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Year: 1875




Is it true, as 50 many people assert,
that poverty and happiness cannot be
met in intimate companionship? Is the
old saying correct one, that "when
poverty comes in at the door, love flies
out at the window ?" There is always
some truth, as some misrepresentation,
in these generalized assertions. People
brought up in humble life, accustomed
to poverty in all its phases, and desti-
tute of feasible reason to hope, at any
time, for more than competence, CON-
monty love within their social sphere,
and enjoy as much felicity as that sphere
and their knowledge furnish. The chill
dren of poverty are content with things
of comparatively easy attainment. There
is no Glove of the moth for the star"
1t is something that comes down to
the practical, not the poetic. and as
love promises sympathetic nature, an
affectional disposition. sObriety and in
dustry, enough to eat, and suficiency
to array man and wife in respectable at
tire. the poor are satisfied. They sell
dom have more why should they an
ticipate it \? They oftener have much
less; their anxiety is to avert this and
''keep the wolf from the door" Hence
it requires but little to render them hap
py while those whose lives have been
passed amid scenes of greater show and
abundance, and whose anticipations are
proportionately elevated, demand con-
siderably more to meet their enlarged
views, and become wretched when DOOM
ed to disappointment. Poverty and hap
piness are not incompatible, when pow
erty has disciplined by self-denial, and
mems wants have been taught TO adapt
themselves to surrounding circumstan-
ces. The poor who really suffer are
those who have "seen better days. -
They have not been educated TO priya-
tions. and 1t rasps on their untutored
spirits until despair ends the picture.
Year: 1875

About the meanest people in the
country are those who are always pes
tering publishers for sample copies gra-
tbs. If they want sample copies. they
should send on the money for them.
Publishers who send sample copies free,
are running their own and other peoples
business. Why not ask for sample
pound Of butter or of cheese for moth
ing? A dozen of such mean souls could
be put on the point of needle-and not
be crowded either.
Year: 1875

A writer in BlackaUOod'S says: "The
subject of female education has brought
out with special force of acclamation the
superiority of the present day over the
past in the thoroughness of instruction
impaired. The slipshod teaching of
girls in former days, its miserable pre-.
tence andshollowness is an inexhaustible
theme, and indeed there is not much to
be said for it. Compare the school-books
of the past with any paper on teaching
addressed to the young women of the
present-compare what they are expect
ed to know, the subjects they are to be
interested in, the intricacies of grammar
and construction, which are to be at
their fnger-ends, with the ignorance of
accidental picking up of knowledge
which was once the women's main chance
of requirement and our expectations are
not unreasonably raised. The pupils of
the new school ought to be more COM
panionable than their predecessors, they
ought to talk better, more correctly,
more elegantly; and, as their subjects
of interest become more profound, as
science and art open their stores to them,
their vocabulary should meet the need
at once more accurate, more copious,
more felicitous. We put it to our world
of readers-is it so Do our young la
dies talk better than their mothers? Do
they express their meaning with greater
nicely? Nay, do they speak better
grammar? Moreover, is this an aim ?
Are they taught to do this by their sex,
who profess to portray the girlhood Of
our day? Is it not an understood thing
that three or four epithets are 10 do du-
ty for all the definition the female mind
has need Of, and that solecisms, which
would have shocked the ears of an earli.
generation, pass unreproYed ?"
Year: 1875

The Pomeroy boy, the double or treb-
lie murderer, is very uneasy because the
Governor and Council won't decide his
fate. He interprets the delay in his
favor, and openly says he will never be
hung. 1t seems too bad that he should
not be disposed of in some way. At any
rate the sheriff of Suffolk County should
be relieved of the constant watch and
trouble of this terrible demon.
Year: 1875

No newspaper man of any experience
expects to please everybody, nor does
he try. He sails along on his way
making his paper the vehicle of the COM
munity--cOming in antagonism with
whomever and whatever stands in his
way, and leaving those who are offended
to stop their paper and start another to
their liking. No1thaoeSt.
Year: 1875

No use of any longer taking the large,
repulsive, gripping, drastic and nauseons
pills, composed Of crude and bulky in
grediments, and put up in chep wood
or pasteboard boxes, when we can. by q
careful application of chemical science,
extract all the cathartic and other medi-
cinal properties from the most valuable
roots and herbs, and concentrate them
into minute Granule, scarcely larger
than a mustard seed, that can be readily
swallowed by those of the most sensitive
stomnchs and fastidious taste. Each of
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets
represents, in q most concentrated form,
as much cathartic power as is embodied


in any of the large pills found for sale
in the drug stores. From their wonder
full cathartic power, in proportion to
their size, people who have not tried
them are apt to suppose they are harsh
or drastic in effect, but such is not at all
the case, the different active medicinal
principals of which they were composed
being so harmonized, one by the others,
as to produce most searching and thor
ough, yet gently and kindly operating
cathartic. The Pellets are sold by deal
ers in medicine.
Year: 1875

] No Police CASES. So completely
moral have been our people since Sa-t
turday morning, that the police have
had no occasion to make a single ar
rest, and the police record, this morn
ing was blank.
Year: 1875

SMooTH sHoD HoRsEs.-It is either
with notions of false economy or in
difference to the wants of dumb AMI
mails that owners of horses, allow them
to be driven on the slippery streets
without the precaution of having them
rough shod or calked A little care in
this respect taken in time may prevent
accidents to both horse and man, and
damages to the vehicles. s7 e.. ,7s...
Year: 1875

grasp Of the sinewy hand, and ever anon his
closely buttoned uniform became tense al
most to splitting across his huge chest, as he
set back his shoulders and threw up his
head, regarding his foes with that implaca-
bic glance which never fails to shake the
stronges: nerves, when he darts it at an OBJ
ject of his hatred or contempt. In the
course of an experience neither brief nor
ordinary ! have seen many remarkable men
at moments when they may have been ex-
pected to labor under excitement of the most
vehement description; bat have never yet
witnessed the Consciousness of unbounded
power expressed in the physique and bearing
of human being as | saw it in Prince
Bismarck. As he stood forward, facing the
house, the natural sternness of his aspect
accented by the natural rigidity Of his mill
tary tenue. he looked to me like the incar-
nation Of an ungoyernable will like Colos-
sus, unquestionably capable of bearing upon
his mighty shoulders cares and responsible
ties that would crush common mortal into
powder.-Cowcspondence Of LORdon Iffe-
graph
Year: 1875

plants, but the path was narrow, and to press
to her side would have been indecorous as
well as dangerous to his pots, and to precede
her, he was given to understand, would have
been Tin Russia) to commit high treason.
At last they came to swing door, which
only required push, but which, to the Rus
sian Duchess, was an immense barrier. She
had never opened door for herself in her
life, and was not going to begin in nursery
garden at Chiswick. Her splendid attire
blocked up the path so that to pass by her
was impossible, and the whole party conse-
quently came to dead lock. The unhappy
proprietor was in despair. Then the Duke
came to his assistance. She won't open the
door, said he ; that is quite out Of the ques-
ton. Do you run round, open it for her,
and keep in front of her. Walk backward,
and never mind your flower pots Whether
any flower pots were broken, don't know;
but will stake my existence that if they
were the Duke did not pay for them
Year: 1875

HIS INTERESTING STORY ABOUT HIS EIlCRA-


TIoS TO TUE UNITED STATES.


twenty-five years ago l made up my mind
to emigrate to america was then twenty
six years old. was not married but | want
ed to be. All young men who are worth
their salt want to be married by the time
they are twenty-six years old. was then a
blacksmith. | got three shilling a day,
which was eighteen shilling 4 week in Eng
lish money. The shillings is about the
same as German thaler, so eighteen shil-
lings is about the same as fve-dolar green
back. | was not very good blacksmith, for
three reasons. First, my head was not the
right sort-and you can no more expect
man to do frst-rate work in iron if his head
is not in tune with his hammer and anvil
than you can expect to teach one Of your
boys, if he is not poet, to write a poem as
Schiller's . Song Of the Bell" That was the
first reason. The second was, the old man
used to 90 OF drinking, and leave me to find
it out for myself; and before found it out
the drink killed him, as it will any one who
gives up 10 il as he did. and makes beast
of himself, | was going to say, but that
would be SANDER on the beasts, because
never heard of but one animal that got drank.
AMI
Year: 1875

but did not spend anything m beer. liked
both. but could not nave both. So, as we
say put the money where it would do the
most good, because | very soon found that
these Yankees did not care who man was,
but they did care what he was. He might be
the son ola duke or baron in the old coun-
try. bat if he didn't know anything they
would set him picking potatoes. But If he


knew how to paddle his own canoe, how to


work. how to think, to farm, to keep house,
tend store, to preach, to lecture. to try case
at the bar, or set broken leg better than
any one else round the section, be was worth
50 much and got it. just as il he was a pound
of butter or a bushel Of wheat. The children
came as | thought they would. They were
as welcome Is the flowers in June, because
Year: 1875

IT may have been questioned by mat
ter-offact people whether the amusing
tricks called sleight-of-hand or prestidig-
itation were of any practical application
OF use. A sharp performer in Detroit
has settled the question in the atfirma-
tive. He was sleepy-looking fellow,
and he went into clothing-store carry
ing a bundle about the size of suit of
clothes, wrapped neatly in brown paper.
But this customer wanted to buy a new
suit, and selected thirty-fve dollars worth
ofstore-clothes, which the dealer wrapped
up in a package also about the size ofa suit
of clothes. The sleepy fellow suddenly
discovered that he had nothing but a
check to pay for his suit, and he asked
that the package might be laid aside for
him until he could go around to his bank
and draw the money. To this the store
keeper had no objection, and he laid the
package aside The customer departed
as he came, carrying bundle about the
size of suit of clothes. He did not re-
turn. and several days passed. At length
the clothing-deale thought it about time
to open the bundle and replace the
clothes in the stock. This he proceeded
to do, and found to his surprise and dis
gust that the bundle contained greasy,
ragged, cast-off suit There was only one
explanation-the prestidigitator had dex-
terously exchanged bundles-both being
wrapped in paper of the same color. 1t
was very neat and sharply practical
trick of legerdemain of about the value
and size of a suit of clothes.-St. Louis
RepubLicnn.
Year: 1875

blemishes-are yet pleasant to look at
for the care bestowed on them, their
dainty perfection of cleanliness being
charm in itself Nothing, indeed, is more
disgusting than dirty hands and neglected
nails, as nothing gives one such sense
of freshness and care as the same mem
bers well kept. But one of the ugliest
things in nails is when they are bitten;
which, to judge by what one sees, is
habit having irresistible fascinalions for
those given over to it. 1t is an action,
by the way, that has more than one sig
nifcance. 1t may mean consideration,
doubt, hesitancy; or it may mean anger
or annoyance; or as habit it may point
to the not remote possibility of madness.
In any case it is ugly to look at and
worse than ugly in its results; bare
fiDger-tips, with the protecting cover
gnawed to the bleeding flesh, belonging
to the list of things mutilated and will
fully spoiled-therefore taken out of the
category of things ugly by nature, hence
misfortunes for which the sufferer is in
no wise accountable"
Year: 1875

THE first Mennonite wedding since
coming to this country occurred in Bar
ton County, Kan, Oh the 2Sth of March,
and the contractin. parties were Benja
jamin Unruh and Mary Unruh. A cor
respondent of the Atchison Champion
thus describes the event: "The ceremony
was performed in accordance with the
customs that prevail among the people
of Russia, and as such is of interest to
those who wish to get acquainted with
them. The day was Easter Sunday, and
as such was especially observed. The
writer went to the school-house at $50
o'clock. The congregation were singing.
The music was not of the most artistic.
At ten o'clock the bride and groom en-
tered, entirely unattended and took seats
on two chairs placed especially for them
directly in front OF the pulpit. The
Easter sermon took one hour and three
quarters. 1t was entirely without note.
The wedding ceremony was read from
manuscript and occupied half an hour.
The bride and groom kept their seats
during most of the half hour. Both
answered Yes five times. To what
they answered do not know, as l do not
understand German. They left the
house as they came, and apparently as
happy as folks generally are under such
circumstances. The parties are of the
most well-to-do families that are settling
here. The bride came from Russia with
her parents last fall. She was dressed
very neatly in black. There was no
paint, jute or other modern improve
ments in her outfit, and 1 think Ameri-
can girls might profitably follow her ex-
ample in this matter. The groom has
been in this country about sixteen
months, and has been in Nebraska till
about two weeks since. He speaks very
good English, is plowmaker, and very
we'll informed. He has bought railroad
land near here and is going to farming.
They are of the class that are bound to
succeed in Kansas, and they will be the
most wealthy, intelligent and happy of
our citizens"
Year: 1875

DR.. ARLIDGE, one of the pottery in
spectors of Staffordshire, has put forth
very sensible protest against very
pernicious custom, which rarely receives
sufficient attention either from the med
ical profession or the general public
He says that the women of the working
classes make tea a principal article OF
diet instead of an occasional beverage
They drink it several times a day, and
the result is lamentable amount OF
sickness.


Tea, in anything beyond moderate
quantities, is as distinctly a narcotic
poison as is opium or alcohol. 1t is
capable of running the digestion, of en-
feebling and disordeIing the hearts ac-
ton, and of generally shattering the
nerves. And it must be remembered
that not merely is it question OF mar.
cotic excess, but the enormous amount
of hot water which tea-bibbers neces.
sarily drink is exceedingly prejudic!al
both to digestion and nutrition. In
short, without pretending to place this
evil on par as to general effects with
those caused by alcoholic drinks, one
may we'll insist that our teetotal reform
ers have overlooked, and even to small
extent encouraged, form OF animal in
diligence which is as distinctly sensual
extravagant and pernicious as any beer
drinking or gin-swilling in the world
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.
Year: 1875

A PASSENGER on Michigan Southern
train en- route for Chicago was recently
swindled out of large sum of money
by trio of three-card-mo operators,
Just before the cars reached that city.
The Tribune gives the following account
of the operation:


"The facts of the case are about as
follows: Mr.. Bedell, of Norwalk, Ohio,
was in the smokingcar, and one of the
confidence operators had for some time
been sitting on the same seat with him.
Presently another accomplice came in
the car, sat down near Bedell and began
talking. He said he was Mexican
drover, and told of tribulations with 800
head of Mexican cattle which he had
had on his hands. Then he mentioned
that he had lost $500 at the three-card-
monte game. The young fellow who oc-
cupied the same seat with Bedell asked
how it was, and the alleged Mexican
drover told all about it, and then added
that they had given him the cards and
taught him how to play, and when he got
home he could win all the money he
wanted The young fellow asked him
to show him the game. The other one
said he had no table to deal on. The
young fellow suggested that he might
use his coat, and he accordingly pulled
out his pasteboardsI and began opera
tions. An old man, the third member of
the gang, who was sitting across the
aisle, bet $40 he could turn up the queen.
He lost, and then bet $40 and won.
The young fellow picked up the
queen while the dealer was ap-
parently looking the other way, and
made pencil mark on it. Then he bet
$50 and won. Bedell showed signs of
nervousness, and began fumbling at his
pocket-book The young fellow said to
him, "Bet your pile; you've got sure
thing on it," Bedell bet 81 400 and lost.
Then the dealer pulled out fresh deck,
and while he was looking the other way
the young man again marked the queen
with cross The old man stepped over
to Bedell and said: Your only chance
of getting your money back is to size
your first bet So Bedell bet 81 SOCIAL
he had left except $10-and lost again.


"Then the young man observed to
Bedell that he was his friend, and when
they got to the city he would 60 with
him to the police-station, the location OF
which he knew. The old man also con-
doled with Bedell, and told him he
would ask the dealer back into the rear car
where his wife was, under pretense OF
giving him a cigar, and would keep a
close eye on him until they got to town.
he did ask him, and the two went back.
Year: 1875

WOULD you keep your rosy complex
ion, wear thick soled shoes.


Would you enjoy quiet content, do
away with airs and preteuses.


Would you have others respect your
opinions, hold and never disown them
yourself.


Would you have good health, go out in
the sunshine. Sickness is worse than
freckles.


Would you respect yourself, keep your
heart and body clean.


Would you retain the love of friend,
do not be selfishly exacting.


Would you gain the confidence of busi-
ness men, do not try to support the style
of your employer.


Would you never be told lie, do not
ask personal questions.


Would you sleep well and have good
appetite, attend to your own business.


Would you have the respect of men,
never permit yourself to indulge in vul-
gar onversation-RualN Neao Yorker.
Year: 1875

A decision just rendered in the United
States Supreme Court at Washington
relates to a matter of general interest in
respect to life insurance. We gather
from the brief telegraphic report that the
administrator of an estate, which includ-
ed life insurance policy. sued the COM
pany that issued it. For defense the
company alleged that it was obtained by
false representations that the allegations
of the person insured formed the basis of
the policy, and these were not in accord
ance with the facts. The statements to
which exception was thus taken at SO
late an hour were in the usual form Of
replies to questions. The plaintiff seems
to have met this argument by showing
that the particular replies whose truth
was disputed were immaterial to the risk
assumed by the company; and that in
any one no falsehood was intended by the
person insured. On q verdict adverse to
the estate the case was appealed, and
now the United States Supreme Court
has affirmed the decision OF the court be-
low.


A few months ago when the Chamber
Year: 1875

Of Life Insurance prepared forms of


examination and application for general


use by the companies, it was urged as a


grave objection to the new forms that


they included a declaration by the in


sured that the truthfulness of the


answers was material" The oppo-
nents of the forms regarded that feature
as likely to inflict great hardship on the
insured or the survivors. 1t was argued
that a person applying for policy
might very easily make a mistake
through inadvertence or ignorance, in
answering SO many questions, and that
it was not just for company to be
enabled to take such. advantage of a
mistake as to relieve itself from obliga-
ton. By putting his name to state
ment that warrants each answer and
declares it material, it was alleged that
the insurer signed away legal right
which properly belonged to him and his
survivors.


The decision of the United States Su-
preme Court points to a contrary con-
clusion. 1t regards the untruthful an
swers of an applicant as simply making
the policy void. The questions were
whether he had previously applied
for insurance. AS matter of fact
the applicant was married, and he
had another policy. The instrument of
insurance-th policy in suit-stated that
it was made on the express condition
that all the representations of the appli-
cant were true. Hence the court de-
cides that the answers being untrue it
made no difference whether they were
material to the risk or were unintention-
ally false; their untruth dissolved the
obligation of the company.


The hardship in this class of cases is,
therefore, not increased as the precise
declaration of the new form recommend.
ed by the chamber. That hardship,
whatever it may be, existed before the
form was devised. 1t is the hardship
inherent in the nature and law of written
contracts, which bind the parties to them
fast to the letter of their provisions
The phrases of the declaration in the
new form are, in fact, likely to attract
the attention of the applicant and make
him notice more closely than he other
wise would this peculiar feature of the
contract. So that, after all, the declara-
tion may prove less hardship than its
absence.-N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1875

Presently the young man said he would
look into the rear car and see if the
dealer was still there. So Oft he went.
Soon after the train slackened up, and it
is presumed the three men used the op-
portunity to get off.


"The case has been reported to the
police, but it is not likely that any ar
rests will be made"
Year: 1875

On Saturday, at Aylmer, Ontario, an
event occurred in which two children
were the actors-but in which the high
est attributes of human nature were dis
played-and heroine of seventeen
years closed her career, having done that
which hundreds of her sex pass through
long lives without achieving-she
showed that she bore "a likeness to the
mighty dead" and could claim "a kim
dred with the great of old" A girl
named Popps, seventeen years old, is
working in the house, musing-who can
say over what?-and keeping an eye all
the time on her little brother who was
playing upon the ice on the creek. The
little boy falls into the water. Instantly
his sister, careless of danger, runs to pull
him out and is drawn in herself. What
does she do then9 Think of herself?
No! She calmly tells her little brother
to climb on to her back and get out. tie
did so and was saved, but, in doing as
she bade him. he pushed her under the
ice, under which she arifted hve or SIX
wards, and, of course, when taken out,
was quite dead. What noble girl!
Could any hero whose name shall i've
forever in story do more than she did?
At her age she knew well the peril, but
boldly ventured life and love and youth
to save another. She died exemplifyinG
the principle Of the crowning act OF
mans salvatinn-and while we mourn
over the loss of so fine and noble spirit
there is a mournful satisfaction in know
ing that such heroic devotion still lives
| on earth.-1orontO Globe.