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Year: 1873

e-"What are you about, my DEAR"
said his mother to little boy, who
was idling about the room and casting
furtive glances at a gentleman who
was paying a visit. Il am trying man.
ma to steal papa's hat out of the room
without letting the gentlemen see it,
for papa wants him to think that he
is out"
Year: 1873

BY A LADY,
A
l am writing to the ladies,


Of the fashions as they 60,
And if they mean to follow them
would really like to know
1t is getting to be the fashion


For all to have their will,
And if they are opposed at all


To petition for bill.
1t has got to be the fashion,


If you are married to man
With a pocket full of money,


To get it if YOU can;
And if he won't let you have it
To do with as you like,
Tell the people he abuses you


And scolds you day and night.
If he should chance to grumble
About your talking SO,
Tell him you won't be scolded
BY any man you know.
Tell him that you will follow


In your mothers footsteps still,
But will 90 little farther,


And sue him for bill.
11llu uOW lOI d pCIllAOA


To some lawye that you know,
And charge him with severity,
Just as the fashions go.
Be sure place an injunction


On all that he can claim,
And tell him when you've done it
He is all the one to blame.
Now make proposition,


That if he to you will give
A certain amount of money,
You will 60 home with him to live;
But if he will not do it,


Be revenged on him you will
You will do your best to ruin him,
Get all and-get bill.
There is Livingstone and Heaton,
TO help you they're the men;
And Asahel Peck sits waiting
To WELD the ready pen;
While Heath will do the grinning,
To give dignity to the scene,
And then you're sure of winning
AS all before have been.
Now would it not be better
To let such fashions be,
And do the very best you can
To live in peace and harmony?
Let patience be virtue,
Let love your bosom fill,
And remember, in His own good time,
God will give you all bill.
And now l say to one and all,
Don't follow such course,
For It's shame and disgrace
To sue for divorce.
There is better fashion
To follow if you will;
Honor and respect your husbands.
And not sue them for bill.
Year: 1873

Under the guise of respectability
Society indulges in many petty sins
but, among them all there is not one
so contemplate, and so shameful in its
nature, or SO narrowing in its conse.
quences as the pernicious habit of gos-
siping.


''In fact there is nothing makes me so much


grieved
AS that abominabe tittle-tattle,
Which is the cud SO much eschewed by human


cattlel''


How many hearts that once beat
high with hope and happiness have
Year: 1873

REvrALIsM.-That was good thought rather than a severe pun which was made by student in theological seminary (and it was not one of the brightest of the class either), when he asked. ''Why is Professor - the greatest reviyalist of the agey and on all giving it up," said Because at the end of every sermon there is great awakening"
Year: 1873

At the meeting of the American Public
Health Association at Cincinnati, DIR. Jarvis
of Massachusetts is repor. as having made
the following remarks, which are as compre-
hensive, practical and vital as any tract for
the times need be:


"Dr, Jarvis said that much of the ill-health
OF families was the result of the culpable
foolishness of bringing up girls with no idea
of household work. A girl is married when
she knows how to talk and sing and play in
differently on the piano. She is full of poetry
joyousness, aesthetic tastes, but she knows
literally nothing about the details of the
housework. But there she is. She may not
know the difference between a raw and boiled
potato, between the -four in the barrel and in
the loaf on the table, A serving woman has
to be hired, and very few Of them know real
ly how " TO cook. A dressmaker has regular
course of training to fit her for her work, but
it is supposed that any one can cook. She
says to-day we are lucky; our bread is light
and sweet Would any woman tolerate q
dressmaker who should say: We are lucky
to-dar; the dress fits wel!?' Tomorrow the
cook says: We are unlucky to-day; the
bread is sour and heavy If a dressmaker
should cut her dresses by luck rather than by
system, she would quickly get her discharge.
But. no; husband must sit down to the sour
bread and ill-cooked meat. He will not say
anything, and the guests will overlook defects
and sit down in sorrow and eat their bread in
bitterness. We are more sure of being we'll
dressed than of being well fed. The outer
man is tolerably sure of comfort, but the in
ner man must sit down to the table with fear
and trembling. The Irish girl in the kitchen
is very otter the cause of damage and loss in
the counting room. The Irish girl makes
sour bread, which makes bad blood and weak
brain. The merchant goes down to the
counting room weak, head aching and ener-
vated. He does not know what Is the mat
ter, but Mephistopheles could he look into
his stomach would see the sour bread there.
He believed that poverty ran through the
whole man. 1t became part of his moral and
intellectual elements. Poor food made poor
man, and the poor elements went down to his
posterity. He believed staongly in hereditary
transmissions, but even if they did not occur
there was fact to be noticed, namely, that if
a man had nothing to transmit, the child
would have nothing. This would apply to
the moral and intellectual elements as well as
to the physical condition"
Year: 1873

There are certain ambitious, but very i'm
pecunious, young men who are ever on the
alert for helpless old ladies at crossings in
London streets. 4 he tradition Is that it may
hrppen fortune may come out of little act
of courtesy. Old ladies in London are re-
garded as fairy god-mothers. But new edi-
ton Of these street romances has Just been
published Young ladies have chance as
well as young men. 1t appears that not long
ago blind man was crossing Regent street
with dog, and was in imminent danger of
being run over by rapid carriage. A young
lady, acting on the impulse of the moment,
rushed forward, gave the blind man a violent
push, which sent him flying, but saved his
life. The heroic act was witnessed by
wealthy old bachelor passing at the time, who
managed to get introduced, proposed and
fin Ally married the plucky young lady. Ever
since that dat. other young ladies have wait
ed eagerly at crossings to iall in with simi-
lar fate. They have lodged bliLd beggars all
over London, and ogled a likely looking bach
elor. They have prayed for an opportunity
of exercising their presence of mind and Sc
curing their fortune. This, blythe by, is all
very well for the ladies, but it is rather bore
70, the beggars. A fall is better than death;
but there may be cases when the tumble
might altogether be dispensed with.
Year: 1873

OUR NEW IMPROVED MACHINE


Stands without rival, and should find Its
way into every family. 1t has reached the
highest state OF perfection of the Sewing Ma
chine yet produced, and its sales are constant
Embarrassing throughout the world.
Year: 1873

Crop Outlook


The official monthly weather review for
September is now in hand, and il enables us
to get better idea of the peculiar me-
teorology of the past summer and also of the
general crop prospects.


. We have, since September came in, measuf-
ably escaped the severe equinoctial gales
which SO frequently descend upon our agri-
cultural districts and drown them and their
golden harvests in fearful rain. We may
attribute this mild September to the long
August gales on the coast which exhausted
the vnpor-stores of the atmosphere and left
but little to feed the equinoctial tempest.
The greatest September storms have. there
fore. been mostly confined to the lake region
and the Gulf of Mexico, where the aqueous
supplies are more plentiful, and condensation
can be maintained from the evaporation of the
surrounding waters.


The rainfall map accompanying the Sep
tembcr weather record shows belt of very
heavy precipitation along the Gulf and South
Atlantic coast, extending inland one or two
hundred miles, while the northern rainfall
would appear heaviest beyond the Canadian
frontier. There has been an excess of rain in
the St Lawrence Valley, in our Middle,
Southern and Gulf States, with the usual
quantity in New England and the Mississippi
Valley. There was slight deficiency in Min
nesota, but not enough to interfere with the
maturing of the corn crops in that and neigh
boring districts The apparent absence of
severe local drouglrts in the Northwest
and the Missouri Valley is very
encouraging fact for the cattle and stock
raiser. Although the telegraph reported
some injury to the corn crop in the Northwest
during the frosts of the last part Of September
the loss cannot have been very heavy, and
when the total grain yield is ascertained it will
probably be swallowed up. The slight def
cheney Of the rainfall in the great Southern
cotton belt, so far from reducing the cotton
crop, is rather favorable to it; for, as is well
known, cotton is sun plant, and the years Of
maximum yield have been the years Of mini
mum rainfall. To help the crop in the South
ern States September brought in favorable
temperature (rather higher than the normaD,
and, if we mistake not, the production this
year will not fall short. At least,
from all the data now in hand, there
is nothing known which would lead to such
conclusion, but rather to contrary one.
BY the side Of this fair prospect in the West,
an unexceptionable prospect in the Gulf and
South Atlantic States, we have fine prospects
in the Middle and Eastern States, where the
bearing fields have had most favorable
weather The frosts of last week were too late
to injure the corn crop and too light to reach
the tobacco district with their blight The
country therefore, has every reason for graft
tude on all sides for the more than abundant
harvests which have already been garnered
It will be amply able to feed not only our own
people, bat to supply this years sad deficiency
of breadstuffs in Europe, and thus attract
hither large quantity Of foreign gold.
Year: 1873

party. There is no United States Senator to
be elected, SO that partisanship has no excuse
in demanding that bad party nominations be
sustained. The platforms of both parties have
eliminated all great party questions from the
contest There is no issue on the tariff ques-
ton, nor even on the regulation of the ma
tional currency and the management of the
national finances. On these questions there
can be no real issues while party lines remain
intact and politicians enunciate platitudes in
stead of principles. We gave an instance in
the windy democratic resolution in regard TO
specie payments. 1t is easy to understand
that this was not intended to have any prac'
tical value, but was mere political device to
hold party lines together. The same thing is
true of tho refusal of the republicans to touch
the question at all. When parties fail to fulfil
their functions the only hope of the people is
in the people. When parties disregard prin-
ciples and the national good the people must
act independently of parties and select men
for Office who will do their work wisely and
honestly. We think that independence in
political action at this time is more important
than at any previous election. The country
needs the services Of honest and capable men
in Office, and if the State of New York sets the
example of selecting only good men, whether
they are endorsed by one party or the other
the influence will be felt in other States all
over the country, and will be especially useful
next year, when new Congress is to be
alactod
Year: 1873

The MONETARY CRISIS IN LoNDoN.-The
HERALD correspondent in the British capital
exposes the features of the late panic in
very neat manner this morning. He hits tho
nail squarely on the head when he tells OF the
distrust which Englishmen exhibit concerning
our wild cat securities and indated enter
prises. We fear it will be o long day before
tho American, with n railroad or q silver mine
to sell, will embark at Liverpool wreathed
with happy smilss.
Year: 1873

waa about to nfllot tho fno, whom tho othor lad
rrofossed n willingness to toBtify against tho
officer for similar infraction Of the lnw-and go
they both got Off, With n SOLEMN injunction to do
SO no moro.
Year: 1873

Tho Tweed case makos slow progress in New
York. Twelyo men were examined yesterday as
jurors, but mono Of them were accepted. Tho
tomper Of tho Judge and his appreciation Of tho
jury law may bo inferred from bis very pertinent
roularlz, in Diminishing juror who had shown
himself to bo m intelligent man, TINT ss this
mans mind is not tho perfect blank tho law ro-
quireB, and he is therefore excused"
Year: 1873

The Democratic County Convention
meets in this city next Saturday to nomi-
nate candidate for the Office Of County
Judge This office being one Of especial
interest to every resident in the county, it
is but fair to presume the delegates of the
several towns will take that into consider
alton, and act for the best interests of the
whole coInty in the selection of their
candidate for the next four years. We
wish to draw attention TO the fact that II
i. entirely in the hands of the voters Of the
different wards ard tow ns, whether the Sc
lection be such as to give satisfaction or not;
We quote from the Two Rivers Chronicle,
the following pertinent remarks:


The usua! considerations bv which
nominating conventions are sometimes in
fucnced, such rs b,stowng the nomination
As sort Of reward for party IN crit, or be-
cacse the salary would be good thing to
help the candidate procure an easy living
while continuing hi. forts in behalf cf his
party, or any other consideration short of
endcayors 10 secure the very best man in
the county for the place, out not to have,
and We hope vii not have, the least weight
with any delegate.
Year: 1873

Mr.. O'Btien Of Clarks Mills
h 5 a very fine five year old grey
Mare for sale. she i; one Of the
best horses in the County. Mr.
O'Brien will let any responsible
Man in the Count have her
on trial and if she does not
prove all lie recommends hecan
return her after trial. Nothing
can be faircr than such an offer
those who wish to purchase.


l4-33 3w
Year: 1873

1t is the worst possible policy TO Kill all
the best and handsomest fowls, and save
only the mean and seraggy ones to breed
from. This is precisely the way to run
out your stock; for like tends to breed
like, and the result is, that by continually
taking away the best birds, and using the
eggs Of the poorest, your flock will grow
poorer and poorer every succeeding year.
It would seem as though this was too
plain to be insisted upon, but in fact, line
upon lire is needed. 1t is the crying
want of the poultry upon the farms the
Country through, this careful and intel
ligent selection of the best for breeding.


Nothing f. lost by a little self-denial to
start with. The extra pound or two o!
poultry aesh that you leave on its legs,
instead Of sending it to the market Is as
good seed, and will bring forth ten-iold
and twenty-fold in your future broods.-
Save your best stock for breeding.
Year: 1873

| TUESDAY, July 1-P. NJ.
| The stock speculation has been active and quite
excited in one or two of the leading specaltes, but


in the general list it did not amount to much, being


in the main about steady until near the close, when


it became strong and higher, closing almost buoyant
on Lake Shore with sales high 9j4. The lead
ing feature was Union Pacific. which was vigorously
hammered from the very beginning of the market,
and the price knocked down oneper cent on liberal
pressure of sales The occasion of the decline was
the poStponement of the paymentOf the interest due
to-day on the first mortgage bonds, until Thursday,
tho Sd instant on tho advice of Mr. Bartlett,
the counsel of the Company. 1t is understood that
the interest on certain of the bonds held by the
members of the Credit Mobilier has been enjoined
by the Government though we hear Of no develop
ments in the suit of the Government agt Credit Mo-
bilier. We understand that Messrs Morton, Bliss g.
Co.. tho Financial Agents of the Union Pacific, have
been placed in funds to meet the interest and had
intended to commence paying to-day until they re-
ceived dispatches from those in authority directing
them to postpone till the Sd and in the time
it is probable that they will be furnished with a
series of questions to be put TO parties presenting
coupons for payment with view TO the discovery of
those bonds against which the injunction has been
issued. Pacific Mail was made the target for bear
attack and the price was crowded down 10 3iI,
under the pending litigation, to which
reference was made in THE TRIBUNE this morning.
There is rumor in the street to the effect that
tho Pacific Mail Company has notified the cOntrac-
tors for the new steamers that it Will not DO able to
meet its payments as they fall due. This may not
be literally true; yet it is undoubtedly true that
! the Company has not now the means of meeting its
engagements to the constructors of those steamers
SO bankruptcy seems to stare the p. M s. s. Com
pany directly in the face yet it is net improbable
that just upon the brink of financial ruin the
wealthy gentlemen now connected with the man
agement of the Company may come to the
rescue Just in time to save the concern
from striking its cOlors and passing under
the red flag of the auctiOneer. There was
nothing special doing in the other shares unless we
mention decline in Atlantic and Pacific to 49, about
One-half the price at which it sold some two months
ago. IN the Investments, Michigan Central sold
down to 90 on the failure to make the usual divi-
dend SO was bid for Fort Wayne Pittsburgh bring
ing S7s. Panama strong at 110i on the extraor-
binary receipts of the past month. Delaware. Lack
awanna and Western sold at 97i. There no bus-
ness in the miscellaneous shares. and the express
shares neglected. OF the coal stocks. American
sold at OH The opening highest lowest and closing
Drices of stocks were "a follows:
Year: 1873

Owing to lack Of shining hours during
the past winter the little busy bees of Michi-
gan will not gather honey all the day this
summer from every opening flower. Some
apiculturists have lost as many as twenty
syparn,c
Year: 1873

In view of the different degrees of herosm
displayed in the Atlantic disaster by poor
clergyman and the chief officer, our Shakes
pearian contributor feels certain that ''the
Ancient shall be served before the Lieuten-
ant
Year: 1873

Walking is splendid exercise, ,n-
vigorating alike to mind and body.
HoS full Of vim and mate strength one
feels after brisk walk on a winter $
day. How soundIy we sleep after a
postprandi,l stroll when the shadows
and gentle cool of twilight render the
exercise pleasant during the heated
term! What an appetite we have for
breakfast after walk az early morn!
There is no better aid to good diges-
ton than a walk. You can walk off or
away the blues. Many eminent men
have come to their ideas by walking.
Jefferson was SO particular about his
walking that re carried an odometer.
[ never knew a thoroughly sound and
healthy man yet who was not fond of
walking.


now TO WALK


There is an art in walking which
comparatively few appreciate or acquire.
There are many styles Of walking. only
one of which is good. Good walking
brings all the muscles into play almost
to the extent that quot playing does;
and pitching quoits exersrses nearly all
the faculties, including those of sight
and Judgment. The art of walking
the proper way to walks to hold
yourself erect, square the shoulders,
bringing them on line with the thigh
blades; stepping out boldly and firmly,
keeping the arms in motion with the
legs, and gently bending the body to
the movement, planting the foot square
y and firmly each step. Fast walking
exhausts, as slow walking wearies. A
mistake is often made by those who
would accustom themselves to the ex-
ercise of walking too fast at first, The
distance should be increased by degrees.
Oyertasked by too much walking, the
muscles lose their strength and become
haccid. Don't go out with your head
bowed with thought, because then the
respiration will not be good; but start
Year: 1873

Avoid idleness, and fll up all the
Spaces Of thy time with serene and
useful employment for lust easily
creeps in at those emptinesses where
the soul is unemployed, and the body
is at ease ; for no easy, healthful, idle
person was ever chaste if he could be
tempted !; but of all employment, bod
lily labor is the most useful. and of the
greatest benefit for driving sway the
devil. --Jeren,y Taylor.
Year: 1873

with head erect and determined to re-
caive as much beneficial result from the
walk as possible, and with the in~igor-
alton consequent on the excellent cir
culation Of the blood and the natural
exercise of the limbs will come clearer
mental activity, and the problems that
have racked your brain will be solved
almost unconsciously, that is to say,
without an effort.
Year: 1873

CHICAGO, March ia story was
published here this morning of the
mysterious and forcible abduction, on
last Friday, of a respectable young
lady, living with her parents, ia the
southern part of the city, by two men,
who seized her in broad daylight, while
she was crossing the street, placed her
in a hack, blindfolded her eyes, and
drove to a house in a part of the city
strange to her, and kept her under lock
and key, guarded by an old woman,
until the next evening, when she was
permitted to escape, and found
her way home. No violence OF
insult was offered her during heI
captivity, and from remark Of the
old woman on first seeing her,
she was led to believe that the men had
kidnapped the wrong girl. This is, IN
brief, the story of the young lady, who
had indeed mysteTiously disappeared Oh
the day mentioned, and who was being
searched for by the police and heI
anxious parents all the next day. "a
the sensation is spoiled by the discovery
to-day that the young lady went on Fri
day morning to Joliet, where she has
friends, and returned from there Satur-
day evening, and concOeted the roman.
tic story Of her capture to cover her es.
capade.
Year: 1873

The employers and workingmen Of
New York are now beginning to discuss
the proposed movements in various
trades in reference to wages and the
hours of labor, Conflicting opinions
prevail on both sides. The employers
seem to be unanimous in their opposition
TO any reduction of the hours of labor,
while the workingmen are not united.
Many of the latter regard fayoFebly the
ten-hour system,
Year: 1873

DEATH AT THE UNIvERsITY.-On Sun
day morning, a young student named
Scott, not appearing at his breakfast at
the University boarding house, he was
sent for and no answer being returned
to the summons at his door, forced
entrance was made. WREN he was found
dead in his bed. An examination of the
body led to the conclusion that he died
in fit. The lad was about Is years of
age, a step-son of Mr.. Hasty, of WILDLY
Island.
Year: 1873

MASQUERADE BALL. There will be a
masquerade and fancy dress ball at Port
Madison on Saturday evening next, to
which our citizens are generally invited.
A steamer will be chartered for the occa-
Year: 1873

your secret, makes you feel for your
watch and pocket.book. And then that
boundless kindliness and forbearance,
and the lambent smile which fingers
about his mouth, sheathing every sen.
tence so that you do not see how sharp
the blow and how driven homel"