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Year: 1867

EXPANDING THE LUNGS Step
out into the purest air you can
find; stand perfectly erect, with
the head and shoulders back, and
then fixing the lips as though you
were going to whistle, draw the air
through the lips into the lungs.
When the chest is about half full,
gradually raise the arms, keeping
them extended with the palms Of
the hands down, US you suck in the
air, SO as to bring them over the
head just as the lungs are quite
full. Then drop the thumbs inward
and after gently forcing the arms
backward and the chest open,
reverse the process by which you
draw your breath until the lungs
are empty. This process should
be repeated three or four times
Immediately after bathing and al
so several times through the day.
1t is impossible to describe to one
who has never tried it the glorious
sense of vigor which follows this
exercise. 1t is the best expector-
ant in the world. We know a gen
tleman the measure Of whose chest
has been increased by this means
some three or four inches during
as many months.-Erchange
Year: 1867




Take a small piece Of cotton
batting, or cotton wool, making.a
depression in the centre with the
end OF finger, and fill it with as
much brown pepper as will rest on a
five cent piece, gather it into a ball
and tie it up; dip the ball into sweet
oil, and insert it in the ear, cover
ingthe latter with cotton wool, and
use a bandage or cap to retain it in
place. Almost instant relief will
be experienced, and the applica-
ton is so gentle that an infant
would not be injured by it, but
experience relief, as well as
adults.
Year: 1867

Pour on the bread board ono
pint best flour, and divide it into
two parts. Mix with cold wate-)
one half the -four into q soft dough,
and work or beat with rolling pin
until it blisters, occasionally draw.
ing up some of the dry flour Ia
prevent the dough adhering to the
board. Then roll as thin as posi-.
Bile, ard at intervals of about two
inches, place Jumps of butter the
size of O. hickory nut. Fold tho
dough up thus: Turn the outer
edge towards you, and then the
one nearest you to meet the first ;
fold one of the ends towards your
left the other over it, and roll out
thin again.-Repeat this opera
tion four times and if the direc-
tions are closely followed you will
have what l have heard called
Magic Pastry" You should
bake in a quick oven, and if the
pastry is placed in the pie plates,
and allowed to sit in cool place
an hour, before putting in the fruit
or mixture, it will be improved.
Lard may be used if you cannot
obtain butter; a half a pound'of the
latter is sufficient, but less lard. l
am neither q cook nor a housekecp-
err, but | have watched the process
of pastry making a long time, and
have mover seen this fail in our
house; and | say the pastry literally
melts in the mouth. 1t consists Of
as many layers Of flakes as the
times il was rolled.a- Country Gen
tlem0n.
Year: 1867

Lemons are recommended for
dropsy in a Russian Medical Jour
nal, and said to be beneficial in the
most hopeless cases, The first day
one lemon was givon, after taking
the peel off, and cutting it up into
small pieces in sugar; tho two fol
lowing days three wero given and
afterwards eighteen every day
For nourishment, meat was given.
and in every case the water came
off on the seventh day.
Year: 1867

A hundred thousand dollar man
is Jefferson Davis. 1t took that sum
to get him, and the pledge Of the
same to get him off. Thereward for
his arrest and the sum for his re-
lease on bail are the same.
Year: 1867

MANS RIGnTs. In the Court Of
Special Sessions in New York city
there camo up tho case of a con-
ductor upon the street railroad,
charged with having assaulted a
boy passenger, and kicked him
from the car. The boy testified
that be sat down in n seat vacated
by a lady. Another lady entering
the car, the conductor ordered him
to get up. He refused, having
paid his fare, and the conductor
then dragged him out Of the scat
and kicked him off the car. Judge
Bowling said that while a spirit OF
gallantry and courtesy will gencr-
arlly cause a gentleman TO give
his scat to q lady who would other
wise have to stand, the former had
equal rights with the latter to the
comforts of the car. lie then
sentenced the conductor TO the
Penilentiary for one month, in ad-
dition to a fine Of $780, Columbus
Journal.
Year: 1867

WuAT IS HApp1NEss?-Lct man
have all the world can give him, he is
still miserable if he has grovelling,
undevoted mind. Let him have his
garden, his fields, his woods, his lawns;
for grandeur, plenty, ornament, and
qualification; while at the same time
God is not in all his thoughts, and
let another have neither field nor gar
den, let him only look at nature with
an enlightened mind--a mind which
can see and adore the Creator in all
his works-can consider them as de-
monstrations of his power, his wisdom,
his goodness and truth; this man is
greater as we'll as happier in his pow
erty, than the other in his riches-the
one a little higher than beast-thc
other little lower than an angel,
Year: 1867

"Wfru Fora METALLIC QUALIFICATIONS a
man msy be pretty sure Of earthly success
These are GoLD in his pocket. SILVER in his
tongue, BRASS in his face, and lRoS in his
heart


But for tonic appetizer. and as = gentle
eumnlant, there is reliable virtue in PLAN.
TArION RlrrERS. No article has ever
been so popular or done half so much good
Let all who have not already tried this
great stomachic. Mt once test its quality
We understand that the Druggists and
Grocers OF III section are selling vast
quantities, and that scarcely . family is
without it.
Year: 1867

Horse BaoKgv Isro The residence osA
poor woman, situated on Fourth street hear
the Bur,is Opera House. was broken into in
broad daylight yesterday, the lock of a
trlnk forced. and . quantity Of clothing
taken. We understand that Detective Sew
erance has been employed to ferret out the
burglar
Year: 1867

PuxPiNG our THE BAsEMEsrs-A number
Of our business men have workmen engaged
in pumping the water out Of their bases
nents which flowed in during the recen,
nigh stage of the river. From the effluvia
which is highly suggestive Of cholera, We
should judge it WAS about time.
Year: 1867

During the Exposition conference was held by dele
gates from several nations, the United States beng
one, in which the Inconvenience of commerce and
commercial intercourse resulting from divers standard
money value fully discussed, and plans were de-
veoped for establishing by universal consent of com
principle tor the coinage of gold. These confer
ences expected to be renewed, with the attendance
of many foreign States not hitherto represented Are
port ofthcse interesting proceedings will be submitted
to Congress- which will, doubt, justly appreciate
this great object and be ready adopt any measure
which may tend to facilitate its ultimate accomplish
m
Year: 1867

Higgins saw three bodies floating, but succeeded
In getting only one Of them, and this he accom-
plished at the risk of his own life. Neither he
nor we could anchor In water of such depth,
and our boats were rapidly drifting on an ugly
lee shore. We saw nothing of the wreck but an
old box. Miss Blake, of Framingham, the only
person saved, had clutched an oar and was alive
when taken IN, aud was brought into the harbor
in good condition. Miss Blake was most tenderly
cared for at Roberts Hotel by the good and kind
ladies temporarily residing there, and is dong
very well, indeed. In the hands of such women
as Mrs. Judge Chapman, of Springfield, she will
want for no attention that Is requisite to her
comfort and recovery. The disaster, as you will
readily conceive, carried dismay to the hearts of
all the guests here; but alas alas! TO be so near
such unspeakabe distress as we were, to witness
such an appalling scene, and at the same time to
be utterly unable to give the slightest assistance!
God save me from q repetition Of that
Year: 1867

Terrible Sickness at IhdIanOIa-Inde-
HRtigNble ExertiOns OF the Howard
Association - InhumanIty OF Certain


PeEsOnss


We copy the following from the Indianola
Bulletin of the 18th Instant


The terrible sickness that has visited our city
has caused much suffering. Many families will
be left without a protector; and 1t Is duty we
owe to humanity TO relieve the actual wants OF
those who have been thus afflicted.


We exceedingly regret to hear that in some
instances the feelings which should predominate
in the human breast have been wanting, and
trust that the finger of scorn and contempt may
ever be pointed at the shapes of those who are,
by some mistransformation, made In the image
of God.


For the sake of humanity we trust we shall
hear no more of such instances of lnhumanity,
and that proper view of our situation be taken
with calmness and reflection, and that the visi-
tation may be looked calmly in the face, and all
due and proper respect be paid to those who
demand our services and symPathies.


But we rejoice to state that the great ma
iorty of our citizens are doing their duty nobly,
and whenever any cases like the above come
under their observation, immediate steps are
taken to alleviate the necessities of the afflicted.
The Howard Association are interchangeable in
their exertions, and we trust that In short
time the cup OF bitterness may pass from our
lips, as the signs are evident OF an abatement of
the disease


KEEP AWAY.


The CITY Is still desolated with the yellow
fever, and all business is at standstill, of
course; yet we notice almost every day that
wagons IRON the interior Will venture In and
discharge and receive freights. Our advice to
the people of the interior is to keep away for the
present, until the air is in some way purified
from the infectious miasma that now pervades
the atmosphere; or If they will persist in ven.
tnT,ng in to come when the sun has dispelled
in a measure it's evil influences, and that Is be-
tween nine O'Clock In the morning and six
o;clock in the evening, and to avoid the scorch-
ing rays of the noon.day sun. Drink nothing
exciting. and keep the mind free IRON fear, and
| II these precautions are strictly followed; they
may avoid the pestilence; but the safest plan Is
| to Keep away altogether.


TAR AND REATHERs.


Quite demonstrhtion occurred in the night
Of Monday, the 18th, One Of the iRhuman moRs
Year: 1867

A man living at a village near Mo
bile, attempted to frighten some girls
by wrapping a white cloth round his
body and personating a ghost. All
ran but one, who pulled out revolver
and deliberately fred six balls into the
head and body. At the first shot the
ghost fell, but she continued firing
She then went home and related cir
cunstances, and parties returning to
the spot found life completely extinct,
two balls having penetrated the fole-
head and the other four the region Of
the heart. The sympathy Of the peo-
pie favored the girl, and she has not
been arrested,
Year: 1867

The midnight Albany train, few
weeks since, left load of passengers
at one Of our Western towns. Among
the number was a nervous, hdgety old
man, who was in a great stew about his
baggage. His foot had hardly touched
the platform, when he commenced dog
ging the baggage master for his baggage.
Finally, after being repeatedly dunned
for the baggage, before he had time to
get il from the bottom of the huge pile,
the baggage master turned to the man
and thus addressed him: Mister, les a
pity that you wasn't born an elephant
instead Of iaokass, and thin ye'd have
had yer trunk always under yer nose -
Year: 1867

father-in-laW has never suspected that
was "the young jackanapes that made
him late for the train" Che has never
mentioned the burnt cork business }
and has always been so kind to me
that I have heartily repented of It.
Year: 1867

MEN OF Few WoRDs.-Some men
use words as rihemen use bullets
They say but little. The few words
used go right to the mark. They let
you talk, and guide with their eye and
face, on and on, till what you say can
be answered in a word or two, and then
they launch out a sentence, pierce the
matter to the quick, and are DONE
Your conversation falls into their mind
as rivers into a deep chasm, and is lost
from sight by its depth and darkness.
They will sometimes surprise you with
a few words, that 60 to the mark like q
gunshot, and then they are silent again,
as if they were reloading. Such men
are safe oounsellors and true friends,
in every case where they profess to be
such. 10 them truth is more valuable
than gold, while pretension is TOD
gauzy to deceive them. Words with
out point, to them, are like titles with
out merit, only betraying the weakness
of the blinded dupes who are ever used
as promoters of other mems schemes.
Year: 1867

Every person who has enjoyed the
pleasure of an intimate and Friendly
association with animals, is aware that
they may be as much raised in the
scale of existence by an education con-
Quoted with gentleness, as 8 human
being may be depressed In that scale
by an opposite treatme MT.
Year: 1867

We are apt to believe in providence SC
long as we have our own way but il
things 60 awry, then we think, if there
is God, He is in heaven and not on
earth. The cricket ia the spring builds
his little house in the meadow, and
chirps for Joy because all is going SO well
with him. When he hears the than.
der Of the oxeDis tread, then the
skies begin to grow dark, and bis
heart fails him. The plough comes
crushing along, and turns his dwell.
ing bottom side up, and as he is rolling


over and over, without home, his heart
says; "Oh, the foundations Of the world
are destroyed, and-everything is going Ia
ruin But the husbandman, who walks
behind his plough, singing and whistling
Year: 1867

waits with patience the ful6lment Of the


inviolahie promises Of God.


/ H.-What can so much strengthen and
| comfort US, as to feel, TO kR0,0 that the


Infinite Love and Mercy are always
around US, caring for US; and that when


we err, there is for as Gn infinite, inexs
I hanstible pitye Yes the worship and
/ obedience that flow from love, even II
they are imperfect, mast be more accept


able 20 God than those that are born OF
| Fear and Dread and Terror, be these


never so perfect. 1 feel that that is true.


Tell me l0hy il is true!


C.--BecoaGss you feel it to be so. Con-


victions are the highest proofs Of spirit
ual truth


H. Wig are they so? -
C.-FOr this reason. Analogy is THAI
on which ali Faith in what is true must
rest. The moral laws are, as l have
already said, not the mandates of the
Almighty VIZ, and precepts foreign to
the Divine Nature, but the expressions OF
that Nature and of the Infinite Reason
and Wisdom. The command that we
shall love each other is an inspiration OF
the Divine Love In the human heart
and we know the Deity by the analogy
between our own Spiritual being and It's
AtkAOLlf the DlNlub tHtblEb anu AC-
ton. The human father and mother,
imperfect as they are, thousand times
prefer the love of their children, and the
obedience that flows from love, to that
compelled obedience that is the child Of
fear. If the Deity did not also prefer
il, He would be less perfect, less
wise and less good than the creatures
He has made. The human affections
are only excellent, because they partake
OF the excellence o the Divine Nature
There is no other sufficient reason for
their being. Even the love Of the ami
NAL for its young is grateful 10 0S. Surely
our affections and love are grateful to the
Deity. The sympathies of humanity
are the fruit Of Gods sympathies NTH
humanity. Religion admits this, even
when it wOrships a God Of Terror. Chris
tianity teaches it, perverted and denat-
uralized as it has ages ago become; be-
cause nothing but the Divine sympathy
could have led to the sacrifice and atOne-
ment. Read the New Testament with
this key, and remember that the books
composing it are Oriental and igurative,
and you will find in them new mean
ing


H.-Surely it is the only creed that
makes the mission Of Christ worthy Of
him It is the creed Of HOPE and
FAITH.
Year: 1867

Hope on, frsil mortal what though
thy path be rugged, and strewed with
thOrns thou hast only to persevere and
thy reward awaits thee. Many days and
nights, perchance years, hast thou strug-
gled with adversely. Thou hast said in
thine heart, woe is wherefore was l
born? Hope then whispered, persevere,
before thee lies thy reward. What
though thou art poor, despised, by those
it may be who are thy interiors in all
save wealth? What matters it, that thy
short life is exposed to the rude blasts of
adverse fortune, if at last thou art
crowned with immortality, which those
who rudely push thee from them think
not OF ? Hope on, then, in thy poverty,
be honest in thy humility-as to be
truly great by being truly good.
Year: 1867

Consciousness of being loved gives COM
fort and strength, and makes trust in
God a real, living feeling that influences
the daily life. If there is no love above
US, II all men turn their glances of dis
like upon US, and close their hands against
Us, then our hearts grow hard, and we
md It difficult to raise at once, without
the aid Of human steps, above earthly
pain and desolation to love and conf
dence IN God all has tendency to be-
come dark above as it is around whereas
love and Kindness keep our hearts omen /:
dear, loving people are to us witnesses of
the love and tender ness of God-are His
angels whom He sends to show US that
He has not forgotten US,
Year: 1867

The beauty of holy life constitutes
the most eloquent and effective persua-
sive to religion which one human being
can address to another. We have many
ways Of doing good to our fellow-crea-
lures but none so efficaciOus as leading
virtuOus, upright, and well ordered life.
There is an energy Of moral suasion in a
good mans life passing the highest
efforts Of the orators genius. The seen
but silent beauty of holiness speaks
more eloquently of God and duty than
the tongues Of men and angels. Let
parents remember this. The best
Inheritance a parent can bequeath
to a child is a virtuOus example, a
legacy of hallOwed remembrances and
associations. The beauty of holiness.
beaming through the life Of loved reIa-
tive or friend, is more effectual TO
strengthen such as do stand in virtues
ways and raise up those that are bowed
down than precept, command, entreasv
or warning. Christianity itself, l bs.
lieve, owes by far the greatest part of its
moral power, not to the precepts or par
ables of Christ but to his own character,
The beauty Of that holiness which is en-
shrined in the four brief biographies of
the Man of Nazareth has done mora.
and will do more, TO regenerate the
world, and bring in an everlasting rights
eousness, than all the other agencies put
together. 1t has done more to spread Lis
religion in the world than ali
that has ever been preached or
written on the evidences Of christianity


HONOR TO OUR WORkmEE
Year: 1867

Senator Morrill, of this State made care
fully prepared speech last Wednesday in his
place in the United States Senate, in support
of his bill providing for resumption of spc-
Gle payments by the government July 4,
1869. The speech is full of facts and figures
Mr. Morrill's speeches on financial matters
usually are, but they are presented IN an at
tractive and logical manner and the argu-
mcnt is. beside, graceful in style and clear in
expression, and condensed and forcible in its
reasoning as speech on such subject
should be- The Boston Adrertiser thus com
pliments Mr. Morrill's effort


In the speech to which we refer, Mr.
Morrill, announces views upon finance, the
sound conservatism of which, we suspect,
will not little surprise those to whom he is
only known as the framer of tariffs and rev
enue acts. He is not led away by any OF the
prevailing heresises of initiation, of irredeem-
able paper, or of sacrifice of national faith.
On all these points he holds firmly to the
settled views of the leading students OF polIt-
ical economy, and the defects in his proposed
scheme of action arise more from his omis-
sion to allow for the political difficulties
which now threaten to embarrass any plan
for resuming at fixed time, than from any
failure to meet the views of the strlctest
school of finance.


The object of Mr.. Morrill, Is speech was to
show that the resumption of specie payments
should be gradual so as not to cause sud-
den shock to business, and at the same time
not to be postponed so as to inflict upon the
country the evils Of paper money longer than
seems absolute necessary and his statistics
and reasoning were calculated to show how
there might safely be return to a specie
currency as early as July 1869 No abstract
of the speech can do it justice, and we have
not space for the whole of it, but we make
room for the following concluding portion


No manufactures can flourish at the same
time with redundant paper money unless the
latter is all the time expanding, and when il


ceases to expand or begins to contract ther
they famish and die. Where depreclatet
currency exists there can be no health to-


them there they have no continuing city O
abiding place The effect on agriculture ant


husbandry is not less unsatisfactory BE


yond the labor of the family the busines


Yields no encouragement, and the product


Of hired labor rarely more than equal tn
Year: 1867

publican Party has been but half demo-


cratic, that it has not been able to 90 ON
to triumph everywhere. 1t Is the half
truths that fail. Whole ones cannot. 1t
is the falsehoods, 81 almost universally
mixed with truth. not the truth Itself
which fails. If the Republican Party be
only honest and brave enough to go for all
truth at the point of suffrage, and to COM
nit itself, unreservedly in principle and
spirit, to the equal rights of all men, 1t
will, at the very next election, carry Oalo
for negro suffrage.


[ ventured word Of Warrington l
see that the defeat Of negro suffrage IN
Ohio is serving to increase the efforts to
defeat it at the South But the peace Of
the South, nay the very life Of the South,
is in her submission to the necessity OF
negro suffrage; and, therefore, you and
all the gentlemen and ladies OF the South
could not be better employed than IN
teaching negroes to read and write. Beau
tiful employment All Heaven would re-
ioice in the sight of ii. Not only should
negro suffrage be submitted to by all-it
should be reioiced in by all Al should
rejoice in this long-delayed justice to a
long-oppressed and outraged race But If
the intelligent people of the South cannot
be inspired in this case by love of the
right, lei them, at least be inspired by the
fear of the wrong. The Southern negroes
are, indeed. ignorant How could it be
otherwise, when. for ages, the policy OF
the South has been to make their inStruc-
tion crime Nevertheless. the Southern
negroes arc not fools and all the ingenu-
ity of Southern learning cannot pufsuade
them that white men, who tried to destroy
the nation, are entitled to vote; and that
black men, who tried to save 1t, and did
their full part in saving it. are not The
denial of suffrage to her negroes would
have seriously hazarded the safety of the
South. But if, now, when it has been
granted, there shall be an attempt to wrest
it from them-what, what will become OF
the South Let Hayti answer Her ne
groes bore even with the worst outrages OF
slavery. But when Napoleon was lntatu-
ated enough to attempt to wrest from
them their newborn frcedom-how deplo-
aabe was the fate Of .hcr whites before
the unrestrained fury OF her blacks Let
the Dominican Republic. also. answer.
+ spain utlNcI IttDA 10 Ibb HCA Nl LiNA - ~


self-government and people counting
but one or two hundred thousands, proved
an oyermatch for that great nation. Such
was the power Of desperation against
numbers. In vain Is it that have made
the study of the history and character Of
the negroes one of my ite-studies, if 1t
be not true that, whilst no other men are
50 easily controlled by treatment of jus
ticc and kindness, no other men become 50
terrible when, at last, under heaped-up
wrongs, their patience Is exhausted. One
more consideration, at this point. Things
are not aS they were fifty years ago and
the misguided men of the South, who are
seeking to strip the negro OF has right TO
participate in choosing his rulers, should
remember that, in this afternoon of the
nineteenth century, the cry for the recog-
milton Of the equal rights of all men Is
fast becoming the cry OF all Christendom. :