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Year: 1874

More than once or twice we have
called the attention of parents to the
importance of knowing exactly what
their children read. The most insid-
iOuS and attractive poisOns lie all
about them i'm the shape of illustra-
ted newspapers, fascinating fiction
and volumes hid away from the par
ent's eye. We should be far more
careful what our children read than
what they say. A wholesome fear of
parental disapprobatiOn may pre-
serve their language incorrupt, while
their minds are full of what they dare
not express.


Careful attention in two particu-
lars will prevent the evil to which
we refer. First, the natural curiosi-
ty every child manifests should be
gratified by his parents, and every
question he asks be answered truth
fully. There is no subject that can
not be discussed with perfect prOpri-
ety. between parent and child; there
are certain subjects that never should
be discussed save between parent and
child and If they arc thus freely
talked of, the morbid appetite for
forbidden knowledge many child
has will be checked at its birth.


MOdesty never loses by truth, false
mOdesty is ever the child of half
knowledge and of untruth. If par
ents begin right with their young
children there will bc from the first
so perfect an understanding between
them that they may see as in a mir
rOr all the thoughts of the young
hearts they love SO tenderly, and pos
sess, i'm their mutual confidence the
strongest guarantee that the youth
full feet will not knowingly stray
from the paths of virtue. Secondly,
the parent should read the books
himself that he places in the hands
of his children, and know that they
are healthful in their moral tone.


If he cannot read them himself he
should have the Judgment of some
one I'm whom he has confidence be-
fore running the risk of giving his
children improper intellectual food
There are many juvenile magazines
and newspapers containing only good,
published in our country, and the
number ofvOlumes of interesting and
instructive literature written for chill
dren is past counting.


There is no need that any child, i'm
its hunger for amusing and instruct
i've books, should lay Its hands ON
any whose moral teachings are i'm
pure or Injurious. Care on the par
ents' part is the one thing needful.
Year: 1874

out, he doesn't rant; the anguish


within him Is so broad and deep and


intense that he dare not trust IL to


words. He just simply reaches up


and takes up handful of his own


hair, and tugs at 1t until the tears


como in his eyes. Then he picks up


the paper, which he has taken the


precaution to kick across the room on


discovering the errors, and resumes


the torturing search for after all 1t Is


but search for errors and agony, and


not an agreeable and instructive peru


sal. Suddenly he groans-not an ex-


pectant groan like from one who


Is beyond the reach of hope, who feels


that the warm sunshine, the kind
glance Of friendship, the beautiful
flowers and the song of the birds are
gone forever and forever from him.


1t is a smOthered grOan, accompanied


by kick out of the leg, as II the par
ty had in that moment taken an eter-
nal leave of all things earthly. There
Is still another search with aching
eyes and thrObbing brain, and then
the paper Is smashed down on the
floor, and the infuriated man bounds
uP anu CtlllCO UOLII
hands into his hair, and dances
around like mailman. He doesn't
call upon Heaven and earth to wit
ness what he is going to do and blight
him If he should nOtdO it. He doesn't
dash into the composing-rOom and
scorch the men with his wrath. Even
this slight relief is denied him. The
paper is worked off, and the scrutiny
that would cheerfully attack a needle
in haystack would fall paralyzed
before a search for the author of the
great wrong. He doesn't say any
thing at alIEnot a single intelligible
word escapes his ashen lips, as he
holds his hair and prances about in
the dingy solitude Of his room. And,
when he is done, he sits down and
grOans and Afterwards puts on his
hat and rushes forth into the street,
and rushes anywhere to get away
from the face of man, to get away
from himself and everything belong
ing to himself.-Dan6,uy Neics.
Year: 1874

"MUther's crOss!" said Maggie,
coming out into the Kitchen with q
pOut on her lips. Her aunt was busy
Ironing but she looked up, and an
swered Maggie:-


"Then 1t is the very time for you to
be pleasant and helpful. Mother was
awake a great deal In the night with
the poor baby"


Maggie made no reply. She put on
her hat, and walked off into the
garden. But new idea went with
her. "The very time to be helpful
and pleasant Is when other people are
croGs. Sure enough" thought she; /;
"that would be the time when 1t
would do the most good. 1 remem.
ber, when I was sick last year, 1 was
so nervous, that, If anybody spoke to
me, could hardly help being cross !;
and mother never got angry or out of
patience, but was just as gentle with
me! 1 ought to pay 1t back now and
/ will" And she sprang up from
the grass where she had thrown her
self, and turned face full of cheerful
resolution toward the room where her
mother sat soothing and tending a
ifretful, teething baby. Maggie
brought out the pretty ivory balls,
and began to jingle them for the little
one. He stopped fretting, and
smile dimpled the corners of his lips.
"COuldn't 1 take him out to ride in
his carriage, mother ? it Is such Il nice
morning." she asked.


II should be so glad ifyou would"
said her mother.


The little hat and sack were
brought, and baby was soon ready for
a ride.


"I'll keep him as long as he is
good" said Maggie "and you must
lie on the sofa and get a nap while 1
anyone. You are looking dreadfully
tired"


The kind words, and the kiss that
accompanied them, were almost too
much for the mother. The tears rose
to her eyes, and her voice trembled as
she answered, '"Thank you, dearie ; if
will do me world of good If you can
keep him out an hour and the air
will do him good too. My head aches
badly this morning.


What happy heart beat In Mag
gie's bosom as she trundled the little
carriage up and down on the walk
She had done real good. She had
given back title of the help and
fOrbearancc that had so often been
bestowed upon her. She had made
her mother happier, and gwen her
time to rest. She resolved always to
remember and act upon her aunt's
good words: "The very time to be
helpful and pleasant is when every
body Is tired and cross" ."-Me Welt
Spring.
Year: 1874

All things can be borne IL one ac-
cepts and makes the best of situat-
tiOn, or discriminates when 1t Is un-
profitable to endure unhappy cOndi-
tions. One of two conditions should
be chosen-to suffer in peace and
make the most of bad affair, or to
step out and away from it and start
anew on some more agreeable basis.
Otherwise people waste their lives in
pickering and rasping each other In
a desperate state of mind, and find
themselves and all intimately assO-
ciated with them untitled for any
usefulness.


Too many people live in a chronic
state of brOil. Their days are spent
in devising small, miserable schemes
for tOrturing those around them.


If two men having formed busi-
ness partnership find themselves un-
evenly y0ked, one doing all the work
for the other to share the profits, or
IL they have not perfect confidence In
each others fidelity to interests OF
the firm, the sooner they dissolve
that partnership the better for all
concerned unless it pays to make an
effort to adjust matters amicabiy and
continue to work together.


Ifa wife and husband live in utter
unhappiness /: IL each is torment to
the other; If one feels cramped. by
the contract; II days and nights are
dissolved i'm tears, recriminations,
curses and threats, the sooner they
separate for the sake of decency and
dignity the better. Under such CIR
cumstances there Is no respectability
In staying under the same roof, un-
less for the sake of appearance be
fore the world they can agree to let
each other alone.


Many a very good fellow makes q
miserable husband, whose wife Is left
to spend her days and evenings as
best she may with very little assis-
tance from him and at night while he
sleeps, her pillow Is drenched with
scalding teafs for the unkind words
that only died on his lips when sleeT
overcame him. ,tit
Year: 1874

Do the city papers say anything in
regard to your own county; Nothing.
Do they contain notices of your
schools, churches, meetings, improve
ments, and hundreds of other local
matters of interest, which your home
paper publishes without pay? Not
an item. Do they ever say word
calculated to draw attention to your
county and its numerous thriving
towns, and aid their progress and
enterprise? Not q line. Just reflect
on these matters little when the
idea strikes you to stop your county
paper and take city weekly. Take
your county paper first, after that all
you can afford to.
Year: 1874

THE Ashantee war is bringing to
notice some of the queer practices of
the natives. The King of Ashantee,
desiring one of his generals to return
with his troops, sent by a messenger
an "emblem of recall" consisting of
circle OF beads. This order was dis
regarded, and one more potent was
sent by the irste King. Its form was
that oil a small shield made of fibers
of palm, and its signification was
well understood by its recipient. In
accordance with native usage, when
a General will not return from war in
accord with the message Of beads, the
King takes this miniature shield and
solemnly swears upon 1t that he will
kill himself If his order Is again dis
obeyed. The troops were filed with
superstitious horror when the SYM
Dol was received, and the General no
longer disobeyed the order to re-
treat. -
Year: 1874

Is it worth while that we jostle s


brother


Bearing his load on the rough road OF


life?
Is it worth while that we jeer at each


other


In blackness of heart ?-that we wal


to the knife?
God pity ms all in our pitiful strife.
God pity us all as we jostle each other
God pardon us all for the triumphs we


feel
When a fellow goes down meath his load


on the heather,
Pierced to the heart; words are keener


than steel,
And mightier far for woe or for veal.
Were it not well in this brief little jour


ney


On over the isthmus, down into the


tide,
We give him fish instead of serpent,
Ere folding the hand TO be and abide
Forever and aye in dust mt his side?
Look at the roses saluting each other;
Look at the herds all at peace on the


plain
Man, and man only, makes war on his


brother,
And laughs in his heart at his peril


ard pain-
Shamed by the beasts that go down on


the plain.
Is it worth while that we battle to hum
Some poor fellow-soldier down into
the dust?
God pity us all Time oftsoon will tum-
BILE
All of us together, like leaves in a
gust
Humbled indeed down into the dust.
Year: 1874

I


can.


There are things which a man can do
with some show Of dignity and even
elegance, but the putting on Of a clean
shirt is not one of them Even those
tastidious chaps who put one on every
week never become SO expert and IA
mlIlar with the process that they can go
through with it with any degree of
comfort or dexterity, and the less ex-
'ravagant individuals who change only
once month, are really to be envjed.


The feat is accomplished iu this way.
You lay the garment down on the bed.
or across the table or washstand. no.
som downwards. each rustic of the
stiff1y-starched garment striking terror
to your soul Pulling it open, YOU
make strong draft on your courage
and resolution, and plunge into it,
thrusting your arms here aud there in
frantic and desperate search for the
sleeves. finding which you struggle
manfully in an endeayor to draw the
garment down SO that you can catch a
glimpse of the outer world once more.
By the exercise of proper amount
Of Judgment you are finally successful
in this, and you fad yourself gazing
out upon surrounding objects. encireled
BY stiff. rustEug linen, which props
pour chin up in the air and gives rise
to feeling as though you were braced
round about BY crowbars. with no
prospect of ever being able to sit down
again Putting on collar and tie,
you don your outer garments aud sally
forth, feeling as uncomfortable and un-
easy as though you had just sat down
on a coat-tail pocket full of eggs.
Year: 1874

RThere is nothing so well cal.
culated to upset mans rlsibilities
as to receive a poke in the stomach,
at 2 A NJ, accompanied by the in.
formation that "That front door is
unlocked" Fortunate woman is
she whose husband has such control
over his mirth as to not awake the
rest of the family while attend
lug to the matter,
Year: 1874

DIsAPPEARED.-When friend dies and
is buried there's an end Of him. We miss
him for space out Of our daily existence ;
we mourn for him by degrees that become
melcifully less; we cling to the blessed hope
that we shall be reunited in some more per-
feet sphere; but, so far as this earth is con-
cerned, there's an end of him. However
lie IT and dear he was, the time arrives when
he does not form Il part of our daily thought;
he ceases to be even an abstraction. We
go no more with flowers and tears into the
quiet cemetery only the rain and the snow
flakes fall there; we leave it for the fingers
of spring to deck the neglected mound;
But when our friend vanishes unaccountably
in the midst Of a crowded city, or goes off
on sea voyage, and is never heard


again, his memory has a singular tenacity.
He may be to all intents and purposes dead
to us, hut we have not lost him. The ring
oft,e door-bell, at midnight, may be his
ring; the approaching foot-step may be his
foot-step; the unexpected letter with forei- n
postmarks may be from his hand. He
haunts us as the dead never can. The
woman whose husband died last night may
marry again within lustre OF months. Do
you suppose week passes by when tie
woman whose husband disappeared myste.
riously ten years ago does not think of him?
There are moments when the opening of a
door must staftle herr. B. Alarich. q
Year: 1874

The failure of all North Pole expeditions
to discover the secret of the Arctic regions
has stimulated the Aeronautic Society of
Paris to attempt an Arctic balloon voyage.
Extravagant as the notion may appear, it is
not more extravagant than Professor Wise's
project of crossing the Atlantic ocean in a
balloon. One advantage of an aerial North
Pole voyage is the temperature of the Arc
tic regions, which prevents the escape of
gas from the balloon to such degree that
it is supposed to be quite feasible to con-
'struct a balloon which will last a three
months voyage. Another advantage is the
absence of darkness in the northern regions.
IF the balloon leaves in the summer time,
the sun will illuminate the heavens during
the whole trip. Then, again, the pernan-
ency in the direction of the winds around
the regions of the North Pole would be an
other point in favor of the trip to the North
Pole over that across the Atlantic. The
size of the proposed balloon is fixed at about
$4,000 cubic metres. 1t is calculated to car
ry ten men, three months provisions, apart
from the ballast, number of instruments,
an anchor and dragging rope, which win
touch the ground should the balloon sink
too near the earth. An ingenious arrange
ment has also been made to prevent the
balloon from rising higher than 800 metres,
or about $500 feet. The boat of the bal
loon is to be lined with sheep-skins and
heated with lamps, SO that even if the tenn
perature should fall to $50 below Zero out
side, it will be so above zero inside. A
vessel is to carry the men, the balloon and
the ingredients for the manufacture of the
neces sary amount Of gas to about the ITO
Of latitude. This win leave trip of about
800 miles to the North Pole for the balloon
to accomplish; and the voyage there and
back could be made within twenty days.
Everything, however, is to be prepared for
a full three months trip. The enterprise
is exciting unusual interest amongst the
scientific men of Europe, and is, indeed, one
of the most wonderful schemes ever. con-
ceived by the human mind.
Year: 1874

The Salt Lake Herald, a Mormon paper
in referring to an attempt to slander Bishop
Tuttle, pays him this nice compliment:


Some days ago we learned that a semi
clerical gentleman of this city, was some
what anxious to attack Bishop Tuttle, upon
a recent sermon which that gentleman had
delivered in st. Marks church, and in
which he had incidentally referred to the
profession of mining.


Bishop Tuttle has been in Utah and Mon
tana for several years, and from all that we
have learned of his personal life and public
administration, we have formed an excellent
opinion of him-both as a minister and a
gentleman. He is liberal as a Christian,
an indefatigable worker, and as wholly free
from the pride and pomposity of high posi-
ton as any man whom we have ever met.
AS lie passes through our streets, no one
unacquainted with him would ever suppose
that that slouched hat could be replaced at
any moment by the mitre SO much the
ambition of men of greater pretentions.


From such a man as Bishop Tuttle we
could well afford to listen to difference of
opinion, and had he expressed himself OPP
posed to the profession of mining, as alleged
by the Mining Churchman," he was al
least entitled to that right of thought and
Judgment The opportunity of slandering
a dignatary, however, was to much for our
morning co-tem., and notwithstanding ii
had the disayowal of the Bishop before the
publication of the communication, it felt
that such morccow was too great a tempt
alton for sensation to be passed by unim-
proved.
Year: 1874

san francisco Chfoncte. 'E'3
The habitual-drink or anti-treating So
eiety recently organized in San Francisco
does not appear to be making much head
way, for little has been heard of it since the
announcement of its formation. The mem
bers restrict themselves to one pledge, not
to pay for, any other mans drink and not to
drink at any other mans expense. Such an
association is not likely to arouse much
enthusiasm even among its advocates, while
it is exposed to a cross-fire from the two
great armies of rum-drinkers on the one
hand and Otal-abstinence men on the other.
The rum-drinkers denounce it as 'a mean
have no sympathy with an organization
which allows its members to drink. Not
withstanding all the objections to the indi-
vidual drink association, however, there is
no doubt that if the prescribed pledge were
strictly adhered to the growth of intemper-
ance would he materially checked. The
New York Tribune speaks approvingly of
the new movement, and advances the fol-





The American habit of treating is the
origin of much of the misery and damage
which come from excessive drinking. There
are thousands of boys growing up to-day
who have no inherited thirst for liquor, to
whom the taste and smell of whisky are
offensive, who are destined to become
drunkards merely through their generosity
and desire to please. They know of no
no other way Of making themselves agree
able TO their acquaintarces when they meet
than by asking them to take drink, and
when the same invitation is given to them
they do not know how to refuse. Who has
not seen these fine, rosy, rather loutish
Toys, at county Fairs or political meetings,
marching UP to bars by twos and threes,
asking each other, "What will you take 90
and gulping down n dose of poison which
brings the tears to their eyes? When one
has paid for the drinks each of the rest
feels the obligation resting upon him to
return the courtesy, and the rural etiquette
obliges all to recognize the right of each to





In most cases not one of them enjoys it.
They all feel the fiery stuff i'll their faces
and eyes, clouding their minds and rasping
their throats, but the one who has first paid
is the slave of his friends, and the conven-
tionalites of the village or the crossroads
are as strong as those of the city. 'You
have drank with all of the rest and now
you must drink with me,'' is a contradic
ton i'll logic, but it is unanswerable in rus
tic practice among drinking youths. The
signing of such a limited liability pledge
as we have mentioned would free these.
well-intentioned and theughtless boys from
the chains of this miserable and dangerous
custom. There are very few who would
deliberately go up to- a counter and ask for
Il solitary dram. This is only done when
the habit has become strong one, and
when the hope of reformation has pretty
well disappeared. #.e j.;
Year: 1874

The members of Henry Ward Beecher's
congregation are about to reply to the
charges made against him by erecting for
his use the largest church in the world No
nan in America is better capable Of filling
such an edifice with an interested cengre-
CATION than Mr.. Beecher is.
Year: 1874

The expenditures made in running a
mining, tunnel before a lode is strd' in the
tunnel is not considered by the Land Office
as equivalent to expenditures on the lode.
Tunnel owners will bear this fact in mind
and act accordingly.
Year: 1874

/ From the San francisco Mining Press April IL


Il The aFRENcH GUIANA MINEs.-These


mines, which few months ago were
attracting considerable attention, have not
proved what was expected by the sanguine
prospectors. A miner who has returned to
Salt Lake City from French Guiana, gives
most discouraging account of his expert
ence in that country. He says the climate
precludes the possibility of successful white
labor, and the stories of the richness of the
gold placers are highly overdrawn. 1t
would be a miracle almost for a North
American to run the gauntlet of the poison
GUS water and atmosphere of the mining
district and come out alive. Most of the
Utah party are heartily sick of their venture,
and are trying to get back. We did our
best at the time of the excitement to
warn miners about the climate of the
country and it's general unhealthiness, but
some men are never contented unless they
are looking up new fields the further off
the better. @ ..- ts.s~