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Year: 1870

All members or former members of the So
ciety of Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
are invited to meet at Masonic Hall, on Friday
Evening next.


1t is desirable that all the members Of the
old Van Buren Lodge should be present as
business of Importance will come before the
meeting. ..r BY ORDER.
Year: 1870

In one of Don Piatt's recent letters
from Washington, he thus addresses
himself to the infamous psalm singing
Radical officials:


And, looking over the officials here, if
you want to pick out the most uuscrupu-
lous, greedy knaves, take those who pro
fess the most religion. This is SO gener-
ally recognized, that man runs some
risk in being more than respectfully pious
Gen. Howard, who is really good man
suffers in this way A man may attend
the Episcopal Church. that being the
mildest foIm of civilized religion, and
escape suspicion; but even this has risk
Those regarded as the more reliable and
honest are the men who make no protes-
sion whatever This cloak of religion
has been more especially used to cover
the rascality of the Indian Bureau and
the land jobbers There is Il ring Of
loud mouthed professors Of extra piety
here that has stolen more, and has more
to show for its stealings, than any other
ring in Washington. Its members are
prominent in all pious and charitable
moves. They preside over meetings of
citizens looking to benevolent work, and
make tremendous speeches in behalf of
missionary enterprises. The internal
seoundrels, they roll to church in car
riages built Of stcalings, and gilded and
vanished with public iniquity, drawn by
stolen horses, and they walk in clothes
woven of public plunder, and hold under
their hypoeritical noses velvet bound,
gilt edged, hot pressed prayer books, that
represent SO much money filched from
the Treasury. And when they kneel it is
to get closer to Satan, to hear his whs-
pered schemes of further rascality They
make me cling closer to the precious be
lief in hell hereafter, and what Burns
called "tidings O. damnation.' They
are prosperous here, but if / fail to see
them hereafter crawling around to the
cool side Of the big Goals, and crying
aloud to the Christian statesman for a
little drop of his ice water, shall be
greatly disappointed, and consider our
plan of salvation greater failure than
Fisk and Gould's run on Wall street.
Year: 1870

THE FRANKING .PRIvILEGE,--I one OF
his recent letters " Don Pistt' holds the
following language in reference to this
gigantic abuse:


To example: I am a man remarkable
for my honesty. am model. may
say, without fear Of contradiction, that ]
am dragon Of virtue, and yet write
you this with gold pen that Uncle Sam
ucl paid for, on stationery intended Tor
the use of the overworked and underpaidi
public agents, and, when done, will fold
it in an envelope from the same source
mail under the frank OF an honorable
member. Now, if this can be done by a
dragon Of virtue, without pangs OF con
science, what must be tho abuse on the
part Of the very wicked
Year: 1870

Buznsss In the Coroness ONCE yesterday was un-
usually dull and uninterestng. Five cases were re-
ported, all OF which were deaths resulting from
natural causes, and consequently Of no public i'm
portance. One was that Of an infant whose death
occurred early on Wednesday morning, and for two
days the unfortunate mother had been kept
oscNAtsng between the priest and physician
TO secure burial certificate, and when the remains
OF the child became absolutely offensive from decom-
poslIOn She found her way to the C0roners once to
ask that an inquest be held on the baby. Had the
mother received correct information at rst to the
proper course Tor her to pursue she would have
been saved much time and trouble, besides be-
ing speedily relieved OF the presence OF an
offensive corpse. Persons losing friends by death
enrust the matter OF procuring certificate to the
officiating undertaken, who oftentimes Omits that
portion or his duty till the last moment and trusts
to luck TO fnd coroner. In this way funeral SER
vices are often delayed beyond the appointed time
and unnecessary expense incurred saying nothing
OF the trouble and Inconvenience to which mourners
are subjected.
Year: 1870

A'I"cnssvu-AS A"cSv EIauN VI NOtS


About sixteen years ago the Legislature of this
State incorporated free school for Jamaica, giving
to Board Of Education consisting OF five persons
the right to sustain the Institution by levying and
collecting tax on the property and Inhabitants OF
Jamaica village OF oneHlth Of per cent. In pre-
in every respect; the pupils were furnished
with books free OF cost aul everything
was agreeable and satisfactory. Under tn, new
management O new system has been introduced by
which the pupils are compelled to pay for the books
a system which is creating mucn Indignation. In
many cases tile parents OF poor children cannot
afford to pay for the books and have PEELED
TO take their children from school. The system Of
promotion Is such that new set Of books Is
complain that even at this expense their children
are not being properly educated. The Board of
have procured the passage OF
bill giving them power to raise an ad-
the school building pay the jantor's fee, furnish
fuel and make repairs. The existence OF this bill or
its features were not made known to the public ur-
til a few days ago, when It was pronounced as
janitor and fuel, and been repaired and enlarged
when necessary. The people think that if in pre-
vious years one-ffth oil one per cent was sufficient
to sustain the school and furnish the pupils with
books, 1t should be sufficient, now when children
have TO find their own materials. thereby
curtaiing the expense ut least $4,000. This
Is serious subject, and Is receiving serious
consideration as it Is oppressive and unjust to the
poorer Glasses, who pay tax to sustain the schools
and Afterwards have to contribute individually to
educate their children II Is said that the Board Of
Education nave no legal right to pursue their pre-
sent course. 1t Is the general opinion that there s
something wrong and 1t Is openly asserted that the
principal OF the school Is making money by the
QDerltiGn.
Year: 1870

Monroe street. In Newark, N. j., was the scene
yesterday afternoon OF considerable excitement In
which well to do bedstead manufacturer, his wife
and gay and festive Lothario figured as principals
The bedstead man ascertained during the day that
his wife had been seen gailanting ardently with q
strange man, and straightway he started or to
inquire into the matter. Driving down In
front Of q certain house in Monroe street he
observed strange hODlbre beat q preciptate re-
treat by jumping from second story window. He
found his wife In the house. as alleged, and despe.
rate scene ensued, in the course OF which the wo-
man cut him seriously in the head with caseknie.
She then went before Justice OF the peace and had
o warrant issued for his arrest, on charge OF
assault and battery, which duly served and the
husband committed to the county jail. At the re-
the present
Year: 1870

When poor man attempts to rise
attempts to show that there is no mo-
nopoly of genius, and that God hath
given as free and noble soul to the
lowly as to the great-he is not only
opposed by the class above him, but


envy and scorn are but too often his


portion among his fellows. They do
not like to see themselves Out-stripped


by one whom they have reekOned no


better than themselves, and instead Of
encouraging, they damp his ardOr,
and grieve his heart with sneers, and
cold, because envious, counsel. The
next class above him love not to see
man who has naught to boast of but a
noble soul, no treasures save those OF
mind, presuming to take his place
among them, and there is one univer-
sal shout of Keep him down." This
upward struggle which the poverty
struck genius has to oendure-the strug-
gle against prejudice and misrepresen-
tation and want-has daunted many
mind, and discouraged many breast,
and has kept many man formed to
be light to the world in poverty and
darkness to the end of his days. Be
cause of this, many noble spirit has
concealed its own flame of brightness;
many a noble and free man, of whom
the world was not worthy, have gone
down into the grave with all the wis
dom of their souls untold--"haye
died, and made no sign.'
Year: 1870

/ Astronomy III conjunction WIN Op


tics, has been making some extrOard


mary discoveries in the last few


months. The spectroscOpe is a won
I derful aid to the telescope, and as the
/ latter brings to view distant worlds
4 the former indicates the materials Oi


which they are made The late eclipse
of the sun demonstrated that immense
I volumes of hydrogen gas stretch up
ward hundreds of miles above its sur
Z flee, making reality the oceans OF
/ flames which have often figured in
| hyperbOle.


a thought has occurred to us in this
/ connection, which we venture to COM
mend TO the attention of our astrOnO-


mical and geological friends. 1t is a


well known fact in geology that in


Dast periods vastly gre9ter heat has
pervaded the earth than at the pres
ent time. The flora and fauna of a
tropical climate flOurished at the poles.


Scientific men have been ingenious in
speculations about the cause of the


change. Some have ascribed it to the


internal heat of the earth, which has


been gradually evolved in successive
ages. Others have attributed it to
a different relation of the axis of the


earth to the plane of the eeliptic.


Possibly others may have suggested a
change in the internal constitution of
the sun, though we do not remember
to have seen it in our limited reading.
But the phenomenon finds an easy
solution on this hypothesis.


During the last year a small star in
the constellation of the Northern
Crown suddenly became bright as a
star of the first magnitude AstrOnO-
mers at once resOrted to the telescope
to explain the mystery, but could find
only a confirmation of fact, with no
hint of its cause. Opticians applied
the spectroscCpe, and at once the
mystery was revealed. a vast ocean
of hydrogen was in flame, and its
combustion melted the small star,
one of the most brilliant in the firma-
ment. The mathematicians took up
the data given them in the increase of
light, and proved that for any worlds
OF which tlis star may be the central
sun, there must have been an increase
of heat to seven hundred and eighty
times the normal standard. If these
worlds are made of similar materials
with our earth, they must have dis
solved under this intense heat, as in
the final catastrophe of our globe pre-
dicJed by Peter.


Our though, then, is simply this:
If by internal changes, or comOustiOns
in the central sun, the condition Ofall
the planets must be sensibly affected
and, if our sun is liable to such chang
es rs this star in the Northern Crown
1--WE know it has untold volumes of
hydrogen above its surface, why may
not the former extreme heat of the
earth have been due simply to atmO-
spheric changes in the sun ? And why
may they not occur on a larger scale
in the future, heralding the final judg
ment Providence Journal.
Year: 1870

When young man, L used to be
very much annoyed by those painful
excresenees called ''eOTns" on the toes
and feet until I was told of very
simple but effectual remedy for them
by some person. 1t was to bathe the
feet well in tepid water to soften them;
then pare them very closely with a
sharp penknife, then rub on well
green peach leaves; when, after con-
tinuing the rubbing on once or twice
a day, the eorns will entirely disap-
pear, and not return; without the
cause which first OeeasiOned them. /
have often tried the remedy, and new
er found it to fail yet. 1t seems to be
the prussic acid in the peach tree
leaves that takes them away. A good
corn salve could no doubt be made for
winter use by bruising the peach tree
leaves when green, then boil them in
water until the strength is extracted,
then take out the leaves strain the
water of the sediment, and add q suffi-
cient quantity of common resin, bees
wax, tallOw and lard oil to make il
soft enough to simmer down, without
burning, until the water is all eYapOF-
ated. Soften and pare the corn, as be-
fore directed, spread it on asmall piece
of camblie or linen, and apply, put
ting on the sock or the stocking care
fully, so as not to rub it Off Keep
applying until they disappear.-EF-
zbOOnp
Year: 1870

Bayard Taylor almost Tires in his
{ library. He sits at long desk table,
covered with books, papers and man.


uscripts, and writes, writes, writes all
: day, varying the occupation from time


to time by reading, and very often
smoking as he reads or writes: but the
cigars of his smoking are of such an
ethereal sort that you wouldn't know


he was smoking one if you did not see
it between his lips. The chair in


which he sits is covered over with
chimeras in tapestry, by fingers which
are as deft with the pen as with the


needle. They are the same that trans
lated 1.-The Story of Kennel into
German. People will think of her by


and by, when they read the marie


intercaved with that of ''Bayard" " over
the free portals of Cedarcroft, long
after host and hostess shall have
passed away from the mansion which


the united head and heart of those
Z two has rendered happy and hGrmO-
nious in its appointments.


The change from an exceedingly ac-
tive life to one which is essentially Sc
dentary has had the effect of causing
BayaTd TaylOr-in his younger days


as lean as an .Arab-tO grow almost
suddenly stout. Nature will have her
compensation.


He looks the farmer that he declares


himself TO be when he goes out for a
tramp over his farm-whieh, by the


way, is quite separate from the home
stead-as far as his large figure and
Tuddy complexion go. But fingers
that have held pen and pencil the
greater part of a lifetime will always
take on a literary and artistic shaping;
and eyes that have for so long been
busy in looking out fOI strange sights
in strange lands must have light in
them very different from the dull
gleam in the eyes of the sturdy plod-
der who seldom goes beyond the
boundary fence of his own acres; and
brOws are always chiseled into shape
by the character of the FRAMEWORK 60
/ ing on behind them.


There is a portrait of Bayard Taylor
in the sitting-Toom opposite the libra
~, by Hicks, representing him in
I oriental costume. and in the midst OF
: oriental surroundings. 1t was taken
when he was all spirit and youthful
! impulse, and nerve, and muscle; and
I his features strongly become the OTi-
entail garb. Doubtless, however, had


he been painted in the costume of


Norwegian, during his soiourn in Nor


way, he would have looked the char
aoter with equal vividness. This


would be due to the temporarily
losing his own identity in the life and
I habits of the people among whom he


might for time be sojOurning, which
/ is the great distinguishing trait of this


successful traveller, and the chief i'm
| sigma of the order.


| He never shuts himself up to write.


The library doors stand open all day,


and the feet of the household are free


to come and go as their various own
ers will-if only there be not too much
chattering, or the sojOurn be not toe
long drawn out. The unbidden as


well as the invited guest may enter
| if he he of the right stamp; and Bay


ard Taylor will cheerfully rise from


the composition of a poem, or the ella
| bOratiOn of some idea into prose, tC


to show his grounds to the chance visi
tor, returning to his work at the earli


estpossible moment, but with unshak


en- equanimity.
Year: 1870

In letter commencing T. d. jones'
model for the Mcpherson monument,
General William +. Strong, who was
inspector general Of McPhersOn's
corps, says:


How many times have l seen him
on the field of battle-at the front
check his horse sharply, and sudden
ly throw his right hand (grasping his
field glass firmly in it, on his right
hip and gaze off at his own troops or
the enemy, with his eyes half-closed
and piercing. The last time I ever
saw him alive-less than ten minutes
before he went dOwn-he looked lust
like this. While memory lasts can
never forget it. was riding on his
left, and we We're going at a rapid
pace. He checked his horse so quick
ly that shot by him, and wheeled
my horse about and rode back and re-
ceived his last order. l was partially
in front of him, and | watched him
keenly and closely as his eyes swept
the ridge and gap between the lines.
The expression of McPhersOn's face
at this moment Mr.. Jones has caught
with wonderful accuracy. In a mo-
ment this sharp, searching, piercing
expression was gone, and the old
smile crept back again over his face as
he knocked the ashes from his cigar,
and told me to bring up Morgan l..
Smiths division to throw in the gap,
and to join him at once at Giles Smiths
In twenty seconds more he was on
top of the enemy'sline of battle, horse
and rider riddled with bullets.
Year: 1870

I Halls Journal Of Health says =
] Taking into account the habits OF the


people, tea and coffee for supper and
! breakfast add to human health and
life, if single cup be taken at either


meal, and is never increased in
! strength, frequency or quantity. If
] they were mere stimulaDts, and were
/ taken thus in moderation and with
uniformity, they would, in time, be-


come either inert, or the system would


become so habituated to their employ
/ ment as to remain in the same relative
I position to them as if they had never
/ been used; and consequently, as to
themselves, they had better never
have been used, as they are so liable
I to abuse. But science and fact unite
| in declaring them to be nutritious as


we'll as stimulant; hence they will do


a new good to the system every day,


to the end of life, just as bread and
fruits do; hence we never get tired of
either. But the use of bread and
fruits is daily abused by multitudes,


and dyspepsia and cholera mOrbus re-


suit; yet, we ought not to fOrego their
employment on that account, nor


should we forego the use of tea and
coffee because their inOrdinate use


gives neuralgies and other ailments.


But the habitual use of tea and cof-
fee, at the last and first meals of the


day, has another high advantages


productive of incalculable good in The


way of averting evils.


We will drink Mt our meals, and if


we do not drink these, we will drink


what is wOrse-cOld water, milk or
alcoholic mixtures. The regular use
of these last will lead the young to
drunkenness the considerable en-
ployment of simple milk, at meals, by
sedentary peOple-by all, except the
robust-will either constipate, or rem
der bilious: while cold water largely
used, that is to the extent of glass or
two at a meal, especially IN cold
weather, attracts to itself so much OF
the heat of the system, in raising said
water to the temperature of the body
about one hundred degrees-that
the process of digestion is arrested; in
the meanwhile, giving rise to death
ly sickness of stomach, to twisting
pains, to vOmitings, purgings. and
even to cramps, to fearful cOntOrtions,
and sudden death; which things
would have been averted, had even
the same amount of liquid, in the
shape of simple hot water, been used.
But any one knowing these things,
and being prejudieed against the use
of tea and coffee, would subject him
self to be most unpleasantly stared at,
and questioned if not ridiculed, were
he to ask for cup or glass OF hot
water. But as tea and coffee are now
universal beverages, are on every !
table. and everybody is expected TO
take one or the other as matter OF
course, they are unwittingly the
means of safety and of life to multi
tudes. They save life, where glass I
of cold water would have destroyed 1t. .
So that the use of these beverages IS .
not merely allowable, it is polite, it Is .
a necessity.
Year: 1870




The creation of "strong-minded"
women, so-called, is due to the indi-
vidualism of men, to the modern sell
fish and speculative spirit which alb
serbs everything within itself and
leaves women nothing but self-asser-
ton for their protection and support.
do not believe that any woman was
ever naturally 'strOng minded" in
the vulgar, offensive sense Of that
term. When they show themselves
so, it is when they have been the vic
tins of men or of society, and resort
to war measures in self-defenee or,
having felt the wrong, see only that
method of righting it.


Political elamOr, party strife, the
clashing of interests, the struggles, the
anXieties of public and business life.
are, think, unnatural and distaste-
full to most women; but they do not
always know how much so, because
even the glimpse they obtain of these
seems better than the deadness- of q
life in which they count for nOught
an existence from which they might
be struck out and still leave the sum-
total of the figures complete.


Women have human sympathies,
human feelings, human hopes, hu-
man fears, and human ambitions
These must be properly gratified, or
they will be obliged to find an outlet
in other directions.


The difficulties between men and
women grow out of the demands of
selfishness- Men follow the cravings
Of their nature by taking unto them
selves wife and children-they graft
fy their love of power by seeking to
establish mastership over them, they
unhesitatingly sacrifice them to the
demons Of speculation or ambition
From first to last they are aetuated by
passion, and not by principle.


The kingdom of heaven is within
Us; it must grow from within, and not
from without-frOm the heart ana
brain of the individual man or wOm-
an it must penetrate the family, the
and the wOrld.-DcH1-
Orest's Monthly.
Year: 1870




How different in all respects from
our New England Here the winds
hurry and scuTry, and change, often
many times day; there they un-
changingIy blow in one direction for
six months. Here the earth rests in
winter; there they have no winteT, and
her rest is in the summer. Here we
have storm and heat, and cold, there
they have no storms or rain in sum-
mer, and only rain in winter. Here
our trees shed their leaves; there they
wear their vanished covering the year
round, while some of them, like the
brOnZed madrOna, shed their bark an
nually, and keep on their bright green
leaves.


Here the wOodpecker goes to the old
tree and knocks and wakes up the
worm, and then pecks in and gets
him; and there the woOdpeeker bOres
thousand holes in the great pine
tree, into each of which he thrusts an
acorn into which the miller deposits
an egg, and which the woOdpecker
calls and takes, after it has become n
good sized worm. The blue jay is ar
rayed in strange dress, and ehatters
its notes equally strange. The lark
sings in sweeter notes, but they are all
new. Here the owl lives in a hollow
tree; there he burrows in the ground
with the strange gray, ground squirrel
or in the hole of the rattlesnake, or i'm
that of the prarie dog.


Here the elder is a bush there i
have seen it a tree whose trunk is a
foot in diameter. Here the lemon
verbeha is fiowerpot plant; there it
is a bush nine feet high. Here the.
mustard seed yields a small plant
there is a tree often seventeen feet
high. Here we have a few grapevines
in a grepery; there we will find 5000
acres in a single vineyard. Here you
will see a single -Oleander beautifying
a single parlor; there you will find q
hundred clumps in full blossom in a
single yard, amid what looks like
showers of roses.


Here we have the thick green turf
on our soil; there they have no turf,
and not a dandelion daughter of the
turf, grows in all California. Here
the sun paints the grass green; there
it turns it brown. Here you see the
farmer carefully housing his hay, and
q little patch of wheat; there he cuts
no hay except to supply the cities, and
reaps and threshes his wheat in the
fields, and throws the bags down to
lie all summer, sure that neither rain
nor dew will hurt it, Here you have
scores of trees out of which to make
your tools; there you have no trees
out of which you can make a wagon
hub or spoke, a plow, a harrow, an
axe-helve, or a Sunset
land ~ bU Todd