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Year: 1879

Few men die of old age. Almost all
die of disappointment, passion, mental
or bodily toll or accident. Passion kills
men sometimes, even suddenly. The
common expression, choked with passion,
has little exaggeration in it; for even
though not suddenly fatal, strong pas
sions shorten life; strong bodied men
oIUen uIe yuuug weak men i've louger
than the strong. for the strong use their
strength and the weak have none to use.
The latter take care of themselves, the
former do not. AS it is with the body.
so it is with the mind and temper. The
strong are apt to break, or, like the can
die, to run out. The inferior animals,
which live in general regular and tenn.
perate lives, have generally their pre-
scribed number of years. The horse
lives twenty-five years; the OK fifteen or
twenty; the lion about twenty; the dog
ten or twelve; the rabbit eight; the
Guinea pig six or seven years. These
numbers all bear a similar proportion
to the time the animal takes to grow its
full size. But man. of the animals, is
one that seldom comes up to this aver
age. He ought to live hundred years
according to this physiological law. as
five times twenty are one hundred; but
instead of that he scarcely reaches, on
an average, twice his growing period;
the cat SIX times, and the rabbit eight
times this standard of measurement.
The reason is obvious-man is not only
the most irregular and the most intem-
perate, but the most laborious and hard
working of all animals; and there is
reason to believe, though we cannot tell
what an animal secretly feels, that more
than any other animal man cherishes
wrath to keep warm and consumes him.
self with the fire of his own secret re-
hections.
Year: 1879

Garlic is said to be sovereign reme-
dy for the gout. There is no remedy
for garlic.


Can it be said that man who is very
much intoxicated is detected, because he
is more'n full ? ....


The foolish man foldeth his arms and
saith: There is no trade; why should
| advertise %


Unless all signs fail, the crop of base
ball clubs this year will be the largest
ever known.


A mosquito bar affords good protection
from mosquitoes, but a crowbar don't
protect a corn field worth cent


Willie asked his mother where the
stars came from. Her reply was: my
son. l do not know" "Well, l do" he
said the moon laid EN-


A tramp, who received blow from
an Amazonian widow, declared that, un-
til then, he had never realized the full
significance of a widows smlte.


"Well, | always make it rule to tell
my wife everything that happens" OBJ
served Browning. "Oh, my dear fellow,
that's nothing" said Smithwig; 81 tell
my wife lots of things that never happen
at ALL" -s-4


Josh Billings says: "There is one
thing about hens that looks like wisdom
they don't cackle much till they have
laid their eggs. Some folks are always
cackling of what they are going to do
beforehand"


A citizen of Leavenworth, going to his
barn to milk in the dark of the early
morning, got into the wrong pen, and
undertook to milk a mule. He don't
remember which side of the barn he
went out at, bat he expects his bucket
down in few days.


They were strolllng along in the moon
light. Something put it into his head
that she wouldn't be very angry if he
snatched kiss; he resolved to do it,
but in the ecstacy of the moment he for
got that he had a lighted cigar in his
mouth, and they don't stroll in the
moonlight any more.


AS the happy couple we're leaving
church. the husband said to the partner
of his welded life: Marriage must
seem a dreadful thing to you. Why,
you were all of tremble, and one could
hardly hear you say Il will 81 will
try and say 1T louder next time" said
the blushing bride.


The small boy of clergyman in
Portland, Maine, was detected by his
mother in the act of ornamenting with
his jackknife costly inlaid table by a
deeply-cut carving of his ideal steamboat.
A day or two after the lady saw him
from the door looking with admiring
eyes at his partially completed work,
and heard him sigh: "By George! |
wish L had got the smoke stack on be-
| fore she licked me"
Year: 1879

Senator Edmund's position at the
head Of the lawyers of the Senate makes
his opinion of any pending measure of
commanding Importance. This preemi-
nence as lawyer and the fervency of
of his republican faith combined to rem
der it peculiarly fitting that he should
sum up the views of the minority in the
Senate upon the Army bill. as he did
yesterday. before the vote was taken.
His speech is a mastery defence of the
rights of the Executive Department
against encroachments by Congress and
the States, and is thorough and un-
answerable argument for the necessity Of
having power where there is law to be
enforced. Senator Edmund's speeches
are never sensational, and this one was
no. so, though made upon subject
where warmth is so excusable. But its
arguments were none the less effective
on that account. After a brief and tell
ing speech by Mr.. Blaine, the bill was
passed by party vote, and now goes to
meet. in all probability, second veto.
IN. Y. Tribune, May 10.
Year: 1879

scarcely less needful than bread and
raiment. Drop off your reading and
you deprive yourself of one of your best
helpers to courage in these hard times,
and bring shadows upon your home
where all faces have been wont to be
lighted up by its presence. No better
cut short hundred other things than
the reading for your home. The wife and
mother want it. The children cry for
it. Let them have it, while you spend
the less money Gf need be) somewhere
else
Year: 1879

A man may eat and drink heartily all
day, and sit and lounge about "doing
nothing" in one sense of the word, but
his body must keep hard at work all the
time, or it will die. Suppose the stomach
refuses to work within ten minutes after
hearty dinner, the man would die in
convulsions in few hours, or cholera or
cramp collie would rack and wreck him.
Suppose the "pores' of the skin-mean-
ing thereby the glandular apparatus
with which they are connected-should
60 on strike" we would in an hour
be burning up with fever, or, "oppres-
sion" would weigh down the system and
soon become insupportable. Suppose the
liver become "mulish;;" appetite would
become annihilated, food would be
loathed. torturing pains would invade
the "small Of the back" and the head
would ache to bursting" Suppose the
kidneys "shut up shop" and dangers
more imminent, suferings more unbeara-
BILE, and death more certain would be
the speedy and inevitable results. If
the little workshops of the eye should
"close," in an hour we could not shut
or open them without physical force. and
in another we would be blind or of the
tongue, and it would become as dry as
a bone and as stiff as steel. To keep
such complication of machineries in
working order for lifetime is a miracle
of wisdom but to ''work them by the
pleasures of eating and drinking is
miracle of benefcence Health and
Home
Year: 1879

The rescue of party of imprisoned
miners, at Wilkesbarre, Pa, few days
since, was one of the most remarkable
cases of the kind on record. They were
shut in by the falling in of a large por-
tion of the mine; and the only way to
release them was to cut passage-way
of 200 feet through rock, slate and
coal. This was accomplished in four
days and nights. During the latter part
of the time, as there were indications of
fre-damp, the driving and cutting of the
coal had to be done with the pick alone.
Mine superintendent Smith was the
first to enter. He found some of the
men cooking breakfast from steaks taken
from the mule which the boy who was
sent to alarm the men of the impending
disaster had fortunately taken with him.
The mule was killed by the men on the
second day of their Imprisonment. The
remainder of the party were engaged in
changing the direction Of an air course.
The entire party-consisting of seven
men and boys-used all possible dispatch
in getting out of the mine, when they
were received by an enthusiastic crowd
which cheered the rescued men and their
deliverers. The entombed miners say
that during Saturday and Sunday they
could hear the rescuing party firing
blasts. When the blasting ceased they
believed that the work had been stopped
and they were abandoned to their fate
They say they could have subsisted at
least two weeks longer, had it been
necessary, upon their supply of mule
meat. A running stream of water sup
piled them with the means to satisfy
thirst. The men had been imprisoned
FIVE and half days. The sum of $l00
has been presented to each of the res
cued miners by the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre Coal Go.


THIS IS FOR MoTHER.-Employment
for mind and body is the secret of man.
aging children. And it will take great
deal of ingenuity to keep up with the
demands, for anything gets old so quick
with the children. Don't, if you can
possibly help it, turn away your chill
dren when they come to you with their
work or play, JOY or sorrow. A play or
a piece of work is appreciated fully only
when mamma has seen it, or given her
approval Take your children into your
confidence, talk to them as if you SYM
pathized with and understood them.
Praise their endeavors, correct their
errors, and encourage their efforts, and
see how soon you will have full control
of their little hearts, and how easily
they can be led into desirable ways.
But it takes patience and forbearance
and strong sense of duty. We are SO
selfish, we are so tired, we are so yexed
by the little worries and cares. that, like
nettles, prick our peace. There is such
temptation to vent our i'll temper on the
little ones, that are around us, "always
in the way" when we are out of sorts.


In this busy land a man is always lia-
BILE to be aroused from his slumbers but
in Ireland they never wake person un-
til he is dead.
Year: 1879

How TO GET ALoNG.-Pay as you 60.
Never fool in business matters.
Do not kick every one in your path.
Learn to think and act for Yourself.
Keep ahead rather than behind the
times.


Don't stop to tell stories IN business
hours.


Have order, system. regularity and
also promptness.


Do not meddle with business you
know nothing of.


Use your own brains rather than those
of others.


A man of honor respects his word as
he does his bond


No man can get rich by sitting around
stores and saloons.


If you have place of business, be
found there when wanted.


More miles can be made in day by
going steadily than by running and
jumping.
Year: 1879

Poor EcoNoMY.-There is no poorer
economy than that of cutting short good
reading in the family-especially that
which is necessary to keep up fresh
knowledge of the movements Of society
of doings and events in ones own
county. State and country-of improve
ments in agriculture, art and SCIENCE
of business and enterprise in the land
saying nothing of politics and the gov
ernment. Cutting down the reading is
worse than cutting down luxuries for
the person or the home. 1t is dropping
out a real necessary to fitness, courage
and ability for the stern labors and tolls
of daily life. 1t is failure to supply
the wife and children with what is
Year: 1879

E The old trick of getting up sham fight in the gallery of theatre, and then throwing the stuffed figure of man over the railing, was successfully played at Leadvile. The excite ment in the lover part of the house caused panic, and an Actress tainted on the stage.
Year: 1879

Young Folks World: in
nine cases out of ten, mans
life will not be a success if he
does not bear burdens in child
hood. If the fondness for
vanity of father or mother
has kept him from hard work;
if another has always helped
HIM ont of his row; if, instead
of taking his turn at the pitch
ing off, bestowed away all
the time-in short if what
was light fell to him, and
what was heavy abont the
work to scme one else, if he
had been permitted to shirk,
unless a miracle has been
wrought, his life will be a
failure, and the blame will
not be half SO much his, as
that of his weak and foolish
parents. On the other hand,
If a boy has been brought up
to his part, never allowed to
shirk bis responsibility, or to
dodge work, whether or not
it made his head ache, or
soiled his hands until bearing
burdens has become a matter
Of pride, the heavy end of
the wood his choice, parents
as they bid him goodbye may
dismiss their fear. The ele>
ments of success are his, and
at some time and in some
way the world will recognize
his capacity.
Year: 1879

iSIdCLuFy oxcuSt IOr pcFSOudi
untidiness. Household work
of whatever kind does not
interfere with having "a clean
dress on, however common, a
nice, plain, collar, a smooth
head of hair. There is all
the difference in the world in
different house wives in this
respect. Some always look
bright and smart but 9TH
ers never look decently clean
in the mornings; they seem
to have no idea that anybody
| ever notices their personal
appearance while engaged IN
their household duties, or
that ii is a matter of the least
possible concern to anybody.
They forget that they have a
husband, who was won when
they were in full dress, and
studded to attract him by
the addition it gave to their
persons, without regard to
the time and trouble it re-
quired-whose eye is assharp
now as it ever was, and whose
sensibilities are just as acute.
The children too especially
The girls-what a sad exam
pie to them is sloviness on
the part of their mother!


Wait Forever.
Once upon a time there
lived beside the Rhine, a beau
tiful young lady. She had a
lover who loved her, and
whom she loved in return
But, after he had woed her
hot one year, but three
he asked her to marry him;
and she, anxious to show her
power, merely answered:


Watt


L have waited three years.
he said, but at your bidding
[ will wait one more-:just
one more


Then he went away and
be CAME a soldier, aud praise
of his bravery filled the land;
but the lady was piqued by
the thought that he had been
able te-lea~e her for even a
year, and when he returned
she determined to punish
him, though all the while
she loved him we'll.


He knelt at her feet, and
took her hand in his, and
said:


Lady, I have come back
to claim you for my wife,


But all she answered was:
wait longor; a patient
waiter is not a loser.
i will waitsstwo years Ion
ger,' he said calmly. IF l
do not lose, all is we'll
Then he left her again.
She had hoped that lie would
plead with her, and that she
would be forced to change
her mind; but now he was
gone-gone for two long
years. How she lived through
them she could not tell; but
they passed, and again her
lover was before her.


L have waited patiently
was ali he said.


The lady yearned to cast
herself in his armes, but
pride was strong within her.


wv ait longer she said.


No. he answered. This
is the last time. If I wait
now: / will wait forever


AT this, she drew back
haughtily.


'1'hen wait forever she
said, cotdly.


He left her without aword.
And now her heart sank with
in her. She wept bitter tears,
and repented in dust and
ashes. When a year had
gone BY, she could bear her
woe no longer, and sent her
little foo. page to her old low
ef, bidding him bear this
message: Come back to me-
But the message the foot
page brought back was just
this: wait


Again she was left to her
sorrow, and two years glided
by; then once more she bade
her page ride over the monn~
| tains to her lovers castle.
: Tell him I am waiting
she said.


The page rode away and
rode back. He stood before
his lady and dofed his cap,
and repeated the message
that had been given him:-
Year: 1879

towards the tree tops, and
see a little girl, lovely as the
plush of sunset, gazing PEN
siyely at a bee upon a COM
mon roadside flower.


Did it sting you?' I ask
ed, assuming a very sympa-
thetic air.


No; bees never sting me
and I've watched them dance
on the thistle heads all sum-
mer.' ..,.


Il did not know that you
loved them. Most girls are
afraid of bees


Yes, but / AM not
| She turned from the rank
patch of thistles and slowly
resumed her walk homeward.


When we came to the lane
where our paths separated
she put up her little arms to
be taken and kissed before
leaving me, as she said, ito
come back no more.'


BE good to yourself, Ed
die, and next winter. if any
little lonely AdeIinas come
cold and frightened to the
old red school house yonder,
be to them as you were to
me-


Something choked in my
throat, and | could not say a
word; but l kissed her more
than once; and after she bad
slipped from my arms and
was twenty yards away, I sat
down and cried like a baby,
because [ was never to see
Adelina again.


It was not long before the
rumor was rife in the neigh>
borhood that Mrs. Lagrange
had married a middle-aged
city millionaire, and that the
young widow and her child
had found a new protector
in place of the one death had
taken away from them.


Years fitted oy; l was "a;
| had fought through the
great rebellion-entered the
army a private ard came out
Of it a captain, shattered in
health, and utterly depleated
in pocket. to find rayseIf al
home again, ill and altogeth-
er distrustful of fortunes
smile.


In my frequent walks to
the village Post>office 1 often
passed by the old red school
house, and never without a
sigh Of regret for the many
happy care-free days spent
within its battered walls.
Among the letters handed
me one morning was one
st-marked New York, which
informed me of the agreeable
fact that, throught the instru
mentality Of a friend of mine
whom he was anxious to
serve. the undersigned, Mr..
Maxwell, had been induced
to extend to me a commercial
opening at the liberal salary
of two thousand a year, to be
increased if merited. There
was a fortune for me in the
offer, and l accepted it with
alacrity.


Mr.. Maxwell, a rich New
York Merchant, from the
first took a lively intel est in
INV advancement. The un-
known friend I could
not account for in any other
way than by supposing it to
be some soldier conrad whom
[ had befriended in the past.
Within a month ] was fairly
established at my new post
of duty, and succeeded in
pleasing Mr.. Maxwell so we'll
that, at the beginning of my
second year, he sent me to
Europe in the interest of the
house. When / returned, /
was given a weeks vacation,
which 1 spent among the
breezy hills of my old coun>
try home, passing the pleas
ant September days in tramp
ing through the woods and
fields and by-ways that were
the chosen haunts of my boy
hood.


/ was just turning the curve
| i'm the road where the CANA
da thistles grew, and SO lost
in my walking reverie that |
was almost opposite q lady
standing in their midst, be-
fore I was aware of her press
Year: 1879

Again she sent her cruel
lover q message.


Tell him. she said, that
| am near my end, and that
ifI wait longer before I see
him, I shall wait forever
The page returned. and
stood beside his lady's chair.
His eyes were full of tears;
his head was bent upon bis
breast; he sighed, and held
his face in his plnmed cap.


The lady lifted her wan
face.


Speak she said. The
messagev


'AlssF sighed the page; i
would that it were a more
tender one


Whatever it may be,speak"
gasped the lady.


tThe only message that [
have replied the page, is
wait forever


Il am well paid in my own
coin,' said the lady. 'At
last / have received all my
own answers back


In a very little time she
died, and they buried her in
the old churchyard, with a
stone at her head and a stone
at her feet.


When spring came there
was grass upon the grave,
and there also was a new
plant strange to those who
looked upon it; a plant with
dark, glossy leaves, that clept
slowly butsurely along, clutch
ing fast to every rough sur
face it met.


There had never been a
plant like that on earth be-
sore. Now, we Cal! it an ivy,
but this is what those who
saw it for the first time said
of il:


1T is the lady whom her
lover bid to wait forever. In
this form she is creeping to-
wards his castle slowly but
surely. So she will creep on
until she reaches the
heart she threw away


Generations have passed
from the earth. The castle
is a rum, covered with ivy,
and the peasants will tell you
that it has crept there from
the lady's grave, point by
point, over stone and rock,
through the graveyard, and
over gates and fences. You
can trace it ifvou chose, they
say, but you do not try.
Year: 1879

To THE ED1ron THE HERALD:-


think great praise is due to the New York
Post Office officials for the vigilance they show
in their dealings with the public. For exam
ple recently sent old shirt through the Post
Office from Connecticut TO New York firm as pat
tern to make me some new ones by. of course pre-
paid the postage. but the Post Once authorities in
New York charged fifty cents extra to the shirt maker
because they had discovered my almost washed out
name written the flap, claiming that that circum-
stance entitled hem to levy letter postage the old
shirt.
Gold, Mass to New York city. and in my hurry put
ON the envelope cent stamp instead OF a two
cent stamp. Aweek afterward the party to whom
had written received letter from the Post Office De-
partment at Washington stating that If the postage
were remitted the letter would be returned to its
proper destination. The party to whom had writ
ten well known to the carrier of the district but
that made difference it had to 60 to Washington
to have that two cents collected. @. L. b.
Year: 1879

To THE EpIToR THE HERALD:-r


Win the HERALD please remind the management of
the Central Railroad of New Jersey that the interests
of the road. we'll of the 1900 comm uters who
live at Planfeld. twenty-four miles from New York.
require that they shall get to from their homes in
less than one hour and ten minutes The last time
table issued shows that of the thrty-nine trains
stopping at Painhcd daily all but two stop also at
from four to six small stations between Plainheld
and Elizabeth whose passengers invariably find the
seats already occupied. Those two trains leaving
New York In the morning affordsno accommodation
whatever though they demonstrate that other trains
might make the same better time either from the
city ut about Ave o'clock. bringing home in time
for supper. or leaving Plainfeld not earlier than
eight A. NJ. landing us in New York by quarter to
nine. Such an arrangement would accommodate
more people than any three trains now run. and
nothing short of that will check in any degree the
departure of such rs can get away to points on Man
haitian Island that be reached by steam at better
rate of speed than eighteen miles an hour.


PFISCHE.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERAID:-


May be excused for calling your attention to o
system Of correction In use in our public schools
which, think. must be great and permanent injury
to the children. 1t is . common custom to tie the
hands behind the back tic tho knees together and in
this piuable condition strap the child to
the seat. Another mode of punishment Is to
compel the child to hold the hands above
the head ut full arms length. There several
other devices used for torturng the children into
obedience. but will only mention one more aud
that Is making small mark on the blackboard and
causing the child to watch it till the eyes have be-
como weakened that the power Of seeing IL i'm
paired for some time afterward. Would not q ju-
dcious OF the rod be far better for the after life
OF the young ones? A PARENT.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


On Sunday evening. February q entered tho depot
Of the New Jersey Central Railroad at Bergen Point
Finding ticket Office open stepped on the first
train for New York. The conductor made demand
for the ticket. Of which had none and handed him
twenty-five cents the rate which they advertise to
and from New York. He said the fare thirty-fve
cents to New York. which obliged to pay.
When arrived ut Jersey City they made further de-
mand for ferriage, which was compelled to pay be-
fore got through Several others with felt that
we had been imposed upon. VICTIM
Year: 1879

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


win the HERALD allow an old reader to suggest to
owners Of store property the proprety Of not charg
ing for store moro than fair percentage on the
assessed valuaion? 1t has been impossible for most
OF the tenants to make living the past i've years on
account OF the high rents; in fact they have been
losing money and eating into their capital. Us.