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Year: 1874

on bench, If his curiosity and ardor will


allow him to remain sitting. he awaits the


arrival on the other side OF the grating of


the lady superior accompanied by girl.
She has been selected by order Of senior


ity and capacity for household work, from


the hundred or more between II to 81


waiting for youth to deliver them from


their prison. The two young people, both


no doubt breathless with agitation at the


Importance of the ceremony, have to take


one long, fixed look at each other. No
word is spoken, no sign made. These
good sisters believe so fully in the Ian


guage of the eye, that to their mind any
addition is futile, and might but serve to


mystify the pure and perfect effect of love


at first sight. The look over, the lady su-


perior asks the man if he will accept the


maiden as his bride. Should he answer


IN the affirmative, the same question is


put to her, and if she bows assent the be-


trothal has taken place and they part till


the Sunday following. The young lover


again makes his appearance before the
tribunal OF guardians, and there the con-
tract Is signed, the day Of marriage fixed,
and he Is granted leave to bring the ring,
earrings, wedding dress, and confetti,
and present them-through the;grate of
course to his betrothed. Everything
has to pass the scrutiny of the sisters, for
fear OF letter or some tender word be-
ing slipped in with the gifts. During the
few Sundays that intervene between the
love scene and the marriage an hours
conversation within hearing of the lady
superior is allowed but not a touch is ex-
changed. The empty talk, interspersed
with gigSling, consists of inquiries as to
the wedding dress, the sort of confetti
most liked, and the occupation and place
OF abode of the suitor. Should the Young
man refuse the first damsel presented to
him he is favored with the sight of three or
our more; but should he still appear din-
cHe he is dismissed. The girl also has the
power OF refusal. The marriage over, the
task OF the sisters is done; here falls Il
ven they !ncver lft-and whether happi-
ness and faithiulness are the result of this
heathenish rite they never inquire; that
would be an impure region into which
they could not enter without sullyins their
own purity. We do not wonder at these
holy sisters doing their best for the girl
TIL the moment of marriage, and cherish
ing vague hope that all Will then be
right; but We do wonder at the men of the
world who manage the institution acqui-
eScing in such barbarous traffic in hu.
man flesh and blood as this sale of wo-
men. Our readers must before now have
wondered what nducemeut there can be
to make the youths who have the world to
choose from come here in search of
%'e Two hundred AND aqS@a Syn gn4l. is 81 given
hat sum, it seems, Il sicilan J.. ,,.i,,' "io Tor
sell himself tor life. Those glrr '''"S to
he institution fails to find hus6, "hom
allowed at twenty-one to face temb'' are
alone; and situations are found for TINS
Year: 1874

quiet routine OF farm life. 1t is not alone
the rushing. surf-capped bllow that forms
the ocean. True, it bears the ship, but is
Itself borne from silent depths below. And
thus it is behind the new generations of
farm-raised boys ever coming to feed the
eternal fever OF city life that we must look
to find the true well-spring of Ga vigor to
the country.


10 the farmers boy who stays at home
all honor. for he Is none other than rho
future representative and preserver of the
old New England stock.
Year: 1874

From an Occasional Correspondent


FREDoNIA, ARK August 1O.-Last
year | exhibited u plant of cotton a.
your Office containing some three hun
dred and fifty blooms, 5olls and squares,
but this year don't think l could show
one with hundred. I was also repre-
sented in your columns as the shipper of
the first bale Of cotton from this State.
/ can ship one this year earlier
than did last, but l do not think it
would be the first, as we are now eXpe-
riencing a drOuth that is unprecedented
in the history OF the White river cOun-
try. We have hoped for rain from day
TO day, until it is now absolutely too late
TO save cur corn crop, which is almost
total failure. This county will not raise
corn enough for two townships-sOme
say one. There has been but three
inches OF water fell here since the fif-
teenth of April. Cotton is opening, aud
1 believe will be all open in two weeks,
if there is no rain, except where the
land is new. There is about half the
fruit on the plant there was last year,
aud the bolls are not over half the size.
By this you will see that our yield can
not be more than One-fourth what it was
last year, if there is no more rain, and If
there is ever so much it cannot excede
half the last years yield. We are in q
deploraole condition. Everybody has
mOrtgaged their stock and every thing
that was mortgagable to raise this crop,
and are now defeated. Merchants are
not able to carry them another year, as
most of them have been carried over
two years already. We have just begun
to realize our condition, which is indeed
a sad one. In a word, it is very evident
that there will be great many who will
suffer for bread this winter.
Year: 1874

The participation OF certain officers Of
the United States service in the move
ments of the Japan government against
the inhabitants OF the island of For
mosa is likely to cause some embarrass-
ment between our government and that
of China. The latter claims to have
jurisdiction of the island of Formosa
and its people, and any proceedings on
the part Of American citizens of an IN
friendly or belligerent character against
said island and It's people is a violation
of neutrality.
Year: 1874

All who have real estate for sale or to let
and those desiring purchase or rent such property


will ind it their interest to advertise in The TRIBUNE
It's aggregate circulation exceeds that of other news
paper and in addition TO this advantage,rHE TRIBUNE
will be found not only in NewYork and al It's c ties ana
villages in every state and Territory throughout tue
Union Tho advertisement should be as orle1 as VIII
allow OF advantages claimed being made clear 10 the
~eader We would especially dwell on the fact that the
subscribers for the three editions OF IHh TRIBUNE Day
eemi-Weeky and Weekly comprise ndlvidulls IN every
business consequently advertisements IN eacn
are read by all classes THE TRIBUNE deVotes especial


attention reports Of safes OF real estate both IN cly
uuns as az advertising medium The charges 1or adV


tising follows; DAILY TRIBUNE ~ cents per nne
WEEKLY Tribune u cents per line About ten words OF
our wide columns average line Terms cash IN ADVANCE
Year: 1874

Our telegraphic reports Of congression-
al proceedings yesterday were very
mesgre, giving little in detail, save the
presentation Of memorial praying an
increase in the volume of currency and
a free-banking law. The currency bill
was resumed and discussed until the
hour of adjournment, when it was agreed
that no vote should be taken until half
past two o'clock to-day. The four hum
dred million scheme seems likely to be
the law. ErE "a " 90 -
Year: 1874

THIS is right and proper. Hereafter
no portrait is to be placed upon any of
the bonds, securities, notes, fractional or
postal currency of the United States
while the original of such portrait is
living
Year: 1874

THERE is some talk of impeaching
Mayor League because of his financial
policy. 1t will certainly end in talk,
for the citizens generally sustain him in
all he has done in financial way.
Year: 1874

tain Hall and his son were in the pilot
house of the steamer when she explod-
Ell, but made miraculous escape from
death. n


The three firenen were doubtless in
stantIy blown to atoms, as they,
were Immediately in front OF the
boilers when they exploded. The rest of
the colored crew, numbering twelve
men, happened to be aft, and thereby
escaped the hoTrid fate which befell the
nfhora
Year: 1874

"IT's horrible to be so depen
dent !"


"Of course it is, Amelia but


what can we do ?"


"What other poor girls do, OF
course. There are ways enough


Teaching, for instance, or even wash
ing and scrubbing, if it comes to
that. AS for me, l am resolved not
to bear this any longer.


ooh, you are so strong, Amelia
so self-reliant. l wish l had halt
your courage. But, sister, after all, ,
l don't see why we ought to feel so.
Mamma is so very kind, and l am
sure it is not her wish to have us
leave her."


"Perhaps not. dare say she is
willing enough to play the lady
bountiful to us; but, for my part, l
am independent, and cannot brook
patronage, even at the hand of my
fathers wife" and her lip curled a
little, but trembled more, for the
memory of her father was very dear
to Amelia Orville.


Captain Orville had been dead
about year. For his second wife,
he had, about six years before his
death, married a lady, young, as
compared to himself, rich, and high
ly accomplished, She had devoted
herself to her husband and his
children with an ardor that should
have shamed michiet-m akers. She
had been, and was still, in fact, a
model stepmother, and her step
daughters, Amelia and Clemence,
were sensible Of the fact in their Sc
cret hearts: Yet both of them had
been subjected to the kind interfer-
ence of bevy of villa &c meddlers,
whose creed has this prime article,
that a stepmother can never do
right.


The affsctionate nature of Glenn
ence was not so much influenced by
the suggestions of these people as
Amelia's, which was more critical
and less susceptible.


Captain Orville had been a milli-
tary man, and very little economical
in the use of his "pay," which was
all the fortune he possessed; so
that it was no wonder his daugh-
ters should feel, after his death,
that they had no right to be depen.
dent upon their stepmother. But it
was her urgent wish that they
should remain with her {; and rather
than give her pain in the early peri
cd of her widowhood, Amelia had
consented to postpone her purpose
of earning her own bread.


But Clemence still clung to her
stepmother, in spite of Amelia's ex-
ample and the interference of the
gossips. She was very loving in her
nature, and the uniform kindness
and affection of Mrs. Orville had
won upon her; and, besides, she
was not one of those sticklers for
independence who, like Amelia, can
never be cOntented to eat bread that
is not positively there own.


Snow, Amelia, my DEAR" said
Mrs. Orville, when the former had
divulged her plans, ''if you must
leave me, you must, l suppose
though Pm sorry to have you. l
think your father, also, would have
Year: 1874

THERE is a great deal of luxury
displayed just now in table glass,
both for use and ornament. Center
pieces form small lakes of crystal,
the finest, thinnest, and clearest,
ranged one above another, surround
ed by flowers, and crowned with a
glass vase for flowers on the top.
A table service of glass sometimes
numbers upwards Of two hundred
pieces, and very moderate price
for complete one is five hundred
dollars; the finest, of Venetian
glass, not unfrequently cost twenty
five hundred.


The style is just now very pure,
the cost being expended upon form
and delicacy rather than cutting.
Some of the finest glass is destitute
of engraved ornament beyond the
monogram of the owner. The Greek
models are the most admired.
Year: 1874

Several years ago / was travelling with a
very intelligent Kansas stock-dealcr In
course of a conversation he remarked that
in the early settlement of that State he had
suffered much, as all early settlers always
do in the West, from this disease. He had
used the ordinary remedies, largely com
posed of quinine, with the usual results
curing, to return again in week or two.


Being among some of the Indians south
of that State, he came across Frenchman
who called himself doctor. This man adj
vised him to get an ounce of camphor, all
in one piece, if possible, sewing it up in a
small cloth bag, hanging it round his neck
with a tape, SO it would come a: the bot
tom OF the sternum or breast bone, and Sc
curing is there with another tape round the
body, to keep it i'll place. This, he said,
would all evaporate in a week or ten days
when he must get another and use it in the
same way. Two ounces thus used, costing
20 cents, would cure, he declared, the worst
case of ague so it would never come back
The Kansas man declared that he had tried
this remedy in hundreds OF eases, and had
never known it to fail. Since obtaining
this information | have tried it many times,
with the same results. So simple and harm
less a remedy ought to be i'll general USE
Prairie Farmer.
Year: 1874

There is scarcely an article of vegetable
food more widely useful and universally y
liked than the apple. Let every house
keeper lay in good supply of apples, aud
it will be the most economical investment
in the whole range of culinaries. A raw,
mellow apple is digested in an hour and a
half, while boiled cabbage requires five
hours. The most healthful desert that can
be placed on the table is baked apple If
eaten frequently at breakfast, with coarse
bread and butter, without flesh of any
kind, it has an admirable effect OH the gen
eral system, often removing consti patton,
correcting acidities, and cooling off febrile
conditions more effectualy than the most
approved medicines. If families could be
induced to substitute apples-sound and
ripe-for pies, cakes and sweetmeats, with
which their children are too frequently
stuffed, there would be diminution in the
sum total of doctors bill in single year
sufficient to lay in a stock of this delicious
fruit for the whole seasons use.
Year: 1874

Beauty and style are not the surest pass
ports to respectability-some OF the noblest
specimens of womanhood that the world
has ever seen have presented the plainest
and most unprepossessing appearances. A
woman's worth is to be estimated by the
real goodness of her heart, the greatness
OF her soul, and the purity and sweetness of
her character; and woman with kindly
disposition, and we'll balanced mind and
temper, is lovely and attractive, be her
face ever so plain and her figure ever SO
homely; she makes the best of wives, and
the trnest of mothers. She has a higher
purpose in living than the beautiful yet
vain and supercilious woman, who has no
higher ambition than to flaunt her finery in
the streets, or to gratify her inordinate
pride by exacting fiattery and praise from a
society whose compliments are as hollow
as they are insincele
Year: 1874

IL was toward the middle of the last
century that u little ragged boy, named
Saunders, made his appearance at the door
of an attorney's Office in Clements Inn,
London. He was cast upon the world IN
absolute want; he knew nothing ofparents;
he had not friend; and he knew OF no
root beneath which ne had a right to lay
his head or obtain a crust to eat and eS<s
er in r,turn.


The attorney found him very bright and
prompt, and employed him. The boy
proved faithful and earnest in the discharges
of such business as was given him to dc.
Bv-and-by the boy, when he had been ad-
mitted to sleep in the office, expressed de-
sire to learn to write. The attorney rugged
him a low desk in far corner, and set him
copies also assisted him at times by per-
sonal instruction. The boy developed
bold, clear and beautiful hand and by the
time he was fifteen he had become a correct
and rapid writer.


He was now transferred to the inner
office and set at the work of writing impor-
tant legal papers. This gave him an in
sight into, and a taste for legal lore. He
studed-studied so hard, to such good
purpose, that in time he came to afford his
employer sound and valuable counsel in
important matters. His diligence was un.
tring, and his faithfulness unswerving, and
his ambition unchecked. He worked his
way up to the bar, and became one Of the
most eminent and effective practitioners OF
his time.


The man whose entrance into the strug.
gle of life had been from so low and un.
p, omising station, by the proper use of
the fortunate qualities inherited, became.
upon the death of Penberton, Lord Chief
Justice of England.
Year: 1874

~ Some body is responsible for the
story that the American women are be-
coming more and more in the habit of
sleeping III their corsets for the purpose of
keeping their figures good. If this is true.
American ladies will not be too numerous a
few years hence.
Year: 1874

States in such form rs he may prescribe of
denominations Of fifty dollars or some
multiple of that sum, redeemable in coin
OF the present standard value at the pleas
ure of the United States, after ten years
from the date of their issue, and bearing
interest payable quarterly ln such coin, at
the rate Of 5 per cent per annum, and the Sec
retary of the Treasury may issue the United
States notes so received or If they are
Cancelled he may issue notes to the same
amount, either to purchase bonds or redeem
the public debt at par in coin, or to meet
the current payments for the public service;
and the said bonds and the interest thereon
shall be exempt from the payment of all
taxes or duties of the United States, as
well as from taxation in any form, or by
State, municipal or local authority, and
said bonds shall have set forth and ex-
pressed upon their face the above specified
conditions, and shall with their coupons be
made payable at the Treasury of the United
States; provided, however, that the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, in lieu of such bonds,
may redeem said notes in gold of the Unit
ed States.


Important Caveaf.


Sec. 10. That nothing in this act shall be
construed to authorize any increase of the
principal of the public debt of the United
States.
Year: 1874

EX-PREsIDENF JOHNSON is an
nounced to deliver a public address
this evening on the subject of finances,
State and national. His views on both
branches of the theme will attract at
tention and elicit discussion.
Year: 1874

ST. Louis, May 6.-At the city election
of Hannibal, No, yesterday, the question
of license or no license was submitted to
the people as an Independent proposition,
and 10 license carried two to one. 4 novel
feature Of the contest was that many ladies
on both sides Of the question remained at
the polls all day and electioneered with
great vigOr and earnestness. The victors
were very jubilant last night and the city
was ablaze with bonfires. Church bells
weresrung and other demonstrators made
in honor of the event,
Year: 1874

appropriation bill, and was addressed by
Mr.. Cobb in opposition. He believed thai
the passage of this bill would be a viola
tion of faith, and that the country was in
no wise able to afford the expense of such
luxury. He should vote to keep the cen
tennial project within the bounds marked
out for it by IFS early projectors and its late
curators, the field of voluntary contribution,
and he would never consent to
Year: 1874

A SPECIAL telegram to the Cincinnati
Commercial OF last Thursday announces
that two OF the thirteen members of the
House Committee on Elections had
concluded to report in favor OF the Au,
gust claimants for seats as representa-
lives of the First and Second Districts
Of Weet Virginia; three were positive
in their opinion that the members
elected in October were legally chosen
and six were in favor of referring the
question back to a new election
to be held by the people. What
may be the action of the House on
these several reports it Is impossible to
predict. though the fact that majority
OF the committee recommends new
election affords some color to the ex-
pectation that this course will be pur-
sued.


Should new election be ordered in
the First aud Second districts Of West
Virginia it would be no more than fair
to make it test of the relative popu.
larity Of the present claimants. In the
First District the choice should by
common consent be limited to either
DAVIS or WILSON, and in the Second to
HAoASs or MARTIN.


We are well aware that there are in
each OF these districts number of gen.
tlemen who think themselves better
qualified to represent the people Of
West Virginia than are the persons
who have made the race and are how
contestants for admission to seats in
Congress. With all due respect to these
gentlemen, and without detrscting an
iota from what we believe to be a prop
er recognition of their services and their
ability, we must insist that Colonel Ben
WILSON is fairly entitled to a
seat as representative Of the
First District, and Ben MAR
TIN is equally entitled to represent
the Second.


II new election is ordered, We trast
that by common consent these gentlemen
may be recognized as the candidates OF
the Democratic party in these districts;
and they need wish for no more vul-
nerable opponents than those who have
lately contested their right to admis-
sion as members Of the Forty.third
Congress.
Year: 1874

In the debate on last Wednesday in
the Senate in relation to the Salary
Grab. our own BoREMAN is reported as
having said that he did not believe
those who had taken the increased
salary had committed q criminal act
II he thought he was surrounded by
dishonest men, he would resign and 60
home among honest people"


We are inclined to think that Mr..
BoRENAN would better come home.
Year: 1874

COFFEE TREEs.-There is said to be q
wild coffee shrub growing in great abun-
dance along the foothills of Amador, CAL
averas and other counties, which claimed
to-be-experts pronounce to be the real
coffee tree-or rather say that the leaf is
the same as the leaf of the real coffee tree
and that the berry is good coffee berry.
The coffee plant Indigenous to Califor-
mia ! And why not? But if it shall
prove to be the case, coffee plantations
may soon become the order of the day
along wide range Of our foot hills
Sacramento Bee.
Year: 1874

The Rochester Post in an article up-
on this subject as affecting the elec-
tions, says:


The States, in their individual capacity,
may do something in this direction, and
yet, there seems to be growing convic-
tion among the people that the permanent
and satisfactory adjustment Of the trans
portation question will depend largely on
the action OF the national Congress. This
is, undoubtedly the correct view. It is.
eminently, national matter, and will have
to be settled by the nations represents
tives.


As before indicated, this question will
enter largely into political discussion, in
the political campaign, even if it is not the
main issue; and as the Northwest have
vast interests at stake in the issue. tho
choice OF members of Congress become
highly important. None but men thor
ougly tried and not found wanting; none
but men Of conceded ability and influence
and who are actively and honestly alive
to the interests Of the people, should even
be thought Of, much less named in con-
nection with Congressional honors and re-
sponslbilities. No mere untried politician
or place-hunter, for the sake Of availability
or other partisan motive, should be select
cd tor this important position. They
should be men Of and from the people, ca
Pable and experienced, and thoroughly in
earnest respecting the demands of public in
terests and individual necessities.
Year: 1874

June g.


We are baving fine weather to do farm
work, and our farmers are improving their
time. Cultivating corn is the order Of the
day, yet some have not got all their corn
planted. Our late rains seem not to have
stopped the drought, however vegetation is
growing rapidly. Several Of our prairie
farmers are opening farms in the woods.
D. Lyons has quite a piece under cultiva-
ton. This prairie has got 90 fenced up
that the cattle have to wander far to get
sufficient to eat. Some Of our citizens are
using little paint on their dwellings and
utensils which improves their looks very
much. The White Star Base Ball Club
plays match game at Esdsile to-day. Ye
Red Wing Club take note. Our Sunday
School is still improving, and may sac
cause be carried on with true interest.
The cutworm seems to be as bad on the
potato vines as the potato bug. Colyer &
Dopkins are at their old stand they make
splendid offers to those who wish to pur-
chase anything in their line. A good deal
OF improvements have been made in the
roads this spring. It will not be many
years before timber will be very scarce in
this neighborhood. To travel on one Of
the nigh bluffs that encircle the prairie and
view the hundred little lakes in the Missis
s'ppi Valley, and the picturesque view 0,