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Year: 1873

WY SHI REfuseD.-You say you
vent to . party last night. and you saw
Mrs. Smith. a old friend, whom you had
not seen since she aud your sister were at
school together. You had very pleasant
talk until supper. when you gave her your
arm and took her to supper. When some
one came along with . few glasses of wine
pn waiter and off,red her q glass, you
saw her shudder as she said, I" No !" and
you wondered why Mrs. Smith. who didn't
ase to be particular about such things, not
only refused, but shuldered when she SAID
No! You cannot tell why7 1 Gao tell
WY. Y'u went on With your talk ; and
little q a.ttering. did you? wort say
you didn't. Sac was very gay and seemed
very glad to forget herse f. did s1e 7
Very well, [ am very glad you gave her
that hour of the evening. 1 can tel you
shere she went after the party was over.
She went home-the latest person from the
party. She vas glad it was late, for her
husband had not come home. Sac sat and
read for an hour. and her. husband did not
come. Sac wrote for an hour, and her
husband did not come. Sae sat at the
piano for an hour, but he did not come.
At length, between three and four o'cl ,ck i,
there was . noise at the door. she went
to the door, and two policemen held him


q their arms. She knows them both we'll
by this time. It happened 90 often that
she knew every policemen on the beat.
They bade her good night. She had lock-
ed her child room that he might not
abuse him. She took the abuse as be flung
himself on the bed. She dragged off his
oeck-cloth and coat. and sat there until he
should fall into his stupid sleep. She was
the woman who refused the glass of wine
With shudder. You thought she was gay
and bright. know her story because I
AN her minister. They have sort of
skeleton in the closet, which We are per-
mitted to see and you are not. And when
We see that skeleton, do you wonder that
We sometimes say pretty sharp things
about moderase drinking. and the tempts-
t'ons offered 1t parties ?-Rer. E. +.
Hale.
Year: 1873

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ON PRISON D1scI.
PIINE.-ln the matter Of devising the best
mode of reformatory punishment for
crimes against property, to which | owe
my correspondence with yourself, / believe
nothing has been done but talk. Yet the
subject is becoming more pressing every
year. No one but knows of skillful work
men, discharged with good character and
good trade from prison, yet resuming the
trade of theft within few days, even
few honr,, as more lucrative, and even in-
forming employers that they had been in
Jail as means of escaping employment.


Who can believe that this would be the
case if these persons had to work
out and pay the price of their
theft? Theft would Dot then be lu-
crative. As it is, good prison is actual
ly reward, not deterrent to the thief.


No one but knows the sickly, unskillful
thief, who likes the good bed Of the prison,
his trade of thieving not being renumera-
tive, but the prison is. 1t is stated that
one of the four American forgers who have
just been convicted here was just out of an
American prison for forgery. Who can
believe that, had he been sentenced to
work out and repay the price of his former
forgery, he would instantly, on his release
from prison, have recommended the same
course ? The prison is actually not a
punishment for, but, as it were, an encour-
agement to, thieving. At least, it is theft
made easy. (For crimes accompanied
with violence. especially for violence to-
ward women and children, would whip.)


Now the United States, which are fore
most in the field in these good matters,
ought they not to show us some new sys-
TEN in these things? The important sub
ject of g How to reform prostitutes, how
to teach them to earn an honest livelihood.
with all the means absolutely essential,
moral and religious, for Strengthening the
wills of these poor creatures, equally far
from petting and from revolving cheerless-
ness, this, too, is a thing on which we
seem to have made little progress and in
which we might we'll exchange information :
al experience. Pardon me. dear sir, this
note, for which l feel do need your par
don, as nv hands are already so much too
full of business that, invalid as [ am and a
prisoner to my room, it is impossible for
me to take up and practically to work out
this reformatory subject. But leave 1t


in worthier hands than mine. May God
bless you for all you have done and all
you will do Letter to Prof Wines.
Year: 1873

EDITOR HERALD:-The recent action
of our City Council in dispensing with
the services of Health Officer, fails
to commend itself to the approval of
our citizens generally, as either sound
word OF earnest renlOnStrdnce is, ac-
eordingly, hereby respectfully address,
ed to our City Fathers.


In common with your cotemporary
Journalists, you spare no pains in pub
fishing far and wide the peculiar at
Effectiveness of our city, and are con-
fessedly committed to the advocacy Of
every reform tending to render Los
Angeles increasingly worthy OF admi-
ration. Therefore, we need offer no
apology for asking your insertion Of
the present remonstrance.


The Board of Health still exists,
nominally, but of what practical value
is it in the absence of Medical Health
Officer, on whom personally devolves
the duty of fulfilling its 6ehests, as
well as Of initiating and carrying out
measures for the sanitary interests of
our city?


1t is surely not to be expected that
the gentlemen Of that Board can per-
sOnally undertake this work. Is it
wise, then, to intermit the functions
of an Office like this in city of so
mixed population as ours, and so
liable at any moment to the influx by
immigration of Infectious disease


That the expense is dispr0pOrtiOnate
to the value of the work to be done, no
thoughtful person will affirm. The
salary appended to this Office costs but
little, when cOntrasted with the liberal
allowance ($30O per mOnth) formerly
attached to it, when Health Officer
was improyise9 for temporary emer-
gency.


These remarks are not, of course, in
tended especially to compliment DIR.
Wise, our late Health Officer, although
it is but fair to acknowledge that that
gentleman is, Oh all hands, allowed to
have performed his duty with great
fidelity and success,


The present improved condition Of
our streets, back-yards, ETC.. etc., bears
ample testimony to his zeal and inl~
partially, rich and poor alike having
been constrained to "mend their
ways,n and test the eredibility of the
axiom that cleanliness is akin to god
liness." Why then discontinue SO
important work? 1t cannot surely
be urged that no other sanitary reform
is needed. What justification can our
City Fathers offer for for the continued
presence for example, of that most of
fensive cess-pool on First street east of
Los Angeles street, or of that on Ala
media above Also street, near the ice
house, or of that between High and
Eternity streets which, for four months
out OF the twelve, is an intolerable
nuisance?


Hitherto eniy,two carts, and for two
days in the week, have been allowed !!


Let the City Council now make the
appointment of Health Officer per-
manent one, and let the Board of
Health place one city cart all the time
under his supervision, and such nuis-
anees as the above would speedily be
abated; cleanliness and consequently
health, and the fairer sepntation of our
fair city would bring with them an
ample reward.


Once more then we would ask the
Council "a noun of multitude convey
ing unity of idea) to reconsider and
reverse its action in this matter, aatfd aatfd
thereby bring itself into good accord
with PUBLIC OPINION.
Year: 1873

EVERY man takes care that his neighbor
shall not cheat him. But a day comes
when he begins to care that he does not
cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well.
He has changed his market cart into achar-
lot Of the sun. What day dawns when
we have taken to heart the doctrine Of
faith to prefer as q better investment,
being 20 doing being to seeming Loo
TO rhythm and to display; the year To-
day the Iife to the year charact~<


formance; and have come to-


Justice win Be done us.-Eme
Year: 1873




Only three were saved Of the crew of the
Boston ship Tennyson. They foated for
eight days on a piece of wreck before being
picked up.


Sherman in conversation with Senator
Casserly not only expressed his opionion that
there need be no apprehension of a general
Indian war, but also said he had no fears of a
general outbreak even on the Pacific coast.


According to a Washington special nego-
tiations are progressing there to turn over the
land granted by Texas to the Parizians who
purchased the EI Paso bonds, and relieve Gen.
Fremont of the Judgment Of the French
courts.


For thepresent no more bOads viii be sent
the European Syndicate. No information has
been received by Secretary Richardson yet,
from Mr. Cattel, our Financial Agent in Lon
don, as to how the loan is being taken by Eu-
ropean capitalists, and it is not likely that any
definite information will be received from him
before the frst of June or the middle of Ju-
". He only got to work fairly in London last
week, and some days must eIapse before he
can Judge with any accuracy as to how the
loan is being taken. Should it be taken with
any rapidity, another subscription viii be
made by the Syndicate, and more bonds sent
them bv the 1st of June.
Year: 1873

The heroine was not beautiful, to be-
gin with, not queenly, nor in any wise
remarkable She was just a plump,
winsome little maiden, and she stood at
the garden gate, that moonlit Sunday
evening, with an air the very reverse of
stateIiness and composure, pulling
leaves from the rose-bush near by with
nervous, futtering fingers that did not
even know when the thorns pricked
them Outside the gate was tall fig
ure, a face bronzed and bearded, and a
low voice uttering words half pleading,
half resentfuI There was a moments
pause, then the voice questioned, with
a dash of bitterness =


"Shall go, Maggie?"


Just as you please, Mr.. Clifford ;"
whereupon the questiOner turned sud
denly about and strobe rapidly down
the country road, crushing the glitter
ing sand under his feet, while Maggie
sped into the house, mp to her room,
and bOlted her door as if afraid of be-
ing pursued. She peePed through a
window, from behind curtain, until
the lonely pedestrian on the quiet road
had vanished from sight; then she as
sured herself that q if Tom chose to act
so-sO-she didn't care p and proved
her utter Indifference by burying her
face in her PILLOW with burst of sobs,
and entire forgetfulness of the pansies
in her pretty hat.


They had quarreled about nothing
at least she couldn't remember what it
began with,-but, of course, it was all
over between them now, and he would
go away as he had said She wondered,
as she lay with her flushed, fearful face
turned toward the stars, how it would
seem to die that night, and go away
from it all. Wouldn't somebody be
sorry then? She almost wished she
could do it,-not quite, because one
doesn't like to stop in the middle of a
story, even if it IS ones own and, be-
sides, what good would his remorse do
her if she could never know anything
about it?


Tom, on his homeward walk, dis
-coursed furiously to himself upon the
fckleness and preversity of all woman
kind "Not one of the whole race
worth breaking a fellows heart for, he
remarked savaSely, though with queer
little quiver about his lips the while
One thing was certain, he would not
stay moping there The world was
wide, and there was nothing now to
hold him back. He would resign his
place in the village store, and join the
party for Arizona. Yes, he would take
the first morning train for the city and
tell Golfer he would go there was for
tUnately time enough for that yet, and
if it left brief space for separation, so
much the better. He should not wait


or people to change their opinion, he
thought, fancying that by people he
/ meant Miss Maggie, but, in reality,
fealing more a faltering Of purpose in a
/ nearer party.


/ Let the Sunday night be what it may,
Monday morning follows it all the same.
1 Maggie was glad that it was Monday
morning, since Il left her at liberty to
+ sit with her sewing in a quiet corner 10y


a window, unqestioned and undisturb.


ed, while busy Aunt Polly, who would
Year: 1873

lam one who would gladly be refu-
ted, if I should say anything not true,-
I would gladly refute another, should
he say anything not true,-but would
no less gladly be refuted than refute.
For I deem it a greater advantage; in
asmuch as it is a greater advantage to
be freed from the greatest Of evils, than
to free another and nothing, 1 con
ceive, is SO great an evil as a false Opin-
ion on matters Of moral concernment.
Socrates.
Year: 1873

Every housewife of neat and tidy habit, takes
especial delight in keeping all the tan, copper and
IRON IRON ware OF her Kitchen as clean and bright as
Painstaking labor can make them. "A pride in tl,s
direction is commendAhle, and always meets tie
smiling approval of the 'tyrant man" who pays
household bills Remember that SAPOLIO is the
only thing on earth that will make an old tarnish-
eo TN pan or rusty kettle shine as bright new
And by the use of Sapolio it is the ouickest and
easiest thing in the world to keep every utensil in
nisn state ol polish. july9,2weod.
Year: 1873

Dairymen in their anxiety to get


the greatest present profit fron their


COWS are liable TO overlook the future


welfare of the ANIMALS, and at The
same time the best interest Of the
owners. Where COW is rather thin
in flesh at this time from any cause,
and is TO be MIXED next season, she
should be dried of Immediately, and
so carefully npurished as to allow her
to regain lost vitality and be in readi-
ness to give good yield when the
new dairying season shall open.


Cows can be made to do but about
so much, according to their capacities,
one year with another. and what /,
obtained by making tho milking sea
son long, or crowding by overioed one
season, viii be diminishing the next
IN Ike proportion. The most proiita-
bic management CT The dairy is TO
feed plenLifully, milk q proper number
of months, and never attempt to
Over-reach the natural capacity of
the animal. Some COVE of COURSE
may be MIXED later into the winter
.han others without injury, and the
Iorce Of cur suggestion is TO learn the
OF each COW, and not govern
,he management of all by one.
Year: 1873

CHICKEN PCT-PIE.-Take g pair OF
tender, fat chickens, singe, open and
cut them into pieces; wash them
through several waters with eight or
ten pared white potatoes, which put
into 4 pan, and after seasoning highly
with salt and black pepper, dredge in
three tablespoontuls OF flour; stir vel


together, then line the SIDES (half way
up), of a medium sized stew kettle


with paste, made of two pounds o


flour and one of butter. Put tht
chicken and potato into the kettle
with water enough to cover them; rel
out some paste for a cover, the size o


the kettle and Join to that on The
sides; cut a small opening in the cen


ter, cover the kettle, and hang it oveI
a clear fire, or set it in the oven; turn
the kettle round occasionally that the
sides may be equally Drowned. Two
hours over clear fire, or in q quick
oven viii cook it. When done. cut
the top crust into moderate sized
pieces, and place it round large dish,
then with a perforated skinner, take
up the chicken and potatoes and place
in the center; cut the sIde crust and
lay it over the top, put the gravy in a


sauce tureen, and send all to table hot
Year: 1873

A friend OF ours, says he prevents
frost in his cellar by pastlng the walls
and ceiling over with four or five
thicknesses OF old newspapers, a cur
tain ofthe ssmematerial beingalso past
ed over the small low windows at The
top of the cellar. The papers were
pasted TO the bare joists overhead.
leaving an air space between them and
the floor. He reports that the papers
carried his roots through last winter,
though the cellar was left unbanked
and be is confident they have mad,
the cellar frost proof.


Whatever paper is employed. it vii
be necessary to sweep down the wall
thoroughly, and to use very stron
size TO hold the paper TO the stonet
II Is not necessary to press the papt
down into all the depressions of Ii
wall; every air space beneath it is q
.dditional defense against the cold.
Year: 1873

To cure collie in horses, melt a pint
of hogs lard over a slow fire, add sOot
from the chimney until it becomes a;
thick as cream, add two or three pod
of red pepper, pour the mixture into
bottle and give to the animal. /
the horse is not quickly relieved, re,
peat the dose.
Year: 1873

CEMENT FOR WooD VEsSELs.-A
i4aixture of lime, clay and oxide OF
iron, separately calcined and reduced
to fine powder, then intimately mixed,
kept in close vessel, and mixed with
the requisite quantity of water when
used. Ills will make a vessel water
tight, if the ingredients are good.
Year: 1873

How many barn yards there are in
which there is not a dry spot large
enough for the cattle TO lie down
where the mire and muck are so deep
that the csttle sink in over their
hoots?


Swine,too, need dry place in their
yard, and a warm shelter at night,
We have sometimes found them frozen
to death, they were SO unprotected.
The "fine and costs" were more than
the expenses of repairing would have
been.


Poultry, also, require warm quar-.
tiers, and do not always get them.


Every time n man shivers this win
ter let him ask himself whether his
animals are having the same expert
euca
Year: 1873

CHARCOAL is a valuable internal
palliative in dyspepsia, and in many OF
the disorders affecting the stomach and
bowels. Taken in doses of a table
spoonful night and morning, it Is an
almost unfailing corrective of costive
habit, Mixed with softeniDg poultices,
it is cleansing, soothing, and healing
to foul sores. An occasional dose of
the powder produces a favorable i'm
provement in sallow or tawny COM
plexions.
Year: 1873

4 few days since, a resident Of the South Di-
vision in making an excavation in the prairie, at
Thirtieth street. unearthed, at distance Of
seven feet below the surface, q fragment Of bone
and q small chip Of wood. The medical savans
find no difficulty in discovering thai the former
il the lower extremity Of q human thigh-bone,
and the chip is Enthusiastically cedar. Both bear
the marks Of sharp instrument, and each ia
about tho size Of piece Of chalk. We
like to be definite On scientific sub
jects. These relics of long ago
are sent to Us for an explanation. OF cou1Be
We cannot refuse it. We cannot but believe that
these fragments antedate BY some centuries the
Christian era. Indeed, We challenge the au-
thorities to show that they DO not belong to the
DarWinian period, III tho frat dawninG OF car
pcntry: when some ape Of fellow cut his leg
triumphantly to tho chips Of both materials.
Perhaps he belonged to the lost tribes on their
way down from Behring's Straits to Buffalo, and
was cutting Eindlng wood. Very justifablo in
hVe list I ho Sead sof o this EipeF ap
fellow, but for this lrcklcss chop. He wasn't
troubled with Credit Mobiliar matters, Ho did
not have any grief over the Board Of Police. He
never dreamed that the precise spot Of ground
for 800 foot. Let us hope that he is happy,
and, as we arc m xious to turn epiritualism to
Eomo account, why Won's he thump out full
statement OF his troubles at some of these table
ecances about town. We particularly desire to
know whether hc came down over the Northern
Pacific route, what be knew about ST. Louis
and Milwaukee, and whether, whon he LETT his
two chips Of bone and cedar, he rode OF
on tame Megathcrinrn, or took boat for Buffalo
We regret that our research leaves go many
points unsettled, but that is tho object OF I'll
human science after all, to point out just what
we don't know, and giro force to tue doubt OF
its ever being cleared up.
Year: 1873

COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 2O-In the House
this morning, the discussion of the bill to
except Rhine wine, ale, beer and cider
from the provisions Of the Adair liquor
law was continued until nearly noon
when the bill was laid on the table tC
allow the Senate bill to amend the Boesll
railroad law to be taken up for discussion
which was continued until the noon re.
cess. A large lobby Is present.
Year: 1873

For Middle States falling barometer
fresh and brisk northerly TO easterly
winds, cloudy weather and rain, except
for the northern portion, where It will
probably snow. Clear and clearing
weather in the Northwest; will extend
eastward during the day over probably
Michigan and Ohio,
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT-The Commissary
General Of the United States, after trial
Of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch vas the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
is a fact worthy the attention of consum-
prS
Year: 1873

Soreness of the breast or lungs, or liver
difficulties, are relieved by placing two OF
three thicknesses of flannel wet with
Renne's Pain-Killing Magic Oil over the
soreness when retiring to bed at night
Try it. One application will help you very
much
Year: 1873

We see by the Chicago papers that
PROCTOR x GAMBLE have reduced the
price Of their long established and popular
brand NOTIFIED GERMAN Soar, its pres
ent price and superior quality makes it the
cheapest as well as the best soap for con-
sumers. 6-23d3m
NEVER SAW THEIR EQUAL-The editor
| Wis Corant says I'VE do not hest
tate to recommend DR.. Prices Cream
Baking Powder and Special Flavorings
We use none other in our family, and
they more than meet our expectations.
Knowing these articles to be of rare ex-
cellence, we have no hesitation in urging
every housekeeper in the land to give
them a trial, feeling satisfied that they will
indorse their claims for purity, strength
and quantity.
Year: 1873

A Bridgeport youth, being recently threat
ened with severe punishment if he did not
commit to memory two certain letters of the
alphabet, appeared at school next day with
those letters punched out, and triumphantly
demanded TO know how he was expected to
learn them.
Year: 1873

1t looks as though everything that has been
discovered in the civilized world within a
comparatively brief space Of time was known
to the Chinese thousands of years ago. 1t is
now stated that they have been using shad-
liver oil for centuries as a curative, and that
it is more efficacious than cod liver oil.
Year: 1873

The ladies of Springfield, VT, have formed
an association pledged to wear sensible style
of dress and not to adopt any new fashion un-
less it be an improvement ON the old one.
But since the fair sex invariably regards every
prevailing style as pre-eminently sensible and
every change of fashion as decided improve
question is materially to alter the existing Or
der of things.
Year: 1873

A Des Moines County farmer recently
bought new tangled harvesting machine,
thinking he would make quite saving in the
matter of wages during the harvest, On the
day following mis- purchase he sent his ldest
son out with the machine to experiment up
on the wheat crop. In few hours afterward
the old gent moved upon the scene of con-
flict, aud found his son upon the top of a tele-
s,sOI
bound and staked in the most approved man
ner, while in the distance. the horses and in
fernal machine were seen making for grove
of timber.
Year: 1873

FHNHE course of studies of this Academy embraces
Il the various branches of elementary training
and the higher ones of finished education.


The utmost care will DC taken TO cultivate in the
pupils those moral and religious principles which
alone render education valuable in after life.