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Year: 1873

Many young men become lawyers
or doctors because they have an idea
and it is about the only idea they
have, too-tbat tho professions of law
and medicine involve no hard work,
with plenty Of gcnteel case and idle.
ness. And when they havo become
!ootors or lawyers thoy Aud that they
have to work much harder to keep
themselves supplied with beer and
tobacco than they would to earn @
genteel living in tho capacity of
street'ear driver. 1t is tho duty of
every parent TO paste this in sho hot
of his ambitious hut feeble-minded
son.
Year: 1873

The volume will be no less gratefully welcomed by
the catholic lover of poetry than by the cutivaor of
Christian devotion. Ii represents form OF human
feeling aud development OF imaginative Art
which may be highly priced as study. though it is
net craved as possession.


Another choice collection Of poetry entitled HaU
Hours ,oi. the Poets is announced by James Miller
consisting of short pieces from Chaucer to Tenny-
son. and solely devoted to celebrating the passion
Of love The quaint dedication of the compiler imam
or woman not stated to those who have loved and
10 those who have been beloved no less than TO
those who love and to those who are beloved" gives


foretaste of It's contents. IL is the purpose of the
work 10 present the most noteworthy minor love
poems in the Esesb LANGUAGE IN the order Of their
Year: 1873

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Better to wear calico dress without trim
miDgs, il it be paid for than to owe the shop
keeper for the most elegant silk cut and TRIM
med in the most bewi.ehing manner.


Better to live in a. log cabin all your own,
than brown stone mansion belonging to some
body else.


Better to walk forever than to run in debt for
a horse and carriage. ,..
Better to sit by the pine table for which you
paiG tbIes dollars ten years ago, than send bone
new extension, walnut top, and promise to
pay for it next week. -...
Better to use the old cane-seated chairs and
faded two-ply carpet, than tremble at the bills
sent home from the upholsterers for the most
elegant parlor set ever made.


Better to meet your business acquaiutances
with free don't-owe-a-cent" smile, than TO
dodge around the corner to escape dun


Better to pay the. organ-srioder two cents
for music, if you must haye'it than to owe for
grand piano. .....


Better to gaze upon bare walls than pictures
unpaid for.


Better to eat thin soup from earthenware, if
you owe your butcher nothing, than to dino
of lamb and roast beef, aud know that it docs
not belong to you.


Better to let your wife havca 6t Of Mysteries
than to run in debt for nice new furniture, or
clothing, or jewelry. Christian Adrocate.
Year: 1873

To the Editor of the ". Y. Tribune: Sir
have read the Foster petitions In Thursday
Tribune. The lawyers opinions do not disturb
me, because | know that those same gentlemen
could make as able an argument IN favor OF
Judas lscariOt, which is a great deal Tor me TO
say, for | never can think of Judas 1scarlot
without losing my temper. To my mind Judas
Isc1riot was nothing but a low, mean, prema-
ture Congressman. The attitude of the jury
does not unsettle body, must admit; and it
seems plain that they would have modlhedl
their verdict to murder in the second degree II
the judge charge had permitted It.. But when


come to the positions of Foster friends and


find out Fosters true character, the generous


tears will fowl cannot help it. How easy II


is to get a wrong impression OF man. per-


ceive that from childhood up this one has


been sweet, docile thing, full of pretty ways


and gentle impulses, the charm of the treslde


the admiration of society, the idol of the Sunday
school, | recognize in him the divinest nature


that has ever glOri6ed any mere human 0elng.


| perceive that the sentiment with which he
regarded temperance was thing that amount


ed to frantic alteration | freely confess that


it was the most natural thing in the world for


such an organism as this to get drunk and


insult a stranger, and then beat his brains out


with a car-hOok because he did not seem TO


admire it. Such is Foster. And to think that


we came so near losing him How do we
know but that he is the Second Advent And
yet, after all, if the jury had not been ham:
pered in their choice of a verdict L think
could consent to lose him.


The humorist who invented trial by jury
played a colossal, practical joke upon the world
: but since we have the system we ought to try
I to respect it. A thing which is not thorough!
easy to do, when we reflect that by command
. of the law criminal juror must be an intellect
ual vacuum, attached to a melting heart anC
y perfectly maccaronan bowels Of compassion.
{ have had no experience in making laws o.
i amending them, but still | cannot upderstan,


why, when it takes twelve men to inflct the deaf
y penalty upon person, it should take any les
II than twelve more to undo their work. If wer
!. a legislature and had just been elected and ha
,r not time to sell out, would put the pardonin
!! and committing power into the hands OF twelV
II able men instead of dumping so huge burde
IS upon the shoulders of one poor, petition perS'
II cuted individual. MARK TWAIN.
10 HARTFORD, March I, 1873.
Year: 1873

A handsome young Yankee pedlar made love
to a rich widow in Ohio; but accompanied his
union.


Name them" said the widow.


"The want of means to set up retail store
is the first" replied the pedlar


They parted, and she sent the pedlar check
for ample means. When they again met. the
pedlar had hired and stocked his store, and the
smiling fair one begged to know the other i'm
pediment


g L have another wife, +" said the dealer in
notions.
Year: 1873

CoRRECT WAY TO SWEEP A CARPET
There are three ways to sweep carpet, one
right and two wrong ways. One wrong way Is
to hold the broom nearly in front Of the Op-
orator, with the hand inclined toward him,
then press down as toward thrust is given,
thus heaving the heaviest dirt half way across
the room, while the light particles are sent
whirlng about covering, as they settle, every
article of furniture.


Another wrong way to sweep carpet IS to
move the broom forward with heavy drawing
stroke, by which the material to be moved it
to be pressed into the carpet, rather than
worked gently along the surface. Ii either OF
these wrong ways are adopted, the broom will
wear out the carpet more than 1t Is worn by
the occupants of the dwelling. When the
sweeper collects a dust-pan full OF the nap OF
the carpet every time it is swept new one
will soon be required.


The right way to sweep is to incline the
handle little forward, then give light, draw
ing stroke, allowing the broom to touch the
carpet Not One-half the weight of the broom
should be allowed to press on the dirt whlct
| is moved forward Let the dirt be moved anC
and rolled along very lightly. If generou:
supply of tea grounds, small bits of wet paper
or clean and wet saWdust can be spread owe
the carpet before the sweeping is commenced
| all the fine dirt will adhere to the wet material


A smart little woman who is terror to dir
will frequently hurl it about the room, as
impeled by whirlwind, and when the task i
ended, her dust pan will contain scarcel
enough to pay for sweeping. But using .
good broom having a long elastic brush touch
ing the carpet very lightly, it will scarcely re
qure the strength of a child to sweep larg


parlor in few minutes. Scarcely one house


keeper in fifty understands how to sweep


carpet correctly. Rural Home.
Year: 1873

OF all outer coverings for ladies' wear, no
garment has ever met with such universal
adoption as the water proof cloak. 1t is worn
by rich and poor alike, and with seeming satis-
faction by all. A neatly made, nice fitting
water-proof cloak, is something in which no
body need feel ashamed to appear anywhere
in bad weather.
Year: 1873

A lady who was urging some friends to stay
to dinner, felt disguised when her eight-year
old boy came in and said: Mrs. Jones says
she can't spare no bread and Mrs. Brown ain t
to home, so [ did not get no butter" The
friends thought they had better dine elsewhere.
and the lady thought SO too, but she taught
that boy that the way of the transgressor was
hard before evening.
Year: 1873

A worthy old lady offers the following ad-
vice to girls =" Whenever fellow pops the
question, don't blush and stare at your foot.
just throw your arms around his neck, look
him full in the face and commence talking
about the furniture"
Year: 1873

A gentleman who several years ago used one
of the popular hair dyes, informed us that he
suffered so terribly in consequence that no con-
sideration that. could be named would induce
him to use it again. Intense pain in the head,
weakening of the eyesight, and general ten
dency to destroy the mind were some of its
effects
Year: 1873

sands(?) of other wonderful wonders met us at every turn while ''doing" the city with Editor Harding, but space forbids their enumeration at the present time, and we can only say further concerning Pittsfeld institutions, that two of the best newspa- pers in Berkshire county are published there: the Berkshire County Eagle and the Pittsfield Sun. We propose at future time to know more of the Sun, but can only say now that it is one of the longest established papers in the country, being not far from a hundred years old. The Eagle is a very large paper, in size as we'll as in circulation, being much the largest of any in Western Massachusetts. There is paper in that county, the publisher of which claims 2,5O0 subscribers, and who makes vast amount of noise over it. The actual and positive subscription list of the Eagle is 3, l6S, and the publishers hardly think that worth telling of, but say they presume they will have a fair list in few weeks, if it continues to grow as it has for some time past. This is only another illustration ot the firmly established fact ''that there is as much difference in folks as there is in anybody"
Year: 1873

Mir. Catlin, who recently died, and who was known as painter of Indian portraits and for hia accurate description of our In dian tribes, their life and manners. held one curious theory, which he sought in various ways to press upon public attention. In his opinion many of the ills that at present affiict civilized humanity originated with the practice of sleeping with the mouth open. The Indians never have certain spe- cific diseases. Could anything be clearer than that these maladies are the result of the practice of sleeping with the mouth open, perhaps even adding thereto the un- endurable habit of snoring2 The savage inhales through the nostrils as nature inten- ded; the civilized man gulps down air in it's pure, unfltered state, in warm room, with inadequate ventilation. Whether the air be filtered or not, it is generally considered very safe plan to keep the mouth shut at least part of the tune.
Year: 1873

Norfolk.

 ''The Good Templsrs have played out. " I heard this remark made in the streets a short time ago. Now for the information of the man that made this remark am pre- pared to say that such is not the fact. A very respectable number of temperance men and women meet Wednesday evening of each week to transact the business of the order-not actuated by any selfish mo- lives, but acting from principle, believing the cause to be just they are willing to la Dor for it's promotion. Let us all be careful that we do not say one word that will stay the progres of any society that has for its object the welfare of suffering humanity. ......The Academy, taught by D. L. Pren- tice, graduate of Yale College, numbers 25 scholars and is we believe first-class school......John K. Shepard is getting ready to rebuild on the ground where the build ing used by him as tannery was burned a few weeks ago......O. H. Wolcott is in town and able to keep everything ticking. In his show cases you can find anything from cent ring to $50 watch.

 GUESS AGAIN.
Year: 1873

The Duluth, Minn., Herald of the 2Sth ult, gives a romantic account of the find ing, in the pine forests on Cloynet River, two weeks ago, of young man, formerly clerk in Broadway jewelrY store. It appears that party of explorers, while at supper, heard 8 melodeous voice singing, "No one to love, none to caress."

 For few moments they were at loss to discover from whence the melody came. but on peering through thicket which lay to the north of them, they discovered a young man. apparently about five and twenty years old, approaching them. The tall, slender and rather good looking fellow wore Mackinac coat. fur cap, and Ger man socks and Moccassins. On coming up to them he passed the compliments of the evening, and was about to pass when the explorer asked him if he would not stop and have cup of coffee. At first he de- clined the civi,ity, hut the request being urged he finally consented to accept.

 This singular reciuse, on being pressed for a reason for his strange mode of life, stated:

 belong to New York city, and my pa- rents now reside on Third Avenue, About two years ago made the acquaintance of a Miss Henderson, an actress who plays under an assumed name. She was abont as sweet girl, so far as looks went. as ever the sun shone on. It is needless to tell you that after years courtship she consented to become my wife. All the preparations for our marriage were made, but just one week prior to the day on which we were to be married lady friend informed my mother that l was about to be most terribly disappointed. Being ask ed in what way this lady handed a note from Miss Henderson to my mother, in which she (Miss Henderson, admitted fall ing from virtue some three days before and begging my mother to disclose it to me through my father. The letter further stated that she, my betrothed, could never again see me. This dreadful news, of course, came to my ears in very short time after it had been ;imparted to my mother. knew not what to do, and final ly wandered out here in hope that might in solitude forget my heart-sick troubles. But have not. have lived in this region for nearly four months, almost wholly sus- taining myself by my gun and fishing rod.

 He then went on to say that his tent was about three miles from the spot where he Was being regailed; that he did not know now long he should remain, but that after having his hopes in life blasted he intended to live away from the Rsnares of both man and womankind. As far as could he gleaned from some desultory remarks made by him before leaving the camp, which he did just before twilight, this disappointed lover had been clerk in some iewelrv es- tablishment on Broadway, New York.
Year: 1873



 On Wednesday evening last the Catholic congregation OF St. Joseph's church met in Camps Hall to eat and dance away all their animosity and hard feelings, which have been growing and existing amongst some of their brethren for the past nine months. Father Isaiah had exerted himself to enlist the active cooperation of as many of his parishoners as possible, and with such suc- cess that they readily furnished the substan- tials to load down three large tables for the inner man, while the Gilbert Cornet Band supplied music, and Father Dent and Thos. McManus of Hartford addressed the crowd. exhorting them to live in good feeling towards their pastor and fraternally among themselves. .......Thursday the Rev. L. H.. Hallock was installed pastor of the 2d Congregational Church. Judge Wiley, not being able to leave his own court to come here, the District Court is not il, ses- sion this week......Another snow storm visited us Sunday night and Sunday. leav- ing about foot of snow added to what we already had, and making snow-shovels in very general demand Monday forenoon...... l am very glad to see that "Colrespondent No. 2" from this place has seen fit to an nounce to the public his real name and character: 1he Modern GnUioer and hence it is only necessary to remind the gentleman of his great prototypes only claim to fame-that of being the narrator of such utterly preposterous stories that nc child could ever believe one word of them that he must expect his statements to be considered as void of truth and veracity, us his originals are, therefore decline to take further notice of him, but allow him to have his satisfaction all to himself in writing articles which I shall not reply to. II.
Year: 1873

It Is said that the Berlin post-office is about to introduce an improvement upon the original postal-card system. A card is to be provided by which 8 message may be sent and reply returned at once. The original sender, by paying the trifling post age both ways, may thus secure an answer at once, the person addressed having only to write line or so on the card when he receives it, and return it to the postman. This is great convenience, worth consid- ering in the issue of postal cards in this country.
Year: 1873

the room, around which the directors are

 supposed to sit while ''perfecting their de.

 Alterations" and excitedly remarked,

 "What table for an editors sanctum

 what editorials could write on that; and this is the way I'd do it," Suiting the ac- tion to the word he spread himself at full length upon it, and with his paper under his face, indicated the manner in which Ae would occupy such a table, and occupy it he did, filling it absolutely full. The Bap- tist denomination iof Pittsfield have nearly completed their new church, and it is in- deed grand affair. A $4, 900 organ is in process of erection, and the slips are being arranged in the church. If any one thing more than another excites the mind of the average Pittsdelder just at this time, It is their new Music Hall, or in other words. their new theatre building. It is construct ed after the manner of the most approved plan of.the New York theatres. and as far as it's construction is concerned, for the purpose designed, itl reflects great credit upon the enterprise of the city. The ques- tionable drama, Black Crook, was adver- tised to be played there this present week, which was rather too much for the correct and usually liberal clergyman of the Meth odlst people, who in his desk on Sunday of last week expressed in very decided lan- guage his disapproval of the establishment in their midst of an institution devoted to such purposes. The Press caught up the stinging anathemas from the pulpit before they had ceased to ''reverberate on the desert air." and hurled them. red hot, at the whole region round about. Thus it always is, the Pulpit and the Press go hand in hand in all matters of reform. Thou
Year: 1873

The AUalaache, of Sunday morning, re-
ports Isl deaths in Memphis last week, of
which l2S were from yellow fever. The
Board of Health has resigned, giving
among other things these reasons for their
course:


And again, among the reasons actuating
us to this course is a fact that when we
ventured, some two months ago, to warn
your body of a possible danger of the verv
disaster that has fallen upon US, and urged
time and again such sanitary measures as
in our judgment were calculated to prevent
such calamity, our recommendations were
wholly ignored by your honorable body,
and even now, when our ill-fated city is
ravaged by the pestilence, the chiefrecom-
mendation we Thought lit to make, viz:
the erection of temporary hospital for
the care of the helpless poor, like the most
of the measures advised heretofore, and
new measures, valuable it is true, but by
no means substitute for this, have been
adopted in lieu upon official advice. Our
position has held us up to a degree of ac-
countability for the conservation and the
promotion of the public health, which we
feel TO be painfully onorous in our present
fearful crisis, when we have no adequate
means whatever or authority to do such
thing as we find necessary to meet such
responsibility.
Year: 1873

For some time past young gentleman
employed on the Evansville and Chicago
Railroad has been troubled with cough,
for which he has been taking medicine
from DR., Newell, but without any good eff
feet being apparent. A few days ago he
was taken with n severe fit of coughing, in
the course of which he coughed up q gold
dollar and since that time he has entirely
recovered from the pain in his lungs and
the irritating cough. While wondering
how the gold coin could have got into his
lungs, he recollected that some months ago
he had two or three gold dollars, and when
going to bed one night he remembers to
have had one of them in his mouth.
When he came to look for his money the
next day, or perhaps later, he found that
he had one less than he supposed, and his
opinion now is that he went TO sleep with
the gold dollar in his mouth, and that
while asleep it got down his throat-EO-
anSUWe IND, Journal
Year: 1873

1t Is not at all wholesome to be In hur-
ry. Locomotives have been reported to
have moved mile in minute for short
distances. But locomotives have often
come to grief by such great rapidity.
Multitudes in their haste to get rich are
ruined every year. The men who do
things maturely, slowly, deliberately, are
the men who oftenest succeed in life.
People who are habitually in hurry gen
orally have things to do twice over. The
tortoise beats the hare at last. Slow
men seldom knock their heads against
post. Foot races are injurious to health,
as are all forms Of competitive exercise;
steady labor in the field Il the best gymna-
sium In the world. Either labor or exer-
else, carried to exhaustion or prostration,
or even great tiredness, expressed by
tagged out" always does more harm
than the previous exercise has done good.
All running upstairs, to catch up. with
vehicle or ferry-boat, are extremely in
furious to every age and sex and condition
of life. 1t ought TO be the most pressing
necessity which should indu,e person
over fifty to run twenty yards. Those live
longest who are deliberate, whose actions
are measured, who never embark in any
enterprise without sleeping over it, and
who perform all the everyday acts Of life
with calmness. Quakers are proverbially
calm, quiet people, and Quakers are q
thrifty folk the world over,
Year: 1873

Oye fathers and mothers who have sons
and daughters growing up around you, do
you ever think of your responsibility in
this regard-your responsibility for keep
ing alive the home sentiment In the hearts
of your children? Within the limits of
your means, remember that the Obliga-
ton rests on you to make their home the
pleasantest place upon this earth to make
the word "home" for them the synonym
for "happiness." / would not have you
import the vices of the outside world into
your homes for any purpose; but l would
have you go to the utmost verge of what Is
moral, to provide at home those things
which entice young. and growing persons
away from home. Let me assure you that
you had better spend your money in doing
this than in Ostentation and luxury, and
far, far better spend THUS, than to afnass
fortune for your children to spend in the
future. And not only as regards amuse-
ments. but also comfort and refinement
for children have keen appreciation Of
these things-this is much the best policy.
Don't send your boy to school in ill-fitting
garments, collar all awry and chatting his
neck, buttons missing, and shoes down at
the heel. Don't make a warehouse or
clothes-press of his bedroom. Don't feed
him on sour bread, and tough meat, and
burnt coffee. Don't let noise and dissen-
sion and misrule spoil the hours he spends
at home. Don't do any of these things If
you can possibly avoid it. especially don't
do them for the purpose Of laying. up
money for his future use. The richest
legacy you can leave him is lifelong, in
extinguishable and fragrant recollection OF
his home, when time and death have for
ever dissolved the enchantment. Give him
that, and he will, in the strength of it,
make his own way in the world; but LET
his recollections of home be repulsive, and
the fortune you may leave him will be a
poor compensation for the loss of that ten
derness of heart and purity of life which
not only pleasant home, but the memory
of one, would have secured. Remember
this, too, that while he will never feel
grateful for your money when once you
are under ground. he will GO to your green
grave and bless your very ashes for that
sanctuary of quiet, comfortand refinement
into which you may, If you possess the
means, transform your home.