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Year: 1873

There has something gone wrong,
My brave boy, it appears,
For | see your proud struggle
To keep back the tears.
That is right. When you cannot
Give trouble the slip,
Then bear it, still keeping


"A stiff upper lipr'
Though you cannot escape


Disappointment and care,
The next best thing to do


Is to learn how to bear.
II when for life's prizes


You're running you trip,
Get up, start again


keep . stiff upper lipp'
Let your hands and your conscience
Be honest and clean,
Scorn to touch or to think Of
The thing that is mean;
But hold or to the pure


And the right with firm grip,
And though hard be the task,
keep stiff upper lipn
Thro' childhood, thro' manhood,
Through life to the end,
Struggle bravely and stand


BY your colors, my friend.
Only yield when you must;
Never give up the ship !"
But fight on to the last


with stiff upper lip !"
Year: 1873

A WESTERN town has an odd sort Of a
genius. He announces himself as a candi-
date for the Office Of constable, and bases
his claim upon the fact that be is poor, the
father Of large family of children, too lazy
to work and afraid to steal.


PAY your little outstanding earthly bills,
and dOn'tromance about the falling dews of
heaven,
Year: 1873

We have seen private letter from Mr..
Coffin since his return to New I 1ork, in which
he says that on the 18th of this month a
light steamboat will be put in the Yellow
stone for the purpose of proc ceeding up the
river to test how high up navigation is prac-
practicable. full and accurate test will be
made. In addition to this, we find in the
Bismarck Tribune report of an interview
with Professor Phelps, whe accompanied the
surveying party, in which he stated the fol-
lowing facts in regard to the navigation OF
OF the Yellowstone River:


AN IMPORTANT FACT.


Another fact established by the sur vey is
that the navigation Of the Yellowstone is
better than that of the Missouri. This is of
especial Importance to the people OF Mon
tana, and the wonder is that the enterprising
people have not before this looked for an
outlet in that direction. The stream has
rapid current, nearly six miles an hour.
which operates to keep the channel clear OF
sand bars and other distractions. Itis dotted
with numerous islands covered with a rank
growth of cottonwood, as are also the bot
tom lands on its borders. The engineers are
to survey its channel 150 miles above the
Powder River, to which distance it is be-
lreved to be navigable, a total distance OF 500
miles
Year: 1873

OF the people, which, prompted by the
same noble purpose as that which of late
has been seen among the better class OF
your own citizens, shall, in their anger,
sweep out of sight the political tricksters
and schemers who have bartered away
the rights Of the people for the sake OF
retaining their clutch upon the teats OF
the goyernment-cow. Meanwhile, Sir
Hugh Allan and his confederates may
console themselves in the possession OF
the Canadian Pacific railroad charter,
and the fact that the grant of thirty
million. dollars and fifty million acres Of
land is theirsI
Year: 1873

days after he CWise) starts, which gives the
Professor full day more than the time in which
ports throw some doubt upon tho proposed voy-
age The Professor originally intended to start
from Boston, but has chang ed his starting g-placo
to New York, upon the ground that tho Boston
people won't take any stock in it. The financial
outlook Is not much brighter in New York,
The Professor may yet, wise as he is, conclude
that he will be wiser to stay at home and leave
balloon trips across oceans to such fanciful and
imaginative persons as Poe and others who have
ds1ighted to construct weird stories based upon
ba1loou-voyages and moon-hoa1es.
Year: 1873

| Euthanasia, the ethics, If there be any IN the


question, are all On the side OF the latter.


It is not probable, nor is it desirable, that the
practice OF hari-kiri may be introduced into tho


political circles OF this country. But it is d


model which. may be initiated to- advantage


morally instead Of physically. II the came sem


tinent which prompts the exposed official scamp


in Japan to cut open his bowels were equally


strong in this country to induce retirement from


Office without further ado, this country might


obtain from Japan q compensation for all the at


tributes OF civilization which Japan has


received from us. It would be- the


same principle, and tho act would be


the same, minus the disemboweling
process. Political hnri-kir; is what we want


IN America,-the voluntary retirement OF public


men whose official corruption has been exposed


The constitutional monarchiea OF Europe are


further advanced IN this direction than 10 are.


The Ministry, or Government resigns whenever
It Is in open conflict With The people and their
representatives, Men who are convicted before
the public Of nnalfeasance in office orcorrupt Of
fetal Practice do not wait for hials, xnd have
not the impertlnenee 10 hold On to places OF
trust for which they have become notably
unfit. They get out Of the way, and are as
dead politically a. 1t they had gone to tho Jap
aneso extreme of depriung themselves Of phyai-
cal life. II the moral prototype Of the principle
which has msde ha1i-k7ys = NATIONAL institution
In Japan would be introduced into the United
States, by which public sentiment could force
corrupt public man to abandon office and hide |
their heads IN shame, It would work greater re-
form than the purest political party that evsr
had an existence. Confession, submission, and |
retirement would constitute political Eutha- |
nazia that would possess all the advantages and |
nons Of tie moral objections Of tho somewhat !
admirable Japanese system.
Year: 1873

Well nigh half a century ago q newly
married couple settled in one of the
western counties of Pennsylvania.
They had what their neighbors deemed
a fair capital with which to begin life
a well-stocked, though small farm,
sound health, good common sense, and
a more than average amount of shrewd
intelligence and culture. Under all
this was sincere trust in God and
Jealous, sensitive love for each other,
neither of which their neighbors knew
much about. American backwoods far
mers take pride in covering their emo.
tions under hide, as tough as that OF
their beeves. They had three or four
children, and at night, over the kitchen
Year: 1873

Sheep thin in flesh should now be
sorted from the flock and given the ad-
vantage of extra feed. In M st hocks
where there has been natural increase,
many of the ewes have been reduced in
flesh by sustaining two lives and such


will be very likely to furnish pelt be-
fore spring, unless properly fitted for
winter. The way to keep a strong,
healty flock is not to let any member OF
get poor. . D..
Year: 1873

! ? If God made you half fool, it is bet
ter that you should seem to be half
fool than than that you should make be-
ieve that you are wise. All animals are
willing to seem what they are. An ass
is always willing to be thought an ass (;
and he honors God ina it. An owl is
always willing to be thought an owl
and he fullfills the function given to-
him, even if he does look wiser than he
is. And man should be wiling to be
just what God made him. Not that he
should not desire to increase, to aug
ment, his talents not that he should
not put his money out at interest; but a
man who is ignorant had better admit
himself to be ignorant. A man who is
not genius had better not think. him
self to be genius A man who is poor
had better think he is poor. A man
who is unskilled had better admit that
he is unskilled. Whatever you are,
while you strive for greater excellence,
stand on that which is true and right,
and do not make yourself ont to be more
than YOU are. Do not attempt to put
guises and pretenses, in the vain hope
of winning praise. A man talks to me
in such way that see through him in
moment. He is trying to make an i'm
preston on me about himself, or about
this. that, or the other thing; and the
moment the door is shut, say, "What
fool he was to think that 1 could not
see through himl" And yet I go straight
to my neighbor's and try the same trick
and, when 1 am gone, he says, "What a
foolapzs And he goes to his neighbor,
and does the same thing! Your charac-
ter in the community is thing fixed,
definitely, and your reputation general
ly will be what your character is. Men
see through your shams. They accom-
modate you, and call you what they
think YOU want them to they call you q
peacock, or an eagle, or any other bird,
as. the case may be, to please you but
they laugh as soon as your back is turn
ed for they know what you are.
If you are a jackdaw, they know it.
And these weaknesses, these dishones-
ties, these corrupting pretenses, after
all. win but very little. 1t is false coin
that you give, and you get false change.
as we'll as false goods. Iii far the best
thing for one to attempt to be real, and
to be willing to appear at just what he
is worth. III w. Beecher.
Year: 1873

= How TO CLEAN PETROLEUM LAMPS. s.
The easiest way to clean off petroleum
is to wash with thin milk of lime, which
forms an emulsion with the petroleum
and removes every trace of it; and by
washing a second time with milk of
lime and small quantity of chloride of
lime. even the smell may be so COM
pletely removed as to render the vessel
thus cleansed fit for keeping beverages
in. If the milk of lime be used warm,
instead of cold, the operation is render
ed much shorter. The best time for
cleansing them is in the morning, if not
convenience.
Year: 1873

From the Pittsburg Loaderl


Ihere was rather an unusual incident at the
SteubenvIlIe race grounds last Saturday after
noon 1t was IN The pacing race for purse Of
$500, free TO all. There were five entries. The
winning horse was Copperbottom. He took the
hrSt heat, and In the second heat the sulky of
CopperbOttom came into collision with another,
and was instantly overturned. The driver Of
Copperbottom was OF course thrown out, and it
was expected that Copperbottom would Iun
away. CONTRARY to expectation, however, the
horse never broke once, and came in amid
the widest Of cheers ahead, in as good style as
IL his driver had been behind him. The enthus-
iasm OF the crowd was immense, They cheer
ed and cheered the self-possessed horse which
had declined to get frightened, like most OF lis
KIND, when released from drivers care.


The Judges were at first going TO give the heat
70 the morse which came in second, because
CopPerbottom came in without a driver. The
crowd getting wind Of the possible ruling against
the gallant CoPperbOttOm, gathered around the
stand, while from every hand went up cries oil
"Copperbottom! Oopperbottomp


The judges saw If they should give the race
to the second horse that the crowd were Just in
the mood to pull the stand down about their
ears. They then retired, aud after consulta-
tion ruled the heat a dead heat. They would
have been obliged 10 give the heat 10 Copper
bottom, as he never broke once had it not been
for the claim of foul put in by the driver of the
sulky with which CopperbOttom collided


As 1t was, 1t is one Of The rare events Of the
turf where horse has lost its driver, but vel
has kept its place inthe race as il nothing had
happened.
Year: 1873

A boiler of 120 pounds capacity, ex.

 ploded at Harlem, N. r., killing seven

 persons and wounding nine others.

 From all that could be learned it ap,

 pears that the water in the boiler had been allowed to run down very low, and

 he man in charge of it finding this out

 suddenly turned on cold water and al-

 most instantaneously the explosion took

 place. The persons killed and injured

 by the disaster were people about the

 neighborhood. One of the stray pro-

 jeticles was thrown towards 127th st., and struck young lady, Miss Louisa Bassford, killing her. She fell on the sidewalk where she stood as the blow came, but the upper half of the skull was carried some ten feet distant. A little Italian girl was also killed.

 Miss Bassford was young lady, the only child of wealthy parents, and was tripping merrily along the sidewalk when she was cut down within twenty paces of the drug store that was her destination, and that night her heart broken parents and relatives were weep ing over her mangled corpse in the lux urious home she left in the morning, strong in the faith and security of life. One of the most distressing scenes the casual tourist through the world could meet upon his road was the affliction of the poor Italian father in the station house. He had no wealthy, sensitive. attentive friends to break the sad news of his little daughters death gently to him and ward the blow in some meas ure by their sympathy. Strangers al- most savagely rushed into his room and shouted in his ears, "Your daughters killed" It almost drove the poor old fellow crazy. He beat his breast and fell upon the floor in paroxisms of agony. They tried to lead him to where the body was resting, but he would not look at it. He could not. He called her name in every tone the human voice is capable of, but his frame shook at the thought of looking on her blood. Scarcely less bitter, though not so de- monstrative, was the grief of those to whom the school child belonged, and when one remembers how remote these three were from any connection with the cause of their sudden taking off, the that killed them is nothing, if nothing criminal, no matter whose the door at which it is laid. A school boy was also killed by the disaster.
Year: 1873

You have greatly ventured, but all must do so who would greatly win.

 A distasteful duty should receive our first and most careful attention.

 It is not alone the amount of evil we do, but the good we leave undone, that will be our condemnation.

 If we waited until it was perfectly convenient, half of the good actions of life would never be accomplished.

 Life is short day but it is a work ing day. Activity may lead to evil but inactivity cannot be led to good.

 Prosperity is great teacher adver- sity greater. Possession pampers the mind, privation trains and strengthens it.

 The temperate are the most truly luxurious. By abstaining from most things, it is surprising how many things we enjoy.

 A pure soul acts in simplicity and without certainty, being persuaded that what is good comes from God, and what is not good from self.

 Skepticism has never founded en- pires, established principalities, or changed the worlds heart. The great doers in history have always been men of faith.

 An elevated purpose is good and ennobling thing, but we cannot begin at the top of it. We must work up to it by the often difficult path of daily duty.

 To be bodily tranquil, to speak little and digest without effort, are absolutely necessary to grandeur of the mind or of presence, or to proper development of genius.

 Turn over a new leaf An, those new leaves If half of them were turned over that are talked about what gigan- tic volume would they form in the life Of every one of us.

 Work is the only universal currency which God accepts. A nations welfare will depend on it's ability to master the world that, on power of work that, on it's power of thought.

 The faithful, patient performance of any duty which is distasteful to us is great achievement, no matter how igno- mln1ous 1t may appear, and 1t always brings rich and unexpected reward.

 Put that idea of knowing all things in heaven and earth out of your heads. It is very little that we can ever know, either of the ways of Providence or the laws of existence. But that little is enough, and exactly enough.

 Words, ''those fckle daughters of the earth" !" are the creation of a being that is finite, and when applied to expiate that which is infinite, they fail for that which is made surpasses not the maker, nor can that which is immeasur- able by our thoughts be measured by our tongues.
Year: 1873

HARDENING SMALL Too1s.-Accord- ing to Scheuszleder, watchmakers and engravers harden their tools in sealing wax. The article is made white-hot and thrust into sealing-wax, allowed to remain moment, then withdrawn and thrust into another place, and this treatment is continued until the steel is cold, and will no more enter the wax. The hardness thus attained is extreme, and comparable to that of the diamond :; in fact, steel hardened in this way may be used for boring or engraving steel hardened by other processes, the tool being previously moistened with oil of turpentines
Year: 1873

A COUGH, BLooD-SPIrTING CONSUME TON, DEATH! This is the usual sequence. Avoid It by curing the cough with HALE's HONEY OF HoREHoUND AND TAR.

 Pike IS Toothache Drops cure in one minute. Tom
Year: 1873

Put two or three small mother of pearl buttons-commonly called pearl buttons-in any small glass or crockery vessel, squeeze over them tablespoon ful or two of lemon juice. Let it stand all night. There will be peculiar film cover the top; take this and apply to the corn let it remain for twelve hours. Should one application not be enough, repeat, and the corn can be easily removed.
Year: 1873

ABOUT BOoTs.-A man who draws the prize
of squeaking boots from a shoe store always
gets them on Saturday, and by the next day
the full power of the squeak is developed He
arrives at church at the opening of long
prayer, and is admitted by the sexton with
admOnitary gestures of silence. The first step
inside the door is followed by a sound like that
of ripping clapboard from the side of barn,
while all the ladies on the right side of the
aisle tip their top-knots to one side
and squint from their left eyes, those on the
other side reversing the order. Balancing
painfully on his worst corn, be makes a more
gradual effort and is rewarded by hearing the
same harmonic reverbance. Then he tries to
navigate on the balls of his feet, and waddles
along on his heels. He clutches convulsively
at the sides Of the pews to tighten his weight,
knocks down wOman's parasol, and gets all
the deacons to raising their bald heads and
the skin across their foreheads, and
scowling as they do the rest of the weak. So
he determins to mince the matter no more, and
trots along fast, and reaches his pew with all
his under garments turned to porous plasters
and his face of color to match the saint done il
red glass in the principal window TItusciH,
| Herald ........l e .s4.
Year: 1873

How He CARRIED THEM.-When a bow can
carry anything at one load he will not 90 twice
after It, This was the case with bow who
was working his way through Elm street. New
York, the other day, with twenty bean noles
on his shoulder. Now one bean pole is about
all an ordinary mortal can safely carry and
nobody butSa boy would undertake. to- carry
twenty OF them. He had tied them together at
the middle, leaving the ends loose. and had
thought on starting, without doubt, that he
was BOY OF remarkable promise. Bean poles
are naturally uneasy. When they can't move
one way they will another; but they will move,
and IN spite of all precautions. These did'
lie had them on his shoulder at first. but some
OF them got to dropping down behind, and
striking against people, and others fell down
IN front, and stuck into the sidewalk and made
hlm stumble. When the boy stopped, as he
was Obliged to do, some one in the rear would
step on the poles or in among them, and swear
at him. Finally, he turned round to see what
the matter was, and knocked the face out of
clock man was carrying in his arms. The
unfortunate youth then took the awful things
up in his arms, but they wouldn't Law still.
they Kept together at the middle, but were
demorallzed at the ends, and whirlcd about so
rapidly as to scare him. He looked like a
windmill, and presented such an awful spec-
tacle that people precipitately took to the
street, and several horses attempted to climb
up into their wagons. He had to drop the
load or be shot down in his tracks.
Year: 1873

SUMNER PLAY.-Nothing can be more cruel
and nothing more foolish than to place children
where they must be dressed every day in fresh
and fashionab ble clothes, and their freedom to
play curtailed for the sake of appearances.
What childhood needs is perfect freedom
among the things of natue-freedom to romp,
to make mud-pies, to leap fences, to row, to
fish, to climb trees, to chase butterflies, to
gather wild-fowers, to live out of doors from
morning until night, and to do all those things
that innocent and healthy childhood delights
IN, in cheap, strong clothes provided for the
purpose. Exactly that which childhood needs,
manhood and wOmanhood need-periect liberty
and perfect careleSsness. So, whether the
dweller by the sea go inland for his summer
play, or the resident of the inland city go to
the sea, he should seek some spot unvisited by
those devoted to fashionable display, and pass
his time in unrestricted communion with
nature, and in those pursuits and amusements
which without let or hindrsnce, perform the
office of recrsation.-Dn j. G. Holland
| ScriJner'S for july.
Year: 1873

DIsINFECTANT.-Af few pounds of copperas


dissolved in water and cast into a cess-pool.
will effectually and almost Immediately deprive
it of its noisome and unwholesome stencil. AS
the cost of this disnfectant is but few cents a
pound, why should not every housekeeper
apply it in the direction We have indicated |?
Such a course would be promotive not only of
public health, but of public and private COM
fort: We therefore earnestly advise the i'm
mediate adoption of this suggestion. The
warm weather is upon US, the cholera is
raging in the West, and may at any time make
its appearance in our midst. Let us do what
can be done to repel it, and one of the effectuaI
methods of accomplishing this is to maintain
] cleanliness and pure atmosphere. -.-.
Year: 1873

The grand evils which menace the people OF
America now are not to be found in the cor
ruptiOnS of municipal or national rule. The
reign of the rings is broken, or totterlng to Its
fall, and vile men are Fastening to relieve
themselves of the odium which attaches to it.
Even those who seek to form new combinations
tor personal powers and profit find 1t uphill
work, and fail to make their intrlgues fruitful.
The wrongs which now front US, and wait with
desperation or trembling to be rghted, are
connected with the great railroad corporations
and their combinations and mOnOpolles. The
people by whose consent, and for whose bene-
tit, these railroads were built-raiIoads to
which have been devoted enormous areas OF
public land and stupendous prerOgatlVes and
prlvllegeS-are determined to have something
to say about their management, and deter
mined that their power shall be curtalled. The
corporations which have built them and are
administering their affairs are mani pulating or
controlling legislatures, and supeItuUusly en-
rlchlng all connected with them, while the
farmer cannot get paying return for his
wheat at his door, and the consumer buys his
bread at an eXOrbltant price. The fight OF the
people with these monstrous powers is begun,
aud is to be the great fight of the next twenty
years. The issue is not doubtful, though it
may be long delayed. Little Vermont finds to
her surprise that she has been imposed upon,
and haStens to do her people justice; and it is
safe to predict that in five years the railway
kings, and the oVerDearlng mOnOpolles, and
the corporations which run railroads for the
benefit Of their managers, will be so thoroughly
investigated that they will find it for their
interest to conduct their operations with a
degree of deterential reference to the interests
of the people whom they have cheated and op-
pressed.


1t seems to US that there is at this time q
very healthy public sentiment. No public
iniquity lives without protest No wrong -dOel
sits easy and unconcerned in his place. The
old apathy under wrong and misrue is passed
away. The good elements in society and poll
tics are full Of hope and courage; and we be


ieve it to be susceptible of proof that no Euro
pean country is less dominated by corrupt mer
than ours, or more willing and efficient in the
demolition OF all forms OF wrong. If there i
an apparent difference against US, it is simpl!
because We advertise our sins more widely thar
our sister nations in order that the peopl


may take intelligent action againts them


DR.. f. G. HOlland; Scribner tor July.