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Year: 1873

such girls, With V1eW to lifting them out of such an aimless life into one of purpose, refinement, and self-respect.

 The truth is, fellow-farmers, it is this neighborhood association, this disinter- ested (apparently) interest in our neigh bors' affairs, that is one of the best and wlsest investments we can make, if we would enhance the value of our own property and give to ourselves and our neighbors the stability and security which are essential in all well-ordered society. We haven't any right to mind our own business in such matters be- sides it is not profitable to do so. I don't advise meddling, mind you! I don't advise arrogance and an ostenta- tious display of superior wisdom and knowledge. That will not pay, because it will result in no good effect. But an exhibition of kindly fellow-feeling, sympathy, neighborly interest in each others affairs, disposition to rejoice with those who rejoice, and sympathize with those who are unfortunate. and "help them out with manly hearti- ness and good will, will do more to raise neighborhood society and neigh borhood agriculture Cup to grade " than any other policy have ever seen tried. It is easy to tame colt or a kicking COW with kindness and good food. It is easy to fasten pig so he cannot get through under fence and do mischief. It is easy to keep chick ems about ones door, and out of the neighbours garden, by feeding them abundantly there. You can doabout any thing you choose with any animal if you give humane treatment and the human animal is no exception. Ac- cordingly, I suggest that these young human colts be tanned and harnessed the kicking cows be kindly handled and fed with the food they are starving for the pigs be fed and fattened the chick ems coaxed to roost at home by this same policy we apply to our brutes. Why not
Year: 1873

More years ago than almost
anybody now here can remember,
there lived on the cast side Of the
river \ family consisting Of the
mother and several small children.
At the time when our story be-


gins there were no bridges across
the Huron, and at seasons Of high
water q sort Of scow attached to q
rope stretched across the stream
was used as Il ferry. The woman
Of whom we speak was employed
on the west side Of the river, and
by some means was thrown. out
of tie scow while returning home,
as well rs another passenger:
and both were drowned. Thus
these small children were left
wholly uncarcd for, except by the
casual assistance of the very few
and scattered emigrants.


The body Of the second person
drowned was recovered almost
Immediately, while that Of the
woman was not found until some
time, when the water had subsid-
cd. During this period the chill
drea, too smallto fully. realize how
their mother could be thus sudden
ly snatched away, especially Iit


tie girl among them, disconsolatc-
ly strolled up and downthe stream
calling for their protector. With
What care they got they grew to
man and womanhood, but melan'
choly had settled upon the girl,
which never left her, and at length
she was placed, with the hope Of
recovery, in an institution in the
State of New York. Eventually
the male children became the own
crs Of $50 acres Of land IN this
county, on which there is good
! house, barn, etc. They then sent
and brought their sister back TO
live with them; and the family,
whose whole history it would
be too long to follow, consisting
Of two men and the sister, still
cling together and live almost as
solitaires. But the greatest SIN
gularity is their rcpugnance to
living in house. 1t will seem
incredible when We say that, with
i comfortable house of their own,
two Of them have lived the
whole winter, and are still liv'
lngand sleeping: out Of doors
One yielded to the weather, or
the opportunities of the neigh
bors, and took lodging in q
house: .he others continue THEN
strange way of living. How do
they live, the reader is ready to
ask, with the thermometer 30'
below zero? Their kitchen is an
enclosure Of logs, simply breast
high, without the least sign OF q
roof: The logs serve TO keep
away cattle and animals. Ihell
sleeping apartments, not in this
inciosure, arc rails and logs laid
up slanting, so as to leave u low
hollow, which is filled with au'
! tumnal leaves, in which they bury
Year: 1873

1t is little singular how well .
pair Of boots can be made to fl
at the store. You may be able to
get your foot only part way down
the leg at the first trial, but that is
because your stocking is damp, Or
you have not started right, and
the shoemaker suggests that you
start again, and stand up to it.,
and he throws in . little powder
from pcppcr-box to aid you. And
so you stand up and pound down
your foot, and partly trip yourself
up, and your eyes stick out in ali
unpleasant manner, and every
vein in your body appears to be
on the point OF bursting, and all
the wk:lc that dealer stands
around and eyes the operation as
intently as if the whole affair was
perfectly new and novel to him.
When your foot has finally struck
bottom. there is FAINT impression
on your mind that you have step
ped into an open stove: but he re.
moves il by so!cmnly observing
that he never saw a boot fit quite
as good as that. You may sug-
gcst that your toe pres too hard
against the front, or that some Of
the bones in the side Of the foot
are too much smashed; but he SAYS
this is always the way with . new
boot, and that the trouble will en-
tirely disappear in Il few days.
Then you take the OLD pair under
your arm, and start for home as
animated rs relic Of 1912, all the
while feeling that the world will
not look bright and happy to you
again until You have Drained that
shoemaker. You limp down town
the next day, and smile the while
with your mouth, while your eyes
look as if you were walking over
an oyster bed barefoot. When no
one is looking You kick against Il
post or some other obstruction
and show a fondness for stopping
and resting against something that
will sustain your weight. When
you get home at night you 60 for
them old boots with an eagerness
that cannot be described, and the
remarks that you make upon the
learning that your wife has dis
posed Of them to ! widow woman.
in the suburbs are calculated to
Immediately depopulate the earth
of women and shoemakers gener-
ally.
Year: 1873

MONKEY sAaAo1rY.-It was wild aud


dreary part Of the country, in the plains Of
India, whilo journeying, that one day .
friend and myself sat down under the shade
Of an outrageous banyan tree, and We were


enjoying meal of various sdibles, to be
washed down by glass Of Bass best, when


We were disturbed by the arrival and the


noise of troop of large black-faced mon
keys the branches overhead literally swarm
ed with them. They looked on US a. inter-
lopers, no doubt. and for some time their
gestures appeared so menacing that we were
apprehensive they would dispute the ground


with U.S. But after time things seemed to


settle down, and We went on with our repast


in peace. We had just risen from our meal,


and were strolling forth from under the shade,


when to our surprise, one Of the monkeys


a young one-fell down from high branch


at our feet. 1t was quite dead. The clam


or that arose above us on the occurrence was


deafening. The whole assembly of monkeys


clustered together for confab. Long and


loud were the gatherings and various the


grimaces of the tribe, each individual vieing


with the other in the loudness of his tongue.


Their looks and gestures made it apparent
that they suspected us as being the cause Of
the death of their juvenile comrade; and
had we had guns in our hands, or any other
murderous weapons, We should no doubt
have been set upon aud maltreated. But we
we're unarmed, and the good sense Of the
monkeys seemed to:tell then: that there must
be some other culprit Having come to
this conclusion, one monkey, apparently the
senior and leader of the whole tribe, separat-
ed himself from the rest, ran to the spot on
the branch whence the young monkey had
fallen, examined it carefully, smelt the
branch and then glided nimbly down one Of
the pillars or pendant roots, and came to the
corpse of the monkey, took it up, examined
it minutely, particularly the shoulder, where
there was q small wound. Instinct immedi-
ately turned sus picion into certainty. He
placed tho corpse on the ground again and
turning his gaze in every direction, endeav-
ored to pierce the foliage in his search for
the murderer After little while some,
instant he had mounted the tree, sprung to
the spot, and with one clutch had seized a
long whip snake, with which he fastened
to the ground. Now occurred most curious
scene. The whole monkey rabble, following
their leader, were on ths ground almost
as soon as he; then as many as could, ranged
themselves on each side ofthe snake. Each
monkey put his hand onthe reptile clutching
hold Of the skin of the back tightly. At
given signal, the s1ecutioners dragged the


writhing snake backward and. forward on


the ground, till nothing was left Of the mur'


derer but the back bone. The mode Of exc.


cution was efectual, and in the way it was


carried out, showed the clear understanding


which the monkey language conveys-
Travels in India.
Year: 1873

THE CURSE OF DRINK.-The appetite in
man for strong drink has spoiled the lives Of
more women-ruined more hopes for them,
scattered more fortunes for them, brought to
them more sorrow, shame and hardship
than any other evil there is. The country
numbers tens-nay, hundreds of thousands
who are widows to-day because their hus-
bands have been slain by strong drink.
There are hundreds of thousands of homes
scattered over the land in which women live
lives of torture, going through all the
changes of suffering that lie between the ex-
tremes of fear and despair, because those
whom they love love, wine better than they do
the women they lave sworn to love.


There are women by thousands who dread
to hear at the door the step that once filed
them with pleasure, because that step has
learned to reel under the influence of the Sc
ductive poison. There are women groaning
with pain, while we'write these words, from
bruises and brutalities inflicted by husbands
made mad by drink. There can be no ex-
-aggeration in any statement in regard to this
matter, because no human ImagInutluu vuu
create anything worse than the real picture
of the truth in all its terrible colorings.


The sorrows and horror of q wife with a
drunken husband are as near the realization
of hell as can be reached, in this world, at
least. The shame, the indignation, the sor,
row and the sense of disgrace for herself and
her children, the poverty, and not un-
frequently the beggary, the fear and the fact
of violence, the lingering lifelong struggle
and despair of countless women with drunken
husbands, are enough to make all women
curse wine, and engage unitedly to oppose
it everywhere as the worse enemy OF their
sex.-Dr. Holland.
Year: 1873

A MYsTERY-A SKELETON USEARTHED IN
THE HEART OF THE CIry.-Yesterday after
noon about o'clock number of colored
men, in digging out an area around the house
No. SOC Leigh street, formerly occupied by
Mr.. S. P. Hawes, dug up an almost perfect
skeleton of q human being about four feet
below the surface of the earth. The skele-
ton is supposed to be that of a female, as
tuck-comb was found in good state OF
preservation in close proximity to the skull.
Several pieces OF the coffin in which it had
evidently been buried were also found. The
bones have been collected and laid aside,
for the purpose, probably, of an investigation
hy the Coroner.
Year: 1873

P1c-NIc AT THE FAIR GRoUNDs.-A picnic
for the benefit of the Sisters school Of st.
Patrick's parish will be held On Wednesday
next. A full band will be in attendance,
and those who take part will doubtless have
most pleasant time. Cars will leave the
depot corner Eighth and Broad streets every
hour during the day, commencing at
O'Clock. The city railway cars will also
run for the accommodation of persons living
in the lower part Of the city, the last cal
leaving the upper end Of the line at $50
NJ
Year: 1873

THE NEW POSTAL CARDS UNDER THE LATE POS
TAI law-usefui, serviceable, and cheap. The id
rertiser can ill the back Of the cards with any
printed announcement he may wish to make public,
and send them through the mail for only one cent.
Can be printed at this Office at low rates.
Year: 1873

IN the obituary notice Of lady,
the editor wrote: at is feared
that her husband will not be able
to bear her demise," which the
careless compOsitOr, with but a
change of two letters, transformed
to. at is feared that her hus-
band will not he ahle to wear her
chemise. The horror of the edi-
tor and the hereaved husband and
the mourning relatives may be
imagined.
Year: 1873

From the New orleans Times, sth.l


A most gratifying report reaches us
from DIR. White, President Of the Board
Of Health, concerning the general health
of the city, particularly as to cholera
From the disease there have been no
deaths for the past two days, and only
four fatal cases during the past week
Since May % there are on record only
one death, June 3; two June 4, and one
June 5. The report we now give is up
to O clock yesterday, and it is barely
possible that the report of Coroner Gra-
yer, when received, will give one or two
additional cases. These reports ere
made up and sent to the board every
day at 3 pm, when the President in
stantly causes every place where there
has been a case Of contagious or infec-
tious disease to be visited by an inspec.
tor, and the premises thoroughly fumi
gated and disinfected
Year: 1873

TRoUBLE.-In ninety-nine cases out
of hundred, mankind make their own
troubles. 1t is not in the nature of
things that it should be otherwise, and
yet we might be the most happy peo-
pie that the sun shines on, if we pleas
ed. Life would run smoothly in the
grooves if we would only let it, but we
are not content to do so-in fact. con-
tent with nothing. From the cradle to
the tomb we are continually fretting
about something. We are living at al
together too fast and too reckless rate.
We initiate the balloon beyond its ca
.pacity to bear, and then wonder that it
collapses, and we get fall. Content
ment-to let things take their course,
is a condition we have yet to learn.
But how can we expect to be free from
trouble so long as we are seeking for it,
We are much like the son of the En-
erald Isle, who "was never at peace
without he was at war with somebody" ="
We constantly make trouble-get into
hot water, and then grumble. But the
world wags on just the same, and will
unto the end, although we hasten our
end by constant restlessness.
Year: 1873

In Sherman we saw for the first time
an ox-mill for grinding wheat into flour
1t was a great novelty. and reminded
us of the dog-churn days of boyhood,
when faithful "Watch, the time-hon'
ored house-dog, and the writer hereof
used to tramp together on the tread
to make the wheel go around, that the
churn-dasher might be sent up and
down till the butter was made. That
was years ago, but the memory of those
days fingers like an eventful dream
Here we found an old brown building
In it was the machinery of a grist
mill, complete. Just outside the main
portion, but under cover, were the mo-
tive power-seven ong-horned, sub
dued steers, chewing their cuds as they
lazily climbed a great wheel fifty feet
across, and ground out three thousand
pounds of superfne -four every day o.
the year.


We crawled through hole to see
how the old thing worked, and looked
down upon the plodding cattle. One
of them rolled an eye around to see
who it was, and gazed at us with an
expression that seemed to say:


"Don't laugh at us, for you know how
it is yourself"


Indeed we did. Those ox-mills were
quite numerous in the South, and are
profitable institutions, by the way
About half dozen oxen will keep the
great wheel in motion, and turn out as
fine an article of -four as can be pro.
duced by water or steam power. 1t is
barely possible that the two womer
who were grinding in the mill, as men
toned by our Saviour, made better flour
but it is not on the record, although i
is proof that the boys of to-day make
the oxen do what the fathers of old com
PEELED the women to do. Verify, verify
the world moves!


Just outside the mill in an enclo
sure were several other cattle waiting
but in no hurry, for the hour when they
were to go marching on, and their fel
lows should rest We saw the engineer
of this establishment as he was wood
ing up with fork full of new-mowr
hay; and when we asked if his engine.
ever blew up, he gazed upon us with I
look of admiration less observant MAJ
might have taken for disgust.-N. y
| Democrat
Year: 1873

PUT THE BRIGHT SIDE OUT.-Like
most garments, and most carpets, every
thing in life has a right side and
a wrong side. You can take any Joy,
and by turning it around, find troubles
on the other side; or you may take the
greater trouble, and by turning it round
find Joy on the other side. The gloom
lest mountain never casts shadow on
both sides at once, nor does the great
est of life's calamities.
Year: 1873

The most precious Of all possessions
is power over ourselves; power to with
stand trial, to bear suffering. to front
danger; power over pleasure and pain;
power to follow our convictions, how
ever resisted by menace and scorn; the
power of self-reliance in darkness and
storms.
Year: 1873

New YoRK, April 4.-The majority
report Of tho Hoosac Tunnel railroad
Committee Of the Massachusetts Legisla'
ture providing for q consolidation Of q
number Of roads into one corporation by
the name OF the Boston s Northwestern
railroad company, Is regarded here as the
beginning Of o DETECTION Of these currents
Of trade that have hitherto made New
York shipping focus Of continental. The
operate the Hoosac Tunnel approaches
but all railroad corporations connecting
Herewith or with the Boston & North
western railroad shall possess the right Of
sending their cars and passengers and
freight through the tunnel upon equal
terms and with equal facility; 1t Is also
provided that the commonwealth may,
after six months notice take possession Of
the road OF the consolidated corporation.
Year: 1873

A WESTERN man at the St. Nichols,
having taken possession Of his room, lock.
ed It up to go into the city, and leaving
the key at the bar, told tho clerk, with
great simplicity, not to wait dinner for
him.
Year: 1873

The very rapid increase in ocean trade and
t,avcl during the last few years is quite reinarka
BILE. There are few persons, comparatively, who
know that there are any lines Of steamers between
Philadelphia and Europe But We are told in
an article in the North American that the spring
will open with siz lines Of steamers regular ply
ing between that city and European pors. 1t is
therefore no longer necessary 10 so ali the wavto
New York TO secure hrsi-class passage. The
vessels employed are Of superior build and finely
furnished and their accommodations for passen-
gers arc complete. Philadelphia has made 4 good
beginning TO regain her former commercial repu.
tafiont and We presume will not be content 10
remain many years longer q mere fourth rate city
IN thin regard. That she can ever overtake New
YORK ls hardly likely; but we cannot see why she
should not become at least secondary TO her great
rival. Her population is so large and her real
wealth so immense that neither Boston nor Balti-
more could be able 10 keep pace with her if the
energies of her industrious people were turned in
this direction.


That her late efforts were caused by the success
attending the establishment Of the European
steamship line by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company we have little doubt The PENNSYLVANIA
h@Mp1d S0upnhy A"flhS colcIuueo 10 establish
q similar line from It's terminus in Philadelphia


Whether the Philadelphia lines can be sustain
ed Is matter ofinquiry,and the Norh American
hopes 10 secure help for this purpose by making
that city outlet 10 the grain producing regious
OF the northwest. Tie wheat crop of Minnesota
alone last year amounted to thirty millions bush
els, ard a corresponding increase this year will
give crop Of forty millions bushels. large
proportion Of this product, it says, will find its
way tp Europe Via The great lakes Which ii con
tends should reach the seaboArd al Philadelphia.


We're the exhorbtant tariff that now weighs
down the farming as well many other interests
ofthib country by curtailng the trade in, and
export of,grain and other articles, there would DO
doubt be an immense amount of grain pass to
Europe from the wnarycs Of our populous neigh
bor
Year: 1873

The Directors of this road are seeking authority
from the Legislature to erect bridge over the
Christiana and carry their -oad to the Delaware
River 1t was the understanding when this road
was chartered that it had been granted this right.
II it does not possess it we think it should, and
hope that the Legislature will grant the privilege
asked. How any damage can result from bridging
the chrstiana above this city it is difficult TO un-
deFstRnd. The draw ON such bridge would not
be required to be opened, an average, more than
snee day, and then only for a small vessel load
ed with material for a fertilizing establishment
Theirs may be a few interested persons on the
Chriatiana, who are so sordid as 10 hope to keep
the people of this city from ever getting position
on the Delaware where vessel may land, but these
persons are few, and we hope without the inhu-
ence to prevent the necessary action to enable the
Wilmington and Reading Railroad from being
extended to the Delaware. Draw bridges when
properly tended are no obstruction to travel and
we Should be glad to see several more demanded
and erected over the Christiana below as well as
above the city. And there is no danger of their
erection if they are net demanded. When Third
street bridge was built many said it was not needed
and waste Of money. In fact It had to be built
by subscription, and had it not been so built
we db not believe bridge would have been erect
ed there yet. But the result is that that section
of the city has increased rapidly since that the
bridge is now an absolute necessity. Chicago
is bridged at nearly every street crossing the
stream that passes through that city; and yet it
does not prevent the increase in the immense
traffic with vessels that pass Though the dIsws
Of lite bridges, The time must come when the
Christiana will have several bridges below that of
Third street, if Wilmington is TO be the great
city lie people fondly hope to see it in the near
future
Year: 1873

Our readers should be careful to notice
that PROCTOR 4 CANDLES STAMP is upon
the bars of their NOTIFIED GERMAN Soar,
as all good articles are initiated, and this
Soap being so popular, other manufactur-
ers have copied their stamp 6-23d3m
Year: 1873

Mechanics, artisans, factory hands, and
people who labor for living find it very
difficult if not impossible to keep the hands
free from stain, Hand sapoliO will not on
ly remove every particle OF stain, and what
is called grained in dirt, but it will also
keep the skin soft and bliable, rendering
the muscular action as quick and easy as
is the case with those who do not perform
hand labor 1t is only 10 and cents a
cake, aceoding to size. Every mechanic
should use it constantly is place of all other
soaps
Year: 1873

Renne's Pain Killing Magic Oil is the
surest cure for rheumatism in use. In
fact, it is good to cure any kind of pain or
lameness. and it is clean and delicious to
use. 1T works like charm"
Year: 1873

All ladies having Hair Goods made up or
making purchases in that line to the extent OF 81
or upwards will receive four tickets.


Parties making purchase of Jewelry to the
extent of 81 or upwards will receive two tickets;
and 50 cents worth of Jewclry purchasers Of %
cents worth of Jewelry will receive one ticket
For every Ladies Scarf at G0c or upwards one
ticket.


For every Ladies Belt one ticket.


For every Bustle one ticket


For every Hoopskirt one ticket.


For every pair of Corsets one tickets


For every Hair Brush or Comb al 70 cents or
upwards one ticket


For every Pocket Book one ticket


For every Japan Switch AT 20 cts. one ticket
For every Fan at 25c or upwards one ticket.
For every Plat at 25c or upwards one ticket.