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Year: 1873

Some one very sensibly remarks
that a trade is always comfortable
companion to travel with. a something
that a man can fall back upon in
time of need, and yet it does not
preclude him from entering upon
some profession. if his inclinations
or genius develope the proper ca
pacity. In fact. our most success
ful business men in almost every
capacity are from the workshops and
farms. Il. Il - so .l-m
Year: 1873

Across thestreet, upon the window panes,


see the splendor of the dying sun
Ger half the earth his matehleSs glory wanes--
The day will soon be done.
The day that never can return to me,


Like all my years that lie o far behind
see as one upon the great calm sea,


Borne by steady wind.
seem to hear the voices on the shore


Grow fainter as the vessel sails along;
And now listen. but hear no more


Than the seas great song.
LIES ocean never was so calm as now;


This peace requtes me for thousand ills
Oioy to keep my lookout at the prov,


For the eternal hills.
o Fame Love 0 Work of bygone years
would not care again to reap and toll
Nlth teyered brain and sometimes binding tears
To share the wine and oil.
Tho work is blessed and tho love is sweet.
- ct stlll there IS a time to be at rest
10 foid the hands and place the weary feet
And this to me seems best.
Ny bOyhOod's friends have drifted from nv sight
1t may be they nearer home than
Or landed safe to hail with deep delight
The meeting in the sky.
had within the past a happy dream.
But love Is mine again on earth more:
Her skIh went with the current Of the stream.
And she hath gone before.
My ship goes smoothly on the great calm sea,
My day star setteth in a food OF gold
The scenes of earth are fading fast from me-
For am growing old.
Year: 1873

A great many curious things happen


to babies in this round world of ours


that youthful readers probably never


heard Of Our Young Folks tells about
some of them.


One thing is-planting them. This is
done by the dark-skinned women of
Guinea, and it isn't half so dreadful as
it sounds. The mother digs hole in the
ground, stands baby in it, and then packs
the warm sand around him to keep him
in place-as you would set rosebush.
1t keeps him out of mischief, and he can
play in the sand while his mother works.
All day long he stays in this old crib,
and at night, when she is done with her
work, he is dug out.


When this agricultural mother wants
to carry baby about she ties him into
little chair which she straps to her back.
If it is very grand occasion, he is dress
ed neatly in stripes of white paint, and
ornamented with dozens of brass brace
lets and rings on lis arms and legs. A
funny looking baby he must be


If you don't fancy a crib of sand for
a baby. what do you think of big shoe,
stuffed with moss to make it eomforta-
BILE? The droll little Laps cradle their
babies in that way. The shoe is large
of course, and made Of reindeerskin.
1t comes up high in the back, like the
slippers we wear nowadays, and is turn
ed up at the toe. The moss with which
it is stuffed is the famous reindeer moss,
soft and white; and the odd little black
eyed baby looks very comfortable hang
ing from tree, or slung across its moth
er's back.


Perhaps this baby who lives in shoe
is no more comical than the baby who
lives in fur bag-another sober little
black-eyed baby, away off in the shivery
huts. Besides being cuddled
up in fur bag at his mothers back, this
little fellow wears fur hood,
and looks like some strange kind of an
imal peeping out ON the world.
Year: 1873

| had heard as every one has, of th'


politeness for which the French of all


classes are famous; and resolved


strictly to test it.


On one of the boulevards | saw, one


day, woman who might be of any age


from sixty to eighty, sitting bowed as


with infrmity over stall loaded with
apples and oranges; her wrinkled face,
the color of time stained parchment, her
eyes half closed, and her whole expires.
sion betokening stolid sadness and habit
ual suffering. l made no offer to buy,
but dotted my hat to her, as one instinc-
lively does in France when addressing
any woman, told her | was stranger
that | desired to reach such a street,
naming it, aud begged that she would
have the goodness to direct me thither.


shall never forget the transforma-
ton that took place while / was speak
ing. The crouched figure erected itself;
the face awoke, its stolid look and half
lis wrinkles, as it seemed, gone; the ap-
parent sullenness replaced by gentle
and kindly air while the voice was
pitched in pleasant and courteous
tone. 1t said, " Monsieur will be SO
good as to cross the boulevard Just here,
then to pass on, leaving two cross streets
behind him at the third cross street he
will please turn to the right, and then be
will be so kind as to descend that street
until he shall have passed the cathedral
on the left; Monsieur will be careful not
to leave this street until he shall have
passed the cathedral and another cross
street /; then he will turn to the left and
continue until he reaches fountain, af.
ter which" and so on through sundry
other turnings and windings.


| thanked the good woman, but beg
ged that she would have the kindness
to repeat her directions, as / feared to
forget them. This she did. word Cor
word, with the utmost patience and bon
homie, accompanying her speech, as she
had done before, with little, appropriate
gestures. | was sorely tempted to offer
her piece of money; bat something
restrained me, and | am satisfied that
she did not expect it. So / merely took
off my hat a second time, bowed, and
bade her farewell. She dismissed me as
gracefully as gra'sde dame of the Fau-
bourg st. German might some visitor
to her gorgeous boudoir. atlantic
Monthly for Oct.
Year: 1873

AhS DElllNlhS.


That number of people is not small


who can discourse eloquently upon the


sin and misery caused By rum-drinking


but were you to tell them that the key


note to much of this wretchedness is the


wine cup, they would look at you aghast


and deny it stoutly. And why? Be


cause g a little wine for the stomach's


sake, is among their own pet indulgence


es, and the bare idea of its being con-
sidered otherwise than perfectly harm


less, is quite shocking to them. Now /


do not intend to say that all that pitia-


BILE class of people who make the rum


bottle their god, are led into this pit Of


wretchedness by looking upon the wine


when it is red, and yielding to its fascin-


ations. No; there are many roads to


that living death Of soul and body, but
this is one, and a wide one, in which


many travel. Such words as these fall
disagreeably upon the ears of those, who
delight to see the SPARKLING, ruby wine


brought to its accustomed place upon
their richly supplied tables, and who


would consider their friends ilI-treated,
if not offered this refreshment. Would
that could state this to be custom of
ancient days, or of another country than
our own but alas scarcely town or
village of our enlightened, refined New
England, but what furnish examples of
this wine cup idolatry. A gay party of
young men call for the wine glass to add
to the merriment of the hour, aud in
consequence, are called I" a little fast, )"
not by any means incorporate, or dissi-
pated The young lady, also, too often
accepts with smiling, shameless face, the
proffered glass of liquid cheer, and no
one says that thereby she pollutes her
woman's life or woman's heart. The re-
spected man of business, and mayhap
prominent church member, passes it not
by as an evil to be Stunned, but gives it
his powerful sanction. The young man
takes his first cup, in order that he may
be considered manly. He takes it, rath-
er, because he has not sufficient manli-
ness to proudly refuse it. And to what
does this all lead? It leads, oft-times. as
/ first stated, to life of habitual intem-
perance. The first moderate draught
soon ceases to satisfy, and an appetite is
awakened which Graves deadlier poison.
The seeds of vice, at first only lightly
scattered, have sunk deep into the
hearts soil, and if not speedily eradicat-
ed, the harvest of sin will ripen for the
hands of the grim sprite who gathers it
with glee, while the good angel, who
watched over the cradle of the innocent
child, weeps to behold this wreck of
manhood. Many a desolate home and
broken heart in our land, where intem-
perance has forever banished the sunlight
and Joy, bear bitter testimony to the
fact that the wine cup was the first guide
board in the slippery way. Fathers and
mothers are left to regret in bitterness,
that they had rot banished the liquid
tempter from cellar and table, before the
ehild's eager lips had learned the fatter-
ing taste Mayhap in future years the
promised hope of their lives becomes, in
stead, the deep disgrace-the fruit of the
seed their own hands unremittingly
planted. o. parents of New England
make not your homes the tempted shrine
Year: 1873

WHAT PUBLIC MEN Owe TO News
PAPERs.-Colonel Forney complains, in
well-written article in the Philadelphia
Press. that public men are, as a class,
ungrateful to the newspapers and the
journalists to whom they, in many in
stances, owe their position. Nobody is
more competent to speak on this subject
than Colonel Forney himself He has
made more statesmen out of small ma
terial than any man in America. He
has taken more active part in the last
twenty years than almost any other man.
Much of this work has been that of a
politician rather than that of a journal
lst; but in either capacity, he has always
been able to serve his friends well, and
he has always served them faithfully.
His reward has been very small. Ii he
had let politics alone, and devoted him
self exclusively to journalism, he might
have made greater name than Greeley's
and a greater fortune than Bonnett's. But
he was always fond of helping some
friend to an Office, and always had
taste for political intrigue with purpose
of this kind. His experience has, no
doubt, been that Of hundred others
who have operated in the same way on
a smaller scale. Make Governor out
of an Alderman to-day and tomorrow
he'll tell you that he owes his elevation
to bis own superior merits. Forney made
a President Of the United States out of a
James Buchanan but before the old
public functionary had taken his seat,
he repudiated his patentee and manufac-
turer in most ungrateful manner. Con-
gressmen are made by country newspa-
pers; yet when they go to Washington,
it wouldn't be safe to tell them so.-S.
Louis Republican.
Year: 1873

Not long since an elderly lady entered
a railroad carriage at one Of the Ohio
stations, and disturbed the passengers a
good deal with complaints about most
dreadful rhumatiz that she was troub.
led with. A gentleman present, who
had himself been a severe sufferer with
the same complaint, said to her, did
you ever try electricity, madam?
tried it, and in the course of a short time
it cured me" " Electricity " exclaimed
the old lady; eyes, I've tried it to my
satisfaction. l was struck by lightning
about a year ago, bat it didn't do me
one bit of good"
Year: 1873

Many a housekeeper thinks her hap
piness would be complete could she only
have plenty of solid silver for her table,
while others who have it, lay awake
nights lest thieves should break into The
house and carry off their plate.
Year: 1873

A Detroit boy stood an umbrellas, with
a cord tied to it, in public doorway.
Eleven persons thought that umbrella
was theirs, and carried it with them the
length of the string, They then sud
denly dropped it and went off without
once looking back or stopping to pick it
up again.
Year: 1873

SENATOR CARPENTER, Of Wisconsin,
one Of the most brilliant men in the
United States Senate, was yesterday
elected to preside over that body in the
absence OF the Vice President. This po-
stion he has filled before and filled very
sbly, and there would be nothing to re.
mark about his reelection now but for
the charges Of the New York Tribune
against him, which were, in substance,
that he was on familiar terms with a Ger.
tain "scarlet woman" at Long Branch last
summer This accusation the Senator
denies, and the Senate gave him the bene.
lit Of the doubt yesterday, and re.elect.
cd him. His extraordinary talents have
helped him out Of the dilemma, whether
innocent or guilty. II guilty, the saying
Of WALPoLE is Apostle to his case. viz:
That " nothing but such parts could so
long have buoyed up such a character,
and nothing but such q character could
drag down such parts"


In regard 10 the question Of his guilt or
innocence, that highly virtuous paper, the
Chicago Times has this remark 10 make:


"The Tribune, OF New York, Is taking
pains 10 reiterate Its Long Branch charge
against Senator Carpenter. This may be
necessary in the East, but II is not In the
West In this location, the question OF
his guilt or innocence rests wholly upon
the TACT as to whether the woman is over
or under eighty years Of age"
Year: 1873

1t is a curious feature, in the


common run of what are called


"reviewS" and "bOok notices. u


that the objections made to a


book so frequently consists in
the charge that 1t IS not some
thing else, AS a well known nov
elist remarked the other day,
"They find fault with a crab
because it is not lobster" Or,
an another eminent writer said
a hundred years ago: eff you
present them the handle Of a
knife, they complain that it is
not sharp; and ifyou offer them
the blade, they complain that it
is inconvenient to take hold Of"
Anybody who will examine
file ofnewspaper notices of Miss
wonderfully good
novel, or THE Skel6gs, will find,
accordingly, that number of
them consist in substance of as
that Miss Ingelow has
heretofore written poems, and
that this novel is no a poem. 1t
certainly is not; nor is it a pig.
But why say SO? "There are
some things which this court
may be supposed to know
Old and Mew.
Year: 1873

The Medical Home has the
following receipts, which may
be Of value:


A tea made of chestnut
leaves and drank in the place
of water, will cure the most OBJ
stinate case of dropsy in a few
days.


A tea made of ripe or dried
whortle berries, and in the place
of water, is a sure and speedy
cure for a scrofulous difficulty,
however so bad.


A tea made of peach leaves
is a sure cure for kidney diff
Guilty.


A plaster made Of fresh slak-
ed lime and fresh tar is a cure
for cancer, which, with all its
roots, will soon come out.


For the cure of smallpox,
apply raw onions, halved, under
the arms, in the hands and on
the bottom Of the feet; change
often; diet, chicken broth.
Year: 1873

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Jonah's prayer was not nota-
BILE for it's words. The fish's
belly was not the place for
picked phrases, nor for long
winded orations. We do not
believe that he offered a long
prayer, but it came right up
from his heart and flew straight
up to heaven. 1t was shot by
the strong bow of intense desire
sire and agony of soul, and
therefore, it speeded its way to
the throne of the Most High
If you would now pray, never
mind your words--it is the soul
of prayer that God accepts. If
you would be saved, go to your
chamber, and rise not from your
knees till the Lord has heard
you. Ay, where you now are
let your soul pour out them
selves before God, and faith in
Jesus will give you immediate
salvation. .-Spuryeoa.
Year: 1873

FooD MEDIoINE.-Dr. Hall
relates the case of a man who
was cured of his billiousness by
going without his supper and
drinking freely Of lemonade:


''Every morning." says the
doctor "this patient arose with
a wonderful sense of rest and
refreshment, and a feeling as
though the blood had been
literally washed, cleansed and
cooled by the lemonade and
the fast. His theory is that
food will be used as a remedy
for many disease successfully
So the way to keep good health
is really to know what to eat
not to know what medicines
to take" o
Year: 1873

There is not a more pleasing
exercise of the mind than graf
itude. 1t is accompanied with
SO great inward satisfaction,
that the duty is sufficiently re-
warded by the performance. 1t
is not like the practice of many
other virtues, difficult and pain
ful, but attended With so much
pleasure, that there were no
positive command which en-
joins it, nor any recompence
laid up for it hereafter, a gen
erous mind would indulge it,
for the natural qualification
which it affords.


If gratitude is due from man
to man, how much more from
man to his Maker. The Supreme
Being does not only confer up
on us those bounties which pro-
ceed more Immediately from
His hand ; even those benefits
which are conveyed to us by
others. Every blessing we en-
joy, by what means soever it
may be conferred upon us, is
the gift of Him who is the
great Author of good, and the
Father Of mercies.


If gratitude, when exerted
toward one another, naturally
produces a very pleasant sensa-
ton in the mind of a grateful
man, it exalts the soul into rap
ture, when it is employed on
this great object of gratitude,
on this beniicent being, who
has given us everything we
already possess, and from whom
we expect everything we yet
hope for. Lord give us a heart
with less inurbanity, and more
incentive gratitude.


G. II. B.
Year: 1873

A young man entered the
bar-room of a village tavern,
and called for a drink.


"No," said the landlord,
you have too much already.
You have had delirium tremens
once, and | cannot sell you any
more"


We stepped aside to make
room for a couple of young
men who had just entered, and
the landlord waited upon them
very politely.


The other had stood by ST.
lent and sullen, and when they
had finished he walked up to
the lannlord, and thus addressed
him:


" Six years ago, at their age,
| stood where these young men
now are. | was a man with
fair prospects. Now at the age
of twenty-eight, | am a wreck,
body and mind. You led me
to drink. In this room | formed
the habit that has been my ruin.
Now sell me a few glasses more
and your work will be. done |!
| shall soon be out of the way /;
there is no hope for me. But
they can be saved they may
be men again. Do not sell it to
them. Sell to me and let me
die, and the world will be rid of
me but for heavens sake sell
not a drop more to them p


The landlord listened, pale
and trembling. Setting down
his decanter, he exclaimed, God
helping me, that is the last drop
l will ever sell to any one! And
he kept his word.
Year: 1873

A HoERIBIE DEarH-Nangf gfed under
Car Hheeis.-Thomas ID. Bedford,
freight conductor on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, met with horrible death
before daylight yesterday, at Orange
Grove, near the Relay House, Baltimore
and Ohio railroad He had Just uncou-
pied his train from the tender, when his
right foot became wedged in frog
and held him on the track. Just at
that instant the engine backed down,
throwing him TO the ground. The next
minute the rear truck Of the tender
passed over bis stomach, crushing him
in fearful manner. Notwithstanding
tn. fact that bis body was almost cut in
two he fingered for more than one hour
after being injured, and TO within five
minutes of his death bis entire conyer.
sation was about his family, his fear
being that they would suffer greatly
this winter without his assistance. Ills
family consists Of wife and seven chill.
dren.--B ITO. Sun, 18ih. f
Year: 1873

A Detroit woman wants divorce
and should have one-because her hus-
band insists upon sleeping with his feet
upon the pillow so that be can tickle
her when she snores If he had any
love for his wife, instead of such out
raeeous conduct he would attach string
to her big toe and sleep in the next
Year: 1873

upand uses the information diffused through
the papers A few years ago the hop ex-
citement ran high in this section Of country.
The papers tsemed with information concern
ing hop-culture, anda single season found
men as we'll posted in all its details as those
of mature experience. 1t is true hop-cuture
ended disastrOusly here, but the power of the
press was shown just as plainly.


1t is a favorite plea against boOk-farming
that experience is more valuable and that
theory can never compete with it. 1t is an
amusing fact that these very croakers who
dote SO much on experience will have set no.
tions of their own and will lose no opportu.
nifty to advise how to farm, and will give all
particulars and minutie Of procedure with
great stress, as much as to say they have a
perfect right to have their way, but that it is
preposterOus for anyone else to have his say
and print il.


We know the value Of experience, but we
know what It is to learn BY study and infer
eness that lead one to anticipate experience.
This saves us from going hap.hazard to work.


Time is too valuable for us to ignore the
value of the press We pity the man who
can learn nothing from the recorded expert
ence of others who cannot turn information
into benefit to himself; and who is SO stupid
that he can realize nothing but what he sees
and works out for himself
Year: 1873

The law to protect the rights of married
women in the real estate Of the family has
led to good many curious incidents. A
correspondent of the Pittsburgh Commercial,
writes that in a recent real estate transaction
in Berks county, Pa, the purchaser, after
much haggling as to the price to be paid for
a tract Of ground, owned in common by three
married men, was unable to secure market
able title until he had in addition given five
dollars to each Of the respective wives in or
der to obtain release of dover. Our cor
respondent expresses some surprise at this
conduct of the wives in exchanging their
" thirds for SO paltry sum, but the GUS


tom is prevalent in many parts of Pennsyl-
vania, and husbands can only get the sigma
lures of their wives to deeds of real estate
by promising them " black silk gown" or
its equivalent in money, which is always
paid by the purchaser.


The custom is frequently alluded to in the
Pennsylvania Reports, and in one case the
reception of silk gown by the wife was
used as corroborative evidence of the fact
that she had signed the release Of dover Of
her own free will and accord without the
compulsion of her husband. Occasionally
an owner, when dissatisfied with the price
to be paid, has been known to put his wife
up to refusing her signature to the deed, and
in this way obtain an increase of the pur-
chase money. Some of the close listed bar
gamers have succeeded in this vancouver,
retain the I" silk gown" money and thus
cheat their wives out Of their rights but in
well regulated rural society, such men are
held in scorn and contempt, and are consid.
cred as miserable misers.
Year: 1873

1t follows that it would not be proftableto
keep hens after their fourth year, as their
produce will not pay for their keeping, eX-
cept when they are of n valuable and scarce
breed


To begin WITH we may doubt the possibll-
ity Of making any accurate count Of the
number of ovisacs in the Ovaries, or of af-
firming that no new ones make their appear
anee out of minute germs or cells in the
course Of the life of the hen.


In the next place, such a limitation must
have reference to the actual constitution of
the fowl, and this either in its wild or tame
condition. If to the former, the number Of
ovisacs, even if definitely ascertained, can
have no connection whatever with the real
habit of the hen, since she lays in wild
state only as many eggs as she can cover if
to the tame fowl, it is strange to find so def
mite rule laid down for an animal that is,
in the highest degree, of an artificial charac-
ter, and whose nature is, in so many points,
constantly being remade,-Me Poultry
World.