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Year: 1873

Every hard-working man should have a
hobby. This is sound doctrine. Especially
should the professional man and the active
business man remember this. He whose
mind is occupied during the day with severe
labor, will find it impossible at evening to
abandon his work. The responsibilities of
the day will weight on him at night; he can
not rid himself of them. Social enjoyment
and recreation will serve but temporary
purpose, and cannot be relied on to divert the
mind from anxiety and care. Try the ex-
pertinent. Take to collecting engravings, or
coins, or shells, or anything else, so it be q
subject to interest you, and make hobby of
it. 1t will absorb the mind, enable it to
throw off all business thoughts, afford sensi-
BILE relief and refreshment and be great in
surance against those many diseases OF the
brain which close the labor aud usefulness
of so many streng intellects.


The summer vacation, which is about the
only recreation an American professional or
business man allows himself, is apt to be
wasted entirely by the want of mental re-
freshment which cannot be found in the Or
dinary resorts of summer pleasure-seekers.
The vacation does little good to him who car
ries his business on his; and it too frequent
ly happens that men 60 to places where they
have no resort for amusement except to the
and the bushes talk of others
weary like themselves. 1t is not every man
who should go fishing, but there are many
who would find this their true rest and recre-
alton of body and mind.
Year: 1873

Mr.. Beecher explained the nature of belief
and of mans responsibility for what he be-
lieves. AS belief, according to Mr.. Beecher,
is partly voluntary and partly involuntary,
our responsibility is, therefore, equally y-divid-
ed. Every man who has the ability and
opportunity to investigate truth is fesponsi-
BILE for failing to investigate. The character
of mans mind will determine the way in
which he will see truth. 1t is possible for
truth to be so large that ten men may believe
in it, and the whole ten selections may be the
whole truth, and yet not one of the ten men
may have the whole truth. But the RESPONSE
bility rests with every man to do his best to
know what truth is
Year: 1873

In drifting on the 400 foot level of the
Crown Point mine the workmen keep hole
of considerable depth drilled ahead of the
main work, in order that they may not sud-
denly break through into large body or
natural reservoir of water. A day or two
since, while thus boring ahead in the rock, a
vein of water was tapped which was exceed
ingy hot; so hot that eggs were boiled in it
and boiled till very hard, at that. The eggs
were placed in the drill hole, bit of rock
placed before them to back the water over
them and in few minutes they were boil
ed as hard as could have been done any,
where
Year: 1873

Three little bugs in basket,


And hardly room for two!
And one was yellow and one was black,


And one like me or you.
The place was small. no doubt, for all


But what should three bugs do.
Three little bugs in basket,


And hardly crumbs for two;
And all were selfish in their hearts,


The same as l or you.
So the strong one said, ave will eat the bread
Ana that is wnat We'll do.
Three little bugs in basket.


And the beds but two would hold;
So they all three fell to quarrelng-
The white the black, and the gold.
And two of the bugs got under the rugs,
And one was out in the cold.
So he that was left in the basket,
Without crumb to chew,
Or thread to wrap himself withal,
When the wind across him blew,
Pulled one of the rugs from off the bugs;
And so the quarrel grew.
And 90 there was none in the basket
All! pity it's, tits true!
But he that was frozen and starved, at last,
A strength from his weakness drew.
And pulled the rugs from both of the bugs,
Aud killed and ate them, too!
Now, when bugs live in basket


Though more than it can hold,
1t seems to me they had better agree
The white. the black, and the gold
And share what comes, of beds anderumbs,
And leave no bug in the cold
Year: 1873

The word o6Age is subject to paradoxical


construction. When you oblige man to do
a thing which he does not want to do, yuu
may disoblige him at the same time 1t has
been remarked that there is very great diff
ference between church where the gospel is
dispensed, and one where it is dipensed with.


We have often heard the story of how the
Captain of canal boat cried, ''Look out"
to lis passengers, when they were going un-
der bridge, and how Frenchman looked
out accordingly and received bump on his
head; but it has never been decided that the
Frenchnan took any incorrect or unsual
signifcation form the words. 1t has never
been decided whether house burns up or
down. The question whether man who
falls from boat and is rescued from drown
ing, is pulled out or pulled in, depends main-
ly whether you are speaking primarily of
the water or of the boat. Some one has mo-
ticed that people say they shell peas when
they unshell them that they husk corn
when they uDhusk it that they skin . buff
alo when they unskin it; that they scale
fishes when they unscale them, and they
want wedding when they are wecdy enough
already.
Year: 1873

A man Who Narrowly ESCAPED


Lynehlng--A Rem IN iscence Of Chey-


enne.


The following we take from the St. Louis
Republican, of a recent date. Who is the
man? 1t may, and it may not, be a canard ::


An incident worth recording happened in
restaurant on Fifth street, u day or two
ago Connected with the press of this city
is young man who spent the years 81, 68,
and part of 80 along the line of the Union
Pacific railroad, then in process of construc-
ton. On the morning in question the news
paper attache went into the restaurant, and
set down at a table. Vis-a-ris sat another
young man who presently accosted the
newspaper man:


'Mister, it strikes me I've seen you be-
fore.''


'Quite likely was the response.


"Weren't you at Cheyenne in the spring
of '68?"


eyes"


Didn't you and Chance H-help fel-
low down off barrel that set up on end
under q tree, one night?"


This was the introduction. 1t renewed an
acquaintance that began the saving of life,
when its owner was pinioned, rope about
his neck, with the other end tied to the limb
of tree, while a savage and unrelenting
COMMITTEE of Safety" stood, waiting for
the barrel, ON which the poor wretch stood,
to be kicked out from under him. The
doomed man was gambler, but he was
quite peaceable fellow, who harmed no one.
One night he had won sum of money from
a man who belonged to the committee of
safety, and the latter attempted to make him
give it back In the affair which ensued
vacancy was made in the committee, That
is what had brought Sam A--into the pres
ence of death there under the tree. The two
men had gone among the mob, and by en-
treaty and expostulation had succeeded in
getting the poor fellows sudden sentence
''commuted,' on condition that he should
leave the town in thirty minutes. They took
him down off the barrel, united the rope from
his neck, and Cheynne saw him no more
After five years he. and one Of the preservers
of his life met thus by odd chance. 1t is
well enough to add that the life was saved to
some purpose, for the man who ''stood up
on the barrel" is now the trusted agent of
mining company operating in Montana,
and is in all respects a useful citizen. 1t
was close shave.
Year: 1873

The duty am to perform is rendered
doubly painful by the fact that you belong to
a family honored and distinguished both in
the civil and military annals of your country.


Your grandfather, on one hand, was, as has
been truly said by your counsel, for a long
time Chief Equity Judge of this great State,
and ne left record for purity and integrity,
and for all private virtues that adorn and ele-
Vate man, second to none who have attained
SO high station; and your grandfather on
your mothers side fell nobly fighting for his
country on the field of battle, and left re-
cord OF which all of his descendants may
well be proud. 1t is with grief that feel
bound to express my sorrow that the men,
ory OF these great ancestors should not have
restrained you from the commission of such
crime as that of which you are convicted.
Your poor mother had indeed cause to regret
her relations to the father you have slain.
You also, undoubtedly, had great cause to
feel not aggrieved merely, but ashamed and
indignant at the long course of outrages to-
ward her and his family but, bad as he was,
you were not to be the avenger of those
wrongs. He had done nothing to forfeit his
life even to the law Of his country; and,
least OF all, he had done nothing to forfeit
his lite at the hands of his own and eldest
son. When look back upon that moment
when you constituted yourself his execution
er, and slew him in that room, with no one
present but yourselves, l can not but feel
that death must have been him more horrible
than thousand deaths in any other FORM
Called by you to your presence, apparently
for purposes of peaceful interview, to set
tie family difficulties invited to seat in
your room, and apparently almost instantly
confronted with a weapon of death in his
own sons hands, what thoughts must have
rushed on him at that moment. when he
found that the person whom he had expect
ed Swould come to him for the purposes of a
peaceful arrangement, had come to kill him!
What thoughts, what terrible thoughts, must
haye rushed upon him when he received the
leaden messenger of death in his bosom
from the hands of his eldest by! shudder
when | think of it, and l think YOU ought
to devote your whole life to repentance,
such as God only can accept for so horrible
deed


Walworth, on the way to the Tombs, after
the sentence, said:


81 am glad did not have to endure long
lecture, which / anticipated Judge Davis
would inflict upon me. l thoroughly under
stand my position, and did desire any instruc-
ton in relation thereto. simply wish to ar
range my affairs, and shall then submit N.Y.
self to my fate with all the equanimity can
command"


Upon being taken to his cell he parted
cheerful with the Deputy Sheriff, saying
that his was a case which hethoroughly under
stood, but did not blame the world for not
Year: 1873

The decision Of the Supreme Court, to
which we directed attention last week, by
which State Scrip can only be paid for state
taxes, proper, is but the declaration Of the
birth Of new ring A few men about the
capital, 10y reducing the valnc of this Scrip,
expect to buy itup at nominal figure. and
the Legislature will then direct 1t to be fund
ed in bonds at six or eight per cent interest
for thirty years, and these gents will soon be-
come rich. Now we don't like TO see our
heretofore pure Supreme Court, thus made
the tool Of this ring and take this method of
gratuitously warning them against the pit
fall into which designing men have led them.
We see the Sheriff Of Sebastian with his usual
wisdom, is issuing his orders for taxpayers
to come again and pay their taxes 0rer. We
advise them, without fee or reward. too, to
keep pay and rely upon their receipts. Our
Sheriff takes wiser view Of the matter and
although he may be loser he refuses TO ask
men to pay again in different funds.
Year: 1873

Masquerade weddings are the
last feature of connubial fun in In
diana. The minister is masked,
the bride is masked, ditto the groom,
attendants and guests. The groom
trusts to luck, and sometimes finds
he has married the wrong woman,
but trivial occurrences do not make
sadness in that State.


A Tennessee belle lately punished
a suitor who sought to gain her
hand through false asperSiou Of his
rival by going with him to the
altar, and then responding "No"
at the most critical moment, and
completing the ceremony with the
illuminated one.
Year: 1873

Why are we 80 impatient of delay,


Longing forever for the time to be?
For thus we live tomorrow in to-day,


Yea, sad tomorrow we may never sec.
We are too hasty; are not reconciled


To let kind nature do her work alone
We plant our seed, and like foolish child


We dig it up to see if it has grown.
The good that is to be we covet now.


We cannot wait for the appointed hour;
Before the fruit is ripe, we shake the bough'


And seize the bud that folds away tha HOVER
When midnight darkness reigns we do not see
That the sad night is mother of the morn;
We cannot think our own sharp agony


May be the birth-pang of joy unborn.
Into the dust we see our idols cast,


And cry that death has triumphed, lie Is Nola
We do not trust the promise, that the last


OF all our enemies shall be destroyed!
With rest almost in sight the spirit faints,


And heart and flesh grow weary at the last'
Our feet would walk the city of the saints,


Even before the silent gate Is passed.
Teach us to wait until thou shalt appear


To know that all thy ways and times are JUST ;
Thou seest that we do believe, and fear,


Lord, make us also to believe and trust!
Year: 1873

The necessary basis of culture lsnoot
money, but content, content with out
ward things, just as they are, content,
if it must be, with what You so PLAIN
lively call subordinate social posi-
ton" 1t seems exceedingly trite to say
that perception of great thoughts and
Great harmonies ennobles a simple no
less than a snowy life, but one would
think Won did not believe it. If the
souls of Mozart and Mendelssohn are
still alive and happy in blessing, and II
they minister to poor mortals sometimes
through the strains hatabundantly live,
as what music-lover does not love to
dream ?-do you suppose they are par
ticular about the locality of the street,
or the furniture of the room IN which
they perform their angelic service? y
let us learn the grace to stand still, and
| receive what is given MS, instead OF
crowding and struggling after the truly
boorish fashion of the day 1t Is this
selfish and unlovely strife to get mp, mp
mn, which leaves us no time for thought,
no room for beauty, and no breath tor
song Harriet Preston.
Year: 1873

We know perfectly we'll that some
persons lace themselves too tight, al
though iJ is not at present fashionable
to do so. We know, too, that many
women have s riously injured their
health. while some have sacrificed life
itself on the shrine of a slender waist.
But the wearing of the corset does not
necessarily, and, in fact, does not COM
monty, end in tight lacing while lacing,
and that, too, of a very droful sort,
NAV be, and frequently is, accomplished,
without the use of a corset at all. We
have seen mems clothes worn as tightly
as anv corset ever was. The cOndemna-
ton of tight lacing is perfectly just, OF
course, % everybody having the small
est kno, edg of anatomy knows. But
many women who never lace wear cor
sets and derive great benefit from their
use. It is certainly very absurd to de-
mand that these people shall forego a
comfort-giving article of apparel merely
because they could turn it into an in
strument of torture if they were fools.
They find that to put the entire weight
| of their clothing upon their shoulders
! is to give themselves pain, and in order
to divide it they let part of their appa-
rel depend upon the hips for support,
To do this without a corset it would be
Necessary to wear the garments altogeth-
er tighter about The waist than they
should be worn, and to bind them
around single rarrow zone, which
would be both uncomfortable and un


wise. The corset, however, distributes
both the weight and the pressure over
the strong muscles of the hips, and as
it is less yielding than the flesh, it OBJ
viates the necessity of tight waistband'
altogether. Tue corset, properly used


in other words, furnishes the very bes


remedy for tight lacing, particularly


now that taper waists have gone QUITO


fashion. Hearth and Home.
Year: 1873

"A distinguished English divine re-
Gently said in sermon that " Ii the
Scripture said one thing and the London
Times said another, 500 people out OF
every SO wOuld believe the Times.
Year: 1873

feel compelled tor The matter was indefinitely
postponed without debate.


And yet the large and influential class was not
relieved. The pressure increased rather than
diminished. Cox was unquestiOnably supporting
Mr.. Charles Blackie. the republican candidate lor
Senator from the Fifth district, and the "lnnu-
entail classn was shaking its mead omnously.
The Police Justices were very busy and the calls
were numerous. The Board mad adjourned until
Tuesday last. But evidently matters had not been
arranged, as no quorum was present ana 80
another adjournment followed. and until Satur-
day. AT the meeting on that day strong effort
was made to induce Justice Cox to assent to the
transfer until alter election, In deferenoe to the
wishes OF number OF the democratic Aldermen.
But that oflical persistently refused, evidently
regarding himself as the uppermost dog in the
fight. The outside pressure on the Board was very
strong, and the Justices were urged TO take the
required action In


DEFIANCE OF ALDERMAN KEHR,


who, 10 was argued, would not dare to stultify him.
self alter his past action and vote with the Mayor
The members OF the Board, however, did NOT care
thus TO risk their positions, and an adjournment
was had, with the vexed question still unsettled


But one example OF transfer OF Justice, as
contemplated in the present case, Is on record !:
that OF Justice Ledwith who was transferred from
Jefferson Market to Essex Market some years
since, through political considerations. There are
grave doubts as 10 the power OF the Board TO make
the change proposed, and IL is understood that
Justice Cox will test the question II the attempt Ii
made to remove him from the district In which he
belongs and the constituency who elected him.
Year: 1873

Congress and the State OF New York,
Not tho Lighthouse Board, to Blame.


BROOKLYN, Oct. Q, 1873.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


In this mornings paper read an editorial GEN.
surlng the Lighthouse Board for the want OF light
stations on Hart Island N. Y, and Winter Quarter
Shoa, Va. To reply to this charge ! have no
authority whatever, and do so only because
know to whom the blame Gr any should be laid,
ana because, to cant q little, hate to see "tne
boot on the wrong iootn The facts are thar Con-
gress, though asked, has not yet made an appro-
priation for placing lghtship on winter quarter
darkness on Hart Island Tor the state OF New
York is slow to cede jurisdiction over the site OF
the projected lighthouse. one week from the time
Congress sanctions the outlay first class light
ship could be placed on the station; and II the
Assembly would only hasten the necessary cession
OF the site,


To drive both gloom and GUM away.


The efficiency OF the Lighthouse Establishment
OF the United States IL acknowledged by all
nations, as witness Professor Tynda and Sir Fred
erick Arrows reports on their return from In
specting the system here, and the diploma and
honorable mention awarded at the Vienna Exhibi-
ton, and long article from the pen OF one OF
your own staff after searching examination,
which ap peared in your columns some months ago,
was glowing tribute TO its worth. The compost
tion OF the Lighthouse Board Is in itself sufficient
Embracing civilians OF the highest scientific attain
ments, and distinguished officers OF the army and
navy-a combination which Is not and cannot be
surpassed. This will be admitted by all who
properly understand the nature OF the Lighthouse
service. have read many articles on this subject
in newspapers, works on natural philosophy and
elsewhere, and have found disparaging remarks
in not more than three instances and one OF these
(puDlished in q Newark paper was that OF dis
charged keeper OF Passaic lighthouse, whose
offences had made his removal benefit to the
service.


Your conclusion, based on the statements OF your
correspondents, was, perhaps, natural, but they
had "nold OF the wrong ear.n Yours respectfully,
Year: 1873

Better than grandeur, better than gold,
Than rank and title a thousand fold,
is healthy body and mind at ease,
And simple pleasures that always please |;
A heart than can feel for anOther's Woe,
And share it's joys with genial glow,
With sympathies large enough to enfold
All men as brothers, is better than gold.
Better than gold is 9 conscience clear,
Though toiling for bread in an humble


sphere, -,
Douhly blessed with content and health /;
Unttied by the lust Of cares or wealth;
Lowly living and lofty thought
Adorn and ennoble poor mans cot,
For mind and morals in natures plan
Are the genuine tests of q gentleman.
Better than gold is the sweet repose
Of the sonsof toll when their labors close;
Better than gold Is the poor mans sleep,
And the balm thatdrops on his slumbets
Bring sleeping draughts to the aching bed
Where luxury pillows its downy head,
His simple opiate he deems


A shorter road to the land OF dreams.'
Better than gold is thinking mind,
That in the realm of books can find,
A treasure SURPRISING Australian ore,
And live with the great and good OF yore,
The sage's lore aud the poets lay,
'Dhe ..lories of empire past away,
The worlds great dream will thus enfold
And weld pleasure better than gold.
Better than gold is peaceful home,
When ali the fireside character come,
The shrine of love, the heaven of life,
Haliowed by mother or sister, or wife,
However humble the home pay be,
Or tried with sorrow with heavens decree,
The blessings that never were bought nor


sold,
And centre there, are better than gold.
Year: 1873

helped the two quarteru. asters, who


were swimming to the rock With lines.
was the twelfth man who got on the
rock by the line. TIE sea was calm at
the time, but it was intensely cold.
Three or four OF the officers and crew
got on the rock before l did. a. d we all
assisted the others by pulling them up.
Many Of Them were 30 exhausted that
they could hardly move when we pulled
them out. and great number dropped
of while crossing and were carried away.
/ saw the crew pushing passengers away
from the rope and getting on
10 it themselves. When l left the ves>
sci had only my shirt and psntaloons
and one stocking on, and after We got
ashore some Of the people gave me
httle clothing. The next day | saw my
coat on one Of the crew, and insisted on
getting it, ss l was cold He refused,
and l pulled it of OF him. NV name
was sewed on the inside, and / found
the piece had been cut out. All the
crew were we'll clothed; but whenever
they saw q good coat on man whom
they imagis ed they could trighten they
claimed it as their property and made
him give it up. We were very kindly
treated by the people at every place
where We stopped, but don't see that
we have to thank either the officers OF
the ship or the company tor anything.


Several other passengers-in fact, al
most every one spoken to on the subject
agree in censuripg the Captain and
testifying to the ruffisnly conduct OF
the crew.
Year: 1873

SpRlSaFIELD, April ga party OF
three farmers got on an eastern bound
train yesterday forenoon and refused to
paw more than three cents mile legal
fare Conductor Wheeler called men
with the view of putting them of. he
stopped the train but was unsuccessful
A party OF about twenty persons stand
ing in the depot mounting the cars to
see are play. Two OF this relay stop.
ped on one train while the other went
through to Wyonet Crossing on Legal
are. TIE conductor received three
cents per mile when offered to him.