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Year: 1873

In view OF the great interest in the Inter-Col-
legiate Regatta the HERALD presents to-day the
accompanying map OF tho Connecticut River above
and below the city Of Springfield, Mass, showing
the course over which the college race is to be
rowed tomorrow, the location of the boarding
houses and boat houses OF the eleven crews en-
tered for the contest and the railroads and local
thoroughiares by which the general spectator can
reach the starting point. A glance at this map
viii show that at Springfield the Connecticut runs
nearly north and south. The scenery along the
river banks from Chicopee on the north to Long
meadow on the south Of the city is Of the most
variable and lovely description, the trees and
underground in many places reaching to the
waters edge, while here and there the tiny rippes
indicate to the observer the shallow portions
Year: 1873

the south OF the railroad bridge, connecting
with the Boston and Albany depot. The Jerry
connects the east side just below Mill River,
with Agawan village on the opposite bank.
AS there are great number OF boats plying along
the banks on racing days there will be no dificulty
In obtaining transportation OF that kind TO those
desirous Of paying considerably for the privilege.
Indeed, small boat houses line the river for long
distance out Of town. OF course all passengers
arriving from the South by the New Haven route


will land at LOngmeadow station, in close
proximity to the ferry. Alter landing on the
west side by the ferry straight road
leads along the entire length OF the course
to the end. The grand stand Is erected near
the end OF the College course, slightly to the east
OF the road and quite close to the water Passen-
gers arriving from the East and North, via the Bos-
ton and Albany Railroad, and crossing the bridge
Year: 1873

The Third Hottest Day OF the Season.


1t was very fortunate that we had breeze yes
terday, else tired nature would have certainly
given way. 1t is certainly true that on the whole
we have had 1t mild but when 1t does come it
takes sweet vengeance for letting us on so easy
On Monday the Thermometer registered s5 degrees,
and yesterday, in spite OF the breeze which pre-
vailed, it went up to 81 degrees, o figure which
made Manhattan swelter and sweat. The heat, in
fact, only did one good thing-that is, furnishing
q subject FOR conversation for those who never
have anything to say. For the unfortunate portion
of the population which had TO work physically the
day was indeed, q terrible one, and it seems q
great wonder that more casualties did not occur.
However, II the thermometer should continue in
the high regions we SHALL no doubt, have plenty OF
them soon. Let US pray however, that IL may
moderate.
Year: 1873

Two months elapsed, and was still an in
valid. The shock my nerves sustained that
night proved to be more serious than We at
first suspected. I think it was as much my
mind as my body which was affected could
not divest myself of the idea that, perhaps, |
had committed murder. The man who was
shot was evidently badly hurt; and though 1
could not blame myself for what had done,
l knew if heard of his death, I should never
forgive myself: My intention, in firing the
gun, was only to alarm them; and l was as
much surprised as they must have been at the
result of my first experience with fire arms.
Year: 1873

behavior you ever saw in your life, on this
occasion, his was the most odd and the more
he fretted and fumed, the more I laughed.
Then we got to quarreling, and that just end
ed the whole affair. But it was the piece OF
blue ribbon that started US. J should have
been old Mrs. Iverson,' now, if it had not
been for that"


81 don't think either of you could have
loved each other much, aunty, if you let such
little thing as that break off your engage
ment."


"That's the truth! No better sign in the
world that ours was not true love. 1t takes
more than piece of blue ribbon to end that,
Matte. But am too old to be sitting up at
this time of night, talking about love. Good
night, child. hope you may have pleasant
Dreams"


could not sleep after aunt Patsy left me.
Her remark about true love had set me to
thinking. Was the love that could last un-
changed in intensity, through years Of separa-
ton, the "true love?" I believed it was.
Since had been for months on a bed Of sick
ness, with opportunity to think over my past,
life seemed to have another meaning. l be-
lieve that We are often the creators of our un-
happiness.


It was the want of perfect trust and conf
dence in his love, that had made me send him
from me. How much better it would have
been had 1 acted as my heart prompted. Is
it for our good or otherwise, that there is no
recalling the past? If I could only have
lived over those few, short, happy years again,
1 would not have been lying there, unloved
and uncared for. could not say that, but
there was an aching void in my heart which
nothing but his presence could ell.


had not heard from Owen Morris since l
sent him my mothers will, and this anxiety
the fear that my letter might not have reached
him-was added to the many already had.


was still awake when Mary and Nellie
returned. heard them step softly by my
door, so as not to disturb me, and I heard
their smothered laughter at a speech from
Nellie, and then-all was still again, and l
was soon the only watcher in the old Elm
wood house.


fro RE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
Year: 1873

1t is bad enough, says the Danbury Ne,us,
to see bachelor sew on q button, but he Is
the embodiment Of grace alongside of a mar.
ried man. Necessity has compelled expert
ence in the case of the former, but the latter
has always depended upon some one else for
this service, and fortunately for the sake of
society, it is rarely he is obliged to resort to
the needle himself Sometimes the patient
wife scalds her right hand, or runs silver un-
der the nail of the index finger of that hand,
and it is then that the man clutches the nee
die around the neck, and forgetting to tie
knot in the thread commences to put on the
button. It is always in the morning, and
from FIVE to twenty minutes after. he is expec.
ted to be down street. He lays the button
exactly on the site of its predecessor, and
pushes the needle through the eye, and care
fully draws the thread after, leaving about
three inches of it sticking up for lee way. He
says to himself, "Well, if women don't have
the easiest time I ever did see." Then he
comes back the other way, and gets the nee
die through the cloth well enough, and lays
himself out to find the eye, but in spite of a
great deal of patient jabbing, the needle point
persists in bucking against the solid parts of
that button, and finally, when he loses pa
tience, his finger catches the thread, and that
three inches he had left to hold the button
slips through the eye in twinkling, and the
button rolls leisurely across the floor.


He picks it up without single remark, out
of respect for his children, and makes another
attempt to fasten it. This time, when coming
back with the needle, he keeps both the thread
and the button from slipping by covering
them with his thumb, and it is out Of regard
for that part of him that he feels around for
the eye in very careful and judicious man.
ner, but eventually losing his philosophy, as
the search becomes more and more hopeless,
he falls jabbing about in a loose and savage
manner, and it is just then the needle finds
the opening, and comes UP through the but
ton and part way through his thumb with
celerity that no human ingenuity can guard
against. Then he lays down the things, with
few familiar quotations, and presses the in
jured hand between his knees, and then holds
it under the other arm, and finally jams it in
to his mouth, and all the while he prances
about the floor and calls upon heaven and
earth to witness that there has never been
anything like it since the world vas created,
and howls and whistles. After awhile he
calms down, and puts on his pants, and fas-
tens them together with stick, and goes to
his business changed man.
Year: 1873

saa ~ -llII7 aZ-.aiI assl
Blessed Is the man whose labor is OF
such kind that the work itself gives
employment toieverYip pars of ms NATURE
There are many kinds of naantsl labor,
in-the foundry, IN the Iaaohine-shops,
in the laboratory, in the buiIder's trade,
| IN those occupations by Wl1ieK the ne
! eess1ties of life are supplied, which
furnish field for the exercise. of man 5
whole mind. The man at the looriaL,, the
man at the palette, the man that mOlds
the vase, the man who in thosand ways
is producing Obiecbszof art and beauty
aud use, may ind scope. Tor his thought
and feeling. If We're a cabinet-nalzer,
do yon suppose I slloiiId think of moth
ing but the thing I was working on? Do
you believe I oou1d construct 4 cradle.
and my heart not sing lullaby all the
time for the little. ones that should bless
it, and whose eyes, looking out of it,
should be as stars shining mp instead Of
stars shining down, and should speak of
Immortality as the. heaYeas which de-
clare the glory of God do not know how
to do it2 Is it necessary that I should
saw, or plane, OF rub, and do nothing
but saw and plane and rub2 In theres
no living power in a mans work Is
there nothing an it to-stir up his imagi-
nation? IF i built mans house.
would the one question be how much I
could earn for so much work If Iput



my heart IN my work, am not bene-
factor {? When man builds a, house,
if he pleases he can build it for the
good Of those who are to dwell in it,
and leaves a blessing in it but if
man, in building house, says to him
self, every time he drives a nail, g How
can I put q poor one in instead of one
that costs more, acting all the time
under the influence Of the devil of sell
fshness IN his work, I do. not marvel
that it is drudgery TO him. I do not
marvel that he finds no incitementin it.
But if a man goes to work. as, il he were
called of God to1de it if it is taste,
and conscience, and .benevoIence. that
work ia him, then. his labor is all the
time a school of blessing to him. There
is scope in the poorest mechanical en-
ploymeHts for far more manhood than
we are accustomed to put into our work;
and one thing that blame men for is
that they put 50. little of the better part
of themselves into mechanical employ
ments. You think, because a man is
sitting in his study, and pursuing -his
professional ayocations, that he can ex-
pand and.openup his mind but there
may be as many sordid men among
scholars as ia any other class. Yet it is
possible in any sphere for. man to put
into his work tie best part Of himself.
Year: 1873

ssTE1HERE are very few dye-stuifs cap


IL able by themselves of imparting to
cotton colors of sufficient lustre and dura-
bility combined. They are rendered fast
as we'll as brilliant by the intervention of
certain substances, which, in consequence
of their attraction for the cloth and the col


oring matters, for a bond Of union between
the two, and are on that account sometimes
called bases, and at other times mordants,
from their taking firm hold Of or biting the
dyes. These intermediate substances,
though colorless themselves, possess the
power of modifying the color of the dye,
or of producing from the same dye-stuff
different tints so that piece of white
mordants, will assume various colors in a
single dye vat Thus, if white cotton be
impressed with the mordant of acetate of
alumina in one set of lines, with that of
acetate of iron in a second, and with a
mixture of these two mordants in q third,
on being exposed to the madder bath for a
proper time, it will become permanently
printed in red, black, and chocolate stripes" :"


In calico-priting it is necessary that the
mordant should be applied only to certain
parts of the cloth, the remaining part either


being left white, or occupied by some other
mordant or color. If, however, q drop of
mordant in its fluid state be applied to a
piece Of cloth, 1t spreads in circular form
far beyond the size of the drop, but not
in an equal manner. This inclination of
liquids to spread beyond the limits of their
first application, is overcome by thiclen-
ing them with various substances, such as
gum, flour, sugar, molasses, glue, starch
Of potatoes, of rice, and Of sage. These
thickeners constitute great item Of ex-
pense in calico-printing; as the large quaint
tiles of these substances which are derived
for the most part from articles OF human
food, after having accomplished their pur-
pose, are complete loss The thickening
Of mordants and colors 10 one Of the inn
portant operations in calico-printing on
Year: 1873

Who is it that sets the fashions ?
Whom have we to thank for all the hid
eous excrescences by which beauty is
distorted and comfort is disturbed ?
Passing periwigs and pigtails, as things
happily extinct, we wonder who invent
ed chignons, corsets, stick-up collars,
chimney-pothats and high-heeled boots.
AS regards these last named instruments
of torture, see here what is said of them
by somebody who knows: cit was i'm
possible to imagine a more depraved
form of foot-covering, or one more in
furious, than the high boots now
worn by many women. The five toes
were crumpled up together, and great
er weight than it was ever intended 1T
should bear was thrown upon the ball
of the great toe, rendering long-con-
tinued muscular exertion thing i'm
possible" Fine ladies may declare that
fine ladies have no need of undergoing
q continuance of muscular exertion, and
that they therefore have no need 10 give
up wearing high heeled boots. Of
course, fine ladies keep their carriages,
and, except perhaps in dancing, never
have occasion for stretching their ten
toes. So they let these be deformed
and crumpled up by high-heeled boots,
and grow misshapen and distorted like
the feet of the Chinese. Deformity
becomes a proof of fashionable breed
ing, and it is better to be hideous than
not dress q la mode. Punch.
Year: 1873

In his address to q convention of
Ohio editors assembled at Columbus,
Mr.. Oscar 7. Martin, formerly of the
Springfield CO., Advertiser, was very
personal. Said he: "There is not an
editor here or elsewhere who is not
writhing in chains, who does not daily
choke back sentiments of an honest
heart from fear or favor. This is bit
ter truth, but none the less truth. The
offal that is thrown to you in the shape
of county printing, buys your silence,
just as the midnight burglar buys the
silence of the faithful Watchdog with
meat that is thrown to it. Neither can
bark their mouths are full. You ride
free to this convention over the railroad
of corporation notorious for its bad
management. A rlimentary to the
theatre is the paltry price paid for an
unfaithful and untrue critique of the
performance, and you sell yourself,
body and soul, for an infnitesimally
less sum than Judas received for the
betrayal of his Master The public
COHUIdCUS, lOE WHICH, Uu6 GXOrDlUHQU DlQ
of favorite on slim security is pre-
ferred to the conscientious bid of q
master workman, is not exposed by the
journal that advertises the bids. The
rival over the way begins the howl
The fraud and corruption of your NUM-
cipal bodies is not unmasked because
you are q member of the ring. You
quake with holy horror at the only
symptom of virtue manifested by our
Legislators, in reforming our postal re-
lations, whereby your privileges may
be abridged, and break out in bad
eruptions of double-leaded indignation,
with frowning black headlines, over
the salary steal of your poverty-stricken
Congressman. On the tittle-page of
your paper you fly such Haunting lies
as THE freedom of the press is the
safeguard of the nationr Truth crush
ed to earth,' &C., and you prostitute
the patriotic motto: 'Give me liberty
or give me death You are bound hand
| and foot"
Year: 1873

Belshazzar Smith had a very bad and
very dangerous habit of walking in his
sleep. His family feared that during
some one of his somnambulistic saunter-
ings he would charge out of the window
and kill himself; so they persuaded
him to sleep with his little brother Will
liam, and to tie one end of a rope round
his body and the other end round the
waist of little William. The first night
after this arrangement was made, Bel
shazzar dreamed that burglar was
pursuing him with q dagger. SO he
crest over to Williams side of the bed
stepped over Williams slumbering
form, jumped out on the floor and slid
under the bed. He stayed there awhile
fast asleep; and then, his nightmare
having changed, he emerged upon the
other side of the bed, and got under
the cover in his old place. The rope, it
will be observed, was beneath the bed,
and it was pulled taut, too. Early in
the morning, Belshazzar, about half
awake, scrouged over against William.
To his surprise the movement jerked
William clear out of bed. Belshazzar
leaped out to ascertain the cause of the
phenomenon, and at the same time his
brother disappeared under the bed,
Belshazzar, hardly yetawake, was scared.
and he dived beneath the bedstead as
he did so he heard William skirmishing
across the blankets over his head. Once
more he rushed out just in time to per-
ceive William glide over the other side.
Belshazzar then became sufficiently con-
scious to feel the rope pulling him. He
comprehended the situation at once, and
disengaged himself. And perhaps little
William was not mad He was in the
hospital undergoing repairs for about
three weeks, and when he came out he
had strange desire to sleep alone
Belshazzar anchors himself now to an
anvil. .-li0r -AdeLer.
Year: 1873

Only blunder, sad mistake;


All my own fault, and mine alone;
The saddest error heart can make
was so Young, or I would have known.
Only his rare. sweet, winning smile;
Only lingering touch Of his hand:
think was dreaming all the while
The reason did not understand.
Yet somewhere I've read men WOO this way !;
That eyes speak sometimes before the


tongue:


And I was sure he would speak some day
Pardon the folly, was so young.
Was, say, for now am old;


So old, it seems like hundred years
Since felt my heart growing hard and cold,
With pain too bitter and deep for tears.
saw him beam over the strangers chair
With a warm new light in his beautiful eyes,
And Iwoke from my dreaming then and there,
And went out of my self-made Paradise.
He never loved me, know, l see


Such sad, sad blunders as young hearts


makel


She did not win him away from me,


For he WAS not mine. 1t was my mistake.
A woman should wait for man to speak
Before she dreams of his love, own:
But was girl; girls hearts are weak
And the pain, like the fault, is mine alone.
Year: 1873

We are delighted to learn that some
use has been discovered for mosquitoes


It has been found worth while to strain
them out of the water before they get
their elegant plumage. their tuneful
voice and their blood-thirsty appetite,
and feed them to young trout We are
in favor of raising trout on large scale.
Year: 1873

We do not know what fog is, what we call a
fog here, would be called in London merely a
slight mist. There, the fogs have density and
gloom that are appalling. Each pedestrian


must be preceded by torch, and even then he
can see very little, A torch cannot be seen twenty
steps of. and al ten steps it looks like a dull
coal OF fire. In London they have Just gotten
out Of three days fog. All business was sus-
pended, and people feared to 20 into the streets.
Some idea Of lhe danger may be imagined from
the fact that as soon as the fog lifted fourteen
bodies were found drowned in dock. What
number were run over in the streets gotialls and
other fatal hurts, is not yet reported, 1t pro-
baby is four times the number of the drowned.
Year: 1873

The Ledger says: Returns Of the election held
in Philadelphia and State yesterday on the adOp-
ton Of the new Constitution as far as received are
published elsewhere. The returns OF the vote of
this city are nearly complete. and show n msjorI.
ty for tie new, Constitution of 26s6I, in total
V1teo of s2,693. Most Of the interior counties have
also gone largely for the new Constitution and the
total majority for it in the State is upwards Of lOO
900.
Year: 1873

Switzerland is making another attempt
to amend its Constitution. Article forty
of the bill recently introduced for the revision
OF this instrument provides that there shall bo
complete freedom ofconscicnoe and creed that
civil and political rights shall not be made de-
pendent on any regulations or conditions Of a
religious kind; and that no one shall be COM
PEELED to pay taxes for the support Of religious
body OF which he is not member. But swift
zerland IL not yet willing 90 let religion alone,
for the article also provides that the establish
ment Of blshoprics shall he subject to the ap-
proyal OF the Confederation.
Year: 1873




The Bishop riding ata slow cantering pace -
nbout Sly or seven miles hour Tho horse did not shr
a. anything, but was Going very quietly There was 10
hoe or rt into which the horse could have put his TO
Inc a. iwal was very quiet ara . ie ana H. hld
never known HIM to stumble before. The whole affair
was extremely sudden"


dragoon officer writing to the London Timcs
saws that there is no more dangerous pace ou
road or turf thana rocking horse canter" with
an easy-going horse and loose rein that twice
In his own experience he has rolled heels over
head at this slow pace. A brisk trot or smart
canter he regards as comparatively safe, and In
India this 10 SO well known that Arab horses -
sluggish and careless when unexcited-are said
to be safe at no pace but gallop. All horses
should be pressed up to the bit with whip or
spur to prevent their going to sleep, as exempll-
fed by the tight bearing rein and prompt lash of
the circus.


Capt DOUGLASS late Of the Tenth IIussars, eI-
presses an opposite opinion and says that any
horse will fall If his head Is held up tight when ho
stumbes, and that loose rein Is the preventive.
He writes:


During au experience extending now over thirty
years never knew horse to fall from mere stumble
mat was ridden with loose rem. while on the other
hand, have seldom seen horse ridden. Ga s termed,
up 10 the h who. II h. trpped. forgot to tumble as
vel. Two Of the best rlders ever knew namely ten
pEGcl SMITH, Of the queens Bays always rode with
loo rcns yet never had horse come down with them
and could mention many other gentlemen equally
use of ihe bit and reins is To- guide halt OF make
horse rein back and when pretend We do more
than tllt with these articles We are simply attempting
Year: 1873

On the second page Of this issue of the


APPEAL we publish another and last


installment of press opinions touching
the recent dead failure TO make a new
State at Jackson. It viii, perhaps, be
deemed, by the friends of the defunct
movement, little less than untamed
ssvagery that we should thus for nearly
every day Of a week press upon
the public attention the objections
of our contemporaries. But by
snd-by they will think better Of
it, and will before many moons, as a
Modoc would say, thank us for this ad-
mirable and interesting engrossment of
public opinion, pointing to inevitable
failure, and warning them "thus far
shalt thou go, and no farther
The Jackson convention was
a pleasant farce, after the burning Of sew
ersl blocks of buildings in that hand
some, thriving and delightful town, one
Of the most progressive in the south
At least let us regard it in that light. It
afforded gentlemen from the three
States an opportunity of intermingling
and exchanging greetings who had not,
perhaps, seen each other since boyhood.
This is a sweet thing to remember. Let
us remember it and nothing else. Van
ish into thin sir, the ghost of Jackson,
Nsshoba or Chickssaw. The first Of
September approaches-let US prepare
for business.
Year: 1873

Much excitement exists among yacht


men by widely-circulated report that
the Yacht w B. was run down on the
sound, by the New Point steamer, one
night last week, with all on board. The
report adds that the steamer struck the
yacht about midships, and appeared to
knock the mast out of her, sinking her
almost Immediately. The steamer was
hove-to. and remained near the spot for
an hour afterward, but was unable to de-
tect any further sign of the vessel or
crew; and thus far neither the name of
the yacht nor the steamer alleged to
have run her down, can be ascertained.