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Year: 1873

FICrITIoUs WEALTH.-The recent panic
shows the power of phantom. 1t is SIM
ply paper earthquake We can observe
no real cause for all this financial alarm.
The great industries of the land are not
dying nor dead The real wealth of the
country remains. Agriculture has flour
ished the past year, and the granarles OF
the land are full. Mother earth has open
ed her vaults below and has given us coal.
iron and salt, limited only by our capacity
to appropriate them. The white wing of
commerce has gladdened every sea and in
terchanged the products of every land.


The real fountains of wealth are not
disturbed. The public health of the coun
try has been graclously preserved and
labor has sung the song Of the ploug hman
and the harvest home The tide of travel
still rolls on without interruption. Schools
throng with students. The country puts
on beauty, and the city puts on strength.
Where is the trouble? 1t seems one of
those unexplained phenomena that at times
disturb the quiet and progress of the social
and business world 1t is doubtless the
result of the fictitious methods by which
I the business of the country is carried on.
The sure paths OF fortune, often winding
and laborous, are forsaken for direct
and quick way to wealth which is hazard
GUS and uncertain. If successful it is
brilliant and startling. So men get weary
of agriculture, of the anvil, of the loom,
of the mine and the plodding profession,
and dash away into the stock market and
the exchange to take the tide OF fortune
as it rolls. We admire the man who gets
rich out of a good, grand business, OF
which the world has need. The mason,


the builder, the physician, or the author


who makes a fortune from his own indus


try and skill, blesses the world and honors


himself He augments the worlds capital


He does not need to look every morning al


the reports of the gold market to know


how much he is worth.


If men would 60 to the solid mines o.
wealth which God has hidden for theil
work. we should know less of these tinan
cial commissions Wealth is not itself 1
fiction. 1t has a weak bottom. The lie
,, gitimate king Of fortune does not have hi'
throne in Wall street. He is a rural mon


arch and loves the fields. He puts on tn
miners cap and goes below and digs ou


the treasures of nation. His minister


are not cunning diplomatists, but veteran
, workers with plough, hammer, pen or ar
lists brush. The panic will subslde. Som


men will learn its lesson. Wealth Wi
: still live in the rocks, the streams and th
a soil, and from thence we shall still, wit
Gods blessing, be supplied.
Year: 1873

How STORMS AcT.-A paper recently read
before the Academy of Science In New York
by Prof. Loomis gives some curious facts in
regard to the laws governing storms in this
country. Their almost invariable direction
is northeast. A westward travelling storm
is sometimes seen, but very rarely. The
rate at which such storms travel in crossing
the United States, until they get to Maine,
averages about thirty miles an hour, or about
700 miles day. There is, however, diff
ference at different seasons of the year. A
March storm marches at the rate of forty
miles an hour, while in April they settle
down to twenty-five miles. One singular
act given by the Professor is the habit OF
storms stopping when they reach Maine and
New Brunswick, as if they were tired, and
hanging about for a time. This is ascribed
to the high lands of the interior, which check
the further progress of the storm and set ii
back upon itself to find an outlet elsewhere
or gradually subside. The people of that
sections are certainly not envied those vista
tions.
Year: 1873

LOVE OF DREss,-Teach little girls to
make themselves as pretty as is becoming,
with all the puffs and bows and ribbons
that may be consistent with peace of mind
and unselGshnes, and untouched honor
but teach them also that this is but small
part not only of what pertains to the coz
duct OF life, but to the attainment OF posi-
tlon and worthy influence. The first thing
is to be. But Nature has so made men
and women that they care also to seem
to seem pleasant and desirable in each
others eyes. Who shall say that this,
too, is not powerful motive to excellence ?
Let US not scorn it, but use it. No father
but rejoices when his son turns from the
athletic but somewhat rude sports Of his
male mates, and begins to seek and to en-
l. JOY the gentler gayeties offemale society!
No mother but is pleased to think her
BARNS respected like the lave. In each
sex the desire to please, whether its own
or the other, is instructive and blameess.
Yet so delicate is it that it can hardly be
touched without danger. 1t can hardly
be guided except indirectly. To say to
| glIlS-dS l. udNC SOiuCtlulCS hCdlN ~ ooi0


men like this, men dislike that, therefore
be thus and so, is coarse and cruel and
servile. Yet can the honorable, the high
minded mother, teacher, friend, with digni-
ty and sweetness, guide her girl to wo-
manhood reserved, commanding. reason
able, however piquant, merry, and arch ;
guide her to q fitness for companionsnlp
with the wisest and the greatest of men


as well as for solace to the weak and er-


ring guide her into attractiveness and


grace and ornament, which are to be at


tanned only by virtue of unconsci BUSINESS


uprightness, and unhampered individuality


One is troubled to see beauty wasted a:


other gift OF God. A lovely little maider


making herself lovelier before the glass t.


greet and gladden. the eyes Of all behold


ers is not sorry sight, if beneath the visi


BILE loveliuess lie tender heart, minC


under good control, strong and active
will. But to see a silly little girl rely OIL


her colors, and contours, and neglect men
tai culture, social grace, one might almos
say Christian courtesy-this, indeed i


melancholy. Her selfish little heart, he
barren little mind, lord it already over he
cheap, superficial beauties, and will sool
leave nothing behind but dreary waste


Her little victories are temporary, her lit


tie failures lasting. She can never be


power. She can scarcely help being
: drag. Her companions must be amoni
5 the commonplace, not to say vul gar, TO
5 sle has nothing in common with the lofty
t and grand. Sne would gasp on the heights


She can assimilate nothing beyond the ma
5 terial There is danger that she will 500
be unable to rise above the mean, Will


there is yet time, let her learn that i
both sexes, in all ages and all worlds, t
be weak is miserable, and though petit
men and petty women may well enoug
t consort large souls love largely.-Ga
, Hamilton an Harper's Rnznr'
Year: 1873

The FACTS ABOUT THE SILvER.-The
President of the United States has made
a prediction that the smaller silver coins
are about to come back into circulation,
and be has further predicted that "cur-
rency will never 90 below silver after
that" As there was cause that drove
out the silver in 1862, and has kept 1t out
ever since it is obvious that that cause
must be removed before the silver will
come back and it is not quite obvious
why the same cause, if it should be re-
newed, would not drive the silver out
again, even after it had come back. The
same thing that carried currency below
silver before will work the same effect
again if allowed to do so. The truth is
that principles as unerring as gravitation
determine all these things; and prediction
to be worth anything, must be squared to
these principles.


These smaller silver pieces were pur-
posely debased by the Mint laws, in order
that they might not under any circum
stances abandon the circulation. They
were not made a standard, but were pur
posely put in value far below the standard
They are not legal tender for debts, ex
cept to the amount of So. Their coming
back into the circulation ought to be, anc
will be, universally welcomed; but thai
will not be at all the restoration of tht
specie standard The specie standard il
the gold dollar, weighing 23.22 grains o
pure gold.


The standard silver dollar has alway
weighed 371.25 grains Of pure silver bu
a dollar in dimes, quarters or halves, onl.
weighs 1856 under the present Mint laws
SO that silver dollar is worth 9.42 pc
cent more than a nominal dollars wort
of the smaller silver coins But the silye
dollar itself is worth more than the stand
ard dollar, according to the present valu
Of silver in gold.-N. Y. Erening Post.
Year: 1873

A STRANGE DEATHBED-The 400 train
from Worcester contained three persons, an
aged woman, her husband and her daughter.
The first mentioned evidently was an invalid,
and the care and tenderness with which she
was treated by the other showed plainly the
love which was in their hearts. A few min
utes after the train had left Worcester, 1t
was noticed that the mother had become
restless and uneasy, and it soon was evident
that she was in great distress. Every means
was taken to make her comfortable, but all
were in vain. When the train was half way
between Worcester and South Framingham,
she died in the arms of her daughter as
quietly as a child would fall asleep. They
laid her down on the seat covered with
shawl, and thus the journey to Boston was
continued. Many person who had not
seen the tragic event paused as he passed
through the car and looked curiously at the
bundle, but satisfied himself with the sug-
gestion that it was sleeping child. The
old lady, it was ascertained. had been for
three weeks patient at the Insane Asylum


in Worcester. She had improved so much


in health that it was determined 70 remove


her, and while doing SO she passed away
| Globe.
Year: 1873

A SAILORS DESCRIPTION OF HIS BRTDE.-A
seafaring tlan, who recently married, gives
the following description of his bTide and
apparel, which We think will put some of
the = society papers - to the blush:


My wife is just as handsome a craft as
ever left millinery dry dock, is clipper built.
and with figure head not often seen on
small craft. Her length of keel is five feet.
eight inches. di-pIaces .wonty--rvvn cubic
feet of air; of light draught, which aids to
her speed in ballroom, full in the waist,
spars trim. At the time when we were
spliced she was newly rigged fore and aft,
with standing higgins of lace and f0wers,
maInsail OF Valenciennes. Her frame was
of the best steel covered with silk with
whalebone stanchions. This rigging is in
tended for fair weather cruising. She has
also a set of storm sails for rough weather.
and is rigging out a small canvass for light
squalls, which are liable to occur in this lat
itude sooner or later. | am told in running
down the street before the wind she answers
the helm beautifully, and can turn around
in her own length if handsome craft passes
her.
Year: 1873

You CAN'T SOMETIMES MOST ALWAYS TELL. ,
There are great many young men in YER
mont who think they would like to be 10
cal editor. They imagine it a very soft
roses, all honey, a great many
treats, dead-head tickets, in brief, all SUM-
shine Now, if we owed these young men a
grudge, we should hope their wish might be
fulfilled. They would then see how unstable
a thing is human friendship, how long they
remember even fancied injury, and how
cussed mean and sneaking some folks are
So, young man, when you see cheerful
smiling reporter, remember that you can't
always tell what may be the state of bis in
nermost feelings. The rainbow. is bright ant
beautiful overhead, but beneath is the moan


ing sea.-Rutland Herald.
Year: 1873

exhausting all his arts to dislodge the Jol-
y tar, the Chinaman appeals to the crowd
and says in Spanish Gentlemen. pity me
land help me! See how [ am hindered and
tormented by this drunken Americana
Will not some of you be good enough te
bring his mother, that she may coax hin
to get off and leave me to 60 in peace
The idea of bringing his mother Cor
ChicQQo Tribune.
Year: 1873

How different the dull surface Of the
standing water, with its mating of heavy
weeds, from the clear, musical tide of the
streamIet that rushes by fields and wood
with song and blessing wherever it
goes.


Activity is essential to healthy life, and
especially to healthy Christian life. The
Christian life is like the BICYCLE that hur-
ries along our roads-while it is in mo-
ton you are borne onward safe and up
right, but when it pauses you fall helpless
the earth.-GoLden Hours.
Year: 1873

IT is stated that the Minister of Guate-
mala to the United States has informed
President Grant that the people of his
country desire annexation, and wish to
be informed when that event can be ac-
complished,
Year: 1873

IT is a we'll known fact that Dyspepsia
and Indigestion are the causes of nearly
all the diseases that the human body is
heir to then why pay enormous DOCTORS
bills By using DR.. Henley's celebrated
l x Z Bitters they can be thoroughly
eradicated from the system and new life
impaired to the sufferer. Read physi-
clans certificates in advertisement in
another column.
Year: 1873

A TRAGEDY INDEED. One of the most
hear,rending stories of the year comes from
Fond du Lac. A young lady was passing
through piece of ground adjoining farm
house, with her lover, when the girl was
attacked by savage dog. Before her es-
cort could protect her the dog bad seized
her by the breast and tore the breast from
the body. When the young man saw the
dog shaking portion Of the body of his in
tended he tainted away. The young lady,
however, did not faint. She was so NOR
tilted that she seized fence rail and she
went for that dog. and she pounded him
until be laid still. When her lover recov-
cred, the young lady was trying to hide one
of the wire screens that people put over
plates TO keep flies off. 1t seems the dog
didn't draw blood, owing to the fashions a,
Fond du Lac, which it is needless to de-
scribe. However, there is great excitement
at Fond du Lac, and the young man has
broken off his engagement and has 5ougb,
that dog-what is left Of him, and be is
going to set him again.
Year: 1873

SICKNESS is very largely the want Of WILL
Everything is brain. There is thought and
feeling, not only, bu. viii; and will includes
in it more than mental philosophers think.
1t acts universally, now as upon the mind,
and Hen just as much upon the body. II
is another name for life force. Men in whom
this life or will power is great, resist disease
and combat when attacked. To array
mans mind and will against his sickness Is
the supreme art Of medicine.


Inspire n men courage and purpose, and
the mind will cast ont disease. Nothing
-siss her. 1t s only imagination" say, tho
nurse only" the imagination That is
enough. Better suffer in bone and muscle
than in the imagination. II the body is sick
the mind can cure it; but if the mind itself 10
sick, what can cure that ? Norlcood.
Year: 1873

Laura Howard wants to know how to
make " hatnot. Here is my plan:- Take
three boards, cut them in the shape of a
quarter of a circle the bottom board the
largest II inches from the point corner 10
the round corner; the next board the same
shape, but two inches smaller; the top board
the same shape, only two inches smaller than
the middle board and four inches smaller
than the bottom board. Put the holes in
each corner o. each board half an inch from
the edge Take strong cord, pass it through
each hole n the bottom board; then take
twenty seven spools, all one size; put nine
on each cord; Il en- put on the middle board
and use the same number of spools as before.
Put on the top board; tie the cords together
at the top to hang it up by. Take paste
board five inches wide and just long enough
to reach around the round part of the boards,
scallop out one side to your fancy. You can
make them deep Or shallow; tack the other
side to the boards with scallops downward
take all kind of shells, acorns, small pine
cones, corn, beans, anything you wish to put
on; you can fasten these things to the paste
board with glue. 10 make it more fancy
take those little cedar bells that grow on
cedar trees, hang them to the scallops below
so as to form fringe two to each string,
three e-foarhs Of an inch apart. You thus
have Whatnot Hang it in the corner of
your room, put on each shelf just what you
please-any kind of ornament that you may
have.


LIZZIE 7 TouR
Year: 1873

Clasped to the Union by its iron zone,
And rich in promise that the years may bring
OF prudent wisdom to her measures cling.
When riches. pomp and arrogance lose caste,
And equal rights to men bring blessings vast;
When honest, fearless men, staunch hearts and


true,
Frame laws and sanction them, that have to do
With the States greatest good. When from the


stand


Point of the Golden Rule they sway the land
And rate their estimation Of all men
Not by their wealth but by their worth. All. then
Will California be all that we hope and long to


see.


Yes, then will she with honor take the place
Her beauty and her strength so well could grace
sweet MONIES OF happiness and love would rise
Where solitary Wales now basE beneath the skies
Cities and towns of opulence and power
Would, pearllike, dot her far extended shore;
From her clear lakes the crystal waters flow,
And public good in nanny channel glow;
Farms climb the hills and ranches skirt the


plains, -.-. =.
Railroads, like life filled arteries and veins
Diverging from her busy throbbing heart,
Join all the Eastern wealth with her great West
ern mart.


And we shall see it yet. Prophetic eye
Can gleamings of her future just descry.
Her earnest sons see now the crisis near,
And bravey will they meet it, without fear.
The State Is young; we cannot well expect
On youthful shoulders heads with gray besprent,
Or wisdom of the sage from infant speech
Wait for experience and age to teach
The time is not far distant, nor the day
Many the steps she has taken on her way,
And not the least of these her public schools,
For education guides where wisdom rules,
And Just so far as youthful minds are taught
So far her onward progress well is wrought.
Give youth some work to do. profession, trade,
And you will find the looming man" is fifty


made.


Then California noble, stalwart bold,
Will treasures have far greater than her gold;
And, lovliest, brightest of the Union band,
Her fame shall broaden over all the land
Year: 1873

An English peer, a member of the House
of Lords, recently wrote that he could not
dine with friend on account of an attack
Of the gut. A day or two afterwards.
being met by his friend and remarked as
unlike a gouty person. he confessed to have
written "gout" because he 'coud not spell
rheumatism" An American sovereign who
was badly whipped by a fellow boarder, de-
scribes himself as suffering from room
matism
Year: 1873

Did you think could forget it,


Five and twenty years agone,
On beautiful May morning,


Flowers were blooming on the lawn?
My heart was filled with gladness,


And my cheeks were flushed with pride,
While waited for your coming


was soon to be bride.
Five and twenty years, my darling
Since that morn have passed away,
Let us count them, looking backward,
Till we reach our wedding day.
Do you see the sun above us,


And the blue and cloudless sky.
And remember how that morning,


We were happy. you and l?
Do you see the low-roofed dwelling,
With its white and shining floor
And the hown logs matched so nicely,
And the rose tree by the door?
And the wedding guests, see them
Through the five and twenty years,
Sitting quietly around us,


Smiling fondly through their tears.
They were only those who loved us, ..
AS we stood there. you and 1.
Looking forward to the future,


Through n clear and cloudless sky.
All, to-day in looking backward,


/ can see you standing there.
In your pride of youthful manhood,
With your brow unmarked by care.
And stood that day beside you,


In my robe of simple white,
Without jems or costly jewels,


Flashing in the me rning light,
just loving heart gave You,


AS our hands were clasped that day,
With no cloud upon our future


Only sunshine in our way.
Five and twenty years, my darling,
Through the sunshine and the shade
We have walked beside each other,
In the path our love has made.
But the clouds have gathered Ger us,
Drifting down the stream of life,
And our hearts have throbbed with sorrow,
Since you claimed me as your wife.
But tonight in looking backward,


Looking backward all the way,
Through the clouds, storms and sunshine,
That have gathered since that day,
There is more of good than evil,


Though our feet have tired grown.
Five and twenty years, my darling,
Since our wedding day have flown.
Year: 1873

SMALL TrMrTATIoNS-Iou bring g
green log and candle together and they
are very safe neighbors, but bring a few
shavings and alight them, and then bring
a few small sticks and let them take fire,
and the log in the midst of them, and you
will soon get rid of your log And so
it is with little sins, and so Satan brings
You little temptation, and leaves you
to indulge yourself. There is no great
harm in this, L" No great pc!il in that"
and so, by these little chips we are at
first easily lighted up, and at last the
green loo is hnrntl DIR OrR EtreSiae
Year: 1873

An exchange says the subject OF Dor


rowing aud lending came up IN the course
| Of a conversation with one OF It's subscri-
bers the other day, when he suddenly
recolected funny "reminiscences OF tha>
character which had happened in his own
neighborhood lie said he had neigh
Dor whose family were great borrowers,
but not so distinguished as paymasters
they were always borrowing, but sell
dom, if ever, returning the exact amount
borrowed An old Quaker lady, anoth-
er neghbpr, who had endured these IN
yssions for a long time patiently, hit up
on very philosophical mole Of cyentu
ally putting a stop to the nuisance. Keep
ing her own counsel the next time her
good man went to town, he had 4 sepa
rate ard express order to purchase a
pound Of the best tea and also anew can
lister to put it in As he knew she al
ready had plenty OF tea and also CAMS.
ter, he was puzzled to determine what the
old lady wanted Of more tea and new
canister, but his questionngs and reason
ings elected nothing more than a repei
tion of the order.


"Jm, did I not tell thee to get me a
pound of the best tea and a new canis-
ter? Now go along and do as bid
thee.


And 90 along he did, and when he
came home at night the tea and new can


lister were his companions. The old la
dy took them from him with an amused
expression on her usual placid features,
and dopositlug the tea in the canister, set
it on the shelf for a special use. 1t had
not long to wait, for the borrowing neigh
Dor had frequent use for the aromatic
herb. The good old lady loaned gener-
ously, emptying back in the canister any
remittance of borrowed teas which the
neighbor's conscience inclined her to
make. Time went on, and after some.
thing less than the one hundredth time
OF borrowing, the neighbor again appear
ed for juet another drawing Of tea, y
when the oft.visited tea canister was
brought out and found to be empty, and
the good old lady and obliging neighbor
was just one pound Of tea poorer than
when she bought the new canister which
now only remained to tell the story
Then she made a Characteristic speech
perhaps the first in her life; she said;


Thou seest that empty canister. /
filed it for thee with q pound Of my best
tea and have lent it all to thee in drb-
let's and put into it all thou hast sent me
in return, and none but thysef hath ta-
ken therefrom or added unto it, and now
thou secst it empty, therefore, | will say
to thee thou hath borrowed thysolf out
and can lend thee no more ,'
Year: 1873

warranted not to cut in the eye--not head
ache in hhds. of tit is no sooner in your
belly than IFS on your back in a pound of beet
and it carries a bead like necklace; for
sale by


GEORGE AUSTIN.