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Year: 1871

tyranny Men cannot live without some
direction, and if they will not submit to
reasonable direction, they become very
soon involved in degrading slavery


This socialism, now fighting for SUI
premacy in Paris and other large towns
of France, and widespread through our
own and many other countries, reads,
however, a lesson TO our wealthy classes.
1t derives much Of its influence from the
sheer idleness and moral degradation Of
many persons of wealth, who seem to
think that they are born for nothing but
pleasure and sensual qualification. The
sight of this proyokes even some OF
the more reasonable of the sons of toll,
and makes them listen at times to wild
theories, 1t should be understood among
wealthy families, and innnleated into the
minds of children, that no man is born
| into this world to be a mere drone and
useless member of the community.
Wealth has its great responsibilities as
well as enjoyments. Every youth should
be trained to hard work in some direc-
tion, and should be taught that he must
be worker in life. 1t is especially 10
be condemned when men making high
profession of religion bring up their sons
to idleness and mere pleasure. They
are violating the first principles of re.
ligion, and doing great harm to the com
munity. If this socialistic folly ever
succeeds in overthrowing our modern
civilization, the result will be in no small
degree due to the abuse of wealth among
many, especially Of our upper-middle
classes. If it is to be kept far from our
shores, that rage for idleness and lux.
ury and appearances, which produces
such an amount of degrading wicked
ness, especially in large cities, must be
strenuously contended against. 1t helps
the work of social disorganization more
than all other influences put together.
Paris, the center of socialism, has been
hitherto the chief seat of luxurious idle
ness and its degrading accompaniments,
and the connection is easily understood.
Year: 1871

No matter who you are, what your lot,
OF where you live, you cannot afford to
do that which is wrong. The only way
to obtain happiness and pleasure and
peace for yourself is to do the right
thing. You may not always hit the
mark; but you should, nevertheless,
always aim fer il, and with every trial
your skill will increase. Whether you
are to be praised or blamed for it by
others; whether it will seemingly make
you richer OF poorer; OF whether no
other person than yourself knows Of your
action; still always, and in all cases, do
the right thing. Your first lessons in
this rule will sometimes seem hard ones,
but they viii grow easier aud easier, until
finally doing the right thing will become
habit and 10 do wrong viii seem an
impossibility.
Year: 1871

Darling! with the great brown eyes,
Brimming full of sweet surprise,
Fleecy floss of sun gold hair,
Drifting over temples fair,
The golden summer seems to me
Fuller of grace for knowing thee.
Where the solemn mountains stand.
We climbed together, hand in hand,
And in the summer Sunday smiled
On the old and little child;
One bowed low by weary strife
OF n long and wasted life,
And the other fresh and fair,
And pure as this delicious air.
Ripping laughter, soft and low,
Rises from the porch below,
Where fair brunette and lovely blonde
Have drawn a charmed circle fond
Of friends and lovers to their feet.
By winning smiles and voices sweet.
Many an aching heart may know
Sorrow and love together go;
But our love my baby friend!
Knows no sting or dreary end,
Perfect trust in true love lies
Mirrored in your lovely eyes.
Nothing in this wonderous view
Can compare, my pet with you;
Graceful ferns bend low to brush
Your cunning coat of bright blue plush;
Wide-eyed daisies envious stare
At the ones that kiss your hair.
Nodding from the graceful hrim af.
Of the saucy hat they trim.
Year: 1871

For simple neuralgia Of the face, or
any superficial ache, not depending upon
some organic cause, nothing will act so
effectnally as rubbing the oil of pepper


mint into the part The old man with
the gout will get relief from it. AS a
local anesthetic it viii give relief when
chloroform fails. / frequently put q
grain of morphine to drachm Of oil. -
DR.. Nicholson. f .i ht llag5 IH d.
Year: 1871

10 GbQs


Permit this statement of facts in
reply:


Mrs. Pomeroy never applied to B. 3.
Butler as above stated; never retained
him as counsel for any suit; never asked
his advice in any matter. On learning
that the writer Of this and the lady in
question had lived apart since 1861, he
wrote to her offering his services to act
as counsel in any matters she would re-
tain him for. To this letter from him
no attention was paid, the more as there
was no necessity for his aid or counsel,
as there is no truth in the statement
that the persons were in distress or need.


After living apart since 1861, agreeing
TO disagree, last year, at the suggestion
of friend of Mrs. Pomeroy, separa-
ton was agreed upon-a settlement of
$4,000 made for her benefit, and with
out litigation other than application in a
proper manner, decree of absolute
separation was granted BY the Court
each party retaining the full respect Of
their friends, without the aid, influence
or assistance Of B. F. Butler, or any
other medler in the affairs of most
estimable lady, who neither needs nor
asks the friendship Of such person, or
financial assistance from any quarter.


Respectfully yours,


M
Year: 1871

READ WHAT OTHERS SAY OF Us!


From spectator City we extract ss fol-
lows : The New England Mutual forth fitting
type OF what company should be regard
business Seeking rather reputation stability
and soundness than novel and promising
tried and unapproved features In underwriting conducting
the conpanys affairs with the strctest
only those proved by experience be the west
the directors of the company have succeeded In establishing
for reputation for reliability second other similar
ganzation in the country. Yet the degree Of
manifested In adoption Of every measure
company is conducted in fully in unison with
progressive spirit of the As regards dealings
policy holders companies liberal and hoDes


Tbe Of the New England Mutual is conducted In
the economical and able liberal
just its has uniform and extended
perfect reliability and safety the natural
upon OF such which should
great desidatum with company
instance eEceHed." 4N
For further particulars please call upon


CASTLE e COOKE,


do 3m Agents for the Hawaiian Islands
Year: 1871

Return OF the President-Excursion Of the


Twenty-third Regiment.


LONG BRANCH August 2, 1871
President Grant and son and General Porter ar
rived here this morning from Washington and pro-
ceeded to The Presidents cottage.


The Twenty-third regiment of Brooklyn will arrive
here tomorrow morning, and will stop At the Con-
tinenta Hotel. Their annual Dress parade will take
place on the lawn In the afternoon. and there Will
be grand ball at the Continental In the evening.
Year: 1871

Sr Every usn must be exposed to
temptation; he cannot learn the ways of
men without being witness to their vices.
If you attempt to preserve him from dan.
ger by keeping him out of the way Of IL.
You render him quite unfit for any style
Of life in which he may be placed. The
great poin; is not 10 turn him out too soon.
and give him bu; a pilot at 6rst
Year: 1871

THINGs THAT ARE VERY FooLIsH.--Foi
young man to think he does himself
credit by hanging round thea,er doors
smoking bad cigars and paying for ex
pensive oyster-suppers. IN order to b'
called liberal" by clique Of youth as
soft rs himself,


For a lady to be annoyed because
gentlemen do not always give the best
half OF the street and the incest seat IN
the omnibus She should not forget
that these conventional courtses are not
her right farther than they choose to
conce le them.


For an undedgcd clerk to think he
must buy cxtravagant gloves and cravats
for every festive occasion. because
Jones. whose father is worth thirty
thousand dollars, does so. The best
way OF proving his manhood would be
to let such things entirely alone--seli
denial is better than q fortune.


For a girl to think she is establishing
her character as a young lady OF fashion
by allowing her mother to toll through
all the drudgery OF the house, and then
investing her money in gaudy brooches
and artificial flowers


For man to suppose himelf gen
tleman. because he touches his hat to q
party ofsplcndidly dressed ladies, while
Year: 1871

And the respondent says that said Eve
thousand legal voters in said district were
prohibited and denied the right TO vote
by combination unjustly and illegally
formed by the memorialist for that purs
pose. with the view and purpose Of in.
suring his own electioi aud that Of said
five thousand voters three thousand and
seven hundred would have voted for the
respondent had they not been unjustly
and illegally denied the right to vote
through the instrumentality Of the me.
morialist


Wherefore the respondent asks that
his credentials may be received as primo
.fde,e evidence Of his election, and he be
sworn as sitting member from said dis
tict, and that all other matters and things
set forth and alleged in said memorial
and herein may be inquired into BY the
House, and final action taken after such
inquiry. JonN EDWARDS.


Washington, March Ii, 1871.
Year: 1871

ESCAPE OF IRWIN THE BURGLAR. Outside
friends aided Irwin the burglar to escape from
the Raymond street jalin New York. He
had by some means become possessed of an in
strument with which he tore out portion of
the plastering and lath work of the wall of the
retiring room, adjoining his cell, and made
hole about foot square, through which be
crowded into the adjoining debtors room,
which was unoccupied. He then proceeded to
the door leading to the corridor which, fortu-
nately for him, had been left unlocked, though
it had been fastened. Irwin would have ex.
perienced little or no trouble in making a hole
in the thin partition which separated the room
from the corridor. Once in the corridor, Ir-
win found it easy to escape. He quietly de-
scended the stairway to the lower corridor
within twenty feet OF the keepers rooms and
dozen feet from the front jail, and proceeding
along the corridor opened window and de-
scended another stairway and was in the Jail
yard. Then he coolly walked to the gate, pried
off the lock and staple and was a free man.
Year: 1871

WHY WOMEN ARE NOT STRoNG.-Miss
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, writing for the In
dependent, says:


When we consider what an intricate sys-
tenn of defiance to all known physiological
laws woman's dress mas become; the tender
lentless pressure of it upon the formative and
the recuperative energies of the constitution; ;
the murderous thnness and scantiness OF her
uuderdress the effect OF the absence of tian
nels and the custom of barring the neck and
arms, upon the sensitive tissues OF the lungs
and heart the check to all even circulation OF
the blood and healthy condition of the skin
inflicted by the imperfect and compressed COW
ering of her feet and hands; the unhealthy
heat of the head, consequent on the manner
in which custom requires her to collect her
hair into a wad of padding at the base of
the brain; the clasp of rack of steel and
whaleboHe about all the vital organs OF the
body; the straight-jacket snap with which
the seams OF her dress meet about her shoul-
ders, arms and chest the results inevitable
upon making the hips the pivot upon which
her heavy clothing is hing, and the fulcrum
npon which all the motion of her body must
swing in walking-if indeed, we apply that
term to the intantipe toddle with whch Wo-
men are driven to get about the Worlu ayoVe
all. the unreasonable and cruel custom WHICH
| compels her to drop heavy skirts ABOUT her


IU Iowar limbs and feet, thus endangering her


lisa on al occasions, her health on any but a


drv rv summer day, and her selfreliance iorev-


ar! ar! wben we consider the extent to which the
common occupations OF woman deprive her
of the open air, of exercise, of change of
acquaintance with the world; of the extent to
which they are adapted to produce all the va.
rieties of sedentary disease; when we consid.
er the unlimited influence of the mind upon
the body, OF happiness upon health, and the
brooding morbdness and acute suffering
which the lives of women SO largely induce In
shall we find it matter of surprise that
women as race are diseased and feeble, anG
Year: 1871

TROUBLE BREwING.-The recent inflam-
matory article in the New York Star calculat-
ed to induce the unpaid city laborers to riot,
and naming certain men as especial objects
for their wrath, was met by the Times with
this violent talk:


This (the Starr is the appropriate channel
through which the thieves of the Ring now
make fresh appeal to the mob. They, who
have more to fear from popular wrath than
any other men in the world, dare to set their
backs to stir up riot. The mcb are told by
miscreant in Sweeney's pay to meet at the
park, and at once proceed to attack the homes
of Mr.. George Jones and Mr.. L. j. Jennings,
names and addresses being carefully given.
OF course this is clear attempt to produce a
riot, and ii there were any law TO be had in
this city, and if the government were not a
mere name for a band of thieves, the vile
wretch who is the author Of the proclamation
would be indicted for the crime. 1t is un-
doubtedly the duty of the authorities to bring
the rnffian to justice-perhaps it is too much
to ask the Committee OF Seventy TO interfere.


While Sweeny's outcasts try to create riot
IN this city, and publish the addresses OF
houses which are first to be attacked, and
Garvin looks ON at such an outrage with a
smle-might it not be worth while for SweeDy
and his friends to consider whether they are
not letting loose power which will infallibly
sweep them away, whatever may become of
the Times managers, against whom he.directs
his mob to go to work? How much would it
take now to induce the public to sweep
Sweeny and all his gang out of the city !?
People who live over a powder magazine
should not go about dropping sparks. A
crowd of honest laboring men might reasoua-
bly, feel an interest in studying the garden
and mansion of the Boss, or the houses of
Peter B. Sweeny But we will not give the
addresses of those houses, because in that
kind of work Sweeny's felons had better be
allowed to enjoy monopoly.


They are determined to have riot, and
why not face it now as well as at any other
time? On such occasions as these nothing is
to be gained by concessions TO the rutfians-
on the contrary, everything is imperilled.


One word more as to the threats OF mob wi
olence, and it is a serious word: Let Hall and
Sweeney beware of going too far with such
threats. The temper of the great body of the
public is not favorable to these exhibitions.
At present they are waiting TO see whether or
not the Committee of Seventy can do any
thing for them. If they find that no help is
to Oe had from that quarter, they will be like
ly to seek for redress in some oiher-tQE they
lave sufcInnIy ueurucu get r1d OF Tweed
and all his crew. Now, one appeal from us,
such as Sweeny's jail-birds were instructed to
put forward yesterday, would bring the Ring
down in less than twenty-lour hours-but
Heaven forbid that there should be any neces-
sty for making that appeal.
Year: 1871

Among the prisoners in the PENNSYLVANIA
Western Penitentiary there is a young Ger
man suffering from that dreadful disease, hy-
drophobia. He is about twenty-eight years of
age, and was member of the Virginia cav
airy. In the spring of 1865, when near
Lyuchburg, his company wos ordered to sack
railway freight depot, when a large dog
Jumped upon him and bit him on the back of
the neck. K A comrade of 1.-The prisoner killed
the dog, and the man was taken to the hos
pital where the wound was dressed. Nine
days after this occurrence. the man was seiz-
ed with convulsions, and so violent did he be-
come that he soon alter was discharged from
the army and returned to his home. He had
oeen with his parents but short time when
MS father died, leaving him 5000 with
whlch to visit Europe and be treated for the
awful disease from which he was suffering.
Ihls, lie did, and under advice of several
Engsh doctors, to whom, in London. he
stated his case, be proceeded to Berlin where
ne was treated for about six months. At the
end OF TINS time, having gone through nearly
all his funds, he returned to America. and
ABOUT one year ago made his appearance in
Pittsburg. He had not been long in the citv
until he was arrested on charge of larceny
tried, found guilty,and sentenced to the West
ern Penitentiary.


Shortly after his incarceration he was seized
with coGvulsions and consigned to the hospi-
tai. A few days ago, while sitting on the
edge of bath tub in the hospital department,
dog which had found his way into the chap
ell adjoining suddenly began to bark, which
caused the man to fall into the bath tub in a
terrible fit. On getting out of the fit he
dropped upon bis hands and knees and began
to bark at his keepers; his eyes glaring and of
that brilliant appearance which the organs of
vision present in cases of insanity. Foam
ing at the mouth, he crept over to a pan con-
tanning water, and STOPPING down, Tapped it
up exactly after the manner OF dog. In this
condition he remained for some hours, pre-
senting most lrighttul appearance. Several
physicians have seen him, and all admit that
nothing so terrible ever came under their no
tice before. Their only wonder is how the
unfortunate man survives at all. The physi-
clan OF the institution entertains hopes of say.
ing the mans life, but they are very slight.
He has adopted new remedy known as
chloral hydrate, which he is of the opinion
has slightly improved the condition of the
sufferer.
Year: 1871

HUNTING Down A MILLIoNNAIRE.-The
following story is told by the San Francisco
Chronicle, of Meiggs, the great railway Prince
of Peru, who ran away in debt, from San
Francisco, some years ago:


Mrs. Josslyn is washerwoman, and works
very hard Tor her living. In the pamy days
OF Harry Meiggs she deposited With him no


less an amount than $500, and when Meiegs
and her money were gone, the time in which
woman could lay up so large a sum from
the profits of her business was gone also.
But she washed on, and kept her head above
water. Some two or three months ago she
read in the Overland Monthly, or some other
publication, of how much money her old
banker had made in South America by build
ing railroads, and with beautiful in human
nature, which cannot be too highly commend
ed, she embarked upon the Panama steamer
and wended her way to the sultry south,
where Meiggs holds sway. She sought the
millionaire in the gorgeous residence so
graphically described in the Overland and
presented her bank book and told her tale
Meiggs listened, and when she had finished
he handed her a check for the amount of the
deposit and interest from It's date to the time
of payment. She departed a wealthier and a
happier woman, and returned to San Fran
cisco, where she arrived by the last steamer.
Year: 1871

, He said he could not find it, and came
back with the firm conviction that there


was no such peril. Some time after the
shallow was actually found out, a report


was made to the Admiralty, and that


rock was marked as a point of danger on


the charts. The old captain ridiculed it,
and declared they might call him a'lubber'
if he did not take his ship rigat over the
spot on the first opportunity. Some two
years afterward he was taking the ambas-
sador to Naples, and while walking on The
deck the shipmaster pointed out the mark
of peril on the chart What - said he,
am [ to have this cast in my teeth on my
own ships deck He went down into the


cabin and said, with laugh, We have
Just passed the very spot. Just then,
crash, crash, went the ship upon the very
rock, the timbers we're reft, the seams
were opening. and but for extreme exer-
ton everybody would have perished; but
that old captain. the last that was seen of
him was Just the white hair that for a mo-
ment floated on the wave ere be went down
to be seen no more. He said there was no
rock. but he struck upon it and was ruin
ed. All thousands thought there was no
peril they said no mischief will come
but unbeief had ruined many besides that
poor old captain.
Year: 1871

We often indulge the wish that We
could have lived in the days Of Christ,
have seen Him and listened to Him, and
We are vain enough to think we should
have been meek and lowly disciples and
received his teachings with willing hearts
But human nature is the same now as
then, and we really have no reason to be.
lieve that we would have been any better
than the Jews 1t Is to be feared that
were Christ now on earth, lie would meet
with but a cold reception from many who
claim Him as their friend Are our
homes such as He would enjoy Should
we reQliy wish Him member of our
households


Did YOU ever try to imagine Jesus
Christ a guest in your house, as He used
to be in the house of Mary and Martha
and lazarus Did you ever think Of
Him as entering your doorway with a
pleasant word Of greeting, taking your
profTcrcd seat, and gathering the happy
group Of little ones, who know and love
Him dearly, about Him placing the
Youngest ou His knee, and folding His
arms around them all Did you ever
think Of Him a- sitting down at your ta-
bic and partaking Of your fare, intcvestil..
himself in all the little pursuits that right
ly demand your attention, and sweetly
drawing qour mind through them up To
the hand that overruies even the most
trifine concerns Would you like to
have Jesus thus make one of your number
at an times Would it be exactly agree
able to have Him by your side some morn
ing when your affairs had been particular
~ cutang.cd. when your servants mad been
especially provoNine. or your business
plans thwarted Would you be willing
TO 20 on with your accustomed eouversa-
ton IN the home circle, giving religion
Year: 1871

four minutes. Don't now, you are real
mean


How can man propose a lite part
nership to such a silly goose My dear
girls, you must. if you would get hus-
bands, ard decent ones, dress in plain
neat, and becoming garments and talk
like sensible, earnest sisters.


You say that most sensible men are era
zy after these butterflies of fashion.
beg your pardon, it is not 50. Occasional
ly man of brilliant success may marry a
silly. weak woman but to say, as have
heard women say more than hundred
times, that the most sensible men choose
women without sense, is simply absurd.
Nineteen times in twenty, sensible men
choose sensible women. | grant you that
in company they are very likely to chat
and toy with those over-dressed and for
ward creatures, but they don't ask them
to 20 to the altar with them.


Fourthly Among the young men in
the matrimonial market only very small
number are independently rich, and in
America such very rarely make good hus-
bands. But the number of those who are
Just beginning in life, who are filled with
a noble ambition, who have future, is
very large. These are worth having. But
such viii not, they dare not, ask you to
join them while they see you so idle, silly
and gorgeously attired. Let them see
that you are industrious, economical, with
habits that secure health and strength,
that your life is earnest and real, that you
would be wiling to begin at the beginning
in life with the man you would consent to
marry; then marriage becomes the rule
and not. as now. the exception.