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Year: 1874

IL is said by city Journal, which
somewhat plames itself upon political
sagaci,y, that "the evidences that Gen
eral Grant means to run a third time
arc multiplying almost daily;" and eve
arc satisfied that Grant il i" grim earn
est in his endeavoi to secure third
election as President" With definite
recognition of this from people sup
posed 10 DO above the run Of humanity in
capacity 10 distinguish between real
and imaginary evils, may the third
term be regarded as legitimate sub
ject of political discussion in these
days, or is it still merely ridiculous
imagination aud newspaper sensation {?
Here ID couundrum for those who
houted at us uttering imputations on
Grants patriotism when we first dis
cussed the third term as possible, but
who now deem 1t very pretty fancy.
Year: 1874

IT is a fact, as I've been told,
That people, in the days of old,
Got rich in silver and in gold,
Nomatter what they bought or sold,


By minding their own business.
They did not try to wound ones fame,
Or SANDER anybOdy's name;
They cared not when you went or came;
They pleased themselyes--you did the same
If it was your own business.
And if man did what was right
In his own mind, and in the sight
OF God and Law, by day and night
He went ahead and fought the fight,


Determined on his business.
But in degen'rate modern days
There's quite change in peoples WAYS,
And what person does or says
Must be held up unto the gaze


Ofevery busybody.
And if you do not tell them, too
Where you are going, and what to do,
They get in such an awful stew,
They'll even watch and follow YOU


These very busybodies.
And then they surely think they know
Just when you come and when you go,
And they will whisper. so and 80,
To every friend and every foe


These very busybodies.
But if we take the pains to see
Who these same busybodies be,
We find there's not he or she
Who has a decent history,


Among these busybodies.
But let us no more notice take
OF evil tongues; but, for their sake,
Well hope and pray they soon may wake
From wickedness and money make


BY minding their own business,


Chicago Tribune.
Year: 1874

1t is time that the Radical lead
ers take warning that the people
are fully appreciative of the gravity
of the mischief resulting from the
political doctrine, the tricks, deceit
and fraud preached to and practieed
upon the blacks from the Radical red
Republican platform. We have dis
passionately canvassed this subject
since the rio'ous behavior of the ne
gro in th- and other States, and we
believe public opinion to fully reflect
the question in all its bearings. We
ask the negroes to consider whittier
they are going, and the character of
the men who are leading them. If
they desire the country prosperous,
and life and property secure, they
will cut loose from their present lead
crs, white and black, and, taking
counsel of their best interest, vote
and act with the men who own the
country and conduct its main business,
who wish to see it and them in the
enjoyment of the fruits of we'll
directed energy, guided and controlled
by constitutional guarantees and by
the principles of civil and religious
liberty. Otbogwise, it requires no
prophet to tel IS hat their future viii
be-they must y:cld to the logic Ct
force what they .ailed to render t.
the appeals Of reason. Betrayed by
scoundrel adventures, let them tlrl
from them, and find friendship, Sc
curity and prosperity in the cOunsels
Of honest Southern men.-Wcmphis
appeal.
Year: 1874

The Vicksburg Herald very justly
SAYS that, whether we like it or not,
future campaigns in the South will be
made on the color line, however much
some may deplore it, unless there is a
marked improvement in the colored
sufiragans' manner of exercising the
elective franchise. The wedding,
coaxing policy has been worn thread
bare.
Year: 1874

THE Grange has been peculiarly
happy in uniting the whole family
father, mother, sons and daughters.
This makes the grange home-the
social feature which has contributed
so largely to the almost miraculous
growth of the order.
Year: 1874

Self control is the best evidence of
a cultivated intellect and clear con-
science. 1t is great pleasure to
meet those who wisely listen and OBJ
serye-who review what is said with
out prejudice, and with or without ad-
vice, commit no errors. Nothing is
SO difficulty to do-nothing SO rarely
done
Year: 1874

THE Michigan Changers adopted
a resolution that their attempt to
establish business relations favorable
to the pecYSiary interests of the Pat
rons be anfis hereby regarded as an
important secret of the order, and that
any members Of the order who shall
wilfully reveal, or in any way make
known to any not Patron, the name
or place of business of the firm or
manufacturer, or individual with
whom the said committee have rela-
tions, are hereby regarded as having
violated their obligations, and subject
to expulsion.
Year: 1874

Cincinnati, April 27.--The Constitu-
tional Convention to-day, after several
days debate, engrossed the PROPOSE
tion to submit to a separate vote of the
people for adoption in the constitution
the clause. "License to traffic in intox-
icating liquors may be granted, but this
section shall not be so construed as to
prevent the legislature from making
laws to restrain and regulate the sale
and compensate for injuries arising
therefrom. The alternative clause is
"No license" and its success before the
people would carry the prohibition of
the traffic aud leave the legislature free
to make laws to restrain the sale and
require compensation for injuries result
ting from the sale.
Year: 1874

No deduction will be made for absence the first or
last week of the term. nor for absence during the
term, any case excepting that or protracted sick
ness.


Students will furnish their quilts sheets, Ill
Iow-cases, towels and toilet soap All articles need
ed to be washed should be plainly marked with the
owners name,
Year: 1874

AUTOMATIC RAILWAY TINE SIGNAL--A
trial of Ford's patent automatic railway
time signal, new invention for indicating
the time that has elapsed since train has
passed given point on a railroad, took
place lust outside the new station of the
Boston and Lowell railroad yesterday.
The machine involves the principle of the
hourglass. with the exception that the sand
is allowed to drop out at the bottom rather
than run back by inversion.


1t consists of a small watch house about
twenty feet high, painted black and pro-
vided with shallow glass box. twelve or
fifteen inches high and valve at the bot
tom which opens and closes by the appli-
cation of weight or force to a lever running
down to the ground and out to the track.
Behind this box is light, and over it is a
reservoir of white sand, which escapes
continually at fixed rate into the box un
less it be full. Surprising the glass box to
be full of sand. the light from behind is
obscured, except at the upper corners of
the box, which are left untitled from the
manner in which the sand flows into it
formng'a small pyramid. The drive wheel
of passing engine depresses the lever
connected with the valve, displaces 1t, the
sand drops out and the bright light from
the lamp flashes through the red glass and
gives signal of danger to any train COM
ing on Immediately after When the train
has passed the valve of the box flies back.
the sand from above flows down and grad
ually refills the box; the figures at the
side. illuminated by the light from the in
side until covered by sand, indicate how
many minutes before, five, ten or more,
the preceding train may have passed. In
the day-time the square of white sand in
contrast with the black boarding of the
house is considered a sufficient indicator.
Boston Transcript.
Year: 1874

MEANS OF CHECKING COUGHING, SNEEZ-
ING, ETC.-There are many facts which
show that morbid phenomena of respira-
ton can be stopped by the influence of
arrest. Coughing, for instance, can be
stopped by pressing on the nerves of the
lip in the neighborhood of the nose. A
pressure there may prevent cough when
it is beginning. Sneezing may be stopped
bv the same mechanism. Pressing also
in the neighborhooJ of the ear, right in
front of the ear, may stop coughing. 1t
is also true of hiccough but much less so
than for sneezing or coughing. Pressing
very hard on the top of the mouth inside
is also means of stopping coughing; and
| may say that the will has immense
power there. There was French sur
geon who used to say, whenever he en-
tered the wards of his hospital The first
patient who coughs here will be deprived
of food today" 1t was exceedingly rare
that patient coughed then.


There are many other affections assO-
ciated with breathing which can be stopped
by the same mechanism that stops the
hearts action. In spasms of the glottis,
which is a terrible thing in children, as
you we'll know, as it sometimes causes
death, and also in whooping-coTgh, it is
possible to afford relief by throwing cold
water on the face, or by tickling the soles
of the feet, which produces laughter, and
at the same time goes to the gray matter
that is producing the spasm and arrests it
almost ut once | would not say that
these means are always successful. l
would not say that we can always prevent
cough by our will; but in many instances
those things are possible, and if you re-
member that in bronchitis and pneumonia,
or any other acute affection of the lungs,
hacking or coughing greatly increases the
trouble at times, You can easily see how
important it is for the patient to try to
avoid coughing as best he can.
Year: 1874

A HEN STORY.-The heroine-or. as
Charles Lamb whould have mildly correct
ed us, the sheroine-is hen who made
herself famous in the Mill River Flood


She has put out of joint-to employ the
slang of the nursery-the noses of two per-
sons hitherto famous, Archimedes and the
Hen who insisted on laying her daily egg
on the best bed in Mr.. Beecher's farm
house. Everybody has heard how Archi-
medes sat on brood on his mathematical
conundrums in the very midst of the hurly-
burly of Syracuse seige, and how the hatch
and disclose of his abstraction did prove
some danger to him in the shape of crack
ed crown. We would repeat the story of
Mr.. Beecher's hen, if the the poet preacher
had not already told it in his own inimit-
ably delightful way. We believe it origin
ally came in as an episode in a sermon of
his g On the Perseverance of the Saints -
But our Mill River hen set a larger exam
pie than did this tempestuous creature. and
in a nobler way. We know few details of
her history. Biddy, we suppose. was her
burgh was her dwelling-place, and as the
sequel will show, presence of mind was
her salvation. She laid seventeen eggs in
a barrel, and having done her level best in
that line, she was setting on them when
the mill burst. In spite of her teeth,
the flood bore her along with the awful
wreck-with houses and barns, trees and
fences, and the bodies of men and beasts
but this steadfast creature never stirred


She knew that Massachusetts, expected
every hen to do her duty She was clear
grit. So long as her barrel kept out water
Il, ,,-r,,1I bnaool h. L


No one of her sex ever had such confidence
in hoops. ''Sink or swim," she cried.
" survive OF perish, | don't give up the
ship" What outsiders were doing was
none of her business. She was too busy
keeping the beams out of her own eve to
look after the moats in the eyes of other
people. What thoughts may have passed
through her mind! Perhaps she whistled
as she went. for want of thought VINO
knows? How her mothers heart must
have trembled. What" she cried,''
must lose all my pretty chickens by that
damn" If she could have sung, no doubt
she wonld have clucked to herself some
ancient lay. Until the barrel was stove
she would not deny herself the comfort of
stave. Give me but what that barrel
hoop bound, Take all the rest the sun goes
round Or something else appropriate.
Our hen was carried five miles, and at
length the Fates, snubbed and disappointed
bumped the barrel ashore and left it high
and dry. What did the hen do? Did she
jump out, and crow and cackle over her
ride like man? Did she scratch offa let
ter TO Barnum offering to make a show of
herself? No, she just went on minding her
own business. and in due time matched out
every one of her seventeen eggs. Oh,
fowl most fair! How meekly dids't thou
bear thy yoke. Many hens have done
excellently, but thou eXcellest them all.
Year: 1874

While making voyage to the East In
dies few years since. the vessel L COM
manded sprung leak during gale; and
after DAYS of fruitless eXertion to save her,
| and my crew were obliged to take to the
boats, and these soon parted company.
All hands were, however, eventually saved,
it being my fortune to be picked up by a
Swedish bark bound to a port on the coast
of Africa, Just when we were on the point
of perishing from thirst and famine.


The sufferings endured in the boat kept
me in my berth all the time we were at
sea; but on the day we reached port | was
able to Join the captain at his breakfast
table Neither he nor any of his officers
could speak any English; but one of his
crew was a Scotchman, who acted as an
interpreter and from him l learned the
vessels destination. 1t SO happened that
1 had, when mere boy. years before, Wis
tied this place among others on the coast :;
and nv recollections of it were so disa-
greeable that, grateful as l was for the
mercy vouchsafed in our rescue, | could
not help regretting that we were not bound
to some more pleasant place than one of
the most notorious Shaving ports of the
coast. As lay in bed that morning, and
listened to the rattling of the cable through
the hawse-holes as the anchor splashed to
the bottom, pictured the scene around as
l remembered it on my former visit-the
background of hills, denscly covered with
forests in which every deadly creature
lurked; the river-mouth with its fringe Of
mangrove bushes, and the islands at its
bar, choked with a rank vegetation from
which the deadly miasma continually ex-
hailed and the blood-thirsty mosquitoes is.
sued by myriads. Above all, l recalled
the sandy point on which the filthy huts o.
the Negro town stood, together with the
miserable abodes of the few white mer
whom the avaricious thirst for gold had
brought to that wretched place. Reckless
and thoughtless lad as I was at the time o.


my first visit Il had run away from school


and shipped in a British vesseD, remem


bered the loathing with which had look


ed on these men. True, they were supe
rior in intellect to the blacks; but, in al


other respects far more vile and degraded


Sin takes many hideous forms in thi


sin-blighted world; but surely there is NJ
type Of iniquity more hateful than tina
presented by the Portuguese slave-deale
on the African coast. With heart scare
by the long practice Of his cruel trade
Year: 1874

You tell me that debt and despair are
upon YOU; that when the clothes, rent,
fuel and lights are paid for, You have on
" six hundred dollars left with which to
feed Your family of eight, and that it
can't be done. | think / have heard this
story thousand times, and have written
advice about it hundred times. And rs
the whole subject is very simple. l must
90 over the same ground again.


The largest item in your table expen
ses is meat. Beef is high. In our city
markets good steak is worth from thirty
to thirty-fve cents per pound. Beefsteak
for your family would alone cost. for
breakfast and supper, more than two dol
lars and then if You had a roast of sirloin
for dinner, that would cost nearly rs much
more So if that is the right way to live,
you are managing well to get on with
six hundred dollars per year.


But do YOU know that there are only
about sixty pounds of the sirloin which is
used for roast and steaks i'll an OK weigh
ing eight hundred pounds? There are
other parts of the animal-good solid
meat-which sell for five cents pound.
Portions of the neck, which, when proper
lv cooked, are the most nourishing parts
of the carcass, are sold for four or five
cents pound. One pound of this, cut
into small pieces and boiled two bours in
three quarts of water in II close vessel,
with five cents worth of potatoes, turnips,
parsnips and carrots, with salt and pepper,
and some savory herb, would make splen-
did dinner for all of you. Lay bits OF
toasted bread upon the platter, and then
pour on YOUR stew That's dinner fit for a
king.


Everybody likes variety. Well pur-
chase next day a knuckle of veal, which
will cost you, all told, ten cents, and which
your wife will treat in the same way as
the beef, except that she will leave out the
carrots and parsnips and put in bits Of
toasted bread OF dumplings.


The next day try a bit of the fore-shoul
der of sheep, which is very cheap
When mutton chops were selling for TWEEN
ty cents pound. have seen mutton fore
shoulder. of fair quality, selling for two
cents. 1t is part which is always very
cheap. Cut up into two bits, and cooked
as above, grand dinner for eight mem


bers of your family can be got up for !
Quarter of dollar.


Any of these stews may be made into
baked meat pie, by way of variety.
have given these by way OF illustration
You need not have the same dinner twic
a month. Fish may be employed occs
Year: 1874

CARAVAN OF THE DEAD.-It WAS toward
midnight when we heard from the distance
monotonOus ring of bells, and, rs | soon
learned, this was from large caravan
which had set out an hour before us. We
redoubed our steps in order to overtake
it. but hardly had we advanced a hundred
PAGES when an insupportable smell began
to oppress US. The Persians knew at once
the cause of it. We move faster. but the
stencil grew stronger and stronger, and,
when influenced by curiosity. l inquired
about it, got for answer that this was a
caravan of the dead. \ caravan of the
dead. thought; that is singular, and l
hurried to my neighbor to get an explana-
ton. He called out to me, go on, go
on and after a powerful squirting of his
little ass already hard enough pressed, he
came up to me rs | was joining the afore-
said caravan, which consisted of about
forty horses and mules, laden with cOtfins,
and accompanied by three mounted Arabs.
Everybody strove hard to reach it in order
to get past it as soon as possible | shall
never forget the sight that met my eyes
when came up with one of the riders.
His nose and mouth were covered, his
yellow face showed yet more ghastly by
the moonlight. In spite of the unendura-
BILE stencil. | could not help asking him
some questions The Arab told me that
he had already conveyed these bodies ten
DAYS, and had to conduct them twenty days
more before he could reach kerbela, the
spot where these pious persons, who had
died for the owe of Imam HusSein, were
permitted to be buried. This custom is
general in all Persia and whenever means
permit. they order themselves to be trans
ported from the distant khorassan to ker-
bella, to be placed in the same earth in
which the beloved Imam Hussein rests.
When we had left the cnravan of the dead
far behind us l turned to take glance al
this weird procession. The beasts laden
with the long cofiins buried their heads
deep in their nccks; the riders occupied
themselves with urging the horses on witt
hollow crys Such sight, in whatever
neighborhood. would be gloomy enough


but in the center of the desert it was some


thing indescribably mournful. The Per-
slams have thought fit to maintain this Gus
tom for six hundred years. For whoever
comes to Kerbela has the sweet hope O


finding himself on the day of Resurrection


in the immediate neigborhood of the holy
martyr. and from hence, under his con


duct, of passing to the ever green plains O


Paradise.-GoOd Words.
Year: 1874

ELEvATING EFFECTS OF BEAUTY.-All
our moral feelings are so interviewer with
our intellectual powers that we cannot
affect the one without in some degree adj
dressing the other; and in all high ideas OF
beauty it is more than probable that much
of the pleasure depends on delicate and un-
traceable perceptions of fitness. propriety
and relation, which are purely intellectual,
and through which we arrive at our
noblest ideas of what is commonly and
rightly called intellectual beauty. Ideas
of beauty are among the noblest which
can be presented to the human mind, in
variably exalting and purifying it accord
ing to their degree. And it would appear
that we are intended by the Diety to be
constantly under their influence, because
there is not one single object in nature
which is not capable of conveying them
and which to the rightly perceiving mind
does not present an incidentally greater
number of beautiful than of deformed
parts-RuSkin.
Year: 1874

THE FIX AN ALBANY LAWYER PUT HIM.
SELF INro.-It was Dan Spencer also who
gave the little reminiscence of the Albany
lawyer, who came up to Bennington to try
case in the Supreme Court. When the
court adjourned at evening the hearing
was only so far concluded that the gentle
man from Albany had made his argument;
the court had his papers and his points,
and in the evening met at the Chief JUS
tees room in the hotel to - consider and
deliberate" The Albany attorneys room
was adjoining. Through the intervening
partition wall there was a :" crock hole, or
aperture for stove pipe TO pass. al


bany was on the qui rire to learn what
the Supreme Bench thought of his argu-
ment, his points and chances. To get 4
little clearer understanding of the remarks
they made. he noiSelessly mounted a chair.
climbed up its back and placed hissear ut
the inopportune hole. The sonorous words
of Judge Williams he could distinctly hear.
The slow, quiet opinion of Judge
Royce. afterward Chief Justice, however
powerful it might be for Albanian's veal
or woe, was not given loudly enough to
reach the listening lawyers anxious ear.
Judge Redfield, then in his early appren-
ticeship on the bench. which lasted through
long career with all its honors. had. as
he always had, many things to say, but he
said them in falsetto tone that did not
penetrate beyond the obtrusive partition.


Then Albany, more nervous than calcula-
tive, ventured to thrust his head into the
large. old-fashioned " crock" when, mira
ble dictu, out from under him went the
treacherous chair, and left him dangling in
the air, with only a fitful and uncertain


hold upon the scroll-work of the cornice
overhead to save him from decapitation or
strangulation. Immediately the strangling
eavesdrepper gurgled yelled and kicked.
The affriplt-=.l- iudesas-npon going to his
rescue, very speedily took in the situation.
OF which Dan Spicer used to say that
Chief Justice Williams told him the


court deliberated quite awhile as to


whether they should break the crock and


save the lawyers head, or break his head


and save the crock" They finally gave the


prisoner the benefit of the doubt. and the


stalwart shoulders of the Chief Justice af-
for,led generous standing place for the
imperiled counsellor. Soon after his res


cue he left by stage for home, where he


afterward learned by due course of mail,


that in the opinion of the court he had


earned and {" won his case. e.H-Benningtop
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