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Year: 1875

"The great difficulty in this country
is, that we have no time for anything.
The very walk Of an American shows
that be is insahurry. An Englishman
buttons bis coat and gloves, and goes
to business as deliberately as be goes
to church. An American business man
flies after the car. struggles with bis
coat sleeves as be runs, plunges in head
foremost, and plunges out at the end
without regard to his neck. Chief
amongst our accidents stand those
which occur because people jump upon
flying trains, or after departing boats.
To wait ten minutes is something not
to be thought Of Dinner is not eaten,
it is swallowed whole; and when one
comes to dessert be finds that the fruit
was picked before it was ripe.


Everything is hurried through,
from the building Of house to the cur
ing Of a ham. The women who work
on sewing machines stop before they
come to the end Of the seam, The
dress-maker sends home your dress
with basting threads 10 it, and no loops
to hang it up by.


There is none Of the slow. sure
completeness of the old world about
anything, and even fortunes are made
in hurry, and also spent in the same
way. If any man we know is getting
rich BY slow and patient process of
saving. be sure that be was not born
on this continent.


Yet people live as long here as they
do anywhere else, and the days are the
same length. Why is it that We have
no time for anythingT"
Year: 1875

Two men had to go through grea
wood. One of them was short ant
stout, and one was tall and slim.
Il could not run fast or climb well,
said the short one; If a foe, man ol
beast came on me | should have tc
stand my ground


Have no fear, said the slim man,
i can run fast and climb we'll ; but
still it is my rule to stand my ground
l would fight for you to the last. l
fear no man or beast, not l. Hark !!
what is that noise 2


Il am sure,' said the short man,
that is the growl Of a bear; l know
there are bears in this wood,


The bear was soon in sight. The
tall man ran a short way and bid 10
tree. The short man fell fiat on his
face on the ground and held his breath.
The bear came to him, smelt MIN, anu
thought be was dead. So be left him,
and with a gruff growl or two went his
way.


When the bear was out Of sight the
short man rose from the ground and the
tall one came down from the tree.


What did the bear say to you my
friend p said the tall man to the short
one. Il saw him put his mouth close
70 your ear


He told me to put no trust in one
Who brags in the way you do, for those
who boast so much are not brave. =
Year: 1875

BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT.-One pound
of gold may be drawn into wire that
would extend around the globe. So
one good deed may be felt through all
time, and casts its influence into etern-
ity. Though done 10 the FIRST flush of
youth. it may gladden. the last Of long
life. and form the brightest and most
glorious spot in it.
Year: 1875

Fading beneath our passing feet, 80 srfs
Strewn upon lawn and lane and street,


Beautiful leaves
Dyed with the hues of the sunset sky,
Falling in glory so silently,


Beautiful leaves
Never 10 freshen another spring,
Never to know what the summer may bring


Beautiful leaves!
Withered beneath the frost and cold,
Soon to decay in the common mould,
Beautiful leaves
Soon will the years that change your tint,
Mark upon us their autumnal print,


Beautiful leaves!
So shall we fall from the tree of time,
Fade as ye fade ID a wintry cline,


Beautiful leaves!
But when the harvest of life is past,
And we wake in the eternal spring at last,


Beautiful leaves
Nay he who paints your brilliant hue
Form our lives a chaplet new,
Beautiful leaves
Year: 1875

Glue is splendid healing agent
Get pure imported glue and dissolve
it. Spread il on a rag in the shape
of plaster and apply it 10 cuts,
chaps or bruises. Wrap the plaster
with moist cloth to keep the glue
soft. The deepest cuts will quickly
heal under this Inexpensive treats
ment.
Year: 1875

Five men are now in Jail at Yank-
ton, because they were unable to give
two hundred dollar bonds each for
their appearance at the next term OF
the district court, to answer to the
charge of going upon the Sioux lndi-
an reservation. OF this, the Press and
Dakotaian complains rather bitterly,
and as we deem it, very justly. These
men were endeavoring to make their
way into the Hills from the Missouri
river, when they were arrested and
paroled. They. went into camp to
await the opening Of the Hills, but
were attacked by the Indians and
robbed, so that they we're compelled
to hunt up the military and surrender
themselves to keep from starving,
Being but few in number and not IN
tie Hills, they are at once marched OFT
to the nearest Jail and incarcerated.
This may be all right; these men have
probably violated the letter Of the law
and their punishment may be proper
enough. But if these men have yio-
lated the law in trying to get into the
Hills, how about the thousand or fif-
teen hundred men already in tho
Hills? 1t can not be said that the
government is not aware of this state
Of facts. General Crook is in the
Black Hills, check by jowl, with these
same men and politely asking them to
secure their claims aud retire, but in
stead of retiring, men are flocking in
to the Hills daily and stalking out
their claims right under the nose
of the general commanding the
department. Letters upon let
tiers have been written and
published announcing that the Hill
I are virtually open to miners from the
Union Pacific Railroad. One writer
announces that all that is necessary
in getting across the ferry is to dis
playa ten dollar bill.


fhere are probably ten soldiers sta
toned on the Union Pacific side of
the Hills, to where there is one on
the Missouri River side. Still when
mine!s attempt to 90 in from the
Missouri river side, they are confront
ed with cavalry and gatling guns
from the department Of the Platte,
their property destroyed and the men
impris oned as common felons.


Why this unjust discrimination? II
Colonel Mills could come from his Dc
partment, over to the Niobrara to in
tercept Gordon and destroy his train
could he not intercept the miners who
are daily passing through his depart
ment into the very same country fo
which Gordon was aiming?


"There is something rottonin Den
mark, and we think the time ha
come when /" forbearance ceases to b
avirtue." The people of Dakot
have right to demand that the sam,
privileges be extended to them, tina
are extended to others. We shall no
sit down quietly and see, our citizen
i.lcarcerated in in Jail for attempting
TO get into the Black Hills of Dakots


while fifteen hundred men are work


ing undisturbed in that ferbidde


land, merely because they saw prope
to patronize the Union Pacific railroa


in getting there.
Year: 1875

TOBY CANDoR says that the fact that the
Eastern managers control a majority of the
stock of the Maine Central, did not prevent
them from giving Maine majority OF the
board of directors. No; dear Toby, it was
the statute of the state which requires that a
majority of the directors of railroads in this
state shall be residents of the state, that pre-
vented them from selecting majority from
the Eastern Railroad directors.
Year: 1875

A GREAT many people are looking to see
what answer the stockholders of the Eastern
or the Boston papers will make to the charge
of Judge Shepley, that the stock of the Maine
Central necessary to control the organization
was purchased by money taken from the
treasury of the Eastern Railway Company.
Year: 1875

SAN FRANCISCO is indignant at the way
her school affairs are conducted. 1t appears
from an investigation just finished that a
waiter in the Cosmopolitan Hotel and one
OF the janitors in the service of the School
Department have been selling teachers po-
sitions, and that the bargains have been
ratified by the Board of Education. The
matter is now in the hands of the grand jury.
Year: 1875

for the relief of the South at the expense OF
the North. 1t will be seen that the success
OF the plan depends entirely upon a Demo-
cratic victory in 1876. Those who do not
care to pay the debts of the ex-rebel states
will have an opportunity to express their
dissent by their votes.
Year: 1875

A PAINFUL account comes from Connecti-
cut of Intervention in public building, and
of the election of citizen therefrom by
armed force. Gen. Green, the chairman of a
the court room in Hartford by two men,
armed with policemen's billets, just because
he accused the presiding judge of lying. Will
the people of Connecticut permit this out
rage by Republican official TO pass unre-
buked?
Year: 1875

THERE appears to be grave misapprehen-
sion as to the degree of civilization of the
ancient tribes of the Pacific coast. The gen.
eral opinion is that they were little better
than savages. But Mr.. Hubert Bancroft in
his history, says that they. used to make cigars
about three feet long. A tribe which has the
faculty Of multiplying its joys to so great an
extent as this must be far indeed from the
savage state.
Year: 1875

A New SwINDLE.- Pro Bono Pub
lico" contributes this to the San Francis
co Chronicle "There seems to be more
baretaced robbery committed on the peo-
the American continent. 1t looks as if
people loved to be swndled. II seems
scarcely worth while to notice the small
swind!es whilst SO many large ones exist
which should be exposed but sharpers
are just now swndling ignorant house
keepers in a small way by selling them a


powder that they state will prevent oil
from exploding in lamps. 1t is not gen
orally known that oil will not explode in
lamps if the shoppers be removed and fire
applied. The oil merely blazos up. So
certain sharpers are taking advantage Of
this knowledge and are swindling the ig-
norant by selling them boxes Of worthless
powder made of chalk, colored with indi-
go, ETC., which they put in the oil, and to
convince the ignorant, they apply a
match. The match might be as safely
applied without the powder. But the
public doesn't know that, and hence the
bogus powder sells like hot cakes in some
sections. 1t is not only a swindle, but
a dangerous one, inasmuch as certain
people might tamper too carelessly with
oil colored with the bogus anti explosive
powder. The loss Of the price Of it would
be small, compared with the loss perhaps
of their lives in consequence of their faith
in bogus powder"
Year: 1875

STAGE READIN Ess. The London EchO
gives the following anecdote from for
eign cotemporary Gobart, the French
actor, whose speciality was the impors on
alton of Napoleon |, was troubled with
an infrmty Of memory, in consequence
Of which, all letters handed TO him to be
read on tho STAGE had really to contain
the words he was to deliver. In some
military piece or other the Emperor had
to receive letter from his adjutant and
read it aloud to bis assembled officers. A
certain Gautier, the wag Of the theatcr,
acted the adjutant, and one evening in.
stead of giving Gobart the written letter,
he handed him blank sheet OF paper.
The actor took it, and perceiving the trick
that had been played upon him, returned
the mssivc with perfect gravity to Gau-
tier, saying, " Read it yourself, General"
Gautier, who did not know a word Of the
part aud was too much taken aback to
extemporize, could not extricate himself
from his position before the public had
discovered his discontinue. Gobart's
readiness was, indeed, almost as remark
able as that Of less celebrated actor,
whose forte was part OF Richard Ill.
At the approach Of one of his best points
a hostile clique induced the supers to nc
cost him with, my lord, we've taken
Buckingham and cut his head off.
"'Tis we'll" said he !" had it not been
so should have said, off with his head
so much for Buckingham l"-thus got
ting in his great effect after all.
Year: 1875

The ty-trap man arrived in Nicksburg
a few days ago. He was a long-eared
man, having a very solemn expression OF
countenance and red nose. The red on
his nose might have come from sun burn
and it might have come from crooked
whisky, but there was no question but he
was an earnest man and an honest one.
He went right to business as soon as
coming up the hill. He met man on
the walk-a man who was in great rush
to get to the bank-and rs he took him
by the buttonhole, he said


"Mister, have arrove in Vicksburg
for the purpose Of selling the Boston fly
trap"


"Arrove to thunder with you /" ex-
claimed the little man trying to break
away.


The hy-trap man walked slowly down
Washington street, looking at the sights,
and in about ten minutes, he came upon
the red-headed man again, who had fin
ished his business at the bank.


81 have arrove in Vicksburg for the
purpose Of giving your citizens a" he
commenced, when the red headed man
shouted


"What do care where you've arrove
to Don't stop me on the street again,
sir !"


The fy-trap man went into n store and
tried to trade fy-traps for some calico,
and failing to make the exchange, he
crossed the street, and approached man
who was whistling for his dog.


"Mster, | have arrove-" he was GO
ing on to say, when he saw it was the
same little red headed man.


"See here" said the little man, "didn't
l warn you never to say fy-trap to me
again ?"


at is an excellent trap"


"Well, you keep away from me-keel
right away" continued the little man, a.
he walked off.


He went into a grocery, and had some
coffee put up, and was just coming out
when the hy-trap man came along, ant
said


Mister, l have arrove here in orde,
to-n


The little man smiled He said thai
he had been looking for a fly y-trap--a good
tly-trap this many years, and he wanted
to buy eighteen of them. He asked the
fly-trap man to follow him home, anc
they were seen on the street together
They were seen half-mile above the
city by one party, and mile above tha
by two boys, since which time no one has
secured a clue to the fate of the ny-traI
man. The red-headed man came back,
looking tired, and his finger done up in a
rag, and he refuses to answer any ques-
tions. We believe there has been foul
play, and we hope the police will make
every effort to ferret out the guilty party.
Hearts may be aching for the return of
the Ay-trap man, and even if he be dead, f.,
we suspect it will be some consolation for
his widow to sit beside his grave, and re-
member he was kind hearted as well as
earnest VickSbtrg Herdid.
Year: 1875

RATTLEsNAKE BITE A post Office
agent travelling in Texas, tells of the sue
cessful use Of the gall Of tho rattlesnake
for the cure for the bite of that reptile.
In the case spoken of, relief was almost
instantaneous to tho patient, who was
writhing in great pain, rapidly swelling,
and becoming purple. A friend of the
writer, who spent several years in Cali
fornia and New Mexico, saw the same
remedy successfully used among the In
dians in the latter country. In one case
nm Indians dog near the camp was bitten
in the nose By large rattlesnake. The
Indians Immediately opened the reptile,
and administered the gall. The cure was
rapid and effectual.
Year: 1875

IT would do your heart good to see how
Detroit girl will rally from broken
engagement and slide up to another fell
Ter. 1t takes seven failures to make her
look sad around the mouth, and then her
pluck has only to weaken a trAe.-De-
tl'oit free Press.
Year: 1875

BY REQUEST.
Come back, o, Comet
Ny heart is weary with thy long delay
There is no sweetness in the summer
day,
No sound of music in the Robins call,
No benedietiOn in the twilight's fall,
The starry heavens are dark, and all


The earth is dumb.


Come back to me:
Imiss thy presence as the blossoms miss
The beauty of the SUMS awakening kiss;
What favoring gales are to becalmed
ships,
What cooling draughts to fever-parched
lips,
What the strong hand to him who faints
and slips,


Thou art to me.


Ali / have loved
To dream of thee through the long SOL
emn even;
As weary pilgrim dreams of rest and
heaven,
To feel through all my loneliness and
dread,
The thought of thee run like golden
thread,
Or some sweet poem thy dear lips have
read,


My best beloved.


Come back, o, come:
Come with thy smile, to light the sum-
mer day,
Come with thy love to glorify the way,
Come with thy tender charm of touch
and tone,
Come with thy presence. which shall
well atone
For all the sadness which my heart hath
known


Come back, beloved.


KATE.
MP.DnU D.rE
Year: 1875

At Hamburg. the keepers Of the Zoo
thought that il would be more economical
to give the elephant stone floor as the
wooden one had to be replaced to9 often
One was laid, but the elephant would not
lie down upon it to sleep. Something told
him that if he did he could not get up
again. Hence he slept standing or lean


ns against the wall. But the other, night
his feet slipped when doing, and he came
down. lie could not get up in fact, I'D
twenty men with ropes, pulleys, and in
gcnious contrivances worked all day trying
to get him up lie was, finally raised un-
til his feet were four inches above the
floor, when the hinder ropes broke, leaving
the poor beast hanging by the neck. BE
gave one pitcous rotr and was dead.
Year: 1875

Probably there Is no complaint that aflicts the
human system which is so little understood at the
present time as some Of the varied forms of Kid
ney Complaints.


There Is no disease which causes such acute pain
more alarming In its results than when the kid
fail to secret from the blood the uric acid and
other poisonous substances which the blood accu-
mulates In Its circulation through the system.


II from any cause the kidneys fail to perform the
functions devolvtng upon them, the cumulAttons
are taken up by the absorbents and the whole sys-
tenn thrown into q state OF disease. causing great
pain and suffering, and very often immediste DEATH
Hence the Importance OF keeping the kidneys and
blood in healthy condition, throug Oh which all the
impurities of the body must pass.
Year: 1875

There came near being sensation in
this city this forenoon, but happily it
was averted. A well-to-do farmer and
his wife came to town with some butter,
and not being able to dispose Of it sat
isfactorily to the grocers, he drove up to
a private residence, where he had a
slight acquaintance with the family. He
got out, hitched his horses. and, leaving
his wife in the wagon, opened the gate,
and going round to the back door, rap
ped thereon. A voice from within an
swered, bidding him come in. The lady
of the house was there alone, busily en-
gagged in kneading dough. He told her
that he had some butter to sell, and
wanted to know if she desired any. She
replied that she did, wanted to know the
price, etc. He told her. She said she
would take all he had, which was five
pounds. But here was dilemma. Her
money was in her pocket-book, and her
pocket book was in the bosom of her
dress. Her hands were covered with
-four and dough, and she did not wish
to soil her dress, or take the trouble to
wash her hands; SO. after few mo-
ments of hesitation. she told the Gran.
ger where her money was, and request
ed him to take it out for her. With a
ehivalry so characteristic Of the sterner
sex, he hastened to oblige her. For
some unaccountable reason he couldn't
find it. The situation was embarrass-
ing. He had been gone so long that
his wife was getting uneasy, and had
called to him two or three times. He
didn't want to leave, however, without
his money, and SO he kept on hunting.
At last his wife made up her mind that
she would 60 and see what had become
of him. This she did, and had it not
been for her sudden appearance on the
scene, we firmly believe that he would
have been hunting for that money yet.
= IGtuSViHe, Pa Herald.
Year: 1875

On this subject the Poultry Review
has the following pertinent and suggeS-
tive remarks Would it not be wise to
substitute more eggs for meat in our dai-
ly diet About one-third of the weight
of an egg is solid nutriment. This is
more than can be said Of meat. There
are no bones or tough pieces that have
to be laid aside. A good egg is made
up of 10 parts shell, 80 parts white, and
80 parts yolk. The white of an egg
contains Sc per cent. water, the Yolk of
an egg 50 per cent. The average weight
of an egg is about two ounces. Practi-
cally an egg is animal food, and yet
there is none Of the disagreeable work
for the butcher necessary to obtain it.
The vegetarians of England use eggs
freely, and many of these men are eighty
or ninety years old, and have been re.
markably free from illness. Eggs are
best when cooked four minutes. This
takes away the animal taste that is Of
fensive to some, but does not harden the
white or yolk as to make them hard to
digest. An egg, if cooked very hard,
is difficult of digestion, ex cept by those
with stout stOmachs such eggs should
be eaten with bread and masticated very
finely. An egg spread on toast is food
fit for king, if kings deserve any bet
ter food than anybody else which is
doubtful. Fried eggs are less whole
some than boiled ones. An egg drop
ped into hot water is not only clean
and handsome, but delicious morsel.
Most people spoil the taste Of their eggs
by adding pepper and salt. A little
sweet butter is the dressing. Eggs con
tain much PHOSPHORUS, which is sup
posed to be useful to those who use their
brains much.
Year: 1875

As test of nerve, the recent expert
ence Of wayfarer travelling through
wood road near Olympias, Washington
Territory, was as remarkable as any on
record. The man was a speculator,
looking out wild land, and he trudged
through the forest, following the almost
unused path formed by an old road made
by pioneers in the wilderness. His
mind was devoted to one subject-the
critical examination of the kind of trees
upon the land about him, and of the
character of the soil, and he failed to
notice for sometime the ''pit-a-pat'' on
The dead leaves beside him. He at first
seafeely looked down when he felt some
thing rubbing against his legs and heard
a slight purring sound, but when he did
look his heart came up to his mouth aud
a cold sweat started as though he was
suspended by weak rope over Niagara.
! Pressing itself softly against his legs,
twining about him as he walked, moving
its infezible body swiftly, but with nev-
er sound, turning up fierce eyes with
something almost like terrible laugh
at him was a huge cougar No chicken
was this man in the woods, but his ac-
count of the manner in which his hat
was raised by his hair is not to be con-
sidered apocryphal at all. Sleek and
supple and muscular the beast glided
about, and at intervals would come closer
again. and press its body against the
legs of the man, the light touch making
goosefesh of every inch of his form. 1t
was a terrible experience, that interview
with the cougar in the forest prlmeval,
and it is well for the man that his nerves
we're of the kind to do honor to
frontier adventurer. Steadily pur-
suing his course with steps that
would falter occasionally, he kept on,
and with him the beast continued its
treacherous gambols. At times it would
/ glide few steps in front, and roll over
in the road, and wait for the man to
come up, and then it would circle around
him until the impulse, almost too strong
to be resisted, would come upon him to
spring upon the brute, opposing fists to
fangs, and ending the intolerable sus-
pension at any risk The movements of
the terrible animal were but as the
playing of cat with mouse, and the
man knew it. The moment came at
length, when the strain could be borne
no longer, and the man kicked desper-
ately at the beast as it passed him. In
a moment it bounced in front and crouch
ed for spring, growing hoarsely and
showing its teeth. The man stopped and
shouted hopelessly for aid. while the
cougar did not spring at once, but ap-
peared waiting to crafty its humor a
little longer. The shout, fortunately,
was not In vain.


There were hunters and dogs in the
immediate vicinity, as rare fortune would
have it, and the hounds dashed sudden
ly from the covert as the cougar, seeing
them leaped for tree. A few minutes
later the beast fell victim to the bull
lets, and the man with whom ithad TAX
en- stroll was telling his story and try
ing to restore the natural condition of
his nerves by internal application from
small flask. 1t was one of the epi-
sodes which turn mems hair gray, one
which would, doubtless, have brought
death to the man with less nerve than
the hero of the affair-Dascaginac
Monitor.