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Year: 1873

A MAN at Lansington, New York, wa
gercd that he could jump fifty feet, and
he won the money by jumping off a
building. The satisfaction Of knowing
that the idiot broke his neck is withheld
Year: 1873

An intoxicated Frenchman, stranger,
was taken to the station house IN Will
mington, Del, and an interpreter, after a
while, ascertained that the mans father
was resident of that city. He was sent
for and the father and son then met for
the first time in thirty years.
Year: 1873

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


The HERALD observe, keeps up the course
OF reservIng one OF its Sunday pages for discus
sion OF religious topics and in this field OF discussion
/ would like to PROFOUND few queries which have
occurred to me while reading the speeches made
in the Evangelical Alliance. And first, this has
struck me as 1t must strike others; what Is the
result Of this seven days. OF Evangelical talkf
Clearly, II would not have been safe to have laid
any great expectations on this gathering II 1t
was intended Alliance Of Travellers, merely
for the purpose OF seeing New York and Brooklyn,
all well and good. The metropolis OF America Is
surely worthy Of inspection. SO iar the Alliance
not. The Various dlscourses pronounced BY
point the pure and simple condemnation
Of Professionalism out Of ITS servants own mouths.


said in substance This Catholicism and inn
deity place us between two fires; we know not
how to extricate ourselves. and, moreover, we are


receiving very small salaries for our burning


Really there would oe slow kind OF comicality in


all this II IT did not concern body or gentlemen


putting forth some very high and serious claims.


Many II Is conended, are pIunging into the depths


OF darkness on one side into the depths OF badness


visible step to prevent the fatal leap What was
the use OF your coming together, gentlemen-ay
no patent remedy TO arrest crying evils


The preachers proclaim that they lind their nocks


going astray. Is not this from the simple reason


that when religion is reduced to a book, as Prot


estantlsm TO the Bible II becomes failure A


book will not content the head, for reason scars
| away from all books; a book will not content the
| heart, Tor printed words arid. II man


guides by his reason alone he will needs
become freethinker, and thus we see the
Bible system is making host OF freethinkers


according TO the confessions OF these preachers
themselves And why, at this particular Juncture,


s there discovered more rapid falling from the
various sects2 Is 1. not because the people see


more clearly that the reverend gentlemen set
themselves up for being different, ay, better than
other men, while in reality they are notr Is 1t not
seen that they are following the crowd
in having just as good a time as pos
sibe That while they hammer away on Sun
of the week pretty busy Keeping sharp eye on the
good things, generally esteemed as such That
the utterers OF glib sentences and rounded periods
are well provided In bank and play as good q hand
as the next one In the Jay Cooke rings OF the dayf
Hence in view OF all these things, can men who
ON strike for rise In their salaries. as II were. be
Year: 1873

better have been employed in relieving the neces-
stiles OF the poor or In diusing instruction among
the ignorant throughout the earth. Now sir, after
all that has gone before, can consider this latter
suggestion merely as bit OF pure and simple cant


OF thought and speech have become, even among
those who do not Imagine themselves to. be liaole
to the contagion. Remember that thefe Is really
no such thing as religion seeing that it is deu-
sion and myth. and an expiring one at that. Let
us cast aside % an moral oral cowardice ana chicken
quences and plant ourselves squarey upon the
great primal platform OF Nature and reason. A
man who has really attained this standpoint must
see that he has no more right to call upon other
men to expend their money In feeding beggars
instructing ignorant than In ent raining dele
gates to the Evangelical Alliance. Reasons tells us
That every man has right TO spend his money as
vitiated, must prompt him seek first his own
good and that OF his own immediate family, and
have no hesitation IN saying that 1t Is duty pro-
vide for ones 0fsprlng, because for this we have
the authority OF the birds and beasts, VINO live
according to the purest principles OF ma
ity to decree that one human being is under
obligation TO do anything for another Where, In
or humanitarian lawss Is any such law written
upon the sky, or does IL grow up among the grass,


like q childs name planted In lines OF saladY Beast,
bird and fish provides only for Itself and for Its
mate and young. But, for such course can
give you the most exalted human examples. The
Greeks and Romans, among whom philosophy at
tained Its highest perfection made no provision Tor
the impecunious sick until at length the public
display o, diseased . paupers oeca,ne SO greaT &
that those repulsive objects were transported en-
Dsdsse to an island In the Tlber, where they were
left to get along as they best might. In China-the
most cultivated and intellectual OF ali those ma
tions which have spurned and dened the encroach-
ments Of Chrlstianity-sck beggars may be
seen huddled In heaps upon the bare nag


stones In public places and there they remain until


they perish from starvation or from exposure to
the weather. The polished and gentlemanly Hin.
doc perceves his truest humanity In abridging the
sunerngs OF those to whom life has become only
burden, and 80 he stops up with mud from the
0Anges the mouth and nose OF fncurably diseased
relatives or parent who has lived TO HELPLESS Old
Year: 1873

There is little doubt that the yellow
fever as an epidemic has ceased 10 exist
in Memphis. The Board of Health is
properly very cautious about making
such an announcement, but many alb
sentees will return now on their judg-
ment. Already we see number on our
streets, and others will come on every
train. We have only to reiterate what
we have said before, that people had as
we'll or better wait until advised official
ly that it is safe for them to return. Tie
LEDGER was prompt to accept the state
ment of the Board when it declared the
presence of yellow fever here on the
18th Of September. and in every
issue since we have endeavored
to give the unvarnished truth.
If any sensation was created it was by
terrible facts, and not from our candid
manner of stating them. We still look
to the Board of Health as authority upon
the subject, and cannot anticipate their
action. But we can say that no new
cases could be heard Of up to one o clock
to-day. The weather continues cool and
favorable. Our mortuary list shows a
total of l3--of this i from the fever.
The abatement bids fair to be rapid and
final. The thermometer stands at 4OO,
but the spirits of our gallant workers in
the good cause stand too high to be reg
istered. Although mindful OF our aiflic-
tions, a smile is on almost every face,
and the streets begin to move with the
instincts of life and cheerfulness. The
brighter day has dawned, and in short
time our city will wear an aspect OF
activity and energy not seen for nearly
wear Absentees will soon fill up their
places, and our generous country friends
will rush in TO shake hands with us and
take look at the battle-ground.
Year: 1873

Last night there was not only freeze,
but the most glorious frost of the season.


This is the fifth or sixth one, but equal
to all the others in one. 1t was like a
little snow out in the suburbs and the
ountry. The landscape was white
with the delicate frost work. the house
tops glstened, the fences, trees, grass,
and every object was touched with a
beautiful coat of natures great purifier.
The ground was spewed up by the frost;
the little pools and brooks were covered
with ice from quarter to half an inch
thick, and the air was as pure and crisp
as if the earth had but come fresh from
the hand of the Almighty in the first
morning of its existence. The trees Of
the forest acknowledged the power Of
the great change by yielding their dark
ly bright and brown leaves to fall, limp
and dead, to the bosom of mother earth,
and the sky seemed never SO clear blue
ana ITduSpdItuJ DelOlC' ~ oCOhOu az
most as if man could look up through
to the courts of heaven in Offering them
cense of thankful hearts to the great
Giver of every good and perfect gift. 1t
is indeed an occasion for offering up
thanks for our merciful preservation
through the midst of so much
peril gloom and death Who can
breathe the fresh air Of this bright, sweet
morning, which brings relief to SO many
minds and hearts, without offering at
least silent prayer that we may be suf
fciently thankful and have wisdom to
profit by the terrible visitation which
God has sent upon us. The ordinary
battle of life its-business and its ambl-
tons, its pettyIand its great cares-will
soon be resumed. But let us strive to
be better, more charitable in our feelings
toward all men, conservative, vigilant in
every duty, and ever act worthy of
people who have gone through such
great afIliction and yet have strong
hearts for what is left of the day.
Year: 1873

1


The ST. Louis Republican has an ap
plicant for the position Of obituary edi'
tor. His letter asking for the situation
gives sample Of his abilities. He
says:


Our parents were wealthy but honest
and Of course We are now poor; but we
can live on very little, because Mary
Ann and ! have made ourselves into q
grange and buy at retail at wholesale
prices.


May be you have full corps to do
your iunny writing, so il you will en-
gage me will do anything in the obitu-
arian line; it will suit our feelings bet.
ter, for Mary Ann and | have been in
ailliction lately. Great GRANDMOTHER
Peck died last week, aged CXIX.
She died once before, when she was
ninety-six, but just after she was laid out
she seemed TO remember somehow that
she had forgotten TO finish footing
stocking for her youngest boy,
who was only seventy.four years of
age; so she came TO again, and as
winter was coming on, and so much
knitting to be done, she concluded to
keep on for twenty years or so The doc
tor thinks il she amt disturbed she is
gone for good this time. Me and Mary
Ann sat up with her to the last, and she
was checked of into the full fruition Of
all her faculties. | couldn't help moral
izing as sat by her bedside how lean a
person can getand yet consume SO much
gruel--she beat anything all hollow that
| ever saw Poor old soul, she WAS so
lean that the mosquitoes had ceased TO
be burden, they used TO light on her
and hammer on her skull with their
bills till the room sounded like tele-
graph office, then they would scratch
their heads with their hiHd legs and
sail out of the window, worn out. She
seemed to gain a little flesh after we
came here from Chicago. and got new
spirits; but somebody told her that her
name was accidentally left out of Ed
wards Directory, and she fell of
again. She hadn't walked any to
speak of for the last twenty-five
years, and it used to console her to think
how much she had saved on shoes.
When / look at the old calico cushion
with its faded roses that she sat embow-
cred in since she was l04, heave sigh
at the transitoriousness Of all subluna-
rian comfort, Her eyes got so weak
that she wore seven pair OF glasses for
spell, but they warn't strong enough for
her TO get the sense out OF her Scriptures,
SO we had pair of opera glasses mount
ed so she could wear them ON her nose.
She sat up the heftiest part Of the day
before she snuhed out, and told me many
things conf2entiarily. She remembered
distinctly when General Washington got
the check cashed that 0akes Ames gave
him for signining the Pacific railroad
bill-and she was quite big girl when
Cyrus Field and Hendrick Hudson
brung the Atlantic cable over in the
May Flower. What is home without a
greatgrandmother
Year: 1873

in their heels-and left the city pell'
NELL fashion. The history Of the ghast-
ly plague for the last six weeks is iamil'
lar TO the whole country, but it is about
eyer now, and in few days crowds Of
absentees, to whom we addressed some
words Of good cheer yesterday, will have
returned to theit usual places, aud re.
sumed their ancient habits. Having
gone through three regular epidemics in
year, we naturally inquire, What
next2 Will we have some other
epidemic to recur that has never really
died out2 or will measures be enforced
to keen the city healthy and cleany The
sum OF $4,000 was appropriated by the
General Council to enable our new
Board of Health to carry out necessary
regulations. Thus far something has
been accomplished, but not enough no
rules laid down that the masses must
observe under a penalty. We warn the
Board that il must seize the reins OF
power with strong hand or 20 the way
Of its predecessors. The members are
under fair pay, which will be increased,
doubtless, if necessary; but they must
make themselves felt on every street,
alley and lot in the city, or become a
mere clerical machine. Progression is
the order of the day, and the man who
stands still to wait for bubbles to burst
will soon find himself to be bursted
bubble. Other epidemics will follow
this one, unless the most powerful mea-
sures are adopted to disinlect the city
and keep it perfectly clean. Such is the
work that lies before the Board of
Health. This institution has worked
well so far, and no complaints are here
expressed, but its duties and responsible
tiles are about to begin. Action is the
word right or wrong. Better make
some experimental mistakes than to
stand still.
Year: 1873

The Odd Fellows have draped their
hall in deep mourning out OF respect to
the members who have fallen by the
scourge. The work in the interior OF the
Hall was done by and under Ike direc-
ton of Mrs. G. w. l.. Crook and other
ladies', and it is needless to add was well
done. The exterior of the building is
also trimmed with broad stresmers OF
somhre black.
Year: 1873

king that which does not belong to him
But the robber of character takes that
which does not enrich him and it makes
his neighbof poor indeed. We read of
the philosophy which can smile over
the obstruction of property, of that re-
ligion which enables the possessor to
extend the look of forgiveness to his
murderers. But it is not in the soul of
man to bear the lacerations of slander.
The philosophy which could bear it we
should despise The religion which
could bear it we should not despise, but
we should be constrained to soy that its
kingdom was not Of this world.


1t is every persons right and privi
lege to take care of his neighbors char
aeter And no person does his duty
unless he does take care of the charae-
ter of others as far as it is consistent
with the true interests of the protected.
Are the parents true lovers of their
children that will let their children do
as they please, 60 when they please and
come when they please2 Many parents
will let their children wander about OF
the Sabbath day: fish and fight and do
many other things which they should
not do. They should go with them to
the Sabbath school and teach them the
right way or teach them at home. We
are told that ''just as the twig is bent,
the trees inclined" If this be true
how much have parents and teachers to
account for? Parents, if you wish to
make men and women out Of your chill
dren, train them early and in the right
way. do rot mean by men and wo-
men, boys and girls of men and wo
mems growth or old enough to. be men
and women, but men and women in
every sense. l have seen what we call
men of 35 years of age who were not
men. Why? What was the training
which they received2 None at ALL
What kind of instructions did George
Washington receive? How many great
men who have lived were let roam
about on the Sabbath day and idle away
their time2 elbow frequent it happens
that the child is father of the man."


GARcoN.
Year: 1873

There Is something more than their
fragrance that makes us love violets.


1t Is ve'y sweet to be drawn by then
subtle, yet powerful odor to search for
them under the dark leaf shelters where
they love to hide.


They seem to have chosen for their
text, BE ye humble - and the dainty
little preachers net only preach by pre-
cept, but by example, to those who,
like themselves are appointed into low


iy places in life.


There IS something particularly at
tractlVe III their habit OF blooming lust
when other flowers are beginning to re-
treat before the advance Of the frost
king. This IS surely lesson to those
WHO are willing to bloom through the
summer days Of prosperity, but withcr
at the first approach of abvcrsity. Let
us emulate the brave spirit Of the little
purple-robed preachers, Let US
breathe out our fragrance-that Is. our
gentle intiuence-at al times renem-
bering who hath appointed alike the
cold winds and the soft airs of summer.


] wandered iii the garden in the ear
ly Sabbath morning, and | found some
violcts cloaked in brown elm leaves,
and the little purple darlings nestled in
then. As yiolcts only can. And found
chat they loved the sunshine as much
as some of Us do, and are clad when
the Father appoints them to a place in
it. So | learned another lesson from
them it is best to grow where and how
the Father chooses. If he puts Us in
the sunshine let US joyfully praise
him; if he places us in the shade, let
us breathe forth fragrance, and praise
Him there.-Interican Messenger.
Year: 1873

-Repentance hath purifying pow
er, and every tear is of cleansing vir-
tue: but these penitential clouds
must still be kept dropping Que show
er will not suffice, for repentance is not
one single action, but course
Year: 1873

1t is a good and safe rule to So
iourn in every place as if YOU meant
to spend your life there, never omittinr
an opportunity of doing a kindness, or
speaking a true word, or making a
friend. Seeds thus sown by the way
side often bring forth an abundant har-
vest. You might SO spend your sum-
mer among the people that they and
their descendants should be better and
happier, through time and eternity,
for your works and your example
Year: 1873

let lis not fear that the issues of
natural science shall be skepticism or
anarchy. Through all Gods work
there runs a beautiful harmony The
rcmotest truth in his universe is link
ed to that which lies nearest the
throne.
Year: 1873

What a heaven will the true Chris
tan have. Not only heaven pre-
pared for him but a heaven with him to
meet the heaven abeve-a heaven OF
purity within to meet the heaven of
holiness without, and all of God as q
security for its eternal duration.
Year: 1873

Men have different spheres. It
Is for some to evolve great moral truths,
as the heavens evolve stars to guide
the sailor on the sea and the traveller
on the desert and it is for some, like
the sailor and the traveller, simply to
be guided.
Year: 1873

-~-kat our conduct not fall away
from the spirit who have begun to
be spiritual and heavenly, have only
spiritual and heavenly thoughts and
actions, for the Lord hath said, they
that honor me, will honor. Ye ara
not your own, with great price We arc
bought, Glorify and possess God in
your body.
Year: 1873

In healthy condition the skin is kept
supple by an oily secretion, which answers
the same purpose as oiling leather.
During warm weather this secretion. IN
common with all the other secretions of
the skin, is more abundant than in cold.
When it is insufficient the skin becomes
dry and harsh and On those parts of the
body where the skin is thick and subject
to much motion, as on the hands. it readily
cracks or assures The amount of this Sc
cretlon Is 50 much reduced in cold weather
that the frequent washing of the hands
Win soap causes them to chap readily.
and this the more certainly if the.soap is
not washed off The alkkai in soap is
usually IN excess and this combines with
'he oily secretion, and SO deprives the skin
Vi It's natural lubrcatOr To prevent the
hands from chapping, then, be careful to
WASH all soap from them thoroughly in
Clean water. This will ordinarily suffice
Dut' II not, at Will be necessary to make
good the removed oil by using KENNEDY S
SALT RHEUM OINTMENT, a sure cure for
all skin disease Of whatever name or nature.


PRICE so CENTS. Sold by Druggists.


3-IdIy.
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEST. The Commissarv
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 consum-
prc
Year: 1873

From lands end to lands end, that all may read,
and reading, believe, that for the countless mil
lions who are on the road TO an untimely grave
with bilious complaints there Is but one truly great
and reliable remedy, and that il
Year: 1873

impressive sermon, l suddenly seemed to
see her standing before mo. She was at
tired in long, flowing robe, and her
abundant black hair, which you know
ripples and waves to its very roots, fell
over her shoulders like veil. Her face
wore the most agonized expression, and
her arms were extended to me pleadingly.
The vision vanished in moment, but
for the first time l found that could not
listen to the speaker intelligentiy. Be-
fore the services were over | hastened to
the nearest telegraph Office and sent the
following message


Belle: Is there anything the mat
ter? p


In reply came the following telegram


"'Ies; father is dying. Come to u.s.


81 went, and found that Mr.. Holmes
had been seized with n paralytic stroke
that morning while getting ready for
church. Belle met me in the identical
white robe | had seen in the vision. As
l passed my hands lovingly over her
Hoatilg nalr sue eNplolncu


al have not been able to leave father
for minute since he was taken i'll. You
must excuse my diShabitic. Strange rs
it may seem, she said, when father fell
from his chair, l thought that he was
dead, and instantly felt strong desire
for your sympathy that my thoughts
must have acted upon your imagination
my will influenced your own. | can
account for it in no other way


" He died that night, and after he was
at rest in the quiet cemetery beside his
wife, who went to Heaven long years be-
fore, we had quiet wedding, for Belle
was left alone, and needed my protection.
We still reside in her cottage ON the
Hudson"


Mrs. Warren now joined us. She look
ed so fresh and joyous, and wthal so
beautiful, in her simple white muslin,
with iuschias in her midnight hair, that
| did not wonder Mt her husbands lover
like admiration.


You will agree with me that we have
all more or less experienced psychologist
cal sensations and impressions and do
you not believe that nearly all people of
cultured maginations and delicate organ
ization either have or have had, their
idedtsP Is it too great stretch Of fancy
to believe that all will in the beautiful,
hereafter, realize the fruitio1 of their
fondest dreams?
Year: 1873

WITHOUT A NEwsPAPER.-No othing
presents II sadder commentary upon the
present condition of society than the large
number of families, both in town, and in
the country, but more especially in the
latter, that subscribe to no paper of any
kind. How many families are thus grow


ing up utterly ignorant of what is trans
piring in the world around thcm-igno-
rant of the mighty events OF the day.
But who can tell the vast amount of in
jury that is being inflicted upon the rising
generation those who are to take our
place in the busy world at no distant day
growing up without any knowledge of
the present, or any study of the past
this ignorance, too, being imbued into
them by the sanction of those who should,
and doubtless do know better, did they
only think Of the injurious effects of their
insane course. Let the head of the family
think of this, and place in the hands Of
those for whom he is responsible, the
means of acquiring some knowledge of
the moving panorama in which wa act
our different parts.