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Year: 1873

The way to make easy times is as
clear as daylight.


Let every man or woman who owes
money pay it at once, if it is possible.


Be willing to make sacrifice in order
to meet promptly all your engagements.


Stop grumbling at the faults or mis-.
takes of others, and attend faithfully to
your own affairs.


Deal fairly, leniently, and cheerfully
with all persons who owe you or are in
pecuniary trouble.


If you are out of debt, thank the
Lord ; and then go around among your
friends, and enemies too, if you have
them, and render them all the assis-
tance in your power.


Don't hoard your money; but loan 1t
or use it to relieve the needy, on the
same principle as you would give bread
to the needy in day of famine.


Do what you can in every way to re-
ieve pecuniary distress, to check the
current of financial embarrassments and
restore public confidence.


If you are bank officer or director,
don't be cross minute. Smile, as q
Christian duty, from morning till night.
Give an encouraging word, If possible,
to all, and by all means strain every
nerve 10 help all Who need it,
Year: 1873

One of the things you read of recent
ly occurred in WILMINGTON, Del. A
man was detected hurrying away from
a butchers stall with steak which he
had stolen under his coat. A police
man followed him to his home, and
peeping through the window, saw him
give the steak to his children, who de-
voured it raw. Upon report of this
being made to the butcher, his bosom
SO glowed with benevolent sympathy,
that instead of prosecuting, he sent the
starving family large basket Of meat
and little cash to buy wood TO cook
L.
Year: 1873

Thou art mine, thou hast given thy word;


Close. close in my arms thou art clinging


Alone for my ear thou art singing
A sons N .ch no stranger hath heard;
Bn. aMr from me yet, like bird,
THY soul in some region unstirred,


On it. mystical circle is winging.
Thou art mine, have made thee mine own


Hencof1rth we are mingled forever


Bat in vain, all in vain, endcavor--
Though round thee my garlands are thrown,
And thou yieldcst thy lips and thy zone
TO master the spell that alone


Ny hold ON thy being can sever,
lhpu art mine thou hast come unto me
But thy soul, when strive to DO near it
The innemost fold Of thy spirit
i as far from my grasp, is az free,
As the stars from the mountain tops be,
A. the pearl in the depths of tho sea
From the portionless ring that would wear it
Year: 1873

the world possessing scarcely trace OF
ambition. Such do not care for distinction
or even for wealth; if they can procure
the humblest fare, by constant toll, the
aspirations of their boyhood, and subse
quentIy of their manhood, are fully met.
They are negative characters, happy with
nothing, and suffer no elation or depres-
sion, whether in sunshine or under a
cloud. These boys, who often afford much
modification to ambitious parents, fill a
most important niche in the world; in
fact, the world could not do without them
They constitute the great army OF men
who build our railroads, tunnel our noun
tains, load and unload our ships, cut down
our forests, and manipulate the red-hot
iron masses which come from our blast
furnaces. We cannot alter the tempera-
ments of such boys. Nature is stronger
than we are, and well it is that this is SO
We may hold them by the power of wealth
or controlling influences; but when these
fail, they fall at once to their place, ii
obedience to a law as irresistible as thai
which Newtoa discovered in the fall of the
apple. Study to learn what they are
capable of doing for themselves encour
age them to do we'll whatever work il
suited to their natures. Regard every
calling as honorable, the labor of which is
honorably performed, and thus insure
happiness and prosperity to our offspring
--Bostop Journal of Chemistry.
Year: 1873

tree. It costs little it counts much.
Write home; write home,


Write from home, ye beloved !! You
need not tell us news of the election, nor
remind us =" Suppose you have heard all
about the great fire." Of course we have.
Write to US of the dumb creatures we used
to know, if any of them survive. Give US
some intelligence of the favorite tree. Tell
US that you went where we used to gather
nuts. Send us picture of the old barn
caves, just as dropping as they are. Take
US back to the play ground. Show US the
light and shadow of our mothers grave.
Write us home~like things, from home.


But write home. Write home. There
is home at hand. There is homestead
where they reassemble. 1t is their Christ
mas time and their Thanksgiving Day in
one. 1t is their New Year, that shall new
er be old


There is postal department under the
Creators hand. His government takes the
hearts letters, to convey them, overland
mail-ah, how safely crossing the noun
tains stepped in fog, along the highway
that climbs the stars. Write home! write
home!
Year: 1873

THE TASTE OF ENGLISH WOMEN IN DRESS
is something frightiul. An afternoons
drive in Hyde Park will not reward one
with the sight of a single pretty costume.
and scarcely with one pretty face. In i'm
agination have already gwen the aristo-
cratic ladies of England the palm as en-
bodying the finest types of female beauty,
combining grace OF manner and beauty Of
face aud form, with culture and refinement
So far my imagination has been entirely
at variance with the facts. They wear
loud and fashy colors, without an attempt
at harmony in their combination. The
most violent contrasts delight them, black
and white being the most In favor. They
wear the most enormous chignons on the
back of their heads, the same fashion that
was in vogue, only not in so exaggerated
form, in the States, four or five years
ago. This style of hair dressing is simply
ludicrous. The shoes-well, that is a sub
ject to which no pen can DO justice. The
stout, thick soles of the walking-boots are
not Objectionable, for even American ladies
have cast CT the silly practice of wearing
paper-soled shoes The fashionable boots
[ see in the shop windows and on the feet
of the ladies, are the ugly, old-fashioned
congress gaiter, with lasting at the sides,
low at the ankle, and as fiat on the soles
as piece of paper. One would suppose,
from the appearance Of the shoes seen up
on the street. that high instep was entire
ly unknown to an English shoemaker, for
it is unprovided for in their shoes. This
want of taste is to be found among all
classes. One seldom meets either a beau
tiful or Il well-dressed English woman.


And then there is an imperiousness and
hauteur in the manner of ladies in English
society that makes person less willing to
overlook and forgive them for their horrld
dressing. If one is unfortunate enough to
meet these people travelling, the compensa-
sion will be found in having gained the
knowledge of the capacity of the human
species to make fools of themselves, for 1t
is in travelling that this sort of persons de-
velop the grandest capacity in this direc-
tion.- Correspondence Later-Ocean.
Year: 1873

SooFrELD's GoAT.-Deputy Sheriff Har-
vey Scoield of West Farms, was recently
the proprietor of billy goat. The mis-
chievous pranks of this quadruped were
fully up to the average, and were the
source of continued anxiety to Mr.. Scofeld.
The goat was the terror of bill posters,
for he could reach handbill on the high
est fence, and one day a circus troupe
which had lost heavily by coming into town
charged their bad luck to Scofeld's goat,
who had eaten their posters. Small boys
with red stockings always gave his goatship
plenty of room whenever he took prom
enade. A strange boy only needed bunting
over once to become as contemplatlve as
the village boys. The goat had a great
dislike of yellow dogs, and never missed
an opportunity to pitch one of them into
the BRONX if he could catch him on the
bank of the river. A fight among the
village dogs could be broken up at once by
shouting Scofeld's goat Young ladies,
too, knew Scofeld's goat, and never wore
red, color which annoyed him.


Sco6eld says he has spent more than
$40 for ropes to tie the goat up, but that
he is capable of eating a clothes line fifty
feet long within three days. The depre-
dations Of this animal around Mr.. Sco6eld's
yard and in his house have been very
discouraging. Not long ago he ate one of
his masters gum shoes, and chewed hole
in a new felt hat. Then he barked a
favorite ounce bush, and broWsed all the
branches off a small pear tree-a new
variety. Last week he devoured an exc
cution against threshing machine without
disturbing his stomach, and then ate all
the batting out of bed-quilt that was
hanging out of window. The next day
when Sco6eld arrived home, he spied the
goat on shed chewing sheep skin which
he had just dressed and spread out to dry.
Scofeld tried to frightsn the goat from
the roof by throwing sticks and stones at
him; but after breaking pane of glass
in neighbor's house he decided to 60 up
and help him down. On reaching the top
of the shed the goat darted between Mr.,
Scofeld's legs, still clinging to the sheep
skin. Scofeld sat down with the velocity
of cannon ball. The roof gave way
and MIR. Scofeld fell into an empty potato
barrel as though he had expected chair
there to receive him. The goat fell on a
pile OF coal and escaped into the yard,
leaving NJ. Sco6eld struggling to get out
of the barrel. Just as he had almost freed
himself the barrel went to slaves, the ulti.
Year: 1873

matum being that he reached the ground
still in sitting posture and in very
unsettled state of mind except on one
point, and that was to sell that goat to the
first man who came along. " Yes, by dad.
that damned goat must go-that settled
it." said Scofcd, as he clambered to his
feet, surveyed the surroundings, and saw
the goat in the fence corner still chewing
the sheep skin.


On Friday, however, he sold the goat
to Morrisania German for So. On Sat-
urday the German called for his goat
with rope and boy. The boy was
assigned to fasten the rope to the g oats
horns. The next minute the boy was
clinging to the limbs of an apple tree and
screaming like screech owl. The man
then mounted fence and lassoed the goat.
Billy went along well enough until he
reached the street. Then he set both feet
down that he would go no further. The
men tugged at the rope, but his goatship
was as firm as pine stump. All at once
Billy lunged forward while the German
was pulling hard at the rope, and he fell
backward against gate and tumbled into
a neighbor's yard. Away went the goat
and rope toward the village at high speed.
Billy had his dander up. and was in for
sensation. TIE cry, There comes SEQ
fields goat with fire in his eye was start
ed and all other red substances vanished
Aa he ran down the street he saw himself
in a looking glass which was standing in
E.oak &c onI cfa ~
the reflection for another goat, he stopped,
looked wise, took deliberate aim with his
shaggy head and went through the glass,
emerging on the other side with his horns
entangled in the wires of a spring mattress
and his face covered with blood. The pro.
pretor of the goat soon arrived. and tying
his legs, put him in wagon and started
for home, saying: Il vix der ID goat
when | gets him home


Yesterday the German took the goat
back to Mr.. Scofeld and demanded bis
money. He said, "I never see such a
goat like dat. | not keep snch goats like
him. Las night he butt my front fence
down, and yesterday he kill my dog dat
pays s25 nit. Why do you not dell me
de goat he got some dicks, eh?'


Mr.. Scofield informed the German tha
ne could not take the goat back, but the
owner left the animal there.


Mr.. Sco6eld says that he will keep the
goat a few duys, and then take out an ex
ecution against the German for boarding
the goat, and if the German don't pay tn,
bill he will sell the goat at auction.
Year: 1873

ohe was tender and gentle, lily


To look at aud golden her hair;


Is beauty too oft a misfortune?


Alas, she was wonderfully fair


The lily's pale beauty the woes


VI the winter wrap cold in her SHOWS.
She was fattered: wrong, for with folly
Already was dizzy her brain
AT hints of her prudence was scornful


Ihough her eyes shed mimicing rain:
fou would hardly avow she was bold,
But sure she was farthest from cold
she was tender blossom in peril


W ltn the tinge of the mornings first flush;
Had a heart for loves warmth and it futtered
While her cheeks with crimson did blush:
And her passionate nature half wrong
And half right had a current most strong
There are sweets that are lurking in danger
Is there gold in the goldenest hair?
On the lip with smile that bewitches


Oft blazes the opal of fire
There is gold not an honor to gain,
And smile which but smothers pain.
Was it worth, was it beauty Carl Morton
Beheld when he said for bride
Give me Mill at the gaze of the Sexton?
OF our hopes, how have th ey lied
And the skies filed with stars, alas,
Have been spread with roofing of brass.
Of the May days and May Queens in garlands
The years crowned no fairer before.
OF the clouds that did darken a morrow


The darkest hid Witherlane's door
For the eyes of Carl Morton so brown
On his winsome young daughter looked down
And the ardor. the passionate ardor


VI Mill was in passionate flame;
And the house of the Sexton of Orni


Bent down in the shadow of shame;
And the bride # merry yue tides
In her white was the whitest of brides.
1t is twelve by the clock in the steeple


With the snow from the sky sf ing down;
"O the winds howl aloud" say the people
And all in shadow the town."
There are mists on the Infinite sea,
There are doubts that are greater than we
All the night for Christ wept the sinner,
Near the church door did pass and repass.
But the Magdaen died none to win her


BY prayers, none to give her the mass
All, she died bewailing the life
Of a mother when scogned as a wife.
How unequal, o Father, our sorrow


There are lips that of aconite drink
While the beaker so quafed by another


Is wine. Be it slow as we think,
The die of the wheel is SO cast
Life's measure weighs even at lastl
Lift her up from the bed the lily


With the icicles touch on her cheek;
Once wanton, now cold is her passion


Once proud, now alas, she is meek
And say if ever 4 bride


Was whittier dressed at yule tide.
Idylrood, Dec. l4th, 1874.
Year: 1873

m hh PROPENSITY TO MAKE THE BEs1. OF
ihiNGs Is generally found in combination
with those smaller virtues which are mora
annoying to ones neighbors than most
VICES: Inc man who rises at five every
lho,h'ng' who always ties up his letters
Win red tape, and who is convinced of tho
great Truth that it is better to be half an
nour TOO early than half an hour too late is
frequently given to making the best of
things, The duty of doing so is moral
'ua&,m Just big enough for MIN to under.
stand He probably reflects upon it in the
cary morning at the time when his cold
oath is bringing out that glow, physical
ana moral, which makes him an offense to
all weaker vessels during the rest of the
oay' The rudy, jovial person who gets
himself up after the country gentleman
type' or the more unctuous variety of pop
uiar preacher, is apt to be perspiring this
ooctrino at every pore. 1t is pleasure
10 MIN to meet somebody in distress upon
whom ne may discharge boisterous com
fort through his favorite aphorism, as
hre-englne sends cold water through hose.
Ii he acquires some dim consciousness of
the fact that his kind exhortations sound
IKE bitter mockery to his victims, it on
y increases his sense of virtue. They
cannot comfort themselves under the loss
OF wife by the reflection that they still
nave severa. first cousins, and money
enough to pay for handsome monument.
That oaly proves that they have not stud.
led so we'll as he the great art of properly
directing their sentiments. For of course
ne Will deny in the most pathetic manner
that he would ever advise anything like
set-deceit. He does not avowedly ask
sufferer to profess that a toothache is
rather pleasant distraction than other
wise; ne onl ly recommends him to fix his
attention upon his great toe or some other
remote part of his body which may ap-
pear to be enjoying good health. And in
tact, there are some people so envably
constituted that small pleasant object
elevates them more than great unpleas-
ant object depresses them. They are peo


pie so to speak, Of small specific gravity,
who cannot be submerged without heavy
burden OF melancholy. The person who
makes the best of things processes to be of
this temperament. 1t is not, he W ould have
you believe, that he does not sympathize
with grief, but that his constitutional buoy
ancy makes sympathy in him compatible
with exhileration he does not deny the
existence Of evils, but the smallest grain
OF good makes him happy, just as half a
glass OF wine makes some men drunk
There are, we say, such people as these
men, if we may coin word. easily ntoxi-
cable. But we are inclined, as a rule, to
vehement suspicion in both cases. The
man who is upset by the first class has
generally had certain number of glasses
before, and the man who makes the best
of things is generally helped to be serene
either By the absence of strong feeling or
by the want of courage to look at the
worst-LOndOn Saturday Reeiew.
Year: 1873

WEST PoINT, June 13.-The examina-
ton of the graduating class Of cadets was
corcladed to-day, and at IL O'Clock the
whole corps formed square under the
trees in front of the Library building to
witness the presentation of the diplomas
awarded according to class standing and
rank. As each name was called the cadet
stepped forward and received his diploma
from the President. Previous to the dis


tribuiOn Gen. Belknap, Secretary of War,
made a speech to the cadets and at the close
Gen. Sherman made short charac eristic


address full of good advice. This afternoon
the ca,iets will receive their liberty and by
nightfall most of them will have departed.
Gen. Sherman and party will return to
Washington this evening and tomorrow
the President and family viii return to Long
Branch. Secretary Belknap will remain
until Monday.
Year: 1873

It has leaked out that during the recent
excursion of the examining board of the
Treasury Department in the South, a COL
lector of customs Was found who could
neither read nor write.
Year: 1873

The Attorney General has decided that
velvet ribbons made of silk and cotton are
not subject to The duty Of 60 per cent. un-
der the eighth section of the tariff act Of
1864, and that they are only subject to the
duty of 50 per cent. under that act.
Year: 1873

OF such character that tho Company could not
legally contract agafust liability. Writing and
delivering tho meaaago OF a paper combining tho
instructions to this effect closed tho contract
and mado 1t binding,
Year: 1873

Tho proposal to repeal the law limiting DAM
agoa for doath by railroad negligence to $4,000,
las been reported upon adversely by tho Rail-
road Committee Of tho House, and Its report is
approved by that body
Year: 1873

The following is the special letter from our cor
respondent at Khartoum, o telegraphic summary
OF which has already been published in the HERALD
1t will be read with great interest," because it comes
from the pen OF traveller of distinguished name,
and geographer connected with many OF the
learned societies of Europe.
Year: 1873

Coolie Trade Horrors and Probable Suppression
of tho Trafic-A Revolutionist Movement
in Sudden Collapse - Democracy
Against Political Immoralities-


Industrial Expansion and


Public Profits.
Year: 1873

COLLISION. $50 o'clock, this morning,
construction train on the Delaware railroad col
lidsd, near the gravel pit, with engine No. 8,
which was coming north. RoadmAster john Ma
honey, who had change of the construction tram,
vas slightly injured about the arm and face. No
one else was hurt Some Of the cars Of the train
were demolished and tha track was 30 Obstructed
that the north bound passenger train was detained
a considerable time and did not arrive until noon
Year: 1873

OwNG TO the small attendance yesterday, Prof.
John A. Light did not ascend in his balloon, from
the corner Of Ninth and Shipley stroeis as he
proposed. Although there was quite a gathering
of Juveniles waiting outside of the enclosure,
yet there was very few, if any of our citizen who
appreciated the adventure enough to pay the ad-
mlttancc fee.
Year: 1873

DEAD FISH IN THE BRANDYWINE.-For the
last two days, numbers Of dead and dying fish
have been discovered floating down the
Brandywine, greatly TO the alarm AMI disgust
Of many consumers Of BrandyWine water who
saw them.


Up to noon to-day, many Of them could be
seen floating down the stream. That they
are poisoned by the deleterOus matter 'frOul
some Of the establishments on the upper
Brandywine seems to be the general impress
sion, and many refuse 70 use hydrant water,
the water in It's present condition. those WhO
use it may be likely to meet, with the same
fate.
Year: 1873

AN UNEXPECTED RETURN.-At the last
session of the Delaware Legislature lady
living on -- street, In this city, procured
a divorce from her husband, who had been
absent for nearly twenty years. On Tuesday
evening, the husband returned and arrived in
time to witness . marriage--nOt his wife's but
his daughters who was welded to one Of our
young men. The husband tits said does not
propose to remain here and will leave ere
long. ,F.
Year: 1873

NEWSPAPER BoRRowERs.-Our readers
will sustain us in the assertion that we have
never INDUCED the common newspaper prac-
tice of talking about people particularly to
their faces, but there are some dwelling on
this mundane sphere whose contracted minds
and pinched souls render them the objects of
aversion and scorn, and it is impossible to
refrain from hufling a malediction at them
whenever they appear to ones mind: And
all of those mean folks, we maintain, is that
class of people too miserly to subscribe to
newspaper, but rely upon borrowing from
neighbors. Borrowing, forsooth, begging, aye,
decently purloining what the miserable sum of
three to FIVE cents would procure a right oftitle
in, and save the perpetrator from the re-
proach and scandal of his neighbor. We
think it as genteel, and certainly more laud.
able, to borrow tooth-pick or brush from
neig ghbor than newspaper, and we advise
our subscribers, when they are troubled by
these questionable beggars, to rebuke them by
sending three cent piece. Of course the
reflection embraces those whe practice it sys-
tematically.
Year: 1873

the stngs of remorse to add its weight to the
burden of which presses us down. Oh that
the past could be recalled |! How different
our lives would be. But it cannot be. 10
"err is human" and so it will be to the end.


The world moves on. We must fulfill our
mission. Let us do the best we can. It's all
we can do. If true love brightens our homes,
happiness and contentment will follow. Let
happiness reign in our midst for there is moth
ing but what can be comprchended by It,
Patience is a great helpmate to those who are
doomed to battle with the cares Of life, for
nothing can be gained suddenly.


Whatever our lot in life may be it is the
best always to look on the bright side, because
it is right. Times may be hard, but it will
make them no easier to wear gloomy coun-
tenancc. ut is the sunshine and not the
cloud that makes the flowers" We do not
live to enjoy worldly pleasure alone, and rise
our souls welfare in the future. No. There
is future and our life here is but the begin
ming. Then let our thoughts be pure, our ac-
tions manly and honest, and we shall have
happiness in this world and the next
Year: 1873

DREAMs.-If man dreams the devil is
after him, it is sign that he had better pay his
subscription bill.


If he dreams of an earthquake, and tur-
moil generally, it is sign that he is going to
be married.


If he (being a married man) dreams Of
some fearful mysterious danger, it isa sign
that his mother.in.law is coming to spend a
few days with her darling daughter.


If he dreams that his head is in danger,
and that his hair falls out, it is sign that he
will have quarrel with his wife.


If he dreams of being accosted by strange
man who insists on taking him with him, it is
sign that he had better know all the police
men.


Ifhe dreams of speaking familiarly to a
ghost with horns and tail, it is sign that he
had better reduce his liquor bill.


If he dreams of making fool of himself, it
is true sign it is so.