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Year: 1869

An English paper in this pleasant
and forcible way begs people to draw
the important distinction between
regulating their expenditures by other
peoples, instead of by their own
wants and purses: "If you want to
live in a vain show, regulate your ex-
penditure by the expenditure of your
neighbOrs; if you want to live wisely
and manfully, regulate your expendi-
lures by your actual wants, including
of course, the wants of your mind as
well as those of your body, and the
wants of your family as well as your
own. A eomely dress is good thing
and a proper application of money;
but dress of particular cut and color,
not wanted for any other reason eX-
eept that Mrs. Goldsmith or Miss Fill
agree over the way has got one, is it
not a legitimate or thrifty eXpendi-
ture of money. If you really want q
better house than you now inhabit,
more airy, more free from damp, more
fitted to the size of a growing family,
the likelihood is that you could not
make a more advisable use of your
money; but if neighbOr Gilpin has
recently had a windfall, and on the
strength of it has taken a handsome
villa, and seems to hold his nose in a
rather higher stratum of the atmOs-
phere than he used to. don't you take
the villa opposite merely to be on
equality with him. A ph@tOn is q
nice thing to have. and a drive in q
clear summer day brings bloom to the
cheeks of the wife and children. All
right; have your phetOn-prOvided
always that the reason of your buy
ing it is not that your wife cannot
bear to see Mrs. Tomkins nodding
from ph8tOn while she walks afoot,
and provided also that the money thus
laid out is not required for more sub
stantial wants. such as a good school
ing for the boys and a fair provision
against a rainy day. A trip to the
seaside may be of such benefit to the
family as to pay itself by shortening
doctors bills; but the seaside breezes
and the braeing waves have never en-
tered the service of fashion, and they
will do you and yours as much good
at cheap watering place as at a dear
one. 1t is needless for us to extend
our illustrations. Every reader who
keeps his eyes open and can observe
what is going on in society round
him, will be able to add to the list.
There is practically no great difficulty
in distinguishing between the expen-
diture which is incurred for show and
that which is incurred for sound and
substantial reasons.n
Year: 1869

The congregation is composed prin-
cipally of men and boys, dressed in
their every day clothes. Some of
them stare about them or talk with
each other. Instead of sitting down
and paying attention to what is said,
many stand up and walk about. Per-
haps some will come up to the
speaker, and try to look over his
book, if he reads from the Bible; or
they will examine the foreign stove,
if it is cold weather, and there is a
fire in it or they will stand in front
of the clock, and watch it for awhile.
Others have with them parcels of
merchandise, or a fowl or some vege-
tables, etc, they have bought or wish
to sell; and if it is warm weather,
very many will strip the upper part
of their bodies naked, and fan them
selves, so as to be as cool as possible
Oftentimes, unless forbidden to
smoke, several engage in smoking
little pipes of tobacco, having first
struck a fire by means of flint and
piece of steel and some very dry pa
per. Almost every Chinaman carries
about him his pipe and tobacco, and
materials for striking a fire. Some
times a beggar-wOman will enter the
chapel, and bawl out Justify for cash.
1t is very common practice for most
of those who come to stay but short
time; and when one goes out, all of
his mates and friends usually follow.
If an idol procession, or mandarin
and his retinue is passing along the
street, or some sudden or unusual
noise is heard outside, the bows and
most of the men rush out to see what
is to be seen, after which some of
them will perhaps come back.
Year: 1869

With regard to the proper eombina-
tions of temperament in the marriage
relation, Psychologists have differed,
one contending that the constitutions
of the parties should be similar, while
others, on the contrary, have taught
that contrast should be sought. 1t
seems to US that neither of these state
ments expresses fully the true law of
selection. The end to be aimed at is
harmony. There can be no harmony
without difference, but there may be
difference without harmony. 1t is
not because a woman is like a man
that he loves her, but because she is
unlike. The qualities which he lacks
are the ones in her which attract him
the personal traits and mental peeu-
liarities which combine to make her
tCOmdnly; and in proportion as she
lacks these, or. possesses masculine
characteristics, will a woman repel
the opposite sex. SOa woman admires
in man true n1dRliRess, and is repelled
by weakness and effeminaey. A wO-
manish man awakens either the pity
or the contempt of the fair sex.


This law, we believe, admits of the
widest application. The dark-haired,
swarthy man is apt to take for his
mate some aZure-eyed blonde; the
lean and spare choose the stout and
plump; the tall and short often unite;
and hOmely men generally win the
fairest of the fair.


In temperament, as in everything
else, what we should seek is not like
ness, but a harmonious difference.
The husband and wife are not cOun-
terparts of each other, but compile
ments, halves which joined together
form a rounded symmetrical whole
In music, contiguous notes are dis
cordant, but when we sound together
a first and a third, or a third and a
fifth, we produce a chord. The same
principle pervades all nature. Two
persons may be too much alike to
agree. They crowd each other, for
two objects cannot occupy the same
space at the same time. While, there
fore, we do not wholly agree with
those who insist upon the union of
OppOsites in the matter of tempera-
ments, we believe that a close resem-
blanee in the constitution of the body
between the parties should be avoided,
as not only inimical to their harmony
and happiness, but detrimental to
their Offspring.-Phren. Journal for
July.
Year: 1869

A young lady in Piqua, Ohio, adver-
tises for 175 young men to form gap
ing club to stand at the doors of the
churches at the commencement and
close of service and make impertinent
remarks upon the dress and person of
the ladies. She invites all applicants
to attend the church doors next Sun
day, and promises to register and pub
lish their names, personal appearance
and general want of brains. Good
fOr that young ladyi
Year: 1869

A man in Connecticut having ad-
vertised his wife for leaving his bed
and board" the fugaeiOus spouse re-
ported as follows: al went away from
the lazy lout to earn my board, and
the bed belongs to my own MOTHER
Year: 1869

have long felt and known twas coming
The shadow cast itself before us in pale


moonlight,
When we wondered up and down LIES fitful


vale
Athwart our path it comes, standing out
In faint distinctnesS:
And ere we are aware. enshrOudS us
In its gloom.
Year: 1869

Oe----N -'A---r7@-


friendship sometimes
1t seems as hollow as vacant world,
\ vacuum in itself.
4 vaunted name-lureing us on to happiness
SO called. On and on we hasten.
And unheeding pass the thorns and thistles
In the vain attempt to catch the fragrance
OF sweet blossoms, that loom up
In the far OF distance.
Just like the child, chasing the bright winged
butterfly. At every step the distance
WidenS. Neton and on he goes
Till breath and strength are gone.


There are friendships that
Abide forever and are eternal
And so pure that not one breath
Of envy, malice, or revenge
Can mar their pristine brightness.


Friendships so broad, that
They shield all defoTmity, all weakness.
Casting a softning shade Ger all our faults
And foibles, and Ioolx only
To the good and true within,
And are not guided by the motley crowd
That praises when the world praises
And censures when il blames.


Mere meagre friendships
Are too common ana of too coarse a texture,
ask them not.
But pray that the scroll
Wherein each loved one writes their auto


graph,
No time or change may obliterate-
And one by one they
Shall be craven on the heart-leaves of


memory
To remain throughout all time,
And though the years roll on, bringing their
Whitening, blighting influences. there will


be ever
One bright spot on memory's tablet, one


uncut
Garland, one rosebud leaf and flower so


perfect
That nothingcan mar its loveliness. 1t defes
The touch Of time, and is n thing of beauty


and Of joy forever"
Year: 1869

her to carry her prizes into Mexican ports, she will
save what she OF their cargoes, and then set fire
to them and sink them at sea. What the Alabama
was 10 our commerce, the Cuba will be TO Spanish
Commerce Another use will be made OF her. She
will escort all expeditions into safe bays. and guard
them until landed, and afterward escort the vessel
nor viz thann IN
Year: 1869

There Is = well of perpetual ice In
Brandow, VT. 1t was dug twelve years
ago, In the autumn, and at the depth oil
fifteen or twenty feet they came to frozen
ground, The wall is forty feet deep and
in wineer the water is SO frozen that tine
Ice has often to be brekeni and through
the summer the sides of the well, near the
water, re encased with ice and the water
ard the air that comes up from the well
are extremely cold.
Year: 1869

The Tenure-of-O OFFICE muss is over,
barring veto, both Houses having
agreed to the report of the Conference
COMMITTEE. What is thought of the
new law may be gathered from the En-
qmrer's Washington special which we
subjoin:


WASHINGTON, March 81,
COMPROMISE on THE TENURE-OF- OFFICE


BILL.


To the surprise of almost every body
there was a compromise effected to-day
on the Civil Tenure-of- office bill, which
was rushed through both Houses under
the pressure of the Conference commit
tee.


BOTH SIDES BELIEVE THE OTHER CHEAT


ED.


The House, under the explanations
of Butler and Bingham, thought the
Senate had yielded TO a virtual repeal Of
the old law, and Senators were made to
believe, through TrumbulPs plausibili-
", that the House had in substance aC-
ceptCd what is known as the Senate
amendment; bat tonight Senators and
members who were for repeal declare
that, through the usual mystiiicatiOn of
a conference report, they have been de-
ceived. In this category is Morton,
who from the first has been for repeal
of the law. In the House eighteen Rad
icas voted against the bill, while FeS-
senden, Fowler and Gilbert were on
baud and refused TO vote in the Senate.
TIE OLD SUBSTANTIALLY UNCHANGED.
In the House it was represented that
the new bill did not under any circum-
stance restore suspended officer, pro
yided his successor was not confirmed,
but subsequently, it turned out (after
the bill had Passed) that if the vacancy
in an office is not filled during the ses-
sion of the Senate, the men who were
suspended from the office return to the
old places ut the expiration of said ses-
sion. The old law therefore is substan-
TALLY unchanged in principle. Senator
Williams, who drew up the old law,
saws the new bill is better. The indig-
nation among the Radical repealers to-
night is very great. The House repeal
ers say that Ben Butler has sold them
Year: 1869

Read the extract from the New YORK
Tribune in regard to the manner the
high pressure "Ioyalists" swindle the
sooty soldiers out of their bounty claims;
Instead of bowling about equal rights
for the 'darkey the Radical party had
better make some provisions for pro-
tecting him against the villaiay Of its
own mamhtrs.
Year: 1869

After dinner maps, it has been discov-
cred are very unhealthy, and persons
are advised to sleep before dinner, so as
to rest, refresh, and prepare the system
for vigorous digestion. But if sleep
must be had after dinner, it should be
taken in a sitting posture. The tor
pidity which results from partaking of
hearty meal arises from over loading
the stomach, and the rule which enjoins
rising from the table before the appetite
is entirely satisfied will prevent any
disagreeble consequences.
Year: 1869

One of the negro prisoners confined
in the Kansas City Jail made a boast
that he could break any wooden door in
the Jail with his head. Some of his au.
dience doubted the statement, SO he
took a run along the hall and threw
himself head foremost against the door.
Unfortunately the door was too steut
for him, and he fell like dead man.
The last heard OF him, he had a stiff
neck and was under a physicians
charge.
Year: 1869

1t is woll established fact that fully one
half of the female portion of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health. or, TO
use their own expression, never feel well -
They are languid, devoid Of all energy, extreme.
ly nervous, and have no appetite


10 this class of persons the BITTERS, or the
TONIC, is especially recommended.


WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN


Are made strong by the use of either of these
remedies. They will cure every case of Ma.
RASMUS, without fail


Thousands Of certificates have accumulated
in the hands of the proprietor, but space will
allow of the publication of but n few. Those,
il will be observed, are men of note, and of such
standing that they must be believed
Year: 1869

The demand for cash gold was less urgent up to
Clearing House tlme loans being made at from five
to two per cent for carrying These figures are in
definite to the degree that they reflect the greater
activity in money and the consequent concession OF
interest by the lender on the currency collateral.
After Clearing House loans were made fiat and at
1-32 and 1-16 for borrowing. The transactions OF
fha ColI Eychanua Rank ware IA follOws.-
Year: 1869

In entering upon the work of teach
ing for the winter term, let us enlist
as vetrans in the cause; let US put our
shoulder to the wheel with a full de-
termination that we will make our
mark and, as the preachers say, let
US have ''revival1 in our avocatiOn,
for we believe that we have need of
one.


In times of war it is said that the
soldier is abroad in the land; we know
him by his dress or habiliments, and
he bears the implements of warfare,
and wields the power Of soldier. So
let it be said of the teacher, that he is
abroad in the land and may be as red
lily detected by the vesture of knOwl-
edge, devotedness and intellectual ac-
quirements. May he be clothed with
animation, vitality and qualifications
essential to efficiency in the cause of
education May his weapon be knowI-
edge, for knowledge is said to be pow
er, and in place of the saber, let him
carry the primmer. The devoted
teacher fills position high in charac-
ter, although he may teach what is
termed common school, . Yet, these
have enlisted the energies of our best
men. These have eoIled forth the ap-
prOval and appreciation of our philan-
thrOpists,
Year: 1869

Most every paper we take up nave
wonderful tales to tell about the wonder
ful virtues of this and that Bittcrs We
wish to say one word in regard to H9V-
heimsy's Bavarian Bittsrs. Having tried
them thoroughly We can safely rec
ommend them to all threatened with
chills or fevers, as almost a sure prevent
i've, if not sure remedy, after the chills
have once taken thoroughly hold AS a
tonic bitter they are not surpassed ny
any Of our knowledge and are sure anti
dispcptie in their effect on the system
Give them trial. KRONE u DirToN OF
Fort Smith, have them for sale, by case
or retail, and they ought to be in every
store in this city.


p S.-Col. J. W Wallace have the
Bitters for sale,
Year: 1869

The LATE EcLIrsE-A correspondent
Of a Philadelphia paper thus writes OF a
prolonged "totality::"


Few people trouble Themselves to
think what the effect would be if the
eclipse Of Saturday were to last any
length of time, and the sun were blotted
from the heavens. Philosophy declares
that not only would a horror of darkness
cover the earth, but the moisture of the
earth, and the temperature fall to fear
full point Of cold, nothing less than 230
degrees below zero, Fahrenheit The
earth would be the seat OF darkness and
more than Artic dcsolation. Nothing
could survive such freezing cold mo-
ment, more than one could breathe in
scalding water In three days after the
cooling process began, nothing created
would be alive but the monsters that wal
low in deep ocean, and the eyeless rep
tiles that make their hsuBts in caves
which penetrate far underground.
Year: 1869

1t IS understood to be the intention of
the President to have full meeting of
the Cabinet here on Friday next, at
which time attention will be called to the
representation Of Republican politicians
regarding the situation in Pennsylvania,
so that the administration may decide as
to what aid it will reader in the few
weeks intervening before the election.
The Republican State Committee are not
pleased with the course Of the Revenue
Bureau, and will call for the direct inter,
ference Of the President.
Year: 1869

The annexation OF Canada is the latest
sensation item


The Radicals say Grant has written
private note to Dent deploring the course
the Judge has taken to secure his ncmi-
nation in Mississippi.
Year: 1869

Mrs. L. in possession of the field and the
trophy of whiskers!


Mr.. Lincoln rearranged his toilet, and
like brave hero, went to the reception


But alasl in this case the truth of the
old adage, if you dance you must pay
the piper" was fully exemplifed.


On his return to the bosom of his fam
lily he found the door leading to his
sleeping room locked. In vain he called
upon his wife to open it. She would
not. In vain he used every term of en-
dearment. She was immovable. So,
vanquished in the final encounter, the
poor man had to call upon the house
keeper for a !" shakedown." Then he re-
tired in solitude to reflect upon the un-
certainty Of domestic bliss.


From woman's standpoint, have
often questioned myself in regard to one
thing-whether at the time of Abraham
Lincoln's death he was martyred for the
first time ? | rather think he was a
martyr of many years standing.
Year: 1869

A great part of the children that are
born nowadays are not good, average
healthy children. They are children of
deficient brain power, of diseased ner-
vous systems children begotten of TO-
bacco smoke, late hours, tight lacing,
and dyspeptic stomachs. The father has
put his sons brain into his meerschaum
and smoked it out; the mother has drib-
bled and dribbled it away in balls and
operas. Two young people come togeth-
er, both of them in a state of half ner-
vous arrangement. She cannot live
without strong coffee her hand trembles
and she has sinking at her stomach,
when she first rises in the morning, till
she has taken cup of strong coffee,
when she is primed for the day. He
cannot study, or read, or perform any
real mental labor, without tobacco
Both are burning life's candle at both
ends both are wakeful and nervous,
with weak muscles and vibrating nerves.


Two such persons unite in giving ex-
istence to poor hapless baby, who is
born in state of such a diseased ner-
vous sensibility that all the forces of ma
ture are torture to it. The fathers
have eaten sour grapes, and the children's
teeth are set on edge" What such chill
dren cry for is neither cold nor hunger,
but irrepressible nervous agony-some-
times from fear, sometimes because every
thing in life is too strong for them, and
jars on their poor weakened nerves, Just
as it does on those of an invalid in a
low, nervous fever.


Now, the directions about putting a
child away alone to sleep, without rock
ing or soothing, is good one only for
robust and healthy children. For the
delicate, nervous kind l have spoken of,
it is cruel and it is dangerous. We know
one authentic instance of a mother who
was trained to believe it her duty to put
her infant to bed in a lonely chamber
and leave it. Not daring to trust herself
in the ordeal, she put on her bonnet, and,
positively forbidding the servants to go
near the child, went out for walk
When she returned, the child was still,
and had been so for some time She
went up to examine. The child had
struggled violently, thrown itself over
on its face, and pillow had fallen over
it, and it was dead from suffocation.


Nervous children suffer untold agonies
Year: 1869

from tear when put to bed alone. No


tongue can tell the horrors of lonely
room to such children. A little delicate
boy, whom his parents were drilling to
sleep alone, used to scream violently
every night, and his father would come
in and whip him. He mistook the per-
tinacity for obstinacy, and thought it
his duty to conquer the child's WILL One
night he said, "Why do you always
scream so when you know you shall be
punished ?" go father, fatherw said
the little fellow, 81 don't mind your
whipping me, if you'll only stay with
me-" That fathers eyes were opened
from that moment. He saw that hui
man being cannot be governed by dead
rules, like plant or an animal.


No, mother; before you make up a
plan of operation for your baby, look at
1t and see arhat it IS, and use your own
common sense as to what it needs.


Look at yourself; look at your hus-
band look at your own physical habits
at his, and ask what your child is like
ly to be.


The caution of our friend with regard
to not suffering the child to sleep between
the parents is important, for many rea-
sons. There is scarcely man that does
not use tobacco 7; and if q man uses to-
bacco, there is constant emanation of
it from his person. Now, however he
may justify the use of it himself, he can
hardly think that stale tobacco effiuvi-
um is healthy agent to be carried into
the lungs of delicate infant. Children
of smoking fathers often have their brains
and nervous systems entirely impregnat-
ed with the poison of nicotine in the help
less age of infancy. A couple came to
country place entirely for the health of
their only boy, feeble infant. The
child was pale and sickly, constipated in
bowels, and threw up his milk constant
ly. The parents had but one room, in
which they lived with him and which
was every evening blue with tobacco
smoke. Every evening that helpless lit
tie creature took into his lungs as much
tobacco as if he had smoked cigarette.
Still more than this-the mother who
was nursing that infant did what was
equivalent to smoking one cigar every
evening, she breathed her husbands
smoke. Now, if your baby smokes ei-
gars, you will find, by and by, when he
comes to need brains, that his brain-pow-
er will not be found He will be starty, |
fitful, morbid, full of nervous kinks and
cranks, one of those wretched human
beings who live life like that described
by Hawthorne in his story of Feather
top"-only capable of existence and eff
cheney while he is smoking, but sinking
into dimness and stupidity when he stops. |


Such are some of the chances of poor
babies Z! God help the poor little things
They never asked to be born and their
parents, if they aciH bring them into ex-
istence, owe them every attention to
make that existence a blessing Harriet
Beec'ter Stoace IN Hearth and Home"