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Year: 1874

In our remarks a day or two
ago upon the forthcoming his
tory of the United States, by
Mr.. Bryant, we spoke of the
material IN the way of incident
and picture which the subject
would afford. Reading the 9TH
er day of Jackson's visit to
New York, about the time of
his first Inauguration, and just
after his wife's death, we were
greatly struck with the pictorial
qualities Of the story. He rode
the length Of Broadway on
horseback, with a long weeper;
at that time in fashion in Ten
nesce, tied around his hat and
hanging the length Of his back.
We have here just one of these
pictures so very vivid and inn
portant, Of which American
history in full. There is a chap
ter of history contained in the
photograph. That he should
have ridden on horseback in
stead of in carriage indicates
a popularity Of the time. The
long weeper tied around the
white hat-a thing familiar e.
nough in Tennessee, and yet
strange enough in New York
recalls the fact that various
parts Of the country were not
so homogeneous as they are at
present. Jackson's truculent
and defiont grief, even had he
been concsious that his weeper
was too long for the fashion in
these parts, wonld have vindi-
Gated itself anywhere and before
The weeper recalls
the incidents of his wife's early
life and his affection for her,
both Of which exerted a pro-
found influence upon him. 1t
recalls the duel with Dickinson,
an encounter which, it seems to
us, is one of the most terrible Oh
record.
Year: 1874

A common and mnst dangerous
custom is that of walking on rail-


road tracks, and what is more it
has been declared 10y the court
Of appeals in Maryland to be un-
lawful. \ man named Lewis
Frech was walking on the track
If the Port Deposit branch OF the
Philadelphia. Wilmington and
Baltimore railroad some time
since when he was struck by the
cars and bad one arm cut of. He
sued for damages but lost his suit,
the court say ing that imam walk
ing on the railroad track as Frech,
was there unlawfully and the a.
gents of the railroad company In
charge of the train, having given
all the usual and proper signals 10
warn persons of their approach,
were not required to stop the train
on discovering Frech OH the track.
Having the right to clean the
track the company's agents were


justified in acting on the reason
able supposition that the plaintiff
would be guided by his own sense
of danger, and would leave the
track before overtaken by the
train after the signal OF danger
was given"
Year: 1874

A man at Sturgis, Mich, re-
Gently lost his only child, and,
carrying it on his shoulder to the
cemetery, buried it himself and
pronounced funeral grafton
over the grave, with but one
old woman to hear it.
Year: 1874

The average Burlington, Io-
wa, saloon keeper must be bad
indeed. a learned divine in
that city recently addressed one
of them as follows: "Wretched
man! If the bed Of that river
was bank high with the suds of
salvation, and a June rise of
piety coming down from the
mountain, there wouldn't be
enough to wash your feet"
Year: 1874

The Good Templar, of Nash
vile, the official organ Of the
Independent Order of Good
Templars in this State, has the
following paragraph in its issue
Of April 23d:


eve have received several
communications from our lodg-
es making inquiries concerning
a circular issued by the execu-
tive committee Of the Labor Re
form party, calling upon the
party to send delegates to meet
with them in this city on the
first Tuesday in May, 1874, to
nominate a candidate tor Gov
erner. While we feel kindly
towards all orders OF reform,
and are willing to DO all in our
power, honorabIy, to suppress
the liquor traffic and to advance
the cause Of reform, we do not
think it a wise policy for our
order to become entangled i'll
the meshes Of political parties,
in order to promote the cause
of temperance. Therefore, we
cannot give our consent for the
lodges to send delegates to meet
with any political convention to
to nominate candidates for State
officers"
Year: 1874

An exchange declares that
"Gcn. Butler and his personal
followers constitute no mean
power in a political convention
in Massachusetts" No, but
they constitute everything else
that is mean, no matter where
they are.
Year: 1874

lsuppose for long time there has been no


such wide and general scarcity of potatoes az


at present, and as a consequence suppose


the price will be higher and the demand larp-


er when the first of next years crop comes in


than they have been for years. For these
reasons, then, it seems to be proper time to
give some hiLts as to the best means of secur-
ing early maturity. What I have to say is
almost wholly the results of personal expert


ence and applies to the soil and climate Of


Central Illinois. First, then, discard every


thing but the Early Rose There may be


other kinds as early, or earlier, but so far I


have never seen them. There may be those


which give "A larger yield and are better for


the table the season through, but have nev


or discovered them. The two great enemies


we have to contend with, are the Colorado


Beetle and the drouth. If we plant sufficient
ly early we may avoid both. or 30 nearly


avoid!them that we may be sure of fair crop.
Plant then, on high, cry and very rich soil,
as early in March as the frost is out of the
ground-and indeed if there comes open
weather in February they may be risked,
planted deep, and covered to the depth of
five or six inches with coarse stable ma


nure. And the seed should be cut several


days, say ten, or two weeks,so that the pieces


may 'heal, as the Irish say, before they are
planted. OF course, do not recommend the
cutting of seed so long before hand when the
planting is done after the middle of April.


The best seed is furnished by fair-sized
potato, cut lengthwise into four pieces, and
the pieces dropped, ~ to 18 inches apart, in


the row. They should be covered four or five


inches deep. 1he distance of the rows apart
do not seem to make much diference-from
to feet will do. l had magnificent yield


on patch which was planted in drills as
| above, ~ inches apart and 4 feet in the row.


thought these could not be beat, till dug
some, where the distance apart was only 8


feet. To dig potatoes rightly, the workman
wants to stand on the row and throw, with q


spading fork. the potatoes in front of him.


When thev are IL inches apart, found it


impracticable 10 dig them out, without cutting
many iu the operation-they so filled and oc-


cuped the soil. think 1 shall hereafter try
the distance of 1S inches apart and feet in
the row.
Year: 1874

A philosophical victim advertises as fol-
lows: sIf the person who took fancy to my
overcoat was influenced by the inclemency
of the weather, then, contrary to the weather
all is serene; but if he did so from CONNER
cial considerations, am ready to enter into
financial negotiations for its return"
Year: 1874

A man in Hartford has stopped his news
paper because his name was printed in list
of advertised letters, and his wife, happening
to see it first, went and got it for him and
found it was from young lady, who COM
planned that he didn't meet her at Worcester.
as he promised.
Year: 1874

1t don't require an astrologer, q
medium or a gypsy with direct
pack of cards. 1t is very simple
lies in a nutshell, and can be ex-
pressed in a few words. They are
these: The last person you would
naturally think of.


If a girl expresses fondness for
majestic men with large whiskers,
make up your mind that she will
marry a very small man with none.
If she declares that "mind" is all
she looks for, expect to see her
stand before the alter with pretty
fellow who has just sense enough
to tie o cravat bow. If on the con-
trary, she declares she must have
a handsome husband, look about
you for the plainest person in her
circle of acquaintance, and declare
"that is the man," for it will be-.


Men are almost as bad. The
gentleman who desires q wife with
q mind and mission, marries q lisp
ing baby who screams at the sight
of q mouse, and hides her face
when she hears a sudden knock at
the door. And the gentleman
who dreaded anything like strong
mindedness, exults in the facts that
his wife is exactly everything that
he declared he detested.


If q girl says of one, "Marry
him! I'd rather die," look upon
the affair as settled, and expect
cards to the wedding of those two
people.


If man remarks of q lady,
"Not my style at all !" await pa
tiently the appearance of his name
in the matrimonial column in con-
nection with that very lady's.


And if any two people declare
themselves "friends and nothing
MORE" you may know what may
come next.


There is no hypocricy in all this
and such matches are invariably
the happiest. People do not know
themselves, and make great mis-
takes about their intentions. Love
is terribly perplexing when he first
begins to upset ones theories, and
when his arrows first pierces the
heart there is such a huttering
there, that it is hard to guess the
cause. Besides man proposes and
God disposes, and it is the 81 don't
know what" with which people fall
in love, and not those peculiarities
which could be given in passport.
Year: 1874

When the bell rang for breakfast
l was up and anxiously waiting for
that most welcome sound. The in
ner man had been craving for some
thing upwards of an hour. l seat
ed myself, and awaited the coming
of some one to take my order, but
they didn't come. Itook the morn
ing paper from my pocket, and
read more than three columns be-
fore that long-looked-for waiter
made his appearance. He ap-
preached me and ! gave the order /:


"Rare, broiled sirloin."


He then disappeared, and / was
compelled to wait full three-quar-
tiers Of an hour before / saw him
again. But he came as large as
life, bearing tray with my break
fast thereon, though it might better
be called dinner, as to time Of day.
The sirloin he brought was about
as large as silver dollar, and look
ed as if it had been over the fire
ever since the flood. turned the
delicate morsel over and remarked:


"If you brought that in for q
sample, you will please be kind
enough to carry it away again, as |
cannot find an agent or company in
the country willing to take a risk
on teeth that come in contact with
that sort of material"


He vanished like grasshopper
pursued by q brood of chickens,
and l managed to make a lunch on
a cup of warm water labeled "cof-
fee," served with a good supply of
chalk and more water, hot(i) roll,
some butter that would out.ranlz
General Grant, a mess of trash they
evidently meant for fried potatoes,
and some pickles that reminded me
of q last years Thanksgiving. ]
had my fill of fashionable hotels. ]
proceeded to the office to "settle,'
and being charged the modest sum
of one dollar and fifty cents for
breakfast, paid my bill, bid the
gentlemanly(O clerk farewell, and
made my way to a restaurant, where
procured something fit to eat.


Ever since that never-to-be-for-
gotten morning I give all "fashion-
able" hotels q wide berth. / don'i
90 much on that kind Of fashion.
ability. Not l.
Year: 1874

When am lying pale and dead,
Come not, dear friends, around my bed,
And pour your loss in deafcned ears,
And wash my Needless face with tears.
What thrill OF hope OF tenderness


VIII beat beneath my burial Dress
What look Of gratitude arise


And lift the lids of sightless eyesf
What loving voice escape these lips,
From which no speech or language slips
Alas i cannot rouse and say:
"If ye lament me will stay"
Speak while I hear, and while long
y To feel your love is true and strong.
While peace can soothe my troubled brow,
Wait not to miss me hold me now
Set not your kisses on my cheek,
Nor on my mouth, too cold to speak.
In life long to feel their breath,
But what are kisses worth to death
Like blossoms dropped on ice and snow;
Like songs when bowling tempests blow,
wasted gift, a vain carrcss,
That might power TO bless,
That might life with Joy endow;
Oh 1. IL you kiss me, kiss me now.
Remember not when I am gono
The deeds did or would of done,
How much loved, how vainly strcvo
To find an answer in your love
Say not with tears and cries and prayers.
"would that we showed her tenderer cares,
Had patience with the faults we knew,
Clung to the heart so warm and true,
That now we weep with hopeless pain
And know will never come again"
All breathe not then with useless vow;
But if you love me, love me nov.
For, standing round my wintry grave,
Too late TO serve me or to save,
Fling on il all you have to give:
AT last her follies we forgive !"
No if within your hearts there be
A kind but slumbering thought Of me,
A memory Of the vanished past,
A hope of peace and love at last,
A speechless prayer, silent sense,
That sometimes speaks in my defense,
That says: "Our life is not too long,
And we, perhaps, were sometimes wrong"
And listen to that pleading voice,
And bid living heart rejoice.
II late remorse or grief allow


Forgiveness then, forgive me now.
Year: 1874

Not with reprOOf for any of that days
sins of omission or commission. Take any
time but bedtime for that. If you ever
heard little creature Sighing or sobbing in
IFS sleep, YOU could never do this. Seal
their closing eyelids with akiss and bles-
sing. The time will come when, all too
soon, they will lay their heads upon their
pillows lacking both. Let them, then, at
least, have this sweet memory Of happy
childhood, of which no future sorrow or
trouble can rob them. Give them their
rosy youth. Nor need this involve wild H.
cense. The judiciOus parent will not so
mistake my meaning. If you have ever
met the man, or the woman, whose eyes
have suddenly filled when little child has
crept trustingly to its mothers breast,
you may have seen one in whose child
hoods home Dignity and Severity"
stood where love and pity should have been.
Too much indulgence has ruined thousands
Of children; too much love, not one.--Fdray
Fern,
Year: 1874

PERHAPS love is never so potent as
when it SEXES upon those who have passed
their fist youth, or even those who have
passed the prime Of life. The choice then
made is likely to be thoroughly suited to
the nature of the man; and any intelligent
gifts on the part of the woman are likely to
be more attractive to a man of this age
than to a younger person. Besides, there
is feeling that as life is not likely to be
very long, this late love is the last thing to
be clung 10; and that after it, should it be
lost, all will be desOlation.
Year: 1874

HAPPY is the man who is An early riser.
Every morning day comes to him with a
virgins love, full of bloom, and purity, and
freshness. The youth of Nature is conta-
gious, like the gladness of a happy child.


We doubt If any man can be called old so
long as he is an carly riser and an early
walker. And (oh, youth take our word
for it) youth in dressing-gown and slippers,
dawdling over breakfast at noon, is very
decrepit, CHASTITY image of that youth which
sees the sun blush over the mountains and
the dew sparkling upon bloSsOming hedge
Year: 1874

The Secretary Ahrms that Grant Has


No Notion Of such q Thing.


PATTERSON, n. j., Oct. 10.-Secreiary
Robson addressed an immense Republican
mass meeting last night, and I'm the course
of his speech said that neither the admins
tratiOn nor IFS chief would ever be found out
side of the Republican party nor acting con-
trary to the established traditions Of the
country. The latter remark was understood
TO refer to the third term business, and was
vOciferously spplauded. After the meeting
Secretary Robson said President Grant had
no idea Of third term, and only avoided
giving official expression TO his opinion on
the matter lest be should seem to attach to
il too much importance.
Year: 1874

900 WEST IST STA COMPETENT GIRL AS
ACA good cook and baker; would assist with the
washing OF small private family, has four years city
reference but good family that Keeps help long
need aDply
Year: 1874

pa- The tide Ofimmigration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
Is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
new one OF DESMOND. They say there Is no
com pariSon between the two. 2%o
Year: 1874

"Dear mel it was not enough for
me to nurse and raise family of my
own, but now, when I am old and
expect to have little comfort here,
it is all the time "Send for mother
And the dear old soul growls and
grumbles, but dresses herself as fast
as she can, Notwithstanding. After
you have trotted her off, and got her
safely in your home, and she flies
around, administering rebukes and
remedies by turns, You feel easier.
1t is all right now, or soon will be
for mother has come.


In trouble, the first thing you
think of is to send for mother.


But this has its ludicrous as we'll
as its touching aspect. The verdant
young couple, to whom baby's extra
ordinary grimaces and alarming
yawns, which threaten the disloca.ion
of its chin; its wonderful sleeps which
it accomplishes with its eyes half open,
and lips, causing the young mother
to imagine it is dead this time, and
shrek out, "Send for mother in
tones of anguish-this young couple,
in the light of the experience which
three or four babies bring, find that
they have been ridiculous, and given
mother good many trots for moth
ing.


Did any one ever send for mother,
and she did not come? Never. unless
sickness or the intirmities of age
prevented her. As when, in your
childhood, those willing feet respon-
ded to your call, so they still do, and
will continue to do so as long az they
are able. And when the summer
comes which none can disregard,
though it will he happy day for
her, it will be a very dark and sad
one for YOU, when God, too, will send
for mother.
Year: 1874

gea- The defeat of the Liberals and
the accession of the old Tory party
to power will increase the market
value Of Church livings" in England.
1t is estimated that Of 1890 livings
in the English Church, about 1900
are salable, and the large supply in
the market may have affected the
price. But there is besides uncer-
tainly about the permanence of the
institution, for peaceful revolution
that has already forced the disestab-
lishment of the Irish Church may
prove as unexpectedly powerful when
it comes to grapple with the English
establishment" The lease is likely
to be heightened a little, and the
stock will 60 up.
Year: 1874

A ten foot vein of coal has been
found in Martin county, MINI.


A big squeezing Forster s
third volume Of Dickens into one n.
Y. Herald page.


The father of lad lately killed by
Ridge Avenue car dreamed the
night before that it would happen.


In pocket picking, as in everything
else, a man never succeeds until he
gets his hand in.


Why is man who is going for the
midnight horse car likely to have a
long journey? Because he is going to
las (t) car.
Year: 1874

Pressed for time-Egyptian mum
mics.


A bad egg is not a choice egg, but
hard to beat.


A dangerous rre:ipice-The edge
of decorum.


The color of the wind was discov-
cred by the man who went out and
found it blew.


Love is athing Of four letters, yet
sometimes in breach of promise
case hundreds are produced.


A day in the moon is fourteen
times as long as day on earth,
What a place in which to give a six
months note.


A man thrown from a horse, the
other day, said, as he picked himself
up, that he thought he had improved
in horsemanship, but, instead, had
fallen off.


A correspondent of paper having
described a neighborlng river as a
"sickly stream" the editor appended
the remark, "That's so-it is confined
to its bed


nay. A reporter ON an Iowa paper
wrote: yesterday morning, Win.
ter and Spring kiss each other in the
sunrise and each spread its choice
favor on the purple air He was
married next day.
Year: 1874

nea- A preacher took up a collec-
ton on Sunday, and found when his
hat was returned that there wasn't a
penny in it. Il am thankful, ga id he
turning the hat upside down and tap
ping the crown of it with his ha"a'
THAT l have got my hat back from
this congregation" -----
Year: 1874

YOUNG NAPOLEON GoISG TO
FRANcE.-The London Times cores
pondeut says that among the rumor.
in circulation one is being repeated
more persistently than before, to the
effect that the Prince Imperial will
enter France Immediately on attain
ing his majority, which is at hand
there being no ground on which such
q resolution could be opposed.
Year: 1874

The follies of youth become the
vices Of manhood and the disgrace of
old age.


Avoid contest if possible, for you
can never be sure how a contest will
end. ..........


A good man is kinder to his enemy
than bad men are to their friends.


Silence is the safest course for any
man to adopt who distrusts him
self.


TO be at once in any great degree
loved, and praised is truly rare.


The contented man is never poor
the discoutended never rich.
Year: 1874

Never have we heard or read a
more forcible illustration Of the truth
of that Scri pture which telle us q


soft answer turncth away wrath, y
than the following:


!. Mrs, Ne. 6. Carpenter, who leads
the Women Of Washington, Fayette
county, relates that after they had
been at work for gone time at the ~
loon of Al stubborn dealer, he lost pa
ticn,e, and rudely told them to so
home and attend to their own business.
Thereupon, the ladies also lost their
temper, and told the fellow if his con-
duct was repeated they would send
their husbands after him to enforce
the law, as they were anxious al
ready to do. his did not mend the
saloon keepers mood. But when the
ladie, retired and prayed over the
matter until nearly midnight, they
saw, says Mrs. Carpenter, that they
had not acted in the spirit of the
Master, nor in accordance with the
true theory of the movement .Accor-
dingly on the next morning they went
to his saloon, admitted that they had
been in the wrong, and asked his par
don. From that moment the fellow S
fate was sealed, and on the next day
he Internationally surrendered. The
lady who tell this story says she be-
lieves that had she and her associates
not confessed their error, and return
ed to faith in the law of love, their
victory would have been long delay
ed, ii accomplished at all.