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Year: 1873

There is now and then persor
SO stupid as to believe that adver


tisements in the newspapers are
not generally read, and that mon
ey expended in advertising il
practically wasted. Even such
will concede that if a hundred
men of polite address, Of fluent
speech and wit, were to call upon a
hundred people and get the ears
of each long enough 10 say John
Smith, or Jones, or Thompson, at
such i place, has such and such
prices, or would sell a farm or
house and lot, or had lost horse
or pocket book, or would loan
money, etc. say such men
will concede that the services of
this hundred men would be Of
great value to Smith or Jones, and
in some manner advantageous to
whom this statement is made.
This one hundred men could not
be hmploped to go from door to
door, and make this statement to
ten thousand people, at less than
a cost of several hundred dollars
each trip. All this is done by the
newspaper ct the cost of efew
dimes, or a few dollars at most, and
are made week after week and
day after day. The messenger
who travels addresses the party
to ear, and takes the party ad-
dressed when be may have his
thoughts absorbed in business or
other matters; but the newspa,
per reaches the party sought
thrugh the eye, when the reader
has his thoughts solely fixed upon
the paper before him.


But those who affect to believe
there is little in use in advertising
urge as an objection that the ad-
yertiSements are not read. They
can easly be convinced of their
error in this respect by making
inquiry. Let them insert an ad-
vertisement Offering to purchase
some article that is tolerable plen-
ty in market, ard they will be
flooded with offers to sell before
the ink of the advertisement is
dry. An enterprising weekly that
has a circulation of thousand
copies, is in a position to do the
village merchant great good, and
for which as a rule, the publisher
does not get one fourth of what
he justly deserves. Ia its sphere,
the weekly is of quite as much
service to the advertiser as is the
daily, and 7often enjoys the privi-
lege Of being the exclusive family
visitor, a privilege the daily sell
dom has, alg oe il
Year: 1873

SSNr~re~~N>>~sNSrseSN~cS cSeS~SNSrSNeSNSrSNNNGNe
just Stop and Think


Awhile.
When forth upon the side of life,


You go in manhood's prime,
To battle with its care and strife,


Its error and its crime,
Full many traitor vaice will call,


Full many a syren smile;
Yet ere thou yield thee to their thraIl,
. Just stop and think awhile >1fia
Should e'er the tempter bid you speed,


Where wine and revel flow,
That fire the brain to many deed


OK dark and lasting woe .
Ere you have stained your heart your soul,
Or mingled with the vile
Beyond all hope-beyond control
just stop and think awhile.
Let not the scofier shake thy trust,


In ought that is Divine;
Why should feeble worm of dust,


Dash out that hope Of thine,
Who knows not cen himself and IS
with his own guile? -t1
Before thou lean on arn like his,
Just stop and think awhile. ~
Before you do one single act,
Contemplate or mean,
Which will, in after years, detract


From your fair fame we ween--
Before you speak one word, or write
One line which may defile
The heart, and turn it from the right
Just stop and think while.
How much Of good might here be done,
If we would only try,
How many erring might be won,


Whom we pass sanity by!
How mightthe waves of light be blest
With many sunny isle.
By our kind care and culture dressed
Just stop and think while.
Year: 1873

There were two seats In the car
turned SO sto face each other. One
was occupied by a lady and the
other by a Chinaman. Evidently
the lady didn't relish the presence
of the Chinaman. She explained
that she wished to take the cush.
ions and their frames and place
them lengthwise across from seat
TO seat. John said all rightee,
: and got ont in the%aisle, and she
proceeded.to lie down on the bed
thus improvised, with her head
resting on her valise. She sup
posed that the Chinaman would
take the hint that the lady wanted
to rest in the space usually occu,
pied by four persons. But John
at once proceeded to crawl in and
stretched himself by her side, with
his head on a little bundle of his
own. The Chinese are an imita-
tive race, and like to do as Others
do, you know. The lady, as soon
as she discovered that she had a
bedfellow, got up little wildly,
and started for the next car, to the
infinite amusement of the paSsen.
gers who had been watching the
scene with some interest. John
took no notice of the fun he had
created, but went to sleep with
the whole bed to himself.
Year: 1873

An exceedingly eccentric man
has just died at Hinesburg, Vt
in the person of Augustus Nc
Even, aged eighty-four. He bad
his grave dug twenty years ago,
and stoned up and filed with
earth, that it might be in perfect
condition whenever needed. Last
fall he had the earth dug out of
it, saying he expected to be laid
there before winter was over.
His coffin was in readiness seven
years ag, and arranged SO that be
could lie on his side with his
knees drawn up, as he said he
slept in this position in life and
wanted to sleep go in death. All
bis plans for the funeral were
made in advance. and among the
rest he selected four colored boys
who had worked for him more or
less, as had their father before
them, us pail bearers. They
were to carry the body to the
grave, which was on his own farm,
lower it to its last resting place,
fiil 1.-THE grave with earth, and
then ! walk. back to the house,
where they were to find each a
letter, sealed and directed to.them,
in which was the money to pay
for this last service which he had
required Of them. His friends
TOOK care to carry out mis- peculiar
wishes.
Year: 1873

A Clinton, New York, student
found himself largely in debt at
the end of the term, SO he packed
his clothes in barrel and sent
them a far as Utica by canal boat.
He then filled his trunk with hay,
and his creditors levied an execu-
ton upon it at the depot The
student looked on with grim salts
| faction.
Year: 1873

A young man in Boston
caused a photographer to jump
out of fifth story window the
day, merely because the former
had fixed up his face with water
colors to represent bad case OF
smallpox, which he wanted pho
tographed to send home to a
girl from whom he wished to
sever his acquaintance.
Year: 1873

40, orling to the English law Of
| liVOrcc, u man can obtain divorce
from his wife on the ground of her
adultery, but woman cannot procure


such relief on this ground alone. BY
proving her husbands infidelity she


can procure what Is called II "judicial


SeparatiOn,p Dut TO obtain divorce she


must prove cruelty or desertion us well


as adultery on the husbands part. A


ease curiously illustrative of these dis


tlnctions came, not long since, before


the Divorce Court. In November,


lS6N, II wife had instituted Il suit for a
Judicial scparat, o on the ground ofthe


husbands adultery, and in that suit she


obtained decree. In the course of


last year she instituted Il suit for the dis


solution OF her marriage on the ground
of cruelty committed by her husband
p 'evious to the institution of the
former suit, and of his subsequent
adultery. Both the adultery and
cruelty were proved, but it was
argued by the Attorney General that
the wife knowing of the cru
city, and having failed to il
corporate it in the first suit, she was
not now entitled to fall back upon it,
and that she was not, in consequence,
entitled to decree of dissolution. The
Wite's statement was, that when she
Instituted the first suit she did not
wish dissolution of her marriage;
that she loved her husband, and i'm the
hope that he would reform and amend
his ways, she was anxious to leave the
door open to enable him to return to
her. The Judge said that he considered
the conducbof the wife ofa very meri-
torious character, and unless there was
some general principle of law which
stood between her and the relief she
sought, he thought she was entitled to
1t. He could find no such principle in
existence and he pronounced decree
n>i IN favor of the wife. \ "decree
nisi' means decree of divorce, unless
some very sufficient cause to the con-
Lrary be shown within six months, in
default of which the ''decree nisi" be-
comes n decree absolute.
Year: 1873

Recently we Il .,tioned the
Importance of ouf prairie farm ers
planting timber. Until u stock law


hall be put in force, keeping all live
domestic animals inside Of pastures,
we are well aware it is not practicable
to plant seed, and rear trees outside to
any great extent. But in the mean
time, suppose that every farmer shall
grow o pecan tree Oh each ten or fifteen
feet inside OF his fsAeD. The number
would he considerable, cost no labor,
and in five to six years the nuts would
begin to be q source of revenue. 1t is
well-knnwn that this delicious nut,
when borne by trees in the prairie and
ON uplands, is greatly superior to those
grown in timbered bottom lands. Thus
planted they beautify the farm, afford
pleasant shade to the weary farmer,
and serve rs great protection to corn
and wheat against the prevalent sum
mer winds.


So soon Us live stock shall be kept i'll
enclosures, then timber may he sue
cessfully grown, merely by planting the
seed anywhere on our prairies The
increase of timber also gradually tends
to shorten summer drouths.


Pecan, black walnut and bois dare
are all of rapid growth, and In fifteen
to twenty years become valuable for
the wood. The two former are valua-
bic for their nuts Experienced work
men here say the walnut of this sec
ton is-the finest they have ever seen,
and polishes like mahogany.
Year: 1873




THE frequent evidences of incen-
>diarism in Dallas of late, is sufficient
to arouse general attention. In all of
life we have never advocated or
participated in mob or lynch law, but
we say TO those floating wretches who
are hanging around this town and try
ing to burn houses, if you are caught
expect no mercy.


The wretch who will apply the torch
in the dark hours of the night, while
honest men sleep, endangering the
lives Of women and children, and
bringing distress OH innocent people,
is too base to live-too vile TO breathe
the air in common with peaceful
community. We now admonish all
such that, if caught, they may expect a
through ticket to another country,
costing only about two bits worth of
rope. They had better migrate to
Hindoostan, where the art of hanging
is unknown.
Year: 1873

Never in the history of this country
has panic occurred in financial mat
tiers that has carried with il the same
amount of ruin as the one through
which we are now passing. The end
Of the trouble is not yet reached, nor is
it in the power of any one 10 say
when it will cease, or to name the time
when such a consummation, most
devoutly to be wished for, will arrive.
The mere fact that few isolated
banks have been able to resume their
payments, after temporary suspen-
Year: 1873

cerely wish that Mr. Dudley Field may sue
ceed in his elaborate and modest enterprise of
driving out of the human heart all malicious
propensities and in substituting therefor
equity, justice and international forgiveness.


But as men, rather as nations, are constituted
we believe that it will take longer than several
weeks to accomplish all that he has farmcd
out for the philanthropic gentlemen who
gather at Brussels. No doubt war is very
disagreeable expedient, very cruel one in any
event. but it seems to us that in order to sue
Year: 1873

A LARGE HAuL.-The government detectives
and marshals, after q five months survey of
the field, have finally run to earth and cap
tured large number of counterfeiters of
United States currency in Eastern Tennessee
and the western part of North Carolina
These gentlemen have been actively plying
their trade, especially since the panic has
caused scarcity Of greenbacks. Less
scrupulous than Secretary Richardson in
issuing their reserves, they'have been moro
ready than the Secretary to do all in their
power for the relief Of the money stringency.
Their financial policy has, however, now come
to grief.
Year: 1873

cessfully brand and abolish 1t as an effete in
stitution power somewhat greater than that
developed by the New York attorney is neces-
sary to shake the military systems Of Europe.
We say nothing of the humanity of Mr. Fields
philosophy; neither do we complain of his
code We simply note an ephemeral obstacle to
its immediate adoption which we have no
doubt will tumble over whenever the great
peace statesman shall say presto!
Year: 1873

AN IMPENDING REVOLUTION IN HAYr1 is the
latest news from that country. The political
atmosphere there is gloomy; financial crisis
is apprehended in consequence Of the govern
ment calling in its paper currency at the rate
of one dollar in specie for three hundred dol
lars in paper. The people do not like this
sort Of redemption, general discomfort pre-
walls among them and they are arming for a
fight. The next news from Port au Prince
may bring to US the clash Of resoundng arms.
We can only say that this intelligence from
Hayti is what we have been expecting from
that quarter for some time.
Year: 1873

THE GUBERNAToRIAL CONTEST IN VIRGINIA
A STRANGE DILEMMA. Within fortnight or
so of the election it appears to have been dis
covered that Hughes, the republican candidate
In Virginia for Governor, is disfranchised in
having been concerned in duel since the
adoption of the present State constitution. II
this charge shall be established Hughes may
be counted among the dead men. In any
event the probabilities appear to be against
him
Year: 1873

The following record will show the changes in
the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in
comparison with the corresponding day OF last
year. as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's
Pharmacy HERALD Buidng:-
Year: 1873

WHAT BUSTER DID.-Buster, an in
genious youth of four, went out to look
at street contractor one day last week.
The man set up boulders in the gutter,
and sprinkled sand over them, then an
other man took his driver and pounded
them down solidly. You may remember
that it rained on Saturday. Buster was
confined to the house. lie was driven to
distraction, nearly, by his labors in keep
ing the maternal parent out of mischief
during the day. Towards evening the
maternal parent went to take little nap
leaving Buster at liberty. That rising
young engineer then went to the store
room, with his fathers best beaver, and
gathered up six or seven dozen eggs. He
set these all up nicely on the parlor car
pet, as he had seen the man do with the
boulders, making tolerably straight
gutter from the left fore leg of the piano,
along the edge Of the rug, through the
curiosites and knick-knacks which had
been piled up by the maid when she
busted in the morning. Buster then
went back and filed the hat with corn
meal, which he sprinkled over the eggs,
as the man sprinkled sand over The boul-
ders.


Then he pulled off his velvet jacket
and laid it down on the edge of the gut
ter, and looked around for something
that would do for driver. His busi-
ness-like glance fell upon roll of valua-
pictures, brought from Europe on a sub
stantial wooden roller, which seemed to
be about the thing desired. Probably
there was never another job of civil en-
gineering such as Buster made of that
amateur gutter in about three minutes.


That night there were two things want
ed by the house of Buster. Firstly, Mrs.
Buster wanted to hear of some prepara-
ton that would remove battered eggs
and corn meal from carpet rugs, piano
legs, velvet clothes, pictures, shellwork,
japanese tops, Indian curiosities, mosa-
les, wood carvings from Nurembear, In
terlachen and thousand or two other
articles of bigotry and virtue. Secondly,
Master Buster would like to know what
will remove or milify :he effects of sud-
den and violent percussion, rapidly and
pertnaciously developed in that direction
which General Scott left unprotected
when he went to Mexico.
Year: 1873

A BEAUTIFUL DOMESTIC SCENE" l
have read" says the author of recent
work, "a beautiful Illustration of this
point A lady travelling in Europe Wis
tied, with her brother, town in Ger
many, and took lodgings with a remark
able couple, an aged man and woman.
They were husband and wife. They
lived by themselves without child or SER
want, subsisting upon the rent accruing
from the lease of their parlor and two
sleeping rooms. The lady, in giving an
account of the persons, says: : When
we knocked at the door for admittance
the two persons answered the knock to-
gether. When we rang the bell in our
rooms the husband and wife invariably
came, side by side. And our requests
were received by both and executed with
the utmost nicely and exactness. The
first night, having arrived late by the
coach, and merely requiring a good fire
at our tea, we were puzzled to understand
the reason of this double attendance


"When the time to retire came, the lady
was surprised to see both husband and
wife attending her to her chamber, and,
on looking with some seriousness toward
the husband, the wife, noticing her en-
barassment, said to her, No offence is
intended, madam my husband is stone
blind The lady began to sympa:hize
with the aged matron on the great mis-
fortune of having husband quite blind
The blind man exclaimed: II is use
less tor you, madam, to speak to my
wife, for she is entirely deaf, and hears
not word you say Says the lady
boarder, Here is an exemplifcation of the
divine law of compensation. Could a
a pair be better matshed?" They were
indeed one flesh. He saw through her
eyes, and she heard through his ears.
Ever after it was interesting to me to
watch the aged man and his aged partner
in their inscparableness. The sympathy
for each other was as swift as electricity,
and this made their deprivation as moth
inp'u
Year: 1873

AN INDIAN LEGEND.-A new Indian
Agency between Grand River and Fort
Rice, called Standing Rock, derives its
name from large boulder standing out
alone upon the prairie about three miles
from the river. There is a strange Indian
superstition connected with this rock, and
the Sioux City, Iowa, journal thus tells
it: We made visit to X short time
since in company with Major Palmer,
the agent at that Agency, who told us the
legend of the reds regarding it. Many
years ago a powerful band of Indians
made that section their stamping grounds.
The chief of the band deserted his old
wife for young squaw. This so grieved
the old Queen that she went back from
the river, and sat upon the ground and
mourned for several days. Upon the
ninth day of her grief she turned into
this large boulder. The Indians at that
agency all believe this story to this day,
and worship the boulder as a god. The
rock has been decorated with ribbons,
pieces of red flannel, and every high
colored piece of cloth they have been
able to get hold Of since time out of mind.
These decorations are replaced as often
as they become decayed or blown away
by the winds. At the time of our visit
it was trimmed in the most gorgeous trap
pings imaginable. Every portion of it
was covered with either ribbons and rags
or paint. Within few inches of the
sacred stone is pail of water, which is
never allowed to become empty, for it is
the belief of those ignorant people that
the old Queen of their ancestors frequently
assumes the form of a squaw and drinks
the water. In former years she drank
much more than at present, they say
but that is easily explained. There was
more game there, which, in wandering
to the pail, drank the water. To disturb
this bucket or any portion of the trim
mings of the petrifed squaw is considered
great offense against the Great Spirit,
and is punishable by death"
Year: 1873

Gods hand had taken away the seal
That held the portals of her speech:
And oft she said few strange words
Whose meaning lay beyond our reach
She never was child to us:


We never hold her beings kcy;
We could not teach holy thing;


She was Christ's self in purity.
Year: 1873

Have you not heard the poets tell
How came the dainty Babie Bellc


Into this world of oursS
The gates of heaven were left ajar:
With folded hands and dreamy eyes,
Wandering out of Paradise,
She Saw this planet, like star


Hung in the glistcning depth of oven
Its bridges running to and fro,
0'er which tho whito winged angels go,
Bearing the holy Dead to heaven;
Sho touched bridge OF aowers-those feet
So light they did not bond the bells
OF the celestial asphodels !
They fell like dew upon the flowers.
Then all the mir grew strangely sweet,
And thus came dainty Babie Belle
Into this world of ours.
Year: 1873

She came and brought delicious May,
The swallows built beneath the caves
Like sunlight in and out the leaves,
The robin went the livelong day;


The lily swung its noiseless bell,
And o'er the porch the trembling vino
Seemed bursting with its veins of wine;
How sweetly, softly, twilight fell
o, earth was full of singing birds,


And opening spring tide flowers,
Whom the dainty Babio Belle


Came to this world of ours
Year: 1873

SECOND SEMI-ANEUAL STATEMENT or THE
MUTUAL NATIONAL BANK OF New Or
LEANS We take peculiar pride in direct
Sng the attention of our readers to the
above named document, which vii! be
found in another co,umn of our paper this
morning: 1t shows degree of success
during the six months ending on the thirty
first ultino, which, when the dullness which
prevailed during that period i. considered,


s truly remarkable. and reflects the high
est credit upon the management of the in
stitutiOn and upon the principles upon
which i Is conducted. The people of New
Orleans have always had just pride in
their banking institutions, and We feel as
sured that in this One in particular they
viii point with extra pleasure. We con
gratulate the stockholders in six and half
per cent, and the depositors in their one
and half per cent dividends.
Year: 1873

In yesterday mornings Associated Pres s
dispatches was report of remarks alleged
to have been made by President Grant as
to Louisiana affairs.


We doubted the correctness OF that re-
port, and our doubts are confirmed by an
Associated Press dispatch from Washin gton
last night, in which this sentence oec 1rs:
Every opportunity has been given to lnod-
ify last nights dispatch in regard to Lou is
lana matters"


The meaning Of this is that the President
has not taken the trouble to deny the truth
of the dispatch. Such are the mean
adopted by the Associated Press to confirm
its own loose statements
Year: 1873

In sho local department Of this mornings 8
REPUBLICAs a graphic report appears of
the exploits of desperate burglar last
evening, who seriously injured an officer
with his murderous jimmy and bit Rose
Hamilton's head with stray ball from one
of three revolvers he discharged. The re-
port shows the romance Of reality.
Year: 1873

went and came by stage, and this was
the "usual route,n and by this route
the distance was only 120 miles, at
fathest. He says "we gave the
committee our mileage by the stage
route,n showing that he knew this
was right, as he travelled BY stage.
Then the judiciary committee ''de-
cided that members were entitled to
mileage by rail-" That is, men,
Der living due west or north from
Iowa City, was entitled to mileage
by rail through Illinois, though the
constitution said by the "usual route
\ man even so dull as Clark knew
that this involved dishonor as vio-
lation of the consti tuition and as per-
jury. The committee gave him the
steal and he did pocket it, and now
.ustifies it and says it was right, and
his party, by keeping him upon the
ticket, iustifies him and says he did
right. The committee tempted him
and he fell. Adam made the eX-
cuse: "The woman whom thou
gavest to be with me, she gave me
Of the tree and / did eat"


Mr.. Ciark's confession and apology
will be found in another column this
week. Let him by his confessions
be tried. He has sinned, and has not
repented; shall he be cast cut or be
exalted? Are those who uphold
him any better than he? low far
can all their professions Of honesty
be trusted white they thus reward
dishonor? Shall they not be known
by their fruits-their acts? What
do they mean by reform? They pre-
tend to want men in the Legislature
who cannot be bought. They say
that Republicans will not discharge
and punish wrong doerS in Office.
Let them set us an example, now
that they have an opportunity. 1t
is not too late yet. Let them with
draw Green +. from their ticket, and
we will think they mean what they
say.