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Year: 1874

keep cool in case they discover a fire
. and this is the reason why more fire


are not put out in their incipien
stages, before any great damage il
done, SIC 5re ot..-f
! In case you are walking along tn,
street and discover chimney burning
out, make up your mind that the whole
house has got to go unless your own in
dividual exertions prevent. Therefore
jerk the gate off the hinges, kick the
front door in on the astonished family,
and yelf'fire!" Your first yell needn't
be louder than the common Indian war
whoop, but after the first you must ex-
ert yourself in grand efforts to beat any
other man in that town who ever
yelled over a burning chimney. The
family may desire an explanation as the
front door falls in and you bound over
it and begin to throw the chairs
around. There is no set answer to re-
peat, but most men manage to say:


'sFire!-fi re.-your house-get out
-fire-hurry-blazes = fire hang it
fire-fire -


They will generally accept the expla-
nation without argument, and you can
go ahead and rescue the contents, of the
house. Always commence on the parlor
ornaments first. If you haven't time to
save anything but chrome, half of a
marble-top table, and the head of a
piece of statuary, you don't know how
far these things would go toward
setting the burned-out family to house
keeping again. The windows were made
to throw things through. If you can
fling all the ornaments out, wrench the
SOFA to peices, and break the legs off of
the chairs, you can consider you have
saved everything in the parlor worth
saving. III there is stove i'm there
tip it over as you rush to save the bed
ding and other furniture. Don't throw
a bed from the chamber-window moth
ing will break feather-bed all to peic-
es as quick as fall. Take them on
your back and carefully carry them
from two to four blocks away and de-
posit them on doorstep. et


But the case is different with crock
cry and looking-glasses; you can heave
them out on the pavement with perfect
confidence that they wouldn't even get
a flaw. Don't try to save whole bed
sted, but wrench it to peices, and
throw. three or four stats out, and then
grab the bureau. Bureaus are cumber-
some articles to handle, and its best to
divide them in halves with an ak, and
throw down the portions separately.


l had forgotten to say that it is posi-
lively necessary for you to yell "fire !"
twice per second, from the time you
kick the door in till the fire is out, or
the house is burned down. If you
didn't do this some of the family might
forget that the house was on fire and



make arrangements to go visiting, or
put on dried apples to stew, or go to set
ting emptyings.


An ordinarily cool man will clear a
house of all worth saving in about fif-
teen minutes especially if he has lit |
tie help. Ifthe housego FOR it, the
family will not fail to remember that
but for you, they might have been roast
I'd alive; and if the flames are subdued,
they'll pick up the looking-glass frames
lrawer-knobs, pitcher-handles and chair
legs, and move back in with hearts full of
gratitude that you noble hero, through |
your GOODNESS and selfpossession saved |
Ill that was worth saving.
Year: 1874

A New York pollution. in writing
letter of confidence to the widow of
deceased member of the Legislature.
says; al cannot tell you how panied
1 was 10 hear that your husband had
gone TO heaven. We were bosom
friends; but now We shall never meet
again."
Year: 1874

A schOolboy's aspirations-'I wish
l were fountain that l night be always
playing"


A wonderfully scientific young man
has had occular demonstration of a
sound; he has seen his bed tick.


Leave your son good reputation and
an employment.
Year: 1874

All this on the superstition that the
family has included three rooms only,
that the family has had not more than
five persons in it, all told, and that food
and clothing have been of the plainest
description, with enough of both to
produce healthy and vigorous growth; !;
but with nothing to vary the monotony
of fare limited. to the necessaries of life
He has cost as a member of a family
and that a family inexpensive and
economical, about $4,000; ;ls citizen
he has cost a much smaller sum, but
still one that is fairly appreeiable. i, 4
Year: 1874

An officer in the Washington Nary Yard
announces that be has an old and reliable
bunion, which he is desirous Of exchanging
for a modern sort Of barometer that will not
get excited at every little shower that comes
mn
Year: 1874

To-day has furnished an example of the ease with
which the stock market, when held entirely in the
hands Of cliques, can be manipulated into strength


OF weakness At the opening this morning the feel
ing was apparently one of nervous weakness, as
prices for the first few moments indicated; but the
clique orders to buy soon checked the decline and
turned che tide in favor of higher prices aud it ran
mainly in that direction for the remainder of the
day. Pacific Mail occupied the chief prominence in
tho list. and noticeable for an advance
of per cent from 80, the lowest point
of the day. to 40 before midday, as
the short interest rushed to cover. Later in the
day tho stock was In good borrowing demand, and
lent at per cent This stock, of which 400 shares
were Sold closed at 40f. the highest price of the
day. Erie was next in prominence, both as to
volume of business and fluctuations in price, selling
down to 2 and up t0 ga closing at the latter price


1900 shares of this stock changed hands to-day and
II would perhaps be difficult to find a more valid
reason for its advance than the manipulation OF the
clques Some of the gossps insist that the placing
of the Atlantic and Great Western Road in the
hands Of receiver is O sufficient relief to Erie to
account for the rise in this pet fancy" North
West Common, which has been a leading
stock Of late. moved up from 46! to 46I. Western
Union Telegraph did not profit much by yesterdays
showing and dividend. but renamed firm, opening
ut S2 selling down to s2l, up to S3t, and closing at
62s on sales Of 5000 shares. Lake Shore remained
dull and steady at SoaSo until near the close of the


day, when an order to buy 5000 shares, supposed to
be short stock emanating from party who is
actively engaged in the manipulation of Of the


Western shares suddenly raised it to S0,, and gave
new life to the whole market which generally closed
at the best prices of the day. Lake Shore. however,
was heavy at SOf at the close. The rumor that the
earnings of this road for the first week in December
sbov a decrease of 1000 was not generally be-
Year: 1874

The system Of Ponsard, for producing
steel direct from the ore, has attracted
much attention, and In MetauaTyie gives
the following account Of recent expert
ment made on this system.


The apparatus consists principally of a
gazogone, which transforms the fuel in a
series of large chambers, and Of an appa-
ratus in brick, called the recuperator Of
heat, which receives the flames from the
furnace, and restores the caloric in the
form Of air. The compartments of the
chamber serve successfully for the reduc
ton Of the ore, for the reactions which are
affected, aud, finally, for the fusion of the
whole charge in such manner that the
separation of the component parts is eifec-
ted by the difference of density. These
various phases Of the operation require
very different temperatures, and the pro-
duction Of these is the special object Of the
apparatus. On the side of the furnace
doors the temperature is only that Of red
heat, while beyond the heat is so great
that the eye is unable to support the In
tepsity of the glow. This extraordinary
heat is estimated at 3,632o Fab.


The success of the experiment is report
cd to have surpassed all expectation, and
the result obtained is considered to de-
monstrate the possibility ofproducing steel
direct from the ore without any Of the
tiasformations necessary under existing
systems. OF course this is fresh reyo-
luton in history and il is almost unne-
cessary to add that, should the system JUS
tify the report, it will prove revolution
indeed
Year: 1874

In view Of the great dangers besetting
young people Of the present day, in the
form Of bad newspapers, illustrated "juve-
nile" monthlies and weeklies of vile
character, surreptitiously and extensively
circulated, and finding their secret way in
to the best homes and school-houses of the
land, the dullest managers Of pure peri
odical for the young hardly can fail to burn
with a holy fire. If they only can do a
negative good, in crowding bad reading to
the wall, in taking up the children's at
tention so that foul publications are un-
needed, great work is accomplished !;
their mission is blessed one, and good
citizens everywhere should rally to their
assistance. Let not parents deceive them
selves. No home Is too sacred or too care
fully guarded for those fendish invaders,
the venders of low and dangerous juvenile
publications, to ply their unholy trade
Ecery child is in danger for whom good,
well-selected, enjoyable reading is not pro.
vidod by those most directly having its
best interests at heart. All dangerous
publications do not betray their character
ataglance, Often they wear the mask of
useful information, and even Of piety, A
mere general oversight will not suffice.
Do not force your child to spend time in
reading, but look to it that all his or her
reading-time be properly and pleasantly
filed. While you blindly congratulate
yourself that your boy or girl, through
mere fondness for books and periodicals,
must necessarily be learning something, it
may be well to know what that something
is. Undue intellectual stimulus for child
rem is bad enough, but emotional stimulus
is worse. In the hands of unprincipled
puryeyors, it opens the way to moral or
rors of every kind, and by quickening an
else slow growth to what is holy, develops
only precocity in vice. The point Of the
wedge is easily inherited, and, at first, as
easily thrust back but beware Of the ST.
lent force that having once gained an en-
trance may split the peace aud purity of
your home.-SyiJDer's.
Year: 1874




Who Is il that truly cducates the child
in humanity? Who possesses this divine
ministry The mother. She is the
prophecies who foFesees the future life,
the sibyl who sounds the mysteries of the
spirit, the Muse who brings to the heart
human inspirations, the sorceress who fills
with sweet and pious legends all our fancy,
the priestess who raises the conscience to
the regions of infnity. From the mo-
ment when she feels her child beneath
her heart it appears as if spirit and nature
revealed themselves to her mind to assist
her in her divine Office, and thus she ap-
propriates all ideas to the child, as the
bird woavos all the rustic objects gathered
in the fields to form the soft nest Of her
beloved offspring. The mother knows
instinctiyely the laws of health by which
to preserve her child from the inclemencies
Of the world, the medicine with which to
treat its constant inarmliles, the morality
which is to sustain it in its future strug-
giles, the literature which is to embellish
its days, the religion which is to convert
it into being superior to all others of
nature, and which is to bear ii 10 the bosom
Of the Infinite. All the child needs in lis
early years the mother bears in her
intelligence, as she bears in her breast its
only nourishment Let us make Of the
school mother. This is the thought Of
Pestalozzi.
Year: 1874

may do it at her own peril. The police
man in attendance will gaze in bland in
difference at her efforts to stem the raging
tide Of omnibuses and carriages, but be
never thinks Of such thing as of aiding
her TO get across. Should she be run
over, aud by miracle escape unhurt, she
will be fined for obstructing the public
highway, aud if she be killed the fine will
be charged to her estate. She must take
care Of herself, summoning to her aid all
the resources of her womans will to atone
for her physical deficiencies in muscle.


"Tell me your name, once said a young
French lady, who was on her way to Ger
many to become goyerness, to an Ameri-
can gentleman whom she had met on her
journey, and who had rendered her such
little civilities as he was accustomed to
show to unescorted ladies at home. "Tell
me your name that may remember it,
for you are the only man who, on all my
long journey, has accosted me with any
purpose Of real kindness, aud not to insult
or to annoy me-" The young girl in ques-
tion possessed no particular charms Of
person, and she was peculiarly modest and
quiet in her manners, yet such had been
her experience. In America she might
have journeyed from Maine to Florida, or
from California to New York, unmolested
aud unnoticed, save for purposes of kind.
ness and assistance.


Therefore, for the American gentleman
we can claim a nobler courtesy than that
which consists in outward graces and
conventional phrases. it is deep, and prac-
teal; ii is a stuff which will wash and
wear, and which is not merely glittering
and fimsy disguise. 1t finds its objects
as often among the aged or inirm Of
either sex as amid the ranks of youthful
and attractive wonanhood. We have
seen stalwart young fellow spring to his
feet in a crowded car to give seat to an
old man or to crippled soldier, and we
have also seen one kneeling down In the
wet straw Of an omnibus to assist an infrm
and half blind old gentleman to remove
his overshoes. This is true politeness;
such courtesy as the worlds great Exam
pie showed and practiccd when he walked
for brief space among men.-Home
Journal.
Year: 1874

PARODY ON THE LAST ROSE OF SUMNER.
'Tis the last cake Of supper,


Len steaming alone,
All its light.brown companions
Are buttered and gone
No cake Of its kindred,


No cookie is nigh,
To steam on the platter,


Or near its mate lie.
I'll not leave thee, thou lone one,
To meet cold fate;
Since thy mates are all eaten,
Come lie on my plate.
Thus kindly I'll butter


Thy steaming side o'er,
And think on thy sweetness


When thou art no more.
Thus oil cakes must follow,
Three times every day;
When the mcal-times approach
They must vanish away.
When hunger is mighty,


And sickness has flown,
What cake can inhabit


The table alone?
Year: 1874

Faithfully labor for the elevation aud
perfection Of our common humanity, and
the angels will swcesly smile upon you
and you win be happy, both in this life
and that which Is beyond the grave.
Year: 1874

In the Isle Of Man, as l was one
day walking on the seashore, 1
remember contemplating wit h
thrilling interest an old, gray, ru-
ined tower, covered with ivy
There was a remarkable history
connected with the spot. In that
tower was formerly hanged one
of the best Governors the island
ever possessed. He had been &C.
cused Of treachery to the kiog
during the time Of the civil wars,
and received sentence of death.
Intercession was made on his be-
half, and pardon was sent, but
that fell into the hands Of his bit
ter enemy, who kept it locked up,
and the governor was hanged.
His name is still honored by the
many, and you may often here a
pathetic ballad sung to his men,
ory, to the music of the spinning
wheel.


We must feel horror-struck at
the fearful turpitude of that man
who, having the pardon for his
fcllow-creature in his possession,
could keep it back, and let him
die the death Of traitor. But let
US restrain our indignation till we
ask ourselves whether God might
point his finger to most Of US, and
say thou art the man. Thou hast
a pardon in thine hands to save
thy fellow-crcature, not from tenn
poral, but from eternal DEATH
Thou hast q pardon suited to all,
sent to all, designated for ALL
Thou hast enjoyed it thyself, but
hast thou not kept it back from
thy brother, instead of sending it
to the ends of the earth ?"-Hugh
Sto,ceW.
Year: 1874

INEXPENSIVE HAPPINEss.-The
most perfect home l ever saw
..as in a little house into the
sweet incense of whose fires went
no costly things. A thousand dol
lars served for years living Of
father, and mother, and three chill
dren. But the mother was the
creator Of q home; her relation
with her children was the most
beautiful have ever seen, even
dull and commonplace man was
lifted up and enabled to do good
work for souls by the atmosphere
which this woman created every
inmate of her honse involuntarily
looked irto her 4ace for the key
note Of the day; and it always
rang clear. From the rosebud or
clover-leaf which, in spite Of her
hard house work, she always
found time to put by our plates
at breakfast, down to the story
she had on hand to be read in the
evenings, there was no intermis-
sion of her influence. She has al
ways been and always will be my
ideal of 3 mother, wife, home-mak-
er. If to her quick brain, loving
heart, and exquisite face, had been
added the appliances of wealth
and the enlargements Of wider
culture, hers would have been
the ideal home. AS it was, it was
the best I have ever seen.-He}en
Hunt.
Year: 1874




Those dogs are i'll that have hot noses''-
was one Of the accidental touches
which so often precede a great
discovery The ripper genius grasps
the principle, and gives it a COM
plete application. Thus we read:
"'Tis pity If you have cold,


But worse If the sad fact be told


By every kind Of uncouth sound,


Annoying every one around;


So let the secret be confined


To your own handkerchief and mind"
Here is an essential principle Of
politeness so welded to sweet
verse that even q child cannot mis-
understand q forget it:


"In company your teeth to pick,


Would make refined beholders sick"
The worldwide discussion on
the proper use Of the knife and
fork is all summed up and settled
by this suggestive passage:
"If you should, in a moment rash,
Reverse their use, perhaps you'd cash
A mouth already far too wide,
And shock all who might see beside.
Bread, nuts, and fruit, dear sir, or madam,
Eat in the mode of Eve and Adam"


Verify, poetry is good for some
thing, after all! but, like a wilful
child, one must know how to man
age it.
Year: 1874

1hs negioes have al last began to suspect that
the Radicals have led them a dance that must be
A;oned for in Ito future and 10 see that while
they have been used TO tire I'd under foot the lber
ties OF the whites that day of reckoning is sure
10 come aud in that day the white Radical viii
the burden OF Iighteou7 Judgment and severe re-
taliatory punishment. The New York Tunes
tic organ of the Administration and one that
preiends to The reatest friendship tor the negro
n lis Issue oi yesterday says.


zone OF the colored leaders IN South Caroline
has written letter warning his race oil the dan.
gers which await them in The near future unless
they now take measures 10 secure voice In al,
Airs wherever the whites are in the majority by
the adoption ot minority representation This
advice Is timely, and it is TO be hoped in the in.
lerest OF both races, that it will be followed Ne.
gro supremacy in South Carolina has not been an
unnIKed blessing, and when the whites obtain
We numerical superiority, as they shortly viii
rom immigration, they not likely to be sny
Ilorc literal IN their policy than the blacks hay,
teen. Mess The blacks now permit the white.
iLelr prspoitionate participation in affairs they
are certain in their turn to lie entirely excluded.
md the relations OF the Two races will thus he
slWays disturbed. Major Delaney has proved
himself a sincere and intelligent friend OF his
nee by the advice he has given them in this mat.
ter, aud We hope he Will have the assistance OF
'nch enlightened colored men in his State as Mr.
fllIott IN the task he las undertaken. Ii the ne
groes now having the power will base the gov
crnment OF South Carolina on the whole people
Their capacity Tor public affairs will never be de-
MED in the future"
Year: 1874

1t Is admitted that the negroes have the maori
~ at The votes of the Radical party in this State
That is that in Delaware more negroes voted the
Grant Radical ticket in lS;3 than there were
white men voted IT. That We think has been
proved from the statistics furnished by the Re.
publican prints


Does not the same proof furnish evidence that
the negroes are in the mn njority in that party in
this county. We think it does, and we believe 1t
is admitted by those who take the lead in The
Radical party management here. This IS so well
understood that no man who has not the conf
,Ience OF the negroes will risk his name before
tie nomination elections with any hope OF being
nominated or elected This was SO manifest that
recently the most prominent candidate for Sheriff
withdrew, because as it iJ alleged, he had forfeit
ed his chance of getting the votes of the negroes


The matter comes down to this, that the negroes
make the nominations and the whites are expect
ed to spend the money for taxes ana all other
purposes and elect the candidates and thus about
one-tourth OF the voters control the Radical party
in this State and in this county; and this fourth
IRE ignorant negroes.


and yet the negro gets cheated lie hiss harder
times than wlan be had no vote at all
Year: 1874

A benevolent fruit raiser in Worces-


ter, England, was recently much an


noyed by little boys, who stole his


peaches, after the manner of such


small adventures. He one day saw a


minute marauder go up into one of his
trees. he was ready for the emergency,
for he had provided large stuffed dog,
which be placed at the foot of the tree,
and then retired little to watch the eff
feet of his strategy. The little boy,
having filled his stomach and his pock'
cts with fruit, was about to descend,
when his affrighted eye rested upon the
animal. First he tried Establishments,
viz, whistling, ooaxing. Then be tried
the sterner lodges, viz, threatening,
scolding All was thrown away upon the
stuffed dog, standing sternly there, and
never moving his stiff tail an inch to the
right or the left. The little boy had
never seen dog like that and after
awhile he understood that the peach
tree must be his dormitory for the night.
The hours dragged YEARLY on. The
stuffed dog looked bigger aud bigger in
the dark. There was plenty OF peaches,
but where was the little boy to find ap
petite2 In the morning the owner APP
and asked the little boy how he
happened to be in the tree. Alasl not
in the least regenerated by his sufferings,
he answered that he had been chased by
the dog and had ascended for safety.
Year: 1874

Z A stranger saunteriug in and out


among the lime trees Of Berlin may


chance 70 meet two men in earnest talk,


on whom his eyes will fasten with a


start. A plump and venerable mana


soldier from the tip of his gilt helmet to


the spur of his cavalry boot-salutes


with military quickness as you touch
your hat. Sedate, u little in advance


aud listening with curious strain, he


has the outer preseace Of man TO whom
the weight of life is not alone the load Of
time Though swart with sun aud toll,
his features have something ia them


weird and mystical Il is a martial and
imperial face, yet in the lofty look-too
lofty tor trace of ordinary pride-you
catch, by surprise of the imagination,
something of the peneive and accusing
spirit Of monk. But even this fne fig.
ure cannot keep your eye from wander.
ing to the partner of his walk. Straight
as a pine and rugged as q larch is he;
man in plain attire, yet martial in his
stride and gait as though he also passed
his life in camp. A man with ample
brow, firm and massive chin, head all
brain, trunk all nerve, he seems to
pour out foods of strong speech, yet
with an eye so open and face so frank
that he who listens would not have him
spare one word. No dreamer, no self
searcher, no idealist is he, but one who
clings to fact, to science, to the rule of
three. No weakness fingers on that
face, no doubt no superstition, no re-
morse. When laughter ripples down his
cheek, it is toe Cash of light on metal,
rather than the play Of flesh and blood
You feel at once that what he does is
right, in his own eyes; that he will never
need to justify his actions to himself.
That elder parsonage, meditative, doubt
full OF himself, dependent on unseen
powers, is Wilhelm of Hohenzollern,
victor Of sadova and Sedan, FIRST Evan
gelical Emperor on this planet. That
younger, though mature and sturdy per-
sonage, is Bismarck, Chancellor Of the
new secular empire in Germany.