il Is turned into
Bibles and the Bibles shipped to Africa
Most people esteem it privilege TO bral-
lowed 10 subscribe 10 this fund. VIII
you write your name down.
II links viii, replied the man, and
he hunted up his pencil, and after much
labor wrote his nanle on one Of thc pages
and handed the book back with thc re-
mark:
a. dunno if you can't read il
THAT is all right, but you have nee
lcctcd TO mark down the amount of your
contribution. Let's sce-will YOU say
dcIIar2"
"Vhat:"
"WH you give the sum of one dollar
for the he;,thens"
la, Vat YOU spoke aboul.'
10 me poor, 6Gnien,r, ~, ngsthgn .,it'iS
"Noney-gif You money
"YcS-for the heather"
"Gif You Won dollar"
Yes. IA dollar for the bcnightri race
who are dwelling in darkness"
The saloon keeper looked 1t him for
half minute, and then, reaching iovnlu
a club, said;
You'd better 20 out py dat door, !
sign dat pook TO get dat hcathcn some
close by de poomaster, ana dat rs hIrnty,
If YOU srhay here some little while more
| shall hit YOU nit dis Club on dc head
My dear "
"G0 aus nit dat door yelled the
running from behind the
bar and the cunvasser had to go--Dtr.'
Frec Press
, 1874-12-19
4 Curious Contest.

EARLY on Sunday morning gentleman
walked out, probably for the purpose ol
sailing his sheep. After il few vigorous
calls the flock collected around him and
clamored. as usual, for their allowance.
One old black ram, however seemed 10
have something on his mind, and stood
al0Of. The owner. seeking 10 CUnciliate
him, approached and laid his hand upon
his head This the ram resented wirii "a
furious charge. winch WAS repeated uutI!
the owner took to flight But he was too
far from the fence, and the enemy literal
" hung upon his rear with pcT-cycrInr
ObstinaCv \ change Of front vas re
solved upon and Immediately effected,
but still the battery was played with un-
diminished fcrvOT Soon Tie parties
CiinChcd. and afIcTI vigorous sCuti.c they
came 10 the ground The ram could noW
do nothing, but his fleece protected his
ribs from the furious blows OF his adVer-
sary. Both seemed now pretty nearly
exhausted. The man was On top, ANA,
seizing stone which lay near com
menccd pounding the head O. the sheep.
OF course the rock was soon reduced
to fragments; but the man, having
pedicnt Of throwing dust in The eyes Of
the recusaut ram, and iEcoutincntlyt filled
his optics with clay, rubbing II IN He
then rose to enjoy the success Of his Tuse-
but the ram riz" TOO, paused Il single
moment, applied d knee TO either eye,
and renewed the combat. And now The
fight was more desperate than before,
and victory seemed TO perch above the
sheep. Bat, as he put all his power into
one final blow, his almost taintiug 4ntag-
0nist succeeded in avoiding the shock
and catching the ram by the taIL And
now the tide Of victory turned \ sue
cession Of furious kicks, administered ~
DoNeTi0ri, decided the contest The ram
cried out foul play, but the adversary
fought for conquest At length The
tail hold slipped, and both parties fed
in opposite directions. They viii proha
bly, fight another day"-.Sta4joTd lhyJ
Tatgr51r Journal
, 1874-12-19

kept Us well lii with the strong light OF
/ their lanterns
But the men tore on. till at last the
| place was about cleared out and We had
I got 10 a mass of brick wall slopinl
/ against one side and a little wood work
on The other side, along with some rub
/ biSh
And now was the exciting time as we
went-fOur of US at the brick wall
| dragged at it and raised il, when some
women up above shrieked out and we
stood trembling, for il had crUmbled
down and lay all Of a heap where We had
raised it from.
Quick" | shouted, huSkily.
And we tore the bricks away till there
was hardly a scrap left and we stood
staring at one another.
Why, she amt here, arter aIlr' saws
policeman
I'm blest,n s2vs another.
But i couldn't speak. for | did not
know what to do; but stood staring about
as if | expected next to see the little
darling come running up again unhurt.
TRY there says the Sergeant.
Then he turned on his light into dark
corner, where the bits of wood lay, and |
darted across and threw back two or
three pieces, when gave a CRY, and fell
On my knees again. For there was no
mistake this time; | had uncovered lit
tie foot, and there was the little white
sock all blood-stained; and | felt a great
sob rise from nv breast as stopped down
and kissed the little red spot.
Steady" said the Sergeant, and then
quickly, as knelt there, they reached
over me, and lifted piece after piece
away, till there, in the gray light of the
morning, was looking upon the little
mOtiOnless figure, lying there with her
golden hair, as had fancied, dabbled in
blood from cut in her little white fore
head, where the blood had run, but now
lay hard and dry. Covered with blood
and scraps Of mortar, she lay stretched
out there, and | felt as if my heart would
break to see the little, peaceful face al
most with a smile upon it; while, as if
ont of respect to my feelings, the men all
drew back, till knelt there all alone
And now far up in the sky the warm
light of the rising sun ShOne, and II was
reflected down upon that tiny face, light
ing it up with almost heavenly beauty;
and as knclt there in The still silence of
that early morn | could hear again and
again half-stihed sob from those look
ing on.
With trembling hands | leaned for
ward and raised her head then, passing
one beneath her, | rose on my knee to
bear her out, when | stopped as ifturned
to stone, then let go, ard claSped both
my raw and bleeding hands TO my black
ened forehead, as, Shrieking out, " Nv
God, she's alive" I fell back inSensible:
for those little blue eyes had opened at
my touch, and voice, like the faintest
sigh OF the wind in summer, whispered
the one word,
"Father!"
That's her, sir. Fine girl she's crown,
amt she: But she was beautiful ~
child Hair ever so many shades lighter;
and unless ToI went close no. You
couldn't see the mara Of tir"o vs.v, srrvtlsIr
it was some time before the scar gave
over looking red
But really, y0u know, sir, there ought
to be something done about these bilcrS;
for the rate at which they're a-bustin's
, 1874-12-19
Sflfrfed c3HisreHanp.
+ LJFE-LETTER.

A#| - +fA- o
NJ Gaf.u-. darling mother,
] tl.uk ~ home tonight
7 -es Won sitting 81. alone
Beside rLe fry.igHr,
and spot f. lying ar EHTT 'rti
On fLs old i4uN--kln mai
While opposite. with blinking 'Ee-'
Purr- L41.:Aa- the cal
The clock is ticking o2 the shelf
The table -rI for lrs,
lGd Jack and Nell aye coming IA
You a.. Roe there hGr me
While /, with twenty u-EeT boss,
Al l1uE table -lr,
ALc such a Babel of q noise.
G1U can't imagine IT,
Thought to tell n -rUdie- hard,
OF Algebra and Gregk
BuI other thiHg- come UFperm0st,
OF winch Ia rather speak
q mother sweet / never dreamed
/ q miss your voice 30 H-LCn-
Il rou'd ru.g kiss vJu now.
Or feel the gentle touch
or your dear hand, We boys are rough,
And seldom care 10 show
TIE deeper currents Of the heart
Where loves white lilies grow
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, 1874-12-19

"A high-school pupil in a Cross-rown
car recited her geometry lesson TO fei-
ow- girl, recently, as follows. II the
angles al the base Of an isUsCeles trial-
gle are equal 70 the square OF the ny
pothcnuse Of a right-aDgIe cone, then the
rectangle Of the diameter Of q circle IS
equal to the square Of the-ah-to the
ah-is equal to the-ah-to the square
to the-ah-oh, bother, Gimme that
book, l wish pa I'D let me take dancing
lessons instead of these horrible squares
aud angles, and hypotheuuses-"-C't'5'g
JgurnNl.
, 1874-12-19

-"W What" exclaimed Mrs. Jones when
her son John asked permission to Join a
cInh|a Jl What. you become a club man!
~ - Iob1 ernpbaticaIly no; I've set up
- 80 ~ - nights :o- your father, and nOa,
- - - = :, 5s1----sn II L-T-Lz some
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11
Fight with a Cougar.

A letter from Fort Griffin, Texas,
gives the following account of little
episode in frontier life:
con the bank of the Clear Fork of
the Brazos river, John Selman and FAM
lily were sitting in their little cabin, en-
joying the comforts of a brilliant fire,
when their dog set up fierce barking.
Mr.. Hewitt, who lives with Mr.. Sell
man, walked out to see what was the
matter, and discovered large cougar.
Mr.. III. stepped back to get gun, leav-
ing the door open, intending to return
in a moment. But their morning visit
or did not choose to wait for his return,
and followed Immediately into the
house. The first introduction the in
truder gave himself was to leap upon q
little child, taking hold of it's neck with
his monster teeth, inhicting some very
serious wounds. Mrs. Selman, the
mother of the child, grabbed it and re-
leased it. The animal then made an
attempt to recapture the child from the
mother, and Mr.. Hewitt, who is gifted
with uncommon size and unusual
strength, knocked the monster down
and kicked it under the bed. Mr.. Sci.
man had got hold of a gun by that time.
| and, as the cougar came from under the
| bed, shot it, the ball entering the left
side of it's neck, ranging back and com
ing out through the abdomen. But
that only infuriated him more thar
ever. He then leaped upon the bed
tearing the bed and bedding. Ths
door had got closed during the fracas
and the wild animal having become
dissatisfied with his little prison, hk'
lion in cage, leaped from side tt
side of the room, upsetting the chairs
table, and other furniture, at the Same
time uttering the most terrific scream
imaginable. At last Mr.. Selman go
another gun, and shot it through
behind the shoulders. 1t then lumpet
at the fire, grabbed it's mouth full o
live Goals, and stood there and growle'
until Mr.. Selman opened the door, ant
Mr.. Hewitt took it by the tail AM
dragged it into the yard, where it died
It measured eleven feet nine inches Il
length"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11
Postmasters, Salaries.

L. D. Ingersou writes from Washing
ton to the New York Tribune There
are three classes of Postmasters by
Executive appointment. whose salaries
vary from 81 600 to Sc, 600 annually.
The total number of these in the States
and Territories is 1867. The amount
of the salaries in the different cases
varies in the most unaccountable and
fantastic manner. In some cases it is,
as I believe, too low, but in most alto
gether too high, SO that graduation of
pay, made on some principles OF COM
mon sense, business wisdom, and fair
play, would result in a handsome meas
ure of economy. AS an illustration of
the haphazard manner IN which these
salaries are arranged, let me give few
examples from my own State, Illinois.
The Postmaster at Chicago receives $4, :
600 year. In point of business trans
acted, this is the secoad Postoffice in the
United States. The population of the
city is about 45O, 900. As is well known,
it is the commercial center of the in
terror, with railroads going everywhere.
The Postmaster has to give bonds in an
immense sum of money. But the Post
master in Bloomington, a little city OF
&c. 600 people, also has a salary OF
1000. So does the Postmaster at
Aurora, which is mere suburb of Chi
cago, and has a population of only
about u, 900.
The following table illustrates the
grotesque unfairness of some of the
salaries
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11
All Sorts.

NEARLY 1 200 convicts in the Califor-
MIA State Prison.
THAT persons should remain seated in
church until the service Is over IS a
standing rule.
PENNSYLVANIA has 1000, 900, 600 feet
of hemlock timber, and 1900, 900, 600
feet of hard wood.
WHAT enormous legs fremen must
have, as we often hear of their using
hose fifty feet in length.
A GIRL baby was recently born in
Scott county, KY, having the features
of person so years old.
THERE have been one thousand suici-
des in Paris during the last six months.
Two-thirds of them we're of women.
THE new elevator of the Wabash
Company in Toledo, the largest in the
world, holds ], 200, 600 bushels of grain.
THERE is big gold bar on the coun-
ter of a Denver bank, weighing 1916
ounces, and valued, in coin, at
$52, ,694. 81.
SUNDAY contributions in the churches
have fallen off in amount since the issue
of ten-cent currency resembling in ap-
pearance the fifty-cent bills.
SoUAsHEs, three of them, weighing
1153, 1877, and 1891 pounds, respective
ly, have been raised this year by James
Arnold of Oimsted county, Minnesota.
As IF the Smiths were not sufficiently
numerous, four of them, all boys, have
put IN a simultaneous appearance in a
Terre Haute family. The lot weighed
thirty pounds.
A sHoRT-HoRN steer was butchered in
Detroit recently which weighed 4, 40
pounds alive, and yielded 5000 pounds
of dressed beef. This is believed to be
the largest animal ever slaughtered for
beef on this continent.
A FRENCH paper says that not one
American in a hundred has handsome
chin. This is due to the fact that SO
many of our fellow-citizens give nearly
all their time to the cultivation of
cheek.
TIE Jardin d'Acclimatation, Paris,
has just received two running oxen from
the Island of Ceylon. They are of di-
minutive size, not larger than very
small donkey, but are of great utility in
that country. The mail service is per-
formed by them. They are active, and
bear great fatigue, and can travel q very
considerable distance at a regular,
rapid pace.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11
Migratory Fishes.

It was formerly supposed that certain
fish, as the herring, the shad and the
alewives, with others of like habits,
prosecuted an extensive migration along
the shores of the ocean, covering some
times thousands of miles in the sweep
of their travels; and much eloquent
writing has been expended by such au-
thors as Pennant and others in defining
the starting point and terminus, as well
as the intermediate stages of the voy-
age. The shad, too, which, as is well
known, occupies all the rivers of the
Atlantic coast from Florida to the Gulf
of st. Lawrence, was thought to begin
its course in the West Indies, and in an
immense body, which, going northward,
sent detachment to occupy each fresh
water stream as it was reached, the last
remnant of the band finally passing up
the st. Lawrence, and there closing the
course. We now, however, have much
reason to think that, in the case OF the
herring, tie shad, the alewife and the
salmon, the journey is simply from the
meuths of the rivers by the nearest deep
gully or through. to the outer sea. and
that the appearance of the fish IN the
mouths of the rivers along the coast at
successive intervals, from early spring
in the South to midsummer IN the
North, is simply due to their taking up
their line of march atsuccess1ve epochs,
from the open sea to the river they had
left during previous season, induced
by the stimulus of the definite tempera-
ture, which, of course, would De success
sively attained at later and later dates,
as the distance northward increased.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11
Population
Dry, indeed!

An honest old farmer from the coun-
try gave his recollections of the hot
spell as follows t' It was so dry we
couldn't spare water to put in our
whisky. The grass was so dry that
every time the wind blew it few around
like SO much ashes. There wasn't
tear shed at funeral for month. The
sun dried up all the cattle, and burned
off the hair till they looked like Mexi-
can dogs, and the sheep all looked like
poodle puppies, they shrank up so.
We had to soak our hogs to make 'em
hold swill, and if any cattle were killed
in the morning they'd be dried beef at
dark. The woods dried up SO that the
farmers chopped seasoned timber all
through August, and there amt a match
through all the country-in fact, no
wedding since the widow Glenn mar
ried old Baker three months ago. What
few grasshoppers are left are the skin
and legs, and didn't hear the teakettle
sing for six weeks. We eat our potatoes
baked, they being all ready, and we
couldn't spare water to boil 'em. All
the red-headed girls were afraid to stir
out of the house in daylight. Why, we
had to haul water all summer to keep
the ferry running, and-say, it's getting
dry let's take suthin'. "-Eachange.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11
A. t. Stewards Great Mistake.

It is now understood that Alex. T.
Stewart has altogether relinquished the
idea of devoting the great iron building
in Fourth avenue, begun several years
ago, and long under roof, to its original
purpose of a working women's home.
He is said to have discovered the plan
to be impracticable, fer working-women
would not enter it under such restric-
tions as are necessary. He tried to in
duce the women in his retail establish
ment to agree to go there, when the
building should be completed, and they
fatty refused. He is reported to feel
bitterly disappointed at the result, be-
cause the homew was benevolent scheme
he had long cherished. The building,
with the real estate, has cost him half a
million dollars. Nothing has been
done on it for months, the cause being
mysterious, since everybody knows
Stewart has abundance of money to 90
on with the work, if so inclined. He is
now at loss what use to put the
structure to. He thinks of finishing it
and renting it as hotel, but the loca-
tion is not favorable. The stories are
unfounded that he had abandoned the
undertaking for the reason that it
would not pay him as well as he had
thought. His intention was to charge
only nominal price TO the women
just enough to preserve their feeling OF
independence. AS the home was the
only benevolent scheme MIR. Stewart has
ever embarked in, its failure is consid
cred particularly unfortunate.-Neat
York ZeLegr0n1.