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Year: 1873

The following incident illustrates a
complaint that is too common among a
certain class of beaux whose silly ambi-
ton reaches no higher than fashicna-
BILE necktie and the foolish boast that
they are like the butterflies who gather
the sweets from every garden, but, un-
like the bees, they carry no money with
them. These insipid youths have about
as much earnestness in this department
Of life as in lsve making, and secure a
permanent success The girls should
lean them up against a shady tree some
bright summer day and fan them to
death with rose leaf


A young man living not quite a
thousand miles from Loretto, Ky, not
long ago laid siege to the heart of a
young lady in Louisville, who in due
time surrendered the fortress into his
keeping. A day was appointed for the
nuptials, friends were invited, good
things to eat and drink were provided,
and all the concomitants Of well-regu-
lated weddings we're prepared. The day
came, the guests came, but the BRIDE
groom" the young man from the coun-
try game not He made default and
the question on every tongue was, why
is this thus


The mother Of the bride that was to
be came up to Loretto and went out to
interview the son-in.law that was to have
been. She told him of her daughter
how, like Amy in Locksley Hal" her
cheek was paler and thinner than
should be for one SO young and how
she was pning away from disappoint-
ment and grief, The young man OBJ
served, depreciatingly, that the young
lady had never been very fat but the
would-be mother.in.law parried this
thrust and presented to him the impro-
priety of his conduct in such moving
terms that he felt bound to apologize.


He accordingly told the old lady that
he was sorry to have grieved and disap-
pointed her daughter and herself, but he
was the subject of uncomfortable hts OF
loving, and when one of these came
upon him he could not keep counting
somebody. This, ne said, was a disease,
and that he was in no sense responsible
for anything he did while this temporary
madness was upon him. II be had, un-
der the power of this malady, made love
to her daughter, he Was sorry for it, but
he could not help it. If abe doubted
his word, be said he could bring hun
dreds of physicians to prove that such a
disease existed, and hundreds of ac-
ouaintances to prove that he had it.


The lady from Louisville went home
sadder, if not a wiser woman. Before
she left she expressed great sympathy
for the young man, observing that it
was q pity he could not be cured.
Year: 1873

Alter section seven of the fourteenth
article so that said section shall read
as follows. No person who shall hold
any office or place of trust OF profit
under the United States or any depart
ment thereof, or under this State, OF
any other State or government shall
hold or excise any other office or place
of trust or profit under the authority
OF THIS State, OF be eligible to Il seat in
either House of the General Assem-
bly,: Provided, nothing herein contain
ed shall extend to officers in the mi
litia, justices of the peace, commits
sioners of. public charities, commits
sioners for special purposes.
Year: 1873

How A GYMNAsT SAVED HIS NECK.-At
Louisville break-neck performance by the
Leslie brothers the other day one of them had
a very narrow escape. The three brothers
were forty or fifty feet above the floor on the
trapeze, one of them hanging by his feet to
the bar, and holding the hands of another
brother, who hung suspended by them. The
latter was to turn somersault in the air


while in this position, throwing his feet mn,
ward, which his brother was in turn TO seize
and a most extraordinary feat would havs
been accomplished. But Lew Leslie. the e one
in question, miscalculated the distance. or the the
other brother missed his hold, and only one me
foot was caught. Unable to hold by one one
hand alone, the brother next to the E traneze ne
was Obliged to relinquish his grasp. and vonnc
Leslie tell headlong almost to the floor. buf
not quite-for when within less than a dozen
Ieet OF the hard flooring, by an almost super
human effort, he turned somersault in the
ar and reached the floor on both feet, un-
harmed. The audience had held its breath
IN dreadful suspense, and rose almost as one
man to greet the successful issne Of the dan
gerous fall with rapturous cheering, after
which Lew, continued the performance.
Year: 1873

A German athlete, hearing that there was
genuine Turner exhibiting in Broadway,
rushed to see him, but was much disgusted
when he found it was only painting instead
of member of the Turnverein.
Year: 1873

The merlin cannot ever soar on high
Nor greedy greyhound still pursue the chase;
Inc tender lark will find o time to fly,
And fearful hare to run quiet race;
He tnat high growth on CEDAR did bestav
Gave also lowly mushrooms leave to grow


SouthtceU, 18Th Cent,,ry
Year: 1873

The POET AND THE MAN OF INTELLECT.
What faculty must that be which can
paint the most barren landscape aDd hum
blest life in glorious colors II is pure and in
vigorated sense reacting on a sound and
and strong imagination. Is not this the poets
ease? The intellect of most men is barren.
1t is the marriage Of the soul with Nature
that makes the intellect fruitful, that gives
birth to the imagination. When we are dead
and dry as the highway, some sense which
has been healthily fed will put us in relation
with Nature, in sympathy with her, some
grains Of fertilizing pollen floating in the air
tall on us, and suddenly the sky Is all one
rainbow, is full of music and fragrance and
flavor. The man OF intellect only, the pro-
sale man, is barren and staminiferous flow
er; the poet is fertile and rerfect flower


The poet must keep himself unstained and
aloof. Let him perambulate the bounds of
imagination's provinces, the realms of poesy
and not the Insignificant boundaries Of towns.
How many faculties there are which with
we have never found! Some men, methink,,
have found only their hands and feet.-Thor-
Year: 1873

APPLE BUTTER. First, IL you have cider,
boil it down to thickness of molasses or syrup;
II intending to make the butter next day,
leave some of the cider to cool the apples: il
not intending to make right away, when you
do make, put the apples to cool in water, or
the weak cider, and as soon as they begin to
cool begin to stir to keep from burning in the
kettle; as the apples cook down, fill up the
Kettle with raw apples or some that have
been cooked in another kettle; when the ap-
pies are all in and cooked smooth, without
any Jumps, then put the strong cider in and
boil till 1t is strong AZ wanted. If cider is not
plenty tsome prefer when it is to make it
without using molasses or other sweets in-
stead) it is made the same way, always cool
ing the apples well before putting in the
sweetening; for the apples will not cook
smooth in strong cider or molasses. l will
not give any particular measures or rules, as
there are few people who like the same. Last
year had one b,rrel of cider: boiled it
down to four gallons and made sixteen gallons
of outter. The cider was not sweet enough
and added sugar and molasses. We made
the butter at different times, boiling the last
the longest to make it strong enough to keep.
For stirrer we use a narrow board, a little
higher than the kettle, with a long handle
and some holes bored in the board end Be
sure to keep stirring and keep the stirrer on
the bottom of the kettle.
Year: 1873

BRAN AND CORN MEAL FOR Cows.-Tbe
Practical Farmer says: 1T is well settled
in the opinion of all our best dairymen that
bran greatly promotes the milk secretions in
cows, and IL is fed almost universally. About
equally mixed with corn meal is the usual
proportion. This mixture seems to promote
both quantity and quality of milk. From
several sources we hear that buckwheat bran
Is great milk producer, and ii is now being
used considerably among our Chester-County
dairymen, in about the same proportion as
the other. Thomas Gawthorp, near West
Grove, Chester County, also by repeated tri-
ais with his own cows, has fully satisfied him
self that they do as well with corn and cob
meal and bran as with pure corn meal and
bran. The amount OF nutriment in corncobs
Is so very small that this result will have to
explained on the supposition Of the ground
cob acting to promote digestion bJ distending
the stomach. The presence of bulky materi-
al being ecessary to promote distension and
NIL up the stomach Of Illuminating animals,
before perfect digestion can be accomplished,
is frequently lost sight of. Hungarian grass
is afro found for mich cows to be rather su-
perior to the ordinary run of hay. The last
year or two Hungarian grass has leomed up
wonderfully in the estimation of our dairy
farmers; and ve:y large scope of land will
be sowed with it the coming season. IL ma
lures for cutting in about sixty days, and pro-
duces two to four tons per acre--;he latter of
course on good soils. Three pecks to the
acre is the usual allowance. Where a good
hay market is convenient this substitution of
Hungarian grass for common hay in home
feeding will be clear additional source of
profit.
Year: 1873

Perhaps it was not amusing to see John,
the other night, singing contentedly to him
self and crupbling bread into bowl of starch
which his wife had placed in the pantry, and
saying there was nothing like bread and milk,
after all
Year: 1873

At one of the sessions of the Alliance, saws
the Independent, an usher was'requested by a
lady to point out the presiding officer, and
then asked him and if he was the man known
as Cardinal Wolsey.
Year: 1873

They had lived peacefully all their lives in
that motherly old house by the bay side,
where successive generations had lived be-
fore them, The painted tiles around the op-
en- fire looked as if their fops and fine ladies
had stepped out of the Spectator and the Tat
Ter; the great mahogany chairs looked as hos
pitable as when the French officers were quar-
tered in the house during the revolution, and
its Quaker owner, Miss Martha grand uncle,
had carried out seat that the weary sentl-
mel might sit down. Descended from one of
those families of Quaker beauties whom De
Lauzun celebrated, they bore the memory of
those romantic lives, as something very sacred
in hearts which, perhaps, held as genuine ro-
mances of their own. Miss Martha's sweet
face was softened by advancing deafness and
by that gentle, appealing look which comes
when mind and memory grow little DINNER
though the loving nature knows no change.
'Sister Amy says" she meekly confessed,
"that am losing my memory. But do not
care very much. There are so few things
worth rememberingp'


They kept honse together in sweet accord,
and were indeed trained in the neat Quaker
ways so thoroughly that they always worked
by the same methods. In opinion and emo
ton they were almost duplicates. Yet the
world holds no absolute and perfect CORE
spondence, aud it is useless to affect to con-
ceal-what was apparent to any intimate
guest-that there was one domestic question
on which perfect sympathy was wanting. Dur
ing THEFT whole lives they had never been able
to take precisely the same view Of the best
method Of grinding Indian meal. Miss Mar
tina preferred to have it from wind mill;
while Miss Amy was too conscientious to de-
ny that she thought it better when prepared
by water mill. She said firmly though gent
ly, that it seemed to her ''less gritty"


Living their whole lives in this scarcely bro.
ken harmony by the margin OF the bay, they
had long built together one castle IN the air.
They had talked of it for many an hour by
their evening fire, and they from their chamber
windows had looked towards the Red Light
on Rose Island to see If it were coming true.
This vision was, that they were to awake some
morning after an autumnal storm and to find
an unknown vessel ashore behind the house,
without name or crew or passengers; only
there was to be one sleeping child, with aris-
tocratic features and few yards of exquisite
embroidery. Years had passed, and their
lives were waning, without glimpse of that
precious waif of gentle blood. Once, in an
October night, Miss Martha had been awak-
ened by crash, and looking out had seen
that their pier had been carried away, and
that dark vessel lay stranded with her bow
spirit in the kitchen window. But daylight
revealed the schooner Polly Lawton, with o
cargo of coal, and the dream remained unlul-
filed. They bad never revealed it except to
each other.-Higginson's "Oldport Days"
Year: 1873

Young lady, to beau of whose company
she is getting tired-''I hope you are not
on people. All my gentleman acquaintance
start when it strikes ten and it's going to
strike; so if you nervous perhaps you had
better 60 home before 1t begins.' He went.
Year: 1873

up to ! certain point. In mu-
sic she was proficient, and Lad
mastered French sufficiently
well to be able to teach. Mrs.
Smythe was not at all we'll, and
some days it did seem to her
that she would be compelled to
give up the school. But Emma
would not hear to such a thing.
"She could assist her, and to-
gether they would be able to
manags it. She had been prom
ised a lsituation in one of the
church choirs, as solo singer,
and with what she could earn
there, together with that of the
school, they would be able to
get along nicely" So the
school was not given up; but
when spcther year had passed,
it wasln q sufficiently prosper
GUS condition to warrant the en-
ployment Of another teacher to
assist.





A few years have passed
since that time The Smythes
are not rich, but they are living
in very comfortable style in
deed. Emma will no longer
hear to Mrs. Smythes teaching
at ali. So this good woman at
tends to the domestic arrange
ments of their home. She often
stops at the open door of the
school room as she passes by, to
look fondly upon the girl, who,
In her hour OF need, has proved
such a blessing and help.


/" If | had passed on, that
night, and left her alone in the
street." she would often
say to herself, "I might to-day
have been suffering for the nee
essaries of life. One does not
always foresee the changes that
the future has in store for them.
If it were so, there would be
more kindness shown,more good
done, and none would fear 10
cast their bread upon the wa
terS, that after many days it
might return to them again."
Year: 1873

and bidding her dry her tears,
for that henceforth she would
give her a home, she gathered
up her now soiled dress, and
started at a brisk pace for her
home. When she reached the
elegant house, from the windows
of which streamed rays of light,
and was about to ascend the
stoop, the child drew back, and,
with a shudder, said:


"Not there, ma'am, not there.
| never goes into them fine
houses; they always drives me
away"


But they will not drive you
away from here, my child, This
is my house / am mistress
here"


That night, when the door
shut between the darkness with
out and the child within, a new
life had already begun for the
poor little street waif, who but
one hour ago had stood shiver-
ing and starving in the pitiless
street.


Mrs. Smythe made some in
quiry about the child, but could
ascertain nothing but what the
child had already told her.


The next morning, when the
girl brought the child down to
breakfast, as she had been COM
manded, there was but little
trace of the tear-stained face
of the night before. Her hair
had been carefully curled, and
she had on a crimson merino
dress, which had once belonged
to the child for whom Mrs.
Smythe had so long mourned,
She was indeed a beautiful child.
Mrs. Smythe turned to her bus
band with a look of conscious
pride in her choice. They had
long talked of adopting a child
to cheer them in their home, and
both were willing to accept this
one as a direct gift from God.


"She did not know that she
had ever had any other name
than Liz. Maggie had always
called her by that name," she
said, one day, when Mrs.
Smythe had asked her what she
should call her. But Mrs.
Smythe was not pleased with
that name, so she called her
Emma. after her own little pirl
who was dead.


Emma was a constant joy in
the home of the Smythes' from
the first hour of her coming.
She had so long been buffetted
about by the cruel world that
even the faintest attempt at
kindness would conquer any
little outburst of passion which,
child-like would sometimes
come upon her. She learned
easily to love her benefactress,
who tried in every way to win
that love. Daily Mrs. Smythe
gave her lessons to learn, and
when she had mastered them,
heard her recite them herself.


When Emma had entered the
home of the Smythes', she was,
as near as one could judge,
about ten years of age. Since
that time over six years had
passed, and during those six
years there had come to the
Smythes many changes. The
once prosperous banker had
failed in business, and, morti-
fed at his failure, had given up
in despair. Then followed a
severe illness, from which, af-
ter a year of suffering he died.


After his death, Mrs. Smythe
was forced to change her style
of living, and finally, after un-
successfully trying one thing
and another, opened a school
for young girls. Then it was
that the good deed that she had
done in the past begun to re-
turn it's interest. Emma had
received q thorough education
Year: 1873

Mr.. P. T. Barnums ambition to
give the public better show than
any one else can give them for the
same money, is well known, though
very few are aware of the great
pleasure he takes in providing
amusement for little children. An
incident occurred in our city yester-
day illustrating this characteristic
very strikingly. There is d little
five-year-old invalid up town who
has become quite q favorite with the
great Snowman, who never fails 20
visit him in passing through the
city. Yesterday morning the little
fellow heard the door bell ring, and
his face lit up with joy as Mr.. Bar
nun entered the sick room. The
usual pleasant greetings ensued, and
the great manager threw his soul in
to the work Of entertaining the child
as completely as when surrounded
by thousands he talks in mis- great
show. The child was delighted,
but the shadow which is always as
near Joy as the thorn is to the rose,
stole over little "Trot's'' face, on re


flecting that he could not see the
menagerie. 'Never mind, said Hr.
Barnum, ,"ifyou cannot go to the show
we must bring the show to you" So
he'departed, and half an hour later
the child and the whole family were
astonished to see a drove Of eles
plants, camels, dromedaries march
into the yard and come to a halt near
the child's window. The little one
was held up where he could see the
animals, and their keeper made them
go throug a regular performance,
"Trot" gave his orders to the un-
wieldly elephants, and by sign from
the keeper they were all obeyed. In
half an hour the matinee terminated
and the detachment Of the process
sion marched back to the show
grounds, leaving the child wild with
delight. Mr.. Barnum's love for the
little ones has been frequently shown
by the generous invitations he ev-
eryWhere extends to orphans to at
tend his exhibitions free Of charge,
but this effort to please a little child
is a unique illustration of that char
acteristic.-C ClsUeldnd Leader.
Year: 1873




once, or push reforms without SOME
regard for immediate consequences.
Changes that shock by their abrupt
ness are not always Just or fair. We
should never forget sound princi-
pies, and we should move toward
them constantly, surely and steadily.
but sometimes gradually. / do not
believe in daily resolutions, or in
sudden or violent arrangements Of
public affairs. Let me suggest q
doctrine to which you have not refer
red. Imean the doctrine Of strict
construction Of the Constitution.
Have you considered what a certain
preventive of misgovernment may
be found in the full application Of
this doctrine? l believe such an ap-
pheation of it would correct almost
every evil Of which we complain.


IL IS worth your while to test its
reaeh fand efficiency, and what q
splendld doctrine for such a govern
ment as ours. How it exalts the in
dividual man, and how it subordin-
ates the government. It NAV fetter
the government now and then. but
never the citizen. He always re-
mains uppermost and master. I am
not a politician, or competent to ad-
wise, but if you should make such a
movement as you propose, it should
be conducted so as to give the
strongest assurance that it sought
reform, and not place. I am Dem
ocrat, but [ should be very glad to
see the Democracy move out Of the
old organization into a new one.
You will not succeed unless they do.
It may be they will refuse. and prefer
to tarry where they are for the bal
ance. of the century, and until they
can, fix the meaning fthe resolutions
of '9S. If so, I suppose I shall tary
with them. After all, I like them,
and I like the old political home
stead. I confess it is somewhat di-
lapidated. There Is no banner upon
its walls, and victorious shoutings
are no longer heard within, but it is
q home still, and l shall not leave it
until it is pulled down.


Very respectfully,


W. S. GRoEsBECK.
Year: 1873

On Thursday last party of young
women went out from Queens Run
to the mountain just back of the set
tlement, gathering huckleberries.
One of them, Jerusha Bryan, adj
vanced a little farther into the wood
than the others, when she was at
tackled by a huge panther. Her
companions hearing the brute scream
sought safety in flight, but Miss
Bryan, finding escape impossible, de-
termined to stand her ground, and
seizing huge pine knot, gave her
enemy battle. The contest was a
close one for a few minutes, but hu-
man courage, judgment and cool
ness soon triumphed oTer brute
strength, and the heroic woman soon
had the satisfaction of laying the
bloodthirsty monster dead at her
feet. Her garments were torn into
shreds, and her face and arms badly
scratched, but she walked home
with a firm step and the light Of tri-
umph in her eye, and was able to
give a good account OF herself. The
The dead panther was soon after
ward found by the people of Queens
Run, and proved on measurement
to be six feet and ten inches long.
Miss Bryan is the lion Tor Iioness
of the neighborhood, as she well de
serves to be. We doubt whether an
instance can be found on record of
more cool, heroic bravery and wise
discretion developed by any woman,
even in the most historic and peril
Gus days of Pennsylvania.


The financial editor of the Phila-
delphia Ledger has examined one of
the new trade dollars, clear and
bright Just as it came from the die at
the mint, and gives this opinion of it.;
We confess we do not see much to
admire in the matter of taste on the
date side. The full length figure, to
our view, is inartistic, and not sym
metrical with the face of the coin.
The eagle side is much better, being
! better covered, and the words "420
grains, 900 fine," is a piece of prac-
tical information, we believe, en-
tirely new to our coinage. As a
new coin it was in eager demand as
pocket-pieces and mementoes at 12O,
the Mint value being l20
Year: 1873

BY FANNIE HOWELL.
Little Dutch Gretchen came over the sea,


With an aunt in place of her mother;
"As like"-so little Dutch Gretchen told me
"As like as one pea to another"
Little Dutch Gretchen fell sick on the way,
A sailing upon the dark water;
The captain came down to the cabin each day,
And called her his patient Dutch daughter.
Little Dutch Gretchen took pretzels and beer,
Hoping she socn would be better:
And at last, when the end of the journey was near
Dutch Gretchen sent hOmeward letter
'1m better " Dutch Gretchen wrote on the first pag
"And my amt is as kind as my mother;
But never prison bird shut in a cage,
Longed more to give one for the other
There's look ana tone, and tenderer way,
And bosom more gentle to lie On;
And mother, love that will never grow gray,
And a heart that is blessed TO die on;
So, mother, I've said to the captain tonight,
To Bremen I'll sail back most gladly;
To tell you if changing ones mother is right,
'Tis thing that viii cheat child sadly"
And little Dutch Gretchen went home DER the sea
And gave back her aunt for her mother,
For they're not all the same, said Gretchen to me
Though like as one pea TO another"