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Year: 1874

How TO KEEP GOLD FIsu.-Seth
Green gives the following Instructions
as to the manner of keeping gold fish
Use any well, creek or river water that
is not impregnated with mineral. -
Change the water when the Esh come
to the top and stay there, aud breathe
part water and part air. Tske out
nearly all the water, leaving enough
for the fish TO swim in, and fill the
vessel with fresh water Never take
the fish in your hand. If the .qusri-
um needs cleaning make net of mos
quito netting and take the fish out in
1t. There are many Gold fish killed
by handling. Keep your acquarium
clean so that the water looks as clear
as crystal. Watch the fish little ana
you will find out when they are all
right Feed them all they will eat
aud anything they will eat, worms,
meat, fish water, or fish spawn. Take
great care that you take all that they
do not eat out of the acquarium. =
Any decayed meat or vegetable IN the
water has the same smell to fish that
it does to you in air. If your gold
fsa de it is attributable, AS rule, to
one of three causes handling, starva-
ton or bad water.
Year: 1874

Mature has her language. and she
is not unyeracious ; but we don't know
all the intricacies Of her syntax just
yet, and in a hasty reading we may
happen to extract the very opposite Of
her real meaning.
Year: 1874

The effect Of minglins with new
people, who have new methods Of
thought, IS very salutary. Always to
see the same people, do the same
things, feel the same way, produces a
stagnant condition of the mind and
heart that is very distressing to be-
hold.
Year: 1874

THE religious sentiment is
deathless sentiment when something
like hope, trust, and desire for some
thing outside Of ourselves, makes them
hungry for perfection or for the ideal.
But certainly we cannot forsee the
time when this is coming. A thousand
things will trample it down IN the dust;
but sooner or later it will show itself
again and break the soil. It will show
itself in thirst after good things, in
respect for character, in reference for
pure principles, in generosity and de-
votion to the grand concerns Of life.
It will also show itself in hatred of
evil, in the hope of reform, and in
gratitude for infinite"
Year: 1874

There is no despair so absolute as
that which comes with the first mo-
ments of our first great sorrow, when
we have not yet known what it is to
have suffered and be healed, to have
despaired and to have recovered hope.
Year: 1874

--"Were we 20 take as much pains
to be what we ought to be as we do t.
disguise what we really are, we might
appear like ourselves, without being
at the trouble of any disguise at all. :"
Year: 1874

"The Republican makes characterist
ic blow over its enterprise on receiv
ing dead head ride for its reporter a
the expense Of the stockholders of the
Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad
from Little Rock to Clarksvile and back
and bringing by this means an earlier re-
port of the execution Of Wallace than
we obtained For this the Republican
says it "caims the horns" 1t nigh,
also ask for the carcass. hide hoofs and
tallow. Superintendent S. b. Beau
mont, our reporter, the engineer and fire
man were the only persons on board,
says the Republican. That explains the
transaction. A mere little piece or "a.
voritsm which the Superintendent could
gracefully have permitted "Superin
tcndent Beaumont denied being on tha,
Especial train" to Gazette representa-
tive on Friday night, although the latter
knep to the contrary when he was taking
He also stated emphatically at Clarksville
to the Gazette reporter that he was no,
coming to Little Rock on Friday night
II was not necessary for the Superintend-
ent to tell a .faisehood Had he stated the
truth it would not have hurt him or the
Republicans enterprise A frank
statement Of how the matter stood, both
| to the reporter at Clarksvillc and the one
at Little Rock, would have ended the
matter But when it becomes necessary
that the Superintendent of the road must
needs tell what is untrue in order to bol
ster up rival newspaper. it looks bad
| We received n note from the Superinten-
ent last evening, stating that it was sim
| ply business enterprise on the part OF
the Republican that he would have done
the same thing for the Gazette. Yer,
well, why didn' he say SOP The Repub
licrn had Il perfect right to charter an
engine or q whole train, and the Super
intendent had right to let it have it.
The Superintendent should have SO adj
viscd the Gazette reporters when the,
applied to him for Information, They
generally have o sufficient sense Of pro
priety not to intrude themselves on 9th
crs. But If the Superintendent mus
needs tell what is untrue in one case, i:
there any truth in his statement that h'
makes in note to us that our neighbor
in law did really charter an engine anC
pay for it2 We leave the public tc
ljudge-L r. Gazette, 18th.


The Gazette seems greatly astonshcd
at catching Colonel so called) Beaumon
ina I" little lie." Any one to look at th
$50 called square in the face, woulC
be conviced at once, that it comes t
him as easy as sliding down the cellar
door. He 10 G w.
Year: 1874

pose. 1t will stand here beneath the
shadow of that grand old monument, yet
incomplete, celebrating an event which first
consecrated this ground to national interest
and national glory. Fifty-nine years ago
the thunder of cannon and the rattle Of
musketry told of fierce conflict raging be-


tween the sons of Louisiana, with their
allies, and the legions Of the British in
vader. The going down of the sun of the
eighth of January saw the dead and dying
Englishmen-in the midst of them their
General-a city redeemed, the national
honor maintained, and the army OF the re-,
public, Of whom some brave old veterans
still live to honor this occasion with their
presence and their tears, triumphant and
covered with glory.


Almost within a stones throw stands a
beautiful monument erected by gentle
hands and sorrowing hearts over the graves
of the brave men who fell fighting for the
lost cause; no Union soldier passes it with
out feeling of respect and awe. 1t marks
page in our history, which is sad in the
recollection that they fell in fratricidal
strife. AS they lived they fell, gallant,
brave, warm hearted men; as quick to die
for a cause as to live for it; as quick to for
give as to strike; as earnest, cordial and
sincere in their forgetting as they were i'm
pulsive to resent their believed wrong.
The spirits of the brave men who fell in
both armies are, we believe. good friends
now. Then let us hang the cypress. the
myrtle aud the laurel on all the monuments
erected to commemorate the virtues and
mark the graves of American soldiers.


A marked incident of this decoration day
was the attendance of the veterans of the
war of 1872. There were only about a
dozen of them. aged and war worn veterans.
One of them said part playfully, but more
than half plaintively: The scene that
knows us now will soon know us no more.
1t will not be long before We get the com
mand TO rest


1t was worth great deal to see these
survivors Of 2 war, the motto Of whose chief
tain was, the "Unibn must and shall be
paying tribute to the fallen
heroes, who half century afterwards have
laid down their lives in defence of the same
jSao
Year: 1874

ITS 0SERVANCEs To BE CARRIED


OUT.


At the meeting OF the executive committee of
this department, held last evening, the following
resolution was adopted:


Whereas doubts seem to exist In this community
as to the that will be pursued by the Grand
Army of the Republic on Memorial day, In the
decoration Of soldiers graves: therefore


Resolved, That II Is the fixed purpose of this
committee to strictly adhere to the rulesN and
regulations (artiole "a chapter 81 which establish
OF the Grand Army Of the Republic on the aoth
day OF May, annually, in commemoratton Of the
deeds Of our fallen comrades ~ m ..
Year: 1874

WELL FURNISHED ROOMS TO LET SUITABLE
n. for gentlemen or gentleman and wife or would
the entire Cottage TO a small family oca ton
In the Ninth ward; Contiguous to five routes Apply
at 81 Charles street
Year: 1874

Son of minel the world before you


Spreads q Thousand secret snares
Round the feet Of every mortal


Who through life's long highway fares
Three especial, let me warn you,


Are by every traveller met
Three to try your heart 0f virtue
They are Love, and Drink and Debt.
Love, my boy, there's no escaping,
'Tis the common fate of men;
Father had it; I have had it -


But for love you had not been.
Take your chances, but be cautious;
Know q SQUAD is not dove;
Be the upright man Of honor;


All deceit doth murder love.
As for drink avoid it wholly;


Like an adder it will sting;
Crush the earliest temptation,


Handle not the dangerous thing.
See the wrecks Of men around US
Once as fair and pure as you
Mark the warningl Shun the pathway,
And the hell they're tottering through.
Yet though love be pure and gentle,
And from drink you may be free,
With yearning heart l warn you


'Gainst the worst Of all the three.
Many a demon in his journey


Bunyan's Christian Pilgrim met;
They were lambs, cen old ApOilyon,
To the awful demon Debit
With quaking heart and face abashed
The wretehed debtor goes;
He starts at shadows, lest they be
The shades of men he oWes.
Down silent streets he fugitive steals.
The face of man to shun,
He shivers at the pOstmAn's ring,
And fears tbs awful dun.
Beware of debit Once in, you'll bs Z
A slave for eVermore;
If credit tempt you thunder 'Nei"
And show IL to the door.
Cold water and 3 crust OF bread
May be the best you'll get;
Accept them like 8 man, and swear
I'll never run in Debt I'
Year: 1874

ding him with an education and throwing
around him influences which will make
his life profitable investment.


But society has also taken some pains
and trouble to render null and void its
own efforts. In this city, for instance,
the community has licensed over 5000
places at which the means of forming the
habit of drunkenness can be found, and
society pays four times as much to sup
port them as it does to protect and edu-
cate they whom it has raised at such
trouble and expense. By crowded, ILL
ventilated dwellings, by insufficient nu-
triton, by ignorant and depraved anees-
tors, by congenital traits and taints with
out number, society does its best to turn
the boy into q drunkard, and make its
better efforts useless; and in justice to So
ciety it should be said that the attempt is
very often successful. He enters his
eighteenth year in drunkard. Three cour-
ses are before him. He may continue to
be producer to an extent great enough
to support himself, and to do that alone
4 burden on the community, but only IN
a negative way not meeting his full share
of the burdens of the industrious, but al
the same time Aot directly adding to them
He may become 3 pauper, and fall q dead
weight on the producers of the communl-
ty, to be cared for as well as protected.
And he may become a criminal-not only
burden on society, but an enemy to its
welfare, to be abated and restrained at all
hazards; no longer either floating waif
or dead weight on society, bat an ex-
pensive antagonist, with whom war is =
expensive as war war always must be.
At best the state loses by his intoxicatien
completely and entirely the direct invest
msnt Of $5 900. At eighteen the mans
labor is worth at least $728 year. or $l4
weak. All this is lost, and it amounts
to the interest on nearly twhice the sum
spent for the mans education. The av-
erage life of q man addicted to ardent
sslrits is about seventeen years, and the
sum lost in this way is $l2,3


1t ID even greater than this. At tWen-
ty person IN health has an even chance
Of living forty-four years a dram drink
sr's chances are cut down to about one
third Of this period; and the difference
between these figures is q loss of SIS. .657,
and adding together these sources Of lose
and damage to the community the total
deficit; even where the man has enough
energy and method left to keep himself
from becoming an actual burden on the
community is as follows:


Original 5000
Loss OF labOr during lfs(sSvsntsen years) l2,S76
IsHH q Al ImhO hV
Year: 1874

All this on the supposition that the
family has included three rooms only that
the family has had not more than five
persons in it, all told, and that food and
clothing have been of the plainest des-
cIiption, with enough of both to produce
a healthy and vigorous growth but with
nothing to vary the monotony of fare
limited to the necessaries of life. He has
cost as member of family, and that a
family inexpensive and economical, about
$1,000; as a citizen he has cost a much
smaller sum, but still one that is fairly
appreciable.
Year: 1874

In estimating the cost to the community
of a single drunkard it is safe to assume
that his intoxication will not begin, in any
fern whatever, till he is fifteen years old.
Street children, with all the temptations
of q vogrant life, very rarely get under
the influence of liquor till they have
reached that age, and children who have
any home, it is safe to say, never do
Even those who are limited for house.
room to the few square feet of tenement
are pretty sure to avoid the perils and
pleasures of dram-drinking the first if


teen years of their lives: A stringent
law prohibits the sale of liquors to any
minor under eighteen, even, without the
consent of the guardian or parent, and
public opinion itself effectually curbs any
practice. There are many who begin to
drink at about this age, and are confirm
ed IN the habit in early manhood, driven
on by favorable surroundings and the
transmitted tastes and passions of a dis
solute ancestor; but their habits have
cost the community nothing till after they
have passed their fifteenth birthday. To
avoid any exaggeration, and to make the
elements in the problem as simple as pos
sible, it may be well to go to the bottom
of the social scale and take, as q typical
instance of the waste in excessive drink
ing, boy who has had the nurture and
the education which any industrious me-
chanic In this city, or any of the higher
class of day laborers could give. So far
as drunkenness is concerned he has reach
ed fifteen with the negative virtue of nei-
ther knowing good or evil, without bias
or predllection either for or against the
habit. Up to that time he has been rear
ed and educated with every reasonable
prospect that the cost of bringing him to
manhood will prove a good investment In
every sense of the word. The first loss
which the community feels from his intox-
ieatien Is the entire disappearance of the
sum expended to bring him to a point
where he could get drunk. The value of
an able-bodied, clear-headed, healthy boy,
fifteen years old, who has been to school
for about the average length Of Iime-six
years-is not easy to compute Down
South a "likely" boy fifteen years old
would have brought, few years ago at a
forced sale. $500. But this boy is more
than "hkelY" He is educated IN the
simpler branches of knowledge. He may
have also learned the rudinentS of a
trade, and become already, in q small way,
what society has right to expect he will
become IN very lew years IN large way,
a producer. The mere private cost of his
production Is by no means small. He has
had his share besides IN the protection
and safety of government and the accu-
mulated comfort of the pact, all of which
has been lavished on him in the legitimate
hope that he would in his time shoulder
a part of the taxes. and aid in accumUla-
ting comfort and capital for the future
oLsll kL,A L..
been passed in the family of a mechanic,
much below this estimate


Board ten years at s., and i've years at So


week
Share of rent at sI4 month In q family Of


nfe
Clothing $50 fer ten years, $50 tor i've years. $50
Sehool Dook8..-. 90
Year: 1874

Multitudes of men and women have
made their eyes weak for life by the
too free use of eyesight, reading small
print and doing fine sewing. In view
of these things, it is well to observe the
following rules in the use of the eyes


Avoid all sudden changes between
light and darkness.


Never read by twilight, or on a very
cloudy day.


Never sleep so that on waking the
eyes shall open on the light of the win
dow.


Do not use eyesight by light so scant
that it requires an effort to discrimi'
nate.


Never read or SOW directly in front
Of the light of the window.


1t is best to have the light from above,
or obliquely or over the left shoulder.


Too much light creates glare and
pains and confuses the sight. The mo-
ment you are sensible of an effort to
distinguish, that moment stop and talk,
walk or ride. -.-.


As the sky is blue and the earth green,
it would seem that the ceiling should
be blush tinge, the carpet green, and
the walls of some mellow tint.


The moment you are instinctively in
clined to rub the eyes, that moment
cease to nse them. f-'


If the eyelids are glued together on
waking do not forcibly open them, but
apply saliva with the finger, and then
wash your eyes and face with warm wa
ter,
Year: 1874

As the trials of life thicken, and the
dreams of other days fade, one by one,
in the dim vista of disappointed hope,
the heart grows weary Of the long con
tinued struggle, and we begin to realize
our insignifcance. Those who have
climed to the pinnacle offame or revel
in luxury and wealth, go to the grave
at last with the poor mendicant who
begs by the wsyside, and like him are
soon forgotten. Generation after gen.
Grafton, says an eloquent writer, have
felt as We feel, and their fellows were as
active in life as ours are now. They
passed away as q vapor, while nature
wore the same aspect of beauty as when
the Creator commanded her to be.
The heavens will be as bright over our
graves as they are now around our path;
the world has the same attraction for
offspring Iyet unborn that she once had
for ourselves, and that she now has for
our children.
Year: 1874

A recent paragraph in the Guardian,
calling attentian to the fact that the
Summer widowers were having the
jolliest times imaginable in the absence
of their voluble halves, has had most
remarkable effect. The wives come
trotting home to see about this thing.
One gentleman who was having an un-
usually good time, and whose wife had
gone away to stay till the middle of
September, was wonerfully astonished
on going home at four o'clock in the
morning yesterday, to find his wife
sitting up waiting for him. She gayehim
a rousing reception, and he looks like
the last rose of summer. The wide world
may wag as it will, but it is doubtful if
he ever smiles again. The wives are
coming home unexpectedly every day,
and husband had better look out little
in order that they may save some
trouble. Paterson Guardian.
Year: 1874

finement. The Grand Rabbi suddenly
felt possessed of extraordinary power,
and, seizing piece of coal, drew upon
the wall the image of ship, which
Immediately became real vessel, and
bore him safely out of the reach of his
prosecutors towards the shore of Al
geria. Here he was well received by
the Mussulmans, and his name, besides
being associated with this tomb. is
ranked as that of the first Israelitish


legislator in Africa. The tomb has
been venerated, not only by the Jews,


but also by the Mussulmans, and, as it
may be supposed, this act of theft is
viewed with considerable indignation.
Year: 1874

A Curious BIRDS NEsT-There is a
bird in New Guinea called the Mega
podius, which in the size of its eggs and
its manner of Matching them, must be
considered extraordinary. 1t is not
larger than one of our ordinary fowls,
but its eggs are three inches long by
two and a half in diameter. 1t does
not attempt to sit on them. A colony
of birds lay their eggs together in a
large mound, in the hottest part of the
year, from September to March, and
leave them to be Matched by the sun.
The mound is made of sand, loose
earth, and sticks and leaves, which
latter by their decay increases the heat.
The mounds are wonderfully large,
being ten feet high and about sixty feet
in circumference at the base. The
young birds come out of hole in the
top. Tne mother birds wait on the
trees around till their chicks are
Matched, and then each leads off her
own brood. How each knows its own is
a mystery. The eggs are much relished
by the natives, but not at all by Euro
peans. A native of Cape York ventured
one day into a nest for eggs, and while
he was exploring the hidden riches of
the large mound the upper part fell in
and he was smothered. He was after


wards fOund in the very act of digging
buried alive in birds nest.
Year: 1874

are but turn to the little of the story
that we shall be able to examine. In
the first 'fytte" or the "Lytell Geste"
We are introduced to some of the COM
panions of the 'proud outlaw" The
chief of these was called 'Little John.
When Robin Hood met any man who
could beat him he always invited him
to Join his band. He met q stranger
once on a bridge and was thrown by
him into the water, after pretty good
beating with the quarterstaff. This
stranger proved to be named John
Little. He was a very large man, and
outlaws changed his name to Little
John, as a sort of joke.
Year: 1874

AN exchange says that at Urbanna, Cham
paign county, Ohio. the crusaders prose
cuted their uncompromisng war upon the Ii
quor dealers until every saloon was closed and
the triumphant Issue of their contest W th the
demon alcohol Is the.occasion of most mar
uellous phenomenon, For fifty years prior tG
the event of the crusaders not a rattlesuake
had been seen in that vicinity, bat now the
whole country around Urbanna ia absolutely
alive with these yenomous reptiles. At least
We infer as much from the fact that no rban.
ma man caninduced to stir abroad without TAX
ing along his bottle of whiskey as an antidote
to the virus of the deadly serpent"
Year: 1874

After having been married some
weeks, it came into the head of a
young husband in this city, one Sun
day when he had but little to occu-
py his mind, to suggest to his wife
that they should plainly and honestly
state the faults that each had discoV-
cred in the other since they became
man and wife. After some hesita-
ton the wife agreed to the PROPOSE
ton, stipulated that the rehearsal
should be made in all sincerity and
with an honest view of the better of
each other, and otherwise it would
be of no use to speak of the faults
to which marriage had opened their
eyes. The husband was of the same
mind, and the wife asked him to begin
with her faults. He was somewhat
reluctant, but his wife insisted that
he was the first one to propose the
matter, and he was at the head of
the house and it was his place to
take the head. Thus urged, he be-
gan the recital. He said:


~Ay dear, one of the first faults
1 obserged in you, after we began
keeping house, was that you a good
deal neglected the tinware. You
didn't keep it secured as bright as
it used to be. My mother always
took great pride in her tinware, and
kept it as bright as dollar


II am glad that you have men
toned it my dear" said his wife,
bIushing q little. thereafter you
shall see no speck on cup or pan.
Pray proceed" Z"


81 have also Observed" said the
husband, SHAT you use your dish
rags a long time without washing
them, and then finally throw them
away. Now, when at home, 1 re-
member that my mother always US
ed to wash out her dish-rags when
she was through using them ."
then hang them up who = aal4
dry, readv 3 & s s @