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Year: 1873

as 1 did so almost to tears by the
thought that very soon now I should
purchase a high-stoop brown stone
house of my own, and that she and I
would day by day ascend and descend
the same in company together, made
one forever. Strange to say, the door
stood open, and L know not by what
impulse, but probably because 1 was
and in the mood to do unlikely things,
entered without ringing, and advanc
ed unannounced into the drawing
room.


Overcome for the moment, I seated
myself on a sofa the dim outline of
which half showed itself in the twi-
light, for the gas had not been lit. I
heard voices from the inner par
lor- What? The voice of my charm
er Angelic sound Enraptured, I
held my breath to listen.


He might be here any day; the
steamship is due. "


Heavens What happiness ! Her
whole soul wrapped in mine Thinking,
talking of my coming Involuntarily
l grasped my vest pocket, in which lay
an elegant jewel case, greeting present
Tor my darling.


But L must hear those tones again. I
did Softly, sweetly she continued:


''I don't know what I shall say to the
silly goose; I wish he would stay
away"


"Silly goose Silly goose p that
could not be myself. Impossible =
But a cold shudder ran from the top of
my head to the soles of my new boots.
Now must, would hear. I heard.


&c He is getting bald, too"


Bald!' thought /, and I put my
hand to my head. Sure enough, I was
a little bald. OF course I had known it
all along but then-well, this was sus-
piciOus. I must hear the rest. I
heard


"Just think of it-nearly forty years
old, and getting bald r'


Between thirty and forty; that was
my age.


''And I only eighteen"


My love was eighteen, precisely.


Girls of sixteen are so silly. He
took advantage of me, for indeed, a
child of that age thinks she is in love
with anybody. He happened to be the
first one, and knew no better. Now I
am a young lady and know my own
mind. I know that care only for you.
But here is the difficulty. The old
creature has made money out there in
China, and papa will be angry with me
If l do not marry him.


No more doubtings-no more fears.
It was | she called "the old creature"
To whom did she speak? A masculine
voice replied:


"Your own Charles, darling, will
make money too"


The voices ceased and slight rust
ling was heard A flash A servant
had come in to light the gas. A mo-
ment more and the front parlor would
be Illuminated. Quick Now or
never!


A rush, and was gone. Gone through
the open door-gone down the high
stoop. And my visions? Gone, too.


I could have forgiven all, but that
she had called me "the old creature"
Year: 1873

You're tired, dear mother your cheek is quite pale
Won't you lay down your sewing and tell me tale
Of fairies. that sent in the good times of old
Rich banquets, and Jewels and purses of gold?
Not about little Riding-Hood crossing the moor:
Was the wolf that she met like the Wolf at our door?
Shall we never walk out where the houses so tall
Have lace DER each window, and lamps in each hall
Where the curly-haired children play over the


grass p
We might hear their gay laughter and talk as we'd
Must " you sit here and work till your fingers are


sore?


I think we might steal by the Wolf at the Door!
I'll lay down your work-ah! how warm it will be-
NY nice little cloak! why, thought twas for me
Once, always in garments as fine was dressed.
But shan't ask for this, If you think twould be
Yet can't understand what you told me before
That it might, for while, keep the Wolf from the


Door!


The clothes have on 80 thin and so worn!
1 try to be thankful they never stay corn;
But should like some new ones, with tassels and


braid,


And stockings not shrunken, nor faded, nor


frayed


And pair of newashoes-how they'd creek on the


floor!


But then he might hear them-the Wolf at the


Doorl


The rooms growing dark, and I can't see to play
By the light of the lamp that shines over the way
And the shadows that fit DER its gloom on the
They frighten me- coming so shapeless and tall
Oh, how I would beg for cande-once more,
If you thought he'd not see us-ths Wolf at the


Door!


And the fire the hearth, it has died away quite
Won't you kindlea one, dear mother, tonight!
Don't you love the soft flames, as they cracke and
glow?
They.would warm your poor hands that are cold as


q. the snow;
And the kettle would sing-Hark lis that the


winds roar?
Oh, mother IL fear tits the Wolf at the Door!
Well, hear me my prayers, and I'll lie down in bed,
And while your soft arm is passed under my head
Won't you tell me again to be trusting and brave,
Though I march over thorns on my way to the


grave?
To keep sin from my heart, lest it eat to the
Dear mother is sin like the Wolf at the Door?
And tell me Of mansions still grander than those
Where the rich children play and the grass greenly


grows;
Where they'll give me bright robes, and a crown for


my head,
And on fruits from the gardens Of God I'll be fed
Oh, mother! to think there we'll live evermore,
And be in no fear of the Wolf at the Door!
Year: 1873

There is false idea prevalent about
resting enough in few weeks of the
summer to last the year. However full
of delight and peace the lazy hours in


the country, however freighted with
rest and strength the long days by the
sea, we cannot hoard and carry away
enough of the precious store. Every
twenty-four hours is circle of its own
in which to tear down and build up,


and whatever is spent between one sum
rise and another must be made good


from food, recreation and rest, and
whoever commences the morning al
ready tired in spending too much some
where, will find that a system of paying
natures past debts by drawing on the
future will make him bankrupt, But
Year: 1873

One morning I went to call on a
Swedish acquaintance and found her
doctor with her. He was merely pay
ing complimentary visit, as his SER
vices was not required. Ilearned that
an arrangement is made with the med
ical man small sum of 95 or 96 a
year contents him, and for that he at
tends the whole family, however often
they may happen to be i'll. The diff
Guilty seems to get hold of him quickly
enough In an urgent case !; for if he has
gone on his rounds he finishes every
visit before he goes to his new patient.
A lady with whose relatives was slight
ly acquainted had husband who had
always very delicate health, and upon
one occasion, when they were staying
with her, ht was seized with a sharp
attack connected with heart COM
plant. They urged her to send at
once for the doctor. but she only used
some simple remedies, because she said
she had just dismissed her usual medi-
cal attendant, and had made no fresh
arrangement with anybody else, so that
she could not ask any one to come to
her assistance. A poor lady while I
was there lost child from water on the
brain, and she sat by it for hours in the
most terrible anxiety, waiting the doc
tors time for coming. To people ae-
customed to command prompt advice
in illness, Stockholm, or, indeed, Sweed-
en-, would not seem to be a desirable
place to be attacked in.-Ien1pte Bar


Feeling is much slower sense than
sight. If a man had an arm long
enough to reach the sun, and were to
touch that body with the tip of his fin
gel, he would never find out whether it
we're hot or cold, as he would be dead
before the sensation arrived at head
quarters, which would require one hun
dred years.
Year: 1873

A gratifying announcement con-
nected with the industrial development
of West Virginia is, that an iron fur
mace is to be built at Wheeling, where
all the conditions are favorable to its
success.
Year: 1873

The extraordinary demand for iron
and coal is causing the development of
new sources of supply in Europe. Eng
land now draws on Spain and Ireland
for iron ore, WI lie new coal mines have
been opened in the lsttSz country.
Year: 1873

DRows1NEss AFTER EATING. MANY
persons feel more or less drowsiness afte,
eating. A full and hearty, although not
excessive MEALS almost irresistible. This
is caused by the stomach and liver attract
ing to themselves, in order to carry on the
work in hand, an amount of blood which
would otherwise have gone to nourish the
brain, and to maintain its functions-na-
ture, deciding that the business of diges-
ton, when there is food in the stomach to
digest, is more important for the time be
ing than any other business whatever
Nevertheless, for many reasons, the heay-
mess after eating is announcement and unde
sirable. But it may always be relieved by
the use OF pure tonic stimulant, such as
Dr. Gottlieb Fisch's Bitters. This spurs
on the system to do double work, till the
system then repays itself kberally out of
the newly secured fund of nourishment
reaction is thus precluded


This subject continued next week under
What a good appetite is Worth"
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT-The Commissary
General Of the United States, after trial
OF all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
Is fact worthy the attention of eonsum-
erS
Year: 1873

Cramps in the stomach and bowels.
cholic pains with children or older people.
is at once relieved by using Renne's Mag
lc Oh with molasses and water. This
Pain Killing Magic Oil is a frst-rate doc
tor in the family, and is sold by your mer-
chant and druggist.
Year: 1873

rB- The Little Rock Journal is glad to learn
that Mr.. Mike Roman and Harry Thomas are
both to be retained under the new manage
ment OF the Metropolitan. Than our friend
Mike there is no more polite, efficient or ac-
commodating hotel clerk in the whole south
and Harry is deserving of equal praise
Every old guest of the Metropolitan will be
glad that these faces shall not be missed in
the office.
Year: 1873

AvAUNT, INpIGEsTInN THE Charter Oak
stove is the most interesting and important
feature in the family economy; for it fills the
house with warmth, the table with good
cheer. and prevents that dreary aspect and
indigsstible meals that brings sourness OF
temper, discomfort and dissatisfaction.
Year: 1873

Some men never lose their presence of
mind. In Milwaukee last week a man
threw his mother-in-law out of a window
in the fifth story of burning building,
and then carried teather-bed down stairs
in his arms
Year: 1873




The sinking fund established by acts of 1850
and 1868 are rapidly accumuIaiing, and will be
amply sufficient to meet the debt AS it natures.
Exclusive of the mill tax, the State tax OF
1872 was reduced fifty or sixty thousand dollars
from the previous year. The taxpayers will
now be glad to learn that in the opinion of the
Treasurer, if there are no extraordinary appro-
priations made by this legislature. the State
tax for the year 1873 can be reduced to five
mills on Il dollar, being Il reduction of $l70 900
from the State tax of 1872.


While it is our duty to provide for all Just
and necessary expenses, we shall, L trust, eX-
eicise the most rigid scrutiny in regard to all
our appropriations and disbursements. I Shall
be happy to cooperate with you i'll all proper
measures calculated to develop the resources of
the State, and to advance the moral and intel
lectual growth of the people.


EDUCATION.


For Il complete exhibit of the educational
work of the State, you are referred TO the re-
port of the State Superintendent of Public
Schools. He makes some Important sugges-
tons that will, trust receive your careful con-
sideration. Our Normal schools are doing
well, but the demand for thoroughly trained
teachers is greater than they can supply. In
Il Government like ours, where the source of
power is in the people, free schools and gener-
al education are the surest guarantees of good
government and the perpetnity of free institu-
tions. The material prosperity and moral stand
ing OF the State correspond with the degree of
intelligence among the people. The State that
best educates its people, will, other things be-
ing equal, be the strongest and most prosper
Gus. Education lifts up the masses, and Sc
cures greater equality of wealth and influence
1t creates individual strength and reliance ig-
norance brings weakness and dependence. 1t
secures progress; the neglect of it carries us
backward. 1t brings national power and re-
spect; through ignorance both are forfeited
Our hope is in the intelligence of the people;
our danger is in the ignorance that is controlled
by corrupt men. To the forces which etiuca-
ton has planted in the heart the brain and the
conscience of the people, we owe our success
in the past, and upon them we rest our hopes
of the future. This grand superstructure of
free government which we are building can only
rest securely upon the immovabe enduring
foundation of universal public education.
Year: 1873

moment 10 be convinced OF our
| error,


What do we bchoidy We behold
the sublime spectacle of q single in-
dividual invested with almost abso-
lutte power IN the hope that he
would use II in tho interest of the
few against an oppressed and i'm
poyerishcd people, using his power
to relieve them from oppression,
and To raise them from their fallen
estate. While engaged in this no.
bic work, Elisha Baxtor is being
assailcd with such persistent, we'll
directed fury, that if we did not
know the means of his support, we
might almost doubt his ability to
sustain himself. Could the people
have been deceived and misled, he
would at this moment have bcon q
ruined man. But the works he has
performed, and is performing, are
all of such character that people
must be stone blind if they could be
led astray. When we behold this
silent worker performing his mis-
sion among silent people, and con-
trast their conduct with the noise
and tumult of tho discounted little
faction who assail the one and seek
to mislead the other, we arc forcibly
reminded Of the words of the great
Edmund Burks: "Thc vanity, rest
lcssness, petulence, and spirit ofln-
trigue of several petty cabals, who
attempt to hide their total want Of
consequence in hustle, and noise,
and putting, and mutual quotation
OF each other, makes you imagine
that our contemptuous neglect Of
their abilities is general mark Of
acquicscencc in their opinions. No
such thing, assure you. Because
half q dozen grasshoppcrs under a
fern make the field ring with their
importunate chink, while thousands
of great cattle reposc beneath the
shadow Of the oak, chew the cud
and arc silent, pray do not imagine
that those who make the noise are
the only inhabitants Of the field
that Of course, they are many in
number; or that, after all, they are
other than the little, shriveled. mea-
ger, hopping, though loud and
troublesome insects of the hour"


We commend the above extract
to Poker Jack and his fellow grass
hoppers. Let them chew upon it,
and inwardly digest it. True, the
operation will interrupt their i'm
Fortunate chink, but the truth will
compensate them for the time lost.
Men are prone to self deception,
and reflection may serve to teach
them that their noise is not public
sentiment, any moro than the noise
of the grasshoppers was proof that
they were the only inhabitants of
the fields. Public sentiment is most
unalterable when it makes no noise,
especially when the struggle is over,
and the mind made up, and at the
right time the people will be heard
from. When the cattle move, the
grasshoppers will be on the wing.
Year: 1873

A BED COMFORT.-T want to tell
you about a bed comfort we sleep
under-the prettiest, warmest thing /
ever saw in my life. 1t was made of
white cotton flannel and knotted with
blue Bertin wool of a delicate shade.
The contrast between the soft white
plush Of the flannel and the fleecy tas-
sells Of wool was exquisit The under
side OF the comfort was first put in
frames, feecy part down. Eve or six
pounds of batting evenly laid on it, a
thin covering spread over that, and
the whole quilted or knotted with
white thread to keep the cotton in
place. then the upper covering was the
blue tassels tied in. This has been
made for several years, but was not in
the least soiled; and with a single
blanket was an ample covering, though
there were three foot of snow on the
ground, and the mercury was below
twenty degrees. In summer it if fold
ed in a sheet and laid carefully away.
Hearth and Home.
Year: 1873

The notion is q mistaken one that
war is to bring q new issue of green
backs to fly kites and make specu-
lation and lift the broken out of the
slough. We have 762 millions of
greenbacks and bank notes and
fractional now, which is much more
than any direct issues of currency
we had at that time, although we
had SO much then as to teach us
lessen. The lesson of our war
finance laundering was that war
can seem to make good times to
any class. The outbreak of war
with the South prostrated all trade
and industry for year and more.
It broke vastly more people than
the presentrevulsion.


War means immediate taxes laid
ON with heavy hand. It means
restoration of the taxes of five cents
on coffee and twenty five cents on
tea. and OF the entire list of inter-
nal excises; it means a multiplied
ton of the tax gatherers War is
the downfall of public credit. and
ours is already strained. Instead
of selling more bonds for what
they will fetch, we shall lay direct
! tax of 500 millions year to be col
lected through the regular State
machinery. The expenditures of
such war will be made by a few
Eastern. cities; the taxes will be
drawn from the whole country
War will destroy confidence and
paralyze industry. They are fools
as well as knaves who argue that we
should 60 to war to make good
times. Traders and spectators
who are weak and shaky now would
be wiped out by war.-Cin Gaz.
Year: 1873

Two courses have been consider
ed in the Cabinet; one the unqual
fled recognition of the Republic of
Cuba; the other recommendation
that force be used with the pur-
pose of reducing the island and
annexing it to the United States.
As between these two propositions
the Cabinet is understood to be
divided, but it is believed the Pres
ident will favor one or the other
plan The request for delay on the
part of Spain will throw the whole
matter over on the President to
give it such shape in his message
as he sees fit.
Year: 1873

The Washington Chronicle says
that a prominent officer of the in
ternal Revenue Bureau has written
up and presented to the President
and Secretary Richardson f.
nancial plan for putting the govern
ment in position to resume specie
payment in general. It's main feat
ure is the abolition of all national
banks, and the calling in of all the
national bank notes. Greenbacks
are T. take their place.
Year: 1873

The New SILVER TRADE DoLLAR.-
The Secretary of the Treasury has fixed
upon the devices for the new silver
trade dollar authorized by the coinage
act of 1873. It has for it's diverse a
female figure, seated on bale of cotton
and extending the right hand, grasping
an olive branch, toward the. open sea.
In the left hand is q scroll bearing the
word Liberty" and at the base Of the
device is the motto, "In God We trust. -"
The date of the coinage 1S73 appears
upon the diverse, together with the
halo Of thirteen stars. The reverse is
the figure of an eagle with the inserip-
ton United States of America" and
the motto "E Pluribus Unum." The
weight and fneness, with the words
" Trade Dollar" are also inscribed on
the reverse. The working dies will be
commenced immediately at the Phila-
dolphin mint, and the coins are expected
to be ready about the middle Of this
month.
Year: 1873

E It is the highest privilege, duty,
and pleasure Of great men and whole
souled women, to earn what they poss-
ess, to work their own way through
life, to be the architects Of their own
Year: 1873

~A young man in Stockton sent
off his first postal card the other day.
After writing message on the back he
enclosed it in an envelope, clapped on
a three cent stamp and dropped it into
the post-office, remarking that it was
. very handy arrangement and should
have been introduced years ago.
Year: 1873

SHEEP AND Cows GRAZING TOGETHER An experienced correspondent of the Practi. cal Farmer from Eastern Pennsylvania, after enumerating list of very tempting profits realized from sheep, advises that farmers do not rush headlong into the business; but that those who have sheep retain them, and that those who have none procure and try few upon their farms, and see if there be not profit in keeping them. A few sheep can be proftably kept on almost any farm, as they will feed upon some things that other stock win not touch, will entirely erad- icate some kind of weeds-and what they thus use will not be missed at the end of the year. As to grazing sheep and cows on the same pasture, the writer says:

 "I will conclude by giving summary of my own experience in sheep husbandry. l have been farming and keeping sheep nine teen years. During the last seven years I have been keeping thoroughbred Southdowns, carefully selected from some of the best fiocks in the country. My lambs have averaged me Sl0 apiece, and the wool S2 for each sheep. think 1 can keep one sheep and one COW to every acre, on a given amount of pasture land just as well as to keep the COW alone In regard to alleged injurious effects affirmed by some of keeping sheep and dairy cows In the same pasture, l will state that have never observed them. And fl there were any injurious effects resulting from the practice | it would be confined to the short space o time intervening between first turning C pasture and harvest, say from the middle o

 May to the lst or middle of July. Sheer prefer and will cling to the old pastures

 while COWS arc continually seeking and long ! ing for new" -.r,..,. s... .~s.- 't.*