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Year: 1872

MODERN MUstc.-Oliver Wendell
Holmes takes off the "Girl of the Period"
at her grand piano in an admirable
manner.


1t was young woman, with as many
white muslin hounces round her as the
planet Saturn has rings, that did it. She
gave the music stool a twirl or two and
huttered down on it like a whirl of soap
suds in hand bason. Then she
pushed up her cuffs as if she was going
to fight for the champions belt, Then
she worked her wrists and hands to lin,
Der 'en, | suppose, and spread cut her
fingers till they looked as though they
would pretty much cover the keyboard
from the growing end to the little squea-
ky ones. Then these two little hands
made jump at the keys as if they were
couple of tigers coming down on flock
of black and white sheep, and the piano
gave great howl, as if its tail had been
trod on. Dead stop-so still you could
hear your hair growing. Then another
jump and another howl, as if the piano
had two tails, and you trod on both of
them at once, and great clatter and
scramble and strings of jumps up and
down, back and forward, one hand over
the other, like stampede of rats and
mice more than like anything | call mu-
sic.
Year: 1872

If two men agree together to commit
suicide, and one succeeds in carrying out
his laudable intention, and the other
makes botch of it, and is forced By the
surgeons to survive, is the saved survivor
to be held guilty of murder? This it
seems Is "Crowner's Quest law" in Eng
land. Just such case occurred lately
at Chelsea, and the coroner's jury deter
mined that the survivor was chargeable
with murder. They say, whether May
shot Nagel, or Nagel shot himself, is re-
ally not the point. Both are particips
crimanis-both are guilty of murder,
though one be dead and cannot be made
responsible for it, May was according
ly brought in guilty OF wilful murder.
Year: 1872

Thousands OF bushels of apples will be
left to rot this year on the ground in the
orchards in the western part Of Massa-
chusetts. In many towns the farmers are
offering cider at $3.50 per barrel, and it
is difficult to find purchasers sufficient to
exhaust half the apples at any price. The
best varieties of winter fruit can be OBJ
tanned back in the rural districts at mere
ly nominal price,
Year: 1872

A gentleman want off Saturday noon
for half day Of fishing When he re-
turned he had walked thirteen miles, lost
s45 watch, sprained his thumb, spoiled
an Sl1 pair of pants by sitting down on
his luncheon, and caught iour.pound
mud turtle. He got back in time to help
the doctor cut from his Oldest boys foot
one Of the several fish hooks he had left
at home. He took cursory view of the
situation and went to bed.
Year: 1872

Superative conceit is human weakness which
crops out more or less in the political discussions
OF our times. Personal vanity is closely allied
to it, and generally keeps even pace in itz mani
te5tatlon among those who happen to come un-
der its ban.


This quality is wonderfully complacent with
itself, aud 1t deals out its personal criticism and
HuFerlatve anathemas just az If it was born with
royal right to conHtrue motives and assail men
who do not conform to its dlcta a. TO what ia
and what is not right relating to those matters
OF opinion about which we differ and dispute
Indeed It seems to be the special function of
some characters to play this role. An overweeu-
ing self-esteem lspredomlnant. A pretentious
seeming ills their souls and provokes them to
wrath aud denunciation against their equal fel-
lows. They would have all men recognize their
authority, to declare the law and determine the
true policy of the party and country. Let no
man question or protest. Our assumptions are
supreme. Our requirements superior Let
none be 30 presumptous as to doubt or disobey


Inc true man does not act in this way. With
nun candor and good sense rise to the front.
lie preserves the true meaning between undis-
Ahgulshng creduhty and personal jealousy.
lie makes allowance for that mixture of evil and
good which ia to be found in every human char.
acter and he IL unwilling to believe that there
are any without some commendable QUALITY
he Is not haaty TO judge, and requires full eyi-
dence before he will condemn. When there is
Just ground Tor doubt he suspeuds iudpment
while bad motives are ascribed only when nc
other excuse can be made. Charity and good
nature ia the atmosphere in which he lives anc
while he commiserates human frailty he Judge,
others according TO the rule by which he wo1lc
be judged himself


1hiz Is our philosophy Of human action ant
upon that we aim to build. If we miss the mari
it is not for want Of appreciation or intention tC
follow the rule. At all events it is just stand
ard. and should be commended to the generous
consideration Of all men. We throw out III,
suggestion with becoming Difference and trus
to that sense Of justice and propriety which
finds more or less sympathy in every COmmunit!
for its more general adoption.
Year: 1872

. The Labor Reformers find themselves bother
ed by political questions Yet Politics, it should
be rememberd is the Science OF Government
aud what is it that needs amendment and re-
form but our State government 1t is political
progress that is needed, and it cannot be ac-
complished by un-potical means A man can
not successfully chop wood with a spoon, nor
empty the Harlan d Hollingsworth dry dock
with tin cup. If the people mean to have
State reform, they must use appropriate instru-
mentalities to effect such result.
Year: 1872

The number Of people from Alsace and Lor-
raine, who prefer to leave their native land rath-
er than live under the German rule seems to be
very large. Two hundred families are on their
way to Virginia proposing to buy large tract of
lane near Alexandria and settle upon it in a &C /
ony. Since the first of January, it is stated, be-
tween six thousand and seven thousand Of SINH
lar immigrants have landed in New York.
Year: 1872

reign of terror. She did not vet know
that she could resist her mother. And
then she lived in mortal fear of her
mothers heart disease. BY irritating
her she might kill her. This dread of
matricide her mother always held over
her. In vain she watched for chance.
1t did not come. Once. when her
mothers head was turned. she glanced
at August. But he was at that moment
listening or trying to listen to one of
Jonas llarrisons remarks. And August.
who did not understand the circum-
stances. WAS only able to account for
her apparent coldmcsS on the theory
suggested 10y Andrews universal unhc-
lief in women, or 10y surprising that
when she understood his innocent re-
mark about Andrews disappointment
to refer to her mother. she had taken
oifemsc ut it. And so, while the rest
were debating whether the world would
come to an end or not. August bad II
diSconSolate feeling that the end of the
world had already come. And il did
not make him feel better to have Will
helmina whisper, "Oh! hut she is pret-
ty. that Anderson girl-i'n't she. Au-
gust y


TO be cOHtHued)
Year: 1872

= Theodore Tilton was at one time
ii strong friend doftemperance, but there
has been rapid change i'll his views
since the time he tried to excuse his
wine drinking to DIR. Fulton, and now
he refers to the position OF Wendell
Phillips. in the following language:


In il recent speech he refers to one of
the richest men in Illinois. who said,
Give me resolution to pass that open
door" which led into the drinking sa-
loon. ..and will share my wealth with
Won to morrow" He could not do it.
Nobody but God can plant i'll human
soul that vigor of resolution which can
trample this appetite under foot. But
says Mr.. Phillips, there is one thing
which law can do. which the safety of
republican institutions demands, and
that is to shut that door" That is pre-
ciselv the question at issue. Does the
safety of republican institutions require
the shutting of that door? Is not the
shutting of that door by law directly i'll
the face of republican institutions9 If
Il majority can shut that door by legal
enactment, what is to hinder it from
shutting any other? The principle OF
freedom is violated the moment the
State reaches down its strong hand ana
slides that bolt. Let us get rid OF the
intemperance, but i'll order To get rlu OF
it let us not sacrifice our 1Ieeuon;


Theodore has favored free rehglon,
and free love. and is now an advocate
of free rum. What next
Year: 1872

The CADI's DECIsIoN.-A poor Turk
ish slater of ConstantinOple, being at
work upon the roof of Il house, lost his
footing. and fell into the narrow street
upon il man who chanced to be passing
at the time. The pedestrian was killed
by the conclusion, while the slater es-
capped without material injury. y son
of the deceased caused the slater to he
arrested and taken before the cadi,
where he made the most grave charge,
and claimed ample redress. The cadi
listened attcntively, and in the end ask
ed the slater what he had to say in his
defence. dispenser Of Justice an
swered the accused, in humble mood.
lit is even AS this man said; but God
forbid that there should he evil in my
heart. ! am poor man and know not
how | can make amends" The son OF
the man who had been killed thereupOn
demanded that condign punishment
should he inflicted upon the accused.
The cadi meditated a few moments.
and finally said 1T shall he so. Then
to the slater he continued Thou shalt
stand i'll the place where the father OF
this man stood when thou dldst fall
upon him And to the accuser Ii,
added And thou shalt, if it so please
thee, go upon the roof, and fall upon
the culprit, even as he did fall upon thy
father. Allah is great."-Or Toun,
Folks Budget.
Year: 1872

When he looked out of the window
of the loft i'll which he slept the shower
had ceased as suddenly as it had come,
the thunder had retreated behind the
hills. the clouds were already breaking,
and the white face of the moon was
pceIimg through the ragged riffs.
Year: 1872

The average age of farmers is sixty
five years, while that of printers is only
about thirty three, which shows the
necessity of prompt payment to the
latter, so that they may have the pleas
ure of handling their own money during
their short sojourn on this sublunary
sphere.-Barton Monitor.
Year: 1872

Compared with the large amount
of matter that is printed in news
papers, the quantity of really good
work done is very small, indeed.
The best talent on a newspaper sell
dom has time to write at all, while
the writing editors" produce so
much matter that little of it is above
the mediocre IN quality. 1t is in
fact matter of surprise that the
standard is even as good as it is,
when it is considered how much is
expested of newspaper man. No
one thing a man can do for a iveli-
hood is so wearing, so inexorable,
so inadequately paid. Copy must
be ready on time, or it is useless. ar
ticles on matters of the hour must
be written at once, or be of no avail
Fatigue and headache do not ex-
cuse, the paper must come out on
time. Some amateurs think they
produce, and do sometimes produce
a good article, but they have had
the time for reflection, the opportu-
nifty for revision, the choice of sub
ject, a particular time to write, con
ditions which the professional jour
nalist cannot hope Tor.
Year: 1872

It is not legally necessary to say
on a note 'for value received"


A note on Sunday is void.


A note obtained by fraud, or from
a person in state ofintoxication can
not be collected.


If a note be lost or stolen, it does
not release the maker; he must pay
it.


An endorser Of a note is exempt
from liability if not served with no
tice of dishoaOr within twenty four
hours Of its non payment.


A note bv a minor is void.


Notes bear interest only when so
stated.


Principals are responsible for the
acts Of their agents.


Each individual in a partnership
is responsible for the whole amount
of the debts of the firm.


Ignorance Of the law excuses no
one.


It is a fraud to conceal a fraud.


The law compels no one TO impos-
sibilities.


IN agreement without considera-
tion is void.


Signature made with a led pencil
are good in law.


A receipt for money paid IS not
legally conclusive.


The acts Of one partner bind all
the others.


Contracts made on sunday cannot
be enforced.


A contract made with a minor is
void.


A contract made with a lunatic is
void.
Year: 1872

AS Mrs. Glass said of the hare,
you must catch him. Having done
so, a good dish is made ofhim as fol
lows: Many good husbands are
spoiled in the cooking; some women
90 about it as if their husbands were
bladders, and blow them up; some
keep them constantly in hot water,
while others freeze them by coniugal
GOODNESS some smother them in ha-
tired, contention, and variance; and
some keep them in pickle all their
lives.


These women always serve them
up with tongue sauce. Now it can
not be supposed that husbands will
be tender and good if managed
in this way; but they are, on the
contrary very delicious when man
aged as follows; Get a large jar cal
led the jar of carefulness (Which all
good house wives have on hand, }
place him near the fire of conjugal
love; let the fire be pretty hot espec-
tally let it be clear; above all let the
heat be constant; cover him over
with affection, kindness, and sub
lection, garuish with modesty, be
coming familiarity, and the spice Of
pleasantly, and if you add kisses and
other confeetiOnaries, let them be
accompanied with a sufficient por-
tion ofsecrecy, mixed with prudence
and moderation. We should advise
all good wives to try this receipt,
and realize how admirable dish a
husband is when properly cooked.
Year: 1872

how deep the sorrow, time casts
shadows over the past. and the
wound is healed with scarce a scar.
Thus it was with Mrs. Clarkinson.
After the laps of three years she
married again, and after a time NOV
ed to Wood county. Clarkinson
was forgotten, or if ever remember
cd, it was only as we stand in the
sunshine to day and remember how
pleasantly the sun shoue last year.
For nearly twelve years she was as
happy as a kind and afectiOnate
husband and two beautiful and lov
ing children could make anOble and
true woman. At the end Of that
time (which carries us up to the Ist
inst. }, afIiietion again casts her man
tie DER her heart. Death claimed
her husband, and again she was a
sorrOwing, weeping widow.


She follows weeping to the grave
she hears the sad, solemn words,
Dust to dust, and ashes to ashes
the earth falls with a dull dreary
thud upon the coffin as the sexton
slowly covers up all that remains of
him who once lived as we live, but
whose voice is now silent and whose
spirit has gone before to the other.
The widow raises the black veil and
looks around. As she does so she
meets a pair of eyes fixed intently
upon her. She starts-memory
rushes back fifteen years and brings
up the picture of her first husband
there can be no mistake tbs he.
The recognition is mutual He
speaks, he calls her his 'dear Anna"
as he did in the days long gone by.
There is a sceae-the widow faints
the brnnzed stranger explained
his relation to the woman, and all
repair to the home of her who ten
minutes ago was a widow, but now
is again a wife. Then, with one arm
around his wife and her hands clas-
ped in his, Mr.. William Clarkinson
tells how he was not killed by the
Indians at the time of that sudden
onslaught on the plains, but was ta-
ken prisoner by the Blackfeet In
dians and carried far away among
their mountains Businesses, and du-
ring all those long years had been
forced to slave for his cruel captors.
He had finally escaped, and during
his flight through mountain gulches
had discovered a rich gold deposit.
How he had written back to his old
friends. hut could get no aasuer.
He then went back ana worked the
! gold mine which lie had discovered.
He grew rich, and longed again to
visit the home of his youth and
happiness. He had got off the cars
at Perrysburg and taken the stage
to Bowling Greenland hired a bug
| gy there and was driving to his old
home when he overlook the funeral
"a strange impulse induced him to
fOllow-how the widows person
seemed strangely familiar, and when
she drew aside her veil he recognized
her as the loving and beautiful wife
he had bidded adieu to fifteen years
before and whom he thought to be
dead.


They are now living happily to-
gether. The dreams of his youth
are realized-he is wealthy, but oh,
at what & cost. The past is past,
however, and forgotten. The pres
ent is prosperous and pleasant, and
the future bright and cheerful. We
will draw the curtain here and leave
them.


Verify, "truth is stranger than
fiction"
Year: 1872

II is found that contracts arc made
for postal service in Oregon at the
rate of sixty thousand dollars a year.
for which previous service has been
rendered for less than Eve thousand
dollars. This is but a specimen OF
the system b. which these frauds
have been carried on.
Year: 1872

A radical paper talks about a con-
spiIacy to defeat the nomination , Z
Grant. This is anew crime not mem
toned in the statute books, and for
which Congress should straightway
provi lie some adequate punishment.
The President may be relied on to
execute any law against these 70. !
conspirators.
Year: 1872

All contributors to newspapers
would do well to commit to memory
and practice upon the following
rules: "If you want to interest your
readers, be shert; if you want to
produce a practical effect, be short;
If you want your article accepted by
the editor be short; II you want to


be benefit and not bore, be shortl
Year: 1872

The complaint of The President
that American citizens hold slaves
in Cuba and Porto Rico, in violation
Of the fundamental law Of the Uni.
ted States, and his recommendation
that Congress provide stringent leg
islation TO prevent such persons from
holding that species Of property, are
not likely to be complied with
A full investigation has been made
into the matter, and tits shown that
even il they are prohibited from
holding them it will not algor tho
staLus Of the slavea.
Year: 1872

The Mobile Register is getting up
new edition of the Book OF Prov
cribs. Here. is sample; blessed
is the woman who compounded a
pudding in silence, for she is moro
to be envied than she who maketh .
tart reply
Year: 1872

tore them into fragments, preferring
to be clothed in filthy rags rather
than in decent apparel. He had
sunk below the level of the brutes
Two years ago his neighbors built
him a hut, but in a short time he had
used it for fuel. Afterwards be
lived in an open field without any
protection from the inclemency Of
the weather. During the severe
cold of last week, he was found "
ing in a heap of ashes, with feet and
hands frozen. He fingered a few
days in great misery until death
kindly came to his relief and ended
his sufferings.
Year: 1872

A friend of mine told me a story little
while ago which interested me so much
that want to tell it to all my little
friends. This gentleman owned fine
horse, which was very fond of him and
would come from the pasture at the sound
of his voice, and follow him about like
dog. Well, at one time the horse became
lame and was obliged to stay in his stable
and not be used for many weeks, and it
was during this time that Mr.. G. became
interested to see how much the horse
knew and how kind his sympathies were.


An old cat had made her nest upon the
scaffold Just above the horses manger,
and had laid there her little family of five
kittens, to bring them up under good tut
tion suppose. She and the horse got on
nicely for some days. She jumped down
into his manger, and went off for food,
and then came back and leaped up to her
kittens again. But one morning she
rolled off into the manger, with her foot
bleeding, and badly hurt, so that she
could scarcely crawl; but she managed to
limp away on three feet and get her
breakfast; but when she came back she
was entirely unable to get up to her kit
tens, and what do you think she did. (My
friend happened to be there at the time
and saw this done.) She lay down at the
horses feet, and mewed and looked up,
and mewed and looked up, several times,
till at last, Pony, seeming to understand
her wants, reached doson, took the cat IN ms
teeth. and tossed her up on the scdfotd to her
kittens, who, / doubt not, were glad
enough to see her. This, Mr.. G. told me,
he saw repeated morning after morning.
/ Kit would roll off into the manger, go
and get her breakfast, come back, and be
tossed up to her family by the kind horse,
who must have understood cat language,
and been willing to listen to it. And do
not such lessons teach US, dear children,
Year: 1872

A Buddhist priest, desiring to raise
money for building temple at Suchau,
came to Shanghai for assistance. The
project of creating the temple had been
started ten years ago, but the zeal which
had raised $4 900 of the S13, 900 that were
requisite subsidized, and it was felt neces-
sary to resort to more energetic measures.
Priests were accordingly sent throughout
the province to beg assistance. The
priest who was detailed for Shanghai
labored for weeks without success. This
is evidently a dollar worshipping COM
munity. With a devotion more than
worthy of the cause he determined to
create a sensation, and thus excite interest
in his mission. He announced that he
would allow himself to be locked up in
a wooden box for seven days, during
which period he would remain in an up
right position without food or sleep. He
was accordingly placed in cage two and
half feet wide and five feet high-just
sufficiently large to admit him standing
upright. The bottom of the cage was
studded with nails so that his feet should
have space only between the nails TO rest
on, and couple of slight bars in front
formed a rest for his arms. The
native public were invited to prove the
genuine character of the modification by





they pleased, and about thirty people
brought padlocks of various kinds
and secured the door as many times
over. The cage was a close one, with
few open bars near the bottom
for the admission of air. The cage and
the enclosed priest were placed in a
temple situated on a great thoroughfare.
During the seven days throngs of people
passed in and out as spectators, religious
exercises being conducted meanwhile by
the priests of the temple. The poor man
endured his painful Incarceration with
remarkable fortitude, the only relief af-
forded being an occasional cup of water,
and he emerged at the expiration of the
seventh day looking little the worse. On
examination his pulse was found to beat
sixty-four, and was steady, while his skin,
though hot, was moist. After his release
the cage was broken up and sold piece
meal to the Chinese, every nail bringing
more than its weight in silver. The de-
sired result of calling forth liberal sub
scriptions was obtained, amounts from
$500 downwards being freely paid by
wealthy Chinese.-Stdngha Cor. N. y.
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