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Year: 1873

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WHAT SHALL WE DO: WITH


OUR DAUGHTERS?
From the Christian Standard.


Bring them up in the way they
should 60.


Give them good substantial, com,
mon school education.


Teach them how to cook a good
meal of victuals.


Teach them how to wash and iron
clothes.


Teach them how to darn their own
stockings and sew on buttons.


Teach them to make their own
dresses.
Teach them to make shirts.


Teach them to make bread.


Teach them all the mysteries Of the
kitchen, the diuing-room and the
parlor.


Teach them that dollar is only /.
hundred cents.


Teach them that the more they live
within their income the more they will
save.


Teach them that the further they
live beyond their income, the nearer
they get to the poor.house.


Teach them to wear calico dresses,
and do it like a queen.


Teach them that good, round rosy
romp is worth fifty delicate consump-
tives.


Teach them to wear thick, warm
shoes.


Teach them to do the marketing for
the family.


Teach them to foot up store bills.


Teach them that God made them in
his own image, and that no amount Of
tight lacing will improve the model.


Teach them every day, hard prac-
tical common sense.


Teach them selfreliance.


Teach them that good, steady farm
or or greasy machanic, without cent,
is worth a dozen oil-pated loafers in
broadcloth.


Teach them to have nothing to do
with Incorporate and dissolute young
men.


Teach them to climb apple trees, go
fishing, cultivate garden, drive road
team QF farm wagon.


Teach them the accomplishments
music, drawing, painting-if you have
the time and money to do it with.


Teach them not to use paint or DOW
der.


Teach them not to wear false hair.


Teach them to say no, and mean it.;
or yes, and stick to it.


Teach them to regard the morals,
not the money Of the beaux.


Teach them the essentials of life
truth, honesty, uprightness-then at
a suitable time let them marry.
Rely upon it, that upon your teach
ing depends in a great measure the
veal or woe of their after life.
Year: 1873

Fight your own battle. Hoe your own
row. Ask no favors of any one and you'll
succeed five thousand times letter than one
who is always beseeching some ones patron
age. No one will help you as you help your
self, because no one will be so heartily inter-
ested in your affairs. The first step will not
be such a long one, prehaps; but carving
your own way the mountain, you make
each one lead to another, and stand firm in
that while you chop still another out.


Men who have made fortunes are not those
who had $5, 900 given them to start with, but
started fair with a wcll-earned dollar or two.
Men who have, by their own eXertion, ac-
quired fame, have not been thrust into popu-
iarity by puffs. begged or paid for, or given
IN friendly spirit. They have outstretched
their hands and touched the public heart.


Men who win love do their wooing, and
never knew man to fail so signally as one
who has induced his affectionate grand
mamma to speak a good word for him.
Whether you work for fame, for love, for
money, Or for anything else, work with your
hands, heart and brain. Say II will J" and
some day you will conquer. Never let any
man have it to say. 81 have dragged you
up. Tco many friends hurt man more
than none at ALL
Year: 1873

Destruction OF the lofrsapln rover


The Niagara Falls Gazette thus notices the
destruction of Terrapin Tower, long one of
the most conspicuous objects around the
Falls: "During the past nifty years millions
of people from every inhabitable part OF the
globe have seen the round, weather-beaten
tower, built upon the narrow ledge of rocks
upon the extreme brink of the Horseshoe
Fall, and have en- Dyed from its summit the
tumutuous rapids above and the mighty rush
of waters below. They will learn with sim
cere regret that the venerable mass of ma
sonry has been destroyed. The tower was
built in 1923, by Judge Porter, was forty-five
feet in height and twelve feet in diameter at
its base. The masonry was massive, and its
hardness and durability many have thought
to have been abundantly demonstrated. But
standing in such An extremely exposed posi-
ton, subject at all times to the action OF the
spray and the fierce beating winds, and in
the winter months ice-bound and frost-bitten,
the stones and wood have been gradually
Welding to the elements and the structure
was pronounced unsafe last fall, and has
been closed to the public ever since. Last
week preparations were made to remove the
concern in order to make room for new
iron tower. Large issures were found to
have opened in the masonry, and the mast in
the centre of the pile was found to be only
q mere shell, the core having almost disap-
peared from dry rot. The first attempt to
blow up the tower was made Saturday noon,
but proved abortivc-the twenty-five pounds
of powder buried in the base of the structure
only serving to demolsh q portion of the
southwestern side. The ruins were subse-
qucntly mined and the work of demolition
completed on Monday, June 3D."
Year: 1873

How it strikes the Danbury Ncsrs man, is
appended: You are generally looking at
something very intently when it happens
perhaps you are smiling to yourself. Then
your left foot shoots out to one side with q
suddenness that creates q sickness in tie
family. Ice commences to form on your
spine and perspiration on your brow, and
your scalp risessenough to permit streak of
air to pass under The other leg goes out at
this juncture, your head snaps Violently to
the front, and there is faint impression on
your mind that the world is about to come to
an end with nobody in charge. Miles of
sidewalk spin out fsom you like lightning.
People disappear suddenly, with appalling
mystery. Then your eyes close, your con.
sciousness wanes, and your soul goes out
without one expiring quiver, snd-and Won
arrive. The hard reality of the scene is then
forced upon you with unpleasant abruptness.
Everything is in its place but your spine.
You get up and move off with sickly attempt
at smile, feeling at the time that the back
of your head is laughing from ear to ear, and
find that the hardest thing is, not the side
walk, but to keep from rubbing yourself
Year: 1873

On certain voyage out, in exquisite sum-
mcr weather, we had as cabin passenger one
beautiful young lady and ten more or less
beautiful young gentlemen. Light winds or
dead calms prevailing the voyage was slow.
They had made half their distance, when the
ten young gentlemen were all madly in love
with the young lady. They had all proposed
to her, and bloodshed among the rivals seemed
imminent, pending:the lady s decision. In this
extremity the beautiful young lady cOnfidedin
my friend, the captain, who gave his discreet
advice. He said: 'If your affections are
disengaged, take that one of the young men
who you like the best, and settle the ques-
tion." II can't do that, because like them
all equally WELL" My friend, who was
man of resource, hit upon this ingenious
expedient; said he: Tomorrow morning,
when lunch is announced, do you plunge
boldly overheard, head foremost. will be
alongside in a boat to rescue you, and take
the one of the ten who rushes to your rescue,
and then you can afterward have him."
The beautiful young lacy highly approved,
and did accordingly. But after she plunged
in, nine out of the ten more or less beautiful
young gentlemen plunged in after her, and
the tenth remained and shed tears, looking
over the side of the vessel. They were all
picked up and restored, dripping to the deck.
The beautiful young lady, on seeing them,
said: "What am to do? See what plight
they are in. How can possibly choose,
because every one of them are equally wet ?"
''Then," said my friend, the captain. acting
under a sudden inspiration, ''take the dry
one" am sorry to say that she did so, and
they lived happy ever afterward.-[Charles
Dickens.
Year: 1873

A Physician says the cry for rest has
always been louder than the cry for food.
Not that it is more important, but it is often
harder to obtain. The best rest comes from
sound sleep. OF two men or women,
otherwise equal, the one who sleeps the best
will be the most moral, healthy and efici-
cnt. Sleep will do much to cure irritability
of temper, pecyishness, uneasiness. 1t will
restore to vigor an overworkcd brain. 1t will
build up and make strong weary body. 1t
ache 1t will cure broken spirit. 1t will
cure sorrow Indeed we might make long
list of nervous and other maladies that sleep
will cure The cure of sleeplessness requires
q clean, good bed, sufficient exercise to pro-
duce weariness, pleasant occupation, good
air, and not too warm room.
Year: 1873

Mr.. James Greenwood has published a
frightful account of the silent system which
is in operation at the Holloway Model Prison
in London. 1t is an otfense for prisoner to
speak one word, and he never is addressed
except in whispers, so that he may be in
prison two years without hearing the natural
sound of the human voice. The effects of
all this is SO terrible on the mind that prison
ers will speak out in desperation, at the risk
of any punishment, rather than endure that
horrible silence. The prisoners never see one
another, but remain in perpetual solitude. One
poor wretch, driven to desperation by nine
months solitude and silence, recklessly broke
out, in MIR. Geenwood's presence, ''For Gods
sake, Governor, put me in another CELL Put
me somewhere else. l have counted the
bricks in my cell until my eyes ache The
request of the tortured wretch was refused.
There is fine hole in each cell. and as the
wardens wear shoes of India rubber soles,
the prisoners can never be sure of being alone
Those condemned to the treadmill have to
ascend 1900 steps every alternate twenty
minutes, for six hours And this in place
so hot and close that the prisoners often lose
Ill perspirati0n three stones in as many
months. Every day the prisoners are taken
to chapel so arranged that they can see no
one save the chaplain, and him only through
an iron grating. And thus is the order of
devotion observed. Waldens are constantly
on the watch, less for a single instant they,
through the whole of the service, depart from
the rigid rule of "eyes right" They must
look steadily at the preacher; must raise and
lower their prayer-book with the elbows
squared, and all at once, like soldiers at drill.
They may not scmpe their feet without hav-
ing afterward to explain the movement. They
OF rebuke or punishment. God help them,
poor wretches!
Year: 1873

From the Boston Globe.


Transportation on the Upper Missouri river
has been started, in connection with the
opening Of the Northern Pacific Railroad to
Bismarck. A line of steamers will ply regu-
larly between that point and Fort Benton, ut
the head of navigation, a distance of about
one thousand miles, as far us from the mouth
of the Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico. We call
the attention of our readers to the far-of field
of the Northwest, which in time, in cost of
transportation. has been brought nearer to us
than many other sections with which we have
business transactions. The opening of the
railroad and putting on q line of steamers
gives the Eastern States Il connection with Il
region wonderfully rich in resources-nOt
only the precious metals. but iron and coal,
with good supply of timber, and capable Of
producing crops rivalins those of California


But it is as u stOck-grOwing region that We
wish to call the attention Of our readers. 1t
is claimed to be the finest pasturage region of
the continent. The grasses are sweet and
grow in great profusion on the hill sides, and
there is an abundant supply of pure water.
The lack of water is the one great drawback
to the plains of the Southwest A gentleman
recently returned from that section informs
us that he saw thousands of cattle that had
died along the dried-up swales and sandy
beds of the rivers for want of water. He
expresses the opinion that the cattle trade OF
that region is on the decline-that the coun-
try is overstocked. Some Of the hcrdsmen
of the Southwest have already gone to Mon
tana to engage in the business, and, such
being the case, the time is not far distant
when we shall regale ourselves with tender
Joints fattened on the nutritious grasses of
the Upper Missouri. The opening of the
Northern Pacific railway from Lake Superior
to the Missouri, $50 miles, and the establish
ment of line of steamers between Bismarck
and Fort Benton make it all the more pro-
bable, for Montana, to-day, is really nearer
to us than the plains of Texas, and yet steers
from the vicinity of the Neuces and Rio
Grande are daily slaughtered in the abattOir
of New York and Boston. The cattle Of the
Southwest are driven northward over the
plains, at q slow rate, feeding their way to
the railroads, and are put upon the cars 500
or ], 200 miles southwest of Chicago, and are
brought by rail the entire distance. 1t is a
long, tedious journey. Less wearisome will
be the transportation from Montana.


A full herd of thousand on barges might
be taken by single steamer, from Fort Ben
ton to Bismarck, in about four days, at
trihing expense, without WEAKNESS to the
may be transported to Duluth in forty eight
hours; shipped from thence to Buffalo, or
any other point on the lakes, or they may be
taken through all the way by rail, and the
journey will be no greater than that from
Abilene via the Kansas Pacific to New York.
That the beef and mutton grown on these
hills, in a pure atmosphere, fattened upon
the sweet grasses and water flowing from
mountain streams, and transported through
cool climate to market, will be sweeter and
tenderer than that brought from Texas cannot
be doubted.
Year: 1873

Dinner over, siesta on the soft mats
is next in order. These mats seem made
for sleep and Incidence. No booted
foot ever defiles them. Every one leaves
his clogs on the ground outside, and
glides about in his mitten-like socks,
which have each a special compartment
for the great toe. My waiting damsel
having gone out, and there being no such
things as bells, I do as the natives, and
clap my hands. A far-off answer of
he-i-i is returned, and soon the shut
fling of feet is heard again. The house
wife eppcars with the usual low bow,
and, smiling so as to again display what
resembles mouthful of COAL she lis
tens to the request for a pillow. Open
ing the little closet before spoken of,
she produces the desired article. 1t is
not ticking-bag of baked feathers In
closed in dainty, spotless case of white
linen, but little upright piece of wood,
six inches high and long, and one wide,
rounded at the bottom like the rockers
of cradle. On the top, lying in a
groove, is tiny rounded bag OF calico
filled with rice chaff about the size Of a
sausage. The pillow-case is a piece of
white paper wrapped around the top,
and renewed in good hotels daily for
each guest. One can rest about four or
six inches of the side of his Os OccipitiS
on japanese pillow, and if H. wishes
may rock himself to sleep, though the
words suggest more than the facts war
rant. BY sleeping on civilized feathers,
one gets out of training, and the Japa-
nese pillows feel very hard and very
much in one place. The dreams which
one has on the these pillows are charac-
teristic. In my first some imps were
boring gimlet-holes in the side of my
skull, until they had honey-combed it
and removed SO much brain that / felt
too light-headed to preserve my equi-
librium. On the present occasion, after
falling asleep, thought that the pillow
on which lay pressed its shape into my
head, and the skull, to be repaired, was
being trepanned. My head actually
tumbling off the pillow was the cause of
the fanced operation being suddenly
arrested.
Year: 1873

When ascending the river with n
heavy car. o, the current is so strong
that in some places it would be neces
sary to warp" as is frequently done
on the Upper Missouri. Warping"
consists in taking line from pair of
steam windlasses in the bow of the
boat, and making it fast on shore. The
windlasses are then wound up, aud the
power acquired in this way, in addition
to full steam on the paddles, usually
carries the boat up against an obstinate
set in the current. With our light load,
we met no place that could not be
stemmed with the ordinary power of
our engines, though in rounding the
numerous islands little backing and
veering was sometimes necessary.
Year: 1873

charleston News ana COuflef.I


Charleston may congratulate herself
that the embarrassed condition of her
city finances has thus far prevented her
from venturing on any extended scale,
upon the costly experiment OF wooden
pavements. We may take profitable
lesson in this matter from the expert
ence of the rich cities Ct the north and
west. OF the even, pleasant noiseless
surface presented by the wooden pave
ments when new there can be no ques-
tion. But they lack the first requisite
of good pavement they will not last.
st. Louis is the latest city that has
voted them failure, if not nuisance.
The mayor, in message to the common
council, embodies the results of twelve
years trial of this kind of pavement.
He says the fact is clearly shown that
wooden pavements are not suited to
streets used by heavy traffic, and it is
expensive under any circumstances. He
says that the average wear OF such a
pavement is six years, and the cost of
repairing is one dollar and half per
lineal foot. In Philadeldhia the wooden
pavement averages only three or four
years, and is voted to be comparatively
worthless. In Pittsburgh investiga-
tions are in progress that are likely to
result in a similar verdict. New York
has long since found out that it is the
most costly and worthless of all kinds
of pavement.
Year: 1873




On the top of the hill at Clermont is
the ancient castle of the count of that
name, and in various parts the battle.
mcnts of old times and the old walls are
still visible. This fort, which seems
built for eternity, has become prison
for females condemned to hard labor.
There is not one of the six hundred
prisoners who has not committed he
nious crime. The director, an old re-
tired officer, insisted upon showing me
all parts of it. The view from the
higher terraces is admirable, and the
air Is so pure that the prisoners enjoy
better health than the honest laborers
of the industrial towns. | could not
help pitying the poor Gray sisters who
have voluntarily devoted themselves to
the reformation and to the guard of the
female cOnvicts. Some of these sisters,
was told, once belonged to the best
society. Their life now is the hardest
that can be imagined, for even at night
in the dormitories constant guard
must be kept. Many of the prisoners
have the most uncomfortable tempcrs.
They cannot be trusted with knives in
the refectories their meat is cut before
hand, and they eat, Japanese fashion,
with wooden sticks. They work with
sewing machines, and sometimes use
the needles of their machines to wound
their guardians. The goods they man
ufacture, chiefly bottines, are sold, and
they can make little capital, which is
given to them at the expiration of their
term. The most frightful trait of the
regime is the obligation of absolute ST.
lence, day and night The Gray sisters
told me that with the liberty of speech
among these corrupt and criminal fe-
males they could not undertake to keep
guard over them.


The sisters never lay their hands on a
rebellious convict; when rebellion
takes place, they call for male guardi-
ans who keep the door and approaches
to the prison, aud who only exception
ally enter its precincts. ! found the
prisoners Mt church, six hundred women
dressed in the same uniform, and sing
ing psalms. This singing becomes Il
great pleasure for them, as they are
never allowed to talk so does confess
sion, and the almoner contidcd to me
that he was obliged to shorten and reg
ulate the confessions, as many of the
prisoners would never end them, ii il
were left with them to do so. noticed
with pleasure that there were two sepa-
rate departments, one for the hardened
sinners, old women who are condemned
for life, and who would have bad in
hucnce on the rest of the prisoners and
another for the young women, con
demned for infmticide. Their regim,
is not so hard, most of them being very
penitent and very young. On the
whole, it seemed to me that the prison
was conducted with as much humanity
as was consistent with the character OF
the convicts. But this visit quite filled
me with sadness. could not help be-
ing disgusted at finding such inmates
in place which was once the favorite
stronghold Of noble knights Henry
w., during the wars of religion, once
took refuge in it, there is hardly a
Bourbon prince of the old times whc
did not rest in 1t after hunting in the
wood which cover the plain.
Year: 1873

A NEW manner of catching rats is eX-
citing great interest among the return
inr house-holders. A barrel is filled
half full of water. A layer Of powdered
cork is laid on its surface, aud over this
n LAYER of corn meal is sifted. A chair
and a box or two are placed unobtrll-
sively in the neighborhood, whereby the
rat gains the edge OF the barrel. lie
sees nothing but the meal. He has no
innate ideas which teach him to beware
of the treacherous foundation on which
that tempting surface rests. He sniiis,
he leaps, and goes gently down through
meal and cork to his watery grave. Ii
any of his friends see him disappear
from the edge of the barrel, they hasten
after him to get their share OF the pro-
bable plumber, and are in turn taken in
by hospitable death. The plan seems
effective as against the rats, but is cal
culated to destroy their confidence il
human nature.
Year: 1873

els YOUR house warm enough in cold
weathef?" inquired an anxious father OF
a newly married son. My mother-in-
law makes it plenty warm enough for
me, but I guess Mary Jane and the
baby shiver SOME" replied the happy
boy,
Year: 1873

PLAYED OUT.-Anothcr cherished be-
lief gone. We are now told, at n day
which is certainly ridiculously late, that
the Car Of Juggernaut, SO far as the
crushing Of voluntary victims is concern
ed, is humbug. DIR. Pringle writes to
the London Times that the deaths inhict-
ed by the car are entirely due to acci
dent, though the native priests have no
sort Of objection to such accidents and
are glad when they occur. 1t takes n
crowd of 1900 to 1900 devotces to drag
the monstrous car with its sixteen huge
spiked wheels, and confused and entan-
gled in the four or five long ropes which
they hold, many OF these poor wretches
naturally fall and are crushed out of life
under the great wheels. Since an Eng
lish Commissioner ordered nets TO be fix
ed to the car for the protection Of people
the deaths have become fewer. For the
sake Of humanity, we are glad to know
that these horrid performances have not
been voluntary. But what we ask, is to
become of all the primers and primary
Biographies to which Juggernaut has
been so long precious boon Of pictnr-
esque awfulness.
Year: 1873

WANTED TO DIE IN STYLE.-A late
London paper had an advertisement for
the creditors Of Charles Hale to send in
their claims. Charles, it appears was a
cashier in bank, who married about two
months ago young lady of his own class
with every prospect before them of n
genteel life, and if gentcel, therefore hap-
py. AT one fell swoop Charles lost his
situation and gentilty. What remained?
a young American would have put his
shoulder to the wheel and his wife would
have helped him turn it but the pair of
gallant Britons preferred to face death
rather than work and shabbness. They
took laudanum in order to perish in each
others arms. But that the exit might be
as gentcel as beftted their position, they
packed their trunks, left will bequeath-
ing their jewclry, paid the landlady in
advance for the annoyance which two
moist, unpleasant bodies would cause her,
and then kept diary Of the effect of the
laudanum for the benefit of the coroner,
in German, Greek and English, request
ing in the last entry to be buried under
the same clod. All this so admirably
dramatzes the deicacy and refinement of
the aristocratic tendency, the resolve to
be genteel or die, that we are sorry to spoil
it by saying that they were brought back
to this world of bad tom by stomach
pump, and arrested on the charge of in
tended murder and suicide.