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Year: 1873

Ny God, why hast thou stricken me?
For, weak and fallen tho I be,
NY heart has ever turned to thee,
In penitence and prayer.
Yet in my soul still burns the spark
OF faith and love, the blessed mark,


That grateful Christians wear.
I do not claim by my good deeds,
Exemption from the wound that bleeds,
Or respite from the worm that feeds


On self-reproaCh and pain.
Yet surely mine was not the hand
To spread such guilt throughout the land,
That on my brow must fall the brand


OF thrice accused Cain
And since thou has not thus condemned,
And nought Offer can defen
Ny own just share Of sin, o bend


Thy pardoning mercy still.
Thou hast already punished here,
With painful days, and nights so drear,
Each wayward word and rebel tear,


Against thy holy win,
And if I find it hard to bear,
And feel that thou vast so severe,
Forgive, o gracious Lord, and hear


My prayer for peace and rest.
Forgive each wicked. murmuring thought
Against the deed thy love has wrought,
And may I, by this grief be taught,


There's joy among the blest.


E.O.D
Year: 1873

"A couple were recently divorced in
Plymouth county, Ia, but the man had
his girl convenient and the woman her
fellow, and each married the waiting
affinity after ten minutes of single
wretchedness.
Year: 1873

If we were called upon to say what is
the distinctive characteristic of the age
in which we live, we should be inclined
TO designate it as an age of shams. Un-
reality cree ps into everything. The
gravest matters are tainted with it.
Even in religion, where unreRlities
should find no place, there is conten-
tion about externals which are devoid
of any real meaning. Bishops and cler-
gy contend for pastoral stats and vest
ments, when they no longer have the
things they symbylize. Language is
made to conceal the truth, and exagger-
ations distorts it. Professions of friend
ship are hollow, and treachery under
mines the closest ties. In the political
world we hear it forever stated that par
ties are betrayed by their chiefs, and
that principle is at discount. And in
the smaller details of life we find that,
instead of the instincts of nature rebel
ling against anything that is unreal
there is an appetite for it; that shams
are in favor, and that every one is at
tracted by them rather than otherwise.
In the matter now before us, we find
this to be especially the case. False
hair, false color, false ears, are used
without compunction where they are
considered to be needed. The conse-
quence is that woman has become an
imposture. We do not, of course, refer to
those perfectly innocent Embellishments
which relate to the preference of one
dress to another, or for one style of an
other. These are most legitimate and
innocent. We refer to those impos-
lures in dress by which things seems to
be which are not, and the adoption of
which is in itself a great indignity to the
whole race of womankind. No one is
bound to dress herself unbecomingly !;
but, on the contrary, is more than JUS
titled in making the best use or natures
gifts. Our protest is against the intro
duction of novelties by which women
are taught to impose upon the world,
which cannot fail to have a demoral-
izing influence over them, and which
desecrates that modesty which is the
best jewel woman can wear.-London
Society.


"A lecturer once convulsed his audi
ence with an incongruity of which he
seemed at the moment almost uneon-
cious. He was talking of affectations,
and particularly of the one which in
duces people to sign the initial OF their
first with the whole of their middle
name. Sometimes, he said, this sounds
well enough, but these cases are excep-
tional. We all like "E Pluribus
Unum, but we could stand "P. Jona-
than Pillsbury?"
Year: 1873

BRANTroRD, Canada, Nov. o, 1873.
An accident occurred on the Buffalo and Lake
Huron branch OF the Grand Trunk Railroad, near
here, this morning. The express going east came
IN collision with mixed train coming west The
fireman OF the express was killed, and one OF the
brakemen and the baggage man were injured.
None OF the passengers were injured. Four or five
cars were badly smashed and the baggage car was
nur IN ad
Year: 1873

Mr.. SUMNER introduced resolution
into the U. s. Senate yesterday pro-
ylding for two important amendments TO
the National Constitution, one Of which
sbolishes the office of Vice President and
the other limits the Presidency to q single
term and makes the term six years.
Whenever these two amendments pass,
and especially the latter one, the country
will be freed from two sources Of dan.
ger. FRED. DOUGLASS said in his
lecture in Wheeling several years ago
that the Vice Presidency Is standing
menance to the life Of the President where
the incumbent Is an inscriptions man, as
was AARON BURR, or where he Is sur
rounded by desperate consplratots as
friends, as was JOAN Q. BRRcKMRiDoE
during BucHANAN's administration.


II the Presidency was limited toa sim
gle term there would be no object to ap-
point corrupt men to office ior the sake
ot their influence. A President could
afford to be honest himself and surround
himself entirely with honest men, when.
nothing was to be gained in the way Of
dcker and barter tor second term. The
county would be. saved an immense
amount Of money and Generalization.
Year: 1873

According to expectation, no delay
was experienced in organizing the two
Houses yesterday. The President, how
ever, did not send in his message. The
omission is not q killing matter, aimee we


are not to have war for weekor two
Year: 1873

IT is very noteworthy how many of the
best novels of the present day touch with


more or less distinctiveness upon ques-
tiOns of religious belief. We set aside, OF
course, those many stOries-sOme excel
lent Of their kind, Others the veriest rub
bish-which are confessedly stories with
q purpose, written to, advocate some
favOrite view, in which the illustration Of
certain theological tenets is of the very
essence Of the book. In these, if we only
know the name of the writer-sOmetimes


a fairly accurate guess may be arrived at
by merely glancing at that of the publish
er-the reader is enabled at.once to fore
cast the kind of fare which is provided for
him, and will proceed to read or not to
read according as his bias may incline
him. But even in those which assume no
such didactic office, and whose writers
would fairly repudiate any such design as
ion, instead of being tacitly ignored or
sunled as having mOmentOus influence
upon human life. Thev are not brought
prominently into the foreground, perhaps,


but they are evidently present TO the mind
of the writer as elements of grave impOr-
tance. If our generation be indeed so ir-


reverent and irreligiOus as it is said 10 be


the traces of character are not TO be found


in our highest works of fiction. If there


is skepticism in them, it is skepticism in
| the better sense Of the word. The doubts


are those of the honest doubter; the
questioning is not of a sneering or cap
| tious Kind, but has the earnest tone of The
inquirer who seeks an answer. Even i
Year: 1873

CURIOUS question regarding the re-


sponsibility of husband for the acts of


his wife has recently been decided i'm the


supreme Court of Illinois. and in deliver


ing the opinion OF the Court Judge Thorn


ton took occasion to make an elaborate re-


view of the changes which recent IegiSla-


ton has made in the legal relations be-


tween man and wife. The case in ques-
tion was one of slander. Janet Robson


had sued one John Martin for slanderous


words used respecting her by Margaret


Martin. Johns wife, and the case had
come to the Supreme Court on appeal.
The decision was that the husband was
not liable. The Court held that liability
which has for its consideration rights con-
ferred should no longer exist when the
consideration has failed. If the relations
of husband and wife have so changed As
to deprive him of all rights to her prop
erty and to the control of her per-
son and her time. every principle of right
would be violated by holding him still
responsible for her conduct. So long As
the husband was entitled to the property
of the wife and to her industry, so long as
he had power TO direct and control her,
and thus prevent her from the commission
of tort, there was some reason for his liza
bility. The reason has now ceased. The
ancient landmarks are gone. The maxims
and authority and adjudications of the
past have faded away. The unity of hus-
band and wife has been severed. They are
now distinct persons. and may have sepa-
rate legal estates, contracts, debts. and
injuries. The chains of the past have been
broken by the progression of the present,
and the wife can now enter upon the stern
conflicts of life untrammeled. She no
longer clings to and depends upon man,
but has the legal right to battle with him
In the contests of the forum, to Outvic
him in the healing art, and to climb with
him the steps of fame. And as her brain
and hands and tongue are her own, in
the judgment of the Court she alone
should be held responsible for any SLAM
derS she may utter.-NeaD York Sun.
Year: 1873

The ruby ranks third in hardness among
precious stones. Its color varies from the
lightest pink of rose tint to the deepest
carlnine. Specimens are often found in
which blue is exhibited in one part and
red in another; sometimes the two cOlOrs
are more or less intermingled, producing
purple shades, and even greater variega-
tons are occasionally seen from the pres
ence of additional cOlOrs. A ruby, either
too light or too dark, is not as desirable as
one of an intermediate shade. The most
highly priced are those of the ''pigc0n's-
blood color, pure deep red, free from
the casts of either blue or yellow. This
shade exactly agrees with that of the fresh
blood OF a pigeon as seen when dropped
on white paper. The best rubies are al
ways set transparent, but those deficient
in color are backedby a foil of appropriate
shade. In buying stone set with fol- the
purchaser will naturally be on his guard
but where it is without back it may be
supposed that its real color is apparent at
glance. Not so. Some swindling jewel
ers succeeded in the plan of lining the in
side of the band made to cncircle the stone
with crimson enamel of such shade as to
lend proper hue to faulty gem.-Er.
Year: 1873

CLEANING is a subject by itself. It's
miseries have been learned in suffering.
and rhymed in song 1t is the dread of
masculine humanity. and is one of the
things that periodically transfer some
amiable women into fretful and fault-find-
ing ones, and make happy homes tempor-
arily distressing. Now there is no need OF
half the discomfort and Inconvenience, the
headache and pneumonia and neuralgia,
that come in the train of cleaning. There
is urgent necessity that once year, at
least, and perhaps twice, most parts OF the
house should undergo the most thorough
renovation. Let your weekly cleaningS
and sweepinss be as faithful as possible,
still dust and dirt will sift in and hide in
unsuspectcd places, and moths will de-
post their eggs in carpets and sofas.
Paint will grow dingy, and ceilings De
come grimed with smoke. But most
of our spring cleaning is done too
soon, and before we can do without fires
safely. The very neat hOusekeeper dis.
likes to kindle the fire in the crate, when
the parlOr is shining in its freshness and,
! if ii be Medo-Persian law in her family,
that cleaning is always TO be done at a
certain time, no matter what the weither.
there will be days when not to have fire
| is to be very uncomfortable, perhaps
sick. For, as our friend Warner says
"there are springs when the crocuses
won't be coaxed up with pickax, and it is
almost fatal Or, at least, it is to invite dis.
ease, to turn the house out Of doors and
windows till their rigor is abated."


Begin at the top and take one room at
time. Rest between. Get Fanny's and
Mary''s room done first; then lie upon
your oars for two or three days. and come
down to mothers and the guest-chamber'
Leave stairways and halls till you have
finished the parlor floor. Only clean on
bright sunny days and when you feel
well. By extending over three weeks
what is usually accomplished in one, you
will save time, temper. and health. for il
is not work that hurts, but worrying Ovel
wOrk.-Hearth and Home.
Year: 1873

UNDER this head, DR.. Hall, in his jour
nal Of Health, humOrOusly discOurseS on
the tendency of the times. as follows:


1t is really great wonder that every
body is not dead and buried, and the
world itself used up entirely, il the thOus.
andth part of what is told us about micro
scopical and other ''discoveries, so called.
is true. One man will have it that the
glorious Union over which the stripes and
stars float so proudly will soon Become
dcpOpulated, because respectable people
don't have children; another has discOv-
cred myriads of bugs IN the chatelaines
and waterfalls of the ladies, boring into
their skulls and sucking out all the re-
manning brains Of the dear .delightfuls.
A German sardn now tells us that every
sip of tea we take is full of oily glObules
which get into the lungs direct, weaken
them, set up IA cough, and the person dies
of consumption. Another man has found
that the purest spring water, clear as
crystal to all appearance, if let alone will
deposit sediment which generates ty.
phOid fever hence he proposes that ev-
erybOdy shall quit drinking wate;. An
other says that bread has so much lime
in it that it is turning us all to bone, and
makes us stiff in the joints. that being the
reason we have no 1.-the, sprightly old
men nowadays; hence we are full OF
limps and rheumatics long before our
time. therefore we had better quit eating
bread altogether, and live on rice and sa-
90 and tapiOca. The water cure folk as
sure us that pork and beans and ham and
eggs are full of abOminable triching, and
that, if one is swallowed and gets fairly
nestled into the system, he, she or it will
breed million more in short time, and
that roast beef has juvenile tape worms in
it. And here come Tom, Dick, and Har-
ry, all in row, loaded down with micro
scopes and spy glasses which show as
plain as day that the air is swarming with
living monsters and putrid pOisOns, which
fly into the mouth and crawl up the nose
and creep into the ear hence it is death
to breathe such pestlential air, and that
the best way is to keep the mouth shut,
plug up the nose, and ram cotton into the
ears.


Ever so many learned professional gen.
tlemen have been tOrturing poor figures
for years to make them tell the stupendOus
tib that everybody is either crazy or soon
will be that the annual increase is ten
per cent. consequently i'm eleven years
everybody will be crazy, and more too.


The fact is that the people who spend
their time Matching out hese tomfoOlerles,
| ought to be put to work and be made 70
earn an honest living. This world has
been pretty well taken care of for some
| thousands of years, increasing in comfort
and wealth and life. the average length OF
which last has doubled within two centu-
ries, and the population perhaps increased
three fold: and the presumption is that
the Great Maker Of all will so arrange all
the antagOnistic forces OF life for the fu-
ture as eventually to make ''the wilderness
and solitary place to be glad, and the des.
ert to rejoice and blossom as the rose
and the race be happy still.
Year: 1873

a New ENGLAND paper describes a
"boaraing marin" whose economical
tendencies lead her TO place her boar'ers
upon an allowance of matches. Every
evening at tea she goes round and places
a single match at the plate of each board
er, and should that match fail, there is no
appeal to the match safe,
Year: 1873

FoUR thousand English ministers urge
the Archbishop Of Canterbury to support
in the House of Lords the bill to legalize
marriage with a deceased wife's sister.
Why should the parsons be so partial to
their sisters-in-law?
Year: 1873

An Impentrahle Secret.-fhe attention of all who wish to hide the changes wrought by time or sickness ill the color of the Hair, are invited to the fact that such changes may be concealed forever ny the occasional application of that per feet stimulation of every shade of natural black or brown, so widely known as Cris- taiOro Excelsior Dye. The artificial tinge which it iIstGntaaeousLy tniparts IS

 sO true tO life that 1t cannot be detected

 as the result of art by the keenest obsery- er. Sold everywhere. %
Year: 1873

capital In the two countries. But the


bankers and usurers with their friends and


allies in and out of Congress would no
doubt attempt to account for it and to de-
ceive and mislesd the people by the fabri-
cation Of some new and fAllacious theory,
hut they would find that their efforts


would prove q miserable abortion. For
those who produce and distribute the


wealth have been, and are, investigating
the questions Of finance and currency for
themselves, and are very generally arriv-
ing ut the conclusion that the extortiouate-
ly high and fuctuating rates Of interest
are the the main cause Of the periodical
prostration and arrangement Of our iu-
dustrial and commercial interests, and that
the delegation Of the sovereign power to
issue and control the circulating medium
and regulate the rate of interest to a IA
vore1 system of banking corporations, is
not only fraud upon their rights but an
insult to their intelligence.
Year: 1873

CHAPTER |.


i il the sun that shines through his grating,


Frightening the glow Of the dark dungeon walls
i il the lark bird Of heaven whose warbliDg


Fails on his and melod0usly calls i-ANoS.
A lion wounded and enraged, a bird
beating ITS wings against its cage bars, q
tiger screaming in impotent fury for re-
lease from a CALLING imprisonment-these
sentiments refined to human experience
were what the lone occupant Of cell in
the Philadelphia prison felt upon the eve-
ming Of a day upon which the false Beat
rice Durand was enjoying the re6nements
and pleasures of Myrtle villa.


This man was the man whom the reader
has known as Eugene Allerton, the former
California miner.


In the hollow-eyed and dispirited pris-
oner, few would have traced O resem-
blance to the Eugene Allerton Of other
pays. long period Of confinement had
not only physically demoraliZed him, but
ance was also visible in his manner. He
was gloomy cynic in department. q haunt
ed man in his mind.


The years had gone by, and he was never
known to express a desire in the loneliness
and silence Of his prison cell. He had now
the name of the mute prisoner, and not q
word either in reference to his former life,
or his aspirations for the future was given
utterance to. He was lothe to answer to
the weekly calls of the Jail physician, and
with book or with writing he passed his
solitary hours, not communicating with
any one.


OF all the books to which the prisoner
referred, and which he read in his solitary
confinement, one was, by reason Of its
possessing considerable interest as well "a
length, to him the the favorite of his lone.
N hours, This was a work upon entcmol.
o-y, an exhaustive and thorough work, and
he gave it very general Perusal as vel
study


He had been reading this book upon the
day upon which we have introduced hin
again to the reader when the jailor came
along the corridor, and a. he came TO I
door opposite his own, he looked in and
cheerily said


"You are always learning"


The prisoner vouchsafed no reply.


II say" persisted the jailor, you ar
quiet sort of fellow"


Il feel quiet" was the Response.


Your time 10 almost up, aint il !"


Eyes"


"0nly few moro wsska-"


Yea"
Year: 1873

This is good counsel from a wife and
mother:


- | try to make myself and all around
me agreeable. 1t will not to do leave
a man to himself till he comes to you,
take no pains to attract him, or to ap-
pear before him with long face. Its
not so difficult as you think, dear child.
to behave to a husband so that he shall
remain forever in some measure hus-
band. | am old woman, but you can
still do what you like; a word from
you in the right time will not fail ofits
effect; what need have you to play the
suffering victim? The tearof allowing
girl says an old book, is like a dew
drop on rose; but that on the cheek
of wife is drop of poison to her
husband. Try to appear cheerful and
contented. and your husband will be
SO; and when you have made him hap
py you will become so, not in appear
ance, but in reality. The skill reduir-
ed is not so great. Nothing fatters a
man so much as the happiness of his
wife he is always proud of himselfas
the source of it. As soon as you are
cheerful you will be lively and alert,
and every moment will afford you an
opportunity to let fall an agreeable
word. Your education, which gives you
and immense advantage, will greatly
assist you.
Year: 1873

.


William has been giving his views
on the panic through the Rome Com
mercial. We make single extract


Ny motto have always been to do
the very best you can, and keep one
eye upon to the bright side The
mountains most always disappear jest
before you get to EN-, and ii you do
hav to climb over Occasionally, you
are shore to find few flowers on the
way up if you look for 'em. A chest
nut burr has got sweet nut hid away
in the middle Of it, There's q heap OF
good things with burrs over em, and
he's a sensible man who knows how to
git the goodies out without stiekin his
fingers. I'm not going to go crazy
about panik or lost money, or busted
banks or any other transitory circum-
stance. A little meal and few pota-
toes viii do my family till times git
better, and | know a dozen clever
farmers who will trust me for that.
Farewell, sirkus-farewell, old clown !
Therel be big gap in your aujienee
this time, shore. Me and the boys can
make up a respectable ring and play
hos at home if we want to, and Mrs.
Arp and the girls can set around and
holler, whoopee At any rate we are
bound to do the very best we can.
Year: 1873

The fall in the prices of dry goods
is the first indication of return to
sound business. Dealers in other de-
scriptions of merchandise must follow
suit, or they will stand but poor
chance of doing any business this win
ter. The charges exacted for every
thing that one wears or uses in the
house, have long been out of all pro-
portion to the worth of the article.
Persons of all ages have had to suffer
from the childs top to the old man s
Oyercoat there has been extortion prac-
ticed on all sides. The toy stores gen.
orally look for a good trade from this
time forth, but they will not get it un-
less they ask something like reasonable
prices for their articles. Sowith other
branches of trade The public will
now keep their money in their pockets
unless they are treated with common
fairness, and we are glad to see the
dry goods dealers setting an excellent
example.-Nc,c York Timse, Nor. II.
Year: 1873

THR RNEwsPAPERs.-The Richmond
ENQUIRER we'll remarks that consider
ing the cheapness of newspapers, 1t IS
almost unaccOuntable that they are not
10 be found in every household in
which there is even the plainest edu-
cation. They are widely circulated, it
is true, among people of almost all
classes and conditions in life; but the
wonder is that there should be a fami-
Iy. or a man Of business Of any sort.
farmer. mechanic, a merchant, or
ANYBODY. in fact. either in the cities
and towns OF in the country. who does
not subscribe to newspaper.


The public journal that is sent out
to the world every day is regular di
airy of the dOings Of the world Ii is q
narrative of the times, chapter in the
passing history of the age. Ii gives
the latest news from all accessible
quarters ofthe globe. 1t tells Of every
thing everywhere. And II costs less
than cigar or a julep; and yet there
are fathers of families who do not tax
a newspaper. Il is strange, passing
strange.