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Year: 1872

As a party of country .excursiOnists
were wandering along the lake shore
the other day, at Cleveland, their
attention was attracted by the new
light house tower now in process Of
construction After gazing in amaze
ment or some moments, one Of the
party broke the silence with, "Weil,
il that amt the gol-darndest highest
chimbIey l ever seed for a little house
like that ~
Year: 1872

Let amusements fill up the chinks
Of your existence, not tue great space
thereof. Let your pleasure be taken
as Daniel took his prayers-with his
window open; pleasures which need
not cause a single blush on an lngenu-
Gus cheek.
Year: 1872

Preserve your conscience always
soft and sensitive. IL but one sin force
its way into that tender part Of the
soul, and is suffered to dwell there, the
road is paved for q thousand more in
iqUities.
Year: 1872

It is not necessary to go TO a minis
ter of the gospel nor the bible 10 find
out whether you have done wrong.
If you have consulted your conscience
and have been governed by wha; it
told you, yOn have done right.-Jo-
HeU1
Year: 1872

A@D AaAhH VII A1AiEAH p A1u--


Nj DEAR Boy The double barrel
That you sent me came safely to hand,
and'l was only shot at once while
carrying It home. Bill Silvers pop
ped at me from behind the fence, as /
was passing the house, but l had load
ed the twO-shOoter as soon as / got it,
and he didn't jump up from behind
that fence but once.


l am glad that one of the barrels Is
rifle, as l needed it for long range
practice The other can fill with
buckshOt, and can riddle a man live
y at close quarters. 1 mean 10 try
both the barrels on those Jetts when
meet them. You see old man Jett
stole mule from us in the time of
the war, and when il was over pap
laid for him and killed him. Then
Niger Tom Jett, as we called him
the black-1aeed One-he laid for pap
and plugged him. Then 1 picked a
fusS with Tom, and cut him into gib-
lets, and since that time his brother
sam has been laying for me. don't
know but it is his turn, but / think
my dOuble-barrel will prove too much,
for him.


II you want to see fun, come down
for while and bring rifle. It don't
make any difference which side you
belong to, and it isn't even necessary
to join the militia. 1t is easy to get
up a grudge against somebody, and
all you have to do is to lay for your
man and knock him over. Behind
my pig pen is one of the sweetest hid
ing places l know Of,and it so handy!
A good many people come in range
IN the course of week, and a man
can pass his time right pleasantly.


wish you would send me a cata-
lOgue of SCnday-schOOl books, with
the prices, if there are any in st. Lou
Is. If we can get them on time we
Will take big lot of books. / am
Superintendent of the Baptist Sunday
School now, and am running it un-
der full head of steam. Old man
Byers, who was turned out, is right
mad about it and sWears that he will
chaw me up; but he will chaw lead if
he don't keep clear Of me.


My wife wants to know il you can't
send her a set of teeth without her
getting measured for them. Her twen-
ty-tive dollar set was busted all to
flinders by pistol shot that went
her mouth; but it didnil,hurt
her tongue. Write soon to


Your friend and pard,
Year: 1872

Farewell dear White House, fare thee vel
Where had hoped four years 10 dwell;
March Fourth is sounding out its lznell,


And we must part,
And Oh! what pangs no tongue can tell


Pierce this SAD heart.
came up from printer boy,
From grade TO grade and did not stop,
And friends placed me at thetop


And then betrayed me,
For now when have got TO drop,


All Styx can't save me.
swung the circle, scraped and bowed
As often as found a crowd,
And reconciliation ! avOWed


Is an we want;
And then they'd cry out long and loud


Hurrah for Grant.
And when at length by Natures stroke
My pitchers at the fountain broke,
Let no one know in what sly nook,


Ny dust reposes;
Lest he should come, and for the Joke,


Say here Les old Chappauqua.
Year: 1872

The two ladies who have recently
been admitted to the bar of Utah are
not MOrmOns. They advertise their
willingness to advocate the cause Of
all Mormon women who desire to es-
cape from the VOWS that have made
them the fractional owner Of q man.
Year: 1872

session will, as q matter of course, be devoted


to the appropriation bills which General Gar
field and his committee are now preparing


The short session is scarcely long enough to


consider and pass them. Everything else will
be set aside in their favor, except the jobs
which fail to find ready place among the
multifarious items which 60 to make up the
annual budget Thus there is danger OF
nothing being done outside Of the appropria-
tions except in the way of jobs, and that the
appropriation bills themselves will be the chief
vehicle of jobbery.


All this brings us to new question, which
we earnestly urge upon the attention OF Con-
gress. These annual appropriation bills are
not only becoming q great nuisance but q
grave danger. AS the country increases in
wealth the expenditures of the government in
crease also, so that in few years it will
require the whole time of Congress to mature
plans for spending the peoples money. Both
houses are fast becoming mere appropriation
committees. Some way out of this difficulty
must be found, and that too. very soon. We
must have an annual budget-luminous, COM
prehensive and exact--which can be disposed
of in as many weeks as the present system re-
quires months The loopholes for the lobby
must be closed and the jobbers be taught that
there is no place for them-in the annual ap-
preparation bills, at least. To give us such
system-wise, statesmanlike and practical
would be the glory of General Grants admin
istration, for it would make the task of run
ming the government comparatively easy and
destroy the chief vehicle of corruption. Till
something Like this is done Congress will not
have time to mature important measures af-
fecting the financial, industrial and CONNER
cial interests of the country We want the
committee of appropriations to be only
check upon the disbursing officers, and not, as
it is fast becoming, the great power of the
country opening the doors to corruption and
closing them to necessary legislation.
Year: 1872

BRITISH RULE IN INDA.-By telegram from
Bombay we learn that Lord Northbrook,
Governor General OF India, has just visited
that city for the first time, and that he will,
on Saturday next there give audience to
many Of the Indo-Asiatic sovereigns and
princes the ceremonial of State being con-
Quoted with q most gorgeous display of
royalist magnifcence The occurrence of
British crown event Of this description is not
by any means unusual in India; but it must
be borne in mind that the royal govern
ment always endeavors to hold the native
princes more firmly to its side whenever
there is any alarm prevalent in the territory,
the circulation of which might operate in
juriously to the authority of the throne. The
Indian sovereigns and chiefs may have Just
now heard of the Russian imperial movements
in Central Asia and of the St. Petersburg
Cabinet dplomacy towards Khiva
Year: 1872

The eminent Irish Dominican delivered his
second lecture last night, taking as his subject
'lreland under the Tudors." As in his former
lecture. Father Burke opened his discourse by
an attack on the credibility Of the English his
torian. Taking up Mr.. Froude's description
of Henry the Eighth, and examining it by the
Light Of history, he showed that the quality Of
seeing things as he wished them to be was
such marked Characteristic of Mr.. Froude's
mental organization that we could not safely
accept either his facts or his deductions
from them. Under the skilful dissection
of the Dominican the thin veil which
the English historian had drawn over the
character of Henry was torn to pieces,
and Mr.. Eroude's hero stood revealed the
elegant monster that impartial readers Of
history generally pronounce him. This period
of Irish history is so mixed up with the relig-
ious questions which at the time agitated
Europe that it would have been impossible for
even a secular lecturer to have passed them
without devoting to their eluc;dation q con-
siderable part Of his discourse. 1t is not
therefore to be wondered at that church.
man should have regarded the religious
aspects of the period as more worthy of
minute attention than the strictly political
events which agitated the people. But Father
Burke never once lost sight of his antagonist,
and fact after fact either of q religiousA moral
or political nature, was eloquently stated, sup
ported by the authority of English State
papers or of interested English writer's, which
swept away the statements upon which Mr..
Froude based his arguments in support or JUS
tifcation Of English rule in Ireland. Tho
charge made directly by Mr.. Froude that
'shome rule had been tried under Henry
and had proved miserable failure was shown
to be o very disingenuous argument, based
upon the fact that the government of Ireland
had been entrusted to few Of the Anglo
Norman families, who had always be<n the
deadliest and bitterest enemies of the Celtic
people, and who on this occasion showed they
had changed in nothing by Immediately using
their newly acquired power to make war on
the native Irish. These facts were presented
with great ability and address, but, owing to
the time devoted to the examination of
Froude's reliability AS a historian and
the dissection of the character of the
much-married English King that most in
teresting period Of Irish history, the struggle
against Queen Elizabeth, had to be passed
over with very brief reference. This was
disappointing, as the fight against Elizabeth


was the first trial of strength between the
two peoples that could be dignifed as
national struggle. 1t would have been inter-
esGng 10 hear what Father Burke had to say
Year: 1872

Fireproof Baildings-The Only Security


Against Disaster.


The best way to provide against disasters
like the Boston fire is now question of the
greatest interest We print this morning
number of suggestions emanating from differ
ent quarters but all bearing upon the point
so prominently brought forward by this great
calamity. One of the correspondents who
writes to the HERALD suggests calamity
fund.- in the principal cities of the country
another wants our Fire Department supplied
with blankets to smother the flames in case of
fire. and another thinks corps of sappers and
miners necessity. One of these writer's,
assuming what is quite probable, that the
Croton supply would be insufficient in case of
great fire, proposes the necessary machinery
for making the North and East Rivers pour
themselves on the devouring element Other
writers suggest other means of averting like
calamity in New York. In all Of these sugges-
tions there may be the germ of q practicable
idea, though few things appear more gro
tesque or impracticable than wrapping
up block of immense buildings in WOOL
len blankets. After all that can
Year: 1872

was to the Republic that the available COM
mercial capital of the world was offered. It
was the Republic which saved France from
herself The Republic has been and
still is paying the war indemnity.
According to President Theirs himself
the Republic is the legal form of government,
and any attempt to restore monarchy or to re-
establish the Empire would result in disas-
trous revolution. Such being the case, why
should President Theirs hesitate2 Why
should he not at once take active steps to
make the Republic an assured success2 No
one knows so well as he that it rests too much
on his own shoulders. His sickness or his
death might plunge France into all the mis-
cries inseparable from fresh war of the fac
tions. Does he really wish to delay in order
to be able to restore the House of Orleans in
the form of q limited monarchy, or is he afraid
that any radical change such as might favor
q dissolution and general election would
place his great rival NJ Leon Gambetta, at
the head of affairs? With all his great and
unquestioned ability it must be admitted that
President Theirs is giving the world good
reason to doubt his strength of will and his
decision of character. BY declaring that the
initiation of measures having for their object
constitutional changes rests with the Assem-.
bly, he has given the Assembly it's oppor-
tunity. If the Assembly will not act and act
at once, the French people should, as one
man, rise and call for an Assembly which will
fairly and fully represent their thoughts and
wishes.
Year: 1872

be said on the subject, and we fear after al
that can be done to make great conAagrations
impossible, they will occur again and again 80
long as combustible structures are erected on
narrow and tortuous streets. Fireproof build
ings and wide, open thoroughfares are the
only security; for human power is powerless
before an immense burning mass, and human
devices are insufficient while there il food for
the fame. The only remedy against the de-
struction of cities by fire is to build so that il
will be impossible to burn them.
Year: 1872

OCEAN TELEaRApHa-The great work of
uniting the continents and islands Of the
globe by ocean telegraphic cables goes on. We
are informed that the government of Portugal
has made a concession to q responsible COM
pany for submarine telegraph line between
Portugal and Brazil by way Of Madeira and
st. Vincent While the European nations are
SO progressive in this respect, our country and
government are rather slow. A vast trade lies
open TO us in China, Japan and other countries
across the Pacific Ocean, and yet we neglect
to facilitate that trade by telegraphic commu-
nication. When shall we have cables under
the Pacific from San Francisco to Japan and
China2 That is the most important line now
needed.
Year: 1872

Before Judge Moore and Associate Justice.


Mr.. John Orr. q Warden OF the Tombs Prison,
New York, went to Concy Island by the dummy
route on the 10th Of August last and on his return
got aboard car for the Fulton ferry at the Fifth
avenue depot As he was in the act OF stepping
nn the car be was showed by two young men, and W
Year: 1872

Never give up! 1t is wiser and better
Always to hope than once to despair;
Throw of the load of doubts cankerina


fetter,


And break the dark spell of tyrannical


care,
Never give up! or the burden will sink you
Providence has kindly mingled the cup,
And in all trials and troubles bethink you.
The watchword Of life should be-Never


give mp.
Never give up! There are chances and


changes


Helping the hopeful hundred to one,
And amid the chaos, high wisdom arranges
Ever success-ify on IL only hope on.
Never give up! for the wisest is boldest,
Knowing that Providence mingles the cup,
And of all maxims the best as the oldest
Is the true watchward-Never give up.
Never give up, though the grape shot may


rattle,


And the full thunder cloud over you burst;
Stand like rock, and the storm or the


battle


Little can harm you, though doing their


worst.
Never give up! If adversely presses,
Providence has wisely mingled the cup,
And the best counsel in all your distrssses
is the stout watchword of-Never give up.
Year: 1872

solid worth-had cast aside gold for
its base admiration. But the fault was
his, and he must pay the penalty.
Now, when it was too late, he realized
his mistake, and remembering Kathie
and an she was to her husband, the
word Commonplace had forln him
thenceforward new, and sweet, and
tender Specification. -
Year: 1872

Jordan & Marsh, Hovey and other
firms on Washington Street are moving
their goods, and many parties on Milk
and Water streets, and even as far
north as State street, are doing the
same. All the newspaper offices have
force on hand prepared to move at
several firemen have been killed.
Year: 1872

THE liUsnAND.-Ladies sometimes do
not value their husbands as they ought.
They not unfrequcntly learn the value of
a good husband for the first time by loss
OF him. Yet the husband is the very
roof-tree of the house, the cornerstone
OF the ediiice, the key stone of the arch
called home. He is the bread-winner of
the family, the defense, and its glory
the beginning and ending, of the golden
chain of life which surrounds it, its conso.
Ter, Its lawgiver and its king. And yet
we see how frail that life is on which so
much depends! How trail is the life of
husband and fatherl When he is taken
away who shall fill his place, When he
is i'll what gloomy clouds hover over The
house! When he is dead what darkness.
weeping, agony! Then poverty like the
murderous assassin, breaks 10 at the win
dows; starvation, like famshing, wolf.
howls at the door. Widowhood is too
often an associate of sackcloth and ashes.
Orphanhood, too, means desoation and
woe.
Year: 1872

By JOHN II. HAYES.
WELL, wife, we've had a meetin' at the school


house on the hill.
And was chosen Chairman to keep the old men


still,
But found couldn't do it; each man down his


cane would plant,
And shout with all the voice he had, I'm goin' in


for Grant,"
We talked abont the past four,ysars, what great
How the nations debt had melted like the snow


before the sun;
We said, to keep it meltin', do better thing we
Than to stick and hang together, and all go in for


Grant.
We all looked through our spectacles upon the
Then drew the veil of charity o'er giant Summers
We said, I'VE like you, Sumner, but go your way


we CAN'T
Then made the school-house echo with a rousing
We didn't have much charity for Trumbull for
They stand around the party gate pair of snarl-
Their speeches cannot harm us, nor make Grant
He's an old Galena tanner, and knows how to han


die BARK
We talked about Grants smokin'-we thought it
To vote that out OF office we might vote worse


one in;
And, seein' we were smokers, 'twouldn't do for us


to rant
So lit pipes together, and smoked the health


of Grant.
In the days of the rebellion none of us could go


to fight,
But we read from morn till evening how he bat


tied for the right;
He has been the nations servant in the days OF


peace and war,
And treason melts before him like the smoke from


his cigar.
After I'd adjourned the meetin' gave each the


friendly grip;
We, every one, determined to stand by the war


tried ship;
We will not topple over we will not even slant,
But put our canes down firm and strong, and stand


up straight for Grant.
Year: 1872

AS ! grew older took in more fully the
meaning of my dream, and the recollec-
ton of the dark, scowling face that looked
the sweet content of my mother's-the
vain search for forfeited love, checked
many an outburst of temper.


Little boys and girls-keep those
smooth foreheads, sunny eyes and smiling
lips, and there will be no danger that
your parents will ever doubt your identi-
ty or even wish to substitute another
child for their own darling.-RiUerside
Year: 1872

WASHINGTON, May 16.


IT will be remembered that Judge Mat
thews, of Cincinnati, temporary Chair
man of the Cincinnati Convention,
charged that the slow poison of corrup-
ton pervaded the whole civil and political
Administration of Mr. Grant. A friend in
one of the departments of this city, call
ing Judge Matthew'S attention to this
statement, received this reply, which is
made public by the authors permission:


CINCINNATI, May 6.


My DEAR SIR: Nothing connected with
the recent disgraced and disgraceful Con-
vention at this place has given me so much
pain as your note calling my attention to the
statement taken from a speech of mine,
printed with the Interpretation you evidently
put upon it. Allow me, in the first place, to
say that l was put forward as temporary
Chairman of the Convention without an
hours notice, and consequently what I said
was totally unprecedented; and, in the
next place. that the extract you make, and
which, if had intended it to be taken in the
Liberal sense, would be justly matter of re-
gret that it had been uttered, does not repre-
sent the truth of my sentiments. On the
contrary, / have no reason to believe, and
never have believed, that personally the pres
ent Administration were guilty of corrupt
conduct or motives, and l ought to have
expressed myself SO as to have avoided any
such charge. What / was striving to say
had reference to the general corruption of
our public political life, pervading it in every
department, whereby personal and party
ends seemed to be substituted for the public
good, and the latest and best illustration, of
which am free to say is now to be found in
the action of the very Convention, in the
presence of which this declaration was made.
am greatly chagrined at the whole matter
my own participation in it included, and
have concluded, perhaps not sufficiently
soon, that as a politician and President
maker l am not a success. I greatly regret
that have given offense to you and to many
other personal friends whose integrity 1
may have seemed to question, but which l
can assure you was the farthest from my
thoughts. / hope you will he abls to regard
it as though it had never been said. Very
respectfully, your friend,


STANLEY MATTHEWS.
Year: 1872

"A deacon who keeps a grocery store
in a neighboring town, having instructed
his clerk, when out of desired article,
to call the attention of the customer to
the next nearest thing, was not little
astonished when his pastor called and
inquired for new molasses to hear the
clerk say, ave have no new molasses,
but we have got some nice new rum.''
Year: 1872

This is a Rochester, n. Y, receipt
for making soup: Take pail of water
and wash il clean. Then boil it till il is
brown on both sides. Pour in one bean.
When the bean begins to worry, prepare
to simmer If soup won't simmer lis
too rich. Pour in more water. Dry the
water with a towel before you put it in.
The DRYER the water the sooner ii browns
Simmer the soup until the bean bursts
laughing. Then add some water and
serve hot at 25 cents bowl
Year: 1872

"A gentleman in Illinois arrived home
from a journey of some length, few
days ago, and found that he had lost his
dog and pair of old boots. After long
search he found the dog twenty miles
away keeping watch and ward over his
boots by the roadside.
Year: 1872

from lands end to lands end, that ell may
read, and reading, believe, that for the
countless millions who are on the road to
an untimsly grave With bilious complaints,
there iI but one truly great sud reliable
remedy, AMI that is
Year: 1872

They are passing away with the aeeting hour,
They are passing away with the fading How


ers;


They arc passing away on the sighlng breeze
They are passing away like the falling leaves
In life and in DEATH by night and by day.
All things of this world are passing away.
The dreams Of our youth have long passed a


way;


Tho hopes Of our nooutide have gone TO decay
Our evening dreamings are still coming on,
but as soon as they come they pas and are


gone:


In life and in death, by night and by day,
One by one they are passing away.
The seasons are hurrying each other along,
They fit and are gone like the mists Of the
The Summer was here with the wild birds


song;


Now by Autumn winds its bright robe is shorn !;
Seon Winter will come with Its stern decay
And the bright things of nature will all pass


away.


Our friends and our lovers are passing away,
Our hopes and our Joys only blossom to fade
Stern Time Ia his hying viii brook no delay,
And nothing escapes his remOrseless blade
Time and death in this world bear sway,
Aud beneath their tread all things pass away.
Yet beyond the valley and shadow Of Time,
There are glorious things that can never decay
They call to our spirits in accents sublime;
so come, for with US is no passing away
We dwell forever iu clOudless day,
Our joys may be thine, never passing away"
Then mount out spirits ana thithcrward ly,
Remember this world Is all passing away,
Let faith bear ye upward, beyond the blue sky 4,
To dwell in the bright land Of shadowless day.
by his aid who hath broken the bonds OF the


tomb,


Ye may rice on the wings OF his mercy and love i,
Where the garden Of God in perennial bloom,
Surroundeth the glorious mautions above
Be patient and faithful, and never delay,
To accomplish your work before passing away.