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Year: 1873

Shut up in houses nine-tenths
Of their time, with either no ex.
ercise or that which is Of a limit
ed, irksome sameness, they are,
as a consequence, unnaturally
pale, soft and tender their blood
is poorly organized and watery
their muscles small and flabby. ;
and the force and functions of
their bodies, as a whole, run low
in the scale Of life. A spurious
fulness is often seen in the out
line during girlhood, which usu.
ally melts Ilike snow under an
April SUN whenever the endurau-
ce is put to the test, as in per-
forming the functions ofa mother.
The change in appearance from
the maiden of one year to the
mother Of the next is often 90
striking and enduring that it is
difficult to believe that we are
looking on the same person. The
round. pleasing shape is prema-
turely displaced by a pinched
angularity, and an untimely and
unseemly appearance Of age.
Travellers from other countries.
who have had an extensive means
for observations and comparison,
have remarked upon the great
beauty of American women, and
the early age at which it is lost.
Some have ascribed this to the
climate +; but more intelligent ob-
servers agree that it is a hot
house, enervating mode of life.


English ladies ofrank. who, by
the way, are celebrated for keep
ing their beauty even to q ripe
old age, think nothing of walk
ing half a dozen miles at a time :;
while American ladies would
think such . thing perfectly
dreadful" If American women.
so daintily and richly fed, will
sit in dark and sultry rooms the


live. long day, they must expect
to bloom too soon, to hasten
through this charming period


at the longest in about ten years
and for twenty-five years after,
have the grim satisfaction of
Year: 1873

Look at himl he is just getting
out of his carriage. He steps with
difficulty; his face is scanned with
care; his coat is rusty-you would
not know him in the street from
any hard-Working business man.
Yet he owns whole streets full of
houses and miles of unimproVed
property. He keeps an army of SER
wants in his great house up town,
and an army of clerks in his busi-
ness house downtown. He has
neither chick nor child, and he lives
on bowl of Cruel for his breakfast
and the wing of a chichen for his
dinRer-he dare not cat supper
What does he get out of his money?


His house, it is true, cost him a
hundred thousand dollars, but he
occupies the smallest room, sits on
the plainest chair, eats the simplest
food, and sleeps the least of any one
init. While he was saving the
money, he thought it was for him
self, and the thought stimulated
him to save more. While he was
| building the house he thought he
was building it for himself, and he
consulted architects, and had plan
after plan drawn out, until he be-
Iieved that he had found one that
was perfection.


But he knows now that it was a
mistake all the way through; he did
not save the money for himself for
| there is nothing that he wants of it
now ne has got it. He did not build
the house for himself, for he cannot
occupy il; it is simply a small hotel,
which offers luxurious accommoda-
tions free, and 4 round sum for
| pocket money to dozen male and
| female domestics, who enjoy it inf
nitely more than he does; who gave
him as much or as little as they
choose of everything that he has,
and who consider him only valuable
as money-baG, from which their
supplies are drawn.


As lad, how he enYied the rich
mani how he dreamed of what he
would do when he became possess
ed of wealth. how greedily he look
| ed at a fine horse, at a handsome
equipage, at the insignia of money,
and social position!


And now he is rich but he does
not realize il; he thinks of nothing
| but the twinges of his rheumatism,
the complainings or delinquences OF
his tenants, or the ''tricks" of his
Nfrascally" servants. He docs not
really live in his house or ride in his
carriage, for in the one he does lit.
! tie but sit and think upon the happy
/ times when he was 4 poor boy al
home upon the farm, and in the 9th.
er wish, that by giving it, with his
fine horses, to the manly young feE
low whom it passes in the street
! he could buy his health, activity and
power of enjoyment.


1t is not what a man has, but what
he is, that makes him rich.
Year: 1873

a Western paper states That out
of three hundred and seventeen
members Of Congress about two
hundred and seventy-tive have gone
into the five-thousand dollar funer-
al business, and that there is no use
of partial friends and newspapers
that bask in their smiles to try to
save them. This is pretty much the
sentiment throughout the west, and
All that Senator Carpenter or Gen.
eral Butler may say cannot save the
back-pay grabbers from their due
measure of popular odium.
Year: 1873

While Phineas Rice, an early
Methodist preacher was stationed in
one of the New York churches, he
found that many Of the young peO-
pie, of both sexes, were accustomed
to leave church before the close of
the evening service. 1t annoyed
him, and he determined to stop it,.
The next Sabbath evening, before
he commenced his sermon he said:


"Some of my brethren have been
greatly afflicted that so many young
women leave the church before the
service is through. But i tell them
they oughtnot TO feel so, for donbt-
less most of those that g0 out are
young women who live at service,
and their mistresses desire them to
be at home at nine O'Clock; and il
they are not at home at that time
they will either lose their place or
offend their mistresses and they do
not want TO do either. They go out
in time 10 get home at nine O'Clock
or stay at home altogether. This
would be very hard for them. And
servant girls have beaux as well as
other girls, and these young men
have to go and wait upon them
home; so hereafter, when these
young women leave church before
the service is over, you win under
stand who they are, and not feel
badly about it."


The brother who gave this fact
said 1--WE were no more annoyed az
ter this; they either stay away or
stayed till meeting clOsed.-AoRtre-
al Witness.
Year: 1873

THE SEED AND THE SOWEhS.
Ever 20 little the seed may be.


Ever 80 little the hand,
But when 1t IL sown Il must grow, you sse,
Aud develop its nature, weed, flower or tree
The sunshine, the air and the dew are free


AT its command.
II the seed be good, we rejoice In hope


OF the harvest it will yield.
We wait and watch FOR its sprInsing up,
Admire its growth, and count on the crop
That will come from the little seeds We drop


In tbs great wide feld.
But II we heedlsssly scatter wide


Seeds we may happen 70 hnd.
We care not for culture OF what nay betide,
We sow here and there on the highway


side;


Whether they've lived or whether they've


died,


We never mind.
Yet every sOwcr must one day reap


Fruit from the seed he has soWn;
How carefully then It becomes Us to keep
A watchlul eye on the seed, and seek
To SOW what Is good, that we may not weeI


To receive our own.
Year: 1873

SUNsHINE.-Do what you can TO
make sunshine in the world. Lift
up the curtains.


We do not mean the curtains to
the room, but the curtains which
darkeR the spirit of your brother,
your friend, your neighbor, or even
of stranger, if the curtain strings
are in your convenient reach.


Lift up the curtains and let in the
sunshine! Light is better than dark
ness; and now cheap it is!


A kind and cheering word to one
who is in trouble, and is perplexe6,
and also most discouraged; q word
of heartfelt sympathy to the affiict-
ed, q loving word of council to the
young, a word of assurance to the
doubling, a soft word which, the
it buffers no parsnips, "turneth a.
way wrath" to the prejudiced and
unreasonably provoken; all such
words as these are sunshine TO those
to whom they are spoken.
Year: 1873

We understand that the members of
congress, now in conference in st. Louis,
viii either pass down the Mississippi
river 10 New Orleans, OF, if they go by
rail TO Galveston and thence by sea
to New Orleans will pass up the Missis-
sippi on their way to st. Louis, where
they will finally adjourn. In either case
it will become the citizens of Memphis
TO make preparation for their entertain
ment on a scale commensurate with the
importance of our city and their position
as members Of the national Legislature.
We make this suggestion, well satisfied
that that is ali that is needed to set a
movement on foot that will result in a
grand banquet. Meanwhile, it would
DE well for MayorJohnson to be in cor
respondence with the St. Louis authori-
ties, and ascertain the probable time Of
arrival here Of the members OF the con-
ference and St. Louis delegation.
Year: 1873

HALIFAX, May I4.-The latest news
from the Drummond colliery this morn
ing represents that the fire is still raging
in the shafts and slopes, and that all
hopes of rescuing the men must be
abandoned. 1t is now stated that there
were sixty men in the pit. Another
heavy explosion occurred in the mine
about two o'clock this morning, and it
is thought to be almost impossible that
any of the men in the pit can be living.
It is known that only four or five got
out before the explosion. The fire
caugh. from flask Of gunpowder, and
the men remained in the pit to put out
the flames. One report says Mr.. Dunn
and thirty volunteers went down to as
sist in putting out the fire, about twenty
minutes before the explosion occurred,
men were near the flames, and that
many if not all were killed at once by
the explosion.
Year: 1873

HALIFAX, May 1.-THE fire at Drum
mond colliery continues, but it is slowly
abating, all of the openings having been
filled up and a stream of water turned
into an air-shaft lately worked. The
list of killed, as far as known, compriss .
twenty-siX men who leave families, and
twenty two single men. The total
number killed will probably reach
seYenty-fve. The wounded number
six, of whom two are fatally injured
The men who have escaped with great
difficulty from the slope report that on
their way up they passed the bodies of
their comrades who had probably become
stupefied by smoke since the explosion.
-Four men who volunteered to go down
the shaft shortly before the second ex-
plosion were killed. Several violent
explosions took place last night, one of
which was perceptibly felt at a distance
of four miles. An inquest commenced
yesterday, and adjourned until this
morning.


WEsTvILLE, May IA. - From ten
O'Clock last night until daylight this
morning the fire at the Drummond
colliery ragged with great fierceness,
gathering volume and violence each
moment. The sky in the vicinity of
the cOlliery was Illuminated with the
flames issuing from the air-shaft to the
hight of nearly one hundred feet. All
through the night there were explosions
at intervals. These were preceded
by rumbling noise resembling
thunder. The weary watchers who
remained around the mouth of the pit
and the air-shaft and labored to subdue
the flames, were obliged to seek shelter
in the adjoining woods, as the stones,
debris, etc., which were thrown from
the pit at each explosion were being
scattered in all directions, threatening
destruction and injury to every one
within reach. About two o'clock this
forenoon, these explosions were followed
by one which for terrific violence
and destructive force dwarfed all
the rest. All the wooden works
on and about the main slope were in
stantly destroyed. Stones, wood and
burning timbers were driven high into
the air. Smoke, flames and horrible
noises were accompanying the explO-
sion, giving the beholder a Wv
id idea of volcanic eruption.
The earth for miles around was shaken
with the violence of the explosion.
Laborers are now at work filling up the
shaft with clay.
Year: 1873

NHEGARAY INSTITUTE ESTABLISHED IN NEW
York in lsit.English ana French TOR young ladies
Spruce street Philadelphia Pa French is tho Language
OF the family and is constantly spoken In the Institute


Nine. D'HERVTLLY. PRINCIPAL.
Year: 1873

A DvERTIsER WITH BUSINESS CAPACITY ANr
IA moderate capital would invest both in gool paving
established business, equally in pew enterprise pars
culars required to receive notice Address FRANKLIN
Herald Office.
Year: 1873

A THOROUGHBRED HAMBLETONIAN BAY HORSE.
N l6 hands, years old would, II matcd make splcn-
did carriage horse but Il suitable for any usc prompt,
kind and reliable In every respect also very promls.
ing young bay Horse Morgan stock raised by the present
owner, who having sold his country seat has surplus
OF horses and will sell cheap and warrant the above in
every particular May be seen St MARKS stables U4
Ea ast Eleventh street. Also for sale as above shifting
top Cart by Brewster Co.. In good order at bargain
Year: 1873

bringing with me some dust. A little
dob WAS deposited here. while IL good
deal more was gamhlcd away-drinking
and sich. Then really don't rcmcm-
her much more about what happened
until found myself at sea. in the fore
castle of Il ship. ! was told that had
shipped as Il sailor. and maybe | did ::
at any rate there WAS no help for it. and
dId my duty as well as knew how.
until | was discharged in Australia.
when | went off to the mines in that
country. and have been TRYING my luck
IN almost every quarter of the olohe
But times have changed Il great deal
from the flush days of California.
could spin You Il life-yarn but this is
not the time or place. 80 if the docuI-
mcntS are I'LL right | will trouble You
for that little sum


An examination of the books revealed
the fact that the amount had been de
posted and never called for. but was
always kept III readiness for the dcpoS-
ltnr. The man WAS informed that the
government did not pay interest on de
posts. but was always ready to pay the
principal. y few moments more and
the equivalent of the dust deposited
nineteen wears before WAS handed across
the counter and gathered up by the
visitor. VIII" bidding the cashier good
day" went on his way rejoicing.
Year: 1873

The raVcnouS tiger that munchcd
his keeper III London last year has
Just been making another IumpuS in an
English mcnagcrie. There WAS great
CONSERVATION III the tent when it was
discovered that the animal had reached
through the bars of his cage and got
hold of small boy that had been pok-
ing him with il sharp stick. The tiger
waS lmturiated, and was making Strcnu-
0us efforts to draw the lad through the
bars of the cage. The beast growled
irighttully, and what with the pitiful
cries of the boy. the shouts of the men.
and the screams of the half fainting
women, the scene was one of the most
terrible description. Some men ran for
hot irons. while others beat the beast
with their sticks and umbrellas, and
did all they could to draw the brute
from It's helpless victim. Ultimately
after Il severe mauling. the animal re
lnqulshed its prey, and the boy. FAINT
through loss of blood from the injuries
he had received. was borne away
through the crowd. His wounds being
dressed, appeared to hc of Il serious ma
ture. though not likely to prove fatal.
| he brute seems to have caught its vic
tim Just below the elbow and tore II
deep lump of flesh right down the fore
arm to the wrist. There is also deep
cash Ill the palm of the left hand, from
which the hemOrlhagc Is great. The
patient lies i'll great pain. and II Is fear
Ell that he will not recover the perfect
use of his arm. One of the keepers
has also been severely injured. He
was struck by one of the elephants, and
his ribs were smashed in.
Year: 1873

y Detroit business man found coun-
tertcit fifty cent scrip among his cur
rcncy the other day, and he put it in
his vest and that afternoon gave it to
little girl hcgging on the streets.
When he came back from tea he found
the same piece of scrip in the drawer
again. and questioning his clerk ne
learned that Il little girl had brought it in,
bought Il stick of gum. and gone away
with forty nlnc cents good money.
That bank has suspended on currency
payments To bcggars.
Year: 1873

The following, purporting to be
an extract from a private letter from
New York, was published in the
Hartford Times Of Thursday eve
ming last:


The lady of the house where l
live was brought to New York by
her father and mother (from Ham
burg) when she was eleven years
old, and with her two younger Sis
ters, all of them charming married
women in this city now. 1t is an
old story but vividly fresh in the
minds of the whole family. One
night, in this city, the mother of the
three girls, having been kept up by
some household duties, had gone to
bed about midnight, when, besides
herself, the whole house was hushed.
Scarcely had she taken off her
clothes and got into bed when she
had occasion to violently wake up
her sleeping husband with this :
"Do you know that my mother is in
America? She has just been in here
but would not speak to me, and this
moment she has gone into the room
with the children. Go in and bring
her out. How she has found us out
at this late hour of the night | do
not know" The aroused husband
went into the next room, turned up
the gas, and saw only three beauti-
ful little girls, smiling ana sleeping
in one wide bed. lie noted date
and hour. It is tame to tell the
consequence. The next steamer
mail from Hamburg brought news
that the grandmother of the chill
dren, on that very night and hour,
had gone to the Beyond Did she
stop in this city on the way, to bless
the children? Strangcst of all, to
the unbelieving, shall l say uniniti-
atcd?-on the morning after the ap-
pcarancc the three little girls all
told at breakfast of having screamed
of grandmother"
Year: 1873

The wit of the Danbury News
says: The first Sunday in the new
house is notable day. There is
an entire absence of old landmarks,
and strange, weird newness on
everything, and YOU can't find your
shaying-soap. You start for a
scuttle of coal, but you don't find
the scuttle. 1t is in the bottom Of
barrel in the garret. You take
the dripping-pan. When you
change your shirt, you look for it
first. 1t is in one of the bureau
drawers, which are piled one upon
another in the parlor, and you find
you have got to lift half ton of
carpets and feather beds before you
can get down to the drawers. After
you have lifted them down and
searched them through, it is re-
membered by your wife that the de-
sired garment is in one of the
barrels-thc one in the shed, she
thinks, although it may be the one
in the garret, and yet it would be
just like the stupid carman to have
carried that barrel down cellar.
You think so, too. You attack one
of those barrels, and are surprised
at the result. A bedquilt comes out
first, then a pie-tin, next q piece of
cold ham, neatly done up in your
vest and packed away in the miss
ing scuttle. Below is an assortment
of ironware and a length of stove
pipe, half loaf of bread, couple
of towels, and rolling-pin. You
begin to expect you will eventually
come upon coal mine, and per-
haps some dead friend. Then you
90 down in that barrel again, and
come up with a pleasing assortment
of stockings and half-emptied medi-
cine bottles. The way you come
up this time leads you to consider
the barrel itself. 1t has caught in
the back of your vest and made the
cloth let go; it took off one-half of
one sleeve, and created sensation
on the back of your hand as if a
bonfire had ragged there. 1t is quite
evident the cooper who built that
barrel was called away before he
commenced to clinch the nails.
You involuntarily grasp the rolling
pin and look around as though you
have expected to see him. Then
you call the girl to repack the barrel
and start up stairs to look after
something that is easier to find, but
finally change your mind, and pass
the balance Of the day in digging
carpet-tacks and worthless wood
from the palms Of your feet, and
| concocting lies about the wealth of
your uncle; and the moon looks
through the windows at night, aud
touches up with aglow the contents
of the room.
Year: 1873

a singular story comes from Ken
lucky. One morning last month
young girl was found by her parents
in bed, insensible from the effects
of chlorotorm, tied hands and feet
with the sheets, and wound up in
the bed clothes. On the window
was a piece of paper, on which was
scrawled several mysterious intima-
tons, including these: "I'me hired
to do the job, and cnm lots of miles,
but yer looked like an angel, and |
carn't do it, but some one will, for
the Williams have found out yer
whereabouts, and will kill yer for
YER FORUM which is left yer by
fcller that yer befriended when he
was on the cars sick, he died and
left all he had to yer if yer was alive
on the first Of June, if yer was ded
it was to 60 to too other fellers."
The perpetrator ought to be caught,
if only that he may be sent to school.
Year: 1873

In a letter from Florida to the
New York Sun, Mr.. Amos Cum
mings writes:


The water fairly boils with sharks.
| counted one hundred and twelve
within 4 space of an acre, none of
which were less than eight feet
long. Indian river people say they
have seen them twenty feet in
length. | saw one that measured
over seventeen feet. They would
frequently break under the bows of
our twenty-one foot sail boat,
careening her to one side and at
timos half lifting her from the wa
ter. They flocked about the boat
by dozens, and cast hungry looks at
the huge yellow dog on the fore
castle. At one time | struck a
twelve foot fellow over the snout
with a heavy boat pole. He made
great swirl through the water as
if surprised, but sauci!y darled
back to the craft to see what had hit
him. Occasionally boatmen plunge
lily irons into them, and tow them
about the river against wind and
tide for miles. Some of the natives
declare that they are men eaters,
while others deny it. Jim Paine,
of Fort Capron, told me that he had
stood in the water for hours while
these big sharks were nosing about
his legs, but DR.. Fox, my guide,
seemed afraid Of them, and declared
that he had known them to pull an
estimable young lady from Savannah
out Of q boat while she was drag
ging her hand behind the stern.
She was cut into mince meat in five
seconds. During the war it is said
that boat containing fourteen men
was upset in Jupiter Inlet, about
twenty feet from shore. There was
foaming of the waters, and in half
a minute twelve Of the fourteen men
disappeared. The water tinged
with blood marked the spot where
they had been drawn under. Two
of the sailors got ashore, but so
bitten and in shreds that they died
soon afterward.


was told another story of four
men who started to walk up the
beach from Cane Florida to St.
Augustine. They managed to get
across New Inlet upon an impro-
vised raft, but upon arriving at
Lake Worth Inlet they attempted
to swim across. Three of them
were gobbled up by sharks. The
fourth reached the shore, and
travelled on to Jupiter Light, where
he told of the fate Of his comrades.
These reports certainly show that
many of the sharks are man-eaters.
The most of them are of the shovel
nosed variety. AS they are more
lively and voracious i'll the summer
than in winter, it is probable that
they would attack man in July or
August when they would not touch
him in December or January.
Year: 1873

Although 20 many are now suffering for lack
OF employment, both men and women, We fire.
quently hear Of others who desire to employ Ia
bor and have difficulty in finding what they
need. As this is the case it might be q useful
addition to the measures which are now being
taken for the relief Of the INDECENT. to establish
some sort Of Intelligence Office, through whose
Operations al who can work should find what
eyer employment there is to be had.
Year: 1873

The progress of the trial of the alleged bank
robbers is elsewhere reported, up to late hour.
to-day. Great public interest attaches to it. and
we give the details of the testimony with all the
fullness that seems to be called for by the read
ing community.
Year: 1873

We have very satisfactory assurances that the
work undertaken by the Union Aid Society will
be very thoroughly and systematically performed.
The Chairman OF. the Committee, Mr.. Charles
Warner, is devoting his close attention to the
duties OF his position, and no one is more highly
qualified TO make the operations of the Society
systemgtic and energetic.