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Year: 1873

META doubtful rumor comes to us by
cable telegram from Paris that Metz is to be
restored to France through the influence of
Russia. Coming from Paris, and it being so
improbable that there is any truth in the re-
port we may conclude, to use a familiar col
loquial expression, that the wish is father to
the thought. Poor France has been fearfully
despoiled by Germany, and has had to pay
dear for her vanity and the folly of going to
war, and one Of her greatest losses was Metz.
In military point Of view this place had and
has immense value, and it is for that very
reason Germany demanded its cession and will,
no doubt, hold it. Then, what interest could
Russia have in the matter? Not one of the great
dynastc Powers has any love for democratic
and revolutionary France. Besides, Russia is
too astute To make futile efforts in such q case.
Much as we might wish to see the former pos
sessions of France restored 10 her, We fear
there y NJ hope.
Year: 1873

our country and the evils certain to follow


upon this departure from the true principles
of republican liberty If once sentiment is


invoked in behalf of the third term principle


public indignation may be aroused sufficiently
to sweep away both the poetry and the scheme


in whose behalf it is invoked


Unfortunately this question of Cesarism is


no mere sentiment. Mr.. Cowardin bears tes-


timony to the existence of imperialistic ideas


in section where they were to be expected as


the last refuge of despair. Grant" says the


Richmond editor, contemplating the President


turned into an American Caesar, ''would then


be more independent and would not be 80


much under the control of the unprincipled


party leaders by whom he is now surrounded.


He would then be free to act according to the


dictates of his own conscience, and if
he is man of any principle at all,
or with any sense of right or justice,
we of the South would be benefited by
the change" We print these words in
this place as an evidence of an underlying
sentiment in favor of monarchy though we
contemplate with pain that under any circum-
stances Americans should become monarchists
and thus begin to pave the way for imperial
rule and the horrors of red republicanism.


There is one other point developed by these
interviews to which we cannot fail to refer
This is the course of the HERALD on the ques-
ton of C@sarism. eff President Grant is
elected for third term he will have to thank
the HERALD for it," says Mr.. Stone, and
he bases this opinion on the fact that
public attention has been called to the ques-
ton and that in consequence the opposition
to Grants denomination, in the language of
the street, will be discounted" 1--WE owe
it to tho HERALD" answers Mr.. Ottendorfer,
''that our attention is drawn to the possibility
of Cesarism, else we might not have been
aware of the danger" Upon this latter
opinion we rest the discussion for the present,
commending the interviews herewith printed
to our readers as worthy Of thorough perusal
and profound study.
Year: 1873

OCEAN BALLooNING.-The New York
Times publishes letter from Prof.
Wise, the pronaut, with reference to
his contemplated balloon trip across
the Atlantic. The Professor is an
enthusiast, and seems to entertain no
doubt of the success OF his undertak-
ing He says:


fou are right about the pcrcoIation
Of gas, OF, as it is technically termed,
cXosmose OF gas; but | propose To
meet tits in an equivalent expenditure
# ballast Of 5000 pounds in weight,
say from 30 10 40 pounds per hour.
That would keep US ahoat six days.
We are arriving al better impermea-
bilitv, and hope to reduce it to 20
pounds per hour which would keep us
afoat twelve days. Should we fall in
this expectation in the air-aiioat and
thus be brought down to the water lev
el, we shall be prepared for that con-
tingencv in seaworthy boat and an
experienced sailor. Our great object
/ is more to demonstrate meteOrologi-
cal principal than the transit Of the
sea, desirable 4 feat as the latter may
be. If we get but half way across We
shall claim it as demOnstratlve of both
the questions-feasbility of trans-ma-
rine ballooning, and the proof that the
air-tidc is eastward continually, and
thus establish another principle of
weather signal service, in which we
can inform our neighbors on the other
side of the ocean what kind of weather
is coming over to them three or four
DAYS in advance of its coming.
Year: 1873

HARD QUEsTIoNs.-With an utter
disregard of the peace of mind of the
good people Of Connecticut, the Nor
wich Bulletin harnesses them by pro-
pounding such vexatious conundrums
as these: The statutes Of this State,
it says, "provide that every married
woman living with her husband al the
time of his death, or absent from him
by his consent, or by his default, Or by
inevitable accident, or in case OF di-
vorce where she is the innocent party,
and no part Of the estate Of her hus-
band was assigned to her for her sup
port, shall have right of dover in one
third of the real estate of which her
husband died possessed in his own
right Now. if woman being the
innocent party has obtained a divorce
without almony, and the husband has


married again, and both wives survive
him, do both wives take dover? And
| if this be answered in the affirmative,
the same principle would of course
hold good if he had been similarly di-
vorced three times and had died leav-
ing still another wife and how could
four wives each have one-third part p
Year: 1873

An aged couple of Wooster street are
very fond of checkers, and play quite fre-
quently. When be beats at the game she
loses her temper and declares she will not
play again. 1t vexes him to have her act
go, but he controls the irritation. and talks
to her about it. He tells her how wrong it
Is for people at their age in life to be dis
turbed by such trifes, and shows her so
clearly the folly of such a course that she
becomes ashamed of her weakness, and re-
turns to the game and plays it so well that
she beats him. Then he throws the check
ers in one direction, and kicks the board in
another, and says he will never play with
anybody who cheats so alitirediy. and
stalks moodily TO bed, and leaves her to
pick up the things.
Year: 1873

-Yokes for Oxen.-No one will dis
pute that the OK is oftentimes misused
like the horse, by being worked in gear
that does not fit him. You will find fifty
horses with lacerated breasts or shoul.
ders, from a hard leather collar, where
you will find one OK with a ssar from the
yoke. If the yoke is long enough, oxen
will not waddle and haul sideways, and
il the yoke and bows are made TO fit the
neck and shoulders, you will not often
see them sore, A yoke should be made
bows stand about perpendicularly when
you haul a load. The bows should be
set close to the neck, SO they will not
play backward, and so bruise the points
OF the shoulder, but so arranged that the
yoke win rest on the front or top of the
shoulder.
Year: 1873




One of the best things in the shape of
a practical joke was not long since perpe-
trated by Tim STARTER. Old STARTER,
pdter tanltLiaS, is merchant, wealthy and
arisiocratic, and it is his desire that moth
ing derogatory to his dignity shall find
foothold in his family, or fasten itself
upon any member thereof. In his boy
hood Tim conceived strong passion for
the fine arts, and desired much to become
a painter; but his father would not per-
nit il. His son must either choose one
of the learned professions, or follow ia
his footsteps and become merchant. In
spite of the paternal edict, however,
young Startler cultivated his talent, and
in the studio of an artist friend he spent
many pleasant hour with brush and
pallet in hand.


A few weeks since Mr.. Startler moved
into his new house on the avenue, and
on the occasion he gave grand Frecep-
tion to party of select friends. A hat
rack had been ordered for the front hall,
but it had not been delivered, and on the
forenoon of the day of the party word
was sent up by the furnisher that the
rack could not be finished before the fol-
lowing day. Tim heard the message,
and straightway the idea of joke enter
ed into his head. He got his paint and
his brushes, and upon the blank wall
of the hall he painted hat rack, and he
did it with such force and accuracy of
effect that every part stood out in relief
as bold as though the solid wood had
been set there.


The first man to arrive was pdter tdmil-
tdS himself He saw the rack against the
wall, and, having removed his beaver, he
essayed to hang it upon one of the pegs.
The hat fell on the floor. The old gentle
man picked it up, and tried another peg,
and with like result.


''Bless my SOUL" he exclaimed, picking
up his hat a second time, "whst can this
meanp He was about to try third
peg, when his daughter, shaking with
merriment, informed him, Dear papa,
that is not hat-stand at all; it is only
one of TINS tricks"


Had Master Tim been at hand he might
have got q taste of the paternal indigna-
ton; but when, later, the guests began to
arrive, and were in like manner deceived
by the phantom stand, old Startler enter
ed into a keen enjoyment of the thing,
and not only forgave his son the trick he
had played, but suffered him, for amuse-
ment, to pursue his artistic studies -
Neao York Ledger
Year: 1873

A NEW CONFIDENCE GAME.-A we'll.
dressed young man stopped at Vermont
hotel recently, for a few days, and made
acquaintances. The evening of the Sec
ond day of his arrival, nice young lady
came along, unattended, and instantly at
tracted the attention of the impressible
youngsters, who canvassed her charms
fully as they sat apart from her at supper.
The stranger youth even went so far as to
say that he would marry her if she would
have him, and offered, for substantial
wager, TO pop the question and have the
marriage ceremony performed right away.
The wager was accepted, and also the
proposal of marriage, made so suddenly
to her by the young man, and the parson
called in, who soon united the twain.
The sum wagered was paid over to the
happy bridegroom, and he and his bride
set oil next day on their marriage tour.
What lends romance to the circumstance
is the fact that the young couple had al
ready been man and wife for a year.
Concord IN. IT. Daily Patriot.
Year: 1873

Having obtained leave Of absence for ff-
teen days from Governor Kellogg, Judge E..
North Cullom left the city last evening for
his country home in Avoyelles parish.
whittier his wife and family had preceded
him. Judge Saucier has kindly consented
to perform the duties of the judge during
his absence. Judge Cullom is one of the
hardest working judges on our bench, as
well as one Of the ablest. His uniform
kindness to attorneys who appear before
him, his close application to business, his
unimpeachable integrity, and his fine ana
lytical mind, have drawn great deal more
business into his court than ever before.
During the past season his docket has been
always crowded, and he richly deserves the
little relaxation he is about to obtain among
the friends and neighbors Of his boyhood
We do not imply that his health is in any
way impaired by the close labor of the past
few months; far from it. Few men possess
better health, both physically and mental
ly, than Judge Cullom, and, if we mistake
not, the fame he is making for himself as
Judge of the Fifth District Court will force
him into enlarged fields of usefulness in
the future.
Year: 1873

she does not carry ont her threat. 1t is
feared even this precaution will not be suf-
fcient to save her life, if she is kept con.
fined there much longer.


+. She was very restless last evening, after
hearing that the police had captured her
trunk and obtained possession of Good
rich's property. Once or twice she begged
to be lett alone in the room. but her request
was not granted.


Some say that she is already insane, and
does not really know what she is talking
about. Others think she is only feigning
insanity under the advice of counsel, WHO
have long since been retained to defend her.
Year: 1873

The present success and prosperous
development of the grape growing bu-
siness in California, are of great i'm
portance to the people of this State,
and to the nation at large. In other
countries, where the vine is extensive
ly cultivated an average crop insures
prosperity. Not so, however, in Cali
fornia. There, where plenteous vint-
age is the rule and not the exception,
the business languishes, and the labor
er is unrewarded. For this there must
be cause, and this cause should be
removed.


Under the existing laws concerning
stills, and the making OF spirits, the
extensive cultivation of the grape can
not prove remunerative. The great
bulk of the grape crop must be con-
verted into wine or brandy. 1t cannot
be converted into food for mankind, or
fed to animals and changed into meat.


Wine will not become u popular
beverage, unless it be good and cheap.
Good wine cannot be made and sold at
low price, unless the inferior grapes,
the pOmice, the lees and bad wines OF
the vintage can be profitably convert
ed into brandy. tr


There is no sound reason why the
same tax should be assessed upon a
gallon of grape brandy made, as it is,
out of materials that have no value,
and which cannot be made to answer
any other beneficial purpose, as is as
sessed upon a gallon Of grain spirits,
which is made out Of materials that
are valuable, and the conversion OF
which into spirits, tends directly to in
crease the price of bread and meal
throughout the country.


Let the grape growers OF California
make one united prayer to Congress
for the removal of the tax upon grape
brandy, and if successful, they may
not be forced to root up their vines and
devote their vineyard land to other
purposes. =.


II Congress desires the cultivation
of the grape for wine-making purposes,
it must abolish the tax upon grape
brandy, or its desires will not be real
lied. NID.
Year: 1873

II Is pleasant to think, jus, under the snow,
That stretches so bleak and blank and cold,
Are beauty and warmth that cannot know,
Green helds and leaves, and blossoms Of gold
Yes, under the frozen and dumb expanse,
Ungaddencd by bee or bird or flower.
world where the leapiug fountains glance,
And the buds expand, is waiting its hour
II is hidden now; not glmmer breaks
Through the hard blue ice and the sparkling drift
The world shrinks back from the downy fakes
Which out Of the folds Of the night cloud sift.
But as fair and real world II IL
As any that rolls in the upper blue;
If you wait you will hear its melodies,
And seo the sparkle Of fount aud dew.
And often now, when the skies are Wild
And hoarse and sullen the night winds blow
And lanes and hollows with drifts piled,
think of the vlolets under the snow
look In the wild flowers tremuous eye
hear the chirp Of the ground bird brown
A breath from the budding grove steals by,
And the swallows dipping above the town.
So there, from the outer sense concealed
IT lies shut in by a veil Of snow,
But there, to the inward eye revealed,
Are boughs that blossom, and flowers that glow.
The lily shines on its bending stem;
The crocus opens its April gold;
And the uptosses its diadem
Against the floor of the winter oold.
And that other world. to my soul say,
That veiled and mystic world of the dead,
1s no further away on any day
Than the lilies just under the snow we tread.


Prtsbyferian.
Year: 1873

A new remedy for tooihache consists
In the employment of injections introduce
ell into the gum near the diseased TOOTH
Morphine was first used, but chloroform
Is now used exclusively.
Year: 1873

Referring to the Beecher scandal the Springfield Republican says: It is time,. however, for ignoring or Investigating the whole business. This scandal has run on in loose way long enough. If the Plymouth church are ready to over haul it and pronounce verdict they should do it. If not, the thing should stop. Most likely Mr. Beecher has been guilty of some imp1oprieties, possibly of an exceptional sin; but the public should and will remember, in extenuation, the great temptations of both his temperament and his position, and the towering bal ance of his virtue and his public service If only those who are without sln, or only those who have contributed more to the moral and intellectual elevation of their fellow men, throw stones at Beecher, he will escape without a bruise. Let us sigh, and proceed to something m ore profitable.
Year: 1873

<. q. BEACH & SON. LEAVING just received a fresh and large SUD- | l ply of sessonabIe goods. would respectfully solicit continuance of patronage from all of their old customers, and also hope that all per sons desirous of purchasing anything in their line will give them call and compare their goods and prices with any in the County.

 We are particularly desirous of the patronage of these who wish to make their money go as far as possible, and who always pay for their goods when they get them. To such we offer the fol- lowing special inducsment: We will return to all persons paying cash for their goods at the time of purchase per cent of the price thereof, thus making it poy to pay cash down. We can afford to sell goods for 8 very small commission when we get the money so that we can use it again. and Ue sriH do t.

 Fine French and American Calf and Kipp Boots made to order at short notice at reasona- ble prices and warranted to suit. All kinds of Repairing promptly and neatly done. Give us call and see our goods and prices, whether you buy or not.

 Respectfully,

 s. G. BEACH SON. Lit enfield. May 2Oth, 1873 a 7tf
Year: 1873

In all mems deepest feelings they de
acknowledge is all instinct irrepressi-
ble-that the one thing needful for
them is loving intercourse with God.
All other things we need only qualified
ly, as wealth, or friends, or learning,
or the arts of life, but this one thing do
We need absolutely. 1t We're by itself
an essential bliss; yea, even in the loss
of worldly good. That an assured fel-
lowship with God must exercise and
satisfy the exact self-hood of man, is
a very intuition of all men. Whereas
all worldly good, without God, does
but leave us restless and aching still.
All the things thou canst desire, the
passions gratified the appetite regaled,
the inebriation of power, the ministry
of art, the wonders of science the glow
of thought, sentiment and sensibility.
enterprise, friendship, the family, the
State--all these things, without God,
are only triumph Of the pulse,
dance of the spirits, froth of Joy, leav-
ing the soul more vapid than before"


Serious-minded men know it to be so.
Nor is it any mere thanking of God that
will satisfy us; neither the searching out
and aduiring of his wonderful works,
but only the personal meeting with God.
A man will give his lifetime to the study
of butterfly, or a rock, or star, and
fondly claim that he is conversing with
God; but vainly thus will he whisper
peace, peace to his soul, when there is
no peace. That butterfly was but a
beaming forth from God-not God him
self. A light from yonder mansion is
shining into the outer darkness, and a
poor, houseless stranger on the street
thinks it beautiful, looks at it wistfully,
and all the more wraps his tatters about
him in the shivering blast of a winters
evening. But, see! another wanderers is in
the street. The long-lostso of the house
has returned, his step is at the door, he
enters, the shout of welcome greets
him, loving arms are all around him,
and fathers heart is beating next his
own. What difference between the
two because of that one element of filial
fellowship Even so the religious con-
sciousness, if shut off from personal
embrace with God, is vagabond in
rags and darkness, although in the
midst of the marvellous works of God;
and the sense of responsibility to God
goes shivering along his life, Besides,
if now we stand aloof from God, he
will hereafter say to us, depart, ye
cursed !" while Il he and we do come
together now, he will say to us: Come,
ye blessed" OH surely present fell
lowship with God is the very chieiest Oi
our blessings; and how should We bound
fortunsd AZ. IA s.zs.;..ss 4. =
Year: 1873

4 CARIsrIAN church must be gather
ell about the feet of the Lord Jesus
Christ as the visible presence and in
carnation of Gods everlasting love for
man. That divine personality is the
bond of union by which its members
are held together. In loving the Christ
they cease to despise, hate, criticise,
avoid, or suspect each other; all find
the best and deepest of each other in
that glowing love of the Master
d. Mayo,


WHEREVER l find truth, l will APP
propriate it, for it is an estray from
Gods word, and belongs to me and to
all. Eminent masters, parties and secte
claim truths as theirs, because they
have most fully expounded them but
men never make truths, they only re-
cognize the value of this currency of
God


THE aspirant for place in the
heavenly Jerusalem will be interested
to keep clean the city where he lives.
They who sigh for an eternal Sabbath
make their worship below sincere.
None look forward to heavenly homes
who do not make their earthly homes
as lovely as they can. And they that
anticipate heaven of progress will see
that they are up and doing. The max
ing of heaven here is the pledge of
heaven hereafter Heaven must be a
state of mind before it will become a
state of existence. o. h. Frothinghdm.


THERE is not daisy that knows the
way above the soil till the sun draws it;
and there is not soul that knows the
way to God until Christ has interpreted
him to it. Christ was a specimen of
that which is the royalty AND grandeur
of the infinite eternity of God. A God
who would rather suffer than have us
suffer is calling us up through trials,
through sorrows, through manifold ex-
periences, to make us rich, ripe and
ready for seeing Him as he is when the
clouds pass away, and the body falls,
and the soul goes forth, not lonely
pilgrim, but welcome and rejoicing as a
child of God, to dwell with Him for
ever and forever. II ". Beechcr.
Year: 1873

! will give you an unfailing key to
success, said an experienced man to
his young friend MAKE one 0e,g
friend every day, and retain all you
make" Three hundred and sixty-ive
friends year would certainly be an i'm
portant auxiliary to the productive re-
sources of an ambitious young man
making his may in the world. But then
comes the question; How are these
friends to be mate ? 1t will be easy
enough to retain friend once earned
but how can this very excellent pre-
scrption of making friends be car
ried ont There may be many
ways in which progress may be had in
this direction even if the task should
not be literally accomplished. Let us
look at the matter in rational way.
To commence with, civility is an ex-
cellent bait with which to catch friends !;
and civility is cheap. Nothing is easier
than to keep a supply constantly on
hand. There are bogus articles some
times attempted TO be palmed off for
the real thing, but they are all so base
that they are easily detected. Obsequi-
BUSINESS is one fattery another mock
modesty a third otiiciousness n fourth,
and These may have the genuine
stamp" but their spuriousness is easily
detected True eivility needs no false
lights TO show its points 1t is the en-
bodiment of Truth, the mere opening
ont of the inner self. The arts and
artifces of polished exterior are well
enough but if they are anything less
or more than fair exponent OF inward
rectitude, their hollowncss cannot long
escape detection Shakespeare has said,
"A man may smile and smile, and be
a villain = but all the world knows that
there is wide difference between the
smile of villain and that of an honest
man.


Courtesy, which is the natural out
growth of inward gentleness, bears its
characteristics by the artless child as by
the grown man. Civility, therefore, to
be effective in this quest, must have the
sub-stratum Of goodness. 1t must be
pervading and uniform, not exceptional
and tittul. 1t is all very we'll to lay the
blame of an unreliable aud explosive
temper upon weak digestion, or that
crash humor' inherited from others
but its disastrous effects are all the same.
The worst tempers are made subseryient
to well settled and persistent prin-
cPle of right doing and that is the
only thing which can be relied on. The
whole question therefore resolves itself
into this formula.


To make friends, Do right.


To keep friends, Do right,