Year: 1875

A gentleman who recently saved a la
dy friend from mad leap upon NOV
ing train feels impelled to speak some
sensible words against this reckless and
far too common practice. He says:


think most people will agree with
me in thinking that it is better to lose
twenty minutes. or even half an hour,
than to risk life; yet We everywhere
read of people who run these fearful
risks, too often unsuccessfully


Very recently distinguished gradu-
ate Of Virginia university wanted to
deposit letter in the post Office on the
other side of railroad track. A locomo-
tive was approaching he thought he
could cross before the ponderous engine
could come along. He miscalculated the
speed. In another moment he was
shapeless mass. Had he waited two min
utes-half u miuute-the train would
have passed along. and he could have
deposited his letter.


A young lady wished to show her
friends how easily she could cross in
front of locomotive; she did cross
but her streaming dress caught in the
passing wheels, drawing her back under
its crushing weight.


One day young wife looked from
her chamber window and saw her hus-
band leave the cars, which daily passed
her home She ran down stairs to greet
him at the door, but when she reached
it he was not there. She thought he was
playing her little trick she called for
him playfully, but there was no answer.
She saw crowd of men approach the
gate, open it. come up the path with her
dead husband


He did alight from the cars, and safe
| ly step upon the platform before the
station There was a train coming in
an opposite direction; he thought he had
plenty Of time to cross i'll front of it, and
did cross except by one single inch; the
wheel struck the heel of his boot. wheel
ed him round under the cars, and all
was over one minute longer. and he
could have crossed with the locomotive
before him.


Limbs are broken. lives are lost every
year in any large city by attempting to
cross in front of moving horses or vchi-
cles. And all this foolhardy daring that
few moments of time may be saved


INDEPENDENT WoMEN.-Women who
have earned their own living for series
of years and then marry, never lose their
individual identity of disposition. They
may be happily united, but their natures
are far from being like water, losing
themselves when united. We are all


more or less selfish, and marriage never
entirely obliterates, though in almost ev
cry case of happy unions it modifies il


much. For women to toll earl y and late
at the various kinds of work done on tht
farm, for instance, and never receive {
dollar that they can call their own tt
spend as they please in beautifying thel


homes. or for charity, are women whom


the world term faded. over-worked, lily
mated. &c. There is no stimulus il
their life, nothing to feed the energ,
and ambition. A woman with ten dol
lars in her pocket feels as we'll, ant
may be better, than man. If minis


ter can preach better with a greenbacl
in his wallet, may not woman hea


better with the same in her pocket
Men and women are not so widely differ


ent that only one is to help build u
F this great commonwealth. God mad
them to walk evenly in the harness Q
life, but if man assumes half the bur
, dens and all the greenbacks, how ca
. she keep up the race? Husbands, Civ
! your sensible hard working wives NOR
] ey; don't wait for them to ask for
+ and then ask "What are you going
4 do with it q and if they are not MOI
). cheerful. active, and if they do not TT
: harder to make home brighter, then


have misjudged my sex.