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Year: 1874

Nothing 10 more beautiful than the be-
lief Of the faithful wife that her husband
has all the talents. and could, ifhe would,
be distinguished in any walk Of life; and
nothing would be more beautiful-unless
this is very dry time for signs--than
the husbands belief that his wife is ca.
pable OF taking charge Of any OF the at.
fairs of this confused planet. There 10
no woman hut thinks that her husband,
the green grocer. could write poetry IL be
had given his mind to it,, or else she
thinks small beer or poetry in compare
son with an occupation or accomplish
ment purely vegetable. 1t Is touching
to see the look Of pride With which the
wife turns to her husband from any more
brilliant personal presence or display Of
wit Than his in Tire perfect confidence that
il the world knew what she knows there
would be one more popular idol.


How she magnides his small wit and
doats upog the self satisfied look N his
face, ns tit were syn Of wisdom.
What a counselor that man would make
What a warrior he would be! There are
a great many corporals in their retired
homes who did more for the safety and
success Of our armies in critical moments
in the late war than any Of the "high-
cock lorum" commanders. Mrs Cor
poral does not envy the reputation Of
General Sheridan; she knows very well
who really won;Fivc Forks, for she has
heard the story a hundred times. and will
hear il hundred more with apparently
unabated interest What General her
husband would have made aud how bis
talking talent could shine in Congress.


There isn't wife in the world who
has not taken the exact measure OF her
husband, weighed him and settled him In
her own mind, and knows him as well as
il she had ordered him after designs and
specifications OF her own. That know
ledge, however, she ordinarily keeps to
herself, aud she enters into league with
her husband, which he was never admit
ted to the secret OF, 10 impose upon the
world. In nine cases out of ten he moro
than hall believes that he is what his wife
tells him he is AT any rate, she manages
him as easily as the keeper does the ele-
plant, with only bamboo wand and n
sharp spike at the end Usually she fat
ters him, but she has the means Of prick
ing clear through his side on occasion.
1t is the greatest secret Of her power to
have him think that she Thoroughly be
lieves in him. -Erchdn5e.
Year: 1874

REMEDY FOR CoIIc One who claims
to know, says in the Ohio Farmer, that a
handful Of salt rubbed on the back Of a
horse directly over tue kidneysis sim
pie but sure remedy for colo. Rub
briskly and until the salt dissolves, and
longer, If necessary, and if tits the wind
collie and the horse does not get over it
in fifteen or twenty minutes, then say
/ know nothing about it; for thirty.fvc
years have never known it to fail.
first learned il from teamster in Illinois,
and have seen it tried in numerous
casps "
Year: 1874

PURITY OF CuARACTER.-Over the out
er coat of plum and apricot there grows
bloom more beautiful than the fruit
itse!!--a soft, delicate powder that over
spreads its rich colors. Now if you
strike your hand over that, and it is once
gone it is gene forever; il only appears
once. The flower that hangs IN the
morning empcalled with dew-arrayeJ
with jeweis--once shake it, so that the
boards roll off, and you may sprinkle wa
ter over it as you please, yet 1t can never
be made again What it was when the dew
fell gently on 1t from heaven.


On frosty morning you may see the
panes of glass covered with landscapes,
mountains, lakes, and trees, blended into
a beautiful fantastic picture Now lay
your hand upon tho glass, and by the
stratch Of your Gugcrs, OF by the warmth
Of the palm, all the delicate tracery will
be obliterated.


SO there is in you beauty ana purity
of character. which, when once touched
and deiiled, can never be restored. IA
fringe more delicate than frost worn
which, when torn and broken, never,
be repaired. When a young lad or girl
leaves the parents house. with the bless
ings of a mothers tears still wet upon
the cheek, il early purity Of character be
once lost, it is loss that can never be
made up again. Such is the consequence
of crime Its effects cannot but be in
some way felt, though by Gods mercy it
may be forgiven. Early Days.
Year: 1874

Ey-" tell YOU" said a Wisconsin
man to a neghbor next cay after bury
ing his wife, "when came to get in beo
and lay thar, and not hearing Lucinda
jawing around for an hour and half, it
just made me feel as if Id moved into
strange country
Year: 1874

! A rather ridiculous occurrepcc recent
ly happened in Norvalk, Ohij. The lc
70 IL prominent and much respected
deacon-Deacon c. The other Sun
dav he started for the church, with an old
bat on his head 1t was an easy hat and
the old gentleman enjoyed it. 1t appears
there are pegs to hang hats on IL the
churches there


He thus disposed of his head gear on
reaching the church and took his seat
with the congregation When the ser.
vices was over be fingered, as is proper
and customary for deacons to do. He
inally reached the porch and stopped for
his hat, aud any respectable citizen can
imagine the horror he experienced on
beholding but one hat left, and that a
most dilapidated al d scandalous lookng
article.


lie coald feel his blood boil within
him as he looked at 1t, and thought of
the mutton head who owned it, and had
walked off with his glossy beaver instead.
lie said out loud that the owner of that
hat was mutton head, and ground his
deaccnish heel into the floor and felt
much relieved by so doing.


Then he tied handkerchief about his
head, because the old hat was much too
even il flesh aud blood had not revotcd
against the spectacle. He told the sex
ton that that hat must have been built in
a dry dock, and The only thing that
troubled him in the matter was, how a
man with head Of that size got into the
church anyhoy.


Then he stalkcd majcstically home
head and the deiestable hat at arms
length ahead OF him, and altogether
forming spectacle that fastened the at
tention Of every beholder. Arriving
home lie extended tho obnoxious article
toward his wife, and waiting an instant
for her to take in the awf full enormity Of
the oircnsc, hc impalsively shouted:
Look at that vllainous rag =


The lady looked at it and was aston
ished. 81 don't wonder you are sick,
he howlcd, morosely y 1t makes me sick
to think of the bulhead who owns such
a smoke stack, palming it off on me, and
taking my new beaver for himself in mis-
take "-he ground out his withering sar-
casm. "a pretty mistake | must say,
when his miserable rag is big enough to
cover a cart and filthy enough to make q
crow sick.


But that is yoar every day hat, " as
serted his wife in still greater astoDish.
ment. "My hat! gaspcd the amazed
deacon, staring at her with his eyes half
out Of their sockets, and then laughing
hystercally, and shivering from head TO
to foot. Certainly 1t is, y persisted his
wife, "and here is your best hat, TAX
ing that article from its accustomed place
and holding it out to him


Without u word, the miserable man
sank into chair, and after staring bland.
ly at his wife for moment, slowly said
the ways Of Providence are past finding
out. Rub my head Matilda.
Year: 1874

H- Mr.. Henry Minstrel of SAvan
nah is reported to have walked into
a courtroom with his pistol in his
hand, and with the intention in his
heart Of shooting the whole dozen of
iurymen. Unfortunately, twelve re-
volvers got ahead OF the Minstrel,
and his last lay was when they laid
him in the cold and silent tomb.
Year: 1874




Tribute TO THE CoNFEDERATE Sol.
DlERs The N. Y. Sun, in advocating the
reduction Of the regular army, pays the
following tribute to the galantry Of the
Confederate soldiers:


The quality of the Confederate soldiers
efrectualy disposcs Of the plea that it is
necessary to keep the regular army US q
nucleus. On the Union side was the en-
tire rank and file of the old army Oh
that force the rebels had only officers
The Confederate rank and file was com.
posed wholly OF raw men. and. in the
first two years Of the war, volunteers
Yet what an infantry they we're! Those
Of us who saw them charge in line OF
battle never approach Confederate Gem
e;ery without taking off our hats in
homlnage to the devoted braves, who
ever walked straight into the jaws OF
death without blenching. The explana-
ton Of the extraordinary excellence OF
the rebel Infantry is that it was made up
of American citizens. The present army
Of the United States is not such. 1t is
largely composed Of unnaturalizcd for
eigners, who enlist as temporary refuge
from material ills.
Year: 1874

cT Suppose We had toll gate near
the city through which every farmer had
to pass with his products, aud for every
dollar in value in his wagon he was re-
qnired to pay rorly.eie lit cents toll. This
toll he would add to the market price,
and collect it from the people Would
not such an oppressive imposition he
speedily torn DOWN. Yet how few pco'
pie know that we have just such toll gates
at every Custom house in the land, Four
hundred and fifty millions of dollars in
foreign goods are annually shipped to the
United States. Upon those goods there
are levied and collected by the Govern
ment no less than two hundred and If
teen millions Of dollars in gold. Is not
this outrageous What shackle Is that
upon commerce! What tax it is upon
our industry! One would suppose that
4 tax Of fifteen or twenty per cent. would
suffice But to make it forty eight per
cent is uncomfortable We have no DOUBT
that with twenty per cent. our imports
would he SIX or seven hundred millions
of dollars This would give US q sum
amply sufficient to dctray the interest up.
on the National debt Take OFT the taxes
too from our home industries, and give
us plenty OF currency, and our exports
! will keep even pace with our imports. 1t
was andcr the policy OF free trade that
the Administration of Louis Napoleon
IN France ran up the exports aud imports
from eight hundred millions to sixteen
hundred millions of dollars. At least
half of our tariff rates should be knocked
Off The first honest Congress VIC get
will do it. Who wants a tariff when the
average tax is forty-cight per cent. p
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Year: 1874

brought back the solution Ia negative one


namely that an eastern passage s not practicable ana
that ali the suppostions the sight OF sea- ree
from ice very high up falacious They sighted,
indeed in the upper portions Of Austria Sound sea com
paratiyey free but getting there with ships
Even In the present comparatively favorable year they
found on their return the ice at To 80 NJ
while In the year the Tegethon frozen IN In 7+
This con viction, which will, d0uht, be expressed
in the work about the expedition. IA kelv TO lead 10
controversy with the German who fret started
the practcabity Of eastery passage and approach
TO the North Pole.
Year: 1874

ing part OF the phenomenon the coppercolored disk Of
the lighted by reracted rays passing through the
earth's atmosphere was quite invisible. This was q
great disappointment to who had
stationed themselves at available points, and especially
at the few observaores in this city, where there are
telescopes In working order The fog spread over wide
area and obscured tho view In other cities.
Year: 1874

The eclipse of the moon which took place
at early nour Sunday morning fortunately
OF little interest to scientific observers In this
city people who sat up to watch for t had good view
for while when the entering the shadow OF
the earth but a. the eclipse became total flying clouds
and gathering fog obscured It, aud the most interest
Year: 1874




Governor Dix has considered all the talk
about the desire of President Grant reelected to
the Presidency. ege have, mere Democratic moon
shine. Never al time believing that the President
desired reelection. he has deemed t necessary
say anything about II in any public manner But the
evening after his renomnation, in short speech he
position to the reelection OF the President for
third term II any such idea were seriously
entertained. The Albany EDening Journal, which now
reflects the general views of the Governor correctly
aud fully any paper in the State STYLES the third
term notion, nonsense. Gov. Dix knows as well as any
man that the precedent OF Washington that
passed into uaage which has the force of law
And he is more likely approve of any departure
from that law than ne is TO approve Of a5oshing the
Presidential ONCE altogether. still Inclined 10
with the suggestion that it might Oe well iust
for the Governor to distinctly order 70 pu
eud 10 the twaddle.
Year: 1874

It is sign of bad manners to look
over the shoulder of a person who is
writing, to seewhat is written.


1t is the height of bad manners to
blow ones nose with the fingers in the
street or in company; use your hand
kerchief, and if you have none, borrow
one.


1t is bad manners for man to walk
the streets with female, and ut the
same time smoke segar or pipe.


1t is bad manners to occupy q seat
while other people stand around with
ont seat.


1t is bad manners to walk between
the company in q room and the fire.


1t is bad manners to go into any per-
sons house without taking off youl
hat.


1t is bad manners to use profane Ian.
guage in the presence of decent com
pany.


1t is bad manners to use your own
knife at meals in cutting off piece oi
meat or to use it on the butter-dish-
get u clean knife.


1t is bad manners to 60 into any per
sons house with mud or dirt on youi
shoes.


1t is bad manners to talk in company
while others are talking, or to talk OF
whisper in church.


1t is bad manners to talk in company
to one or two persons about some sub
ject which the Others present do not
understand


1t is bad manners to stare at strangers
in company or on the street.


1t is bad manners to say Yes" OF
No" to a stranger, to your parents Oh
to aged people-let it be eyes, sir, u
and No, sir"


1t is bad manners to pick your teeth
at the table, and bad manners to pick
them with pin in any company.


1t is bad manners to comb your hail
or brush your coat in. the enting-room.


1t is a siSn of bad manners to rudely
jostle those sitting or standing near
you, particularly if they are strangers.
1t is n sign of low breeding to make
a display of your finery or equipage.


1t is bad manners to boast of your
wealth or prosperity or good fortune in
the presence of the poor or those less
fortunate than you are.


1t is vulgar to talk much about your
self, and it is very low and vulgar to
lie.


It is bad manners to stand with your
side to or turn away your face from the
person you are talking to-look them in
the face.


1t is bad manners to walk into pri-
vate house with lighted segar in your
mouth.


1t is bad manners to stand in the
middle of the pavement when people
are passing, or to make remarks about
those who pass.
Year: 1874

cradle beings on the face of the earth
until 1 could claim her as my own.


She then gave me her plan of action,
which was this: She had not fully made
up her mind to ever tie herself to anoth-
man, but in case she did, that man
should pay all expenses in procuring a
divorce from her " brute" of husband,
after that her intendedmust buy a house
in the city to suit her fancy, furnish it
in complete style, and give her a title
to it her own name.


She then started to tell the number
ofservants she must have-I stopped
her right there with the question wheth-
er she proposed to furnish the money for
this outlay. Nor DOLLAR!


Presto, change! She assumed her
former looks, and as soon as I beheld
that, I jumped up with kind of ghast-
ly smile, and told her I wasn't much
in love with her anyhow. She arose,
gathered the broom, and started for
me, declaring she wouldn't allow no
brute of man to make faces at her.


1 retreated to the wood pile, took a
position on the top Of it. She walked
out rather majestically for ,Ooman, and
if she didn't scare me up hill and down
across lots and everywhere else, I'm no
Judge of such things, she wanted to
know what I meant by trifing with her
feelings.


I was so completely non-plussed
that I actually didn't know what was
saying until 1 had told her that 1 cared
but little about her feelings, that it was
her bank account that had infatuated
me; that I was dead broke and thougl
she was able to support u man in good
style and not work more :.ii1an half the
time-a. this few sticks of stove wood
came in pretty close proximity to my
head.


. left that neighborhood on double
quick, was not sued for breach OF
promise, have never tried to court a
strong minded woman" since, and
never will unless they have large
bank account or other visible means of
support.
Year: 1874

TEACHING BIRDS TO SING TUNEs.--This
is done in the town of Fulda, where
they keep regular educational institu-
tions for bull6nches. They place the
young birds into classes of six to ten
each, and keep them in the dark, turn
ing a hand-organ for them when they
are fed. Finally the birds commence
to associate the music with the feeding,
and when hungry they commencefto to
sing few notes of the tunes they hear
daily. Those that do this are at once
placed in more cheerful room, when
some light is admitted. This encotr-
ages them and makes them more lively.
Then they like to sing. and are soon
taught more. The most difficult part
is the, first starting Of the birds, some
OF which have to be kept long time in
the dark, and on starvation rations be-
fore their obstinacy is overcome. In.
order to teach them several tunes they
receive (after being thus first taught in
classes) private instruction from the lit
tie boys of Fulda, each Of whom has o
few private pupils OF this sort. Their
education lasts nine months, when il is
completed, and the birds sent into the
world as accomplished performers.
Year: 1874

The Washington telegraph correspond
ent Of the st Louis republican of the
Sd, has this to say Of the charges against
Judge Story and U. S. Marshal Sarbcr


In the House to day Gen. Batter made
a motion to reconsider the vote Of the
House yesterday giving authority to the
committee on expenditures Of the depart
ment Of justice to send for persons and
papers pending the investigation OF ar.
fairs in the Western judicial district of
Arkansas This means simply that the
bilious Benjamin favorS the cause of
Judge Story and Marshal Sarber in the
approaching impeachment of the former
and investigation OF the latter 1t is not
the desire Of The implicated parties to
give opportunity for Il full ventilation of
the charges from time to time printed in
your Washington dispatches, and they
believe that by confning the committee
within the bounds originally prescribed,
all testimony relative to the fraudulent
arrests, for alleged violations of the H.
quor laws and for alleged participation
in the Going Snake court house massa-
ere, together with other scandalous
abuses Of power in the Indian territory,
can be excluded. AS this forms the most
damaging part ofthe indictment, the par
ties believe that, if they escape it, the
vindicaton from the balance Of the
charges against them will be easy
Year: 1874

ET The Monticellonian Of Drew Co.,
says that the Circuit Court for Lincoln
county has issued q mandamus to compel
the collector Of that county to receive
State Scrip for the building tax of said
county.
Year: 1874

cg Borax. half teaspoonful in half
teacup of water, makes the midcst and
most efficient ha.r and scalp cleaner in
the world Rub into the hair and scalp
with the balls of the fingers; head held
over a wash basin; eyes shut, until the
entire scalp is in foam, then rinse with
warm water
Year: 1874

To KISS IN THREE MoTIoNs,--Recruit IS
placed lu front of the piece.


First motion Bend the right knee, straight
en- the left, bring the head on line with the
lace of the piece at the same time extend the
arms and clasp the cheek Of the piece firmly
10 both hands


= Second motion Bend the body slightly
forward, pucker the mouth slightly, and apply
0ne ilpS smarty to the inuzzle. .mouldings.
!, Third motion: Break off promptly in both
,esS to escape the Earring or injury should the
piece recoil.
Year: 1874

Here is a warning to Office seekers;
John Graham, in making his closing
speech for the defence in tho Tweed
case, said that his client twas good
man before he went into public life. +"
Year: 1874

II will come again, and receive
you unto myself, that where I am,
there ye may be also" We picture
death as = hideous figure coming to
destroy; let us rather picture Jesus
Christ in Glory coming to save We
think of death ending; let us rather
think of life beginning, and that more
abundantly. We think OF losing; let
us think of gaining. We think Of
parting let us think of meeting.
We think Of going away; let us think
of arriving. And as a voice whispers
"You must go" let us hear the voice
Of the Good Shepherd saying, II
will come."-IfJesu thus comes for
us at death, we shall never see the
grave Or the churchyard. They may
keep our bodies for q time, but we
ourselves shall never die. We go
with Jesus.


If Jesus comes for us, we do not
go forth into world Of mystery and
darkness, knowing not where, nor
how far.-We simply 60 with and to
Jesus. If Jesus comes for us, we do
not 20 forth alone. When we lose
hold of the clasping hands Of the
most beloved Of all on earth, another
hand, of One in whom we are all one,
and whose love forever binds rs oil,
holds us fast; and fearful faces are
withdra wn only to be replaced by
the countenaRce Of One who il bone
of our bone, who was . man of sor-
rows, who himself died, and who,
while he takes us away - = triumph
Of his love, can comfort those we
leave behind, even as he comforted
Martha and Mary as Bethany, or
his own mother in her hour Of ago.
ny.


It is thus that the one promise, II
will come again aud receive you un-
to myself" should change darkness to
light, death to life, the grave to glo-
ry, and make rs exclaim with the
quiet peace, the sober and solemn
calm of faith, in the midst Of much
to distract and disturb the soul,
"Yea though I walk through the
valley of the shadow Of death, / will
fear no evil, for thou art with me-"
"if absent from the body, l am pres
ent with the Lord"-HschGnge.
Year: 1874

WHAT DO YOU MOST wANT?-"In
that night did God appear unto
Solomon and. said unto him, Ask
what ! shall give thee"


Suppose, reader, that God should
put such question to you:-What
would be your reply2 Pause and
consider, and you may learn what
your supreme desire, the ruling pas
sion of your heart. Would you ask
for beauty, wealth, power, or fame?


Solomon in meekness and humili-
ty answered: "Give me wisdom and
knowledge; and God gave Solomon
wisdom and understanding exceed
ing much, also riches and honor such
as none Of the kings have had that
went before or have come after him
Ex.
Year: 1874

"LET HIN ALoNE.n-The time
may come when the awful words
pass from the lips Of the righteous
Judge, "Ephraim is joined to his
idols, let him alone;" and Provi-
dence will let the man alone, and
the word of God will let the man
alone; and his own conscience will
let the man alone; and the Spirit Of
all grace will let the man alone. II
is not for rs to usurp the preroga-
tive Of the Omniscient. It is not for
us to affirm of any one, let his char
acter and conduct be what it may,
that he has reached or passed the
mysterious point beyond that which
comes true. It is not for any one 70
pass such sentence upon himself


But let all of Us stand upon our
guard, and reflect that if for months
and years we have been growing
colder, deader, more indifferent "a
spiritual things to the unseen and
eternal realities if conscience has
been gradually losing her hold and
weakening in her power; if we car
Year: 1874

The tea crop of japan is attaining Importance.
The total quantity of tea brought TO the foreign
markets OF THAI country for the season OF lsS4 was
been exported from Yokohama by the lst OF May
last when the tea year ends All Of the tea ex-
ported was sent 20 the United states.
Year: 1874

ler One hundred years from now
Mechanicstown may become place
of 100000 inhabitants. But it is
likely all who are here now will be
dead and buried before that great
event will transpire.