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Year: 1875

One dreadful form of nervous excite
ment very prevalent among all classes of
society is that which is commonly called
"dipsomania." A weak tendency to
drink becomes an insane tendency. We
are especially liable to it at the present
time, because 30 many of us ore over
wrought. Our actors, our orators, our
commercial men, can hardly keep up the
nervous energy required to 60 through
with their work, and 80 they take alco-
hol to get up the steam of the mind. We
believe If q man has to 90 through Ger
tain amount of bodily work he will do it
better If he takes little stimulant. In
cases of mental strain, the freer he keeps
from stimulant the better. Let him al
ways eat something when he drinks.
Let him drink as little stimulant as pos
sible as rule; let him substitute coffee
or cocoa for spirits and wine, and he
will be fresher for work and last out
be tier. The body is n tough machine,
but you must treat it fairly; and so of
the mind-it is usually tough enough,
but you can upset it. We beseech you,
workers, to watch yourselves, especially
i'll this matter of taking stimulants. But
what shall wesay of the pleasure makers2
Young people should enjoy themselves
if enjoyment comes innocently. But
what do we see constantly2 We see
young people whose susceptibilities are
keerly alive to everything that comes
from without, fresh and healthy young
girls of seventeen and eighteen, ut
parties and balls, who really require no
stimulant, or the least possible amount
"a little wine and water Mt most. Well,
these young girls drink champagne at
intervals, glass after glass; they do not
know how much they do drink. They
have not been cautioned. It is over
excitability; it is thoughtlessness. But
it is like throwing vitriol upon roses to
apply such an amount of stimulant to
young, healthy bodies, A little thought
would constantly set all this right.
Year: 1875

To retain or recover health, persons
should be relieved from all anxiety con-
corning disease. The mind has power
over, the body, for person to think he
has disease will often produce that
disease. This we see effected when the
mind is intensely concentrated OH the
disease of another. It is found in the
hospitals hat surgeons and physicians
who make II specially of certain diseases
are liable to die of them themselves;
and the mental strain is so great that
sometimes people die of diseases which
they have only in imagination. We
have seen n person sea-sick in anticipa-
tlon of voyage, ere reaching the vessel.
We have known persons to die of an
imaginary cancer in the stomach, when
they had no cancer or any other mortal
disease. A blindfolded man, slightly
pricked in the arm, has tainted and
died from believing that he was bleeding
to death. Therefore, well persons, to re-
main so, should be cheerful and happy,
and sick persons should have their at
tention diverted rs much as possible
from themselves. 1t is by their faith
faith they die. AS man thinketh so is
he. If he wills not to die he can often
live i'll spite of disease, and if he has lit
tie or no attachment to life he will slip
away as easily as a child will fall asleep.
Men live by their souls and not by their
bodies. Their bodies have no life of
themselves, they are only reccptacles of
hfe-tenements for their souls, and the
will has much to do in containing the
physical occupancy OF giving it up.
Year: 1875

To tell you just how 1 lost it,


Oh, that were difficult task;
How the thing got away on that autumn day
never stopped to ask.
Perhaps twas glance that did it.


A soft csress to my hair,
A close warm grasp or q gentle clasp,


That captured it then and there.
You see, there arc things you can govern,
But hearts have a way Of their own;
Like birds they fly, and you can't tell why
You only miss them when gone.
Aud why don't tell the story


III tho reason you really must learn,
Is, though life grew bright with rosy light,
-, Yet won no heart in return.
Somebody's eyes were gentle and kind,
And his voice WAS soft and low
But the heart wanted was given away
Ever 30 long ago.
And 80 while Tsolace lonely life


With cat and a cup Of tea,
Somebody's arm is round his wife


And her baby is on his knee.
And tile loss / met with results in this,
That mine is q lonely part
You can't for your life make loving wife,
or q woman without a heart.
Another head rests on the manly breast
That wanted to shelter me;
Some other fair face has won my place,
So no mans wife I'll be.
But compensation's law Of life,


And though trials the gods will send,
I've no one to scold when his beefsteak's cold,
And no small stockings to mend
So that the love that is lost never regret,
When think what my troubles might be
When dinner is late smilo at fate,
And nobody storms at me.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and cemmuni-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nieatiOns that are not used.
Year: 1875

OF course the young King of Spain is the
subject of numberless cartoons in the comic
papers. One of the best appears in the Lon
don Hornet, and represents Alfonso as
Hamlet lying at the feet of Ophelia, who is
in the guise of Liberty. The royal youth
says, as his mother beckons him to come and
sit by the side of herself and the Pope, ''No,
good mother; here's metal more attractive"
Year: 1875

THE Performers" in the Illinois legisla-
ture have had very sad experience indeed
hunting for Republican extravaganza. They
unearthed large steal under Governor
Yates administration but to their astonish-
ment found that Democratic legislature was
responsible for it. Further investigation was
summarily stopped by threat from the Re-
publican side to uncover Democratic steals
enough "to make them all hold their noses"
The zeal of the Performers" suddenly less
ened, and they have since contented them
selves with attention to current business.
Year: 1875

The Democrats at the South who are known
and recognized as members of the White
League, claim high degree of respectability
and assume an air of injured innocence which
may deceive some who have not investigated
the real character of the organization. 1t is
in fact but the highest degree of Ku-Kluxism;
the perfection of the reble organization for
driving all loyal people from the South by
systematic outrages. Investigation in South
Caroline developed the ground work of this
organization, showing the oaths taken by
those who pass through both degrees The
ordinary Ku-Klux swears as follows on enter
ing the order:


/, A. b., do solemnly swear, before Almigh-
ty God and in the presence of these my friends
here assembled, that / will truly and faithfully
keep secret, even unto death, the plans and
movements of this society. do furthermore
swear, that l will come at the calling of the
first grand council of the mask multitude at
any hour of the moon that will rattle the
dead bones that will follow upon the track
of the scallaway's blood. Do you swear that
in case of our being interrupted in any civil
government in which we may be operating,
that you will regard no oath that will convict
one of its members, but under all circumstances
stand by the order in oath, death and blood? !?
In testimony of your faith, do you hereupon
take upon yourself this most solemn and bind
ing obligation, in the presence of three or more
honorable and accepted members here present?
LIhose being initiated kiss the Bible.


One would naturally suppose that this oath
would entitle person to admission into any
band of outlaws and murderers in this or any
other country; but such is not the case. This
is only the first degree. 1t only prepares the
candidate for Ku-Klux honors for something
stronger. The members of the second degree
are known as the White League, and here is
the oath taken by candidates on their initia-
ton into this Organization, which has shown
such boldness in Louisiana:


!, A; b., do solemnly swear, before Almigh-
ty God and in the presence of these my friends
Year: 1875

Probably the Romans were the first
to employ glass for windows. Some
remnants of glass panes are to be found
to day, in their frames, in the burit d
houses of Herculaneum and Pompeii.
They substituted glass as material for
bottles in place of the leather which is
still in vogue among the poorer classes
in the Orient. Epicureans in wine then,
as now, determined the sge of their
article by the seal upon the cork, and
the label impressed upon the glass.
Glass goblets were less popular. Gold
and silver reluctant yielded the palm
to their new-fangled rival, which
sought popularity by appealing, not to
the poverty of the poor but to the de-
sire of novelty among the rich. Even
artificial stones and pearls of glass were
not unknown. Whether mirrors of
glass were known to the Romans, or
whether they depended exclusively, as
they certainly did chiefly, upon the
resources of the Jews-polished metals
is a question of grave dispute among
the learned in such matters. A dispute
into which we shall not venture to en-
ter. 1t is safe, however. to say the on
ly use of glass which modern art can
claim with assurance, as exclusively its
own, is the employment of it in optical
Instruments.
Year: 1875

NEW 1OTh Oun


Near the crest of a heaviy-wooded
declivity in Greenwood Cemetery is a
plain marble shaft bearing the name of
Henry j. Raymond. The tomb, al
though perfectly isolated, is yet within
six rods of the most frequented part of
the grounds. The lot was chosen by
Mr.. Raymond, and the selection is
characteristic of the man. In pu bile
life he sought place near the front, as
was best illustrated in the great work
of his life, the founding of the Times.
In that he aimed at middle line be-
tween the mental eccentricity of the
Tribune and the moral eccentricity of
the Herald, at the time of those great
newspapers greatest greatness, mark
ing out for the times mean between
the two extremes.


the costly tomb of James Gordon
Bennett, conspicuOusly fronting one of
the busiest avenues in the cemetery, is
such sepulchre in such spot as Mr..
Bennett might have been expected to
choose, although the lot is believed to
have been selected and the marbles
chiseled under the direction of Mrs.
Bennett. 1t was the day dream of his
life that by keeping the Herald in the
vortex of New York business life, and
by enlivening it with wit that his
successors have not even understood,
much less emulated, he might make
it the journal of the future; and he did
not hesitate to say as much. In a pc
cuniary sense he was prodigiously sue
cessful.


Horace Greeley's tomb appropriately
looks out from under the abundant
bOughs of Locust Hill upon the setting
sun. The mound is temporarily mark
ed by a modest slab that will tell who
sleeps beneath it until his fellow crafts
men erect their contemplated bronze
memorial. The Greeley tomb, too, is
typical of its occupants former aspira-
tions. 1t is seemingly sequestered and
and actually remote from the ornate
mausoleums that New York fashion
has reared in the City of the Dead; but
is visible at great distance beyond the
boundaries, and the mOnu-
ment which the farmer-editor must
have expected at the hands of his nu-
merous admirers, will be noteworthy
feature of the landscape to be admired
my men of all nations as they sail in
and out o: our picturesque harbor.
Year: 1875

here assembled, being fully and seriously i'm


pressed with the sacredness of the act, that


never will make known, either by word, sign
/ or deed, knowledge of its eXistance. | swear
/ that the enemies of the white mans race and


of the white man. government, and the friends
of the nigger equality, are now, and forever


shall be, my enemies. | swear to obey the
chief in all his constitutional orders and all
other orders which he may issue by the dlree-
ton of this society. | swear TO kill any men,
Der of this society who shall prove false to this
oath. | swear to defend the life of every
member Of this society-even at the risk of
nv own-should l ever see it in danger.
swear to give my patronage and support to
the members of this society, in preference to
all others. And, lastly, l swear by this Bible,
this skull and this blood, that, should l ever
prove untrue in any one particular TO the OBJ
legations | have here taken, unreservedly,
voluntarily, hope to become an outcast, an
alien to my friends, my country and my God.
All of which, so help me God.


That oath is supposed to cover the whole
ground, since what is not specified may be
embarked in the promise to obey the chief
officer of the organization. That this is the
oath taken by members of the White League,
is evidenced by the fact that the conduct of
those belonging to that order harmonizes with
the expressed purposes and general spirit of
the oath. InLouisiana, where they have been
bold in the declaration of their purposes and
in their acts, men have been murdered, driven
from the State, and prescribed in business and
in social life, solely because of their political
sentiments and their desire to deal righteously
by the colored race. And this White League
Constitutes the Southern wing of the Demo-
cratic party Upon the votes of the men who
have taken the oath above given, they rely for
success in the.next Presidential compaign?
Year: 1875

A minister picked up frozen wasp
on the side walk, yesterday, and, with
a view to advancing the interests of
science, he carried it in the house and
held it by the tail while he warmed
its ears over lamp chimney. His OBJ
ject was to see if wasps froze to death,
or merely lay dormant during the win
ter. He is of the opinion that they
merely lie.dormaut, and the dorinantis
kind at that and when they revive, he
says, the tail thaws out first, for while
this ones head, right over the lamp,
was so stiff and cold it could not wink,
Its probe worked with such inconceiva-
BILE rapidity that the minister couldn't
grasp fast enough to keep up with it.
He threw the vicious thing down. the
lamp-chimney, and said he didn't want
to have any more truck with dor
mant wasp, ut which his wife burst
into tears, and asked how he, q minis
ter of the gospel, could use such Lam
guage, right before the children, too.
Year: 1875

then, recognizing the rcduetio, we both
laughed, with the utmost good will on
both sides for the Southern gentleman
is the pleasantest society in the world
for any white man who is not rival
for Southern offices.
Year: 1875

The Cincinnati Gazette (Republican) says:
''There will be no third party to make nomi-
nations in 1876. The contest, unless some
unforeseen event occurs, will be between the
Republican and Democratic organizations. OF
one or the other Garnt will be the nominee. if
nominated at all. The Democrats are not
likely to nominate him. The Republicans
certainly will not nominate him. This is as GER
tian as anything in future can can be said to
be. third term for Grant or any other man
is, as we have often said, out of the question.
1t would be hard to guess who the Republican
nominee for 1876 will be, as it would be to
guess the Democratic nominee The Demo
Gratis have already several candidates in the
field, and that party will have trouble enough
in making the selection, without bothering
themselves about the Republican candidate.
OF one thing, however, the opposition may
rest assured, viz, that their talk about third
term is humbug, and will not deceive anybody.
Not corporaPs guard of the Republican pay
ty could be brought to support any living man
for third term. The opposition to any such
suggestion would be found to be well nigh uni
versal"
Year: 1875

THE Southern rebles are counting largely
upon obtaining control of the Executive De-
partment of the Government. They have
Congress in their possession, and the leaders
are becoming nervous lest some of the mere
reckless spirits in the House may hurt the
changes of the party by showing their hands
too soon. The Richmond Enquirer says: ''It
will require all our vigilance, and the very
best pilotage we are capable of, to tide over the
coming two year ;. and like the well-desciplin-
ed crew of staunch ship, every man of us
should set the example of order by being the
first to know the place and keep in until the
crisis has been passed and we are safely moor
ed in the Democratic harbor again.


When the Democratic harhor is reached, if
it ever is, then the real work is to begin; and
anybody who believes that these rebels intend
to use there power for the preservation of the
Union, if they obtain control of the Presiden-
cy and of Congress, have that childlike faith
which is beautiful to contemplate, but great
deal too confiding for practical purposes
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Year: 1875

found in an obscure place alongside Of her dead
baby. 0ncer Flynn the hour indicated, was quietly
pairolng the block opposite the Post olce, in Park
row. when he nccosted by man who proved TO be
Benjamin Thompson the ianitor OF the large build
ing No. 2l Park row. This excitedly demanded
that tho officer should accompany him. as some
strange event had happened in the building under his
charge. The officer followed his informant into the
sub cellar and there discovered woman, young and
prepossessing, amid the debris and accumulation of
ahd kndlng wood, suffering the ag0nes OF chlld-
,olrth, while an infant yet and breathing, was
lying Dy her side The suspicious circumstance being
tus "omans handkerchief was around the meek oil
iiu suggesting that an attempt had been made 10
sTangie ~ Aid was promptly summoned and DR..
Jayne otthe Chambers Street Hospital was soon on tho
yet warm, but all efforts at rcsusctaon were useless
The infant and mother were removed ns sneod,lv as
possible, the former TO the Oak street police station
the latter to the Chambers Street Hospital for treat
ment - $500


JANIroR's sroRY


"The girls name is Mary Tansy and swooter het.
ter naturcd creature lived Shc resided with N
family for live years helped take OF tho offices
and only left us two months since 10 reside with fam
lccL Mary came back yesterday 10 attend
the funeral of my daughter and her condl-
lon was apparent TO all She told my wife that
she had made arrangements 20 to uptown lying
establishment be delivered OF her child but she
fused 10 name tho father, saying, 4 will never tell
This morning she went down stairs early and dsap
and in few moments they gave an alarm, saying,
Mary is down there ana groaning in great pain!'
hurried TO the basement, found her and summoned the
officer, as you KNOW


must have suffered terribly in that black hole alone
with her despair. She protested that she dd not kill
her little that the handkerchief used TO
the darling her previous good character warrants the
supposition that such was tho when tho baby
was sent TO the police station Coroner Wotman was
notified TO hold an inquest after which the body Was
sent 10 the MOrguc.
Year: 1875

somewhat singular suit was concluded yesterday
before Judge Robinson in the Court Of Common Pleas
in connection with raised check. An uptown store
keeper, in changing 500 bill gave genuine check
for s24 on Security Bank Of this city This check


was raised 81 222 55 and the endorsement
also altered The check as thus raised was certified by
tbe bank Soon afterward IL was deposited In the
National Bank OF the Republic and next went through
The Clearing House. tho Security Bank paying
Ihe amount to the National Bank Of the
Republic The latter bank soon discovered the check
had raised and applied TO the former bank for
payment Of the difference, which was refused on Inc
ground Of its certihcation before payment suit was
accordingly brought by the Security Bank against the
National Bank Of the Republic 70 recover the difference
ra.ned 10 be due IL was decided at the General Term
that the certihcation was estoppcl 20 the suit
After hearing the testimony, which was repetition OF
that previously given in the HERALD, Judge Robinson
directed verdlc for COZ 60 in favor OF the Security
Bank
Year: 1875

The opinion Of Attorney General vanatta that a
cannot legally hold the position OF iailcrcss in
New Jersey was the subject OF agitation the Board
OF Frccholdcrs at Jersey City yesterday motion 10
go into election for jacr entertained by the d.
rector, and several ballots wcro taken. Messrs
Nathan, Allen and Fnck tho candidates.
but none obtained majority. On the seventh
ballet the director announced that only one
ballot would be in order, and that having proved
ipdefnte the others the director declared the
Board adjourned. The management of tho Jail under
Mrs Jones has been excellent and she docs intend
resign her position without having the question
brought by injunction before the Supreme Court Not
a single charge has ever been preferred against her.
She has received letters from the Women's Suffrage As
ISOLATION Of New York, and other cities urging her to
dispute tho validity Of the Attorney Generals opinion
in he
Year: 1875

ing wind and content to blaze away
with herlong eighteens, which wrought
great execution on the decks of the
American ship. Fifteen men fell in
succession at one of the guns of the
Essex.


Every expedient for saving the YES.
sci had now been tried in vain. She
was helpless before the tremendous
fire of the Phoebe, unable to return
the fire on account of her position,
and, in addition to all these horrors,
the flames were bursting from her
matches. Captain Porter, still un-
wounded and resolute to fight it out
to the last, finally listened to the en-
treaties Of his crew, who represented
that further resistance was worse than
useless, and he reluctantly ordered
the colors to be struck.


Captain Hillyar permitted the Es-
sex, Junior, to be turned into a car
tel-ship, or vessel for carrying pris-
oners destined to be exchanged, and
allowed the surviving crew of the Es-
sex to sail in her for the United
Year: 1875

NEWPORT, X. l., October 20.- What
promised to be a strike and shutdown OF
a mill was happily averted to-day. Two
weeks ago the mill owners here gave their
operatives notice that they would be com.
PEELED on and after October 25 to pay them
twenty.fveT cents per cut instead OF twen.
ty.nine cents. No fault was found with
this decision and all went III yesterday
under the new arrangements, they being
aware Of the fact that, with the cut down,
they were to receive one cent per cut
more than Is paid In Fall River, and Bev.
erAl cents more than Is paid throughout
Rhode Island,


Al noon seventy weavers left their
looms in the Aqnidneck Mill, but the
mill owners pursued a wise policy al
once, and last night sent word TO
them to The effect that the mill would be
kept open for them reasonable length
Of time, and that all could return. All
but fifteen Of the strikers were only too
glad to go to work this morning, and
those who remained out held meeting
this forenoon and decided 10 go IN also
provided those among them who had been
the ringleadets we're also allowed 10 re.
slime work as we'll. They were politely
informed that NIL could come in, and, in
view OF this Conmendabe ACT, they
promptly kept their word, and the mill
il now running the same as usual and no
further trouble ia expected.
Year: 1875

The following plan for the prevention
OF the bnrsting OF water pipes during
frosty weather has been invented ia
England. 1t is well known that when
water freezes it expan IS. and that the
force exer,ed is so enormous that no pipe
can resist it. This invention Is intended
to give the water chance 10 expand
without bursting the pipe. 1t attempts
this by securing in the inside Of The
metal pipe 4 space equal to the difference
of volume between water and ice. SO
that when the wafer freezes il occupies
The space reserved lor II, instead ot
exerting its force on the pipe and burst
ing it. This is practically carried out
by passing through the water pipe
small India rubber tube, specially made
for The purpose, and OF such diameter
that the spece inside il is little more
than equal to the increase in volume oil
the ice. The India rubber tube is kept
full OF air, so that when the water freezes
it finds The necessary space for expansion
for by com pressing the air tube it dis
places the air and takes its place. When
the ice melts the tube again expands,
becomes filed with air, and is ready for
another frost. and so on TOR any number
OF times without requiring attention.
Pen and plor,