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Year: 1873

SENSIBLE SENTIMENTs.-M. J. Wicks
of the exploded Savings Bank of Memphis,
challenged William Rule, of the Knoxville
Chronicle, for writing and publishing let
ter about his financial management. Rule
Immediately exposed the fellow, saying in
his reply:


al do not seek reputation for courage
gained in that way. Ifyou are more anx-
ious to investigate the matter of cowardice
than am, you are at liberty to make the in
vestigation in your own way and until you
are satisfied. l do not propose to leave the
country, but will continue to pursue my le-
gitimate business, going wherever and when
ever that business calls me. While do
not recognize the so-caled code of honor,
l wish you to distinctly understand that |
fully recognize the right Of selfdefence. l
do not court, but on the contrary, avoid per-
sonal difficulties with my fellows, but when
attacked | shall not hesitate to defend my
self as promptly and effcctually as necessity
may require.


"You ask rue to fight you duel. And
for what ? Because I have made statements
concerning you, the truth'of which [ can
prove, and the falsity of which you do not
offer to show / do not propose to pander to
the barbarous prejudiccs of dcpraved minds
by setting myself up as target to give you
the opportunity of the so-called vindication
of your honor. have no respect for any
such foolish notions. They may be in &c.
cordancc with your ideas of courage and
honor, but they are not with mine. Words
cannot express my contempt for such folly
1t is no proof of courage, but OF cowardice' ice
1t is not evidence of manlincss, but of a
weak concession to heathenish and brutal
custom. 1t is not the way to defend gen.
tleman's honor, but practical confession of
his inability to defend it in the manner pre-
scribed by an enlightened Christian public
sentiment and the laws Of civilized peo-
! ple"
Year: 1873

Tho Hawaiians are in dead earnest in their
efforts to secure reciprocity trade with the
United States. The new King has been
petitioned by his subjects to visit this coun-
try and use his influence to negotiate treaty
rather an unkingly errand, one would say.
Now it is proposed to cede us valuable har-
Dor near Honolulu as an equivalent for
agreeing to such trade convention and a
dispatch from trustworthy correspondent
there gives us some particulars. According
to all accounts, the harbor is good one We
need such station for naval and marine
purposes but the expedicncy ofareclprocity
treaty and of making acquisition of an out
post in foreign dominions will be much d's'
cussed before determined.
Year: 1873

How TO SAVE Your EYEs-When will
those working by lamp.light understand


the use of shades to protect the eyesY We
see persons sitting holding their sewing or
other work before or near to lamp, while
the light is blazing full in their eyes. 1t is
plain that the object they work upon cannot
be seen with so great distinctness while the
field of their retina is alrea ~ occupied by a
blaze. But they work on for hours, and
though next morning their visual ornns
tell Of the abuse by redncss and inflamma-
ton. the worker will not learn tho lesson Of
Year: 1873

of these lines is not fixed, but increases
every year at regular rate, the lines
on the east mclining more to the west,
while those on the west incline more to
the east, as if the magnetic pole was
slowly moving to the south along the
line of no declination.


''In respect to the earth, the sun rises
i'm the east and warns the globe in its
passage to the west, inducing currents
of electricity to flow from west to east J;
and as the needle always stands at right
angles to the electric current, it follows
that the direction of the current must
hc changing at the same rate rs the de-
clination of the needle.


\ very slow third motion would ac-
count for this annual change In decli-
nation, the glacial period and the time
when the present terra .fIma was the
bed of the Sca-for the earth. being a
sphcroid, the high lands of the north in
their revolution hy Il third motion would
gradually be submerged as they ap-
preached the south, While the bottom
of the sen in the present south would rs
gradually rise as it was carried north
/ ward. Astronomy would show this
motion if we did not every four years
/ with certain eXceptiOnS) add one day.
which would appear to compensate for
a change in the inclination of the axis
of the earth due to a third motion.


'On every side in the Rocky Noun
tain region we have decided proof of the
actions of glaciers and mountain tor
rents that in past ages cut their way
through the solid rock, where now little
rain falls and the old water. courses are
ever dry. Coal, also, in the greatest
abundance exists throughout the terri
! tory of Wyoming. showing that at one
/ time dense forests covered fine soil now
bare of trees, proving that climates vast
/ " different have existed at various pc
riOdS.


assuming that America is slowly re,
volving To the north. and consequently
| rising ont of the ocean. we should eN'
! pcct to find that other portions of the
globe are revolving towards the south
and being as slowly Submerged-and
what do we find in England? That the
. climate of that country has greatly
changed since its discovery there can bt
little doubt. and as to its submersion


where are the large estates of the Ear
Of Goodwin? The wreck of many Il no
bic vessel and the blanching bones OF
thousands of brave marines answer


Here. at the bottom of the sea OH the
/ Goodwin Sands. "
Year: 1873

One beautiful afternoon in August
there came to me the hcart-broken wife
of a state prison convict. We triCd to
plan for lis pardon and restoration to
home and the world. 1t was very sad
ease. He was the only surviving son
of a very noble man-one who lived only
to serve the poor, the tempted and the
criminal. All lie had, all j, was, he
gave unreScrvedly to help thieves and
drImkards. His house was their home.
His name their bail to save them from
prison. His reward their reformation.
1t was happy hour to hear him tell of
the hundreds he had shielded from the
contamination and evil examples of pris-
ons, and of the large proportion. he had
good reason to believe, permanently
saved Out of hundreds. he once told
me, only two left him to pay their bail.
forfeited by neglect to show themselves
i'll court according to agreement-only
two,


DItu ullutl SUCH ii ltol ll' sun Htdl u
ed in life with a generous heart, noble
dreams and high purposes. Ten years
of prosperity, fairly earned by energy,
industry and character, ended in hank
ruptcy, as is SO often the case in our
risky and changing trade; then came a
struggle for business, for bread-temp-
tation-despair r-intcmperance. He
could not safely pass the open doors
that tempted him to indulgence, for
getfulness and crime. How hard his
wife wrought and struggled to save him
from indulgence and then to shield him
from exposure, How long wife, sister
ard friends laboled to avert conviction
Year: 1873

\ writer in the Boston Transcript
says:


THAT in times long past the present
land was the bed of the ocean, and that
in other ages there existed period. us
ually called the glacial period, when
the grim ice king held full sway and all
was ice and frost, has been clearly de-
monstratcd; and torCconcile these facts
with the theory that the earth has only
two motions. one on IFS own axis and
the other round the sun, appears absurd.
But suppose a third motion. slow, per
hallS only fraction of a mile yearly, has
taken place. and is still going on round
an axis AT right angles with what is
called the polar axis. and we can then
readily account for much of the phe-
nomena met with: and there appears to
be every reason to suppose that such a
motion does exist.


Commencing at point north OF
Hudson Bay. in latitude 70 5 north
and longitude SO Is west of Greenwich,
a line runs nearly south through the
United States on which the magnetic
needle has no declination or points di'
rectlv north and south, while at points
on either side of the line the needle
points nwards at angles depending upon
their distance east or west of the true
magnetic meridian. The declmatioI
Year: 1873

and not one from Spring township i'll tie
last fifteen years.


Some years since l heard Judge CAL
breath say, in a charge tothe jury of our
County: This is this the fifth case of
murder since | have been on the bench
in this district, and every one of them
has been caused by Intoxicating liquors.
If there had been no liquor there would
have been no murder or crime commit
ted. Liquor has been the whole cause
of the quarrel in every case,


Spring township and borough are pay
ing about : 1900 annually in taxes on ac
count of license in Crawford county
in supporting the poor and prosecuting
crime caused by the use of liquor that
the Commonwealth licensed.


Some years since was one of the jury,
and at that court there were siXty-thrce
liquor suits from TituSville alone.
Yours truly, HOWELL POWELL.
Year: 1873

SUPposTNG we saw an army sitting
down before a granite fort. and they told
us that they intended to batter it down.
we might ask them "How?" They
point to a cannon ball. Well. hut there
is no power in that; it is heavy. but not
more than half hundred, or perhaps a
hundred weight: if all the men in the
army buried it against the fort. they
would make no impression. They say
NO, but look at the cannon" a." Well,
there is no power III that; a child may
ride upon it. and Il bird may perch in its
mouth. 1t is q machine. and nothing
more. but, look at the powder. :
Well, there is no power in that; Il child
may spill it, a sparrow may pick it, Yet
this poWeTlcsS powder and powcrlesS bail
are put in the powcrlcSs cannon; one
spark of fire enters it. and then. in the
twinkling of an eye, the powder is Il
flash Of lightning, and that camnon-hall
is a thunderholt. which smitcs as if it
had been sent from heaven. So it is
with our Christian machinery of this
day; we have the instruments necessary
for pulling down strougholds, and oh.
for the baptism of fire ,--lrtf1r.
Year: 1873

"There is Alfred Sutton home with
his family to live on the old folks,n
said one neighbor to another. ut
seems hard, after all his father has
done to fit him out in business, and
the capital he invested to start him so
fairly. 1t is surprising he is turning
out so poorly. He is a steady young
man, no bad habits, as far as know;
he has good education, and was al
ways considered smart; but he doesn't
succeed in anything. l am told he
has tried a number of different sorts of
business, and sunk money every time.
What can be the trouble with Alfred,
l should like to know, for don't want
my boy to take his turn?o


"Alfred is smart enough said
the other,n '.and has education
enough, but he lacks the one
element of success. He never wants
to give dollars worth of work for u
dollar Of money, and there is no other
way for a young man to make for
tune. He must dig if he would get
gold. All the men who have succeed
ed, honestly or dishonesty, in making
money had to work for it, the sharp
est sometimes the hardest of all. Al
fred wished to set his brain in motion,
and let it take care of itself. No WON
der it soon ran of the track, and
smash-up the result. Teach your boy,
friend Archer, to work with will
when he does work. Give him play
enough to make him happy and health
full, but let him learn early that work
is the business of life. Patient, self
denying work is the price of success.
Ease and Incidence eat away the price
of capital, but much worse still, all a
mans nerve power. Present gratifica-
tion tends to put off until tomorrow
or next week, and so the golden mo-
ments slip by. 1t is getting to be
rare thing for the sons of rich men to
die rich. Too often they squander in
half score of years what their
fathers were lifetime in accumula-
ting. l wish l could ring it in the
ear of every aspiring young man that
work, hard WORK, of head and hands,
is the price of success.-[Country Cen
tlemeM.
Year: 1873

INSTRUMENT FOR TESTING COLOR
BLINDNEss.-AG German has invented
an instrument for testing color blind
ness. 1t consists of a rotating appara-
tus, which moves q disc whose centre
is circle, One-half black, and the
other half white; outside this is a ring
half red and half green, and then ano-
ther ring of violet and red, then the
outside ring of violet and green.
When rapidly rotated the centre ap-
peared to be colored grey-that IS,
black and white mixed To green
blind person the middle ring will ap-
pear gray, that being the result to
him of mixture of violet and red.
The outer ring will appear gray to q
red-blind patient, and the inner, gray
to the violet-blind. BY the use of this
most ingenious instrument a large
number of patients may be simulta-
neOusly examined for one or more
kinds Of olor-blindness.
Year: 1873

Senator Morton, in his speech at the
opening Of the Indiana exposition
stated that he had in his possession a
proposition from Holland capitalists to
build four-track railroad fiom the
Atlantic coast to some point in the
west, the whole to be accomplished by
private capital, and without asking for
dollar of National State or County
aid. Such an increase of transports
ton facilities would materially lessen
the cost Of carrying freight between
the cast and the west.
Year: 1873

The public men and presses of the
North who have most influence with
the Government and people are one by
one coming to our aid aud assistance.
We have already noticed the speech of
General Butler in the case of the South
ern pensioners Of 1872; now we have to
call attention 10 Mr.. Hale's suggestion
that the General Government come to
the aid Of cur impoverished people and
Issue bonds enough to relieve US of half,
at least, Of our State debts. The New
York Times indoTses the suggestion, and
the Philadelphia Press says: EITHER
this or some odher means must first be
prsctised for the assistance Of the pow
erless South, or its recovery will be in
definitely delayed. As it is now, the
average prosperity of that section is not
mHch greater than that of Ireland"
Year: 1873

IL THE APPEAL of Friday we pub
lished the fact that Judge Flemming, OF


he Davidson County Chancery Court,
had rendered a decision favoriug the
validity of the Torbett issue of Bank OF
Tennessee money. OF this issue there is
said TO be eight hundred thousand dol
Jars outstanding, which is now quoted
IN this market at thirty-three cents buy
ing, Notwithstanding the case upon
which this decision has been had has
been appealed to the Supreme Court.
Public opinion, based upon a right sense
Of public justice, f;4vors the redemption
OF this money by the State, and such is
The confidence of many holders that
they refuse to sell or part with what
they have at less than par. 1t is ex-
Pected that the Supreme Court will de-
eide the question this term Of court at
Nashville. We hope so.
Year: 1873

The reason for the increase of the pub
lie debt is stated at the Treasury Depart
ment to be on account Of the payment
during the past month of the interest on
Pacific railroad bonds over the amount
retained from pay and services rem
dered, enc hundred and sixty-two thou
sand four hundred aud twenty dollars.
and but for this il would have been de-
creased one million four hundred and
two thousand three hundred and eight
dollars. There was also disbursed from
the Treasury during January, in addi-
ton TO ordinary expenses, one million
two hundred AID forty thousand dollars
TO the Board Of Public Works of WASH
ington city, and one million dollars on
account Of deficiencies in the revenue,
making a total Of extraordinary ex-
penditures during January of four mill
lion sixty-six thousand two hundred and
ninety-fouT dollars.
Year: 1873

least win be far more beneficial than a
greater severity and that in oil prebabil-
ity when the term Of imprisonment Is
passed there will remain no motive for
reproducing before the public the
exciting Incidents ef another trial
We unite in the recommendation
we have made. You are sentenced un-
der the indictments upon which you
have been convicted to five years in
generation in the State prison at Nash
Vile, the term to be reckoned from the
date Of this sentence. In the several
cases in which you have pleaded guilty,
a fine is imposed of one thousand dol
lars in each ease with imprisonment
until it is paid with the costs of prose-
cution.
Year: 1873

Begs to inform his Southern Patients that he
has been called to NEW ORLEANS to attend
upon an important case there which will de-
tain him for about one month in the city,
and that he can be consulted at
Year: 1873

OMAHA, February 2.-The Pacific
Touring mills near this city were de-
stroyed by fire last night. The loss is
estimated at two thousand dollars. The
Metropolitan Hotel had a narrow escape
by fire which was subdued with great
difficulty owing to cold and wind.
Year: 1873

"A professor of Cornell Universi-
ty recently published number of
hints as to "What to do in case of
accident = One of those was as fol-
lows : "Ifyou choke, get down on
all-fours a nd cough" One of our
neighbors Woodward-read this,
and dete rmined to remember it.
Day before yesterday he was eating
his dinner alone, and he choked up
on piece of beef. Instantly he got
upon all.fours and began to cough.
Just then Mrs Woodward came in,
and the impression made upon her
by Woo dward's attitude and his
barking was that he had suddenly
been attacked with hydrophobia. So
she first siezed the pitcher of water
and took it from the room. Then
she sent the girls up stairs for mat.
tress, which was thrown over Wood
ward, while Mrs. Woodward and
the family set on it and held him
down. 7 he madder he got, the more
alarmed was Mrs. Woodward and
thO L1OiV nc SWSlO duu tOducO aI
the mouth, the more she insisted up
on the hired girl giving an extra turn
to the Glothes-line around his leg
and tying him to the stove. Then
the doct or came and pulled Wood
wards arm from under the mattress
and bled him, and put fly blisters on
his feet, and promised to come round
in the evening and shave his head,
in order to cut his scalp, so as to re-
lieve his brain. When the doctor
came that niggt Woodward had a
prize fight with him in the parlor :;
and, after sending the medical man
to the bathroom to wash the blood
from his nose and cool his eyes,
Woodward went out to hunt for the
Cornell professor. There will be
pain and anguish in that institution
of learning when Woodward arrives.
he means war to the knife.-Nae
4IIer .#
Year: 1873

The cheapest and best way to make q
horsepower for dairy and other light
use, is to put light drum on center
post, high enough to have the belt clear
the horses head. Attach sweep ten
or twelve feet long to the center post,
so that the track in which the horse
walks will be from twenty to twenty
four feet in diameter, if possible. Let
the track be soft ground The whole
arrangementmay be made of white pine,
except the sweep, which should be hard
wood. Let the drum be about ten feet
in diameter, and six inches face. Use q
two-inch rubber belt. Make a small
pulley from four inches to foot in di-
ameter, according as you want fast or
slow motion. If you want the motion
still faster, gear up with a second belt
and set of pulleys. The direction of
motion may be changed by quarter
twist in the same belt, or by passing the
first belt over idler pulleys.


This arrangem ent will be almost
noiseless, while the clatter and jar of a
circular platform would be enough to
drive nervous or sensitive person al
most crazy. Besides, it is much easier
and safer to teach a horse to follow q
circular path than to keep his balance
on revolving platform. Cor. Country
Gentleman.
Year: 1873

Parents are apt to forget that children
dread reproof, and frequently scold
them unnecessarily. What matter If all
their daily behavior is not quite pleas
ant or perfect, if they show improve
ment and progress? Sow good seed,
anxious parent, cultivate with care, but
wait patiently for harvest, if you wish
good fruit. Suppose child does not
sit as straight as a ramrod at table; sup
pose cup or tumbler does slip through
its little finger, the food below deluged,
the goblet smashed, and the table-cloth
ruined-do not look cross, and break
out with reproof of what was unintend--
ed as if it were willful wrong. Did
you never let a glass slip through your
fingers Instead of sending the child
away in anger, or with threatening
words, why not be as generous as to a
guest, to whom you would kindly say,
I" 1t is of no consequence y 1t is gener-
ally wise to take little notice of mishaps
or bad behavior at the time, and even
to divert attention from them at the in
slant. Afterward, at some appropriate
time, draw the child's attention to the
impropriety, fault, or lack OF suitable
care, and point out kindly the remedy
Year: 1873

The directors of the Dublin Ireland)


Tramway Company have become sus-


picious of their conductors, and have


been trying to circumvent them. At
first each conductor was given q strip Of
tickets, and he was to give one ticket to
each passenger, who was then to tear it
up. The conductors receipts were to
correspond with his ticket strips. But
people hated the company worse than
the conductor, and would not tear up
the tickets; the conductor would use
them over again, and thus his income
was kept up. But now the remedy is
reached. Every ticket is numbered,
but the number is printed on it; and at
the end Of each month the company has
grand lottery with three hundred
prizes, ranging from ten pounds to one
shilling. Each ticket has chance in
the drawing. Nobody throws away his
ticket now; every passenger is too
busy looking after his own interests.
Persons of nobility travel incOgnitO in
the cars for the sake of chance in the
lottery, and the affairs of the company
are unprecedentedly prosperous. The
plan is soon to be initiated in England.
Year: 1873

WHAT HE WOULD DO. = Among the
innumerable stories told about the Shah
is one to this effect According TO the
Koran, his Majesty is forbidden to
tread on any other soil than that trod-
den by Mussulmans. To remedy this
little drawback, the Shah has ingeni-
ously placed lining of earth OF hisown
country between the soles of his boots.
This probably accounts for the dust
which is kicked up wherever he goes
lust as the quantity of diamonds he
wears results In his constantly making
such shine
Year: 1873

How TO PREVENT SUNsTRoKE.- Bath
ing the face and hands in cold water,
before the heat of the skin has become
excessive, is good preventive. But
the best known preventive is to take q
handkerchief, dip it in cold water, and
wiring it out This placed in the crown
of the hat, and its moisture renewed
from time to time, will be found en-
tirely effectual.
Year: 1873

Grace Greenwood relates, as an in
stance of the extravaganza of New Eng
land humor, that when young farmers
wife made her first boys pants precisely
as ample before as behind, the father
exclaimed, "Goodness he won't know
whether he's going to school or coming
home"
Year: 1873

1t is noticeable that in the United
States in 1870! there were 1.345 deaths
BY suicide while there were only 2O2 BY
lighting; in other words an individual
is ak times as likely to kill himself as
iyLtning is to kill him.
Year: 1873

A worthy Quaker thus wrote: II ex
pect to pass through this world but once.
If therefore, there be any kindness car
show. OF any good thing ca" do to my
fellow human being. let me do it now
Let me not defer or neglect il, for l will
not pass this way again."