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Year: 1874

and were disposed, as our brethren
beyond the line are wont to do, to
hold up every crime and scandle
of the opposite section as en- index
of the morals of that section, We
might find an enormous amount OF
complacency and malignant comfort
in the spectacle which the North,
the land of " elevated moral ideas,
of " higher planes - and spiritual
spheres, is presenting to the world.
Its papers can indite long and
piously sounding editorials on
Southern :: semi -barbarism," its
preachers can illuminate the heav>
lest anathemas against duelling and
other practices to some extent in
dulged in at the South as well
as elsewhere, its moralists will
deplore the low "plane upon
which our people dwell, while at
the same time, according to well
settled principles of morals and
ethics, it contains more real corr
ruption than perhaps any other
portion of the globe. There is a
Scripture injunction about the
" beam in his own eye that might
prove edifying to the average
northern mind.


1t cannot be doubted that the
society forming Plymouth Church,
occupies q high spiritual plane, "
lives in the advanced ideas - of the
age, have white souls" deep
"religious sentiments" &C., and
and yet the letters that have come
to light, in connection with the
great scandal in regard to its pass





tor, shows state of social morals
hard to realize as existing il a po>
lite community in America. In
pretending to seek higher devel~
opment, more elevated spiritual
sphere, these people seem to have
forgotten the first principles of
decency and to have greatly blunt>
ed their inmate moral perception,
as we'll as divested themselves of
ordinary common sense. Upon the
top of this affair, the discussion of
which is too loathsome to be pre-
sented to the general reader, comes
the Glendening outrage in Jersey
City, which was so dreadful in it's
enormity thatit aroused the popular
Indignation even of a northern COM
munity, which has ordered him to
leave the city. Add to this the list
Of crimes that every paper affords,
and the fact that in New York alone
there were in one week nineteen
hundred and thirty police arrest,
and We have a dismal picture Of
that portion Of our country that is
setting itself forth as the great
teacher in all political, religious
and social advancement. So much
advanced in politics, it rejects the
efete constitution of our fathers
On 50 much higher plane in society,
it discardS old>fogy decency: So
much more learned, it has discard~
ed the good old way of our fathers
and made for itself new theolo>
gy.


The South has always been the
conservative principle in this gov~
ernment, and there is but little
hope for reform in society or poll
tics until her voice is again heard
in the nation. Until the North has
learned to practice virtue, let it
cease to carp about the faults of its
neighbors. Example is better than
precept. A bore mqjiori discit
dTQTe minor.
Year: 1874

The man who produces the lar
gest yield to area cultivated with
the least expense, and increases the
fertility Of tho soil is the most sci
entlhc farmer, however ignorant of
the fac: he may be.
Year: 1874

To tie Members of the Demoeyatic- Con-


ssrvatjre Party Of North Car o1i3aa:


AS Chairman of your Executive
Committee, [ tender you our sincere
congratulations upon the glorious
victory you have achieved.
Notwithstanding the overwhelm-
ing defeat you sustained in the last
Presidential election, you now car. y
tne State, electing the Superintenu-
ent of Public instruction by nearly
10000 majority, gain five Superior
Court Judges, elect nine Solicitors,
have more than two-thirds in the
General Assembly and send to Con-
gress a Conservative member from
each district except one, where we
largely reduced the majority against
us.


It is true that in this contest you
are not unmindful of the record of
Year: 1874

WHEN they told an Indiana
woman that her husband hail
been sliced up by reaper, she
impatiently replied: "wen,
take the pieces to the barns I
can't leave the gooseberry
sauce just now" o
Year: 1874

CURES IN THE REACH OF ALL.-The Mem
phis Register gives the following simple reme-
weight in gold, and should be preserved


A tea made of peach leaves is a sure cure
for kidney difficulty.


A plaster made of fresh Stacked lime and
fresh tar is a sure cure for cancer, which with
all its roots. will CONS out


A tea made of chestnut leaves, and drank
in place of water, will cure the most obstinate
case OF dropsy in few days.


A tea made of ripe or dried whOrtleberries.
and drank in the place OF water, is a sure and
speedy cure for scrofulous difficulties however
bad
Year: 1874

''Bc careful how you drink, or you Il wash
the colsr from your cheeks, said gentlemaR
at fashionable party, as he handed glass of
water to lady.


There is no danger of your ever taking
water enough to remove the color from your
face /" was the good natured retort
Year: 1874

Detectives AND THEIR ALIEs.-Tnouiries
are made as to how Thurlow Weed managed
to recover his stolen watch, and the New York
correspondent of the | tca HcraH preteDds to
know, and doubtless does kaow. ali about II


The recovery of the watch, no SAYS, which
was announced in the Herald two days before
les occurrence flOm the correct INTERPRETATION
OF an advertisement, shows how thieves COM
muHlcate with their victims in manner which
IS worthy OF the term free and easy" You
can address personal TO a thief and receive an
answer, and this may be repeated any length
of time without leading to detection. In Mr.
Weeds case the thief sent word through some
detective probably, who shared his spoil as
matter OF arrangement. The reply came
through an advertisement. A certain sum. no
doubt much larger than the value of the watch
is mentioned, in addition to immunity from
arrest The money is placed in the hands Of
the detective, who meets the thief, and they
divide the spoil. The watch is returned to
Mr.. Weed at the police Office, where the detec-
tive generally refuses to accept any fee for his
trouble. This sounds well in the papers, but
those who understand police matters will see
through the the surface. Detectives do not
work for mere compliments presume the re-
turn of the watch cost Mr. Weed $500, and that
the detectives got at least one halt" If there
were no detectives we are half inclined to re-
mark the thieves would starve to death
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
Year: 1874


The Wild, rushing winds Of the tempest are sweep
he frosi-fettered land like spirit Of wrath;
His nerce, icy breath with keen arrows Is piercing
The breasts OF the wanderers who stand IN M


path;


The earth in trance lies enahrouded in slopoe
The storm-king knocks loudly az window and
The prayer Of the .pitiful fervertly rises
God shelter the homeless aud pity the poor
God pity the poor who are wearily sitting
By eesolate hearth-stonea, cod, cherries and
From which the last ember's pale aickering has


faded,


Like Hope dying out in the midst OF despair.
Who look on the wide world and see Il a desert
Where ripple no waters. no green branches wave,
Who see IN the future a. dark as the present
No rest but the death-bed, no home but the grave
GOD pity the poor when the eddying sno,V-drifts
Are whirled by the wrath Of the winter wind by,
like showers Of leaves from the palIfd atarIIlfes
That doat In the depths OF the blue lake on hieb
For though they are draping the broad earth in
And yelling some haw in each gossamer fold.
That beauty Is naught to the mother whose children
Are crouching around her in hunger and cold.
As hard a. the winter and cold as its snow;
While fortune makes sunshine and summer around
They care not for others nor think Of their woe
or II from their plenty trife be given,
bst 10 tRs rsceyer tber 0ltSH s seSst SGs
More painful than hunger, more bitter than cold.
God pity the poor for though all men are brothers
Though all say Our Father" not mine, when


they pray,


The proud ones Of earth turn aside from the lowly
As II they were fashioned OF different clay;
They not in those who in meekneas and pa.


tience


Toll, poverty, pain, without murmur endure
The image Of Him whose hrat couch was q manger
Who choose for our sakea TO be homeless and


poor.


H., a..
Their trials, temptations and troubles to brave,
And pity the wealthy whose idol is Fortune,
For gold cannot gladden. the gloom Of the grave
And as this brief life, whether painful pleasant
To one that Is endless but opens this door,
The heart signs while thinking on palace and


hOvel;


God pity the wealthy as well as the poor.
Year: 1874

time the outer horn gets quite loose,
and might be slipped of with q slight
wrench. When this is found to be the
case, the OK should be fitted with q
pair of reins attached Co the horns, and
a steady peon should be set TO drive
him. Then unite him from the post.
OF course his first movement Is to bolt
into the forest, but 8 pull on the sore
horn soon stops that ambition. Then
he mostly turns short round to gore,
but a steady grasp of one rein forces
him straight again. Some will back
upon the driver and try to slack the
reins; they always turn out well, those
that attempt that clever trick, unless
they grow regularly vicious. Chiquito
tried it as soon as ever he felt the cord,
and knocked his driver over. Fortu-
nately I was there, or he would have
been lost, and my peon also.


In the course of day or two the OK
gets quiet, and answers to the rein we'll
enough. Then he is taught to stand
when jeFked, to bend his head, to step
evenly, and other little tricks. When
his horns are quite. healed, he still an
swers to the touch upon them-that is,
he should do-but a very great many
forget all their education when the
pain has gone. Then he is taken out to
the savanna, and praoticed round a
stump.


"But not until your OK has been out
two or three times after real game can
his cleverness be judged. Some never
do any thing except Just what they are
told; others have hundred little tricks
when the deer seem frightened-Ohi-
quito here will lie down and roll, cover
ing me all the time; he will sidle up
against the wind in a manner I never
taught him; he takes as much interest
in the hunt as I."-Camp Notes, by
Frederick Boyle.
Year: 1874

NAACs


"Can the watermelon be successfully
cultivated on sandy soil, in a rural town
of four thousand inhabitants, and the
illogical institute located near by, con-
tanning one hundred and twenty stu
dents studying for the ministFy?" This
question excited considerable comment
and loud discussion among the agricul-
turists present (at the meeting of the
% 'Hayseeds" in Cleveland), and nearly
an hour and half was spent in discuss
ing the same. An old green grocer
who had raised early and late veg ctables
for the market for twenty years of his
earlier life, said he could raise melons
on top of barn, or on a billiard table,
even, let him pick the locality and his
neighbors. It was not so much the soil,
nor the season, that the melon depended
upon for its perfection, as it was the
peculiarities of the inhabitants Of the
country roundabout. Where there was
an excess Of colored citizens it was al
most as impossible to raise 4 paying
crop of melons as it was to keep spring
chickens, unless they roasted at night
in a Herring safe. Then, again-col-
IeRes have a bad effect upon the melon
crop, and even a minister's family Of
seven boys has been known to blight a
large patch in a single night. In sec
tions of country where these drawbacks
exist, the speaker had learned that the
only method to insure a full crop of
melons was 20 station a man by each
melon from the time il was the size Of a
hens egg until it ripened. This was
expensive but the result was always
gratifying. As the fruit grew in size,
and approached ripeness, the speaker
had sometimes found it necessary T.
ststion two guards over each large mel
on, and even then, in communities
Year: 1874

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
senption Is out or unpaid, and that
YOU are requested to pay up ct once.
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit TO our friends and patrons.
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope You VIII comprehend
and appreciate the necessity OF Saoh
course, and renew your Eubscrlp
without delay. We solicit your faFof-


81 We enter no new names On euE
Year: 1874

TIE activity Of the young is like that
of railcars in motion-they tear along
with noise and turmoil, and leave peace
behind them. The quietest hooks per
vaded by them lose their quietude IS
they pass, and recover it only on their
departure. Times best gift TO use is
serenity. BoUes.
Year: 1874

MRS. SwISSHELM on THE OBLIGA-
TIONS OF TIE MARITAL Vow. Mrs.


Jane G. Swisshelm concludes q letter to
the Chicago Tribune as follows: at is
strange, in this advanced age, that ad-


vanced thinkers should have forgotten,


or never learned, the alphabet of moral


obligation; but this seems to be true /;
and, for their benefit, it is well to say


that when a couple marry they pledge
themselves to forsake all others, and
cling unto one another; that this pledge
has all the solemnity of an oath that
he or she who violates that pledge is
perjured; that the law of society is truth;
that people who do not preserve the
sacredness of oaths will soon cease to be
a people; that the welfare of the body
polite is of more Importance than the
happiness of few individuals; that
there can be no general security without
a general enforcement of contracts; and
those who would take marriage out OF
the sphere of legal, moral contract, and
place il on that of n transient sexual at
traction, are simply iaboring to reduce
mankind 10 a level with herd of cattle.
May the good Lord defend humanity,
and the Woman Suffrage cause, from
leaders who see a grand womanhoodi in
breaking n marriage VOW to follow the
fortunes of another woman's husband. "
Year: 1874

MOTHERS HOUsE.-How many happy
thoughts are called up by those two
beautiful words. Is there-ean there be
any place so full of pleasant faces, be-
meath the waving palms of sunny isles,
or in the chilling shadows of icy monn-
tains? Our heart turns with unchauge-
able love and longing to the dear old
house which sheltered us in childhood.
Kind friends may beckon us to newer
scenes, and loving hearts may bind us
fast to pleasant homes, but we are not
satisfied with them alone, for there is
one place more fair and lovely than them
all, and that is the beloved Mothers
House."


1t may be old and rickety to the eyes
of the stranger. The windows may have
been broken and patched, long ago, and
the floor worn through and mended with
pieces of tin, but it is still mothers
house, from which we looked out at life
with hearts full of hope, building WON
derful castles i'm clOudland which faded
long ago; but thanks to the good Father,
mothers house is left us still, and, weary
with the busy turmoil of life, weary Of
ourselves, we turn our steps toward the
dear house of rest, and at its threshold
lay our burdens down.


Here we have watched life come and
go. Here we have folded still, cold
hands, over hearts as still, that once
beat full of love for us. Here we have
welcomed brothers and sisters into life,
watched for the first lisping words from
baby lips, guided the tottering baby feet
| from helplessness to manhood, and here
we have watched, with aching hearts,
to see the dear ones turn from the home
nest out into a world which has proved
but a snare and temptation to many
wandering feet. And here we gather
strength to take up our lives again, and
90 on patiently unto the end. But
though the world call Us, and we may
find friends good and true, we turn to
the dear old home, when troubles come,
for help and comfort God grant that
for US all there may long remain a
"mOther's housew
Year: 1874

Misunderstanding is an institu-
ton calculated for q constant scene of as
much delight as our being is capable of.
Two persons who have chosen each
other out of all the species, with design
to be each others mutual comfort and
entertainment, have in that action bound
themselves to be good-humored, afable,
discreet, forgiving, patient and joyful.
with respect to each others frailties and
imperfections, to the end of their lives.
The wiser of the two land it always
happens one of them is such) will, for
her or his own sake, keep things from
outrage with the utmost sanctity.
When this union is thus preserved las l
have often said, the most Indifferent
circumstances administer delight. Their
condition is an endless source of new
qualification. The married man can
say, "If l am unacceptable to all the
world besides, there is one whom | en-
tirely love, that will receive me with
joy and transport, and think herself
obliged to double her kindness and ca
resses of me from the gloom with which
she sees me overcast. | need not dis
semble the sorrow of my heart to be
agreeable there; that very sorrow quick
ems her affection.-SpectatOr.
Year: 1874

Another Arctic expedition has suffered
the usual fate of shipwreck and suffering
without achieving any substantial re-
suit. 1t is true that the gallant Aus
trian explorers, Payer and Weyprecht,
who have Just been rescued from the ice
fields of SpitZbergen, succeeded in reach
ing north latitude S3', having thus PEN
etrated some 10 miles nearer the North
Pole than did Captain Parry. But this
gain of 10 miles added really nothing to
our geographical knowledge, while the
real object of the explorers, that of sail
ing through the so-called North Pas
sage, was defeated. They saw nothing
that differed in any way from the ice,
snow and water seen by former Arctic
voyagers, and it would be difficult to
point out a single particular in which
science has been benefited from their
bravery and sufferings.


Nevertheless, Arctic explorations will
go on. Baffied and turned back a score
of times, the seekers of the Pole will
still go on. 1t has already been shown
that no discoveries can be made in that
direction which will benefit commerce,
for the dream of utilizing the Arctic Sea
for navigation has vanished since the
Northwest Passage has been found prac-





no human being has reached the Pole is
a sufficient incentive to adventurous
men to strive to succeed where Parry,
Kane, Hays, Hall and so many others
have failed.


Whenever an Arctic expedition re-
turns, and the survivors tell the story OF
their hardships, a certain class of hu-
manitarians protest against any further
attempt at exploration i'm the frozen
seas. With equal justice it might be
claimed that the climbing of the Alps
and the hazardous voyages of aeronauts
should be forbidden in the interests of
humanity. 1t is true that no man will
be richer for the discovery of the Pole,
but mankind would be poorer in bravery
and enterprise were polar explorations
to cease. 1t is something to know that
there are men bold enough to face the
horrors of an Arctic winter on a cruise
which can yield them no money. The
world is not so full of unselfish bravery
that we can afford to underrate the dar-
ing of the seekers of the Pole.
Year: 1874

A WORD ABOUT MARRIAGE. A
physician writes the following sensible
advice: "My profession has thrown me
among women Of all classes, and my ex-
perience teaches me that God never
gave man greater proof of his love
than to place woman here with him.
My advise is: Go-propose to the most
sensible girl you know. II she says yes,
tell her how much your income is-from
what source derived-and tell her you
will divide the last shilling with her
and love her with all your heart in the
bargain. And then keep your promise.
Ny word for il, she will live within
your income, and TO your last hour you
will regret that you didn't marry sooner.
Gentlemen, don't worry about feminine
extravaganza and feminine untruth.
Just you be true to her, love her sin
cerely, and tell her of it frequently, and
a more fond, faithful, foolish slave you
will never meet anywhere. You won't
deserve her, l know, but she would
never see it. Now throw aside pride
and selfishness, and see what will be-
come of it.n
Year: 1874

PURE GIRLS AND IMPURE BOYS
Girls, treating dissipated young men as
equals, do a wrong that they hardly re-
aiize. Such men should be made to feel
that until they walk with correctness
and honor in the path of right, good
people will stand aloof from them Girls
who respect themselves will not be seen
with such young men, and will decline
to receive them on the familiar footing
of friendship. 1t is a mistaken kind
ness to poultice when caustic is needed,
and | am inclined to think that little
sharp decision on the part of the young
girls of to-day would go far to correct
the general looseness of morality among
young men, Womdn'S Journal
Year: 1874

Those who imagine that women
trained up under the influence of Nor
monism and a belief in the practice of
polygamy, are necessarily wanting in
refinement, culture, or womanly eX-
cellence, need but to converse with
Brigham Young's nineteenth wife, Ann
Eliza Young, to have their minds disa-
bused on that point. Mrs. Young is a
well-educated, sensible, modest, fine-ap-
pearing lady, easy and graceful in man
ners, aud well calculated to adOrn intel
ligent and refined society. She is a
pleasing, straightforward speaker, with
no attempt at theatrical effect or dis
play. People living beyond the pale of
Mormon influence may wonder how il is
that such a woman, young and attract
i've, should consent to become the wife
of a man Of seventy with eighteen living
wives. The wonder ceases when the
power and influence of Mormonism over
the minds of its votaries is understood


Whatever may be said of the leaders of
the Mormon church, there is no more
religious people in the world than the
lay members thereof. Their devotion


to the principals of their religion, and


faith in their religious teachers, borders


on fanatical frenzy. Born in Narvoo,


and reared from infancy in Utah
taught to believe implicitly in the
Prophet, and dazed with the prospect of
becoming bright jewel in his crown, a
queen in the celestial world, it is not
surprising that she should consent to
his espousal. Besides, there were other
motives, as she relates in her lecture,
that in measure influenced her to this
end. That she has had the strength to
assert her womanhood and fortitude to
break loose from this alliance, is greatly
to her credit. 1t is no light thing to
turn away from the teachings and fixed
belief of a lifetime, and strike out i'm new
paths. We commend this lady to the
favorable considerations of the press and
public. She is no adventurer, but an
honest, high-minded woman.-MeTcUTy.
Year: 1874

A DAY TO BE SAVED BETWEEN CHICAGO AND OGDEN


THE TRUoKEE TUNNEL.


President Sidney Dillon and Jay Gould OF
the Union Pacific Railroad started for tour Of inspee-
ton over the Union Pacific and connecting roads, ON
Saturday evening. They will probably 20 as far as San
Francisco. where they viii remain several days. one
of the objects OF their journey will be to facilitate
passenger traffic over the Union Pacific by increasing the
speed Of the trains which at the rate OF hteen
miles an hour Instead of making connection with the
Union Pacific transfer at Council Bluffs Is proposed
to run a through from Chicago, abolishing THIS
transfer as at present conducted This speed Will be IN
creased SO that day will be saved between Chicago
and Ogden, Utah.


Some time ago while vice.President Huntington OF
the Central Pacific Railroad on trip TO Cahfornis'
he signed contracts for the tunneng Of the Sierra Me-
vada Mountains at point near Truckee CAL The tun-
mel will be several miles long, Will cost EoOoOO snu
will preclude the necessity which exists at present OF
making a steep ascent OF more than loo iees
a very difficult part OF the road. When TINS sha 10
completed the snow wsheds which now form 80 mI0r s


feature in the equipment OF the road, VIII De no
necessary Several thousand tons OF steel rails havo
been sent the line OF the road and will replace o
iron rails as fast as the latter are worn out