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Year: 1873

BEAUTY OF OLD PEoPLE.-Men
and women make their own beauty or
their own ugliness. Lord Lytton
speaks in one of his novels of man
who was uglier than he had any busi-
ness to be; and if he could but read it,
every human being carries his life in
his face, and is good looking or the
reverse as that life has been good or
evil. On our features the fine chisel
of thought and emotion are eternally
at work. Beauty is not the monopoly
of blooming young men and of white
and-pink maidens. There is a slow
growing beauty that only comes to
perfection in old age. Grace belongs
to no period of life, and goodness inn
proves the longer it exists. We have
seen sweeter smiles from lip of
seventy than upon lip of seventeen.
There is the beauty ofyouth and the
beauty of hollness-a beauty much
more seldom met, and more frequent
ly found in the arm chair by the fire
with grandchildren around the knee
than in the ballroom or promenade
Husband and wife, who have fought
the world, side by side, who have made
common stock of JOY and sorrow, and
aged together, are not unfrequently
found curiously alike in personal ap
pearances, and in pitch and tone o
voice-just as twin pebbles on thu
beach, exposed to the same tidal in
fuences, are each others second SELF
He has gained feminine something
which brings his manhood into full
relief. She has gained masculin


something which acts as foil to he
womanhood.
Year: 1873

HARD AND Sort WATERFALL house
wives may not know how materially the
effects of hard and soft water differ in
the cooking of certain vegetables
While one species of vegetables require
hard or soft water as the case may be,
another species becomes sensibly deteri-
grated by it. For instance, peas or beans
cooked in hard water containing lime or
gypsum will not boil tender, because
these substances harden vegetable case
inc. In soft water they will boil tender
and lose certain raw, rank taste which
they retain in hard water. Many veg
etables Gas onions) boil nearly tasteless
in soft water, because all the flavor is
dissolved out. The addition of salt Of
ten checks this, as in the case of onions,
causing the vegetables to retain their pc.
culiar favoring principles, beside much
nutritious matter, which might be lost
in soft water. Thus it appears that the
salt hardens the water to a degree. Fol
extracting juices from meat to make ;
broth or soup, soft water unsalted ant
cold at first is best, for it much more
readily penetrates the tissues; but fo
boiling meats where the juices should b.
retained, put salt in while it is boiling
SO as to seal up the pores at once.
Year: 1873

There JOhn hitch DObbn the post near me and M


down;


Your mother wants to talk you drive to town.
My hairs shall be within the grave
Not long will mother pilot you fes tempestuous wave
I've watched DER you from infancy till you are man,
And have always loved you a mother only cam
At morning and at evening have prayed God Of love
To bless and guide darling boy bright home above


mothers searching John, age can dim its sight
When watching DER only child to he does rights
And very lately have what has aroused my fears
And made pillow hard at night and mosened with
I've light within upon your cheek glow
That told the road that shame and


woe;


john don't turn head away and my
Stay the dear old in the town.
Remember what the poet sayOng proved il true
That Satan finds mischief still for idle to do
IL you live IN dlenes with those who love the bowl
You'll dig yourself drunkards grave and wreck our dsath


less soul.


oh has labOred very hard to the for you,
But it will go to ruin and poverty will irown,
you keep htchIng DObbin up drive nto the town.
Your prospects for the very bright my SON
Not have start in life when they are
Your star that shines brightly nOwn darkness will decline
II you forget your mothers words and the wine
Turn back boy youth stay by the dear old


farm;


The Lord OF Hosts will YOU powerful right arm
Not long will mother pilot es tempestuOus wave
Then light her pathway with love- down the silt nt


grave.
Year: 1873

Men often speak of good manners as an accom-
piishmeut. | speak of them as a duty. What,
then, are good manners? Such manners al
the usages OF society have recognized as be
ing agreeable to men. Such manners as take
away rudeness and remit to the brute creation
all cOarseness. There are great many who
feel that good manners are effeminate. They
have feeling that rude bluntness is great
deal more manly than good manners 1t is a
great deal more beastly. But when men are
crowded into communities, the art Of living to-
gether is no small art How to diminish fric,
tiOu how to promote ease of intercourse
how to make every part of mans life to con.
tribue to the welfare and satisfaction of those
around him; how to keep down offensive
pride how to anish the raspings of selfish
ness from the intercourse of men; how to move
among men inspired by various and confictive
motives, and yet not have collisions; this is the
function of good manners.


1t is not effeminate to be refined. And 10
this land no man should plead inability. There
may be peasantry in other countries; there
may be class in iorei gn lands who have no
opportunities: there may be those whose toll
is so continuous, whose opportunities for know
ing what constitutes good manners are few
and whose ignorance is so gross that they are
excusable; but this is not the case with any in
the sound of my voice.


affirm for every American citizen the right
to be not simply man, but good hammered
man.


Not only is the violation of good manners
inexcusabls on ordinary ground, but it is SIN
full. When therefore, parents aud guardians
and teach rs would inspire the young with a
desire for the manners Of good society, it is
not to be thought that they are accomplish
ments which may be accepted or rejected.
EvprV 10 h0nnH n Ohaarvn the laWa 0f
politeness. 1t is the expression of goodwill
and kindness. 1t promotes both beauty in the
man who possesses it, aud happiness in those
who arc about him. 1t is a religious duty,
and should be part of religious training
Henry Ward Beecher.
Year: 1873

A BUSINESS CHAP.-There is an air of bus
mess IN the following which one cannot fail to
admire. 1t is from Detroit merchant Who's
wife died the other day: Dear sir: | take
my pen in hand to let you know that am well.
but my dear wife, insured for five thousand
dollars in your company is no more. She died
to-day. Her policy is No.-I can truly saw
that she was fond wife and good mother.
have the doctors certificate, 20 that there
will be no trouble about the polcy.-She was
sick only short time but suffered much. Do
YOU give check in advance or must wait
sixty days for the money.
Year: 1873

A worthy farmer who was carried home on
a litter the other day, solemnly asserts nothing
but q twenty. four ton anchor can hold sOrrel
mule down to the earth after she has stepped
into yellow-jacket's nest
Year: 1873

The editor of the Huntsville, Mo. Herald
pops the question in his paper in this public
fashion There's certain gill in this town
who can carry our smok Ike. house keys for life if
she'll only say the word"
Year: 1873

From the Dundee Advertiser, Oct. 81


Our London correspondent states that Mr.
Gordon Bennett, of the NEW YORK HERALD en-
c0uraged by his success in sending "the right man
to the right placer to discover DR.. Livingstone
contemplates fitting out an expedition TO discover
the North Pole. This explains the motive for In
quiries which nave been made by an intelligent
gentleman in the best informed quarters in Dun
dee, since the arrival OF the crew OF the Polaris
with respect to the class OF vessels most suitable
for Arctic exploration, what would be required for
their equipment and provisions, the number OF the
crews and all other details. 1t viii be rather
humiliating to the Royal Geographical Society and
the British Admiralty to have the discovery OF the
North Pole taken out of their hands by the pro-
prietor OF New York paper What an oppor-
tunity, too, OF distinguishing itself the London
Times has lost. II our Scotch American friend or
the HERALD succeeds in discovering the North Pole
he viii become the most popular man on the other
side OF the Atlantic and will certainly be the next
President OF the United States.
Year: 1873

GOVERNOR KELIodG's FLorm1A.-The New
Orleans Picoy,sne announces that one Of the
hotilla belonging to the ''navy" OF the
Governor of Louisiana has departed ON a
secret mission, but supposed to be connected
with the capture of parties implicated in the
negro massacre in Grant county some time
ago. 1t ia rather an unusual thing for the
Governor OF State to be in reality as well as
IN name' "commander-in-chief Of the army
and navy thereof" but it may be convenient
to have gunboat or two in sections Of the
country where chronic disposition towards
lawlessness is known to exist Whether or
not such is the case in Louisiana it ia quite
certain that the federal authorities by their
usurpations and arbitrary acts in that State,
have gone great way towards melting the
people to turbulence and deeds Of violence.
Year: 1873

We have something over fifty-seven thousand
miles OF railroads in the United States, and the
cost OF them is set down at about two thousand
five hundred millions, or little less than
forty-four thousand dollars q mile. But this
includes not only the actual expenditure for
construction and equipment, but also the in
debtedness involved by watering stock and
additional issues of bonds for dividend of
spoils among railroad directors and managers.
The figures we have published in our articles
recently, reviewing the financial problem of
the time and status of the railroads, make the
watered stock, or bogus capital, amount to
about two hundred and fifty millions, or ten
per cent of the nominal cost. This estimate,
however, is very low, for the construction and
equipment accounts in many cases have been
augmented far beyond the real cost, the con-
tractors either being connected with the rail-
road management or having made bargains
with the managers to divide the overcharges
at the cost Of the stockholders and the public.
We have little doubt that the actual cost in
money of the railroads in the aggregate was at
least twenty per cent less than the nominal
capital. In other words, the public is charged
with five hundred millions more than it would
have been if everything had been conducted
honestly and squarely. BY this we mean that
the public is required to pay, in the way Of
freight and passage money, higher rates in
order to make dividends on that much in
fated or fictitious capital. The question as to
how cae public can be protected from this
grasping and powerful monopoly is looming
up, and, If we mistake not, Congress will have
to legislate on the subject at no distant day.
Year: 1873

MORE INDIANs.-A deputation OF eight Utes
and one Apache had talk at Washington
with the Commissioner on Indian Affairs yes
terday The whites are crowding them, and
they want to know what their Great Father is
going to do about it. We hope he will SO far
satisfy them that in returning home they WILL
like Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, be good
Indiana
Year: 1873

From the derman Of Herder.l


Adam was nine hundred and thirty
years old when he felt within him the
sentence Of his judge, "thou shalt die. y


Let all my soRs come before me,
said he to weeping Eve, that ! may yet
again see them and bless them And
they came at their fathers word, aud
stood before him, many hundred in num-
Der, and prayed for his life.


who from among you, said Adam,
will 10 to the holy mountain Per
haps he may 6nd mercy for me, and
bring me the fruit Of the Tree Of Life. "
Immediately all his sons offered them
selves 10 do his will, and Seth, the holi-
est Of all, was chosen by his father for
the message.


His head sprinkled with ashes, he has
tened forth, and fingered not until he
stood before the gate Of Paradise. Let
my father find mercy, o thou merciiul
One thus prayed he and send him fruit
from the tree Of life.


Straip phtway a glittering cherub stood
before him; but instead of the fruit from
the tree OF life, he held in his hand n
twig with three leaves. Bear this to
thy father" sad the cherub, gently, as
his last consolation here; eternal life
dwells not on earth. But hasten back;
his hour is come"


Seth hastened back, and threw him
self down before his father, and said:
No fruit from the Tree of Life bring
thee, father; this twig alone has the
angel given me as thy last consolation
here"


The dying man took the twig, and was
glad. He smelt upon it the odor OF
Paradise; his soul was lifted up. My
children" said he, "eteinal life dwells
not for US on earth; and ye shall follow
after me. But on these leaves | breathe
the fragrance of another world-new
life, new strength" l." His age failed-his
spirit fed away.


The children of Adam buried their
father, and thirty days they wept for
him; but Seth wept not He planted
the twig at the head of his father $
grave, and called it the twig of the new
life, of the awakening up from the
sleep Of death.


The little twig became a lofty tree,
and many of Adams children grew
stronger therefrom in the faith of another
life.


And thus t descended to succeeding
generations. Fair blossomed it in Da-
vid's garden, until his infatuated son
began to doubt of immortality. Then
the twig withered away; but its blossoms
were scattered among other nations.


And when upon branch from this
tree the restorer of Immortality gave up
his holy life, the sweet fragrance OF the
new life was waited far and wide among
all nations.
Year: 1873

Mr.. Sabine, in the Telegraphic Jour
nal, assumes that the time required by a
wave to charge a cable, and the retardi-
nation on the time required for a wave
passing from one end to the other to
reach given amplitude are identical
Mr.. Varley, another high authority in
such matters, is of opinion that the
electric current commences flowing out
of one end of cable at the very in
slant the contract is made with the bat
terry at the other end, but that it is a
considerable time before it reaches an
appreciable strength; that it then goes
on augmenting In strength, never abso-
lutely at its maximum force. Mr.. Sa-
bine suggests that the velocity of cleo
tricity is the same in all conductors, and
very great, but that the resistance and
induction OF the circuit combine to pre-
vent the wave reaching an appreciable
strength for some time after it has com
menced to flow out.
Year: 1873

SHORT ARTICLEs.-TheS st. Louis DEM
Ocrdt calls attention to the notable and
desirable change in American journalism,
being the substitution of the paragraph"
for the PARTICLES" on the editorial page.
Commenting on the change it says: +: "a
few years ago nothing less than column
in length was considered worthy of the
pen of an able editor, and the reader had
to face about three such installments ev-
cry morning, or else burst in ignorance Of
what the paper had to say for itself. Now
all the leading journals of the country
devote more than half their editorial space
to paragraphing. 1t is much more diff
cult to make good paragraph than an
average article-just as much more diff
cult to make good proverb than it is to
preach an average sermon. The late
James Gordon Bennett had good appre-
citation of the matter, when in response to
an inquiry as to what he paid for editorial
matter, he said, II pay at the rate of fifty
dollars for quarter of column, twenty
five dollars for half column and ten
dollars for whole column"
Year: 1873

THE ingenuity Of a woman is beyond
all earthly comprehension. A Danbury
lady, becoming tired of bothering with
wood, besought her husband to get coal
stove, and devote the rest of their lives to
that fuel, but he wouldn't do it. He said
wood was cheaper, and he might as well
be chopping it and saving his money.
Having exhausted her eloquence without
any effect, she hit upon a very simple de-
vice. She extended her clothes line over
his chopping block. After supper he
adorned himself with his ak and went out
for fuel, and five minutes later came tear
ing into the house without his hat, and
with bis mouth half full Of blood, lacer-
ated gums and broken teeth. A bright
and cheerful coal fire now illuminates
that home.
Year: 1873

A DANBURY family which is sustained
by charity almost perished from hunger
on Friday night. The little girl who
daily makes the rounds in quest of food
was prevented from going out that morn
ing by losing one of her earrings.
Year: 1873

never forgotten that, and never shall
I have never killed any harmless crea-
ture for fun since and now, my dear
boy, [ want you to remember this while
you live, and when tempted to kill an
other poor little innocent animal or bird,
think of this; and mind, God don't al
low us to kill his pretty little creatures
for fun"


More than forty years have passed
since and I never forgot what the good
man said, nor have I killed the least
animal for fun since. Now, you see, it
is ninety years since this advice was
first given, and it has not lost its inhu-
ence yet.
Year: 1873

A Bit Of Advice for Boys.-When I
was about six years old, one morning,
going to school, ground squirrel ran
into its hole before me. I thought now
I will have fine fun. AS there was a
stream of water just at hand, I thought
I would pour water into the hole till it
would be full, and when the little fellow
put up his head I was going to kill
him. got trough from behind a
sugar-maple, and was soon pouring the
water in on the poor squirrel. I could
hear it struggling to get up, and said,
90, my little fellow, I'll soon have you
now" Just then l heard voice be.
hind me. Well, my boy: what have
you got in there?' I turned, and saw
good old man, with long, white locks,
who had seen sixty winters. Why"
said I, II have ground-squirrel in
here and am going to drown him out u


"When 1 was little boy," said he
more than fifty years ago, I was en-.
gagged one day just as you are, drowning
squirrel, and an old man like me came
along and said to me, " You are little
boy; now, if you were down in mar
row hole like that and should com,
along and pour water down on you t
drown you, would you think I was do
ing as I'd be done by? God made tha
little squirrel, and life is as sweet to i
~ it is to you, and why will you tortur


to death an innocent little creature tha
God has made p Said he, s'I h.v
: = s s - " : s
Year: 1873

Most American children-at least,
those who have been to district schools
in the country,-have pleasant recol.
lections' of spelling-matches. They
occasion great excitement, and furnish
much sport in the neighborhood.
When held in the evening in the
school house, a great crowd gathers,
and the good spoilers enjoy their
laurels. Horace Greeley, in his au
photography, tells Of his early feats in
these trials of skill, and Of the fame he
acquired when scarcely out Of the
cradle.


Il was first sent to school," he says,
"when just three years old and if you
should ever happen to pass through
the High Range Of Londonderry,
near. an old weather-beat school,
house, which was red thirty years ago,
you can easily pick up some monstrous
exaggeration of my infantile achieve
ments as scholar. Spelling was my
forte, as is natural for a child of tena-
cious memory and. no judgment; and
I recollect that it used to be the GUS
tom that the head Of the first class and
the next should choose sides for a
'spelling-mateh' once week or 50.
Now, I could spell we'll enough to be
head among thirty or forty num-
skulls, whose incapacity of learning to
spell is even now puzzle to me; but
I had not wit enough to choose good
spoilers. On the contrary, l would
choose little children. my playmates,
who could not spell at all. After
patience and counsel had both been ex.
hausted, it was found necessary to
break the old rule, and let the two
next choose sides. Some of these spell
ing-matches were held in the evening
and it was di6cult to keep such bab1
as awake. When the word came to m,
I had to be walked up to spell it; anl
I have lately found a story quite cur
rent that I could and did spell just a
we'll asleep as awake.
Year: 1873

AGED TO GET THE MILK.


A tame fox, that was kept in stable
yard, was on very friendly terms with
several Of the dogs, but he could never
induce any Of the cats to come near him.
Cats have \ very keen smell, and the
odor arising from the fox was displeas.
ing to them; they would not walk on
any spot where he bad been standing,
aud kept at as great a distance from
him as possible. The fox soon saw the
distaste of the cats to his company; so
he made use Of his knowledge to cheat
them out Of their breakfasts. AS soon
as their allowance Of milk was poured
out, he would run to the spot and walk
around the saucer, knowing that none
Of the cats would .ppro.ch' the defiled
place. Day after day were the cats de-
prived Of their milk, but the trick Of
the fox having been discovered, it was
removed to some place whore he could
not get it. The fox not liking to be
deprived Of his morning drsught, fell
upon another plan Of obtaining it. The
dairy-maid was in the habit of passing
through the yard where the fox was, so
he managed to go up to her and brush
himself against one of the pals the
milk was Immediately so tainted with
the smell of the fox, that the dairy-maid
did not venture to take it into the house :
so she poured it out into vessel and
gave it to the cunning animal. He re-
peated this several times with success ;
but when the spoiled milk was given to
the pigs, he left off troubling himself
about it.
Year: 1873

To slake mans thirst the rock is cleft,
and cool waters leap into his brimming
cup. To feed his hunger the fields bow
down with bending wheat; and the
cattle come down with full udders from
the clover pastures to give him milk !;
and the orchards yellow and ripen, cast
ing their juicy fruits into his lap.


Alas that amid such exuberance of
blessing, man should growl as though


he were a soldier on half rations, or a
sailor on short allowance that man


should stand neck-deep in harvest look
ing forward to famine; that one should


feel the strong pulses Of health, march,
ing with regular tread through all the
avenues of life, and yet tremble at the
expected assault Of sickness that man
should sit in his pleasant home, fearful
that ruthless want will some day rattle
the broken window-sash with tempest.
and sweep the Goals from the hearth,
and pour hunger into the bread-tray !;
that man fed by Him who owns all
the harvests should expect to starve !;
that one whom God loves and surrounds
with benediction, and attends with an
gelic escort, and hovers over with more
than motherly fondness, should be look
ing for heritage of tears Has God
been hard with thee that thou shouldst
be foreboding? Has he covered thee
with the rags? Has be spread traps
for thy feet, and CALLED thy cup, and
rasped thy soul, and wrecked thee with
storm, and thundered upon thee with a
life full of calamity? IT. your father or
brother come into your bank where gold
and silver are lying about, you do not
watch them: for you know they are
honest; but if an entire stranger come
BY the safe, you keep your eye on him,
. for you do not know his designs. So
some men treat God; not as father,
but stranger: and act suspiciously
toward him. as though they were
afraid he would steal something. It is
high time you began to thank God 70,
present blessings. Thank him for you,
children, happy, buoyant, and bounding
Praise him for your home, with it.
fountain Of song and laughter. Adore
him for morning light and evenin;
shadow. Praise him for fresh, COO
water, bubbling from the rock, leapin,
in the cascade, soaring in the mist, fall
ing in the shower. dashing against tn


rock, and clapping its hands in the TEN
pest. Love him for the grass tha
cushions the earth, and the clouds tha