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Year: 1873

COLUMBIA, Pa, Sept 81 1873.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


As financial relief for our country is urgent and
demanded at once, would suggest the following
as the best means of relief Tor the present financial
panic:-


would suggest to the President Of the United
States the propriety OF cOnvening Congress at
once, and that Congress pass law authorizing the
Comptroller OF the Currency to issue to each SOL
vent national bank circulation equal to the par
value of the bonds deposited with him to secure
circulation and repeal much of section 81 of the
National Bank act as refers to legal reserve on
their own circulation. Note holders want no more
security than United States bonds per. This will
give the country $50 100000 additional circulation.
The relief would be general and immediate, as all
national banks have certain amount OF crcua-
tion with the Comptroller ready Cor distribution.
All that will be required Will be the signature of
the bank officers. The distribution would COM
mence on the day it became law. If legal ten
ders are issued, what are the banks or individuals
to give the government IN return for them? and at
best it would be months before the relief would
reach the country at points remote from the. large
cities or commercial centres.


S. s. DETWILER.


Cashier First National Bank, Columbia Pa.
Year: 1873

mostly OF speculation In reference TO the open
ing of the Stock Exchange, Its probable effect on
the market, on the banks, on the brokers and
everybody and everything financial. There was
general concurrence in the opinion that stocks
would shoot up in price with invisible rapidity.
Then 1t is opined there will come sudden reac-
ton, and down go stocks again, and alter joting up
and down for while they will settle at pretty
much their normal figures As for the action OF
the Governing Committee in opening the Exchange
to-day there was but one sentiment, that OF re-
JOicing at the resumption of business and as an in
ference at the restoration OF the old confidence
and the old state OF affairs. The rush to The Stock
Exchange this morning will be great and II the
scenes in the past were boisterous and demonsta a.
tive, may fairly expect they will be equalled to-
day though not, It Is to be hoped with anythng
late closing.
Year: 1873

The value of flannel next the skin
cannot be overrated, says Dio Lewis.
1t is invaluable to persons of both sex
es, and all ages, in all countries, in all
climates, at every season of the year,
for the sick and the well-in brief, I
cannot conceive of any circumstances in
which flannel next the skin isnot q COM
fort and a source of health. 1t should
not be changed from thick to thin be-
fore the settled hot weather of the sum-
mer, which in the Northern States is
not much before the middle of June,
and often not before the first of July.
And the fannels for the summer must
not be three-quarters cotton, but they
must be all wooden, if you would have
the best protection.


In the British army and navy they
make the wearing of flannel point OF
discipline. During the hot season the
ships doctor makes a daily examina-
ton of the men at unexpected hours to
make sure that they have not left of
their fannels.
Year: 1873

The following strong figure of speech
was used to illustrate the great size of
America to a foreigner by his brother,
who could not make up his mind about
emigrating:


Where did the baccy come from
why, from 'Meriky, where else =? that
sent us the finest petaty. Long life to
it for both, says 1 p


What sort of place is that, I won
der ?"


'Meriky They tell me it's mighty
sizable. I'm tould that you might roll
England through it, an it would hard
ly make dint in the ground. There's
a fresh water ocean inside of it that
you might dhrown Ireland in, and save
Father Mathew a wonderful sight of
throuble; and as for Scotland, you
might stick it in O corner of one of their
forests, an you'd never be able to find
it, except it might be by the smell Of
the whisky p
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the New York
Sunday NeaOS, in his sketches of Lud-
low Street Jail, tells the following Incl
dent: Three hundred and forty-three
thousand seven hundred and fifty-three
dollars bail was asked for Marquis de
Lafayette Sharkey, the once celebrated
tobacco merchant of New York city,
who was arrested by his partner for al
leging that the assets and stock of the
concern had ended in smoke but it
was not given, and Sharkey remained q
whole year in Ludlow street jail, when
the court of last resort decided he had
been most wrongfully imprisoned. In
the meantime his business had been
entirely ruined and broken up, his wife
sent to an asylum as lunatic, and he
financially bankrupt, for all of which
he could obtain no redress except that
given by a slow process of law; but
being an energetic man, he preferred
to start in the world anew, rather than
put up with the chances of the laws
slow delay, and without capital, other
than his energy, he set to work, and l
am credibly informed that he has
"struck lie" literally in the Pennsylva-
MIA region, and is in fair way to again
become half millionaire.
Year: 1873

John Randolph once calculated, in
his shrill tones, while a member of the
House of Representatives "Mr,
Speaker, I can cry Eureka, for I have
found the philosophers stone. 1t is
Pay as you go -" The example of the
French is given as case in point. The
French, "who never go in debt, and
who have been saving money since the
days of the first Napoleon, have become
the richest people in the world, which
seems proved by the fact that the Ger
man indemnity of thousand millions
of dollars, which they were obliged to
pay, has been all discharged in two
years, while we have been struggling
for eight years with twice as much.
Perhaps the wealth of the French far
mers arises as much from the small
farm system and the high cultivation
they give the soil. There is vast diff
ference between farming in loose way
and having all work done in the best
manner,
Year: 1873

Our own, our own. Times heavy hand strikes


hard


Absence lends fatal strength to circumstance;
Old paths by slow forgetfulness are barred;
Old sympathy is chilled by cruel chance.
New loves shine down the fairy dreams we saw;
New friendships early VOWS obliterate;
Till half the happy bonds, our childhood's law,
Fade for the waning life or soon or late.
Yet touch chord by kindred feeling known,
Call on an echo deep in kindred heart,
Blood will assert an innate power its own,


And wake the spirit for the champions part
Our own, our own. God-given, holy chain,


Linked rs mere babies on our mothers knee
Soldered by mutual hope and joy and pain,
Reaching from birth unto eternity.
Year: 1873

A touching story comes from


Memphis, Tenn. An old min,


Peter Bean by name, a we'll, dig.
ger in the locality for something
like thirty years, had a dog of
which he was very fond, Peter
was bachelor, AID be lived a
lonely life The only thing that
he lond!ed was the dog, who
shared his bed and who divided
with his master the frugal meal.
The dog, which was nearly always
by Peters side, was large and
powerful OF frame. and chez tuI
and playful of disposition. 1t
seemed to love its master with
that perfect, enduring love which
crowds all less weighty objects
from the heart. One day it was
separated few hours from the
man. Peter was patiently labor
ing at the bottom of a well, when
he family heard the JOY ful bark
of his favorite. He looked up ;
there Was swift glance of recog-
milton, and then the light went
out Of the we'll digger's e:eS for
ever. The eager rush of the dog
to greet his mastet displaced a
heavy bucket, and sent it crash


ing down upon Peters head. A
few minutes after the battle worn
man was Dir 'gged to the surface
bleeding corpse. With piteOus
howls the faithful animal licked
the ugly wounds, but the fond
caresses could not reanimate the
fast stiffening body. The man
was laid out in his >hroud, but be-
fore the grave was clos d over the
human form the dog was also dead.
1t had stretched itself by the clay
of its master and moaned out its
life IN grief. 1t is sad story sill
vered over with touching beau
ty. If we celebrate in verse the
death of Panthea, who slew her.
self upon the corpse of ber be-
loved Abradatas, why should we
not drop word Of sympathy for
the dog who refused to live be-
cause his master had died
Year: 1873

Start off with the left foot in
front, as in army practice. By
doing so, when you advance
there will be nothing left, and
you will be right with "left in
'front.'" Don't expect to under
stand this all at once.


Keep your eyes in front. If
there are heads ahead of you
you can thus see ahead, and may
avoid complications with stran-
gers.


fyou wish to understand the
grade Of the walk, place your
feet down, and you will, if you
are wise, know all about it.
Man is a plain tigrade animal.
When you get hold of the cath
with one foot, keep a hold un-
til you get the other firmly fixed
in a satisfactory place. By so
doing you will feel all the sta
billty contemplated in the
Sunday Liquor law.


When you lift your feet, let
go of the dirt. 1t is not COM
mendable to cling too much to
earthly things, nor to walk off
with what does not belong to
you.


In learning to walk, always
place one foot in advance of the
other, alternating with left and
right, for the sake Of graceful
ness in mOvemnet and ultimate
advancement. Human prog
ress is often attained by the OBJ
seryance this simple rule.


When you wish to stop, do
SO. By observing this rule you
will often avoid going too far.


BY observing carefully these
rules you will be able to get
along without great difficulty.
" Y atlas.
Year: 1873

The price of bonds or stocks In
Wall street by no means indicates
their value. The price or market
value there of Il bond may be
much higher or lower to day than
it was yesterday, without any
change whatever in the condition
of the maker or payer of the bond.
The supposed or reputed sale OF
bonds is reported without once ever
having changed hanis. 1t is in
New York a regular gambling Op
Grafton. 1t is q bet that IA bond
will be higher or lower at a certain
time. One party, the bulls, 60 to
work immediately to toss the bond
up in the market. The other par
ty, the bears, go to work TO pull it
down. No money is putup except
what is called the margin. This IS
"a sum sufficient to cover any rea-
sonabie difference between the &C.
tual price of the bond and what it
may be. When tue day for settle
ment comes the bond does not
change hands. In ninety.nine
cases ont Of a hundred neither par
ty has ever owned nor expected to
own a boud. All the money that
Is paid over is the difference be-
tween what the market value of
the boud is at the time specified
and what the bet was that il would
be.
Year: 1873

A man in Delaware, who has
been enjoying the chills and
fever for months read in the pa
per the other day that if a per-
son afflicted thus would crawl
down flight of stairs head
foremost, just as the chill is
coming on, it would get dis
gusted and leave incontinently.
The Delaware man tried it, but
for the want of practice or some
thing he came down more rap
idly than was necessary-much
more-clearing four steps at a
time, and executing pair of
admirable iip-faps before
reaching the foot of the stairs.
He has had his nose half soled,
and a court-plaster map Of
Boston's burnt district laid out
on his left cheek and side of
the head-and still has no faith
in that ague cure.
Year: 1873

A forgetful.young woman out
Westthe othernight aroused the
inmates of a hotel to which her
bridal trip had led, on account
of her finding a man in her room.
The trifing circumstance Of
her marriage that morning had
qEite escaped her memory, and
it was not until summary JUS
tice was about to be visited on
the offender that she happened
to recollect it.
Year: 1873


The Parson Going to Mill
The parson sat in his house one day
While the wintry storm did rage;
High-rapt he drank in lofty thought
From HOUker's classic page.
But as he sat and holy dreams


Into his heart did steal;
His sweet wife opened the door and said.
MY dear, we have no mesli''
With saddened brow and heavy sigh
He laid aside his book,
And with meek, despsiring eve
Upon the hearth did look.
MY people think that I must break,
To them the bread of heaven;
But they'll not give me bread enough
Three whole days out of seven.'
But hunger is serious thing,
And it is sad TO hear
Sweet children's mOurnful cry for bread
Loud ringing IN your ear.
So strait he mounted his old horse
With meek and chastened will,
And on his meal-bag patched and coarse,
He jouraeyed to the mill.
The miller bowed TO him and said,
''Sir, by your church-steeple,
vow Iglve you praise for this,
But none to your church people,"
The parson mounted his old horse,
He had no time to lag,
And rode like hero to his home,
Righton his old meal-bag.



But as he rode he overlook
A proud and wealthy layman,
Who with close, qstonished gaze
The parsons bag did scan.
MY reverend friend, the truth to tell,
1t makes me feel quite wroth
To see you compromise this way
The honor Of your cloth.
why told YOU not, my honored friend, /
Your meal was running low;
What will the nei.hbors think of us,
to the mill you @o?7 (
''My wealthy friend. the parson said
You must nOt reason SO;
For tits fixed and settled thing,
My meal as Arrays IoiC.
I'll my dear people wish TO know
How 10 promote my bliss,
I'll simply say, bag Of mea.
Will never come aniss;
Just keep the store-room we'll supplied,
And will be right still:
But if the meal gives out again,
must SO to the mill"
Year: 1873

There is one thing no family pretends
TO be without. That is hammer. And
there is nothing that goes to make up the
equipment of domestic establishment
that causes one half as much agony and
profanity as Il hammer, with handle that
is inclined to silver, and always bound to
slip. The face is as round as full moon
and as smooth as glass. When it strikes
a nail full and square, which it has been
known to do, the act will be found to re-
suit from combination of pure accidents
The family hammer is one of the most
rare articles we never profit by. When it
glides Off nail head and mashes a coup
lie of fingers, we unhestatingly deposit il
in the yard and observe that we will never
use it again; but the blood has hardly dried
on the rag before we are cut Of doors in
search OF that hammer, and ready to make
another trial. The result rarely varies,
but we never profit by it. The awful
weapon goes on knocking off our nails,
and smashing whole joints, and slipping
off the handle to the confusion of mantle
ornaments, and breaking the command
ments. and cutting up an assortment OF
astounding and unfortunate antics, without
let or hinderance. And yet we put up
with it, and put it on the handle again,
and lay it away where it will not get lost,
and do up our mutilated and smarting fin
gers, and yet if the outrageous thing
should happen again to get lost, We kick
up a regular hullabooloo until it is found
Talk about the tyrannizing influence of
bad habit 1t is not to be compared to the
family hammer.-Dan6ury NeWs.
Year: 1873

SEOw-SnOw fell quite briskly. yesterday
afternoon and last evening, mingled with hail
and this morning the earth was covered with
An average depth Of four OF ave inches. Very
little obstruction TO travel was caused howev-
er, the trains arriving In this city on time =
Travel on the City Passenger railway was
checked for while but the snow plOw soon
INIT the track in travelling condition. The
sleighing Is quite good. but the prospects are
that It viii not last long.
Year: 1873

A Mrs. King had n surprise at Shaw
neetown the other day. 1t was an acci-
dent that Mrs. King happened to be at
Shawneetown. She did not intend to
go there, but the steamboat Jennie
Howell, on which she was travelling
struck snag and sunk in the Ohio
river. Several of the passengers were
drowned, and among them some chill
dren. Mrs. King had Il child on board
whom she mourned as lost, and was
taken to Shawneetown without her
babe. The Jennie Howell sunk deep
in the water, and the next morning men
went to the vessel to recover the bodies
of the lost Soon after daylight mat
tress was discovered floating in the
cabin, which was filled with water near
ly to the ceiling. Upon examination a
child, a little boy, was discovered on the
mattress sleeping as peacefully as if
nothing unusual had happened. His
bed was not very dry, for it had sunk a
good deal from soaking but still sus-
tained its living freight. In due time
the child was sent to Shawneetown,
where the other passengers had been
landed the evening before. Its coming
made an excitement among the wrecked
travellers, for more than one mother had
lost children by the disaster. 1t was "A
touching scene when Mrs. King recog-
nized the child as her boy whom she
had mourned as lost for nearly twenty
four hours. The preservation of Moses
in the bulrushes was not so miraculous
AZ the safety of Mrs. Kings boy. He had
been tossing about the waste of waters
in the cabin all night, and was brought
to his mother alive in the hour of her
deepest woe.
Year: 1873

A storm, like all great realities, il


grandest and when best seen; it ha.


nothing to gain from indistinctness ol


view. Night, if itincreases the danger


conceals what the Imagination can


hardly reproduce, and cannot surpass.


The low, driving scud overhead is swept


along ceaselessly in formless murki,


ness; huge masses of foam, churned


up in the recesses of the rocks, are torn


up by the fierce blasts of the wind and


whirled wildly through the air, shifting


against the face of the cliffs and the


green banks above, which are fecked


with white as from the remains of a


snow-storm. The black, rocky coast


line to the south, until it is lost in q
sustained confusion of surging spray
and cloud, seems dwarfed under the
snow-white columns that are hurled up
from its base, the SUBMITS of which,
struck by the level wind above, stream
far inland, a ragged curtain of spray,
while the heaving masses thunder down
again in q thousand cataracts. The
nearer piers, with their lofty staging,
are buried under the waves, which leap
a hundred feet above them as in sudden
surprise and wrath at their premature
arrest. Out at sea, as far as the eye
can penetrate, all is scene Of wild and
tumultumous commotion, multitude
nous as tho waving tops of forest-trees,
but incomparably more violent, no sue
cession or common motion can be OBJ
served, wave leaps above wave against
the lowering clouds, to fall back, burst
and baflled, until nearing the shore,
they seem to marshal themselves for
assault, and, rushing on in swift sue
ceeding lines, rear up their turbid
might, bounding, quivering, coiling,


until they precipitate themselves into
the gulf which foreruns them, or are
hurled unbroken against the rocks.
Sometimes, before the break of such
storm, the sun darts out for moment,
and all the countless features of the
scene, before obscured in gloom and in
distinctness, stand out sharp and clear
as by supernatural revelation; or, at
night, when the lower rack has been
swept away, and the upper clouds have
again piled themselves into masses, the
full moon pours down between them
through the storm washed air flood of
stainless light, which transforms all the
terror and grandeur into wild beauty
and mrail grace. The rocks and piers
are masked in shifting wreaths of snow
white cloud, the crash and roar of the |
breakers is carried off by the wind, and
the waves, now all silver-white, appear
to gambol and chase each other in
harmless play, seemingly incapable of
hurt to ship or life and on the ex- |
treme verge of the horizon, beyond the
nearer light and farther darkness bound |
ing it, there is streak of purest, |
calmest brightness, which seems to
speak of a region beyond all of perfect |
light and peace. But it is very rarely
that a smiling heaven thus transfgures
the wrathfull face of the deep, and most
commonly storm dies out in the sullen
gloom which has been one of the most
striking and oppressive features of its
previous course.-We CO1nhU Maga-
zine.
Year: 1873

Even those copper-colored -throats,
the Apache Indians, have touch of
delicacy and romance in them. From a
lecture delivered III San Francisco by
COL John G. Carmony, we take the fol-
lowing account of their counting GUS
toms : Every young girl is at liberty to
refuse suitor for her hand. The
father, mother and brother are prohibi-
ted from interfering in her choice. Her
person is at her own disposal. After a
brief courtship the lover makes a form
al proposal by offering so many horses.
Horses are standard of value among
the Indians. AS the squaw does all the
work, horses are accepted as an equiva-
lent for her labor. When young war
rior becomes enamored, he fastens his
horse near the wigwam of the squaw
whose hand he seeks, where he is left
four days. If she fails to feed and
water the horse during that time, the
master is rejected; but if she accepts
his offer she grooms and kindly cares
for the horse, and then ties him to the
wigwam of her lover, as much as to say,
81 am willing to be your slave and do
your work" At the marriage the sages
and sachems meet together, and the
bride is not unfrequently loaded with
forty to fifty pounds of silver and cop
nor trinklets
Year: 1873

q child" The value OF the ideas that


enter into human life is chiefly to be


learned by watching their evolution and
| workings in that great workshop called


yesterday. Take the idea of the liber-
| ty, and no dreamer who looks into the


future can behold its length and


breadth, but he alone can measure the


import of the term who hears the cry


of the slave from the days of the Ro-


mans down to the career of our own


land, and who sees the prosperity OF
freedom from Athens to Florence, and
from Florence to England and America.


Take the idea of home, and If you
would feel the import of the word, look
not forward into poetic haze, but back
into human experience, in tho tears OF
sadness and JOY that have fallen by the
feet of any exile going away or coming
back or look into your own childhood
and consult its memories and then the
term unveils itself with no light or
shadow left out. Beyond the unfold
ing of truths, yesterday possesses an
other power, that of softening and mod
ulating the mind and heart Egotism
draws its vanity from Il perfect forget
fulness of yesterday. Selfconscious-
ness and coming greatness erase all else
from the mind and the egotist stands
great in his possibilities. He is just
about to conquer world or greatly sur
prise one. And deep study of his own
or the worlds yesterday would drain
his heart of the last drop of personal
vanity, for there was an arena and he
did not conquer or astonish a world,
and there all those who were more
highly endowed are sleeping in forgot
ten dust. If the pasta. a.uttersG anything
that is of value it is that all self-wor-
ship and gloritlcation are the weakest
shape human nature can assume, and
that there is nothing worth living for
except the general mental and moral
progress of self and of mankind. The
great graves are those which cover the
dust of hearts that did some work that
entered after them into the public well
fare and happiness. .-Dacid ,Swing.