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Year: 1873

WHY WILL YE DIE, On YE OF LIT
TIE FAITH ?'-The following well-written
article is from the Davenport Democrat of
December 10, 1872, and is a powerful re
minder to the afflicted:


The most insidious, deadly and distress
ing malady attacking the human frame, is
pale consumption, stealing into the maid
ems bosom, flushing her cheek, blanching
her skin, and feeding like living worm Of
death upon her vitals 4 lover may
fondly gaze into her eyes, the brilliant
sparkling is but a forerunner of dissolu-
| ton. A mother may listen to her mid
night breathing, it is but muffied drum
beating her death knell. A father may
| fOndly try to save her, but too frequently
his efforts are in vain, her bridal bed is the
burial case her bridegroom, death, the
| silent consumer of her lungs is at work,
and physicians have no remedy, the phar-
macopeia no drug which can keep her from
her destiny, Sad as this view is, there is,
| happily, q bright side. Providence has
garnered up in the storehouses of vegeta-
ton, sovereign balm in the juices Of
plants to arrest the fell destroyer, to heal
the eating ulcer, to renOvate the failing
| lung. to bring health, strength and vigor
to the wasted frame. The keen eye Of
science has searched for it, the chemist 5
skill has seized upon it, the retort and
alembic have extracted it, and the remedy
is produced which will stay the progress Of
the stealthy death fend The result Of
this careful study of nature is Allen S
Lung Balsam, this is the consumptive $
hope, the declining patients cure. Thou
sands have entered upon trial of it with
distrust and fear, who now live to record
its snatching them from an early grave, and


who are ready to testify to its merits. Let


the consumptive take it and be benefited


Why will We die, OH We of little faith :?
Year: 1873

Renne's Pain-Killing Magic Oil is the
best thing you ever used for curing pain,
1t is safe and clean to use, and does not
lose its virtues by age or exposure Try
it for headache and rheumatism. Sold by
John BenrstOn.
Year: 1873

DoN'TSUFFER your hair to fall off when
Il bottle or two of NATURES HAIR RE-
sToRATrvE will check it, Splendidly per
fumed and clear as crystal All wide
awake druggists sell it. See advertise
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT-The Commissary
General of the United States, after a trial
of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch" was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
is fact worthy the attention Of consum-
apg
Year: 1873

Those holding tickets in the original scheme
can return them to j. G. WALLACE. Manager, DaV-
export, and receive two chances in the new scheme
for in the old,-which will give them one
chance in IL TO draw prize


The managers assure the public that the drawing
will


POSITIVELY TAKE PLACE,
As above, and now request the agents to work with
will. and see to it that net ticket remains uu'
sold AT the close of the time appointed.
Year: 1873

That as a general rule every man must
vote in his own election precinct. No
one can vote out of his precinct or out
Of his county, unless he delivers to the
presiding officer Of the election a GER
tificate from the District Clerk that he
is q registered voter of the county In
which he resides Besides this, he
must swear that he Is the identical
person named in the certificate, and
that he has not and will not vote else
where in the then pending election.


The best way is for every man to
vote in his own precinct, and we espe-
cially urge those in the country TO do
20. BY crowding into town, many
may loose theirvot Only those who
see beforehand that they will be away
from home on election day, should got
certificates from the Clerk in order
that they may vote Cor State or District
officers elsewhere.


BE warned In time, and nobody VIII,
be disappointed.
Year: 1873

If there is anything calculated to dis


gust an honest Southern family with


Radical hypocrisy, It Is illustrated In


the following facts occurring in Texas


town two or three years ago. In one


of our best families, when the war


closed, was q negro woman who had


long been confidential servant, who
had nursed the white children and low
cd them rs her own.


The conquering army, after the war
closed, came, made mp Of both white
and negro troops. Easter this faithful
old household servant, was invelgled


by negro soldiers and genuine Yankee
family, to leave her old home and pro-
lection and take.service In said Yankee
family. Soon she married Northern
negro, and, ere long, his british in
stincts were manifested by blow on
her head, which, few days later,
caused her death.


Thus stricken and unable to labor,
she was east aside by her Northern
negro husband and hcrApewIy made
Yankee friends. Hearing this, her old
mistress took her home and tenderly
nursed her till death closed her
suiierings, Funeral cards Were
printed, and II whole village of South
ern white people joined in procession
to inter the remains of this faithful old
servant, while not Northern negro nor
any of the Pharisaical Yankee family
made their appearance, Such Is but
one of thousands Of eases in the South
since the war


When the Great Judge shall sit upon
his throne to Judge all the earth, to
whom will he award the praise--that
Yankee faInily-those Northern negro
soldicrs--or that family and those
Southern rebels of that towh? The
Just cum await the Judgment of Heaven
at the Great Day.


This incident gqG,iNds Vi Of much |
that Ii still abroad in the land, Men
and communities may deride and seofr !!
in their pride, hut all time is as but a |
TO the Great Ruler, and few |
days or years will bring all now Of
earth to His Judgment bar! What a
thought God, in his mercy, save the
wicked of this land from the fate of |
Sodom and GOmorrnh.
Year: 1873

CAN TT BE TRUE?-Within the last few
months considerable number of persons
have called upon Dr. WALKER, the pro-
prietor of the popular medicine known as
VINEGAR BITTERs, and assured him that,
in their belief, his preparations are an in
fallible antidote for rum and tobacco. The
minute details which have been furnished
him forbid him to doubt the accuracy of
the state ments. This new claim ofa great
remedy to the confidence of the public will
give vast and well-deserved impulse to
its popularity Heretofore the BTTTERs
have been recognized as pure vegetable
tonic and corrective, devoid of alcohol, and
thoroughly adapted to the cure of the
stomach and bowel complaints, nervous
disorders, bilious affections, muscular dis
eases, and, indeed, majority of the all
ments within the reach of medicine but
if it will also cure the craving for liquor
and tobacco philosophers, statesmen and
theologians ought TO unite their voices in
its praise. Can the good things be true ?
| 1t is easy to test the question.
Year: 1873

Theman who never failed in a myth.
Such one never lived, and is never likely to.
All success is series of efforts, in which,
when closely viewed, are seen more or less
failures. The mountain is apt TO over shad-
ow the hill, but tie hill is a reality neverthe-
less. Ifyou fail now and then, don't be dis
couraged. B ar in mind i is only the part and
experience of every successful man, and the
most successful men often have the most fail
ures.
Year: 1873

Western women think that people are
growing over fussy nowadays. II man die
and two or three grains of strychnine, or half
pound of arsenic, or an ounce or so of anti
mony 'e found in his stomach, his poor wife
has to go off to prison, and go through trial,
and see her name in the newspapers, and be
acquitted and neglect her sewing until she
hasn't thing fit TO wear.
Year: 1873

A Delaware woman put a button and pin
in her mouth the other day, and accidentally
swallowed them. If she had taken them in
separate doses perhaps no harm would have
been done, but the pin had passed through
the eye of the button, the morsel stuck
In her throat, and a nice SUI geon's bill her
husband will have to pay.
Year: 1873

Preserve your conscience always soft and
sensitive. If but one sin force its way into
that tender part of the soul and is suffered
to dwell there, the road is paved for thou
sand more iniquities.
Year: 1873

The Danbury Ne,cs says: The Dam
bury horse has reputation above all
other animals Of the breed. The chief
claim OF the Danbury horse to public
favor and notice Is the facility with
which lie will run away. lie will get
up In the night from refreshing sleep
to run away. He will leave meal OF
cream cakes and quail on toast to run
away. He will sacrifice home. happi-
ness, honor and other peoples proper
ty to run away. And when he gets
started nobody ever thinks Of getting
In front OF him. Once in while a
stranger attempts it, but there Ia fund
to furnish Ice to pack his body with
until his friends can come on, so there
Is no harm done. Neither Is a Dan.
bury horse a respecter of occasions.
He will run away from = post. or an
agricultural debate, or funeral. and,
In tight pinch. would run away from
n position in the New York Custom
House.
Year: 1873

EDITOR MIAMI DEMoCRAT:-W Without oc-
cupying much of your valuable space, beg
to detail an incident connected with the ter
rible hurricane that passed over the Miami
Valley on the evening of the "glorous 4th. .


On the well-known cold Anderson farm, y
whose fertile acres extend to the banks OF
the historic Miami, stands or rather stood a
fine oak grove. A fortnight since the ma
jestic trees stood erect and intact, but now
two-thirds of them are lying on the ground
hurled down By the relentless fury of the
last great storm. Little did the storm de-
mon think when he set out upon his mission
of destruction that be was destined to rob a
tree of secret which it had scrupulously
kept for eightytwo years.


have the facts of the storm incident from
the own lips of Mr.. - Rogers, the pres
ent occupant of the farm referred to, and a
men of proverbial veracity.


Upon the morning subsequent to the storm
Saturday Mr.. Rogers in company with a
hired man proceeded to enquire into the ex-
tent of the damage inflicted upon his premis-
es, and the first objective point was the ru-
ned grove. The center tree of the plat was
noble oak, the king over his fellows, and a
tree which had stood the ravages of time
seemingly unscathed for several centuries.
This tree had been snapped and felled by the
storm. Upon examining the fallen giant for
the purpose of ascertaining its worth as rail-
timber, Mr.. Rogers made startling discov-
cry.


This was nothing less than the fact that
the tree in falling had disgorged skeleton!


The bones were disconnected, yellow as
gold with age, and scattered promiscuously
over several square feet of pasturage. The
skull was almost intact; all the teeth save
two-molars- were still in their places, and
there was scar on the left parietal bone
which looked like the memento of some fierce
cavalry charge. The bunerus Of the right
Year: 1873

COLLEGE GIRLsr.-An exchange says
We have received letter from female
cousin now going to school to Vassar Col
lege, and as the epistle contains information
of startling character, it is thought best to
publish part of it. After request to
send her down box of soft slate pencils
and gum-drops to eat, she says: "We do
have such fun down here. All the girls
are made to participate in outdoor exercises
and we row on the lake, ride horseback,
turn hand-springs, run foot-races and have
heaps of fun. Belle Hastings can climb a
thirty-foot smooth pole in two minutes
Nell Vivian (you remember her) can turn
handspring and not make a wrinkle in her
dress. | put a beautiful head on Mary
Dodge yesterday in the boxing room.
Year: 1873

Italian children are stolen from their
homes or bought of their unnatural
parents. brought to this country and
sold to human hrutcs who employ them
i'll hcggimg. They are sent into the
streets to sing or play upon the violin
or other instrument and when they re
turn to their wrctched places of abode,
at night, are frequently whipped be
cause they do not bring home more
money. The attention of the authori-
ties has been called to this state of af-
fairs and measures will he taken to
abolish this system of slavery.
Year: 1873

This story illustrates the strictness
with which the Cunard line of steamers
is managed The captain of one of
their New York ships, having lately
married. asked leave to take his wife
with him on one voyage. This was
granted, but on going to take command
when the ship was ready for sea, he
found one of his brother captains ON
board, from whom he learned that,
though the company had no objection
to his taking his wife to America, they
were not willing to trust him with the
ship, too.
Year: 1873

- Mr.. Rowland Hill saw a poor
woman whose husband was away look
earnestly at the outside of Il letter from
him, and then declined to take it, as
tie postage was too great. He eX-
pressed his sympathy, but when the
postman was gone she explained that
the letter was all outside ; her husband
and she had agreed on signs and tokens
to he conveyed by lines and dots and
variations of the address. so that she
could thus learn without the fee that
he was well OF ill, was coming home
Year: 1873

soon or wished her to come to him. or
would send her money next week. and
so on. The future reformcr thought it
Il pity the poor should he driven to
such shifts. and accordingly preached
penny postage. This was the origin of
cheap postage. and Rowland Hill WAS
the man who put it into effect.
Year: 1873

My DEAR. DEAR PA = How can |
tell you how sad my heart is while |
write to You. not knowing whether you
are dead OF alive. Do you love us any
more Why is it that we do not hear
from YOU any more? ? If you are sick
and discouraged. we will try and help
YOU to come home. and then we will
work and take care of you. oh, how
hard to live us we do, now that the
children are all separated. Willie is
at the State Reform School in LancaS-
ter. in this state, and ma does not have
To pay his board man in Berlin has
adopted frankie as his daughter, and II
rich farmer in the country has Lihbie
as his child. and Henry is ut Frcdericks-
burg. | am working for wages in Il
small family in Massillnn. Ma has
learned the drcsSmaker's trade and Scws
by the day in this city, and helps me
all she can. She has been working in
Fulton for the last two weeks. and will
he there some time. 1t is hard to have
no home, no pa to love us-and oh. pa,
do take pity on us. and come back :.
We will all receive YOU with open arms.
And how happy we will he to have You
with us. as You have been once. oh,
pa, do write and tell lis if you love us
still. Your sorrowtul daughter,


EMMA \. RAY.


Massillon, Stark County, Ohio
Year: 1873

GOOD ADvlCE.-The Washington Repso"ca"
gives some excellent advice to those Kansas iai :
mers who are talking Of the Cooperative Pian
OF purchase and sale. 1t may be well for them
to combine and give their trade TO a particular
merchant If ther,by bosa fde reduction Of Pri-
ces can be obtained; but if they try to keep store
themselves. the chances are that the agent alone
will get rich:


"From careful investigation of the subject
we feel safe in saving that not one mrfthart in
ten in Northern Kansas, and we doubt if that
many in the State are prepared to meet their
payments on time. What is the cause of this +!
Because their goods have been sold on credit all
over the country. There are thousands of dollars
Of outstanding accounts in our own town, which
if paid would enable them to sell at smaller
profit. But the merchant is asked to advance
the profit Of farm produce. The price of farni
produce is as wholly out of the control OF the
merchant as the wind and weather.
Year: 1873

A MATTER OF CoMPLAINT.-Some of the men,
hers of the bar complain Of a practice in the
Courts Of this District-and which may also pre-
vail in other Districts. From time to time during
the term, the Judge sets cases for hearing at
subsequent day. until they are pretty thoroughly
crowded into the last few days Of the term, when
there is not sufficient time to consider them; and
the Judge, refnsing.to 60 into any trial, or even
to hear any statement or argument on law points
by the counsel, decides them of-hand, as rapidly
as they come mp. This, they claim, is gross in
Justice to parties interested, whose claims and
rights are disposed Of without ceremony or con-
sideration; and in many cases the parties are not
able or the claim is not sufficient, to justify carry


ing the matter to the Supreme Court. This is
matter know nothing about, but speak Of it
because attorneys have called our attention to it.
Year: 1873

T The New York Tiibune's financial condition
may be inferred from the fact that it is retrench
ing by cutting from its exchange list papers that
are as much entitled to it if they had paid their
money-they having, by distinct contract, pub
lished it's prospectus in payment for the Daily
Tribune for 1873. We are in that list. But we
shall not complain, as we do not seriously "miss
it at home"
Year: 1873

ATcHIsoN GLoBE.-We have received the pros
pcetus Of the new Republican paper, soon to be
started in Atchison, with the above name. 1t
has ample backing, and promises to be up to the
requirements of the times in every particular.
1t is useless to say there is no call for such Pa
per, and to predict its failure before it is born
the public will decide that question, after trying
-
Year: 1873

There is great inquiry for the name of the
member of Congress who sent his back pay tn the
| conscience fund, with a request that his name
remain unknown. The only man who is entirely
above suspicion in the matter is the member
from Essex County, Mass.--Ner York Tribune.
Year: 1873

IT young lady in this vicinity, the other evening,


wishing tell her bean that she had suffered from almost


every alment hut the Spring fever BIZ sp Of the tongue
made II Summer complaint
Year: 1873

Mr.. EDITORS viii you permit
me through your columns to en-
body few of my thoughts in words
and thereby express to the people
some of my wants and desires. 1
want about one hundred very nice
young men whose business it shall
be to rush out of the different
churches Immediately after services,
to file right and left of the walk
from the door to the street, thereby
forming gauntlet through which
every girl, woman and child must
pass. They must scrutinize the Ia.
dies very closely, paying particular
attention to the cut and fit of their
shoes and dresses. They must occa.
sionally litter and laugh to tie great
pleasure of the fair ones. After
everybody has passed through, they
must bring up the rear with disorder
and confusion. About twenty-five
old men are also wanted to drill
these young gentlemen, to instruct
them, and now and then to give
them an approving smile just for
their encouragement. Men, old or
young, who have been properly
raised, who have good mothers, Sis
ters or wives, who have any regard
for female modesty and purity, need
not apply; they are not wanted.


would also desire the services Of
a few ladies, married or single
Some want to look round in church
when some one is coming in and, of
course, to see who are seated and
what they have on; some to whisper
very loudly just before the exercises
begin, to laugh rather audibly, and
to look very ''bewitching and sweet"
Others l want, specially, to watch
closely during the first prayer, to see
if the leader of the choir is hunting
out the hymns and tunes, to see if
any nickels fall in the hat, etc
Ladies who can't write good arti-
Gle for newspaper, and tell what
all they have seen in churches while
they themselves were devoutly wor-
shipping the living God, will not be
accepted.


Good hands handsomely remuner.
ated. NANCY'S BROTHER.


Morristown, March IA, 1873.
Year: 1873

A Washington dispatch says the
present force of internal revenue as
SCISSORS, who were legislated out of
Office by the recent act Of Congress
modifying the internal revenue SER
vice and placing the collection of
taxes entirely in the hands of asses
sors, will be removed on the 20th Of
May next. The appointment Of col
lectors in the place Of the present
incumbents will be carried out in
large number of instances, and the
recommendations of members of
Congress viii govern these appoint
ments
Year: 1873

A Missouri woman said she gave a
railroad conductor a ten dollar bill !;
he said it was a two; she insisted /;
he persisted; she took out revolver
and snapped it, and he gave her the
eight dollars balance, not wishing to
have any dispute with lady.
Year: 1873

Ben Buffers recent declaration
that the Almighty made him. and
not the newspapers. is hardly worthy
of belief. The newspapers often
turn out such wretched jobs, but it
is very seldom that the Almighty
does.
Year: 1873

Useful industry does not so much
consist in being continually busy as
in doing promptly those things that
are of the first Importance and which
will eventually prove most profitable.
Year: 1873

Rural papers severely condemn
the conduct of ''the hens that are
standing around barn-yard doors
doing nothing while eggs are selling
at fifty cents Dozen" and suggest
that, although purely lay question,
it is one in which the clergy might
well test the efficacy of prayer.
Year: 1873

Fortune telling is to be made a
criminal offense in the State of New
York. In it's most harmless form.
fortune telling is simply a means
of swindling foolish people out of
their money, while it has often been
turned to worse purposes.
Year: 1873




In our day, parent can bestow
upon a child nothing more valuable
than a good education. But while
this fact is generally recognized,
and every locality has its school
house, there are those whose con
ceptions of what a good school
training should be. are, if not erro-
neous, at least very indefinite. Mene
a business man can remember with
what EN- barrassment he first essay
ed to do n sum that wasn't in the
book" " and that it took time and
practice to make himself familiar
with the operations required in busi-
ness, and capable in performing
them. Experience has taught us all,
that the instruction which we receiv-
ed III school was but preparatory
and general, and useful in a practic-
al way, ONLY as it enabled us more
readily to acquire that particular
knowledge which our business re-
quired. Nor is it reasonable to ex-
pect more than this. The most ac-
compIiShed college graduate has but
obtained that culture which makes
it possible for him to become, in
time, good lawyer, doctor, or me
chanic. 1t is, then, the province of
school to do this preparatory
work; when it does it well, it does
all that il can do. But the educa-
tlOn OF no person ends with his
school days. 1t is then, in fact, that
the real, special life-training begins,
and it is then that the advantage oi
a cultivated intellect, and taste
for study becomes apparent. A
mere familiarity with text books is
a poor reward for years spent i'll APP
plication and confinement, and it is
not to obtain this that children
should attend schOoI A child that
has finished a common school course
of instruction, should have acquired
correct habits Of thought, a love OF
study, and the ability to gain knowl.
edge from books. These acquire
ments are most important, and the
modes OF teaching and discipline OF
the school should be such as to Sc
cure them. A good teacher is len
lent in discipline, but exacting III
scholarship. The ultimate objecti1
school discipline, is not to have
children sit and move with military
precision, but to secure that degree
of order which is necessary TO good
work. All discipline which by its
severity OF harshness tends to make
a child dislike school, buys order at
a very dear price, and should be
avoided. Many lessons are learned
in school which are not to be found
i'll the text books, and parents should
see that the influences under which
their children are placed, are such
as will develope their best nature
and incline them to love through
life, the true and the good Chos


Whitaker.