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Year: 1874

Andrew Robbins, seven years ago
a prominent and respected citizen of
Chicago and doing good business,
has since, through drink, had a
queer experience. His wife about
that time began to suffer from his
abuse, and got a divorce from him.
She was reconciled by his promise,
and married him again, and second
time was divorced. And all this actu-
ally happened third time-married
three times to the same woman and as
often divorced He then married an
other woman, and she got a divorce.
A year ago he married again, his
fifth marriage, and celebrated last
New Years day by generally I'm ash
ing his last wife, confning her to bed,
till two days ago she was able to
make complaint against him, and
apply for a divorce. He had re-
peatedly thrashed her before. Mr..
Robbins should be put where he
can't marry any more women, as he
may rise to explain that he never
was wicked except when married.
Davenport Gazette.
Year: 1874

Oh, how often are we thoughtless,


And how little do we care!
For the fate of those around US,


Or the burdens they may bear.
We forget, that some are treading


Here perdition's awful brink;
And that we may help to save them,


IF we will but stop and think!
If we'd think before we utter,


Words of censure, casting shame,
We might save ourselves from trouble,


And not cloud another's name.
We could make our lives much purer,


And from pleasures cup oft drink
If we were not quite so selfish,


And would only, stop and think
We must wage cor slant warfare,


With our passions and our pride;
Never yielding to the evils.


That beset on ev'ry side
To the right, we must be faithful,


Aud from duty never shrink;
And when things cross our pathway,


We must learn to stop and think
We can plainly see the atom.


That obstructs our brothers. eve;
While our own great faults and failings,
Seem to pass. unnotlced, by.
Though our sins may. be far greater,


Yet we pass them with wink;
And are often found complaining,


When we ought to, stop and think
If we'd meet the Judge with pleasure.
We must choose the path that's straight
II we'd have eternal favor,


We must watch, and think, and wait.
We must learn to trust In Jesus,


And our own base nature sink;
And when tempests gather round US,
We must learn to stop and think!
For the HERALD Dec. 81, 1873.
Year: 1874

HUMANITY.-When see leaves
drop from the trees in the beginning
of autumn, just such, think /, is the
friendship of the world. While the
sap of maintenance lasts, my friends
swarm in abundance but in the
winter of need they leave me naked.
He is happy man who has a true
friend at his need, but he is more
truly happy who hath need of friends.
Charles Lamb.
Year: 1874

While grading a sidewalk in Des
Moines recently, the workmsn found
a skeleton of man encased in a cof.
fin of walnut planks. The body is
supposed to be the remains of SOL
dier, buried there during the war
The workmen considerably permit.
ted the dead hero to rest undisturbed
and oheerfully pounded the sidewalk
down over his head,
Year: 1874

An Iowa City dog, chased by two
others, jumped a tenoe and fell down
a 40 foot well. Buckets were let
down, but he was too badly chilled
to get into them, but finally when a
rope was let down, he caught hold
of it with his teeth and held on until
raised ont
Year: 1874

A scandal and a tragedy is report.
ed at Atlantic. A young Swsde sur
prised his wife and her lover, and
without molesting them further than
to say he would have them both ar
rested, left them. When he return.
ed his wife had fortified herself With
dose of strychnine, and was in
condition to defy the police. The
widowcr is not disconsolate.
Year: 1874

One night last week young man
in Marion county quarrelled with his
family and determined to commit
suicide. He stripped to the skin,
went out and lay down in a snow
drift, intending to freeze himself to
death. 1t was too cold, however,
and, as none of the family interfersd,
he dressed himself, went into the
house, and fought for the warmest
corner. He has been SO cold ever
siuce that he can't tell the truth.
Year: 1874

DPTHERIA.-This terrible scourage
still rage in different parts of Maine.
A lady who has just recovered from a
severe attack, recently informed the
Maine Farmer, that she found great
relief by putting cayenne peper in the
sharpest vinegar, and dropping in five
Goals and inbailing the steam from a
teapot. 1t gave her strength to throw
up the detached membrane, besides
affording great relief in breathing.
She thought she never could have raj
lied without this simple application.
Year: 1874

a. few years ago, a lad who was left
without father and mother went to
Nsw s aSMtS Mtn ii a?rr sa6e aad s"affa s sIfaSd b51 b
until he could command a higher po
sition but this boy had been in bad
company, and had got into the habit
of calling for "bitters" and cheap ci-
gars.


On looking over the paper he motto,
ed that merchant in Pearl street
wanted a lad of his age, and he call
ed there and made his business
known.


"Walk into my office, my lad
said the merchant, "I'll attend to you
soon.'


When he had waited upon his Gus
toner he took a seat near the lad, and
espied cigar in his hat This was
enough. "My boy," said he, 81 want
smart, honest faithful lad, but you
see smoke cigars, and in my expert
ence Of many years have found ci-
gar smoking lads to be connected
with various other evil habits, and if



| am not mistaken you are not an e.
ception. You can leave; you will
not suit me"


John held down his head and left
the store and as he walked along the
street, stranger and friendless, the
counsel of his poor mother came for
cibly to mind, who upon her death
bed, called him to her side and plac-
ing her emaciated hand upon his
head, said, "Johny, my dear doy, I'm
going to leave you. You well know
what disgrace and misery your father
brought upon us before his death, and
I want you to promise me, before I
die that you will never taste one drop
Of the accursed poison that killed your
father nor tobacco. Promise me this,
and be good boy, Johny, and shall
die in peace"


The scalding tears trickled down
Johny's cheek. He went to his lodg-
ings, and throwing himself upon his
bed gave vent to his feelings in sobs
that were heard all over the house.


But John had moral courage, He
had energy and determination, and ere
an hour had passed had made up his
mind never to taste another drop of
liquor, nor to smoke another cigar.


He went straight back to the mer-
chant. Said he, Sir, you very prop
erly sent me away this morning for
habits that I have been guilty of; but
sir, I have neither father nor mother,
and though l have occasionally done
what l ought not to do, and have not
followed the advice of my poor moth
er on her death bed, yet l have now
made a solemn VOW never to drink
another drop of liquor, nor smoke an
other cigar and ifyou will only try
me, it is all I ask"


The merchant was struck with
Year: 1874

eyes, that is just the way Tilly
why will you try to thwart me in this
one great aim of my lite l have told
you, time and again that will have
Edith Weld, for my bride before an
other year has passed. You know in
what circumstances am placed you
know that must have money. Edith
is wealthy, fer she is the only heir of
that doting old father who has one foot
IN the grave already. L know she
does not love me, but what do I care
she will make good wife to attend
to my household affairs, and that is all
| ask. Yes, Tilly, she shall be mine. y


eff you can get her! !"


"But l aOiN IF not by fair
means, then by foul. She shall be
mine, money and al"


Oh Fred, how can you have such
a passion for money, to feed your mad
thirst for gambling and all its kindred
evils, and care so little for such dear
woman as is Edith Weld? You had
a healo once, pure and good as the
best of them. Try, for your sisters
sake, for the love you once bore our
dear father and mother, whom,-I
must say it, Fred you brought to an
untimely grave-retrace your steps,
recall your mad words before it is to
late. You know you can never hope
to gain Ediths love, for she is already
the afianced bride of Charlie Will
mot, who is much better suited to her
than you can be, who only cares to
win her to gain her money to squan.
der in your well known licentlous
ways. Give heed to this last appeal
from one who has always loved you,
for the memory Of those days when
we prattled so merrily at our dear
mothers knee, those happy innocent
days of childhood, for the sake OF
these, desist from this under taking
which Can bring you nothing but
evil Do this and | Will always bless
you. Edith will even hold you in
friendly regard, and you can go forth
into the world without this great
wrong weighing you down. For my
sake, Fred, desist !"


"Have you really done with your
lecture, Tilly ? You know 1 have nev-
er mentioned this subject but you
must go on with this same long rig
marole Of stuff, yes, that's just the
name for it, stuff, and now l have
heard enough of it. Will you, or will
you not help me in my suit for the
hand of Edith Weld ?"


"Fred, if | thought there was the
faintest hope of your winning Edith
for your wife, and that you would
love and cherish her as she deserves,
and as you ought, then | would aid
you. But knowing as l do that you
only seek her from the basest of base
motives | can not give my counten-
ance or aid"


"Then this is your answer, lilly 7"


at is.


every we'll, Miss lilly. You may
live to rue the day you did not accede
to my wishes, and as for that low
lived Charlie Wilmot, if he stands in
my path in any way, l will have my
Year: 1874

Girls are often wild, and wayward
and hard to govern. They give their
anxious mothers and fond fathers
many serious hours of thought and
care. They principally delight in hav-
ing their own way. They are i'm
patient under home restraints, and
they frequently fancy that they know
a great deal more than their mothers
do. They giggle and act very foolish
sometimes-when anything happens
to please them. They pout and make
up races when they feel cross and un-
comfortable, Or when any one is un-
fortunate enough to incur their youth
full displeasures and they resort to
tears and find a great deal of comfort
In good cry when the world does
not move upon its axis exactly in con-
formity with their wishes.


They are very romantic with regard
to their expectations of the future.
They have an uncotrollab,e passion
for cheap, sensational literature, and
the usually entertain about as unreal
and exaggerated ideas of life as they
find pictured and described in the
startling narratives which they are
in the habit of reading They look
forward to find themselves in t he
same impossible situations as the
imaginary heroines, whose chequered
career they follow with such thrilling
interest, anxiety and enthusiasm.
They condescend sometimes to flatter
and fill with the tender-hearted and
confding youths Of their acquaintance
who, at an early age, are so unfortu
nate as to feel that


lue rosy DOy WIFI CueruD wing


Has many shaft for his slender slng!'


The girls, somehow, seem to delight
in tormenting and teasing such boys,
compassion for what these tender
youths suffer and endure by reason of
hopelessly loving them,


Girls sometimes make old and gray
headed men say and do great many
foolish and undignlfed things. Such
instances are not uncommon. And
who can fancy more ridiculous pic
ture than that of an old man, with
hair and whiskers freshly and ingenu-
ously dyed, vainly endeavoring to con-
ceal the fact that he has the rheumat-
tism, frisking around like young colt
in a green pasture, in futile endeavors
to pursuade some young girl Of sweet
sixteen that he is as young as ever he
was!


Girls are very communicative with
each other. They are in the habit of
talking over, between themselves, all
their joys and sorrows -enjoining upon
each other the most solemn obligations
never to tell what they hear to any
bo1y else How we'll they obey these
mutual injunctions is evident from
their subsequent course of conduct. If
you would SOW secret broadcast
over the land, tell it to young girl,
and make her promise to religiously
keep it.


A girl becomes complete girl only
when she does up her hair in mature
fashion and gets her first long dress
on. Then she sails out into the beau
monde with great many lofty and
airs, and tancies that she
is full fledegd woman.


But, with all their failings and
shortcomings, girls are lovely, lively
and interesting institution. The world
we live in is a great deal brighter,
better and more beautiful for their
being in it. When grown toperfect ma
turity they make our best and loveliest
women; and a noble woman is Gods
greatest and grandest earthly creation!
Year: 1874

The PRESIDENT AND THE THIRD TRRY-
The intimate friends of the Presiden. say that
he made no allusion whatever to them concern
ing the question of a third term, nor is il known
that any one has mentioned the subject to him
in conversation; and farther, he has in no waN
expressed himself in such manner as to incline
them to believe that he has aspirations IN that
direction. They further remark that, although
much has been said and written upon the sub
Ject mas not come to him in a form requiring a
reply, and therefore any utterance he might
made would be gratuitous and intrusive, an0
COnITRrY TO nsa
Year: 1874

TIE INTERNAL REVENUE BUREAU-Tbe
operations of tie internal revenue bureau have
been so successful during the last fiscal wear
that it is not probable that any new internal
revenue legislation will be recommended At this
session OF Congress. The commissioner of in
ternal revenue has not yet been able to make
estimates for the next fiscal year and will del ay
presenting them until late in November, il
order that he may be in possession Of the lates
details.
Year: 1874

A conscientious Sunday-school teacher,
who felt panied upon looking through crack
in the fence at seeing some of his scholars in
attendance upon the trials of speed at the fair,
asked one of them If he did not think there
was great waste of time at the races. The
younger replied that he thought "there was a
laundering sight too much time lost in scor-
ing"
Year: 1874

THE CASE SET DOWN FOR TRIAL THIS MONTH


The libel suit of Edna Dean Proctor against
Francis d. Mouton, in the United states Court has been
placed upon the civil calendar OF the December term
which will open to-day The is the fth the cal
endar but It ia not certain II will be tried this term


The Court will be opened to-day by Judge Benedict.
and the Jurors called and but will be
tried as Court will be adjourned until Tomorrow.
when Judge Woodruff will preside. ain rent practice
with him in the trial OF than IL usually
followed i'll the State Courts. Instead OF calling the
calendar through aud either marking OFF for the term
or setting down the that ready for
trial upon certain day. he takes up tue first case called
that Is ready and proceeds 10 Try H. aud then takes up
next that II the four preceding the Proctor
should be ready, they would be tried first and the
Proctor would not BE- tried uat they
OF. Therefore. although the stands fifth the
calendar, might not be reached in week or more.
even II ready for trial.


The counsel in the case are also engaged in the Tton
suit which il set down for next Tuesday and therefore
both be tried al IL possible,
fore tnat the case may be OF for the term.
Year: 1874

Our distinguished friend, who is at
present in charge of the editorial de-
partment of the Statesman, takes up
cur fight against the New idea OF
independent impersonal journalism,
and strikes heavy blows tull on the
front of that false and heretical idea.
This must be the ground taken by
every fair, honest, candid man, who
has devoted a moments thought to


he subject. We thank our cotem-
porary for his splendid article.
Year: 1874

There Is very cheap little fellow
who does the "Texas Items and
Press" on the News, who sometimes
takes flings at this paper. We would
be seriously angry did We imagine
for . moment that the management
knew anything about it. As it is,
however, We can only smile at the
little fellows narrow spleen.
Year: 1874

RAPID NUTRITIoN.-It is the opinion of
medical authorities that the fundamental
distinction between the strong man and
the weak, the energetic ruler of men and
things, and the feeble imbecile,- simply
this: that the process of nutrition is car
ried on with greater ease and rapidity in
the one than in the other. What was it
that enabled Napoleon to undergo those
prodigious privations, without which his
genius would have availed him so little ?
An uncommon faculty of rapid nutrition.
Now the two great fellow partners in this
work of nutrition are these: FooD, which
furnishes the capital; and STIMULUS,
which invests it,-that is, influences each
part of the body to take up from the
blood, so much of the food-nutriment as
it stands in need of Outdoor exercise is
the bestH' stimulus !" but multitudes can
not get that. Such persons will find the
used of DR.. Gottleib Fisch's Bitters un-
speakably beneficial


This subject continued next week under
" Verdict Starred.
Year: 1874

How ABOUT TIE OLD HORSE What
is to be done with him7 Or, what is 60
ing to be done with horse that is growing
old These are hard questions for a hu-
name and moderately circumsranced far
mer to answer. There can be nothing
wrong in disposng Of horse ten years
old, having considerable good in him but
how old and feeble should he before it
would seem wrong to get rid of him? If
one has an old horse. and he cannot well
be kept, the best way Is to find some hu.
name farmer who will take him for what
he is worth, and agree to keep him SO
long as he lives.


But, if possible, he should be kept on
the place, and be fed and cared for, in
part for the good he has done; and he
will be useful for the women and children
to drive, because his ways are understood
and he really has valid claim to lv-
ing from the farm. A humane man will
be certain to have a calm and reheeting
mind, and such mind Hill devise WAYS
for keeping horse or worn out animal,
which cold and cruel mind would not
think of, go that nothing would be lost.
Depend upon 1t that kindness and human
ity lead to acute thinking and enlarged
mental powers, because they are right,
and what is right is ingenious and intel
Iectual.- Y. Tribune.
Year: 1874

In the autumn, when the holows


All are filled with flying leaves,
And the colonies of swallows


Quit the quaintly succeed caves,
And silver mantle glistens


Over all the misty vale.
Sits the little wife and listens


To the beating of the fail,


To the pounding of the fail
By her cradle sits and listens
To the tapping of the fail.
The bright summer days are over,


And her eye no longer sees
The red bloom upon the clover,
The deep green upon the trees;


flushed the song of finch and robin,
With the whistle of the quail;
But she hears the mellow throbbing
Of the thunder of the fail,
Through the amber air the throbbing
And reverberating fail.
In the barn the stout young threshcr
STOPPING stands with rolled-up sleeves,
Beating out his golden treasure


From the ripped and rustling sheaves:
Oh, was ever knight in armor--


Warrior all in shining mail
Half so hansome as her farmer


As he plies the flying fail,
As he wields the flashing fail?-
The ebare-throated, brown young farmer,
AS he swings the sounding fail?
All the hopes that saw the sowing.


All the sweet desire of gain,
All the joy that watched the growing
And the yellowing of the grain,
And the love that went to woo her,
And the faith that shall not fail
All are speaking softly to her


In the pulses of the fail,


Of the palpitating fail
Past and Future whisper to her


In the music of the fail.
In its crib their babe is sleeping,


And the sunshine from the door
All the afternoon is creeping


Slowly round upon the floor;
And the shadows soon will darken,
And the daylight soon must pale,
When the wife no more shall hearken
To tho +ro r,,;po of tbo A,;1


To the dancing of the fail
When her heart no more shall hearken
10 the football of the fail.
And the babe shall grow and strengthen,
Be a maiden, be wife,
While the moving shadows lengthen
Round the dial oftheir life:
Theirs the trust of friend and neighbor,
And an age serene and hale,
When machines shall do the labor


Of the strong arm and the fail,
OF the stout heart and the fail
Great machines perform the labor


Of the good old fashioned fail.
But when, blessed among women,


And when, honored among men,
They look round them, can the brimming
Of their utmost wishes then
Give them happiness complete


And can ease and wealth avail
To make any music sweeter


Than the pounding of the fail


Oh, the sounding Of the fail!
Never music can be sweotor
Than the beating of the fail!
j. 7: TRowBRIDGE, in Harper's .MagaSin
for Sentember
Year: 1874

Too MUCH ADVICE; Since the election the
him the rest of his life, if he were inclined to
take it. He is warned to look well to his steps,
or he will be impeached He is ordered to
abandon his hard money attitude, or he will
destroy the party. He is summoned to cou
firm his veto of last year as his on ly chance of
saving hrself He is told to dismiss his
Cabinet before Congress meets, or they will
drag him to perdition. fle is directed to
change his Southern policy and drop his
Southern retainers at once, and in other quar-.
ters he is adiured to stand by them more
firmly than ever as the only means of saving
the Republic. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1874

To the general public the classification
of genius about a newspaper office is as
strange as silent barber. The editor-in-
chief is the frequent recipient of COM
plant from subscriber that his paper
was not delivered yesterday morning,
while the paper cutter in the iob-rOom is
often complimented on the stand of the
paper in regard to the repeal of the law
regulating the colonization of grasshoppers
in Minnesota.


The young man who is fitting himself for
a journalistic career asks US if the chief
editors position is difficult. On the con-
traly it is the most comfortable place on
the paper. He has only to dash off few
columns of editorials day and then en-
joy himself All the good looking women
with poems are shown into his rooms, and
he smokes all the cigars sent in tor the re-
porters He receives invitations to de-
liver addresses at county fairs, and carries
home the best of the books sent in for re-
view. When he hasn't anything else to do
he looks over '"copy" and carefully runs
his pencil through the joke the writer
struggled four hours with and considered
his masterpiece. Sentinel.
Year: 1874

We presume the emptiest pigeonhole in
the desk of Southern Governor is that
devoted to designations Of officers. But
now and then document of this kind is
received which deserves special mention.
Take, for instance, the following letter
from the mayor of Floreyville, Mississippi'
to Governor Ames:


| herewith beg leave respectfully to
tender my resignation as mayor of Florey-
vile, to which l was appointed by your
highheaded predecessor, and which, with
the internal greediness for Office SO charac-
teristic of the American people, was green
enough to accept. In thus drawing Oft the
judicial ermine l am governed alone by the
haunting of being inordinately. rich if
continue to hold this lucrative position
Perhaps some other man and brother may
be inveigled into the acceptance of this po
sition, but your humble servant prefers to
retire to the gushing serenity of private
life
Year: 1874

Otis n. Cutler was government agent
during the war, with power to take charge
and dispose of property seized from the
South. He gave bond in slOo, 900 for the
faithful performance of his duties. Suit
was commenced in the United States Dis
trict Court against his bond to recover
S4O24 60, which it was alleged he was short
in his accounts with the government. The
case was on trial last week before Judge
Blatchford, in New York. A defense was
interposed that the alleged deficiency was
in transactions after July, 1865, when he
ceased to be agent and that he was not
therefore liable on his bond. The court
gave Judgment in the defendants favor.