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Year: 1873

Sir Richard Steele says: The first


sense of sorrow l ever knew was upon


the death Of my father, at which time |


was not quite five years Of age but was
rather amazed at what all the house


meant, than possessed with real un-


derstanding why nobody was willing to
play with me. / remember | went into
the room where the body lay, and my
mother sat weeping alone by il. / had
my battledoor in my hand, ana fell to


beating the coffin aud calling papa for,
l know not why, had some slight idea
that he was locked up there.


My mother caught me in her arms,
and, transported beyond all patience of
the silent grief she was before in, she
almost smothered me in her embrace,
and told me in food of tears, "papa
could not hear me, and would play with
me no more, for they We, going to put
him under the ground, whence he could
never come to see us again." She was
Il very beautiful woman, OF a noble
spirit, and there was dignity in her
grief amid all the wildness of her trans
port, which, methought, struck me with
an instinct of sorrow, which, before
was sensible of what it was to grieve,
seized my very soul, and has made pity
the weakness of my heart ever since.
The mind in infancy is, methinks, like
the body in embryo; and receives i'm
pressions so forcible that they are as
hard to be removed by reason, as any
mark, with which child is born, is to be
taken away by any future application.
Hence it is, that good nature in me is
no merit but, having been SO fire.
quently overwhelmed with her tears be-
fore | knew the cause of her atliiction,
or could draw defenses from my own
judgment, | imbibed commiseration,
remorse, and an unmanly gentleness of
mind, which has since ensnared me in
to ten thousand calamities; and from
whence I can reap no advantage, except
it be that, in such humor as / am now
in, can the better indulge myself in
the softness of humanity, and enjoy
that sweet anxiety which arises from
the memory of past Affections.
Year: 1873

eyes; l find I have net fortitude
enough to bear other peoples misfor-
tunes"


"You may easily bear mine. I havo
been very happy since l knew that my
waiting would be short.


You have had but a dull, lonely
life, Eleanor. cannot wonder at your
indifference to it.


A sudden rosy brightness transfgur-
ed Eleanor's face, and for the moment
she was more lovely than can tell.


You are wrong, believe me-" she
said. 81 have had my share of happi-
ness no woman could have more. II
was like some great tropical bloom,
long in coming and soon gone, but it
was unutterably perfect.


looked Mt her with wide eyes, and
the drawbridge of her reserve fell in-
stantly. She lay still for long time
and c.uld hear the thud of her heart
beats.


When / was leaving her, she showed
me n key on chain that she always
wore about her neck.


Some time you will use this to I'M
lock my desk" she said, "and find
there what l cannot say to you now"
Not many days after, she went out of
life as calmly as she had passed through
it.


In her desk was large packet of let
lers, bound with strip of paper. On
this strip was written the precious
secret which she could not part with
while she lived. Bury me with these
letters on my heart, and write over my
head only this, Eleanor Eustace, be-
loved wife of Haviland Norton.


She had said on my wedding day
that she thought she might like me very
well, and have reason to believe she
did SO, never any less and never any
more, while l grew to regard her with a
passionate admiration.


For long time after her death, life,
alone with my widower, was avery tame
affair indeed.
Year: 1873

That to be frozen to death must be a
frightful torture many would consider
certain from their own experience of
the effects of cold. But here we fall
into the usual error of supposing that
the suffering will increase with the
energy of the agent, which could only
be the case if the sensibility remained
the same. Intense cold brings on
speedy sleep, which fascinates the SEN
ses and fairly beguiles men out of their
lives. The most curious example of
the seductive power of cold is to be
found in the adventures of the botani-
cal party, who, in Cooks first voyage,
were caught in snow storrs on Terra
del Fuego. DR.. Solander, by birth n
Swede, and well acquainted with the
destructive deceits of rigorous climate,
admonished the company, in defiance of
lassitude, to keep moving on. "Who-
ever sits down." said he, Twill sleep,
and whoever sleeps will perish The
doctor spake as sage. but felt as a
man. In spite of the circumstances of
those he instructed and alarmed, he
was the first to lie down and die. The
same warning was repeated a thousand
times in the retreat from Moscow. ALI
son, the historian, to try the expert
ment, sat down in his garden at night,
when the thermometer had fallen four
degrees below zero, and so quickly did
the drowsiness come stealing on, that
he wondered how a soul of Napoleon's
unhappy band had been able to resist
the treacherous influence.
Year: 1873

The following amendment to the
present bankruptcy law of the United
States, introduced by Senator Wright,
of Iowa, is probably all that will be ac-
complished this winter, and even this
may not pass: On all proceedings in
bankruptcy commenced subsequently to
the first day of January, 1878, no dis
charge shall be granted to Il debtor
whose assets shall not be equal to 80
per cent of the claims proved against
his estate upon which he shall be liable
as the principal debtor, unless the as
sent in writing of majority in numb II
and value of his creditors to whom he
shall have become liable as principal
debtor, and who shall have proved their
claims, be filed in the case at or before
the time of hearing the application for
discharge, provided that the provisions
of this act shall not apply to those debts
from which the bankrupt seeks & dis
charge which were contracted prior to
the 1st of January, 1873.
Year: 1873

Take an hour from labor and give il


to something else. But don't carry


those precious sixty minutes and slam


them down upon drinking bar, getting


nothing in return for Gods gift than


poison and death and murder. Don't


take them to the gambling hclls and ex-
change them for chances to win few
dollars from other men who have left
their families, their wives and children,


to gamble away their small earnings.


You but help to build up the fortune of
the unprincipled man who owns the


hell " and deals the game Of moral
and pecuniary destruction. If you
have an hour to spare from labor, give
it to reading and the enjoyment of


home. Cheer your wife i'll her duties,
select pleasant stories and read them to
your children. Try the habit of domes-
ticity. The best lounging place is your
own house, and the best club to join is
your own family. Stick to that idea,
and work up the spare hour by improv-
ing it to the intellectual advantage of
yourself and household. If YOU prop
erly bestow your leisure from toll you
will in the end find that toll itself viii
not be so great burden. BY study
you will discover wherein lies the mys-
terry of your toll, and means will be
opened to you by which the business
you are engaged in will assume almost
an intellectual amusement. An hour a
day amounts at the end of the year
to 800 hours. In that space how
many valuable books may be read,
how much pleasure enjoyed in your
own home, and how blessed you will be
in the gratitude of your wife and the
and cultivated love OF your
children.
Year: 1873

THE PRELMfISARY QUESTION. - The
professor of natural philosophy in q
certain college gave the class problem
to think over during the night and an
swer the next day The question was
this: eff A hole were bored through
the centre of the earth from side to side,
and ball were dropped into it, what
motions would the ball pass through,
and how would it come to state OF
rest ?" The next morning fellow was
called up on this philosophical problem.
"What answer do you give this ques-
ton? ?" asked the professor. "Well,
really" said he, 81 have not thought
of the main question, but of prelimi-
nary one. How are you going to get
that hole through q
Year: 1873

The council of state have entered
into negotiations with the Messrs Roth
schild for the loan TO the French gov
ernmeut OF one hundred and thirty five
millions OF francs The terms OF the
loan have been agreed upon and the
money will be shortly transferred into
the French treasury,
Year: 1873

ANGRY WoRDs.-It is an excellent
thing to have good memory as a rule,
but it is quite as good to have poor one
sometimes. There are some things it
would be such pleasure to forget. An
cry remarks and bitter retorts are
amongst them but, alas thousand
good words are forgotten, while the bad
one is remembered forever 1t is far
easier to learn an idle, senseless jingle OF
rhymes than beautiful hymn or poem.
Do not waste your time and attention
over what you would give much to for
get. Slanderous words are far better
forgotten than remembered. One of the
best helps to forgetting is never to speak
of them not even in whisper. If you
hear playmate say something unkind
of another, keep it to yourself; she will
forget it pretty soon, and feel as kindly
as ever toward the person. But if you
tell it what storm you will raise How
the girls will take sides And two par
ties will be formed, and very likely the
girls parents will join the quarrel, and
the whole nelghborhood will be in an up
roar just because Of that cross word you
had better let die. What would you
think of person who went along pick
ing up all the old burs and thistles he
could find, and taen fastening them on
to people? Just such nuisances are these
malicious, thoughtless words. Don't
pick them up, and they will do but little
hurt-Mnnie.
Year: 1873

HEMoRRHAGE FROM EXTRACTING
TEETH. remedies are few and sim
pie, and can be had in every family.
The first remedy is cold water. held in
the mouth and copiously used ON the out
side. This, in many cases, will be sufi-
cient yet there are instances when this
will not answer. In such a case take
cotton or lint, well soaked in strong
solution of alum water, rolled up in
small, hard wad, and press it firmly up
the cavity of the tooth so as to reach the
mouth of the bleeding vessel, and at the
same time close your teeth upon and
compress it so as to retain it in that po-
sition, where it should be kept from two
to twelve hours without being removed.
This remedy we have never known to
fail. 1t is simple, easily applied and
within the reach of every person.
Year: 1873

FEVER BY WHoLEsALE.-Out of one
hundred ana forty families supplied with
milk from dairy in Islington, Eng
land, seventy suffered from typhoid fever
one hundred and sixty-eight cases oc-
Cured within ten weeks, and thirty died.
An investigation showed that the cows
drank water from an old underground
tank, built of wood, and much decayed.
The milk-cans were washed in the same
water, and in all probability the water
was also mixed with the milk. As the
fever attacked only such parties in that
district as used the milk, the water 10
the rotten tank must have been the
cause This is only one more evidence
of the danger of using foul water and
giving it to animals. 1t has been shown
stagnant water acts as slow poison to
animals as well as to men, and it is a
matter of the first importance to all
dairymen and stock-raisers as well as
families, to use only pure. fresh water.
Year: 1873

A GENTLE REBUKE.--A lady riding
in car on the New York Central Rail
road was disturbed in her reading by the
conversation of two gentlemen occupy
ing the seat just before her. One OF
them seemed TO be student of some col.
lege on his way home for a vacation. He
used much profane language, greatly to
the annoyance of the lady.


She thought she would rebuke him,
and, on begging pardon for interrupting
them, asked the young student if he had
studied the languages.


Yes, madam, | have mastered the
languages quite WELL"


"Do you read and speak Hebrew


"Quite fuently."


"Will you be so kind as to DO me a
small favor2"


With great pleasure, am at your
service"


will you be so kind as to do your
swearing in Hebrew ?"


We may we'll suppose the lady was
not annoyed any more by the ungentle-
manly language of this would-be gentle
man.
Year: 1873

An exchange says it is never safe to
get on moving train of cars. Ninety
and nine times you shall reach the plat
form in safety, and the hundredth time
you may reach the track and have the
whole train pass over your body. All
the glory of your previous success will
be swamped in the single failure.
Year: 1873

How TO Treat A PAINTING FIT.-
There seems to be an instructive impress
sion that person when seIzed with a
fainting or other fit, must be held in an
upright position, or the head must at
least be kept erect. This is great er-
ror. Painting is caused by want of
blood In the brain; the heart ceases to
beat with sufficient power to propel the
usual amount to the brain, and therefore
one loses consciousness because the brain
ceases its functions. Throw back the
blood from the heart, and consciousness
returns, and the faint passes away. If
you keep person in a sitting position
when the heart has nearly ceased to beat,
the blood will not ascend, but if you lay
him down with the head lower than the
heart, by the mere force of gravitation
the blood will flow into the brain in suf-
ticlent quantity to restore life. Though
the blood is sent to all parts of the body
by the action of the heart, yet it is un-
der the influence of the all-poweiful law
of gravitation. Nature should of her
self teach US how to manage fainting
his, for person always falls when at
tackled with one, and is frequently re-
stored by the position alone. If this
fails, however, it is we'll to resort to fric.
tion and strong stimulants inhaled
through the nose. Rub the hands and
arms, and if the fit continues, apply hot
cloths wrung out in boiling water until
nearly dry, over the heart and abdomen,
still keeping the head lower than the
feet. Strong hartshorn applied to the
nostrils will often restore the breath
which seems about to depart Country
Gentleman.
Year: 1873

An Iowa Falls woman put a couple of
dozen eggs into her bed,so they shonld
not freeze while she was absent four or
five days, and on her return late at night
bounced into bed and bounced out again.
Year: 1873

A young man while making himself
attractive to young lady on Elm street,
Monday evening, was taken with vio-
lent fit of caughing, and brought up two
marbles he had swallowed when boy.
The young lady dismissed him. She
said she didn't want TO marry stone
quarry.
Year: 1873

correspondent Of the Little Rock Gazette
of the 9th. makes very healthy suggestion
in naming Col. SAM. l.. GRIFFITH. for the U
S. Senate. A more honest, better man for
the times, could not be found in the State.
But the assembled power at Little Rock have
no use in the world for man in the Senate.
Of the character Of Col. Griffith.
Year: 1873

From the -Chilltcothe Advertiser.


But few men of the vast throng who
attended the Convention which nominated
Vallandigham for Governor will fail to
remember the ratification meeting which
occurred in the evening. A number of
well known popular speakers had been
called out and Responded in eloquent
terms. Presently gentleman with a
red scar upon his face, unknown to al
most every one present, was lifted upon
the platform. The crowd looked at him
and then began to murmur and converse.
But the. stranger opened his lips and
few pointed sentences In clear tones gain
ed for him the attention of his audience.
He then began q speech which has had
more eulogies pronounced upon It since
than any other speech ever delivered in
Ohio. He carried that surging, waving
mass of humanity upon every sentence Of
his utteranee, as each breath Of the lorna
do sets into motion every leaf of the for
est. For impassioned eloquence, that
vast audience never heard its equal. A
man who was standing near us during
one of his most magnificent flights shout
ed, my Godl is he human?" and another
overWroughtg listener screamed out in. his
delight, For heavens sake, who Is hep
and the excited crowd repeated the ques-
ton. A voice answered: "It's JOHN
McSWEENEY, of WOOSTER, the most
eloquent man in Ohio. . And he told the
truth. Ohio contains not in her borders
to-day a more magnificent orator than
John McSweeney of Wooster - Il


Now, this is merely prelude for say
ing that as General Ewing and judge
Thurman have emphatically declined CAR
Iying the Democratic banner as a candi-
date for Governor this fall, We know of no
other man in the State better fitted to
head our ticket than John McSWeeneY.
He is not political hack He has new
er held an Office in his life, and never been
candidate for one. He is a fresh man.
and not an old stager. He is q man of
splendid character and attainments, and
IN his profession has few equals and no
superiers in the State. And what a can
Vass he would makel There is not a
county in the State that does not contain
hundreds of men who listened to his great
effort at Columbus, and the years that
have interVened have only served TO em-
balm it in a halo which grows brighter
with age. Not one of these men would
fail to carry their families and theirneieh-
bors to hear the man whose eloouence
has been pleasant memory for decade.


If he will consent to make the race. let
US have McSweeney.
Year: 1873




Quite an excitement prevailed at Wal
mt Grove last Monday, caused by the
announcement that Greenbury Buis had
been hung by a body of armed men the
night previous. From a gentleman who
was q member of the Jury we gather
these particulars: The deceased married
a daughter of James Brinn, respectable
citizen Of this county, with whom he lived
for some time. Last summer they moved
to Cass County, where B1is was arrested
for stealing horses, and sent to the Peni-
tentiary. In the mean time his wife's
father had taken her to his home again
and which she had left, against his desire,
to marry the unfortunate man. The Gov
ernor pardoned Buis-and, by the way,
he does good deal of that-who returned
to the vicinity of Walnut Grove, in this
county, where he had some relatives. OF
course his wife returned with him. AL
though he had been out OF the Peniten-
tlary bat about month, he and broth
er-in-law, Wood by name, were accused Of
stealing sheep and selling them to the
butchers of this city and Polk County.
They were arrested and Buis escaped,
while Wood was sent to the Hermitage
jail, where he awaits the laws delay
2 BUS was arrested last week in Barry,
md was being conveyed to Polk County
for trial He requested the guards to al
low him TO remain one night with his
wife, and they accordingly stopped with
HIM Sunday night. About 9 O'Clock body
of about twenty-five armed men rode up,
took the prisoner out, and hung him to a
tree. The guards knew not the men, and.
We're powerless to prevent the deed. The
man hung within quarter of a mile of
has home until the next evening at 4
o'clock, when the inquest was held and
the body cut down.


1t is said that he had threatened the
hives Of a number of men, and presumed
that this led TO the hanging.
Year: 1873

At this ,Juncture it seemed as if the
CROWD would interfere, but Harding stern
ly bade them keep back and leave the men
to settle the matter In their own way.
As none cared to dispute with the gigantic
hunter, the mandate was ebeyed, though
a universal expression of horror ran
through the spectators, number of whom
were the engineers and attaches of our
own party. Still, horrible as was the
scene, no one thought of leaving the spot.
An irresistible fascination to see It out
bound one and all alike to. the blood
stained locality, But the finale was at
hand-the curtain almost ready to drop.


McGluskey, sumInoning by q supreme
effort his remaining strength, drew his
knife and began to crawl feebly in. the d.
rection of his antagonist. The latter, who
had raised himself to sitting posture.
saw the movement and prepared to meet
it. Both had dropped their, revolvers
leaving to the cold steel the completion of
the work. ~


By this time it had grown quite dark,
and to distinguish the movements Of the
eombatants required the closest attention
Anderson was clearly unable to move any
portion Of his body save his right arm,
With this he raised his knife aloft, and as
McCluskey craWled p-to-Within reach.
dealt him a terrible blow in the. neck, cut.
ting muscles and tendons and veins, and
half severing the head from the body.


THE LAST EFFORT.


8 But the effort was too much for him
and leaving the weapon sticking in the
wound, he pitched heavily forward on his
face. Every one supposed that this blow
would have instantly killed McCluskev
but, strange to say, It did not. for so great
was his vitality that before falling he
twice plunged his own knife into the BODY
of Anderson. The tale Is soon told. Nc
Cluskey lived = minute longer than his
antagonist. The dead bodies, firmly lock
ed in each Others emhrsce, were taken to
the house of Harding and laid out side by
side on the gaming table. A crimson trail
marked the path of those who carried
them indoors, and pools Of blood indicated
thes seene of the late conflict. y


There was no gaming that night. The
hunters and Indians appeared to find e1-
element enough in talking over the events
of the day without having to resort to
their usual pastime About IL o'clock
the moon rose, and the bodies were taken
out for burial. There were no funeral.
ceremonies, but Job Harding remarked as
the mufied forms were lowered into the
grave, "There go two as braYe men as
ever lived. They were buried deep, to
keep the wolves and coyotes from digging
them up, and the earth was heaped np in
little mound to mark where they slept
Year: 1873

or the establish of the Republic rational
over the Commune crazy, followed next


Nj. Theirs has been the central figure in
the political armament of France for the
past two years. He has accomplished a
good deal in his time, and in the trying
ties and keeping his slippery position, he
managed better than ever was anticipated.
Now, it may, Be presumed; this for the
present is the least of these revolutions,
and the advent of Marshal Mac M2hon is
but simple change of administration.
Year: 1873

r. With the fall of the Empire all the
worst elements of the huge city of Paris
were liberated, ana though for q very
long time q degree of exemplary order
areigned, the storm that finally burst and
wrought its fury on the fair and devoted
city could not have been wholly unantic-
ipated. Under the reign of the provi-
aionaI government desperate efforts were
made to restore the lost prestige Of the


French military name but the fates were


unpropitlous, and things went from bad


to worse. On the 18th of March, 1871, /,


the troops faithful to the provisional gov
Year: 1873

1t is the wisdom of life, as well as
its joy, to be always feeling this
great need of Jesus. A true chris
tian feels that he could no more have
an hour without Jesus than he could
an hour without air, or under the wa.
ter. There is something delightful
in this sense of utter dependence
upon Jesus. 1t is our only rest, our
only liberty in the world. 1t is the
bondage of our imperfection, that
we cannot be directly actually think
ing of Jesus ali day and all night
Yet it is astonishing how near we
come to this. Our very sleep at
becomes subject to the thought of
Jesus, and saturated with it. 1t is
part of the gladness of growing old
er, not only that we are thereby
drawing nearer to our first sight of
Him, but we feel our dependence
upon Him more and more. We have
learned more about Him. We have
had longer and more varied exper-
fence of Him. Our love for Him
has become more of passion, which
by a little effort, promises at some
not very distant day to be dominant
and supreme. In our physical life,
as we grow older, we become more
sensible to cold and wind, to change
of place and to alienation of wealth.
er. So as we grow older in spiritual
lite, we become more sensitive to the
presence of Jesus, to the necessity
of Him, and of His Indispensable
sweetness. A constantly increasing,
sensible love of our dearest Lord is
the safest mark of our growth in ho
illness and the most tranquilizing
prophecy of our final perseverance,
-Eaber.