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Year: 1874

Among the passengers who came into San Francisco on the steamship Japan were twenty-two Chinese women. All were young in years and prepossessing Tn appearance. The Commissioners of Immigration became satisfied that it was their duty to inquire into their moral character, and for this purpose they were taken from the steamer and brought to the City Hall. Pending the action of the Court, they were placed in the Mayors office in charge of the Sheriff. Among the crowd who were in the courtroom were number of Chinamen. One of these, while pass- ing the Mayors office on his way out, spoke few words to the women, and immediately an uproar ensued, the like of which was never heard before. It loose, or that some mad-house were giving a vocal entertainment. All the poor creatures, with one accord, began to cry and moan in a pitiful manner. Some threw themselves fiat upon the floor, beat their breasts, and tore thoir hair others butted their heads against the wall and rolled about in 8 perfect agony of despair. When the "Yellow Maria arrived, in which they were to be taken to the county jail, the scene increased in violence. Many of them had to be carried bodily to the vehicle, while they rent the air with screams and shrill crying. The Chinaman who spoke to the women intimated that they were to be taken from that room to their death. They were to be hanged immediately, and the vail which they set up was in consequence. They be- ieved the man, and for time expert enced such agony as they would suffer in the face of impending death.
Year: 1874

A good many years ago, one of the most notorious thieves in the United States, had confidential conversation with gentleman who is now one of our most efficient detectives, and expressed 8 desire to reform. "Why do you wish so much to live on the square ?" asked the gentleman. "Because," replied the thief, 1T have wife and children, to whom I am very much attached i; they have an idea of the mode in which I make my living the children are growing up, and are beginning to won- der why leave home so often and what do and if I am ever to reform, now is the time." The gentleman warmly ap- proved the idea, and to further it, loan ed the man several hundred dollars with which to begin an honest business. The reformed man at once broke off all his old associations, lived 8 perfectly honest life, would have no dishonest persons call on him, devoted himself for years closely to business, raised his family respectfully, did good many acts of unostentatious charity, and died not long since esteemed by all who knew him. His children are doing well and are highly respectable. The money advanced was long since repaid.
Year: 1874

It is serious question, says the S01aStnrS0's, whether we are not getting what is called education at too exorbi- tant price, when the health and use- fitness of eyes are impaired or sacri- feed. And the mischief that is done to eyes in schools and colleges may safely be taken as an indication of the damage that is inflicted upon other parts of the body. Objectors may, perhaps, say that the appalling statistics obtained by the foreign observers could not be gathered in American schools and col leges. We believe that they might, and we found our belief upon twenty years work among just the classes of subjects tabulated by Cohen and the other conti- mental observers. We believe that our system of education, if, indeed, we may be said to have 8 system. is one of the most damaging in it's effects upon the growing bodies of. scholars of any in the world. Let any one familiar with hygiene, take the pains, as we have, to inquire carefully into the physical ef- fects of the curricula of our leading schools and colleges, and he will be compelled to confess that there is the greatest cause for reform. The atten- tion which is paid to gymnastic exer- cises and other methods of physical culture does not correct the evils.

 It often happens that those who real ly need physical exercise most do not get it, or that the exercise is excessive, and does harm to those who engage in it. What we need in our school and college curricula is diminution of the hours of labor, The working hours too often extend from eight or nine in the morning to ten or eleven at night. The strain thus put upon growing bodies is too great. Some method should be devised by which much that now involves a persistent use of the eyes in confined and unnatural pastures of the body could be accomplished through the use of models or photo graphs, or tho blackboard. Much that is now attempted to be taught by badly printed books might be taught orally or by some form of object lessons. Even if such radical changes could not be ac- complished, much might be done to- ward lessening the evil effects of our present method by shortening the hours devoted to study, by correcting defects in the architecture of class and study rooms, by improving the ventilation, heating and lighting of school-houses, and by diffusing information among the parents of scholars, so that there may be less in the home-life that is prejudi- cial to health.

 And just here we touch the very fountain of the evil. Our schools can- not be much. if any, above the intelli- gence of their patrons. We do not blame the teachers for the evils in our system of education. We blame boards of trustees and other school and college boards for not applying the principles that have already been worked out by scientific men. If architects and boards of managers of schools and colleges would apply in the construction and conduct of their institutions of learning even few of the principles that sani- tarians all agree upon, we would at once see reduction in those forms of disease which are traceable to their present neglect.
Year: 1874

If the husband wishes @ good dinner he must give his wife good place to cook it in. The kitchen should be made entirely comfortable and conve- niert, especially in winter. No woman can do good cooking unless she has all the utensils and appliances. One of the latest improved cooking stoves or ranges is indispensable. No old, worn- out cooking apparatus should find a place in good kitchen. A woman may be one of the greatest experts in all manner of cookery, yet if she is desti- tute of proper fixtures and materials, she will necessarily fail in her attempts. Good fuel is of the first importance, for this lies at the very foundation of all success in the culinary art. Hard, well-seasoned wood does very we'll, but suitable hard coal does much bet ter. Water must be plenty and conve- nient and soft water is much better than hard for cooking or washing. Every person who assumes the respon- sibility of cooking for family, and es- pecially every mother, should become thoroughly educated in the science of physiology and dietics, in order to adapt the food to the system of either the young or the old, and also to the state of the health and the season of the year. tI
Year: 1874

WHAT IT DoEs.-Base-ball leaves it's hideous mark for life on all it's silly vo- taries, says lady correspondent. The hand is one of the most beautiful mem- bers of the mortal part of humanity. Baseball spreads the palm, fattens the thumb, and crooks the handsome fin gers. Look st the hands of great number of young men of to-day. Oh, cruel deformity! What an instrument to pat 8 woman's cheek It has not the velvet softness of the paw of cat nor the imperial strength of the eagles talon. They are only fit to be given away, if creature can be found weak enough to take one.
Year: 1874

With the Agriculturist: labor is
prayer his work being the fruition of
his desires, they entering into con-
sonance with the god of Nature, bring
ing forth fruit after their kind, and the
kind is typical of the character of the
sower. indices by which We read the
experience and intelligence of the oper-
ator, and nature, being true to itself,
answers such prayer in accordance to
the skill manifested upon the part Of
labor thus directed.


So we can see the necessity of ad-
dressing ourselves inte]ligently to old
mother Earth; though her answer may
not come in audible voice, nevertheless
it does come. for the harvest and the
clustering vine with the fruits of au-
tumn proclaim a literal answering of
prayer, or in other words if you like,
the ful6llment upon her part of the Oh,
legations transferred to her keeping from
the seed time.


We see something beautiful and en-
obling in the relation that the hus-
bandmen sustains toward the world of
matter upon the one side, and the world
OF intelligence upon the other, mediator
between the two, working in coniunc-
ton with the former, that the latter
may be supplied sustenance for physi-
cal growth and maintenance. Now.
who is there so little in mind as to at
tach contumely to the merits of this av-
ocation, when they come to realize the
Year: 1874

top Of the cliff, the elements have gwen
it a polish like a marble mantel.
This is but half mile from the river
where DR.. Vary intends erecting -four
ing mill this season. He can build a
dam on the gravelly bed Of Rock river
with that stone that will Withstand the
torrents for ages, I should suppose.
Climbing up the precipice on the snow
that was packed against its face SO dense
ly by the wind as to afford safe footing,
I Igained point where I could see houses
sixteen miles away across the prairie, and
the bluffs on the west of the Sioux river,
thirty miles southwest, was plainly dis
cernible. From the edge Of the cliff the
ground rose gently for about forty rods
when it rolled and spread away in all d.
rections as far as the eye could reach.
1t was at this point that the Indians
used to stand and watch for herd of
buffalos to come in sight, when; upon a
signal to the people below, the hunters
would take each side of the cliff and get
behind the herd, then drive them up to
and headlong over this precipice into the
valley below, where the wounded were
dispatched and all skinned and the meat
dried for future use. Some Of their
bones are now lodged in the crevices Of
the rocks, and their bones whitened the
ground before the plow covered them un-
der its cleaning share.


The tracks of the wolf, fox, coyote
and jack rabbit we're imprinted thickly
on the snow along the front Of the
mound, and the smoke stained assures
showed how the caves and holes in the
rock had been inhabited by the wild men
Of the west. This has always been a
famous range for the Bison, and but 40
miles south from the great pipe stone
quarries now reserved by the Govern
ment for the use of the Indians. The
citizens of Lu Verne are wide-awake,
whole-souled, open-hearted set, and look
forward to a bright future for their town
and county. Worthington, on the St.
Paul & Sioux city railroad, is the nearest
railroad station, and Lu Verne does the
most of her trading at Sioux City.


G. A. J. 0.
Year: 1874

fact that from it's nostrils is breathed
forth the life essence Of humanity with
all its business relations. Without bread
the artisans hand would be palsied, the
brain Of genius dormant in the womb Of
time, and a condition of inertia in the
world Of thought, for seutient life must
eat that it may think.


We know that there is sort Of fun
gus growing out of the extravagances
Of humanity, shining through the world
in the guise of manhood, that are ever
ready to elevate their snobbish noses
and cry kentry," fertilizer and rustic
&C.; they are very we'll known by the
odor (musk) and system of style they
support, airy bubbles floating noiseless-
ly along upon the great ocean Of events,
exploding here and there with meteor
like flashes and as soon forgotten.


For them we have no thought farther
than is actuated by the spirit of charity
for the waste they are making of lifes
opportunities, but we do feel and know.
that, as class: we are not understood
and appreciated by the world of sense
toward whom We look for reciprocal
tion of interest that should be mutual
and protective. Our labor is certainly
legitimate-based in nature, and deal.
ing with the first principles, and those
principles involving as they do the
needs and wants of human life and in
dustry, will, of necessity, make for them.
selves place in due time that the world
is bound to respect. Already we think
we have the key to the solution of this
problem, only requiring time to disclose
the result G..


There are two things that puzzle me.
One Is, the amount Of misplaced virtue
in the world; that is to say, the im-
mense quantity of downright goodness
scattered around among the commonest
sort Of people,; among people about
whom there are no social safeguards
whatever, and who would be quite up
to the moral standard of their neighbors
if they gave loose rein to all manner
of passion. I tell you when man who
has been surrounded with pure influ-
enccs,-I do not mean with austerity
or fanaticism, from which he would be
likely to suffer reaction-when a man
who has breathei no atmosphere but
that of moderation and decorum, looks
back upon his own life, and trembles
at his hundred hair-breath escapes
from utter ruin Of one kind or another,
he cannot help wondering what keeps
the unprotected classes from going al
together and utterly to the bad
Scribners for March.
Year: 1874

For The Advance


There is no heart so deadened, but
that beats with quickened impulse as
memory strikes the chords of fonder
dreams, that lie buried with the secrets
that it would hide from the world.


No life of dissipation can destroy the
impress of such thoughts, for they are
daguereotyped within the souls inner
chamber as silent witnesses of happier
hours


The rust Of time may gather with the
passing years wrinkles may carve the
work Of approaching dissolution, but,
nevertheless, these silent oracles Of life's
memory strike the same melody all along
the key board of human events. c.


MEN may counterfeit truth and re-
ceive value from the unsuspecting thus
deceived-but nevertheless, the truth
underlieth the deception or else there
would have been no counterfeit.
Year: 1874

after sunrise. The birds fly about, the
fishes jump, and animated nature seems TO
know as little of night as inanimate. On
shore, for instance, at Tromso, people are
out walking or standing at their house
doors, enjoying the night as we do the day.
Perhaps they retire to sleep at l orr; but
sleep seems scarcely necessity to them,
and they are up again early. 1t deserves to
be recorded also that photographer at
Tromso took successful portraits of large
group of steamboat passengers exactly at
midnight, June 27. 1t need hardly be
mentioned that neither within the Arctic
Circle nor considerably south of it were
any stars visible at midsummer, nor till
the end of July; and the moon but rarely,
and then as pale as at noon in England.
OF course this description is true only of
bright nights; there are dull nights there,
as there are dull days with us; and many
a traveller may steam from ThrOndhjem to
the North Cape without ever seeing the
sun at midnight through his portfolio, as
the present writer could do shortly after
leaving Throndhiem m.-Saturday Reviei0.
Year: 1874

Don't tell the little one, who may be
slightly willful, that the black man will
come out of the dark cellar and carry it
off if it does not mind" Don't create a
needless fear to go with the child through
all the stages of its existence.


Don't tell the little five year old Jimmy
"the school ma'am will cut off his ears
pull out his teeth tie him up'-Or
any of the horrible stories that are COM
monty presented to the childish imagina-
ton. Think you the little one will believe
ANYTHING you tell him after he becomes ac-
quainted with the gentle teacher who has
not the least idea of putting those terrible
threats into execution?


Don't tell the children they must not
drink tea because it will make them black,
while you continue the use of it daily.
Your example is more to them than pre-
cept: and while your face is as fair as a
June morning they will scarcely credit the
oft-told tale. Either give up drinking the
pleasant beverage or give your children a
better reason for its nOn-uSe.


Don't tell them they must not eat sugar
or sweetmeats, because it will rot their
teeth. Pure sugar does not cause the
teeth TO decay; and sugar with fruits is nu-
tritious and healthy, notwithstanding the
6 old saw" to the contrary. The case OF
city children is often cited as if the cause
of their pale faces and slight constitution 8
were an over amount of sweetmeats with
their diet, when the actual cause is want of
o Ire air and proper exercise.


Don't tell the sick one that the medicine
is Lot bad to take, when you can hardly
keep your own stomach from turning
Inside Outp at the smell of it. Better by
far to tell him the simple truth, that 1t IS
disagreeable, but necessary for his health,
and you desire him TO take it at once. Ten
to one he will swallow it with half the
trouble of coaxing and worry of words,
and love you better for your firm, decided
manner.


Don't teach the children by example to
tell white lies to each other and TO their
neighbors. Guard lips and bride your
tongue if you desire TO have the coming
generation truthful. Truthfulness is one
of the foundation stones of heaven. Re-
member the old, old Book says, - no liar''
shall enter within the gates of the beauti.
full city. There is no distinction between
white lies and those of darker hue. The
falsehood is an untruth, whether the mat
ter be great or small.-R1raL Ae10 Yorker.
Year: 1874

When a seed is placed in the earth and
subjected TO the action Of warmth, InOls-
ture and air, it first absorbs moisture,
swells up some times to several times It's
former size. and sends up a shoot to the
surface, and at the same time throws down
a rootlet into the soil below. Unless this
root is sufficiently developed to bring up
food from the soil, the plant derives its
whole nutriment from the seed. This is
also the case until the leaves are formed
and enabled to absorb carbonic acid from
the atmosphere and obtain the requisite
supply of carbon from the same. Hence,
if seeds are planted too deep, much Of the
substance that would promote the develop
ment of leaves and stem above ground is
used up in forming long stem beneath
the surface,
Year: 1874

ARBITRATION VS. VAR A lynx and
wildcat were steathily approaching, from
opposite directions, doing pheasant.
The lynx. however, was rather before the
wild cat, and had but just secured his
prey, when his rival put in an appearance
ard the following angry discussion took
place:


Wildcat" How dare you poach on
my ground? I've lived here all my life,
and that birds mine. -


Lynx" don't care. caught it,and
mean to eat it.


You shaut.


81 will


A terrible struggle then took place, but
although they both fought desperately
for long time it proved 10 be q drawn
battle


The wild cat then said "Suppose we
call in the lion, and accept arbitration in
the mattcrP"


agreed! !" said the lynx


Just fancy their chagrin when they
found that in the very thick Of the fight
neighbor had slipped unobserved away
with the prize


"Oh r said the lynx, "why didn't we
think Of arbitration and mutual conces
sion before the battlep We have lost
what we fought about, and inflicted in
juries on ourselves which may take a
long, long time to heal Yes, it is Ger.
tainly better to settle differences by arhi
tration rather than by war
Year: 1874

BEATlrUDEs.-Bes are they that are
blind. for they shall see no ghosts.


Blessed are they that are deaf, for they
never lend money and never hear tedious
stories.


Blessed are they that are afraid Of thun.
der, for they shall hesitate about getting
married and keep away from political
meetings.


Blessed are they that are lean, for there
is chance to grow fat.


Blessed are they that are ignorant, for
they are happy in thinking they know
everything.


Blessed is he that is ugly in form and
features, for the gals shall not molesl
him


Blessed is she who would get married,
but can't, for the consultations OF the gos-
pei are hers.


Blessed are the orphan children, for
they have no mothers to spank en-.


Blessed are they that expect nothiag
for they shall not be disappointed


Blessed are they that do not advertise
for they shall rarely be troubled with ,
customer.
Year: 1874

I They tell queer story about the
doctors in q certain Texas town, who
were all away last summer to attend q
med cal convention. They were absent
about two months, and on their return
found oil their patients had recovered,
the drug stores had closed, the nurses
had opened dancing schools, the GENE
terry was cut up into building lots. the
nndertakers had gone to making lddles,
and the hevse had been painted and sold
for circus wagon
Year: 1874

EEr Lost in moving, on the first OF this
month, porcelain urn, of classic design,
containing the ashes Of a beloved hus-
band The finder will receive liberal
reward and the thanks of a doubly afllic,
ed widow on leaving it at the Office Of
the New York Cremation society.
Year: 1874

No small excitement was created Yesterday az
ternoon by the announcement that the steamship
Alaska, belonging to the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company. had been blown ashore At Eong Kong.
A representative OF the HERALD called At the COM
pany'a once yesterday afternoon, and learned
that no fears were entertained for the safety OF
the vessel It was stated that In the typhoon OF
tne 2lst ult. the Alaska was driven ashore but she
has made water, and, as far as Is known sho
Ia not strained In the least. It rs confidently ex-
pected that at the next high tide the snip will be
noated on uninjured. There were no passengers
on board, as the Alaska had only left the dock
where she lay SIX weeks before the accident and
where repairs had been made upon her coppor
Sheeting and new SHAFT provided her.
Year: 1874

where his grand countensnce could ever face that
airy and elegant embodiment OF angelic grace
which decOrates the fountain by the lake
But am happy to state my belief that these peo-
pie are mistaken, for no suspicion OF self or family
interest has ever touched any OF the Park Commis-
sion, and only mention their evil surmisings 10
rebuke rnem.


Trusting tnat the matter may be settled In
manner satisfactory alike to Mr.. Burnham and the
patriotic sense OF the comniunfty-in other words.
that MS noble and most munIhcent gilt may not
De banished to the outskirts OF the Park, am.
very respectfully yours, CITIZEN.


A Location for the Webster Statue.
10 THF EDITOR or THE HERALD:-


AS the proprietors Of Ryans Farm will not allow
MI Burnham to place his Webster on the Mall, as
II might frighten the sheep and spoil the 1svor OF
the mutton, would suggest the top OF the Obser-
va'ory as proper place to put the great states
man. as he would be In full view OF the keepers
Wniie hshing in the reservoir, fishing being an
49,; s he always took delight and, as this
& VI preserved water Is well stocked, 1t would be
very appropriate for the artist TO put fishing
pore s ~ IA Ine hand oil Daniel, with good sized cat
nsn III bronze swinging from the end OF it.


WEST SIDE
Year: 1874

General Dix should be reelected Governor, do you
think he would he favorably thought of and what
would be his chances for being selected as the
republican standardbearer IN the Presidential
campaign ~


81 decline TO answern


number OF other questions were then pro-
pounded TO Colonel Bliss upon national State and
city politics, but they only served, and all, TO
draw out the same reply, al decline to answer"