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Year: 1873

The AUTUMN OF LIFE-It is the solemn
thought connected with middle life, that
lite's last business is begun in earnest, and
it is then, midway between the cradle and
the grave, that man begins to marvel
that he let the days of his youth 90 by so
half enjoyed. 1t is the pensive autumn
feeling, it is the sensation of half sadness
that we experience when the longest day
of the year is passed, and every day that
follows is shorter, and the light fainter,
and the feebler shadows tell that nature is
Fastening with gigantic footsteps to her
winter grave. So does man look back
upon his youth. When the first gray
hairs becomes visible, when the unwelcome
truth tastens itself upon the mind that
man is no longer going up hill but down,
and that the sun is always westerning, he
looks back on things behind. When we
were children We thought as children.
But now there lies before US manhood with
its earnest work, and then the old age, and
then the grave, and then home There is
a second youth for man, better and holier
than his first, if he will look on, and not
look back.-W. Robertson.
Year: 1873

THE TRUNDLE BED.-The balmiest sleep
we ever experienced was when we were
nesting in the old trundle bed, with a
curly headed brother just turned out of
the parents nest to make room for new
customer. But trundle bed dreams were
soon at an end, for when the next custo-
mer came we were crowded out of the
trun1le bed to make room for the next that
was turned out of the parent nest, and so
they kept alternating for years until we
were turned out into the wide world. Oh .
where are the little heads that We have
kissed a thousand times DER as they nest
led in the old trundle bed Some of them
have grown old and gray, and others are
resting upon their everlasting pillows in
widely separated lands. We are always
sad when we think of the old trundlt
bed.
Year: 1873

The HUM)Rs OF MovfNG-The first
Sunday 10 the new house is notable
day. Toere is an entire absence of old
land marks, aud strange, weird new
ness on everything, AMI you can't fai
your shaving soap. You start for a
scuttle of c3al, but you don't see the
scuttle. 1t Is in the bottom of a barrel
in the garret You take the dripping pla.
When you change your shirt you LOOK for
it first. 1t is in one of the bureau draw
ers, which are piled upon another in the
paror, and you find you have got to lit
a half ton of carpets and feather-beds be-
fore you can get down to the drawers.
After you have lifted them down and
searched them through, it is re nembered
by your wife thta the desired garment is
in one of the barrels-the one in the shed,
she thinks, although it may be the one
in the garrett, and yet it woutd be just
like the stupid carman to have carried
ta at barrel down cellar. A bel-quilt
comes out first, then picture, next a
piece of cold ham, neatly done up in your
vest and packed away in the missing scat-
tie.


Below is an assortment of iron ware
and length of stove-pipe, half loaf
of bread, a couple of towels, and roll
ing-pin. You begin to expect you will
eventually come upon coil-mne. and
perhaps some dead friend. Then you 60
down in that barrel again, and come up
with pleasing assortment of stockings
and half emptied medicine bottles. The
way you come up this time leads you to
consider that barrel itself. 1t mas caught
in the back of your vest, and made the
cloth let 90 it took off one half Of one
sleeve, and created a sensation on the
back of your head as if bonfire had
ragged there. 1t is quite evident the coop
er who built that blrrel Was called away
before he commenced to clinch the nails
You involuntarily grasp the rolling pin,
and look aronnd as if you had expected
to see him. Then you call the girl to
re-pack the barrel, and start up stairs to
look after something that is eaiser to find,
but finally change your mind, and pass
the balance of the day in digging carpet
tacks and worthless wood from the palms
of your feet. and concocting lies about the
wealth of your uncle ; aad the moon looks
though the window at night, and touches
up with blow OF FURNISHED silver sew
eral lengths of stove pipe, a half dozen
odd chairs, sheet of dingy zinc, and a
barrel with bed-quilts foaming over the
top.-Danbury Ners.
Year: 1873

The earth is nothing but flowers and grass;
The sky is light, and the wave its glass:
will make part of the shadowless whole,
And be body without soul.
leave the troublesome creature bound
By hopes and fears that hedge it round;
So may 1 look, for single day,
To live unhindered the life of May;
To spring into bloom from the clover root
To feel the sap in the young leaf shoot;
To hive my honey, to spread my wing;
To work or idle at any thing;
To slide with the fly on the waters face,
And swim with the fish that follows chase:
To feel myself once more at one
With all the life that is under the sun
But what is signing about the spot?
What sound of wind where wind is not?-
Poor wretch pursued by all thy cares,
Hast stolen after me unawares?
Go, get thee back, kind soul, pray!
Sad or merry another day,


l ask for only these few short hours
To grow in the light like grass and flowers.
But still the poor soul, all undone,
Sishs and shivers beneath the sun
l cannot bear the pitful pain
The homeless creature must come again.
Alas the time when | could lie


AS free from thought as the open sky
Is never for me henceforth, trow:


Soul, we must comfort each other now
KATE PUTNAM OsGOoD, in Rarpers Mrgaz
TOR July.
Year: 1873

Use THE NAKED EDGE. Robert Hall
says: Ii L were upon trial for my life.
and my advocate should amuse the jury
with his tropes and figures, burying nus
arguments beneath a profusion of the
flowers of rhetoric, L would say to hun,
s Tut, man. you are more for your vanity
than for my hanging. Pat yourself in
my place, speak in view of the gallows,
aud you will tell your story plainly and
earnestly" l have no objection to
lady's winling sword with ribbons and
studding it with roses when she presents it
to her lover, but in the day of battle he
will tear away the ornament and use the
naked edge"
Year: 1873

A wasp with yellow hustle is no in
significant agent in dispensing crowd
but nervous woman making through
crowd for the cars, with vslise 10 ono
ha nd and an umbrella in the other, is
about as appalling an object as the human
mind can conceive and maintain its BAL
ance.
Year: 1873

Working of the optional system at Dart
mouth Calculus and Greek are optiona
during part of the course. The following
extract from the first recitation of Ger
tain class in Calculus is instanced


Professor" H., what is the object Of
studying Calculus 2"


r. To get rid of Greek. sir"
Year: 1873

That LooK.-There was on board one
Of our naval ships during the war, sal
lor who was a marked man on account of
his peculiar department. When all the
othor sailors crowded up to the grog-tub
Year: 1873

The great trouble is that we do not get
money enough for our meat. The con-
sumers in our cities have to pay money
enough for it, but the money does not seem
to 1nd its way into the farmerS pockets
II want q beefsteak, the butcher viii
charge me eighteen cents pound for 1t.
and it is not unfrequently very poor stuff
at that. Ii l want to sell carcass OF
beef should probably get no more than
seven cents pound


do not say that the butchers make ex-
orbitant profits. One would think there
is competition enough TO prevent this. /
suppose one trouble is that our beef Is not
so good as it should be. There is too
much bone, tallow, and inferior parts of
the carcass in proportion to the choice
cuts. We want better bred animals.


One of my neighbors has thirty. two
year old steers. Il am overstocked," said
he, land l want to sell them, and all that
those rascally butchers will offer me is
S35 per head" presume they offer him
about what they are worth to kill. But
why kill them9 To make them into really
good beef they want twelve months Of
really good feeding. Many farmers In
this section seem to have come to the con-
clusion that it does not pay to feed cattle,
and are selling off everything that the
butchers will take. The consequence is
that the meat market is flooded with irfe-
rior beef that must be sold at low price,
and is dear at that. 1t seems to me that
those who have good young animals
should hold on to them, and give them
good feed. But i'll bred, inferior animals
may as well be sold as not. It is impos-
sible to fatten them in winter or keep them
over to good advantage. e.-An,erscan Ag-
,tculturist. .
Year: 1873

This Indian reserve will quite likely be reduced in accordance with the terms of the legislative memorial so as to exclude the Pueblo Viejo valley and settlement thereon. Delegate Mccormick writes, on March 9, as follows to Gov. Stafford:

 I received the copies of memorial concerning the White Mountain In dian reservation several days after Congress adjourned. To-day I re- ceived from General Crook, a copy of "a letter to Dr. Lord, approving the memorial I think the reduction can be brought about without the action of Congress, and 1 will do what 1 can to cure it. Gen. Howard, with whom I had a long talk yesterday, |said he thought there could be no ob- lection to it, and I think I can get him to recommend 1t.

 We surely trust Gov. Mccormick will succeed in this matter, and we are convinced if any one man can eff feet it, he will We are glad to note Gen. Towards readiness to assist, for it is always much more to our mind to compliment man for good works than to properly criticise him for the other kind.
Year: 1873

ORGANIZATION FOR THE RELIEF or THE DEsTI-


TUTE.


To 1te Editor of he Commercial:


With your accustomed zeal for the public good,
you have kindly called attention to the necessi-
ty for organized means to relieve the destitution
prevailing, and likely to prevail in our midst.
Certainly something should be done, and done
at once. Can not our citizens generally be en-
listed in this very necessary aud oommendable
enterprise Will not some prominent citizens
call public meeting at an early day for the pur-
pose of discussing and determining suitable
measures The need for such a step is painful
ly apparent. CITIZEN.
Year: 1873

THE HouDoN STATuE,-The joint commit
tee of the two Houses of the General As
semblv met yesterday morning in the Libra
ry, Senator Anderson of Pittsylvania pre-
siding. After an interchange of opinions,
House branch Of the committee, was in
structed to report to his body to-day joint
resolution appropriatiDg $1,000 for the erec-
ton of structure OH Capitol Square
that will protect this splendid work of art
from the weather and secure it against loss
by fire. The joint resolution provides that
the money shall be expended by u commits
sion consisting of the Governor, the Presi-
dent of the Senate, and the Speaker of the
House of Delegates. In the mean while it
Is proposed to store away the statue in a fire.
proof building.
Year: 1873

THE RIcHNoND BUILDING AND IMPROVEMENT
COMPANY bill passed the Senate yesterday.
ITS object is "to purchase or sell vacant or
unimproved lots and lands in eight miles Of
Richmond; to cheaper rents to citizens Of
Richmond and vicinity by erecting thereon
dwellings or other Improvements and selling
or renting them; and the company may also
lay off and beautify public squares or parks"


It will doubtless pass the House in the
form In which IL goes from the Senate, and
we shall soon have this company at work
carrying out its designs Of city improve,
'ments and cheap rents. The bill received
the hearty approval and support of many
senators from the rural districts.
Year: 1873

The FIRE LAST NleHT.--Just before Il
o'clock last night an alarm of fire was
turned in at Box No. 16, corner Pine and
Main streets. The firemen FASTENED to the
box, and simultaneously with turning In the
alarm bright light was seen in the upper


end Of Manchester, apparently In line with
the continuation of Ninth street. The fire
continued to burn brightly until past 1
O'Clock, but at so late an hour it was impos-
sible to learn further particulars. Suffice 1t to
say there was no fire int the Deighborhood of
the box from which the, alarm was sounded.
Year: 1873

ABOUT TO DEPART Captain Barbee Of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Co, arrived in town, O.
day, for the steamer Acap,tieO which he will
convey to New York She will there receive her
machinery preparatory to service in the line
She will be towed to New York by the tug Mary
Hogan.
Year: 1873

The sure and speedy punishment OF


crime is the only safety that society has


against its rapid gro Nth, and the fact that


justice has been slow in this city to bring


criminals TO trial and punishment will &C.


count for the boldness and rapidity that
have marked the course of crime IN our


midst. Almost every day our people are


startled with an account Of horrid mur-


der, or a desperate attempt of a daring


burglar to enter, under cover Of night,


the residence Of some citizen. Murder,
arson and burglary have met with such
uncertain punishment here that the muir
derer, the house-burner and house.
breaker. are tempted to follow daily and
nightly their hellish work. Now, until
our people have determined to punish
crime speedily it will continue to grow
and become more bold Our prisons are
filed with men who should long since
have been hung OF found felon's home
in the State Penitentiary.


WV AA1Ay yS0@0 06S sSAA SA~ "N>>>S~~>
was foully murdered in her bed at
night, and her house robbed by two men
named Earle and Garvey. They have
long since been adjudged guilty by q jury
Of their countrymen, and yet through
some strange and, 10 the people, unac-
countable maneuvering in the course of
justice, these men are still permitted to
live and defy the gallows. But they are
not the only ones who are successfully
evading justice, and thus encouraging the
daily and nightly perpetration of the very
worst species Of crime. And until our
Criminal Court and people e-and We in
clude among them the lawyers-determine
that crime shall be punished, this condi-
ton Of things must continue to grow.
The murderer, the house breaker and
will continue to ply their
nefarious callings because they are taught
10 believe they can do SO. and encounter
bu: little danger. Certain and swift
punishment is the only temedy for this
real danger to society. s'tst %
Year: 1873




Our emotions have been touched by
reading from the English papers descrip.
tons Of the Ragged holidays" and
Ragged excursions" These wretched
social dregs and cinders have been drained
and burned out Of ages Of oppression.
Drained and burned until no vestige of a
common knowledge OF common nature is
left in their infinite degradation These
creatures are allured with bread from
their native slums. They are allowed to
ride on railroad train-then they
receive drink and sandwiches, and
then after an ecstatic traject through
parks, valleys and fields these wretched
waits. halt by the large, shaded meadow
with the clear. pure stream, and the hay
that smells fresher to them than all the
teas of China. And it is then that the
delirium Of the slum-child begins. To
roll in this hay, to race over this meadow,
to plunge in this pure stream, to be re-
called by kind voices to lunch and lem
onade without limit, with fresh cherries
and strawberries without stint, We ask if
human heart, not excepting that of NAL
thus himself could without emotion
have witnessed such a scene? And the
slum-child, never again perhaps in his turn
among the millions Of wretched to enjoy
the like, wonders as he shrinks back in his
hole under the glaring eye of tina. tomcat
of society, the policeman, if they have
such doings anywhere, or if it has not
been a dream to him Of something that
happened to somebody somewhere else.
1t is no vision of that slum-child. There
are such scenes. There is land where
they are perpetual. 1t is land where
the snob and the Tory are allowed as
harmless specimens, only to show that
even slander is harmless. II is D. land
which has done still more, It has given
bread and meat, hope. knowledge and
Year: 1873

upon unwilling ears, even though accom-
panied with q threat of Federal martial
law as an alternative. He and his
partisans are antagonistic in interest to
our municipal unifers, who demand an
immediate, substantial reward for a
change of faith. The one wing of the
party wants to raise money to be used in
Washington for the purpose Of seating
McEnery in the chair of State, in defiance
of the will of the people Of Louisiana,
while the other hopes by mere empty
professions of attachment to principles
that have been tested for ten years to pre-
vail upon the people to change the authors
of those principles for the proselytes Of a
day. In the words of the distinguished
Senator from Pennsylvania, they expect
to be rushed into power for accepting
what they can not prevent, though they
have devoted years to the vain attempt Of
trying to do it.


We admonished our unifcation society
from the very outset that they were asking
too much. It is not common for peoples
to reward their heroes and statesmen in
advance. On the contrary the complaint
is common one that republics are un-
grateful, and frequently send faithful ser
wants unrewarded to their graves At oil
events, our Fusion friends who are IN
ficted with IN ambitious longing for high
places will certainly be required to do
something noble. or propose some great
plan for the benefit Of the 6tAse, segneii
thing, too, sxhish ths~ Republcsns hvd
not already adopted, besoae they will Be
Year: 1873

Two noted literary men died in New
York city, last year. and it was supposed
they both died poor. Each received
salary amounting to more than 50, 600
year, for many years before he died. In
one instance it was necessary to take up
a collection among the friends of the
deceased to obtain the necessary funds
for burial expenses. In the other case,
while the dead man was in the house, a
friend searching through his private
papers found life insurance policy for
S.. 900. The last premium had been
paid by friend while the man was IN
good health Do not neglect to insure
your life. Do it now, and we recon-
mend the old New York Life Insurance
Company as one of the very best COM
panies to insure in. Send to the home
office. 34S Broadway, New York, for all
laar10rE3.
Year: 1873

SOMEBODY who had a grudge against
the late Yiscount Fitzgibbon, whoever
he may have been, of Limerick, Ire
land, lately placed barrel of gunpow-
der under the statue erected to his
memory and touched it off. The statue
was visibly moved by the performance,
but it fell in soft place and, beyond
getting a very dirty face, was not much
injured.
Year: 1873

WE see that PRooTER & CANDLES
EXTRA OLIVE Soar is becoming very
popular in our city, its quality we know
is superior, and being nicely perfumed
we are not surprised that consumers
prefer it, and that it has large sale.
Year: 1873

A FARMER and his wife called at a
Detroit photograph gallery, last week,
to order some photographs of her, and,
while the operator was getting ready,
the husband gave the wife a little adj
vice as to how she must act; " Fasten
your mind on something" he said, q" or
else you will laugh and spile the job.
Think about early days, how your father
got in Jail, and your mother was an old
scolder, and what you'd have been if ]
hadn't pitied you. Jest fasten your
mind on thatl" She didn't have any
photographs taken.
Year: 1873

SALT FOR CUT WoRMs.~--A great deal
of attention is attracted to the applica-
tion of salt to corn hills to prevent the
attacks of cut-worms. The late Isaac
Newton, commissioner of agriculture,
said


Take one part of common salt and
three parts of plaster or gypsum, and
apply when the plant first makes its ap-
pearance, about tablespoonful around
every corn hill. 1t will be found a
sure protection. The mixture should
not come in contact with the plants, as
it may destroy them. This method has
been tried over and over again by some
of our best farmers in Pennsylvania.
and when properly applied has never
failed Newton further said that he
tried this in alternate rows, which com
pletely proved its efficacy, as while
those where it was not used suffered
greatly from the grub, not plant of
the other rows was touched. Let it be
tried, as can be so easily done by those
who are troubled with cut-W orms in the
corn field about these days.
Year: 1873

I SHALL not say anything here about the
Importance of this subject.


We all know how unbearable society
would be without it-how tame and COM
monplace would have become heaven and
earth in its absence.


| merely wish to call the attention of
the reader to the care that has been
taken in selecting the weather for this
book.


Being warned by last season, I have put
in plenty of rain, which will be found to
arrive just in the nick of time.


have dealt lightly in thunder storms
4 find they are not popular-and |
have such an antipathy to lightning-rod
men that | lose no opportunity to injure
them.


I have been rather liberal with snow,
for the sake of the young and livery stables,
and have put in some extraordinary hail,
for the encouragement of the oldest in
habitant, and a little frost to stir up the
amateur in tobacco and other varieties of
cabbage.


But accuracy is the strong point of the
volume. When it says, "Look out for
rain," then is the time for you to "hump
yourself" for the house. And when it
says "Frost," any delay in getting your
wife's fathers coat over the tomatoes and
dahlias will prove eminently disastrous
to those articles. Yes, l have aimed to
be accurate, looking more to the personal
comfort and general information of nay
patrons than to the plaudits of wicked
world and gold, which perish in day, I
am told


I have not lost sight of the fact that I
have formidable and unscrupulous op-
position at Washington. But trusting to
an honest purpose, discriminating pub
lie, and eight years of promiscuous trust
ing as the editor of a country newspaper,
/ shall press steadily oil and hurt that
Washington chap.-Daaabury Nea0s Mans
AZannanc
Year: 1873

BEoADcLoTu An l4EI,;l OF HEALrH. -
Professor Hamilton, in an able address
on hygiene to the graduates of the Buff
falo medical college, denounces broad
cloth as an enemy to exercise, and there's
fore to health. "Amelican gentlemen
have adopted, as national costume,
broadcloth-a thin, tight-ftting black
suit of broadcloth. TO foreigners we
seem always to be in mourning; we
travel in black. The priest, the lawyer,
the doctor, the literary man, the me-
chanic, and even the day laborer, choose
always the same black broadcloth-a
style that never ought to have been
adopted out of the drawing-room or the
pulpit, because it Is feeble and ex-
pensive fabric, and it is at the North
no protection against the cold, nor is II
any more suitable at the South. It ;s
too thin to be warm in winter, and too
black to be cool in summer; but espec-
tally do we object to it because the
wearer is always soiling it by exposure.
Young gentlemen will not play ball,
pitch quoits, or wrestle or tumble, or
any other similar thing, lest their broad5
cloth should be offended. They will
not go out into the storm because the
broadcloth will lose its lustre if rain
falls upon it; they will not run because
they have no confdencs in the strength
of their broadcloth; they dare not
mount horse or leap fence, because
broadcloth, as everybody knows, is so
faithless. So these young men and
these older men, these merchants, me-,
chanics and all, learn to walk, talk and
think soberly and carefully; they sell
dom venture to laugh to the full extent
of their sides"