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Year: 1873

PhilanthroPic Movements for the Allc-


Walton of Distress at Yonkers.


The gloomy prospect for skilled labor in West
chester county has not improved during the past
week, and there is now little hope that any change
Tor the better can take place before the commence
ment OF the New Year. This supposed turning
point in the present disordered condition OF nnan-
cial affairs is being eagerly looked
forward to by thousands OF operatives
now out or employment, and whose condition
must be rendered deplorable indeed should their
simple confidence in the restoration OF trade at
tnat time have been misplaced. At Yonkers mat
ters are even more disheartening than when last
portrayed in the HERALD as within the past few
uays OF the largest hat factories in that city
has entirely suspended operations, While all Of the
other manufacturing establishments are, with
two exceptions, working short time and gradu-
ally reducing the number OF their operatives. The
humane matter of aifording relief to the needy
during tile approaching winter. AT the last meet
ing OF the ColImon' Council resolution was
adopted requesting the President OF the Board OF
Water Commissioners and the chairmen OF the FL
nance and street Committees to confer with the
Mayor devise means Tor furnishing the destitute
Taborng classes with work during the winter. The
cerVymen OF the various churches are also be-
stirring themselves, and during the past week
have been In consultation with some OF the well-to-
DO citizens. to the end that plan may be per-
iected whereby the impending distress would he
aeyiated
Year: 1873

1t is one of the most difficult things IN


the world to tell an indiscreet friend OF his
faults in such a manner as ut once TO admOn-
ish him Of his danger from them and refrain


from exciting in him such a sense OF humlll-
alton or resentment at the reminder as may


tend rather to his defiant persistence than


grateful reform and yet more difficult Is 1t


to advise husband or wife of the others de-
fects without producing almost the exact con
trary of the saving effect intended. In fact
the matrimonial state, whatever its internal
discordanees, involves TO the very last an as
similative ins tinct of ''oneness which makes
any condemn ation of either pa rtner to the
other virtual ly the same as accusation OF sell,
and conseq uently an instigatlon more TO
angry perveAsity than to thankful avail
ment. The present so oeial sensation at Al
toona, Pa, according to the Tribune there
of, seems to be such an illustration OF this
truth as may be obsery ed to advantage by
many OF the volunteer censors OF private
neighborh)ods. Three ,Tears after young
manufacturer had broug bit fair bride from
the West to reside in II village near the
town just mentioned, the friendly neighbcrs
thought that they perceived in the lady 5
manners in society tendency to light-mlnd-
edness, OF which her apparently unconscious
husband should take more cognizance.t From
what they esteemed the most beneficent mo-
tive in the world, some Of them proceeded
thereupon to gossip of the matter so loudly
that the young man should BE- sue to hear
of it. The effect was this ; Both husband
and wife heard it, and W lille the former
was at once miserably tor tured and made
through Indignation to assume an appearance
of Indifference thereby, the latter became
more frivolous in her conduct than ever
Year: 1873

RAIrH WALDO TO TIE CHILDREV.-A few
DAYS ago Mr. Emeison addressed these words
to the pupils Of Boston school " / wish
TO say one word OF two to the boys and girls.
Everything depends upon You and YOU alone
in the future. hope You read the right
books am afraid there are too many story
books. too many newspapers that the young
people do not read quite as good books As
their fathers did. At the same time wish
to say to the hoys, let them read Scott. let
them read Plutrch, let them read Mrs Edge
worth's stories. There is a noble life that
vou will have 20 read or ought to read-the
life of Sir Philip Sidney, that hero and pat
tern of the times and age in which he lived.
His friend, his lover, Lord Brooke, says of
him that in youth, as a child he had the same
bearing and carriage As a man that in hi
youth there was nothing to distinguish him
from the man who afterward was the hero OF
Europe. The same gravity, the same solidity
belonged to him then as aiterward. IL i, re-
markahle that some Of the better English
people have been the same think it be-
longs as much to Us that the highest trait,
should also appear III the form Of the child
But | see am taking too much time, and
will say no more. -
Year: 1873

TREATMENT OF CHoLERA.-A physician of
New York, whose treatment in cholera has
been very successful, writes to the Times of
that city as follows:


First let me say that have no 'stereo-
typed mode of practice, either for this or
any other disease, which is so yauntingly
put forth as almost oracular by many, who
probably never saw 4 case of cholera; for it
is well known that it assumes variety Of
forms and requires varied course to suit
each individual case. One of the most pow
erful aids we possess is the steam-bath, and
in the absence of proper apparatus it can be
effected by placing the patient in bed and
wrapping him in woolen blankets ,wrung out
of water as hot as can be borne, and dry
blankets over all. Cover the abdomen with
a linseed poultice, bottles of hot water
about him and at his feet ice to quench
thirst. Frictions with dry fannels are use
full, should they not produce spasms by too
much motion Of the patient; if so they will
do more harm than good, and should be dis
continued. Astringents, as tannin, and
stimulants, as brandy, ether, ammonia, in
ternally, and moist heat externally is the
proper course"
Year: 1873

are the most hopeful, and the Shakers are
the most retiring and between them all, no
American need go without form of wor-
ship, or popularity of dogma exactly fitted
to his taste or necessity.-Montpelie' Watch
llnr
Year: 1873

The Montpelier Freeman has few words
of advice for those who have welded for
life with some mental reservations, the re-
suit of which is unhappy marriages. 1t
admits there are some pairs having nothing
in common, 50 that not even the grace of
God could make them happy together.
But as a general thing a right spirit makes
happy homes. Neither party should ever
expect to bring the other to an ideal
standard. If parties rOuid love, they can
always find loyable traits in their compan-
IONS, if they iciH hate they can always find
enough to hate. When parties are married
they need to become one in purpose. If
the husband is intent upon professional
success, and the wife sees her ideal existence
sin society :" if one Is absorbed in aecumu-
lating wealth. and the other cares only to
"enjoy life - if one desires the song and
prattle of children and the other has no
patience with children; if one is a mission
airy and the other is miser in spirit and
plan Of life, it is plain to any observer that
discord if not divorce will obtain, unless
there be coming together in respect to the
object and work Of life. In the earlier years
of mechanics, merchants's or professional
mans career his wife must endure much
sci f-denia! and hardship if she would see
him successful man. Finally, marriage
is just about what the parties make it.
Year: 1873

AK lex PAss.-There is a pass in the
Catskill mountains, between Shandakin
Center and Westkill, Ulster county,
where snow and ice can be found at all
seasons of the year. A road runs some
five miles up a deep hollow, bounded on
two sides by high mountains, with a clear
ice cold stream Of water rnnning down
its center. Stretching across the head of
this hollow is apOther mountain, some
what higher than the others, that made
mo think this passageway had suddenly
terminated in sort of cI de sac, but
upon arriving at the base the road turns
directly to the right and enters a narrow
pass-hardly fifty feet in width. On the
sides the mountain towers upwards a
thousand feet from the road way, but so
steep that when the trees have shed their
foliage the top can be seen by a person
standing at the foot There is snow and
ice during the hottest days of Summer a
te@ feet from the roadway. There are
large masses of solid ice in some caves
not further than five feet from the road.
Strange as it may seem, the growth of
vegetation is very rank, the lichens espe-
eially covering the rocks profusely, though
animals are very scarce, it being too cold
for their comfort.
Year: 1873

The LAKE CHANPLAIN SERPENT. - That
great unrivalled humbug, the Lake Cham
lain snake, after having been killed several
times, finally becomes the subject-or rather
the principal-of n splendid practical Joke.
A resident of Whitehall, and one who is
considered in every way responsible, wrote
to a friend in Port Henry, that his snake
ship had been taken, and was lying on the
Whitehall dock, the observed of all observ-
ers. He described him as being iifty-eight
feet long and about twenty inches in diam
eter, and that they would keep him in
Whitehall for day or two and then shin
him off to be embalmed, preparatory to his
being placed in the Museum of Anatomy in
Albany. OF course the news soon spread
and quite a number took the boat for White
hall to see the monster. One of the BOYS on
his return was asked by your correspondent
if he had seen the wonder. He replied
with dignity that he had had that pleasure.
and being asked to tell how and under
what circumstances, he said that on his ar
rival at Whitehall he met some friends and
asked them concerning the snake, they told
him it could be seen and they led him off
in the direction of the hotel, and was told
that it was in a large box or something in
the hotel. Unsuspectingly he went into
the hotel and, before he knew it, was in
front of the bar, and his conductors. swal-
lowing handkerchiefs, but making the best
Of it he bought like man.-Port Henrv
Cor. Troy Press.
Year: 1873

THE EsCArE OF NOUNG, THE MONEY ORDER
FoRGER.-The successful feat performed by
John W. Young, the party who was being
conveyed to Chicago for trial on a charge
of uttering forged money orders on the
Post Office Department, and who escaped
from custody by leaping from tine cars, was
one of the most hazardous movements in
the life Of the notorious adyen.urcr. One
of the United States Deputy Marshals who
had Young in charge has returned to Bos-
ton, and this is his version Of the affair


Young had suffered from extreme nervous
affection, brought on by his confinement in
jail, and on the day of his escape, which Oc-
CURED about one O'Clock in the afternoon,
he was suffering somewhat from dysentery
The prisoner and his two eGst0dians Occu-
pied seats in a Pullman palace car, in which
were also several ladies. Young feigned To
be extremely i'll, and his appearance excit-
ing the sympathy Of the female passengers,
pillows were brought from the sleeping car,
his head was bandaged, and ice applied to
his aching brow. So successfully did he
counterfeit extreme bodily suffering, that
one OF the ladies. who had served as nurse
during the rebellion. expressed tno opinion
that he was rapidly sinking. and could not
live to reach Chicago. The officer in charge
of Young did not take quite so much stock
in the case, and kept a sharp eye on him,
never allowing him to leave his seat with
out following him.


During a temporary repose which the
Deputy Marshal sought, after several sleep
less nights, and while Young, in charge of
another officer, was propped up on pillows
with his head bandaged, he called for
glass of iee-water. The guard had no soon
or proceeded to the water-tank than Young
sprang from his couch, rushed to the plat
form unseen by any one, and leaped from
the train, which was going az the rate OF at
least twenty-five miles an hour. The train,
which was within three and half miles Of
the Edgerton Station, and one hundred and
twenty miles from Chicago, was stopped as
soon as the escape ofYoung was discovered,
and the officers went back, expecting moth
ing less than to find him dead beside the
track But he was nowhere to be seen, and
although two days were spent by the Off
GERS, and about forty citizens in securing
the country, no trace of the man could be
found.-B0stoR Journal.
Year: 1873

The dread of death is universal and
instructive; and yet how many rush
into its arms Suicide is most i'm
pressive fact in this connection. The
disappointed lover, the discouraged ad-
venturer, the suspected clerk, the child
wounded in its selflove or fearful of
punishment, faces the great enemy and
invites its blow. Every now and then
the community is shocked by suicides
so unprovoked and so frequent as al
most to persuade us that the natural
fear of death is passing away. The
inconsistency is easily explained.
Lord Bacon says there is no passion
that will not overmaster the terror of
death. For passion is thoughtless;
occupied wholly with an immediate
suffering, it makes no estimate of any
other kind of pain; absorbed in an in
Simultaneous sorrow, it takes no other
sorrow into account. The mind enter
tains but one passion at a time, wheth-
er it be joy Or fear. But men are not
always or generally undert the influence
Of passion. Ordinary life is calm, cal
culating, conslderate, and it is to ordi-
nary life that death is so terrible.


1t is the thought of death that is
terrible, not death. Death is gentle,
peaceful, painless instead of bringing
suffering, it brings an end Of suffering.
1t is misery's cure. Where death is,
agony is rot. The processes of death
are all friendly. The near aspect of
death is gracious There is a picture
somewhere Of fearful face. livid and
ghastly, which the beholder gazes ON
with horror, and would turn away
from, but for the hideous fascination
that not only rivets his attention, but
draws him closer to it. On approach
ing the picture the hideousness disap-
pears, and when directly confronted it
is not any more seen; the face is the
face of an angel. 1t is picture of
death; and the object of the artist was
to impress the idea that the terror of
death is an apprehension. Theodore
Parker, whose observation of death
was very large, has said he never saw
person of any belief, condition or ex-
perience, unwilling to die when the
time came. Death is an ordinance of
Nature, and ike every ordinance of
Nature, is directed by benefcent laws
to beneticent ends. What must be, is
made welcome. Necessity is beauti-
Year: 1873

The Burlington Free Press, which
says it is not the organ of Gov. Smith,
alluding to the report of the legislative
investigating committee concerning
the managers of the Vermont Central
railroad, declared that every member
of the committee knew that the mana.


gers were innocent of the charges pre-
ferred against them, and would have
said so if they had dared to. 1t does
not inform its readers whose influence
prevented the committee from making
an exculpatory report. If there is a
public sentiment in Vermont which
prevented the committee from making
a white washing report, it is crafty
ing evidence that the people Of that
State are more honest than some Of
its prominent citizens seem to be, and
sustains what the 1raveller has said
on this point. The discredit resting
upon the State in connection with rail


road management is due to the subser


viency of a portion of the press, and
the weakness of the Judiciary, rather
than to corruption among its people.
Year: 1873

CAUSE AND REMEDY OF GRAY HAIR
AN intelligent medical writer has
recently asserted that an undue pro-
portion of lime in the system is the
cause of premature gray hair, and ad-
vises to avoid hard WATER either for
drinking pure, or when converted into
tea, coffee, or soup, because hard
water is always strongly impregnated
with lime. Hard water, may, how
ever be softened by boiling it; let it
become cold, and then use it as a
beverage. 1t is not generally known
that liquid that will color the human
hair black and not stain the skin, may
be made by taking one part of bay
rum, three parts of olive oil, and one
part of good brandy, by measure. The
hair is to be washed with this mixture
every morning, and in n short time the
use of it will make the hair beautiful
black, without injuring it in the least.
The articles must be ofthe best quality,
mixed in a bottle, and shaken well
before applied.
Year: 1873

EXCESSIVE SMOKING late num-
Der of the New York Medical Gazette
contains an article on the i'll effects
produced by the excessive smoking of
tobacco, from which we take the fol-
lowing extract;


"Besides the necessary effect upon
the head, of the marked irritating ac-
ton, is the superabundant secretion of
saliva. and of the humors salulary in
their nature, destined, when in due
proportion, to maintain the first acts in
the digestive process. And these
abundant secretions not usually at the
cessation of the stimulus become alter
ed, with remarkable dryness Of the
fauces, of the tongue, and OF the eso-
phagus, which obliges the smoker to
seek new means of stimulus, in alco-
holic drinks, which increases the prim-
itivcly injurious effects of tobacco.
That ptyalism continued for long
time should be an efficient cause of in
jury to the animal organism, no one
will deny, when they reflect that by
these means are abstracted from the
blood those principles which in normal
quantity are necessary to the integrity
of the organs and functions, and that
if the ordinary secretion of any gland
is continually increased, the humor Sc
creted will be altered in its elemental
constituents, and consequently become
less adapted to those offices naturally
resel ied to them. Every time, said
Boerhave, speaking of saliva, any one
makes useless waste of this secretion,
he is deprived Of a great inciter of the
appetite and a great aid to digestion.
The chyle, to the preparation of which
this fluid does not concur, is of bad
quality, and the blood remains more
or less altered. To this authority
many Others can be added, but let
that of Cullen, Tissot and Bernard suf
fice."


The article proceeds to consider the
injurious effects upon other parts of
the system, and particularly the appa-
ratus Of respiration.
Year: 1873

You can always tell boy whose
mother cuts his hair. Not because the
edge of it looks as if it had been
chewed off by an absent minded horse,
but you tell it by the way he stops on
the street and wriggles his shoulders.
When fond mother has to cut her
boys hair, she is careful to guard
against any annoyance and muss by
laying sheet on the carpet. 1t has
never yet occurred to her to sit him
on bare floor, and put the sheet
around his neck. Then she draws the
front hair over his eyes, appears to be
surcharged with electric needles, and
that which is silently dropping down
under his shirt-band appears to be on
fire. She has unconsciously continued
to push his head forward until his nose
presses his breast, and is too busily en-
gagged to notice the snuf1ling sound
that is becoming alarmingly frequent.
In the meantime he is seized with an
irresistible desire to blow his nose, but
recollects that his handkerchief is in
the other room. Then a fly lights on
his nose, and does it so Unexpectedly
that he involuntalily lodges, and
catches the points Of the shears in his
left ear. AT this hecommences to cry
and wish he was q man. But his
mother doesn't notice him. She mere
ly Tits him on the other ear, to inspire
him with confidence, and goes on with
the work. When she is through she
holds his jacket collar from his neck,
and with her mouth blows the short
bits of hair from the top of his head
down his back. He calls her atten-
ton to this fact, but she looks for a
new place on his head and hits him
there, and asks him why he didn't use
his handkerchief. Then he takes his
awfully disfgured head to the mirror
and looks at it, and, young as he is.
shudders as he thinks of what the boys
on the street will say.-Danbwy
Ne,cs.
Year: 1873

SALERArUs IN BREAD. Why will
housewives persist in using saleratus,
soda. cream of tartar, and such "de
leterious drugs" in the manufacture of
their bread? Much better bread can
be made without any of them. The
lightest and sweetest bread ever eaten
can be made with simple emptings
alone. Much of the i'll health of many
families we would name is caused by
eating hot soda or saleratus bread,
We once knew man who lost the
use of one of his hands by constantly
eating bread in which large quantity
of saleratus was used to sweeten the
''sourings" by which it was made to
rise.-POnland Transcript.
Year: 1873

EcCENTRlcIrY.-The following sin.
gular instance of eccentricity, illustra-
ting the close connection of this con-
dltion of the mind with insanity, is re
lated by Professor Hammond in his
work on diseases of the nervous sys-
TEN


A lady had since her childhood
shown singularity of conduct as re-
garded her table furniture, which she
would have of no other material than
copper. She carried this fancy so far
that even the knives were made of
copper. People laughed at her, and
tried to reason her out of her whim,
but in vain, In no other respect was
there any evidence Of mental aberra-
ton. She was intelligent, by no
means excitable, and in the enjoyment
of excellent health. An uncle had,
however, died insane. A trihing Cir
cumstance started in her new train
of thought, and excited emotions
which she could not control. She
read in the morning paper that Mr..
Kopperman had arrived at one of the
hotels, and she announced her deter
mination to call on him. Her friends
endeavored to dissuade her, but with
out avail. She went to the hotel and
was told that he had just left for Chi
cago. Without returning to her home
she bought n ticket for Chicago, and
actually started on the next train fol-
that city. The telegraph, however,
overlook her, and she was brought
back from Rochester raving of hel
love for man whom she had never
seen, and whose name alone had been
associated in her mind with her fancy
for table-furniture. She died of acute
mania within month.


The unpleasant odor produced by
perspiration is frequently the source o
vexation to persons who are subject tc
it. Nothing is simpler than to remove
this odor much more effectually thar
by the application Of such onguents
as are in use. 1t is only necessary tC
procure some of the compound spirits
of ammonia, and place about two ia
ble-spoonfulls in basin of water
Washing the face, hands and arms
with this leaves the skin as clean, swee
and fresh as one could wish. The wasl
is perfectly harmless and very cheap
1t is recommended on the authority o
an experienced physician.
Year: 1873

TO protect yourself from the bites
ofthe savage insects, as smoke drives
them out Of the camp, so the essence
of smoke will make an odor from
which they recoil with intense disgust
therefore, thank me for the follow
ing receipt: Take cup of tallow or
lard and mix it thoroughly with
kreosote, so that it will smell strongly
of that powerful scent; rub this un-
guent over your face, hands and neck
and every part of your skin which is
exposed, and the odor will drive off
the insects as completely as a smudge,
Some people will say that the remedy
is worse than the disease, but this is
an error Judgment. There is scarce
ly any summer complaint worse than
mosquitoes. s.-DR. PRIME, in Neao
York. Observer.
Year: 1873

BoILING PeTAToEs. This is q for
mula: Let each mess be of equal size,
Let the water boil before putting the
potatoes in. When done, pour off
the water and scatter three or four
tablespoonful of salt, cover the pot
with a coarse cloth, and return 1t to
the fire for short time. Watery
potatoes are made mealy by this pro.
cess. How simple, is the process, yet
how few understand it.