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The Cheek Rein.

An interesting paper on this subject
was presented by Mr.. d. w. Fairchild
to the Society for Prevention of Cru
city, at its last meeting. The atten-
tion of hack drivers was especially
called to the distress occasioned by
the gag or check rein-in preventing
the natural and necessary action Of
the head in driving off the flies which
attack the delicate and tender portions
of the neck and breast. Many per-
sons do not seem to be conscious of
the fact that fine horse Is very deli.
cately clad in silk, and that he is sens
tive to the point of hair, and that
his organs of hearing are so acute that
he knows when there is a fly in his
vicinity, even before it touches his
glossy coat. When he has lost this
interest in his own happiness he has
learned q very bitter lesson from his
thoughtless master.-Cincinnati Com
mercial.
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That Important Word, .If.''

How we swing and hang the balance
on the word "Ifr If we were rich
instead of poor, into what manifold
blessings should our gold resolve
itselfl How those dear to us, deserv-
ing yet never possessing aught of this
worlds luxuries, should revel in the
pleasures and comforts, small and
great, that gold can buy! If the de
mon anger had not burst his bonds
one day, the hasty words would have
remained unspokeD, and we should
still possess that which cannot be re-
gained-a friendship lost. If we had
but waited one little day, ere pennine
the letter whose every word was bit
terness-the letter which reached its
destination but too safely, bearing on
its white wings wounds sharper than
steel can give-what wild self-re-
proaches and what bitter tears of re-
gret would have been saved US! We
are tired of this old home, beneath
the shadow of whose roof-tree We have
dweit for SO many years. If We could
only go out into the great, busy, bust
ling world. see what others have seen :,
and do what others have donei If
We might only hope to win name and
fame! There are mountains, we know,
so lofty and magnificent that these
puny hills stretching around us would
sink into mere footstools beside them.
If we could but journey toward them
now, after patient toiling reach them,
rest in shadow of their base awhile,
and afterward ascend until we gained
the dazzling summit! IF there were
only more sun. and less of cloud, on
our pathwayi 1t is too sultry. fit
would only rain! It is too cold. II
the sun would shine brighter! If we
could only be content with what We
are! If flowers bloomed, and mother
earth wore her robe of green all the
year round-if VIC could always be in
good temper-if people never criti-
cised or found fault with other people
If no sharp words were uttcred--if
friends never turned to ioes-if We
were all as good and kind and loving
as it lies in our power to be-what u
sunny paradise We might make of our
Morldi
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How to become Happy.

Many young persons are ever think
ing over new ways of adding to their
pleasures They always look for more
fun more joy. Once there was a
wealthy and powerful king, full of
a man famed for his wisdom and piet;,,
and found him in cave on the bord-
ers of the wilderness Holy man..
said the king. Il came to learn how
to be happy" Without making a re.
ply, the wise man led the king over l.
rough path. till he brought him in
front uf high rock, on the top Of
which an eagle had built her nest
Why has the eagle built her mes.
yonder?'' Doubtless" answered tho
king, that it may be out of danger"
Then initiate the bird" said the wise
man, '.briid thy home in heaven, and
thou shalt then have peace and hap.
pincss."
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-07-28

A story is told of girl in DaDbury,
Ohio. who has discovered an unique
way of extracting teeth. She suffered
nearly q whole week with an aching
tooth, but had not the courage to 20
to dentist One afternoon it troub-
led her go much as to force her to
look for a remedy. and she finally hit
upon a plan With a piece of stout
twine she made loop, which she put
about her tooth. Then she took
bit of soap and rubbed it on the floor.
opposite the back door. The other
end of the twine she fastened to the
knob of the closed door. Then che
took position on the soaped boards,
and commenced to lean back. When
che had acquired slofe of about
forty i've degrees the soap suddenly
took hold. and she came down on the
floor with such force as to knock a
pair Of ten-dollar vases from a mantel
up stairs. And there she sat, reaching
out for breath, when the affrighted
family made their appearance, while
the offending tooth dangled from a
string against the door.
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The Patterson On. J.) Press says:
ing checks, &C., 10 the amount of f1O,-
tional Bank at the Paterson post
Office to the Importers and Traders
National Bank of New York, the New
New York bank failed to receive the
anxiety about it on the part of the Of
6cers of the First National Bank.
Search was made in the Paterson and
both the banks, the search extending
package could be found. Now strong
ap,reRensions Of a mail robbery were
entertained, and the Government Off
cials were impressed with the idea.
The First National Bank meanwhile
proceeded to make the best arrange
ment it could for avoiding loss. An
extensive correspondence-th pack
age containing thirty accounts of sun
dry parties-was necessary, and in
demnity bonds had to be prepared
and given by the bank to all these
parties. Finally all was provided for
except about 500 of pension checks
oe the United States Government, it
taking much longer to arrange that
matter-through the dilatory process
es of the circumlocuiion ofice-than
it did the private ones. On July g.
exactly six months to a day from the
time the letter was lost-the clerks in
the post Office in this city had occa-
sion to poke under their stamping
table for something that had dropped
on the floor, and there snugly lying in
small crack between the bottom of
the table and the floor was the miss
ing letter. with its $40, 900 intact It
was the only letter ever lost at this
Office. AMI it is little remarkable that
it should have been SO valuable one,
and should have caused such extraor-
dinarJ trouble and anxiety"
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A party Of young miners near
White Pine, away out West, played a
rather severe joke upon a green hand,
one Perley, and had afterward occa-
zion to regret their fun. Perley and
the rest went to a dance, and the boys,
feeling rather we'll, concluded to duck
Perley in a running brook When he
came out he was shivering like 4 cat
pulled from a we'll. Perley said little,
but thought great deal, and waited.
The dance over. the party camped out
for the night, and then Perley rose
for revenge. He took the cook into
his confidence, paying him for his as
sistance, and then did some more
waiting. Much whisky had made the
miners drowsy, and they were soon
all lying on the ground, sleeping
sOundly. Then Perley and the cook
went out into the darkness. The for
mer had matured his plan for ven-
geance. The design was to SO turn
the mountain tore from its natural
channel that it would whelm the
sleepers below. 1t was no light task
they had undertaken, but one was
laboriDg for money and the other for
revenge. 1t was nearly morning when
the dam was completed aud all ready
to let the water into the new channel.
The final blows were given. and the
chafing stream escaped into the chan
mel a roaring torrent. 1t ragged down
upon the sleepers in the tent and
went over them as the waters did over
Pharaoh and his hosts. Tents, pro-
visions and tools went. and the miners,
half drowned, escaped TO land with
difficulty. When daylight came Per-
ley and the cook were gone, and a
band of wet miners sat upon the bank,
very melancholy and full of sorrow.
Perlcy was more than even with
them.
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OF all the persons prominent in the
drama recently enacted in Brooklyn
none come out of the fiery trial SO
thoroughly vindicated in public con-
fideuce and esteem as the heroic wife
of Mr.. Beecher. The Christian Reg
lister of last week pays the following
lnerited tribute to this noble woman
Weary of balancing probabilities,
unable to regard Theodore Tiltun
with the least confidence or respect.
in Mr.. Beecher, we have found great
cious loyalty OF his noble wife. Her
quiet devotion has more weight than
all the noisy demonstrations Of Ply
rhetoric of hired advocates. She is a
woman marked by rare energy, pene-
tration and independence. No one
oughly. No one has been more deep
ly wrongcd il he is guilty. She has
read all the mysterious documents.
She has listened to all the adverse
testimony. She has heard all the elo-
quent denunciatioDs of the plaintiffs
counsel, and yet she does not wayer
in the least. When the probabilities
have appeared to be obstinately equal.
the thought of that pale, brave, pa
tient and trusting face, always at the
post of duty, regardless of comfort,
health, and life itself. has seldom
failed to turn the scale. Whatever
his errors, follies and weaknesses may
be, Henry Ward Beecher can hardly
have been guilty of the great trans.
gression, fortified and honored by
such clear headed and lion. hearted
woman. Above the crowd of heated
partisans, in moral grandeur even
dwarfing the commanding figure Of
her gifted husband, rises the majestic
form of this heroic vile.
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RICHMOND,

first indication of getting up on the
part Of his victim the sheep drew
back, shaking his head, and giving
vent to threatening sounds that warn
ed Tom it was safer for him to lay
still.
And lay there he did for six or sew
en- of the longest hours he ever knew.
More than once he made desperate
efforts to get on his feet, but the sheep
never left his post. When Tom stir
red, he was up and ready to renew the
rather one sided battle. To Tom that
side was a rather bruised and sore one.
The moon came up by and by, and
everything was light as day, when he
heard John Croft coming back, and
he knew by his jubilant whistle that
it was all right between him and Clara.
He lay still, hoping his rival would
pass by without seeing him.
But John had seen him up
stump" when he went by on his way
to the mansion of his beloved, and
hadn't the least idea of going by now.
''IIulloap he called out, stopping
by the fence and looking over. Who's
that?"
Its me-" answered Tom, sheepish-
ly. This confounded old brute has
nearly killed me. | swear I'll kill
him, if hang for it.
Let me help you out Of your trou-
ble," said John.
And he climbed on the fence to at
tract the attention of the sheep, who
charged vailantly at him, thus giving
Tom chance to make his escape.
II want you to come to my wedding
in about month. Clara Il send you
an invitation, too" said John. when
Tom was safely in the road. Il hope
you won't feel sore tomorrow. Good
night"
Tom felt sore in more ways than
one already. He said good night in
not very gracious mood, and waited
until his lucky rival was out OF sight,
then, with stern determination in his
eyes. he began to carry stones together
in corner of the fence, while tho
sheep, who had been the cause of go
much trouble, stood on the other side
watching him.
When he had accumulated Gnite-a
collection of geological specimens, he
began operations. He climbed on the
fence with as big a stone as he could
handle, and waited for a good oppor-
tunity. The sheep evidently though.
ne was defying him, for he charged
into the fence, and down dropped the
stone on the back of his head, stun
ming him.
Tom fairly shouted in exultation.
He jumped down and pounded the
poor sheep with tnat stone until he
was halt dead, calling him an old brute
and other names equally expressive.
When the animal was nearly exhaust.
ed by this new style of warfare, Tom
got rail and managed to get it Fast
ened in the fence like lever, and
then dragged the bewildered sheep up
to it and inserted his neck between it
and another rail.
I've got you now," chuckled Tom,
bearing down on the death dealing in
strument he had devised. III be.
you won't knock anybody else down,
you old fool"
For fifteen minutes he kept it in the
same position. At the end of that
time the sheep was very nearly gono
to the spirit world, and Tom had his
revenge.
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So we heard great strapping young
man exclaim the other day in an office.
We did want to tell him a piece of
our mind so bad, and we'll just write
to him. You want capital, do you
And suppose you had what You call
capital, what would you do with IL?
You want capital? Haven't you got
hands, and feet, and muscle, and bone,
and brains. and don't you call them
capital? What more did God give to
anybody? "Oh. they arc not money"
say you. But they are more than
money, and nobody can take them
from you. Don't you know how to
use them! If you don't. it is time
you were learning. Take hold of the
first plow, or hoe, or jack-plane, or
broadax that you can find and go to
work Your capital will soon yield
you large interest. Aye, but there's
the rub. You don't want to work;
you want money or credit, that you
may play the gentleman and speculate.
and end by playing the vagabond. Or
you want a plantation and negroes
that you may hire an overseer to at
tend to them while you run over the
country and dissipate; or want to mar
ry some rich girl who may be foolish
enough to take You for your good
looks, that she may support you.
Shame upon YOU, young man Go
to work with the capital you have,
and you'll soon make interest enough
upon it, and with it to give you as
much money as you want. aud make
you feel like a man. If you can't
make money upon what capital you
have, you couldn't make it if you hail
a million of dollSrs in money. If you
don't know how to use bone and mus
Gle and brains you would not know
how. to use gold If you let the
capital you have lie idle and waste
and run out. it would be the same
thing with you if you had gold; you
would only know how to waste.
Then don t-stand about like a great
helpless child waiting for somebody
to come in and feed you, but go to
work Take the first work you can
find, no matter what it is, so that you
may be sure to do it like Billy Gray
did his drumming-well. Yes. what
you undertake, do it we'll; always do
your best. II you manage the capital
you already have, you will soon have
plenty more to manage; but if you
can't or won't manage the capital God
has given you, you will never have
any more to MANAGE
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sgement. Women are apt to think
the fault is in the -four. It is quite q
relief when your bread is poor to
the cause, as every woman desires to
she does not, because she knows that
without it she can not have q good
meal
The miller is often censured when
he has done his part we'll; he also de-
unable to attend to the bread making,
and member of our family who was
not in practice made the bread. which
was a failure, and rs it was the first
baking from a new sack of -four, it
exchanged. When it was brought
baking. and the -four proved to be
good. The miller afterwards asked
about the -four and was informed that
it was all right; he said that when the
-four was returned he believed it to
be good, and knew they had no better.
SO the same -four was returned. He
says they often do as he did in that
case, and it generally gives satisfac-
ton.
have thought bread making might
be compared to wheat growing; you
are never sure of q good crop Of wheat
until it is threshed. and never sure of
good bread until it is nicely baked.
In the wheat you cannot govern those
causes Of failure, but in the bread you
may.
1 would not discourage the begin
e. 4
ence you may by close attention sell
dom have poor bread
To be good housekeeper is an ac-
complishment equal to any other, and
! think l might say superior, because
it brings comforts which no other can
bring.
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Gov. Allen says: Hot? You thinS
it's hot? Ought to been around that
morning when me an Aleck Stephens
lit out of Sodoml You'd seen SON :.
weather then, my boy-likewise some
rather astonishin pedestrian exercise :.
on the part of u.s." And the old gen..
tlelnan put on another overcoat.-:
Chicago Times.
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On the llth of June there was one
of the most beautiful snow storms of
the season" at Calumet, on Lake Su-
perlor. The thermometer fell from
ninety degrees in the shade to forty
degrees in less than half an hour.
Refreshing
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A dovesfew into the window of a
church at Hoosick, N. Y, ON recent
Sunday. ard rested on the pastors
head. The congregation have taken
il as an omen that the good man is to
die soon and go to heaven, but the
pastor isn't happy about it.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-07-28

Pittsburg Pa, is another ring ruled
city; N.OOO.O 600 expended on water
works that we're not to cost over
$4,000, 900 at the outside, and the
works not done yet. and 5000 600
spent in constructing magnificent ave.
nues out in the suburbs where there
ism t any need of them. are samples of
the way tho taxpayers have been
ev;nd1ad
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Mr.. Schultz, who SO narrowly es-
capped assassination by . midnight
burglar in Brooklyn, N. Y, recently.
is rapidly recovering. and the passage
of bullet through his head has COM
pletely cured the near -sightedness
from which he previously suffered.
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How to Keep Friends.

: When Goldsmith once talked to
johnson of the difficulty of living on
very intimate terms with any one with
whom you differed on an important
topic, johnson replied, why, sir,
you must shun the subject as to which
you disagree. For instance, / can live
very we'll with Burke; l love his
knowledge, his genius, his diffusion
and effulgence of conversation; but I
would not talk to him of the Rock
ingham party"
Mr.. Helps, in his very admirable
work, Friends in Council" well OBJ
serves:
IA rule for living happily with 9TH
ers is to avoid having stock subjects
when people live much together, that
around which, from frequent dispute,
there is such large growth of angry
words, mortified vanity, and the like,
that the original difference becomes a
standing subject for quarrel; and there
is tendency in all minor disputes to
drift down to it. Again, il people
wish to live well together, they must
not hold too much to logic and sup
uosIuS every tHIuS Is u Oc sctticu uy
sufficient reason. DIR. johnson saw
this clearly with regard to married
people when he said, 'Wretched would
be the pair, above all names of wretch
edness, who should be doomed to ad-
just by reason, every morning, all the
minute details of a domestic day
But the application should be much
more general than he made it. There
is no time for such leasonings, and
nothing that is worth them. Aud
when we recollect how two lawyers.
or two politicians, can 90 on contend
ing, and that there is no end of one
sided reasoning on any subject, we
shall not be sure that such contention
is the hest mode for arriving at truth;
but certainly it is not the way to ar
rive at good temper"
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In an age Of scandals it is positive
relief 10 learn that Prof. Limpricht,
of Berlin, publicly 'retracts his opin-
ion as to the relations Of four iso-
merle monobrousbeous xenesulphonic
acids.'
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Manhood: How Lost,
How Restored /!

a.x Just published, n new edition OF
~A DF. CulverwelIs Celebrated
~ EsSSy on the radical cure with
D out medicine) of fSPERMAToRRHOEA
or Seminal Weakness, Involuntary Semi
nal Losses, IMPoTENCY, Mental and Phys
fcal Inctpacity, Impediments to Marriage,
etc; also, CONSUMPTION. EPILEPSY and
FITS, induced by Self-indulgence or sexual
extravagance, &c.
cents.
The celebrated author, in this admirable
Essay, clearly demonstrates, from a thirty
years successful practice, that the alarm
ing consequences of self-abuse may be rad
tcally cured without the dangerous use of
internal medicine or the application of tn.
knife; pointing out a mode of cure at once,
simple, certain, and efYectual, by means OF
which every sufferer, no matter what his
condition may be, may cure himself cheap
iy, privately, and radically.
S1- This Lecture should be in the hands
of every youth and every man in the land
Sent under seal, in a plain envelope, to
any address, postpaid, on receipt Of six
cents OF two post stamps.
Address the publishers,
CHAS. J. KLINE 4 Co.
lH Bowery, New York; p. .. BOX, 458S.
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A curious coincidence is noted by
the Paris Moniteur-that the steam
ship Schiller was wrecked on the an
niversary of the death. in 1908, of the
German poet whose name it bore.
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Gambretta. on refusing the chal.
lenge of Cassagnac, took occasion in
his paper to recall the title king of
Clowns" which Guizot, when in pow
er, bestowed on his papa, Monsieur
Granier. Paul is very wrathy yet
over this blow, and q swim a la Paul
Boynton is considered the only thing
that might cool him down.
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A BANK FOR LOSINGS.
Ye..s L.A,es Ana r..ns n... Re,

YAAA~
=. a.. -L:.c -
'ne cniel sno1ousnI1re OF inns
Isy R:nt ,'n;s. o,:Hn e.ss sts'ey savings
groups OF WORKING people going In to
SSeposl1 tneir nard-earned money.
Some 5oue.. are mecnanics; some are lrish
aomestics; some are poor widows lay
.IIE nI py ie" ooiAafs LOT iatnefiess
cn11u.en. p
a. I On ine s.me etIeet thG temper
Tas vpeae1 noIe snan one DanA !or
.Io.a some RaI's % 'ne cry
Tn.lmo. - o"e ou neaIy every corner.
IT,. .os' eve!y r!rai nsmiet, 700,
VerI vi. ~. slmiar insIitntion. new
tho, 'iS consAins SIX 'nousano OF
.c.,
:. .ounta. or1~ VI .noss hh CshAs FL 70. Aoslne5
nonn~ ." ID ,. -. sai ~I IL oiu meu 1uo
ao-r o. .ha;. cHu Sons.;. STme xa;.cneI women isy
49, oG IT, III ueoe's sa IN ei'IeI papeI o5
eolI IH:. ane ?ny .n.sIest tnst Is pAl9
ca.I cn TIepoei.s ii "A Isoness VI eyes an1
Iousnees "a 2seath, ana remorSe OF
Sonse:ence: Every one VINO makes
aePos.. gains 2 loss. Une man goes
anso na@ ..e u.uA Win 1uI PocAe', anu
w;.h , ~ood ~e ahr.s..en n.U.1ea "nd a, goeS al. ~
WI" eoOu C"e,ac'1l' ano cones vu1
sn WIN .ne woru oEunA w1t,en On NIB
Dioated countenancc. nave even
seen mecnanlc enter, In pran new
coat, ana coming away again rs Il the
mice nad Deen nlbDing at ms ELBOWS.
nave known young CLERK to leave
MS Stua,ion penind MN IN one OF
the Devils BANKS OF Losinge. Sew
eLai prosperous traoesmen nave LOST
tneir business tpere. Cnurcn mem
eers nave been Known to reel out
from these seductive haunts.trylng
ito walk straight, but backsiiding at
every etep. Wnat is WORST OF al,
thousands OF people go In there and
lose tneir immortal Souls! II the
cashiers OF these institutions we're
honest, tney would post on the door
some such notice as tnis BANK Tor
Iosings- open at ali hours. Moth
ing !aken IN put eood money. Norn-
ing Is paid out put disgrace ana DIS
ease ana degredatlon ana death. An
exfr, dividend OF delirlum tremens
WIN oe gwen 70 those VINO pay Well at
tne counter; also tickets 70 UIeen-
nooI .h h1S ana otnef =. cemeteries; entl.nng
u
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Some of our patriotic people took
their 4th of July on Saturday, some
on Sunday and Rome on Monday.
while others contented themselves
with celebrating on Saturday and
Monday putting in the sacred interval
in the woods with their shot guns and
a good supply of tarantula juice
Cambridge Tribune.
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Abraham Was the first sick man.
He had Hagar in the wilderness.