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Year: 1873

and if attendance Al Sunday School is
a preventive, is it not wrong for par
ent to neglect to give his child that
protection.


But they become happier and pret-
tier. Happier because any one is hap
pier when engaged in usefulness than
in mischief or idleness, and prettier on
account Of more intelligent express
sion Of the countenance, a more culti-
waited taste, and a greater freedom from
from embarrassment.


There are many persons Of such
timid excitable nature, that they can
not pass up the aisle Of a church
without suffering from embarrassment.
And there are many men who never
feel so uneasy and uncomfortable as
when they first appear in a new suit Of
clothes; not because they are asham-
ed Of having new suit-perhaps they
needed them; not because they are
ashamed Of the quality or fashion Of
the suit, for often the better the suit
the more uncomfortable they feel but
because having on something which
they are not accustomed to wear-sim-
ply because they attract attention, and
they cannot bear to be scrutinized,
without embarrassment.


Now in country place or small VII
lage there is no place which affords
such excellent opportunities to over
come these embarrassments as the
Sabbath School. Therefore we say
avail yourselves of its advantages.
Let your children become accustomed
to dressing up" every Sunday and
when older instead Of acting awkward
in new suit their movements will be
easy and graceful.


Let them become accustomed to re-
citing, singing and speaking in con-
certs and it will give them confidence
in their abilities and improve their
manners generally.


These are not the highest claims
which the Sunday School has for your
confidence. but it seems that they are
sufficient reasons why every parent
should feel an interest in it whether he
be n christian or not. X. l.. G..
Year: 1873

next day; but when any member Of
/ he establishment declines 70 eat for
three or four days, his end is expected
In a short time. About hundred
9th ers are usually kept in stock and
as they are comparatively
short lived, three or four moaths being
to be the allotted period Of
their days. Perhaps confinement and
hard labor affect their spirits. The
workman engaged in drawing up the
bucket had, however, reached the loary
age of nine months, and his demise
therefore, will not be unexpected. The
immense muscular power possessed by
these creatures Is here fully demon
strated. No doubt many Of our read
ers have experienced the difficulty of
holding q wild palex for q minute or
two, before consigning IL to perdition
The flea Hercules draws model of a
ship estimated TO be five hundred
times his own weight in a very easy
manner. 1t seems that the English


ieas are the most stubborn and diff
cult to train, but when once properly
subdued they work better and last
longer than the others but, the En-
glishman we saw was anything but
steady, tugging and straining at his
collar in frantic manner.


"One Of the most interesting. fea-
lures Of the exhibition is the beautiful
forms Of the models employed for the
work. They are carved in ivory and
exquisitely finished and, of course, of
the mirutest size possible, being adsp-
ted to the fieas in most ingenius man
ner, and manufactured by the exhibit
tor himself. The delicacy of touch
and sight attainable after practice is
surprising, as each performer is har-
messed without the aid Of a glass,
merely being taken between the oper-
ators finger and thumb. Mr.. Kitch-
ingman told us also that he knows
every individual performer by sight,
50 that he has no difficulty in selecting
each member of his troop for his own
work. .'-ScientVic american.
Year: 1873

Lee. To the great and high idea of
duty which he expressed in taking
command Of the army, he was faithful
to the close Of its existence, and the
succeeding years which witnessed his
command in the Southern States attest
that the moderation and firmness, the
humanity and love OF justice, which
were essential attributes Of his char
acter, make his civil life as honorable
as his military career was splendid.
General Devens conclusion was as fol.
lows:-


"Comrades, the army which he com.
manded so long has passed away. No
more shall its bugles break the sweet
stiffness of the morning air, as with
the reveilles they salute the coming
day ; no more shall The falling night
hear the rolling tattoo of its drums :;
its tents are struck and its cannons
have Numbered their last nights of
defiance and Of victory. Each year we
who were its survivors assembled in
sadly diminishing numbers as the re-
morseless artillery of time hurls its
fatal missiles into our ranks, until
shortly few old men only shall gather
and strive with feeble voices to raise
the laundering battle cheer, with which
we once answered the rebel yelis, to
sink themselves soon after under the
common lot. How fast the coming
generations rise to push us from our
places, when you remember all whom
we have lost even since the war, l do
not need to remind you. Yet as
generation after generation shall come
In their long succession, while the
great flag that it bore at the head of
its marching columns waves over free
and united people, it will be remem-
bered that in its day and generation,
and in its time and place, the army of
the Potomac did for liberty and law,
for the Constitution and the Union
deeds worthy of immortal honor. And
he that was its leader on 50 many a
hot and bloody day, and on so many
a well-contested field,-we leave him
to his long repose, to his pure, unsul-
lied and well-earned fame, in the full
confidence that while christian gem
tlemen, wise and true soldier, lofty
patriot is honored, he will not be for.
gotten -


'Mild in manne r fair in fight


Kind In temper, fierce in fight


Warrior nobler, gentler, Drawer,


Never Will behold the light"
Year: 1873

but breathes his native air on this west
ern continent.


And the coming schoolmaster having
these seven wise sayings, of American
sages for the instruction and admiration
Of American youth. will proceed to give
one moro by way Of good measure, and
it will be this plain, but grand aphorism
from the lips ofthe martyr, John Brown,
It's mighty big thing for man to do
all he can.'


Then will the coming boys begin TO
feel for what glorious destiny they are
born, then will they sing Yankee
Doodle with fresh joyousness, and with
sublime contempt OF what nations less
free, and ages more stupid may think,
or might have thought of it.


And now, at the close of this paper,
let me say what see l have not said,
which is, that girls will, of coui Sc, be in
the schools along with the boys-ah,
yes, and now l think of it, let me tell you
tho coming schoolmaster won't be
master at all, but a schoolmistress.-
ArtAuT's Magazine for May.
Year: 1873

TEMPERATE TowN.-The St. Clairs-
vile Gazette, replying to a suggestion
from the Guernsey Times saerts,that there
are lewer drunkards in st. Clairsville
than in any other town OF the same mum
Der Of inhabitants in the United States.
There Is not whisky or beer saloon in
tue place. And the Gazette don't know
of single person lncspacitated for buSi-
ness from drinking liquor. There arc
few who drink too much, but not half a
dozen in the whole town.
Year: 1873

uon py AZ once sendIng OF mis- deputies with
me, who quietly fixed things with warning


Grievances II this kind are seldom or never heard
OF through the PRESS nor Is redress sought for as
frequently as might bring the matter more proml-
nently forward for the reason that the majority OF
those resorting to these money lending 'sharpers'
are content 10 snbmit-numbers through delicacy,
others from ignorance OF the imp0sirions practsed
upon them, ana others again from a lack OF know
ing where TO seek redress. Moreover. large pro-
portion are women, who are easily inundated,
and shrink from the publicity they imagine might
attach to their resistance.


nave no doubt that at this season or the year
customers are always plentiful enough; but,
with the present great distress upon us, i
fear many who never dreamed OF seeing the
inside Of one OF these shops have been ana are
being forced to have recourse to this means OF
keeping the "hungry wor' from the door, and it
must be recolected that to the needy the smallest
overcharge is OF consequence, were 1T only i've
cents IL will buy loaf.


would therefore, beg that such great advocates
OF the oppressed as the HERALD would lend their
influence in the advocacy OF some measure OF pro-
lection for those having dealings with these money
loaners leel quite satisfied the HERALD needs
only to be made acquainted with any grievance
affecting the public wea and more particularly
tne suffering poor, TO cause 1t to plead earnestly
lor them. A CONSTANT READER.
Year: 1873

TriaI-Woodward Expected To BE Here


by February Next.


There were no new developments as to the Ring
cases yesterday, although it is whispered about
that during the next term OF the oyer and Termi-
Ler there will be plenty OF work for MIR. Phelps
and his assistants in bringing all the indicted
parties TRIALS to an issue. There is great deal OF
talk about the action OF the DIS trict Attorney in
the Genet case the latter's trends alleging that he
is purposely stavlng OF the trial as to make it
interfere with Genet's Albany business; in oLner
words to prevent him from gong to Albany next
month. A gentleman who pretends to know OF
what he afirms states that Woodward will be here
m Eebruary
Year: 1873

humorous lecture for the relief OF the poor,
under the auspices OF the Hebrew Temple Emanuel
will be given at Steinway Hall on next Monday
evening, and promises to be most literally pat
roniZed entertainment. There no people
in the world who SO seldom seek charitable
assistance as those OF Israetish birth, and wnen
they do make an appeal 1t should be honestly and
heartily encouraged, on the principle that 1t is
good policy to help those vino strive TO help them
selves. 1t is hoped that the congregation will re-
ceive from this effort fund OF at eas. 600 in
AID Of their worthy poor.
Year: 1873

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


Recent instances Of the extortion prac-
tised by pawnbrokers urge me to ask your
assistance in bringing the matter to the notice Of
the proper authorities. Inquiries sustain my i'm.
preston that grevous wrong Is being done to
the poor people who avail themselves OF this means
OF relieving their pecuniary embarrassments.
Not only are they at the mercy OF these
''sharks" in regard to the amount advanced. but
more particularly in the matter OF interest, which
ranges to any amount beyond rs per cent they
may deem 1t safe to charge In Q transaction OF
my own with one OF these fellows It was at
tempted to make me pay at the rate OF something
Ike 90 per cent year. Ny objections, however,
to such charge induced him to come down 10
about 80 per cent which he coolly told me was
his minimum rate III any case. Determined not 10
submit, made my case known TO the sergeant In


charge OF the nearest precinct wno reierfeo me 10
the Office OF the Mayors Marsna


was most kindly received by Narsnal Hart, VINO
informed me they were only permitted TO charge
rs per cent q year on sums under $50, and per
| cent n YEAR on sums over that amount and sus-
tanned me In the stand took against such extor-
Year: 1873

OF interest," he declared, which modern ages have
ielt in regard to the features OF Homer would
be felt by future ages in regard TO those
OF the famous author OF the report
Of the select committee on the New York election
clamor against the Increased Salary bill was got
up mainly by demagogues and interested poiti-
cians that he had met his constituents and argued
the question to their entire satisfaction and that
he had no fear OF his ability to convince them again
that his position was correct.


rns b 61 sp OF G
drew distinction between the expression OF the
popular will and the public camor got up by the
demagogues and by sensational press. He had
opposed the original measure for the increase OF
compensation and still believed that II was unwise.
At such time as this especially, when wages all
over the country were being reduced on an aver
age OF 70 per cent, members should not insist on
obtaining an increase OF so per cent, but should
submit to the proposed reduction.


Mr.. WILSON, or Indiana, continued his argument
and claimed to have proved that the last Congress-
In the passage OF the Salary bi had followed in the
footsteps OF their most illustrious predecessors.
The merit or demerit OF the act did not depend on
whether IL was done on the rst or last day OF the
Congress-. Men might differ as to the proper
salary without being either robbers or thieves.
The people, however, had right to demand that
the act OF the last Congress should be repealed.
The people had made that demand, and Congress
was pound to accede to 1t. Whatever Congress
would do would be criticised, but perhaps the best
way of disposng OF the matter was to place the law
would put the bill on that basis.


amendment, proposed BY himself, fixing the salary


Mr.. LYNCH, trep.) OF Miss, argued that whatever
change was TO be made, whether oil increase or
decrease. should not take effect during the present


Mr.. O'BRIEN, (dem.) OF Nd, expressed his inten-
tion TO vote for the repeal of the Salary bill, not
because he thought $500 too large u salary, but
because the people OF Maryland were opposed TO
some features OF the BILL


Mr.. Halls, gepl OF Me-, gave notice thss he
then, at four O'Clock, the House adjourned.
Year: 1873

little, his disconnected thoughts forming
page after page.


He wrote as one writes romance, fact
and fancy seeming blended in his fanciful,
because self-creative fact like, because
what he wrote seemed like what he had
known before He wrote on, until the
tolling bells bespoke the hour Of midnight.


Then he arose from his seat and looked
at the manuscript before him. To him.
with thought struggling against trsacher-
ods memory, the pages meant but little
they seemed but romance dictated by
his mind.


Tie bound the pages together with cord
and laid them away ON the table, little
knowing that he had written what the sin
gle glimpse Of strange face had looked
history Of human life Bat tchose
Year: 1873

The Glrlrd rolling mill, which has been
building since last fall, will be put IN run
ming order by the middle Of August. IL
Was orlginally designed that this mill
should cost one hundred Thousand dollars,
but the cost will be more than this The
building has progressed slowly, but it
promises e. be very neat mill when com-
pleted
Year: 1873

How He CAME TO RlsIGN.-Once upon
n time a local editor dreamed that he was
dead and in another world. He ap.
preached the gate of u city before him
and Knocked for admittanee, but no one
answered bis summons. Tho gate rs.
manned closed against him. Then he
cried aloud for entrance, but the only re
sponses were scores OF heads appearing
above the wall on each side Of the gate
At sight Of HIM tho owners OF the heads
set up dismal howl, and one of them
cried why didn't you notice the big
egg ! gave your AT this horrid and
most unexpected Interrogation, the poor
local turned in the direction Of the voice
TO learn its owner, when another voice
shriekcd, where's tho piece you were
going TO write about my soda tOuntain =
And close upon that was the awful de
maad Why did you write piece about
old Peddles fence, and never say word
about my new gate - Whatever an
swcr he was going to frame TO this ap.
peal was cut shortly of by the astonlsh.
ing query: What did you spell my
name wrong in tho programme forF The
miserable man turned TO flee, when he
was rooted to the spot by the stern de
mand why did you pu. my marriage
among the deaths?' He was on the poiat
Of saying the foreman did IT,, when u
shriIl voice madly cried: What made
you put in my runaway and spoil the sale
Of my horsei' And this was followed
by the voice Of female hysterieally pro
claiming This is tho brute that botch
ed my poetry and made me ridiculoes' :
Whereupon hundreds of voices scream
ed Where's my article? Give me back
my article Aud in the midst Of this
horrid din the poor wretch awoke, per
spring at every pore and screaming for
help. The next day he resigned, and we
had TO hunt up another local editor
DoRbury NeUS.
Year: 1873

Look not on wine, although the cup
BE crimsoned with its ruby stain;
Look not-'tis filed with wormwood up,
AMI blood, and burning tears of pain.
Its fash is as the red bo!tsgl glow,
Lighting the path of death and woe.



Then dash the brimmng cup aside,
And spill its purple wine:
Take not its madness to thy lip
Let not its curse be thine.
Year: 1873

THE PEACH CRoP.-How immense this crop
would be this season, were it full one, can
hardly be imagined. Tuesday of last week,
the day before the break, the shipments amoun-
ted to 1913 carloads, which were the heaviest,
with but one exception, ever shipped over the
road. The largest shipment ever made in one
day was 223 car-loads-in 1871. When we re
fleet that the most extensive peach growing
region, St. Georges and Appoquinimink Hds.,
is not shipping peach, and that Kent county
is not sending away more than one-ffth the
quantity shipped last year, we can form some
idea of tie rapid increase in the tillage of this
crop. A very large proportion of this year
shipments are from the lower part of the Pc
ninsula, a section that has come into the mar.
ket for the first time. The season had not
reached its height when this heavy shipment
was made. Had not the break occurred in the
railroad it is probable that the shipment,
would have reached the highest figure ever at
tanned.
Year: 1873

NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROwNING.- MIR.
Alexander Moody, who lives on one of Mr..
Wm. Polk farms near Odessa, met with a
narrow escape the night of the flood He was
crossing the causeway which leads to the
bridge over Drawers Greek, on the road from
pair of mules to peach wagon belonging to
MIR. Polk. The cauSeway was flooded to the
depth of three or four feet, but Mr.. Moody,
thinking he could ford the water, drove into it..
He made very good progress for while, but a
sudden rush of waters struck his team and it
was carried down the stream. The mules were
drowned, and Mr.. Moody only saved himself
by clinging to the wagon body which was car.
ried down the creek until its progress was
stopped by some obstruction against which il
lodged. MIR. Moody was compelled to remain
in his perilous position until five o'clock next
morning, when he succeeded in reaching the
Ore.-4Niddleto,on Transcript
Year: 1873

THE MAILs.-There seems to be a general
disposition to censure the Railroad Company,
or whoever is responsible, for the delay in the
mails by reason of the railroad break. For
five days the Peninsula was without u mail, and
it Is not known but that the delay would have
continued had not the Postmaster General been
telegraphed to to relieve US ofthe dilemma. |;
is said the kilograms besieged the p. o. Dept
until the delay was remedied. From this dis
tance from the scene it cannot be understood
why the stages could not have been sent ou
tn, next day, if the effort had been made
They were not sent, however, until Saturday
when two 'four-horse teams left Wilmington
heavily laden, and reached Middletown tina
evening and Townsend on Sunday. On Mon
day the train took it at that point, and relieved
US of our isolation and suspense. The fcelin
seems to be that there was unwonted neg
lect in the matter, to use mild term. Eve
south OF US there was no mail from below, o
Saturday, there being no route agent ON tn
train, yet is understood that two were dow
the road, Mcosrs. Lewis and Nichols.
Year: 1873

SHIPPING THE PEACHES. On Thursday
last the peach growers in this vicinity, after
their shock from the railroad calamity, COM
menced TO solve the lamintable shipment prob
lem. Many shipped to Collins and Bombay


Hook, but soon the Pilot Boy was overloaded,
and manifested little accommodation ut best !;
much of the finest fruit of the season was left
to rot on the wharf At once attention was
turned to the Bombay Hook road The track


was completed on the pier on Saturday even
ing, while peach train from the Md. Il Del.
road stood waiting, and the John Nelson, an
odd looking but commodious steamer, from
Phila., formerly used to transport cars across
the river between that city and camden)
mooved to the pier as the last spikes were be-
ing driven to finish the track Many of our
citizens took passage on the peach train to see
the work completed. The work of transferring
the peaches from the cars to the boat was al
once commenced, and on Sunday morning the
first boat load went to the South Jersey road
where the fruit was again reshipped, and again
at Sandy Hook, for New York. Some OF oul
Year: 1873

The new liquor law goes into effect next
Monday, and a movement is on foot in
this town to effect an organization among the
temperance men to see to its faithful obser-
vance. A meeting for this purpose is called
for Friday evening.
Year: 1873

Bangor recountS the odic exploits of me-
dium-szed school-boy, of whom it is said that
"by simply touching with the tips of his fin
gers the back OF chair in which person is
seated, the sitter will be thrown quite across
the room." Which is a species of galvanc
assault and battery shocking to think of,
Year: 1873

EARLY FALL PLoUGHING.-Some of the
advantages of early ploughing are as fol-
lows:


l. The land can be ploughed cheaper then
than in the spring, because the teams are


kept cheaper, and you are not SO much lur-
ried with team work.
and turned over, which should always be
done, you get rid of all the worms which eat
up large share of the corn on such fields, ex-
cept the wire-worms.


3. The crop is much easier to take care of


by having the land at planting time as mel
low, light and lively as field is in Septem-


Der, that was ploughed in June, as farmers


frequently do, for rye.


A. You get as much better crop of corn by
preparing the land in thar way as you do by
preparing the land for rye by summer fallow-
ing.


5. You in this way are always sure that
the land is well cultivated for OATS and will
never need to plant field two seasons to get


the land subdued, and only get about one


large crop.


6. If you intend to spread manure over


those fields, it is much better to have the
land ploughed first and then let the manure


be left on the surface, or narrowed when you


harrow before planting
7. 1t is a wonderful sight easier and pleas
anter to let the land grow mellow itself, by
letting those old grass roots die and rot on
their own hook and at their own expense,
than it is for you to plough, harrow and Zoe
and hurry their decay in shorter length of
time.


8. T. is much easier to kill those grubs by
ploughiug the land, so that they never get
there, than it is to be digging them out of
the corn and replanting all the fore part of


season.


8. 1t makes farmer feel more cheerful to
see every kernel of corn he plants growing
vigorous and healthy, unmolested by those
grubs, than he can feel after they have eaten
| one-half, and are making vigorous charge
| for the rest.


10 1.-THE second and third planting gets ripe
there is no danger of soft corn among the
| first planted, and then the land is ready to
seed one year earlier.
Now, all the objections know Of are these,
1st. You lose little feed in both fall and
spring which you would get. I'd. If you
manure the field, it is harder work for the
team to haul it after the land is ploughed,
unless YOU leave roads for that purpose.
Now, if these two objections are a majority
over the other ten advantages, then let your


stiff old swarded lands lie till late the next


spring, and then lay corn and worms to-


gether, till one overpowers the other.