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Year: 1873

valuable and too scarce Gift makes the
ditfident say what they think and the
verbose think what they say. Tor
the greatest takers are careful when
they find they have good listener.
They know that they may not often
be so fortunate, and they talk their
best. The adept at listening may
sometimes hear more pressing than
he likes; but if he be skillful, this
will not often happen. When it is
impossible to get anything interesting
or useful out of man, he need be
listened to no longer. Every one of
sense will agree to that. But it is
astonishing how many good things
some very unpromising persons viii
say if they be properly and conscien-
tieusly listened to.


To be sure. it is very hard for some
persons to listen. They have a gift
for talking, and they like to exercise
it. But these are the very persons
who should do a great deal of list
ening. They know what luxury it
is to talk, and they should give their
families and friends a chance to learn
the art. Besides. like farmers, they
will often find much advantage in Il
rotation of crops. A season of listen
ing is often a most excellent prepar-
ative for a season Of talk.-Indcpen-
dent.
Year: 1873

A despach from Constantinople
says that the LeU0m Herald has been
suspended for two months on account
of publishing satilcal articles con-
cerning the insufficient arrangements
for supplying water to the inhabitants
of that city. We are in doubt as TO
the peculiar views entertained by the
Turkish government in respect to
water, but clearly the old maxim that
cleanliness is next TO godGness"
does not obtain at the court of the
Sultan. 1t is possible that for state
reasons water is not thought to be
wholesome drink, although perhaps
1t is uncourteous to assume that these
are chiefly personal. Wha-
ever may be the reason, the fact still
remains that it is not profitable to be
known. as an advocate of an abun-
dant supply Of water in the city Of
Constantinople.


We happen to know, however,
that there is great need of more wa
ter in that city. 4 friend who was
recently there says that the hotels
are filthy beyond account, and that
the private and business parts OF The
town, so far as he could learn, were
in as bad q condition.
Year: 1873

Do you wish to do something to-
ward making your home happy? Do
you desire that your brothers and
sisters should be glad to have you
with them, and that you should al
awys be awelcOme companion to your
parents oryour children? Do YOU want
to have your society coveted every
where and to feel, the while, that you
are doing good as well as gi, ing pleas
ure? Would you like to help peo-
pie to think we'll and TO have them
srve their best thoughts for veu?
Would it please you to get all the
good you can out Of the people you
know?


If SO, learn to listen.


But first learn wnat listening is :;
for it is not merely the exercise Of the
sense Of hearing. Tue stupidest Of
US all can keep ears open and mouth
shut. To listen properly means to
make other people talk properly.
That is a social definition, if it is
not a Websterian one. The good
listener is cause of talking in 9TH
ers. and by proper exercise of this
Year: 1873

HOME CONVERSATION. Children hunger
perpetually for new ideas, and the mos'
pleasant way of reception is by the voice and
ear, not the eye and the printed page. The
one mode is natural, the other artificial
Who would not rather listen than read ? An
audience will listen closely from the begin
ming to the end of AN address which not one
in twenty of those present would read with
the same attention. This is emphatically
true of children. They will learn with pleas
ure from the lips of parents what they deem
it drudgery to study in books; and even if
they have the misfortune to be deprived OF
the educational advantages which they de-
sire, they cannot fail to grow up intelligent il
they enjoy in childhood and youth the privi-
lege of listening daily to the conversation OF
intelligent people.


Let parents then, talk much and talk well
at home. A father who is habitually silent
in his own house may be, in many respects,
IA wise man: but he is not wise in his silence.
We sometimes see parents who are the very
life of every company which. they enter, dull
silent, uninterestng at home among their
children. If they have not mental activity
and mental stores sufficient for both, let them
first provide for their own household.
Year: 1873

How TO GET ALoNa.-Don't stop to tel
stories in business hours.
If you have place of business be found
there when wanted


No man can get rich by sitting around
stores and saloons.


Never "fool' in business matters.


Have order, system, regularity and
promptness.


DO not meddle with business you know
nothing Of.
Strive to avoid harsh words and pers onal-
ties


DO not kick every one in the path.


More miles can be made in day by going
steadily than by stopping.


Pay as you 60.


A man of honor respects his word as he
does his bond.


Help others when you can but never give
what you cannot afford to, simply because
it is fashionable.


Learn to say no. No necessity of snap
ping it out ogfashion, but say it firmly and
respectfully.


Use your own brains rather than those of
others.


Learn to think and act for Yourself.
Keep ahead rather than behind the times.
Young men, cut this ont, and if there be
folly in the argument let us know.
Year: 1873

r. Some idea of the Importance OF
the Erie Canal may be gathered from
the fact, that, even with the present
capacity, it conveys from tho seat Of ag-
riculture to the sea, during its seven
months Of navigation, more freight than
all the railroads in the State OF New
York in a year, and at prices which put
competition at defiance, notwithstand-
ing the drawback Of unloading and re-
shipment. What might not be expected
then with its capacity doubled. and the
adoption of boats propelled by steam
Such q consummation would be death
to monopoly, but life to the iptsrests OF
industry and enterprise. 1t requires but
little looking ahead to coming events.
and preparation of the public mind to
grasp the problem, to work it out when
the proper hour shall come.
Year: 1873

~ The Statesman says: 1.-Two or
three days ago an elderly lady stopped
al the Chemeketa Hotel and stated she
was hunting for her daughter, a girl
OF about II years, whom she sald she
had lost in the city and was unable to
find. One of the employees of the hotel
offered to assist her in any way he could
and requested her to wait few minutes
until be could perform some small
piece Of work. On going to where he
had left the lady, to fulfill his promise
of assistance, he found that she had left
the hotel without saying word to any
one. Since that time nothing has been
heard of her, but as Salem is not very
large place. and We have heard of no
elopsr ents lately. We presume she
found her daughter unharmed,
Year: 1873

n One could take down book from
the shelf ten times more wise and witty
than almost any mans conversation
Bacon is wiser. Swift more humorous.
than any person one is likely to meet
with; but they cannot chime in with
the exact frame of thought in which We
happen to take them down from our
shelves, and therein lies the luxury of
conversation; and when . living speak
er does not yield us that luxury, he be-
comes only book on two legs.


~ Witness the talk overheard by An
emissary ofthe American Sunday School
Union when trying to establish . Sab
bath School in the far Southwest: II
know there is bug under the chip. sure
as YOU are born. THAR is some trick
bout this thing. or that man would mt
come way down here and make that
Sunday school for nuthin' and gin us
books. Jist as sure as yon're foot high
theirs suthin' dead. mind what 1 tell
YOU. Thar'll be some feller round here
'sessing taxes for it arter a while, just
like they do with the deestrict schools
Use been long THAI
Year: 1873

A SeriWTIs { hxrge-=s il True I?


A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette unburdens her mind in the
following manner: "Our schools are
not as good, nor is there as much in
terest manifested in them, as there
was fifteen years ago"


We might first inquire, Can this
charge be sustained by facts? If so,
who is to blame? A friend, to whom
we read the paragraph, said it was a
-fb, and we think a large majority
of the best informed of our citizens
would say that the assertion is false
one. ..r ..-


First it is asserted that our
schools are not SO good. If so, why?
Are not our teachers as competent as
formerly? We say, without fear of
successful contradiction, that many
who were considered fair teachers
twenty years ago, could not now
stand the test to which teachers are
subjected in applying for '4icense.
Surely advancements have been made
in methods of teaching, or else our
Institutes and Normal Schools,
which have sprung into existence
within the time specified above, have
been a shameful failure. And our
ext-books-have they not, some of
them at least, changed very much for
the better? Are not our pupils bet
ter scholars, in all the branches now
taught in our common schools, ex-
cept perhaps spelling? Where was
the "Higher Arithmetic? how many
studied Algebra then? Or how many
knew anything of Grammar as now
taught?


1t may be said, that the cost has
increased more rapidly than the high
schools have advanced. So we might
say, with still greater force, that the
cost of living has increased much
more than the benefits and comforts
daTived therafrono


As to the interest manifested, the
exertions put forth by the teach
ers to prepare themselves and keep
posted, are evidence that their zeal
has not abated. And, considering
that the time of school keeping is
now generally mine months instead
of three, the attendance will show
that scholars are as much as ever in
terested in the subject of Education.


We think the only point that
can be made out of this sweeping as
sertion is, that owing to the present
style and notion of living, especially
of our young people, the minds and
hands Of parents are so completely
occupied with providing for the
household, that little time is left to
watch over educational matters.
Year: 1873

Let the person whose name You wish to know in
forU you in which of the upright columns the first
letter of his name is contained. If it be found in
but column it is the top letter. if it occurs in
more than one column, it is found by adding the
alphabetical numbers of the top letters of these COL
umns, and the sum win be the number of the letter
sought BY taking one letter at a time in this way
the whole can be ascertained. For example, take
the word Jane. is found in the two columns
commencing with B and Il, which are the second
and eighth letters down the alphabet; their sum lie
ten and the tenth letter down the alphabet is j. the
letter sought The next letter A appears in but
one column, where 1t stands at the top. is seen
in the columns headed B, D and H; these are the
second, fourth and eighth letters of the alphabet,
which added give the l4th, OF N, and 30 on. The
use of this table will excite no little curiosity
among those unacquaintcd with the explanation.
Year: 1873

Ono6AACESS


Apropos of Mrs Livermore's lee
ture on this important question, the
Davenport Democrat thus sensibly
makes answer:


Teach them self-relianee.


Teach them to make bread.


Teach them to make shirts.


Teach them to foot up store bills.


Teach them not to wear false hair.


Teach them not to paint and pow
der.


Teach them to wear warm, thick
shoes.


Teach them how to wash and iron
clothes.


Bring them up in the way they
should go.
Instruct them how to make their
own dresses


Have them to do marketing for the
family.
Teach them that dollar is only
one hundred cents.


Teach them how to cook q good
meal of victuals.


Teach them every day, hard prac-
tical common sensa


Teach them how to darn stockings
and sew on buttons.


Give them good, substantial COM
mon school education.


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


Instruct them toregard the morals,
not the money, of beaux.


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


Instruct them in all the mysteries
of tae kitchen, the dining room and
parlor


Teach them that a goodround rosy
romp is worth fifty delicate consump-
tives.


Instruct them to have nothing to
do with intemperate, dissolute young
men.


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


Teach them the further one lives
beyond their income the nearer they
get to the poor house.


Rely upon it, that upon your teach
ing depends in a great measure the
veal or woe of their after life.


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


Have them to climb apple trees,
go fishing, cultivate a garden, and
drive a road team or farm wagon.


Teach them that God made them
in his own image, and thatno amount
of tight lacing viii improve the
model.


Teach them that good, steady
greasy mechanic without a cent, is
worth a dozen oily pated loafers in
broadcloth.


Instruct them in the essentials of
life-truth, honesty, uprightness-
then at a suitable time let them
marry.
Year: 1873

What is bull? The best defni
ton we have heard is: When yor
see twelve COWS lying down on the
grass and one of them standing up
that ones bull. @t


How is your sick husband this
morning, Mrs. Qniggs?'


why the doctor says as how if ne
lives till morning he shall have some
hopes for him; but if he don't he
must give him up.


An Irish gentleman, hearing of q
friend having a stone coffin made for
himself, exclaimed


by my sowl, an that good idea.
Shure, an a stone coffin I'D last a
man life time


An Irishman went to live in Scot
land for a short time, but didn't like
the country.


4 was sick all the time 1 was there,
said he, and if 1 had lived there till
this tine I'd been dead over year
agoT


1t was at dinner table of an Irish
association that the following toast
was given


Here's to the president of the So
ciety-Patrick ORaferty; and may
he live to eat the chicken that scratch
es over his grave.


Sir Roche once said, in reference
to persons, all relations to each other,
but who happened to have no de-
scendants, that it seemed to be here
ditary in the family to have no chill
dren.
Year: 1873

SMALL THINGS. The little things which
you may do for those about you will fall
back upon your heart as the summer dews
fall upon the vineyards. What if it is
nothing but kind word to a school-boy
crying in the street; it dries his tears, and
the aching heart grows glad again. Who
knows what cloud of darkness one kind
word NAV dispel?
Year: 1873

The panics have occasioned the
withdrawal of such sums of money
from the banks as prove tempting
bats to the expert thieves of the
cities, and that class of operators are
now taking a season of rustic enjoy
ment-visiting the rich and the mod
erately ricn farmers of the country


1t is not safe to keep money
about the house, either in town Oh
country. There is no building which
is safe against skillful burglar, and
we do not believe there is house in
town into which an entrance cannot
be forced in twenty minutes without
alarm. There is always one weak
spot and the expert thief finds il
quickly. Nails, bolts and bars al
most vanish before the fine jimmies,
outsiders and saws of the day, and
these tools work SO noiselessly thatit's
an accident that thief disturbs the
slumbers of household.
Year: 1873




A ToucHISG INCIDENT "A short time
since In the east, a brilliant aud much
admired lady, who had been suffering
for some time with trouble Of the
eyes, was led to fear speedy change
for the worse. aud Immediately COLI
suited her physician. An examination
discovered sudden and fatal falling
in the optic nerve. and the information
was impaired as gently as possible,
that the patient could not retain her
sight more than few days ut most.
aud was liable to be totally deprived
Of ir ut any moment. The afflicted
mother returned to her home. quietly
made such arrangements rs would oc-
cur 10 one about TO commence so dark
a Journey OF life, and then had her two
little children attired in their brightest
and sweetest costumes brought before
her; aud so, with little faces lifted to
hers. and tears gathering for some
great misfortune that they hardly real
lied. the light faded out of the
mothers eyes. leaving an ineittceaoie
picture Of those dearest to her on earth
"a memory Of bright faces that Will
console her in many dark hour.
Year: 1873

The following verses were written many
years ago By the late Chief Justice Chase:
Mournful thy beam, pale starl


Shining aiar with solitary light,
Though hosts around thee are


Decking the bosom OF the blue mianisns'
would not be a. thou!


Cut OF from all communion with thy kind'
Though round me might blaze now


Thslight and glory In which thou ART snrihco'
For thou art alone!


Companionls-s in thy aiar corner,
While silently rolls on. ,,-..


In paths OF living light. each radiant spnefs'
Thy goinss forth have been,


In thy bri ht beauty, since the elder tine'
When, undeflled by SIN.
Earth too was lovely In her being primo
And still thou art the same


As beautiful and fair as then thou vert;
As " thy virgin fame -.
Had power Times wasting influence 10 avert
Shine on awhile, thou star.
Yet shall Thy brightness fade In endless night
Roll on thy diamond car!


Full soon thy fery track win not be bright.
There shall q star arisel


A star far lovelier than nights brightest gem,
To shine In purer skies


The fadeless. glorious star OF Bethlehem.
Year: 1873

A man tried to burglarize the house
of Mr.. Smith, residing in the neighbor-
hood of the railroad track, but was sue
cessfully foiled in the attempt. 1t
seems that the fellow forced an entrance
through the back kitchen door by pry-
ing off the hasp, about 11:30 o'clock,
soon after the occupants of the house
had retired. The burglar, after getting
into the kitchen, commenced walking
around the room. Mr.. Smith, who
had not yet gone to sleep, heard the
fellow, but kept quiet. In a few mo-
ments more the burglar entered the
hall which leads directly to the Sleep
ing apartment. About this time Smith
had gotten out of bed, and, arming
himself with bootiack and one of his
heavy boots, awaited the approach of
the other. 1t was as dark as tar, and
as soon as the man came within striking
distance he let fly at him with his boot
jack, hitting him over the head. The
fellow beat hosty retreat, but not fast
enough to escape the heavy boot, which
was thrown after him. When he got
into the kitchen he didn't know which
way to turn, as he had closed the door
when he came in. Before he knew
where he was he had fallen over the
stove, knocking half dozen tea kettles
and pots off with him. This created
such terrible din that Smith thought
four or five burglars were in his kitch-
en-, and was afraid to follow. Lucky
for the other that he did, for he had
become SO demoralized by the fall that
he wasn't worth q cent for fighting.


Getting on his feet again, he struck
for the door wildly, and this time came
in contact with rocking chair, and he
fell head over heels into tub of water.


His splashing and foundering around
in the tub of water terrified Smith more
than ever, and he began to think his
house was possessed of devils. The
man at last found the door, and jumped
down the steps he ran across the yard
likelightning, and this timerushed into a
small hen coop, which he knocked
over, and killed several of the small
hens. What happened to him after
this no one knows. Suffice it, he has
not showp himself around those parts
since Vallejo (Cdl.) Independence.
Year: 1873

A correspondent gives the following
account of an execution at Yeddo in
Japan:


The culprits were eight in number,
one being a woman. They were all be-
headed with a sword. The operation
was performed with wonderful dexter
ity and coolness, and not one of them,
even the woman, showed the slightest
symptoms of fear. There was a space
of ground roped off; inside were three
holes dug in the ground, with little
mound behind each, on which was
spread a mat for the criminal to kneel
on. On one side of the inclosure were
two japanese officials, in chairs, to see
the thing properly conducted. I had a
place directly in front of the mounds, at
about six feet distence. The criminals
were placed in a row, on one side of
the inclosure, blindfolded with pieces
of paper (they use paper for everything
there).


What struck me most was the horrid
GOODNESS Of the executioner's assistant,
q good-looking lad of about 18; he went
up to each poor wretch in his turn, gave
him tap on the shoulder, led hip up
to the mound, and made him kneel on
the mat; he then stripped his shoul-
ders, made him stretch out his neck,
said "That will do, and in flash the
mans head was in the hole in frsnt of
him, and his bleeding neck was, as 1t
were, staring me in the face. The as
sistant, still with the same pleasant
smile, picked the head up, threw some
water over the face to wash off the mud
and blood, and presented tito the Japa-
nese officials, who nodded and signed
to go on with the next. The assistant
then gave the corpse blow between
the shoulders to expel the bloc !, and
finally threw the carcass aside like o
log of wood.


He repeated the same pleasant pro-
gramme with the next. 1 never thought
a mans head could come off so easily;
it was like chopping cabbages, only ac-
companied with peculiar and most
horrid sound-that of cutting meat, in
fact. There was dense crowd of Jap
anese present, including many women,
and even children; these people never
ceased to eat, smoke, and chatter the
whole time, making remarks on the
performance, and even occasionally
laughing, just as if they were at a
| theatre,
Year: 1873

Two roses bloomed upon tree;


Their white leaves touched with every sway


lug. .- .
bent to gather one, while she


Plucked of the other, gently saying,
"When things do grow and cling like this,
And Death almost appeareth loath
To take but one, twere greater bliss
To both for Death to smite them both"
Lost Love! Dead Love! They come and go
The summers with their sun and flowers,
Their song of birds. only know


There is blight upon the hours.
No sun is like the once bright sun


That shone upon that golden weather,
In which she said those flowers we're one,
And Death should spare OF smite together.
Year: 1873

At the regular monthly meeting Of the New
York Society Of Practical Engineering held last evening
IN the Geographical societys Rooms. Cooper Union.
paper read by James C. Bayles The Mechanical
Adaptation Of steam Power 20 the Movement Of Canal
Tonnage" The speaker reviewed the attempts which
have been made since 1855 substitute steam for horse
power on the Erie Canal and claimed that the best
su reached by those who had undertaken TO carry of
the State przs less satisfactory far she
tabLshment OF economy for steam horses is
ccrned. than were those accomplished by OF the
trials made previous the close OF navigation in 1852
For reasons given az considerable length, the speaker
believed that boat carrying its steam engine and
OF freight could succeed in competition with
horse boats carrying 2lO TONS and he brought
forward many interesting and figures to establish
his theory that canal boats only be moved econom
icauy by steam in trains or seven nine, by
powerful tugs, capable of towing them at a speed OF
from four 90 i've miles per hour and at cost per


mile greater than that O towing by horses at speed
of miles per hour Tie speaker said that nearly il
years ago steamer, the Gov KING, took train
Of ye loaded boats the entire length OF the canal be-
side carrying tTecfOurths OF cargo and that as the
screw nOOrOuslY wlsteful OF power in canal water,
desired result could be secured only With some method
propulsion which should utilize the engine power
the and convert II iutO eneoVo tfao-
ton power. Mr. BLYc, conclusion, called attention
the lately published report Of Mr. Green, Engineer Of
Board OF Commissioners appointed two years ago 70
award the State prize offered by the Legislature ana
gave his reasons for believing that that genteman's
views regarding the best method OF applying steam on
the canals were erroneous and az variance Win the
teachings experience general discussion followed
after which the meeting adjourned