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Year: 1873

Mrs. Collins said no more, yet, few
weeks later, Judge Carter did renew his
proposal for Eleanor's hand urged,
thereto by his own real affeetion for
her, and emboldened to make this sec
ond essay by few hints from Mrs. Col
Inns. In the mean time Eleanor's SEN
sitiveness as to her dependent position,
and her sister-in-law' constant itera-
tion that the true basis for happiness in
marriage was respect and friendship,
had their influence on the girl. She
was too honorable a woman, however,
to pretend an emotion which she did
not feel.


81 do not love you as have always
thought woman should love the man
she makes her husband" she said to
her suitor; but do respect you and
like you. Your society is pleasant to
me, and if you are content with such
affection as 1 can give you, that which a
sister gives to her brother, will marry
you"


DO you love any one else? or have
Year: 1873

We shall positively close our Re-
tell Department, including our en-
tire stock Of Fine Goods, March l.,
and offer one Of the finest stocks Of
JEWELRY end STERLING SILL
YER WARE, especially for Bridal
and other presents, ever sold in this
city This is the only establishment
Of the kind in the city offering goods
at the ACTUAL COST. Call at our
Store if you wish great bargains for
the next 80 days. =.
Year: 1873

ids on the river, she could have gone up
at least eighty miles farther at high Wa
ter. She could have gone over those
rocks at the time the expedition went
up If the spring rise had not occurred
and water was lower than at any time.
previous for the last three years. The
Yellow Stone is q better stream TO navi-
gate than the upper Missouri above
Buford,n
Year: 1873

lT seems that ten counties in Illi-
nois, ut the recent election, chose
women for School Superintendent
One of the "elect ladies'" writes to us
as follows: r.


.I was elected for Knox against my
wishes, but in such a way that could
not help feeling flattered thereby. 1
know that, for the honor of mankind,
you will be pleased to know that
throughout the entire campaign-and
it was one of'the most hotly contested
ones our county has known for years
there was not one thing said or done
to wound me; from first to last the
gentlemen did everything possible to
make it pleasant for me. The gentle
men candidates received the usual
share Of abuse; but not shadow of it
was shown me, even by the bitterest
opposition papers. Since the election
l have been serenaded and c0ngratu-
lated almost to death. My bonds
thirty thousand dollars-were signed
by leading men in the county, who
came all unasKed and told me they
should be glad to sign them; and 80
with everything. So far as know
the same is true In the other nine
counties. The gentlemen show that
wherever they think lady has shown
her fitness for place they have been
ready and anxious to yield it to her."
L From the Christian Union.
Year: 1873

AS habits are formed in childhood
that last through life, would it not be
we'll to look after such, to take care
that they be such as make true and
good and noble men and women, never
Sinking any of the duties of life,
never tagging lazily along path 9TH
ars have beaten.
Year: 1873

One little girl must stay home to
take care Of brother" Another must
"help wash" Think of tiny crea-
ture nine years old helping wash! A
regular barbarity! One little boy must
peddle meat, consequently, comes late
daily. Some just had breakfast. 1t
may be very well outside of school
hours, but teacher is expected to ad-
vance, not only u few, but the Wh0te
school, to promotion in a year. How
can. he do this when pupils come after
recitation and hours are over: 1t will
take more than year to do the work
in such manner.


If parents would only stop to think
how much injury they do the child,
we are sure there would be fewer tardy
marks, fewer imperfect lessons, less
annoyance to teachers and scholars,
and not so much disappointment in
the expectations parents have of the
child's progress. Having only half of
recitation and half credit, the little
mind loses interest after time, and
the little heart becomes discouraged,
even if the child at first is bright and
eager to learn. If the child is naturally
lazy, and don't care to come to school,
frequent excuses for tardiness given
by the parent, will lead it to make
them for itself, just from the force of
habit, and-total depravity.
Year: 1873

CONCERNING "THAT.u
Now Mut is a word that may often be
joined,
For that that may be doubted is clear


to the mind,
And that that that Is Is plain to the


view;
And that that that that we use is right


ly used too:
And that that that that that line has in
8y 1t is right, -IYI
And accords with good grammar Is


Dlain TO the sight.
Year: 1873

SOME people take pleasure in perverting this
true spirit and intent Of the party Injunction
to vote for the regular nominees Rightly un-
derstood, that is a necessity of combined and
organized action-subject, OF course, to excep-
tions, like all other general rules. What is
really meant by the trite precept, ''vote the
whole ticket" is, to disregard mere personal
feeling, having respect to the principles repre-
sented and not their representative, where the
candidate is clearly unworthy Of support In
other words, disregarding the merely personal
preferences or dislkes to which you would givo
expression when the selection OF candidates
is pending and vote in accordance with
the decision OF the majority OF your party,
when fairly made, and when there are no public
considerations which, In your candid opinion,
disqualify the candidate for the Office TO which
he is nominated. Thus understood. the rule is
a good one; and with this qualification, an
earnest Republican should vote the whole Re-
publican ticket. Any other course, in the face
OF compactly organized opposition, invites
defeat.-AlIegdn Journal.
Year: 1873

AT the rear end Of our parlor 1t was not
very dark. Indeed, we could see to read small
newspaper print at the least lighted point. At
that point we put bracket against the wall,
and transferred to it plant from the window.
In four days it looked sick; in two weeks il
was yellow; in FIVE weeks 1t was apparently
dead. Another plant was placed on the center
table, which was about halfway from the front
windows to the position Of the first plant. At
the end OF five weeks that had lost ite green
and was evidently failing. The girls in our
parlor, who were out not more than an hour
day on an average, except they went to places
Of amusement in the evening, were as pale,
yellow and sickly as the plants. and we think
for the same reason-a lack OF full strong
ight.-Dio Lewis.
Year: 1873

THE following resume and digest OF the
doings of the Legislature at the session just
closed will give the reader fair and intelligent
idea Of the work done by that body. We take
the article from the Lansing State Republican
OF April 21, 1878:
Year: 1873

Captain Hall was about five fee


eight inches In height, with com pact


firmly knit frame. indicative of grea


vlgor and strength, and weighed prob


ably about one hundred and ninety


pounds. He had a large head, with 8


profusion Of thick, brown hair ano


heavy brown beard, inclining to curl


His forehead was broad and massive


with full development of the TEN.
poral and coronal regions. His eyes


were blue and the whole expression OF
the countenance firm. but very agree
able, kind and pleasant. Captain


Hall hailed from Cincinnati, where he


was once engaged in the newspaper
business. publishing the Occasional
and afterwards the Daily Penny Press.
In his earlier years he was a black
smith. working at the forge, and his
robust development, beyond question,
was in some measure attributable to
the exercise Of that ardent occupation.
he was In no wise scientific or
highly educated man, but had re-
markably practical mind, with great
deal Of force Of character. He had
never studied the science Of naviga.
ton even, though he was, through ex-
perience and aptitude, az competent
to navigate ship or conduct All over
land exploring expedition as any of
the daring band Of discoverers that
had endeavored to solve the great
Arctic problem. He sailed northward
in 1850 in search of Sir John Frank
lin, since which time his name and
fame have been the common property
Of the world.


Captain Hall was an adept in sledgs
travelling. He travelled in his time
over ten thousand miles in sledges,
and considered himself acquainted
with all the minutia of such manner
OF locomotion. He intended to essay
the irksome task of training his men
to adopt the customs of the native
Esquimaux in their food and dress.
He hoped to bring his followers to an
of the uncooked flesh of
the whale, the walrus and the seal.
BY using this food they were supposed
to be able to stand with impunity the
dreadful cold OF the Arctic Circle.
The dress Captain Hall approved was
dserskin sack jumper, with fur hood,
deerskin breeches, deer and elder skin
stockings, one over the other, and COW
cred with stout moccasins OF deerskin
AMI high leggings. With these pre-
cautions 1t was supposed the men
could defy any degree OF cold.-New
York Herald.
Year: 1873

the two Esquimaux secreted them
selves behind piece OF ice, enticing
the bear near enough to US to kill him.
A few days after this we got our boat
In the water and worked our way
west and southw west, and continued to
work every opportunity to the west
ward, In hopes Of reaching the Lab
rador coast and getting temporary re-
lief.


We were picked up by the steam
ship Tigress, Captain Bartlett, on the
3Oth Of April, in.latitude So 35 north,
longitude IS west, or near Wolf Island,
and about forty miles from land. The
Polaris is now without boats, having
lost two in trying to get North In the
spring Of 1872.


The Tigress fell in with the party in
q dense fog and providentially struck
the very foe on which they were,
otherwise they must have perished.
They all seem toIerably well.


Captain Tyson complained OF SWELL
ed legs and feet, but nothing serious Is
the matter with him. When they
left the Polaris all on board were in
good health.


In reference to the way In which
the Polaris got away from the party
which was rescued from off the Ice
berg Captain Tyson states that he felt
little anxiety at first, thinking she
would soon come to their relief. "I
set my colors," he said. las she
steamed down along the shore, but the
vessel was soon lost to sight in the
bend of the land, and behind what
took to be Northum berland Island.
The piece Of ice was on commenced
drifting southwark As the wind hauled
to the northeast opening q little bay
to the northeast Of Northumberland
Island. saw the vessel in the harbor
there her sails were furled, no smoke
was issuing from her smokestack that
l could see. then attempted to bring
my boats across the floe In an easterly
direction, hoping to find water and
reach the shore. succeeded in drag
ging one boat across, took the water
and attempted to reach the shore some
distance below the vessel We were
then drifting very fast, and the gale
was blowing fresh. with great vio-
lence, from the northeast and snow
ing very fast and drifting. 1 was
driven back on the ice again and com.
PEELED to haal my boat out. Night
closed on me and carried us to tho
southwest. In the morning we were
about thirty miles southwest Of where
the ship went In harbor. A heavy
sea was running, which broke up my
foe piece, separating US from six bags
of bread and one boat. l saw vessel
under steam and canvas rounding a
point to the northwest. Thinking she
would come to our relief gave myself
no extra anxiety. but soon we were
doomed to disappointment, and, from
that time until the Tigress rescued US,
We never got glimpse Of the Polaris.
Year: 1873

The officers of the German Steamer
King Wilhelm, which sailed from New
York on Wednesday, and the Cambria
which sailed on Thursday, received a
large number Of applications from emf
grants, who came out by them, to work
their passage back, some Offering all
the money they had left for the privi-
slege. Such thing has never occurred
before, and the officers have taken as
many as possible, though able to employ
only very few Of the numerous appli-
cations. So many men are out Of en-
ployment that newly arrived emigranta
have been unable to procure work and
the panic win probably thus prove a
serious bar to emigration.
Year: 1873

A quaint sort of person, the Rev. Mark Will
kes, once introduced his text In This manner !.
my hearers did you ever see cat y Did Won
ever see cat walk ? Did you ever see a cat
walk upon the top Of wall covered with broken
glas. How carefully she lifted each footI How
slowly and cautiously she set it down again / So
would the text from which / am about 10 speak
hneys you aet. zee that you walk cir-cam@pect-
Year: 1873

AN INCIDENT IN PRIVATE HISTORY OF A
DELAWARE EFAMTLY.-Manyy years ago the son
ETA former Governor Of our State, succeeded
IN seducing quite pretty and respectable
young lady resident, in one Of the towns in
one Oh the lower counties The produce of the
seduction was baby boy, who Ito conceal the
shame incident to the transactiOn) was placed
with q farmer, in the neighbOlh hood. The
boy grew up and bore the name Of the farmer,
whOraiSed him. The lady married one OF the
sclOnS OF an old Delaware family. She was
to use common term, ''well to do" In other
words was able to live on her rents and inter


ests; When the boy grew to be about twelve
or fifteen years old, he felt q yearnInR TO
know his mother. He had been Informed OF
his history. Accordingly he called upon her
hoping TO obtain an acknowledgment, spri-
Vate or public Of her relationship. But the
lady was In no humor to compromise herself,
and refused to ackno wledge the stray waif of
her Illicit love.-The boy went away hurt and
disappointed. At q later period he again cal
led upon her hoping that time had wrought
change In her feelings. But the lady still
refused tos acknoWisdge her offspring Pride
OF character outweighed mnternai affection.
although she had no other children, and when
she saw him enter she got up and left the
room, only deigning o make this remark :
"Bless me now there Is this trouble come


again. The boy then left. Years few bv,
the lady long since became a widow. Her
ton and learned trade, married and now has
family: His character was always ire
proachable, he led the life Of q sober. honest
upright citizen. Still feeling q yearnlng to
know his mother he determined TO visit the
town were she lived, to see IL she would vet
acknowledge him. But pride still ont weighed
maternal love. She still refused to reooqniEe
or have anything TO say to him, and he came
nome sick and disappointed. OF course the
llaaay Is now old years return to pleaRue us


They increase with our years.-Repu6l,cGn
Year: 1873

The HUEsBERGER BUILDING.-The Hunsl err
ger building at the foot of Market street, is be-
ing torn down to make way for the widening of
Water street. That portion Of the roof which it
is Necessary to remove, is already torn off, and
the pulling down Of the Northern walls is in pro-
RreBe,
Year: 1873

IcLAsrEp her tiny hand in mine;
vowed TO shield her from the wind
and from tho worlds cold storm. She
set her beauteous eyes Oh me. and
with her little lips she said: IAN
umbrella will do as WELL"
Year: 1873

NJ Office is hereby given to the citizens OF
~ Belmont County, that a petition will be
presented to the Com missioneIs OF said Coun-
" at their next session, to be held on the first
Monday Of Septe mber. A. D. 1873. praying for
the establishment of a County Road along the
following described route. to-wit: Beginning
at stake marked A on the DAD leading from
Belmont Ridge in Belmont County 10 the
Quaker Church in Guernsey County on the
lands of Jonathan Cash, in Flashing Town
ship; thence Northwest on the line Between
Henry Cash and Jon athan Cash as near as
practicable to make q good road, to o stake
naked on the lands of Joseph Mead; thence
nearly West to a stake mark ed C on the lands
of w. A. Carpenter, thence West to a stake
marked D on the lands OF W. a. Carpenter;
thence West to the Northeast corner of Henry
Browns land: thence West on the line between
Henry Brown and w, A Carpenter, half of the
road on each OF IL ese mems lands TO "a stake
marked Z on the land of Henry Brown thence
West TO q stake marked on the County line
on the lands of Henry Brown, ana there to
terminate, there TO intersect a County Road In
Guernsey equity leading to Smyrna,


jy2f5ws MANY PETITIONERS.
Year: 1873

4 paragraph Ia contemporary, which
has a lcok gather suggestive Of twenty
cents a line. contains the following sen.
tence: '.la -9ll


A very experienced cotton croker yester.
day offered considerable wager that the
crop would not exceed two and quarter
million bales


We know that Inexperienced cotton
brokey' very we'll. He has few bales,
which he holds for rise. Last year he
pretended to offer wager that the then
coming crop would not amount to two
and three quarters millions. We have
already received three and half, without
taking into account the amount taken for
consumption. We made last season fully
four millions of bales in the United
States. and there has been slight in
crease this year over last. Our readers may
be assured that 40 experienced cotton
broker in New Orleans will, risk any
money on the proposition that the ia
coming crop will be less than three mil
lions, while there are plenty who are
ready to risk something on its going
above four. If all the cotton that has
been planted were to mature and be
safely picked it would probably overrun
five millions in spite of the worms, the
rust, the drouth, excessive rains and
short crop writer's.
Year: 1873

trey Is SO particular about observing The
strict letter OF criminal law that thief
who had stolen watch from q deaf mute
was discharged from custody because the
loser being able neither to speak, hear.
write. aoy read, no formal complaint could
be ek.eyet. .-. : ~yru
Year: 1873

Some people are not endowed with the
faculty OF seeing joke. Lord Morpeth
used 20 tell Of a Scotch friend Of his who,
80 the remark that some people could not
feel fest unless it was fred at them out OF
a cannon, replied. "Weel, but hoo can ye
FIRE q Jest out of a cannon. mon Y
Year: 1873

hand with it. Nevertheless measures must
always be taken vigorously and promptly,
and we may look for a good proportion
of recoveries in patients who have been
imperfectly bitten. or by a cobra whose
poison was weak, or by some other snake
which was not of such deadly nature,
perhaps not poisonous at all. In those
very rare cases in which the ligature or
knife comes to the rescue almost before
the snakes tangs have relaxed their hold,
we may, perhaps, hope to save a man from
the bite of cobra in full venom. Yet even
so much, or, rather, SO little as this seems
no more than a bare possibility. One anti
do;e, indeed, there is, the saving power of
which will be disputed by none, and we
Join with DR.. Fayrer in strongly advocating
it. 1t is that the Indian authorities should
offer a sufficient scale of rewards to insure
the destruction of venomous snakes in
large numbers. We conceive this to be the
clear and urgent duty of a government
which loses every year 10000 of its subjects
by snake bite.
Year: 1873

The St Louis Globe of Wednesday says:


Night before last there was much excite
ment on the levee. Some gentlemen stand
ing near the river looked up stream and
saw what they thought was great ice
gorge coming down, slowly but surely,
toward the city. They gave the alarm, and
many interested parties came down to the
levee to witness the grand spectacle. The
more they looked up stream the more they
saw the wonderful sight. 1t looked like
ice-like broken cakes of ice. 1t seemed to
be moving, and there appeared to be a
great Commotion in the current as if the
river was on a rise. But the spectators,
after gazing an hour or go, began to get
tired, and thought the gorge was long
time coming. All at once, and while their
straining eyeballs were about to burst, the
fog lifted from the river, and the light of
the stars revealed the water, unObstructed
and moving on toward the Gulf.


The sightseeing citizens had beheld a
mirage. What such u phenomenon is, The
reader can learn by referring to a copy of
Webster's Dictionary. mirage is beau
tiful thing to look at. but you can't most
always tell" whether it will amount to
anything or not.
Year: 1873

II France the roasting of coffee is quite a
science. the roaster being required to study
the properties Of the different kinds OF
berry. since each sort must be roasted for a
certain period of time. The operation is
conducted in a hollow iron sphere, by the
rotation of which all the berries are equally
exposed to the heat. During the roasting
the ball is closed and the gasse5 confined
but at the clcse or the operation the valve
is opened and the gasses allowed to escape.
The roasted berries are then quickly trans
ierred to carefully closed vessels.
Year: 1873

This is French tragedy: Two part
ners in the vino trade were in financial
difficulties, and many angry interviews
occurred between the parties. Wishing
to put an end to one of these scenes M.
Descazeau was about to withdraw from
his spartners presence, when M. Duplonx,
in a frenzy of passion, rushed upon him
with knife and stabbed him in the side


The victim fell, and the assassin stabbed
himself three or four times in the abdo-
men. he then rushed up stairs, opened
the window, and after driving the knife
up to the hilt through his left cheek,
threw himself into the court. A woman
employed in the house had heard the
noise and rushed out to ascertain its
cause just as Duploux was falling. His
body struck her and she was felled to
the ground. Her left arm was broken
and she was otherwise greatly injured.
Madame Duploux, q young and pretty
woman, also rushed out at this moment,
and was so affected by the horrible sight
that she is said to have lost her reason.
Year: 1873

FROM t0o lcTTc EApTtes.l


She is perfectly willing to help. She


tells her neither that she would just as


lief stay home a week as not, and in.


forms her teacher, with a semi-triumph-


ant air, that she has to stay at home


next week to help clean house. The


carpets are to be taken up first, and that


girl, delicately reared though she be,


bravely sits down in the middle of the


floor, and reads paper, while her


mother and hired girl takes out the tacks
and makes frantic efforts to use the
same form of common prayer that the
head of the house uses when his boots
don't come on easily in the morning.
The carpet is rolled up and taken out
into the back yard and hung on the
clothes line to be busted. Now that girl
comes out strong and shows the latent
energy that is in her. She seizes an old
broom and starts toward that swinging
carpet with an air Of determination. On
her way she spies her friend Kate pass
ing, and goes off to the side fence to
talk about an hour and half about
well, about whatever girls do talk about
under the same circumstances. Then
she goes into the house and eats her
dinner and complains of being
tired. In the afternoon she be-


gins dusting and arranging the
books in the bookcase. She finds, pretty
soon, one of Ouida's novels and sits down
on the floor to read, while the ink, from
a bottle she knocks over when she throws
her duster on the table, runs all over the
parlor curtains stuffed under the chair
near by. Her mother finds her here and
sends her into the parlor to gather up
her music ready for to morrows cam
paign. She gets along we'll enough with
her finger exercises and marches, but
presently she comes across Don't be
Angry with Me, Darling" that Robert
gave her last week, and begins to hum it.
She opens the piano to find the keynote,
to be certain she can take the high note
nicely, and begins to sing. 1t don't
sound we'll without the accompaniment
that Robert thought was so sweet, so she
sits down and begins to play. While she
is practicing Robert comes along. He
hears her; he stops he. enters. She
stops. He wants to hear that sweet
song. Came in only for that. She is
too hoarse. She couldn't think of sing
ing with her hair tied up in a towel-but
she does. Robert sighs as the song ends,
and she proposes game of croquet.
They 60 out and play croquet till tea
time.