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Year: 1873

What is to be done to prevent this
acrid look OF misery from becoming an
organic characteristic Of our people !
Make them play more" says one philo.
sophy. No doubt they need to play
more" but, when one looks at the aver.
age expression Of a Fourth oil July
crowd, one doubts if ever 80 much muI-
tiplication OF that kind OF holiday would
mend the matter. No doubt we work
tor too many days in the year, and play
for too lew; but, after all, it is the heart
and the spirit and the expression that
We bring to our work, and not those
that we bring 10 our play, by which
our real vitality must be tested and by
which our faces will be stamped. II we
do not work healthtuIIy, reasonably,
moderately, thankfully, joyously, we
shall have neither moderation nor
gratitude nor JOY in our play. Aud
here Is the hopelessness, here is the
root OF the trouble, OF the joyless Amer
icsn face. The worst of all demons, the
demon of unrest aud overwork, broods
in the very sky OF this land. Blue and
clear, and crisp AMI sparkling as our
atmosphere is, it cannot or does not
exercise the spell. Any old man can
count on lis fingers of one baud the
persons he has known who led lives
OF serene, unhurried content made for
themselves occupations and not tasks,
and died at last what might be called
natural deaths. SO long as the Ameri-
can ls resolved to 90 in one day the
work oftwo, to make in one year The tor
tune Of his whole lite and his children's,
to earn before he ls forty the reputation
which belongs 70 three score aud ten,
so long he will 90 about the streets wear.
ing his present abject, pitiable, over
wrought, joyless look. But, even with.
out change oi heart or reform OF
habits, he might better his countensnce
a little If he would. Even If he does
not feel like smiling he might smile II
he tried, aud that would be something


The muscles are all there; they count
the same in the American as 10 the
French or Irish face; they relax easily
in youth the trick can be learned. Aud
even a trick of it ls better than none OF
it. Laughing masters might be as well
paid as dancing masters to help on
society.-From Bits of Talk, BY n. II.
Year: 1873

The Boston Advertiser (Republcan) complains
that the Grant Administration packed the navy
yard at Boston with men for whom there was no
work, their duties being merely to draw their pay
from the Government funds and work for Ben.
Butler at the primary elections. The New Yolk
World hints that this was done because Butler
kindly carried through Congress a bill giving
Grant au additional $4,000 each year Of his
term.
Year: 1873

1.-THE members of the City Council Were
compelled to attend the Curb Stone mel ket d
few times, we think they would very soon
amend the ordinance and require the wagons
to be placed eight or ten feet apart The
ladies have hard time to push through the
crowd, every market morning, ana are sOOIec'
often to insult from strong, rude persons VINO
make their way along without regard TO the
feelings Of the weak and more sensitive some
one who has proper regard for the gentler
ask. should get up wOmAn's petition for TINS
change.
Year: 1873

RALEIGH, N. c., Nov. 13, 1873.


In 1871 the Treasurer Of the State under authority
OF the Legislature appropriated TO the general
purposes OF the government the sum OF $4l, 1878 81
tnat had been collected to pay the interest on the
bonds known as special tax bonds. To
day four bills in equity were fled In the
United States Circuit Court for the
Eastern district OF North Carolina, praying
that the public Treasurer be enjolned
from paying any money out OF the treasury until
he has first replaced the above sum to the credit
OF the fund for which the same was collected for
the purpose OF providing for the payment OF the
interest on the bonds held by the plaintiff and all
other holders who may become parties to raise
suits. A preliminary Injunction was granted BY
Judge Bond. and the 2sth Inst set for the hearing
OF the motion for special Injunction.


While there is q growing disposition on the part
OF the people and the press to recognize the old
debt Of the state the people are fixed In their de-
termina alton to resist by all lawful means the pay
ment Of these special tax bonds. When these are
disposed OF steps will undoubtedly be taken to COM
promise the old debt upon basis acceptable 10
the State and the bOndholders.
Year: 1873

and will pursue the even tenor Of is way according TO
law and precedent. there are THOUSANDS OF ways by
the struggling cubans Nothing which the Cuban au
the American heart as these atrocous acts They
deeds not only of desperation, but Of imbecility.
The Cuban government has assumed the crimi.
nalty. which y was bound 20 prove; II has
with near and powerful neighbori 1t has aroused the
sympathies Of one of the most excitsble nations the


o,en for the great OF tho people OF the United
States, taken the issue out OF te domain OF law and
geance.


But it is unnecessary to multiply these ex-
pressions OF popular Indignation OF our people
against the recent Wholesale slaughter at Santiago
by the Spaniards as they come to us through those
reliable channels. the columns OF the public press
We have In the above furnished enough to Indicate
the bent OF the popular mind on the subject, and
believe that they are SUFFICIENT to admonish the
government at Washington tnat the time for dal-
lance with the Spaniarus In regard to Cuba has
ceased and that vigorous measures must be the
creed aud the policy Tor the future.
Year: 1873

who has a wife to help him. Ara


bella has not yet been to see them,


but don'tthink her injured dignity


can hold out much longer; for


Frank, with the sweet forgiyness of


her nature, has named her baby for


her, and a dsintier ''baby BeIlS was
never seen They are going to bring
her to town soon, and Grace and /
feel sure that she will prove a little
peacemaker. Speaking Of Arabella
reminds me that last summer we
met farmer Hills nephew himself
the other Ralph. They say he is
rich; but poor fellow, he is greatly
to be pitied, for he not only has
weak ''narves," but a weak head as
we'll; and Arabella-Worldly minded
as she is-could she once see him,
would be quite willing to scknowl-
edge that Frank had made a happy
in taking the hired man in
: and Home.
Year: 1873

The first locomotive was patented


twenty years ago. Driving only one


car, if lightly loaded it did very


well; but when the load it drew was


heavier than its own weight, its


wheels would not 6ite-that is, they


would turn round and round without


advancing Hence q eoW-catGher


was needed behind to guard against


cattle running irto it in the rear. It


seemed at first impossible to make q


less weight move a greater on an up


grade; and, for q years afterWard,
no one invented an engine able to
draw three times its own weight. At


the present day, hOWeve-, locomo-


tives sweep along with trains more


pOnderous by Is or 20 times than


they are themselves. One means Of


gaining this vast increase of power


for the locomotive, was by diUtding


the load. 1t was found, that an en-
CINE poWerless to stir five times its


weight of freight when concentrated
in one car, could readily draw it
when distributed in a dozen cars
loosely shackled together. It was
heavier than each single car; and it
had overcome the inertia of each one,
a moment before it encountered the
inertia of another. It was thus more
than a match for each car taken sing
ly; and, pulling them successfully,
it drew after it a train as long as q
comet, and the farther it ran the
more strength it had to run further.
Here was the story Of little David
over again. Ordinarily the strip
ling's weight, as he told Goliath, was
one hundred and twenty, but when
ever he got mad he s0eigbed a ton.
Moreover, the engine forced the mo-
mentum acquired by every car it had
started, to swell its own potency in
overcoming the resistance Of all that
remained still motionless.


''This railroad achievement (mak-
ing a light engine draw q heavy
train }, ifnot so common would seem
miraculous; and it is analogous to
an expedient for securing a farm
which is equally simple and equally
eficacious. It is this: Divide
your payments Buying, as 1925
settlers have bought of the Burling-
ington and Missouri River Road in
Iowa or Nebraska, within the last
three years, on ten years credit, and
st six per cent interest, you pay in
eleven installments spread over half
a life time,-the first not due till the
beginning of the third year. Be
sides, every acre you improve adds
to your paying power, as the head
way of every moving car reinfOrces
the tractile energy of the Iocomo-
tive"


In purchases made since 1872
is due on the principal until
the beginning of the fifth year, and
then only one-seventh annually.


"DiVide and conquer" is the max
i'm Of Satan when he soWs discord
among brethren. Use it for your
good as Satan will for your harm,
and as Stephenson did to multiply
,he magical forces of his immortal
md world moving locomotive. sect
mad and weigh a ton" Own land
md nobody shall ever own you. Be
7our own mani
Year: 1873

DIR. LIBBE1-


Dear Sir: feel it duty owe you as well
as the afflicted, to acknowledge the wonderful
cure you have made in my case. The long
continued sore throat and bronchitis was a
source of great annoyance and alarm to me
for a number of years, but since you prescrib-
ed for me feel no trouble there, and have no
fear Of return of the complaint. The dispo-
sition was strong to scrofula consumption
that, think, entirely changed. Ny other
difficulties are entirely cured. Ifpeople only
would give your remedies a fair trial. feel
confident you would benefit all you say you
can. Yours truly,


MRS. MARTHA PARKS.Y
Year: 1873

and three and four join hands, and
thus aid each other TO mount. When
Gibbs held either Of these numbers it
was very seldom, and then only when
the instructor was looking on, that
any white cadet would give him bis
hand. This incident applies equally
10 Smith.


The career Of the latter since bis
fight with Cadet Wilson two or three
years ago, which gave his name great
er publicity than has been gwen TO
the name of cadet before or since,
has been quiet and uneveDtiul one.
None of the cadets notice or speak TO
him when off duty, and


IN THE MEssRooM,


although he is seated at the same ta-
BILE with'the other cadets, and is simi.
larly served, he is alone in a crowd
In barracks he has a room 10 himself.
The cadets say tha, Smith, who Ell.
tered the Academy in 1870, and who
should be in the second class, is in the
third with fair prospect of drop
ping back in the fourth. None of the
prejudice shown by the white cadets
when the negroes first came seems 10
have worn of, and hence their state.
men,s may be taken with grain of
salt.


Young Gibbs went away well pro-
vided with money; for, in addition to
his liberal supply from home, he drew
over 5000 on account OF pay and mile
age. All concur in stating that the
colored cadets have been fairly treat.
cd by the professors.
Year: 1873

CURINC CoLD.-One Of our citizens who


has been troubled with 4 severe cold on the
lungs effected his recovery in the following
simple manner lie boiled a little honeset
and hoarhound together, drank freely Of the
tea before going to bed. The next day he


took five pills. put one kind of plaster ON


his breast, another under his arms, and still
another on his back Under advice from an


xperienced old lady he took all these off
with an oyster knife in the afternoon, and
slapped on a mustard plaster instead His
mother put some onion drafts on his feet and
gave him lump Of tar to swallow. Then he
put some bricks to his feet, and went to bed
Next morning, another old lady came in with
a bottle Of goose oil, and gave him a dose of
il on a quill, and an aunt arrived about the
same time from Bethel, with a bundle of
sweet fern which she made into a tea, and
gave him every half hour until noon, when
be took big dose Of salts After dinner his
wife who had seen fine old lady of great
experience in doctoring, ON Franklin street,
gave him two pills Of her make. about the
size ofan English walnut and of a similar
shape, and two tablespoonfuls Of home made
balsam to keep them down. Then he took a
hall pint Of hot rum at the suggestion of an
Old sea captain in the next house. and
steamed his legs with an alcohol bath At
tins crisis two of the neighbors arrived who
saw at once that his blood was out of order,
aud gave hun half gallon of spearmint tea
Year: 1873

WHAT CONGRESS WILL Do.-Manv people
here think that Congress, in the light of
transactions which have been disclosed in
investigation here, will revoke the charter
ofthe Union Pacific company, but to do this
will be to infliet punishment on many in


noeent persons. while some of the ringIead-
ers in the Credit Mobilier operations will
escape without any punishment. Alley told
the committee that he doesn't now own
dollar in the Union Pacific, and it is true Of
Others who have made large sums out of the
road. Besides, when one comes to look at
it, what is the difference between the Union
and the Central roads? The frst-named
divided up its profits at the start, and the
last has kept its profits for a big capital to
use in other enterprises. Both companies
have treated the government in the same
way. If the Northern Pacific succeeds, it
will pocket more than either. All that
Congress can honestly claim is that both
these roads (Union and CENTRALLY shall at
once go TO work paying the interest on the
bonds guaranteed by the government. and
making provision for the principal when it
becomes due, and this probably will be done
The Senate has done wise and just thing
in voting to withhold all payments to the
Pacific railroad for freights or transporta-
ton until the railroad shall pay its interest
on the bonds guaranteed By the govern
ment, together with per cent. on its net
earnings, and then allowing the road to
make contest against this in the courts
The House will agree to this, without a
doubt, and it will possibly 90 great deal
farther, but the Senate may be expected to
adhere to this position for the present


Washington Cor. Springfield Republican.
Year: 1873

and big dose of castor OIL Before going to


bed he took eight of new kind Of pill,
wrapped about his neck flannel soaked in
hot vinegar and salt. and had feathers burnt
on shovel in his room. He is now thorough
ly cured and full of gratitude We advise
our readers to cut this out. and keep it
where it can be readily found when danger
threatens.-DanJlry Neics
Year: 1873

The Washington Capital, which has been
very severe in its comments on the Credit
Mobilier, says in its last issue:


Now the fun of this Credit Mobilier in
vestigation comes in on the fact that Is net
has caught the honest men, financially con-
sldered, of Congress. This is the common
remark and it is the subject of general
hilarity about Washington. No two in
telligent observers can look each other in
the face and not laugh at the charge that
any one of these men, if we except John A.
Bingham, has been influenced directly by
money. Messrs. Colfax, Wilson and Kelley,
for example, are very tiresome fellows with
their eternal talk about moral legislation
and parental government, that is as stupid
as it is insincere, but no sane mind know
ing the gentlemen can be made to believe
that they ever were influenced in their
official duties by money. The fact that
after generation of public life-a public
life that has been sober, hard-working and
economical-a good-sized army blanket
would cover the property Of any one OF them
is proof as strong as holy writ that they are
honest.
Year: 1873

An OLD Tine SENAroR.-W hen Hon.
Samuel Prentiss was L. ). Senator from this
State, he said in his valedictory to his tel-
low Senators, when he accepted the office of
District Judge, and in reply to the hand
some encomiums which they passed upon his
Senatorial service Il would not under
value popularity, but | should not dare to
make it the rule of my official or personal
conduct" Mr.. PrentiSs was n lawyer OF
large experience and attainments, a Judge
of clear intelligence, discrimination and i'm
partiality, a Senator of great influence and
usefulness, a man of incorruptible integrity
and honesty He never made use of his Off
cial position to take for his own use sheet
of note paper or solitary pencil that be-
longed to the government. He belonged to
that splendid array Of statesmen and jurists
who illustrate the earlier period of the his
tory of the L. ). Senate. His opinions and
judgments could not have been bought with
the gold of the Indies, and a bribe would
have been resented with burning indigna-
tion Montpelier WdtchmGH.
Year: 1873

The Baltimore American tells the follow
ing story


Some weeks since, when the Board of
School Commissioners suddenly awoke To
the Importance of having 4 thorough vac
cinatiOn Of the teachers and pupils of the
public schools, and after the receipt from
New York of the quills containing the
vaccine virus. each member of the Board
took two Of the quillS with him, either to
show as curiOsities or to use among his
family. One very eStimable gentleman Of
the Board. not familiar with the use Of
the virus attached 10 the open end of the
Quill, on his way home stopped at his club
room, where several friends were sitting in
conversation. He exhibited quill, and ex-
plained in his own way its use, when one
of those present, an officer in one of our
Courts, expressed desire to be yaccinated.
The amiabe Commissioner was equal to
the emergency, and telling his friend to
bare his arm, proceeded with the yaccina-
tion. He first made a cut, which caused
seme pain and a plentiful flow of blood. He
then with his knife cut off the pithy end
of the quill, and with no little pain to his
friend rubbed the pith into the wound
throwing the only valuable part of the
quill (that having the virus) away. The
result has been that the friend vaccinated
by the new process has now very sore
arm, and at times has had to carry 1t in a
sling. His friends are anxiously awaiting
to see a crop of goose feathers as the result
of the operation.
Year: 1873

Apolitical newspaper should advocate its
party's principles for the reason that they
are supposed TO be the best for thecountry.
The party selects persons a. its agents 10
effectuate those principles. Those agents
are put into various Offices of trust for that
purpose, and when that Is done they be
come also agents of the people. II they
betray their trust and the political newspa
per supports them, then it improperly
ASSUMES to adopt in the name of the party
their wrongs On the contrary, if the
newspaper does its dity it will repudiate
those acts in which the agents have ex-
ceeded their authority, and call upon the
party to choose other banner-bearers from
its own ranks The Pacific Railroad, and
the doctrine that the government should
aid in its construction, were Republican
measures. It Is not necessary to argue
them. Their justice, rightfulness and benet-
cence are acknowledged by the entire
country. If there was wrong in the exc
cution of those ideas it is not the party
that is to blame, but the men who violat
ed it, confidence.
Year: 1873

The noises that have TO be endured by
dwellers in lodgings are thus enumerated by
n nervous man: Three door bells, one Of
which is always ringing large dog in
the backyard, which never stops barking
except to eat, and that is only once day
two sewing machines in the next room
seven roeking-ehairs, four OF them overhead
a dentist who gets up early in the morning
and works all day with hammer and files
on false teeth a little boy with drum
German musician who practices upon the
bassoon four hours a day 4; deaf servant
girl at whom everybody hollers."
Year: 1873

SOM Hints oN RE>>.-Probably nothing
that is not useful is in any high sense beauti-
iul. At least it will be almost universally
seen in the matter of dress that where an
effect Is bad 1t l. an artificial or false effect
and vice versa Bows stuck about when
there is no possibility Of their fastening two
parts, almost always appear ridiculous; wien
needed for mere ornament, Il rosette should
be used, which pretends to be nothing else


In the making Of dresses, lines ending no.
where, and nohow, are often apparent. and
never fail to annoy the eye The outlines of
bonnets are conspicuous instances Of this mis-
take There Is no art instinct. and but little
of the picturesque element. in a nation who
are Indifferent to these things, and whose eve
does not inStinctiyely demand meaning and
token in everything. The uncultured
dreSs-maker, only longing for novelty. in
vents forms OF attire that would be mpoS-
>ible We're dress les utterly artificial than it
Is. and this Is half the cause Of our universal
Undressing. No fashion or form can leave
the mind without jar that Is not where tits
because Indispensable there Whether it oc-
cur in house or in a gown, the principle
must be the same. One of the reasons why
peasants, iishwiyes. and such folk look pie
tureSque and beautiful even in their rags.
whatever be the mixture of color or arrange
ment Of form-so much more beautiful than
fashionable people look, even when they try
to initiate the fshwiic-is. think. the mo
tive apparent in everything they wear The
bright kerchief that covers the peasants
shoulders is 50 much better than a bodice
trimmed in the form Of kerchef \ hood
that Is at once seen 10 be incapable Of going
over the head something that looks ike a
tunic in one place. vet in another IS seen to
have no lawful habitation, nor a name a
false apron, q iest0on that looks as though it
had fallen accidentally upon the skirt, when
by no possible means except glue or irrelevant
pins could make it stay there a veil that you
at once perceive Is never meant 10 descend
over the face. but i tackled % the top Of the
head in an exaSperating manner; heavy lap
pets. that, instead Of being the natural ter
mination Of something else, hang meaning
less and mutilated slashes that are sewn
upon the sleeve instead Of breaking through
it and other things of the same kind =
they leave the eve unsatisfed, diScontented,
often disguised SAINT PdaFS Magazine
Year: 1873




On a iavorite rose bush that belongs 10
DIR. B. d. Eldrilge and Is kept in the Office
of e. y. Munsell, NJ. D.. Harwich. Mass.
a very singular and astonishing sight ap-
peared this winter over which the wonder
ran high.


1t was the Vision Of two bright green per
fectly formed little baby buds bursting
right out Of the inner core Of the great
mother heart Of full blown Carnation
Rose.


From the large bud rising up in the midst
Of the encireling leaves like victor's head
above its eoronal, two aesimiles of this in
form start out of the golden haired apex
somewhat as Pallas is labled to have sprung
from the head of Jupiter after the pains
and travail of an aching brain


We may yet find the germs of all that
pretty Greeian mythology in the revelations
nature makes to us from time to time. Who
knows2


Conceive now two delicate, tiny rose buds.
exact miniature of another full sized one.
and these complete in every part and func-
ton, so strangely, might say miraculous
ly, born and 50 exquisitely beautiful, Jour
Imagination sees pair Of vagrant fairies
nesting down in the fragrant beruffled
depths Of the maternal bosom or rather
twin children Of Flora breathed into being
in some mysterious way by some occult pro-
cess that links the overflowing Of love and
thought with the generation Of new light
from the lips, as God Is said to have spoken
4 world into existence by the creative power
Of the word that issued out Of His mouth


Day after day these marvelOusly-begOtten
rose buds grew in grace and beauty side by
side till their stems were about half an inch
long, and then they came forth in the glory
of bloOd-red colors and purple robes, 4 trim
ity in unity-sOme within Soul-three in
one and one in three Not a cluster, :" not
a species of - double" flower or anything
Of that kind, but single separate individual
bud, the womb and the heart Of two other
distinct personalities like itself, the blending
of vital currents and the interhOw Of a
triune principle o. life.


Verify there Is more in nature than We
find in our philOsophies whatever we may
- dream Of