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Year: 1873

WHAT MEN NEED WIVES FoR.-It is
not to sweep the house, and make the bed,
and darn the socks, and cook the meals,
chiefly that a man wants wife. If this
is all he needs, hired help can do it cheap
er than a wife. If this is all, when q
young man calls to see lady, send him
into the pantry to taste the bread and
cake she made send him to inspect the
needle-work and bed-making or put a
broom into her hands and send him to wit
ness its use. Such things are important,
and the wise young man will quietly look
after them.


But what the true man most wants OF q
wife is her companionship, sympathy,
courage, and love- The way of life has
many dreary places in it, and man needs
a companion TO 90 with him. A man is
sometimes overtaken by misfortunes; he
meets with failure and defeat; trials and
temptation beset him and he needs one
to stand by and sympathize. He has some
stern battles to fight with poverty, with
enemies, and with sin; and he needs a
woman that, while he puts his arm around
her and feels that he has something to
fight for, will help him fight; that
will put her lips to his ear and whisper
words of counsel, and her hand to his
heart and impart new inspiration. All
through life-through storm and through
sunshine, conflict and victory, through ad-
verse and through favoriDg winds, man
needs a woman's love, The heart yearns
for it. A sisters or a mothers love will
hardly supply the need.


Yet many seek for nothing further than
success in house-worb. Justly enough,
half of these get nothing more; the other
half, surprised above measure, have got
ten more than they sought. Their wives
surprise them by bringing out nobler idea
in marriage, and disclosing a treasury of
courage, sympathy, and love.
Year: 1873

A lady wished to have her husbands
life insured in a Boston Office the other
day, giving as a reason that she wanted
either 8 husband or some money, she didn't
care much which. She never expected
both at the same time.
Year: 1873

A lady, Who was not thoroughly posted
in natural history, asked friend who was
going to Utah to bring her couple of
Mormans for her aquarium. She thinks
they are some kind of an oyster.
Year: 1873

Attention to the following
directions will secure the much
desired gloss on shirts. First
put little common white wax
in your starch-say two ounces
to the pound; then, if you use
any thin patent starch, be sure
you use it warm, otherwise the
wax will get cold and gritty,
and spot your linen, giving it
the appearance OF being stain
ed with grease. 1t is different
with collar starch-it can be
used quite cold. To polish
shirts, starch the fronts and
wristbands as stiR M ynn can.
Always starch twice-that is
starch and dry, then starch
again. Iron your shirt in the
usual way, making the linen
nice and firm, but without any
attempt at a good finish Don't
lift the plaits. Your shirt is
now ready for polishing, but
you ought to have a board the
same size as a common shirt
bosom, made OF hard wood, and
covered with only one ply Of
cotton cloth. Put this board
into the breast of your shirt,
damp the front very lightly
with a wet sponge, then take a
polishing iron which is flat ard
beveled a little at one end pol
lSh gently with the beveled
part, taking care not 10 drive
the linen into wave like bills.
ters. This requires a little
practice, but in a short time,
with perseverance, you will b


able 10 give that enamel like
finish which seems to be
much wanted.
Year: 1873

Mechanics, artisans, factory
hands, and people who labor for
living, find it very difficult if
not impossible to keep the hands
free from stain. Hand Sspolio
will not only remove every par.
ticle Of stain, and what is called
"grained IN dirt" but it will also
keep the skin soft and pliable,
rendering the muscular action as
quick and easy as is the case with
those who do not perform hand
labor 1t is only 10 and Is cents
cake, according to size. Every
mechanic should use it constantly
in place Of other soaps.
Year: 1873

FIRST STREET.-The fill in the pentent iary
bottom and the opening of the square be.
tween Jackson and Duval will make First
street good one for Il fine drive. 1t will be
beautiful street from Broad to the north
crn terminus. The people living on its line
Except one or two, who cannot be blamed
for opposing an improvement which takes
away their property are highly pleased at
the prospect of being able to get from the
northern section of the city to Broad street
without travelling eastward or westward.
The Leigh-Street school is on the corner of
First, and many children who attend it will
hereafter have not only much more pleas
ant but much more direct route.
Year: 1873

ATTEMPTED BURGLARY AT THE STATE Ii
BRARY.-Au attempt was made night before
last to enter the State Law Library. by
cutting the blinds and raising the window.
The would-be thief was fired upon by the
guard from the inside, who must have come
very near striking him from the nearness OF
the hall-hole to the cutting. Indeed the
guard thinks he did strike him, as he was
heard to exclaim 'Oh, God as he ran off.
Year: 1873

THE REASON WHY.-The immediate
cause Of premature fading -blanehing Of
the hair is an obstruction of the oil vessels
which afford the coloring matter. The re
mote causes may be general i'll health,
trouble of mind. etc Hence, in order to
restore its natural color and beauty the
oil vessels must be restored to their nor
NAL condition. 1t is on this principle that
Nature Hair Restorative is compounded,
and it has proved complete success, wher-
ever faithfully applied 1t is not poison
Gus dye, consequently the effects gradual,
and in severe cases two or three bottles
are necessary to produce the desired re
suit See advertisement
Year: 1873

On this subject we give the following
remarks from the Popular Science
Monthly. We recommend them to the
consideration Of smokers:


'Tobaeco belongs to the class of mar
cotic and exciting substances, ard has
no food value. Stimulation means alb
stracted, not added force. 1t involves
the narcotic paralysis of portion of the
functions, the activity of which is es-
sential to healthy life


'It will be said that tobacco soothes
and cheers the weary toiler, and solaces
the Overworked brain. Such may be
its mOmentary effects, that the sequel
cannot be ignored. All such expedients
are fallacious. When n certain amount
of brain-wOrk or hand-wOrk has been
performed, nature must have space to
reeuperate, and all devices for escaping
from this necessity will fail. 1t is bad
policy to set the house on fire to warm
our hands by the blaze. Let it, then,
be clearly understood that the temporary
excitement produced by tobacco is
gained by the destruction of vital force,
and that it contains absolutely nothing
which can be of use to the tissues of the
body.


"Tobacco adds no potential strength
to the human frame. 1t may spur a
weary brain or feeble arm to undue ex-
ertiOn for a short time, but its work is
destructive, not constructive. It cannot
add one mOlecule to the plasm out of
which our bodies are daily built up. On
the contrary, it exerts upon it a most
deleteriOus influence. 1t does not sun
ply, but diminishes vital force.


''It has been denied that tobacco
leads to organic disease, but the evil
dence is very strong the other way, and
it would be very remarkable if continued
functional arrangement did not ulti-
mately lead to chronic arrangement of
the organs; that it causes functional
disturbance, no one dreams of denying;
indeed, it has been remarked that no
habitual smoker can be said to have a
perfect days health"


Excessive smoking is unquestiOnabIy
bad. And even the smallest quantity
of smoking is very bad for boys. To see
an urchin ten years old sucking cigar,
which is nearly as big as himself, is an
unpleasant spectacle, and it bodies little
for the future energy Of the premature
] smoker.
Year: 1873

Overwork causes a great deal of ill
health in farming communities. Very
many farmers, in their efforts to avoid
idleness, which they consider a sin and
a shame, go to the other extreme and
lose both health and happiness thereby.
While industry tends to health, OUeF-
UOrE breaks down the constitution and
shortens life. 1t Injuries both the body
and mind, and if long continued results
either in death or premature old age.
For this sin-and sin it is to OverwOrk-
there is not nearly the excuse on the
part of farmers which there was twenty
years ago. Now one has machines to
take, in great degree, the place of
hand labor, and the farmer who will


use them need not break down his
health by working too hard. But it is


not the farmer who is most likely to


OverwOrk The farmers wife is gener-


ally the greatest sufferer. Every day in


the year, Sundays not excepted, she has


much to do. Often there is as much re-
quired of her as two women ought to
perform. As the result of her over
| work, health is lost, and she either dies
/ long before her time or lives only to
suffer the penalties of the law she has
| transgressed. For this course there is


no justification. No woman ought to
.
/ justified in requiring or allowing his
wife to do so. He ought to furnish her
with household machines, and if her
health is poor either help her himself or
! hire q girl to help her. This killing
] himself and his wife, which so many
/ farmers do, for the sake Of laying up
few dollars which they never expect to
use, and which they cannot carry with
them when they die, is q miserable
speculation as far as profit and loss are
concerned, and 4 sinful, shameful thing
for any man to do.


Want of sleep is one of the chief
causes of much of the physical and men,
tai trouble of farmers and their families.
During the busy season, when the


farmer rises at four in the morning and


works until six or seven in the evening,


then eats his supper, does his chores,
and sits up an hour or two later to read


his paper or chat with . neighbor, he


does not obtain sleep enough &c keen


either body or mind i'm perfect health


and vigor. The evil consequences of
his course may not be apparent for many
years, but sooner or later they will


come. The waste of the brain is not


fully made up. Little by little it de-
Gays and insanity or incurable disease is


the final result of using the hours which
should be devoted to sleep forother pur-


poses. Farmers wives, who are often


kept awake at night by the exhaustion
caused by overwOrk or by the crying
and fretting of children, are the great


est sufferers, and year by year a vast


number of this class go to the insane


asylum or the grave. 1t is slow but
certain suicide to curtail the hours of


sleep, and no man, woman or child need


expect to long continue in good health


without taking the fullest amount of


quiet rest Working Farmer.
Year: 1873

accusation. merely tell you the truth.
You've taken many prescription from
me. Now try this one-go home and
tell your husband that you yielded to
your conviction of duty and brought me
my letter. Tell him you found me i'll,
and like n good Samaritan ministered
to my needs. Be kind and firm and
frank with him, standing up firmly for
your own rights, and you'll manage
him easy enough. 1 never yet saw a
man who was able to cope with q
woman who knew her duty and was
strong enough to stand by it. The
plague with women is, they endure injus-
tice in the spirit of martyrdom, and
then try to outwit their lords by STRAIT
egy."


"Well, I'll try your advice and see
whatn come of it, It's most dinner
time. Seventeen men to cook for and
two miles to walk. He'll miss me if /
don't hurry"


'Let him miss you. If you intend to
tell the truth about your visit to me,
why need you fear that he will know
that you have been absent?"


Polly had no reply TO offer. Putting
on her bonnet, she hurried home, and
tired as she was, flew to preparing din
ner.


'The simpleton won't have the moral
courage to do as l advised" said DIR.
Goff, and he was right.


Left alone with his reflections and his
rheumatism, the Doctor read his letters
over and over, first the old and then the
new one. Nearly half century had
rolled away to join the ever-increasing
scroll of distance between the writ
ing of the mothers and daughters
thoughts, and here he fingered, on the
shores of time, while one was in the
land of souls and the other far away in
the earth-life, working out her mortal
destiny. The new impetus given to his
thoughts infused new life into his de-
caying frame. In a few days he was
able to reach the residence of Peter
Dowd, and the news spread like wild
fire that the Doctor was going to Cali
fornia. Maids and matrons shook their
heads in suspicion. One chad never
liked the intimacy of DIR. GoG with that
hateful, sly Ellen Dowd. True, nobody
could fasten any charge of anything bad
upon her so as to prove it, but decent
women that stayed at home and did
their duty never did come to any such
luck as she'd met with"


Another "pitied the poor creatures
children. 1t was such 4 shame that q
woman could be allowed to so disgrace
her family"


Still another ''felt deep sympathy
with Peter Dowd. He'd n been \ No. l
if he'd only had q good wife in the be-
ginning"


Ia her luxurious home, hard by the
Golden Gate, our heroine and her love
crowned household needed not the e0isSSi
aspersions of the suspicious world.
Aided and counseled by her noble hus-
band, she was preparing day by day for
active public labor in the great, much
needed reformation, which can only
come through equal rights before the
law.


ITO be continued.l
Year: 1873

How TO MAKE A MUSTARD PLAs-
TER.-How many people are there who
really know how to make a mustard
plaster? Not one in a hundred, at the
most, perhaps, and yet mustard plasters
are used in every family. Physicians
prescribing their application never tell
anybody how to make them, for the
simple reason that doctors themselves
do not know, as a rule. The ordinary
way is to mix the mustard with water,
tempering it with a little flour, but
such a plaster as that makes is simply
abominable. Before it has half done its
work it begins to blister the patient,
and leaves him finally with painful,
fiayed spot, after having produced far
less effect in beneficial way than was
intended. Now, a mustard plaster
should not blister at all. If n blister is
wanted, there are other plasters far
better than mustard for the purpose.
When you make a mustard plaster,
then use no water whatever, but mix
the mustard with the white of an egg,
and the result will ''drawr perfectly,
but will not produce a blister even upon
the skin of an infant, no matter how
long it is allowed to remain upon the
part. For this we have the word of an
eminent physician, as well as our own
experience.
Year: 1873

WHEREAS, There are now a number Of local
and State Unions among our miners through
out the country, and,


WHEREAS, 1t is indispensable and necessa-
~ for the government Of said unions, that
National Association should be established,
and,


WHEREAS, Such an organization has been
established, the following Constitution is sub
mitted for its government


lin union there is strength, and in knowl-
edge Of union there is power. In a union en-
bracingin its formation all our different branch
es and lodges, and every miner in the entire
country, founded upon basis as broad as the
land in which we live, lies our only hope. Sin
glehanded we can do nothing, but united there
Is no power Of wrong, we cannot openly defy.
Our prayer is that miners and underground
workers generally who have not already
made a movement in that direction, will he
stimulated to action, and organize lodges ard
branches in the diffe. ent places where they
may reside, connecting themselves nfifediate-
ly with the Miners National Association,
And thereby enable us to 20 hand and hand
together, for their own mutual benefit and
happiness.
Year: 1873

The executive officers Of this Association
shall be elected annually in the following
manner: The annual Convention represent
ing the entire members Of the Association,
shall place in nomination men selected from
themselves, and upon any one delegate re-
ceiving q majority Of the whole votes cast for
any office, be declared duls elected. The vote
for executive officers shall, in all cases, be BY
ballot
Year: 1873

The executive power Of this Association
shall be composed Of a general President and
one Vice President to he drawn one from each
State represented in the Association, gener-
al secretary and a treasurer, anu shall be
known az the Executive Board Of the Miners
National Association of the United States of
America
Year: 1873

BISHOP SIMPSON Is faithful to
his commiltals on "WOman's
Rights" though he has been
somewhat quiet on the ques-
lion since it was taken in hand
by an exceptional class of wo
men. Recently at South Bend
he said: pardon a depression.
| want the day to come when
women will vote. Without
their vote | lear we will never
be able TO put down the houses
of lntamy and liquor saloons
of our country. N thing is so
ruinous to the country, it is
true, and it is my opinion that
we can't get along without the
women voting. 1t is not good
for man to be alone" "
Year: 1873




In Sullivan county, N. Y,
there is published the Liberty
Register, and of those who en-
rich its advertising columns is
one Dusenberry. His notice
thus begins: ut is admitted
that we not only love our
wives, but also our children,
brothers and sisters. They die
We want suitable coffin or
casket for the jewel and a ten
der and careful hand to take
it up and bear it TO its last
resting place. Who will do it
for us?" Dusenberry answers
this by saying he will, and be
further remarks: "a good
hearSe and peerless team Of
horses In wa ting, at all times,
to receive or deliver a corpse
at the railroad station, or go
elsewhere as far as human
voice is heard or human track
is rum"
Year: 1873

A writer in speaking of sail
ors' pets, tells us oi Jock, a sea-
offender years, who for many
months retained the affections
of all hands, until washed over.
board in a gale of wind. This
creatures time ON board was
fully occupied In q round Of
duty, pleasure and labor. His
duty consisted in eating seven
meals a day, and bathing in q
tub after each; his pleasure to
lie on his side to lie on the
quarterback and be scratched
and petted; while his labor
consisted in celselesSly en-.
deavoring to enlarge a certain

scupper hole sufficiently ia
permit his escape to his native
ocean. How indefatigably he
used 10 work day after day and
hour after hour, scraping on the
the iron first with one dipper
then another, then pOking bis
nose in to measure the result
with his whiskered facel lie
kept the whole bright and
clear, but bid not senslbly en-.
large it. at least 10 human
KEN"
Year: 1873

ONLY last week a beloved
and gracious Princess Mar
chinoness attended at Win
bledon-so bays a daily paper
TO "wilne:s The shooting OF
her husbandp And they have
b en- married but little more
han a year.
Year: 1873

The gentleman who asserted
that his friend never opened
his mouth without putting his
loot in it, being called upon to
apologize, said he was very
sorry, hut when he made the
assertion he did not see the
size of his friends foot.
Year: 1873

The editor of the Knoxville
(lowa) Democrat thus jokes
over the condition OF the peel
ed and scattered party in that
State:


"There is hot enough lett oil
the old banner under which We
have been fighting Tor years, to
patch the seat of the trowsers
OF a Court House rat. We are
scattered; and in the race
through the brush, the devil
will not only get the hindmost,
but may gobble the whole lot.
Which will be a good joke on
the deviIp
Year: 1873

A Simple Group Preventive.


Take a piece of black silk
two or three inches wide; sew
it round the child's neck, let
him wear it constantly chang
ing when it becomes much
worn and thin. Our little one
who was always subject to the
Group has never been troubled
in that way since we used the
silk. Although many a night


he has gone to his crib so
hoarse he could hardly speak
Try it mothers! 1t certainly
will do no harm il it does no
good, you had better have your
little ones cased in black silk
than see them suffering by that
fell destroyer, croup.-SeLecte d
Year: 1873




From that time not one day of
happiness had shone upon the ia
ther and daughter. Miss Kendall
had been utterly miserable, fitful,
wayward sometimes seeming al
most as if her mind were shaken.
She did not seem to have had any
suspicion of the part her father
had taken in the Punishment of her
lover, and that was Kendall's only
comfort. When he found that his
daughters heart was really bound
up irrevocably with her lover, he
made energetic efforts to discover
poor Charlie's whereabouts, but
without success.


"Sir," he said to me, striking the
table as he spoke, "Fd give half my
fortune this moment to find that
unhappy young man. Inever car
ed for him. l was glad to be rid OF
him. But if his father had been q
murderer or hangman, | should not
care, where my poor girls happi-
ness is concerned. But Charles
West, I fancy, is either dead or
gone to the dogs"


had heard in China of the break
down and suicide of Charles fa-
ther, and, that poor Charlie himself
had disappeared. Indeed, I heard
afterward that some Of the family
had received tidings of his death
in Mexico or California. OF his
engagement to Miss Kendall 1 had
not heard.


Lately, Mr.. Kendall went on to
me, an offer of marriage of a most
desirable kind, had been made to
his daughter, by a gentleman Of
large fortune and high character,
member of Parliament, one who
would still be called young for
public man-in short, just the sort
of person a respectable British ia
ther would accept with pride and
delight as son-in-law. All the in
fluence Mr.. Kendall could exert he
had brought to bear to induce his
daughter to accept this gentleman,
and at last she had made a kind of
conditional surrender. She had
promised to marry Mr.. Patton, the
suitor, when he had heard fully the
story of her lover and her disap-
pointment. And Mr.. Patton had
heard, and was quite willing. Mr..
Patton, i presume, was what would
be called sensible man. He knew
perfectly well that many of his per-
sonal friends lived very happy with
wives who, according to all report,
had been crossed in love before
marriage and he saw nothing to
object to in the fact that Miss Ken
dali before she knew him had loved
somebody else. The somebody
else" was out of the way, was prob
ably dead; and, even were he alive
and near at hand, Mr.. Patton was
placidly satisfied that an English
lady married to Mr.. Patton, M. p,
would always conduct herself in
manner befitting the wife of such
a man. So poor Jennie Kendall
yielded and promised, and the mar
riagc was to take place in the be-
ginning of the next year; and
meantime the lover was to join her
father and herself at the Beau-Ri-
wage the moment he could escape
from the house of Commons; and
he had telegraphed that his coming
might bc looked for the very day
Year: 1873

"Father Take My Hand"
The way is dark, my father Cloud on cloud
Is gathering thickly DER my head, and loud
The thunders roar above me. See Istand
Like one bewilderedl Father, tale my hand,


And through the gloom


Lead safely home


Thy child.
The day goes fast, my Father, and the night
Is drawing darkly down. Ny faithless sight
Sees ghostly visions. Fears, a spectral band,
Encompass me. o, Father, take my hand,


And from the night


Lead up to light


Thy child.
The way is long, my Father ! and my soul
Longs for the rest and quiet Of the goal;
While yet journey through this weary land,
Keep me from wandering. Father, take my
hand


Quickly and straight


Lead me to heavens gate


Thy child.
The path is rough, my Father Many thorn
Has pierced me ; and my weary feet, all torn
And bleeding, mark the way. Yet the command
Bids me press forward. Father. take my hand


Then, safe and blest,


Lead us to rest


Thy child.
The throng is great, my Father. Many doubt
And fear and danger compass me about
Aud foes oppress me sore. 1 cannot stand
Or go alone. o, Father ! take my hand,


And through the throng


Lead safe along


Thy child.
The cross is heavy, Father have borne
1t long, and still 10 bear il. Let my worn
And fainting spirit rise to that blest land
Where crowns are given. Father, take my hand


And, reaching down,


Lead to the crown
Thy child,