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Year: 1873

for her fastened his footsteps. He
broke into q run. Everything seemed
to detain him and hold him back. With
impatient hand he thrust aside the
branches which obstructed his way
Would he never reach the pond Surely
he had been more than half mile! At
length he caught a glimpse of the
water shining through the trees. He
redoubled his pace, and in another
moment was tremblingly parting the
foliage which hid his view, fearing the
worst.


A sight burst upon his vision, which
made his heart leap for Joy, and, falling
on his knees, he thanked God that He
had spared to him the life of the woman
he loved. For there, in the middle of
the pond, was Gussie Hamilton, sitting
helplessly in her boat, having lost over
board her paddle, which had foated out
of reach, and the seat was SO firmly fas-
tened in that she could not get it out to
paddle with.


At the sight of Henry she uttered a
cry of Joy. Henry quickly constructed
raft of some logs, and was soon able to
restore to her the lost paddle.


We will not intrude upon them dur
ing their walk home, as Henry asked
her a question important to them alone !;
and she answered it satisfactorily, we
should judge from her calliug him dar-
ling Harry when they stepped on to the
piazza.


The Joy of Florence Lincoln and Miss
Thornton at her safe return was un-
bounded.


Little remains to be told. Henry
Thornton and Gussie Hamilton were
married the following winter. Florence
Lincoln was also married, and is now in
Europe with her husband, a man in
every way worthy of her love.


Let us take one glimpse of the home
of Henry Thornton and his wife.


The old gentleman who is called
grandpa by these two laughing children
on his knee, and to whom he is showing
his watch, is no other than James
Thornton, the guardian of Gusse Ham
ilton.


"Henry dear, " exclaimed Mrs. Thorn
ton, suddenly, did you know we have
been married just ten years to-day? ?"


"No, have we ?" replies Henry,
glancing from his paper to his wife's
happy face.


'And I haven't been drowned yet,
have I?"


"No; and God grant that you may
never be p' exclaimed Henry, drawing
his wife on to his knee, and kissing her
tenderly. "I guess that gypsy didn't
want me to marry you" continues he,
" and her beware of water was a lit
tie ruse to prevent it; but, if that was
the case she signally failed, for ] should
never have thought where to have looked
for you that day, had it not been for the
gipsys warning p
Year: 1873

Passing through the great door, the
visitor finds himself in a large unpaved
yard, with buildings all around it. On
one side are perhaps six or eight guest
rooms, little boxes about twelve feet
square, with paper in place of glass for
windows, doors which do not fit, and
through the openings of which wind and
dust find their way. A very rickety old
chair and an equally decrepit table are
the only furniture, the bed being simply
brick or mud platform, filing nearly
half the room, and raised about two feet
from the floor Underneath it is hue,
into which, in cold weather, dry grass or
other fuel is pushed and fired, the heat
or smoke passing a zigzag line just
under the surface of the couch, and
finally escaping up a vent in the wall.
Other fireplace there is none and IT, as
often happens, the chimney should be
foul, the warmed bed is but poor com
pensation for smarting eyes and partial
suffocation. There are other rooms
sometimes at the top of the yard, and 1T
is always an object to secure them, as
they are trife larger and cleaner and
possibly in better repair. The charges
are moderate ten to two hundred
cents per night, with extras for food;
On entering the inn, your cart Is backed
up close to the door of your room, the
mules are embarrassed, and enjoy their
roll in the dust; and the host appears,
with the inevitable teapot, to receive
your orders for food. The meal dis
patched, the weary guest rolls himself


up in his coverlet to sleep till daybreak


if he can; I; but rats and lesser vermlr
often disturb his rest.
Year: 1873

A MAN WITHOUT IN'ARDs. young
man recently died in Chester county,
Pa, who had been suffering from en-
largnment of the spleen and liver, fol-
lowed by abdominal dropsy. A post
7,1oytenl examination revealed the fact
that the liver, spleen, kidneys, stomach
and bowels were completely absorbed,
without leaving any portion of them re-
manning nothing being found in the
abdomen but a portion of the omentum
and the serous fluid.
Year: 1873

DoEsTIcKs, who went to Minneapolis
for his health, got it, and now goes back
to New York to run down again. he
saws he had rather be an invalid In New
York than an athlete in Minnesota In the
winter,
Year: 1873

A HEALTH HNT.-The Science of
Health repeats what we all ought to
heed when it says ''The more man
bundles up to keep from colds the more
more he may. Some persons do nothing
but watch against exposures, and keep
themselves very busy. The best safe
guards nre daily exercise in the open air,
and the free use of cold water, taking
care not to begin the use of muhers."
Year: 1873

desire to call attention to the fact that Ihaye on hand full stock of all varieties of LUMBER called for in this market and am prepared to sell the same at the lowest market price for Cash. My stock comprises

 Eastern Spruce Iimbef, of all sizes from 2xS to 4x12 in Joist, and up to this Timber has ever been rafted and is conse- quently clean and free from grit and gravel. AL so, 5000 punches of first quality
Year: 1873

Life Is beset with dangerous temp
tations. When you take your wife
down town always leave your purse at
home.


In connubial arithmetic a husband
must be reckoned rs less than half 4
man when his better half is with him.


Pity the poor gentleman whose wife
uiH have latch-key.


Marriage would in many cases be a
blissful state II it were not for cold
mutton.


When you detect wife's unusual af-
fection for her husband, you may ex-
pect to sec her before long in a new
bonnet.


Pleasant are the races with bachelor
acquaintanceS; but trip to a jewel
er's is costly price to pay for il.


Ifyour wife says. Dear mamma Is
coming for week or so," you may
prepare your mind TO receive her for a
month or two.


Lovers sometimes rave about the
sunshine that gilds a married lite but
when they come to bask in 1t, they
find Ii mere moonShine.
Year: 1873

Well. how shall help 10 right the things that
are going wrong,
And what can do TO hurry the promised time
The dsy Of work is short and the nigh, Of sloep
Is long;
And whether to pray or preach, or whether to
sing song,
To SOW In my neighbor's field, or to seek the
golden fleece,
Or sit with my hands in my LAP, and wish that
sin would cease.
I think, sometimes, 1t were best just TO let the
Lord alone;
think some people forgot He was here before
they came;
It's little for His glory, and good dea! moro
for their own, ~
That they peddle their petty schemes, and eleat
and babble and groan.
sometimes think IL were best, and were less
to blame,
should I sit with my hands in my lap-in my


-rScr!b. Monthly,
Year: 1873

bottle of whisky and tumbler, which
I filed and drank off neat but they
had not got horse sup" They were,
he said, all running, md it would take
hours to find them. So I started again.
I do not remember much more of that
wild, moonlit ride; I became drowsy
and half delirious, just retaining
strength enough to go straight. How l
did it I do not know, as for the greater
part of the day there was no road, and,
even in daylight and with nothing the
matter, I should have hesitated in more
than one place. However, Providence
or instinct guided me right and, as !
was afterward told-for / remember
nothing about it-I reached the town at
l a. m.-jnst eleven hours after / had
left. I had finished the whisky ON the
road, and it was to that the doctor as
cribed my ultimate recovery. For nine
days I was in high fever and delirious,
and it was more than six weeks before l
got up; and for years afterward the
wound did not heal. Even to the pres
ent day it occasionally bursts ont afresh,
and will probably continue to do so to
the end of my existenee.-Chamders
Journal
Year: 1873

The trial OF Marshal Bazalne, now IN
progress at Versailles, France, promises
to be one of the most imposing and
eventful of modern military trials. In
the presence of his peers, and sur
rounded by the greatest names that
France can show, this weather-beaten
soldier, standing at the very summit of
French military glory, proudly awaits
the sentence Of his countrymen. What
that sentence will be has already been
foreshadowed by remark of Duke
d'Aumale, the President of the court
martial-namely, that the accused would
almost surely be convicted and after
ward pardoned. That Marshal Bazaine
was a coward no one who reads his dis
tinguished record can for 4 moment
believe that he made some errors in
Judgment the French people are united
in opinion to a man that he was a
traitor to the country remains to be
proved. If condemned to death, there
is scarcely doubt that he will die like
brave soldier but, in view of his dis
tinguished services, it is generally be-
resed that he will be pardoned. Mar
shal Bazaine is charged with treachery
to the arms of his country, in that he
failed to relieve Gen. Froissard at the
important battle of Forbach that he
failed to exercise due vigilance and
promptitude in the defense of Metz /;
that he committed fatal blunders during
the progress OF that memorable siege,
and finally, that lie capitulated against
the wishes of the soldiery and the
people, and in the most inglorious and
suspicious manner.


Whatever may be thought of Razaine
by the general voice of his judges, it is
clear that the opinion of the people
must be decidedly against him. When
the Marshal left Metz to proceed to
Nancy, it was difficult to prevent the
good people OF Metz from lynching him.
Upon the walls of the cityw were sketched
in chalk, "Bazaine and Coffiniere,
traitors and cowards." Upon the ques-
ton of his military guilt it may not be
out of place to quote the words of the
London Daily Ners' correspondent
(no mean authority, as given at the
imte " His policy is explicable enough,
viewed in n military light. His cue
evidently from the first has been to keep
the fortress SO as to be able to maintain
his resistance. He has made effort
after effort to get his army out. and his
penultimate proffer to Prince Frederick
Charles was to surrender the army and
allow the fortress to stand. When this
was rejected, what good purpose could
it have answered to deplete the forts to
enable the army to hold out little
longer in its fruitless efforts? Thus far,
on military grounds, no one can blame
him but that he has let men starve
while he had food anywhere that he
could give them constitutes avery grave
moral responsibility Such is the
opinion of close observer at the time
What will be the opinion and decision
of his peers remains to be seen.
Year: 1873

An instance of the horrible fatality OF
the yellow fever in Memphis is related.
In one room of house father was sit
ting dead in his chair, the mother was
dead in another room, two daughters
were sick with. the fever, and the only
person about the house in health was
child too young to even carry drink
to the fever-stricken girls.
Year: 1873

Ara Juvenile party, young gentle
man, about seven years old, kept HIM
self from the rest of the company. The
lady of the house called to him: "Come
and play and dance, my dear. Choose
one of those pretty girls for your wife. y
"Not likely !" cried the young cynlc.
No wife for me Do you think 1 want
to be worried out of my life like poor
papa? .-E
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the New York World
says that powdered white hellebore is a
perfect specific for these pests if seasonably
way of applying it:


1t will not do to wait until the bushes
are defoliated, but watch them narrowly,
commencing early, before the Larvae are
fully grown. The first indications are seen
near the ground, or on the lower branches,
in the :lnely perforated leaves, on the under
side of which will be found numbers of
very minute yellowish-green worms, and
perhaps some unmatched eggs. No time is
to be lost now-haye ready the hellebore
previously rubbed through sieve, or
otherwise freed from Jumps, and passing
along to windward of the row scatter with
the hand sufficient to dust the lower por-
tion Of the bushes. 1t is not necessary
that the leaves should be wet. A gentle
breeze will diffuse the powder throughout.
The eggs are always deposited on the under
side of the leaf, and three or four distinct
crops of worms appear during the season,
each succeeding one higher up on the
bushes which must be looked over often,
and if there are any worms renew the ap-
plication. Four years ago my bushes were
overrun, and part of them, with the fruit
on, all destroyed. Since then l have pur-
sued the foregoing plan with entire sue
cess, having healthy bushes and abundant
crops of finest currants. My neighbors
have delayed longer, been less thorough,
and lost their crops almost entirely. A
great quantity of helebore is not necessary !;
a light but complete dusting does the
work
Year: 1873

Some of our farming friends appear to be
deeply impressed with the notion that hens
need no food but corn in some one Of it's
forms. But we ought not to forget that
food means the material for everything
that comes out of the system, and that If
any particular race takes up any special
branch of manufacture they must have the
raw material. All animals consume more
or less OF lime; it is one of the principal
elements entering into the composition OF
the bones, but the hen needs an extra sup
ply. The domesticated hen also needs more
than wild stock of any sort, since she is
stimulated to greater production of eggs
in consequence we must give her more
than is contained in the various grains
The most useful forms IN which to give
lime are pounded shells, pulverized mortar
and crushed bone. On the whole we pre
fer the former. Its preparation makes a
good stint for the boys. We object to bone
meal il not perfectly sweet; but good,
sound article is a first-rate thing for this
use. Feed lime most abundantly at the
time when hens are laying most freely, and
anticipate, if possible, by beginning early
in the season, lest your fowls eat a shelless
egg and acquire bad habits.
Year: 1873

A TERRIBLE AFFAIR. A letter from
Ionica, Mich, gives the following details
of the death of La Mountain. the ;erOnaut
When fully half u mile from the earth,
and when the whole structure looked no
larger than a hogshead. the balloon stop
ped between the ropes and was instantly
inverted. The car and the occupant
dropped like Il shot, with the most terrific
velocity, the unfortunate man clinging To
the basket. That he was conscious was
evident from his struggles; with all the
intensity of lite he sought TO rise the
basket above him, evidently hoping to use
it as parachute. He succeeded in his
object. but when about 100 feet from the
earth he loosed his hold, folded his hands
and arms before his face, and his feet first
struck the ground with dull, heavy thud
Then ensued a panic and uproar in the
crowded multitude; women tainted, strong
men wept, and the canvas came flying
over the crowd like II huge bird. Some
one cried out to get out of the way, as it
would fall with crushing force. Then the
cry was taken up and a general rush made
for safety, in which many We're more or
less injured. La Mountain was crushed
into literal pulp. A medical examna-
ton disclosed the fact that hardly whole
bone was left,-many were ground and
splintered to powder
Year: 1873

Berkely, in one of his queries asks
Whether the mind, like the soil, does
not by disuse grow stiff, and whether
reasoning and study be not like dividing
the globe"


The exaltation of talent, as it is called,
above virtue and religion, is the curse
OF the age. Education is now chiefly
stimulus to learning and thus we acquire
power without the principles which alone
make it good. Talent is worshipped but
If divorced from rectitude, it will prove
more of demon than God.
Year: 1873

The Chinese not only make education
universal, but they place that which is
moral above that which is physical. The
great object of their police, is to main
tain industry, subordination and social
order; and their chief instrument for at
tanning this odject, is the training of the
young as distinguished from mere in
Struction
Year: 1873

. COMMITTEE was recently appointed
10 investigate the excessive chastisement
OF pupil in Michigan public school
ana reported that the punishment was not
act''ated by malice, but occasioned by an
undue appreciation of the thickness of
the boys pantaloons.n
Year: 1873

The School committee of of a New
Hampshire town announce that one of
thler school houses is so unwholesome
as to narrow the question down to this ::
new schoolhouse, or a new grave yard
Year: 1873

A great change is taking place through
out the educational world with respect to
the character and standing of primary
teachers. 1t has been discovered that
while higher order of literary attain
ment may be neces sary in schools of a
higher grade, the highest success in
primary instruction can only be attain
ed by teachers of the greatest skill and
ripest experience
Year: 1873

From the Baltimore American, Dec. 29.l


The steamer Edgar Stuart, which has been in this
port since February last, has recently been alluded
to by city paper in such way as to lead many
persons to suppose she is about to start upon an
other Cuban privateering expedition. The curios-
ity the little craft has lately been considera-
BILE, and those on board OF her have added to the
mystery surrounding the vessel by putting up
placards that no one will be admitted. Colonel
Agrero, her reputed owner, and four other Cubans,
denominated as aides-de-camp, have been with the
steamer since her stay at Baltimore. The visitor
can find no signs OF preparations for departure
going on and appearances indicate that the vessel
Micawber-like, Is "waiting for something to turn
up.r The Coonel and his aids are doubtless will
ing to do everything in their power to aid the
Cuban cause, but the recent statement that large
sums OF money have peen received 10 aid in fitting
out an expedition does not seem to be correct,
as Colonel Agirero asserts that money has been
ceived from but one Cuban gentleman since the
vessel has been here. those on board are EVIL
IDENTITY not displeased with the notoriety that has
recently arisen in connection with their ship, but
they are prepared to deny that she cannot be
bought by any person who will pay the price asked
by her owner. There are some repairs to her going
on the forward cabin being repainted at this time.
Colonel Agirero is absent In Albany, N Y, visiting
the former owner Of the steamer
Year: 1873

ing ground here that all was NOT right
In the matter. IL Is certain that the two
vessels were seen together on Thursday afternoon
at the spot at which the Virglnius now lies close
together, hove to and anchored. IL would also
appear that the virgnius could have been easily
brought into the river that afternoon or
night; ut least there was no apparent
reason why IL could not have been done.
At two O'Clock that night q terrible
gale sprung mp from the northwest and continued
for about two hours 1t was the most severe
known here for many years, and yet the virginius
was still seen above water the next morning,
probably or 10 hours after the gale had abated.
She was seen from Smithville and thought to be
bark and the pilot boat Robert H. Cowan went to
her assistance on Friday afternoon, but there was
no trace OF her. The boat remained out all night,
returning on Saturday morning nom unsuccessful
search On Saturday afternoon the Cowan again
went out, but again returned without any trace Of
her.


On Sunday morning the steamship Tonawanda
from Philadelphia for this port passed In ana re-
ported at Smithvllle that she had found sunken
vessel at sea, equidstant about nine or ten miles
from Cape Pear and from the coast OF Oak Island.
There was nothing visible but about three feet
OF her mizzen topmast. The Cowan went out
again on Sunday afternoon and found the sunken
ship. They made soundings and got i've fathoms
on her deck and eight lathoms around her. Spars
attached to the ship were floating about,
and they hauled up strips OF planking,
braced with iron. which induced them to
think that 1t was an iron ship. They
returned to Smithville and reported thar. in their
opinion, the sunken ship was the yirginius. re-
portedlast night that the two vessels were seen
together both on Thursday afternoon and Friday
morning by the pilots at Baldhead. This was,
probably, an error, az the indications would
seem to point to the fact that the Virginius must
have been abandoned by the Ossipee either
late on Thursday evening or early on Fri
day morning The pilots seem to think
that II she was too much disabled on
Thursday afternoon to be towed nine miles
into port that she would have given way and gone


down with the first blast Of the terrible storm
which swept over this section during the night
and they shake their heads when they speak OF heI


having lain at anchor within sight Of port 80 lone
| Thursday afternoon aud then going down SO many
| hours after the storm had abated.


The Virginius is said to have oeen blockader
running to this port during the She now lief
! somewhat east OF south Of Cape Fear, ana is evi


IDENTITY perfectly upright on the bottom as the few


feet Of topmast now ont OF water points direct ly
| to the zenith.
Year: 1873

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


Permit me to make a suggestion through your
journal regarding the Survivors OF the virginius,
and think you will coincide with my views when l
say that these survivors should now endeavor to
show their gratitude for their safe deiverance to
to Sir Lambton Lorraine, the gallant commander of
Her Britannia Majesty's steamer NiODe by present.
ing him with some testimonial as an award for his
bravery in deiying the Spaniards, backed by his
four guns and the cutlasses OF his crew. and de-
that they should be spared. TO him they are In.
debted for their lives, and therefore, by investing
him with some token Of their gratitude, it would
doubtless be something, at least, which he could
ever look upon with pride and as long as his little
ship .'fu charged with England's thunder shall
plough the distant main." Z. III. l.