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Year: 1873

UNION SQUARE THEATER-A BUSINESS WOMAN


Last night, at the Union Square Theater.
was presented for the first time upon the stage, play
by Miss Olive Logan. entitled :" Business Woman It
was offered IN and il introduced sixteen
persons. Its the city Of New-fork. III the
present day II received with respectful attention
and occasional applause by a large assembage-the
pretty and cheerful theater being full in every part 1t
is quiet piece, and that may be said to mar good
tale in the telling of IT. The father OF the
heroine Of Miss LOgans play Is an amiable
old gentleman, devoted to ohimercal Inventions ana
this heroine is called " business woman" because she
strives 10 save wOoAgatheng father from ruin and
distress and very nearly makes shpwreok OF her heart
in doing it, This idea treated by Mr.. Bouci-
oaut in his play Ee" and il may be found in other
and earlier works Miss Logan has emOeished II with
some good writing and dramatic treatment in the last
two acts Of her drama of Business Woman; :; but in


general she Overisid the dramatic substance with
excess Of words and may be added that she has not
been happy in the minor tTappings Of comieality.
The the piece is laHgud TIL the fourth act
The action halts The divisions OF the work seem made
with reference time rather than enforoed-as they
should be-by dramatic necessity. The persons meander
in and trioke out obvious reason, aud there is


prodigious delay in coming TO Hecuba On the other
hand, there delicate analysis of character in
part Of the play and there IS deep sympathy with the
ideal of fial and pEternal love. and touching sug'
gestiOn of the beauty Of seiisRcriuoe IA Its behalf
There are bright lines, also, IN the text, and two
OF three neat dramatic expedients-ike that OF the
tossing of the gOve-dye emphasis to dramatic points


To look at the piece proper sense representa-
tive of American society, would be misuse OF time II
deals almost exclusively with superficial detas-not
grasping deeper emotion and significance OF conduct
Il was set upon the stage gay bright and pleasing
dress Miss Emily Mestayer pleased everybody by the
natural homey sincerity her performance of an un-
educated plain good American woman. This we regard
as the best character the piece. Miss Gnswold was
rather wooden during the first three acts the business
woman, but passionate and woman-iike ana also
artistic in the substantial scenes toward the CON
elusiOn. Mr. Mackay portrayed the sweettempered od


delEded enthusiast with truth aud in fine vein OF Skill


Mr. Lamb infused low comedy into the performance and
raised many 4 laugh but, the most OF the talk ana
business allotted hlm IS exiraneous. and the dis
robing in act second, is unrefued and trivial great
deal OF cutting will probably be done 10 Business
Woman" and slashing may therefore be spared IL
would please record true success for the drama


but that is not possible. IL good as Saratoga"
and it better than Diamonds" both Of which nave
found admirers but it Is not good enough to be hailed
as the American Comedy The east Of parts IS appended
Year: 1873

The Hampton Students, of whom we nave
several times told our readers something, VIII give an
other OF their characteristic concerts this evening az
stenway Hall Not only for the peculiar ana interest
ing character Of the which they sing but Tor tne
worthy object in which they are engaged we can
recommend them to the cordial favor of the pubic Inc
school for whose benefit their earnings are e1pehue "
ONE q, the nobest institutions designed for the elevation
NJ the freed people-we conceived and well MANAGED
and ALSO very much in want.
Year: 1873

Our fashionable people, whether they have
set up to be nothing if not fashionable" or
have been born into the position without par
ticular effort on their part, are really nothing
except fashionable. Beyond that and their
wealth they have no substance and standing
MIR. Schuyler Stuyvesant Van Rensselaer, may
be as great swell as the Duke of Omnium.
He may have as prepossessing a presence, as
nice sense of the proprieties, may under
stand and practice all the minor arts of life as
well. But the Duke is something besides a
swell. He is political power, latent, per-
baps, but always a potential and possible
statesman. When the Duke emits positive
opinion on public question, he almost
creates political event. Mr.. Schuyler Stuy-
vesant Van Rensselaer's opinion and vote are
of about as much public consequence as those
of his coachman. "Wel, what of it?'
the reader may ask. This much at any rate
the country at large feels an interest in the
one which it cannot feel in the other.


The whole English nation has a share, so
to speak, in the English Duke. The Knick-
erbocker gentleman belongs only to his own
set, which is rather his society than society
in a generally recognized sense. But the
reader may object again: This is a very mar
row view to take of good society, which does
not mean fashionable society. but the society
of intelligent men, scholars, artists, profess
Ors, literary ladies', brains, &c. Just so but
either these people with brains are mixed in
among the swells las they are in the most of
our cities) and form subsection of them, or
they are so broken and scattered that they do
not afford coherent society material. Their
very amusements too, are of most unsocial
socability, and what a European would be
apt to call work. Hearing lectures, for in
stance is not society, though it may be made
an apology and substitute for 1T. Barren as
our fashionable set or sets NAV be of matter
available for the novelist, he is still worse off
If he turns to other sets and classes. Take
the horsey element sof society for instance: :
what field is open to the student of charac-
teri 1t has actually produced not only lit
erature ofits own, but an ancillary school of
art. 1t has given us Leach as well as
Soapy Sponge. We are almost as horsey
people latter our fashion, as the
English, but what American waiter ever put
the trotting track into fiction or immortal
lied an owner of fast crabs. ."-Gatdry.
Year: 1873

Men and women, and especially young
people, do not know that it takes years to
marry completely two hearts, even of the
most loving and well sorted. But nature
allows no sudden change. We slope very


gradually from the cradle to the summit
of life Marriage is gradual, a fraction of
us at Il time A happy wedlock is II long
falling in love. | know young persons
think love only belongs to brown hair,
and plump, round, crimson checks. 50 it
does for its beginning, Just rs Mt Wash
ington begins at Boston Bay But the
golden marriage is a part of love which
the bridal day knows nothing of. Youth
is the tassel and silken flower of love; AGE
is the full corn, ripe, and solid in the ear.
Beautiful is the morning of love with its
prophetic crimson, violet, purple and gold,
with its hopes of days - come. Beautiful


also is the evening of lpve, with its glad
remembrances and its rainbow side toward
heaven as we'll as earth. Young people
marry their opposites in temper and gen
clal character, and such Il marriage Is
commonly Il good match. They do if i'll
stinctively The young man does not say,
'.NIy black eyes require to be wed with
| blue. and my over vehemcnce requires to
| be u little modified with someW hat OF dull
| ness and reserve When these opposltes
come together to he we'd, they do not
| know it, but each thinks the other Just
like himself Old people never marry
their opposites; they marry their similars,
and from calculation. Each of these two
arrangements is very proper. In their
bv the way Il great many times, and both
| In ,.naI
| times, and both get away from the road ;
but each will charm the other back again
and by-and-by they will be agreed us to
the place they viii 90 to, and the road
they will 90 by, and become reconcilcd.
The man will be nobler and larger for
being associated with 50 much humanity
unlike himself and she will be u nobtcr
woman for having manhood beside her
that seeks to correct her deficiencies and
supply her with what She lacks if the
diversity be not to great, and there he
real pety and love in their hearts to begin
with The old bridegroom, having q
much shorter journey to make, must as
sociate himself with one like himself. A
perfect and complete marriage, is perhaps,
as rare as personal beauty. Men and
women are married iractionally now a
| small traction, lnen u lslTSc lrdctioll very
few are married totally, and they only,
think, after some 40 OF 80 years of gradual
approach and experiment. Such q large
and sweet fruit is Il complete marriage


and it needs a very long Summer to ripen
in, and then a long Winter to mellow ano
season in. But real, happy marriage OF
love and Judgment, between a noble man
and woman, is one of the things so very


handsome that if the sun We're, us the


Greek poets tabled, Il god, he might stol


the world in order to feast his eyes witt
such u spectacle. Theodore Parker.
Year: 1873

two years old the last one when four,nnd
very early, so the lambs may be wcancd
the first of August the ewes then put into
good feed will get rs fat as YOU can wish
with but little grain. These average 200
lbs, or more.


1t is necessary that we should constant
ly study the demands of the market. The
scarcity of heavy mutton makes it Away;
in good demand and at 4 good price, and
the demand is fast Increasing.
Year: 1873

H. j. Temple of kokomo, Ind, com
municates to the Rural New Yorker the
details Of an experiment made by him to
decide whether corn grows in the night.
A stake was set by growing stalk of
corn, and its height carefully marked night
and morning, for three days and three
nights. The stalk increased in length
four inches in three nights, and three and
a half in the three days; showing great
er increase during the night than day
Year: 1873

The aroma of butter has aNelN complies
origin 1t springs from certain volatile


oils which exist in the plants on which tile


animals feed Noelcler reports butter to


contain two per cent Of these oil To


these are given the names but l1in. rapr"u


and caprVolin, and from them are formed


the butyric, caproic and capryolic acids


which are the occasion OF rancidity in but


ter. The easy formation ot these acids is


one Of the greatest obstacles To the manu-


taclure of good butter But the volatile
oils in butter are not confined to three nor


tonr varieties. Every species of herb upon


the farm has more or less volatile oil


peculiar to itself, on which lis peculiar
odor and flavor depend. 1t is easy TO see


how the flavor and odor Of butter are


affected by the food the COW consumes A


cow eating peppermint INTO her blood, aud


thence into her milk where combining


with the cream. it is carried into the but


ter, giving it the flavor and aroma OF the


mint Cows do not live on Il single


variety OF herbage. Twenty different
kinds are more likely to be found in Il SIN
ole pasture than one. The mingled oils OF
lll these constitute the aroma of the butter
made from their milk, each one hay inc its
| modifying influence. though some may be
distinctly recognized, when, like onions,
garlic or cabbage. their influence is greater
than that ot all the rest


These kinds Of food furnish the food


for The dairy BY Il little attention,
most agreeable aromas are the most de-
sirable lor dairy pasture, though they may
not yield the most More people are more
pleased with the aroma from Kentucky y
blue grass than with any other; hence
blue grass is regarded as the best food
for the dairy. By u little attention,
every dairyman can determine for himself
what food is most suitable for his herd
and that little attention will impress upon
I'him the fact that if he would make clean
ilavored butter his COWS must not live on
garbage, litter or strong scented weeds.
There is another peculiarly about the
essential oils in herbage, from which the
dairyman may sometimes derive adNan-
tage. 1t is the different degrees of LIGHT
| ness they possess, the rapidity with which
their essential oils are eyaporated by heat
For instance, the pungent oil of the horse
| radlsh IS so volatile as to escape in short
time by exposing the crushed radish to
the air; the poisonous oil Of the mild par
snip and of ivy escape while the foliage is
willing; an offensive oil in green clover,
which affects butter untavorably, escapes


while it is drying, SO that the dry plant


makes a better product than the green


The aromas of tunips, cabbage, onions


etc, are heavier, and are not entirely


carried away by drying, But by heating


the treshly-drawn milk, even these oils can


IN many instances be entirely driven out
| COr Live Stock I0I1mal
Year: 1873

farmer in Auburn informs Us that he
has piece OF woodland which will now
produce fifty cords of wood to the acre.
Twenty years ago the present wood-lot
was tillage land and sown to wheat The
time IS not distant, when farmers in this
part OF Maine will begin to plant or to
foster crops of wood. Already Woodlands
are scarce, and a farm with a good wood
lot upon it, in the vicinity of our two cities
is eagerly sought for Lewiston Jour
nal
Year: 1873

CAIRO, Ill, January 10.-This morning
small boat containing two dead men drifted
past Columbus, KY. One of the bodies was
in sitting position with the head dropping,
and the other lying in the bottom of the boat,
which was surrounded by field of ice, rem
dering it impossible to reach the boat from
shore. 1t is supposed that in attempting TO
cross the river the boat was caught In the Ice
and the men were frozen to death.
Year: 1873

TIE REWARD FOR W. X. TELLER.--At n
late meeting of the Board of Directors OF
the State Bank of Virginia it was resolved
that the reward Of $1,000 offered by the
bank for the arrest of W. K. Teller be with
drawn through Major John Foe. chief of
police.


I'm consequence Of the above resolution
Major Poe has withdrawn the reward.
Year: 1873

Now, Aunt Sallie, do please tell us
why you never got married. You re-
member you said once that when you
were girl you were engaged to min
lister, and promised us you would tell
us about it some time. Now, aunt,
please tell us.


"Well, you see, when I was about
seventeen years old was living in
Utica, in the State of New York.
Though [ say it myself, was quite
good-looking girl then, and had several
beauX. The one that took my fancy
was a young minister, a very promising
young man, and remarkably pious and
steady. He thought good deal of me
and 1 kind of took fancy to him, and
things went on until we were engaged.
One evening he came to me, and put
his arms around me, and kind of hug
ged me, when [ got excited and some
frustrated. It was long time ago, and
[ don't know but what / might have
hugged back little. I was like any
other girl, and pretty soon pretended
to be mad about it. You must know
the house where I lived was on one of
the back streets of the town. There
were glass doors in the parlor, which
opened over the street. These. doors
were drawn to. I stepped back a little
from him, and when he came up close I
pushed him back again. / pushed him
harder than [ intended to- and don't
you think, girls, the poor fellow lost
his balance, and fell through one of the
doors into the street"


ooh, Aunty Was he killed %


"No; he fell head first, and as he
was going caught him by the legs of
his trousers. I held on for minute
and tried to pull him back, but his sus-
penders gave way, and the poor young
man fell clear out of his pantaloons into
a parcel of ladies and gentlemen along
the street"


"Oh, Aunty Aunty Lordy r'


There, that's right /; squall and gig
gle as much as you want to. Girls that
can't hear little thing like that with
out tearing around the room and he-he-
ing in such way don't know enough to
come in when it rains. A nice time the
man that marries one of you will have,
won't he. Catch me telling you any
thing again"


But, Aunt Sallie, what became of
him? Did you ever see him again q"


"No; the moment he touched the
ground he got up and left that place in
terrible hurry. [ tell you it was
sight to be remembered. How that
man did run He went out West, and
I believe he is preaching ont in Illinois.
But he never married. He was very
modest, and [ suppose he was SO badly
frightened that time that he never dared
trust himself near q woman again.
That, girls, is the reason why I never
married. felt very bad about it for
long time-for he was a real good man,
and I've often thought to myself that
we should have been very happy if his
suspeDders hadn't given way.
Year: 1873

Eleven steamship lines use the same
path, with nearly the same degrees of
latitude and longitude, between the old
world and the new, and it, is seldom
that q steamer crossing the Atlantic is
not within few miles of another vessel
bound in the same or in a precisely OPP
posite direction. The number of crafts
plying this path is increasing almost
daily their proximity to one another is
consequently more marked, and that
collisions are not more FREQUENT is the
result of chance. From the masthead
of each steamer watch is supposed to
be kept, and dinfoggy weather the whistle
is sounded about every fifty seconds;
but when a vessel is rolling heavily it is
almost impossible to see the lights of
another steamship at nighttime, and,
except when off a dangerous coast, the
engines are continued at full speed. 1t
is strange therefore that so few disas-
ters like that in which the United
States mail steamer Arctic ran into an
other steamer, In October, 1851, and
went down, occur at the present time.
A code regulating the passages is be-
heved by some persons, however, to be
absolutely necessary. The interest In
the matter has been renewed from the
fact that company running four steam
ships q week between this. city, Boston
and Liverpool has adopted aplan known
as the &c lane route" proposed as long
ago as 1855, by Professor M. T. Maury.


This contemplates the designation of
one strip of ocean through which YES
sells bound east shall pass and another
for those bound west. 1t is claimed
that thereby not only will the liability
of collision between steamer and steam
er be lessened, but that new resource
will be afforded to those in distress on
the high seas. Fogs aud Gains often
occur together and ships moved by can
vas are not likely to run into one an
other, but they are placed in peril by
steamers. It is added that if the mas
ters knew the track of the steamships
they would keep carefully out of it, and
| that the more sailing vessels that will
agree to keep out of the lanes the more
| it will concern steamers to keep In
them.


The part of the ocean traversed by
the steamship lines in their voyages is
about $50 or 200 miles broad, and it is
proposed in the new plan to mark out a
| lane from this 15 or 25 miles broad,
which will at least reduce the present
risks. 1t is further claimed that the
lane to the west will be 80 miles shorter
than the route generally taken, and
some delays from q fog will be avoided,
as it passes 100 miles south of Cape
Race. Another advantage claimed for
the lane system is that one way it lies
along the northern edge of the Gulf
Stream, where there is an eddy setting
westward often at the rate of a knot an
hour. The close of the argument in
favor of the system is that the distance
from Cape Clear to Sandy Hook viii be
practically shortened 80 miles, and that,


while it prolongs the distance to Europe
rs miles, compensation will be found in
the greater security and the advantages
of the Gulf Stream and fewer fogs.-N.
Y. Tribune.
Year: 1873

'Tis said when pious NIoslems walk abroad,
If on flle path they spy floating bit
k OF paper, reyerently they turn aside
And shun the scrap, nor set foot on it,
Lest haply thereupon the awful name
OF mighty Allah should by chance be writ,
We smile at the vain dread but blind and dali
The soul that only smiles, and cannot sec
thought OF perfect beauty folded in
The zealot's reverent fear in some free
And Haunting fiower-cap may be hived and held
One drop of precious honey for the bee.
Small wiad-blOwn things there are, which any day
Float by in air or our pathway lie,
Swift-winged moments speeding on their way
Brief opportunities, which we pass by
Needless and smiling, little subtle threads
OF infiuence-intimations soft and sly.
Carelessly we tread them down, as pressing on,
Our eager inconsiderate feet we set
On the Hnvalued treasures where they lie.
We are too blind to prize or to regret,
Too dull to recognize the mystic name
Craven upon them as on amulet.
All dears, let rs no longer do this thing,
And thus the sweeter life lose and let fall
But with anointed eyes and reverent feet
Pass ON our way. noting and priZing all,
Knowing that Gods great token-sign is set
Not on the large things only, but the small.


Susan Coolidge.
Year: 1873

underground work, it should be added,
the use of compressed air has been
found to present the great advantage Of
furnishing purer atmosphere instead
of deteriorating it.


Tt is impossible to see all the uses to
which this new motive power will be
applied. Doubtless, IL will be applied
to the propulsion Of street and railway
cars. as well as TO the transmission Of
mower to factories and mines. Doubt
less. also. there will be multiplied
forms of machinery adapting it to ev-
cry possible use for which force is
needed.
Year: 1873

The experiment of moving logs in
RATS from the lumber region of Michi-
gan across the lake to Chicago is to be
tried on large scale, this summer,
and, if successful, is expected to give a
great impetus to manufacturing,
Year: 1873

1t is now known that after the most
thorough consideration the Supreme Court
of Wisconsin has decided that not only
the Graham tempranee law is consitu
tional, but that it is applicable TO all the
decision. as it will settle the doubts of all
good citizens. For it IS known that
many of the politicians 6f the Demo-
cratic school have held that Milwaukee
had reservations under its charter which
citizens, or in other words, they held
that Milwaukee was a species of state BY
itself and that it should not obey the law
this was the original basis of the rebellion
of the Southern States against the
National government. That rebellion
nation of four thousands millions of dol
lars, and at a sacrifice of three hundred
thousand lives.


The Supreme Court has now decided
the Question that Milwaukee is por-
too of the State of Wisconsin, and that
the people who reside here, whether
native or foreign, must obey the law
enacted by the Legislature 1t is prob
aUie tilat yen arise ITOul the WHISKY
shops and beer saloons, but nevertheless
all good citizens of all nationalities will
obey tie law.


We look with considerable interest for
the course of the Herold, the Seehote
and the Banner. as their conduct on this
question will show whether they have
any genuine conception of what is due in
a republic to the majesty of the law,
made by the representatives of the peo-
pie and repeatedly confirmed by them.
and at last sustained by the only judicial
tribunal which the constitution rscog-
nizes as an expounder of the law lF;a-
coas;ia.