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Year: 1873

The marble was pure and white


Though only block at best,
But the artist, with inward sight.


Looked farther than all the rest.
And saw in the hard, rough stone,
The loyeiiest statue the sun shone on.
So he set to work with care


And chiseled a form of grace
A figure diyinely fair,


With tender, beautiful face:
But the blows were hard and fast
1hat bro't from the narble.tha work at last
SO think that human lives


Must bear Gods chisel Keen
Ii the spirit yearns and strives


For the better life unseen.
For men are only blocks at best.
TIL the chiseling brings out all the rest.
Year: 1873




The flow of emigration will undoubt-
edly be checked by the present financial
crisis, for in these times of daily inter-
communication private letters and the
public press will bring the knowledge
to the masses of Europe that for the
time being there is much unemployed
labor in our cities and yet no one cause
will contribute more toward the restor-
alton of confidence and general indus
try than the continuance of the influx
of the large number of farmers and
mechanics that have hitherto come from
European countries.


Since Canada is offering counties of
from five to ten dollars, by way of re-
duction Of transportation it become alb
sOlutely necessary for our Government
to aid the emigrant and to pilot him
across our vast continent to his future
home. Leaving the question of trans
portation on shipboardentirely out, there
Year: 1873

Cotton without Decided Changc-Flour
DulI-Whcat Higher, with Large
saies-Corn Easy-Oats Firmer-Provi-
sions Generally Duli-Lard EASIER
Naval stores Generally Quiet but
Firm-Petrolcum Ncminni-Groceries
Dull.


TUESDAY, Oct. TO p. M.
The trade movement was retarded somewhat by
the inclemency OF the weather. but business was
nevertheless fairly active in most department.
while In some It was decidedly brisk. There was
no evidence OF the distrust which caused the COM
mercial stagnatlon OF the few weeks past thou gh
the scarcity OF money was undoubtedly felt to q
greater or less degree In most departments OF
trade. The dry goods interest appeared
TO be uniavoraby Influenced BY the
scarcity OF funds, and business was slow.
on 'Change there was but little change either one
way or the other. The demand for most OF the
Ieading commodities was fair and the markets
steady. Flour RENAME steady under a moderate
Year: 1873

The EFFECTS OF WoRRY.-That the effects of
worry are more to be dreaded than those of
simple hard work is evident from noting the
classes of persons who suffer most from the ef-
fects of mental overstrain. The easement book
of the physician shows that it is the speculator,
the betting-man, the railway manager, the
great merchant, the superintendent of large
manufacturing or commercial works, who most
frequently exhibit the symptoms of cerebral
exhaustion. Mental cares accompanied with
suppressed emotion, occupations liable to great
vicssitudes of fortune, and those which involve
the bearing on the mind of multiplicity of
intricate details, eventually break down the
lives of the strongest. In estimating what may
be called the staying powers of different minds
under hard work, it is always necessary to take
early training into account. Ayoung man cast
suddenly into position involving great care
and responsibility, will break down in crcum
stances in which, had he been gradually hab-
ituated to the position, he would have perform
ed its duties without difficulty. 1t is probably
for this reason that the professional classes gen.
orally suffer less from the effects of overstran
than others. They have long course of pre-
liminary training, and their work comes on
them by degrees therefore when it does come
in excessive quantity, it finds them prepared
for it. Those, on the other hand, who sudden
ly vault into position requiring servere men
tai toll, generally die before their time.-Cham-
bey'S Journal.
Year: 1873

WOMEN IN GERMANY.-Frederick ecker, says
the Lancaster (Pa.) Express, the noted German
to whom we referred the other day as being on
his way home from visit to Germany, in a
recent letter, writes thus of the condition OF
women among the laboring classes there;


"The condition of the women among the la
boring classes in the country is really revolt
ing. will not speak of the cities, where wo,
men carry mortar up three or four stories, and
work in other respects like beasts of burden,
but will only mention what hundreds OF Ger
man Americans have observed as well as my
self. thought it bad enough to see father and
son lazily smoking on wagon, while the poor
mother on foot drove the oxen; but would
willingly have horse-whipped young fellow
who sat reclining on heapof grass with which
kind of wagon was loaded, while his poor
mother drew it along. But the worst OF all
was man guiding plow to which his wife
and a cow were yoked together! One is struck
with the number of women who have to per-
form the heaviest farm work, while one is no
less panied to see poor old men and women
bent with age, toling from sunrise to sunset
When questioned on the subject, the reply is,
MY son is in the army"
Year: 1873

Rational -Shoeing.-Foot-lamene in
horses is an evil so common, and against which
the horse-owner struggles so Intellectually, that
the world is waiting for some one who will
teach more excellent way of mailing iron to
the organic structure of the animal, to increase
his usefulness without destroying his powers OF
action.


d. 1t is claimed that this desired result is OBJ
taned by the shoe, and the system of applying
it, invented by Mr.. Goodenough, which has
been in use in some parts of this country and
Europe for several years. The object of this
system is to protect the hoof from wearing
away by attrition, but at the same time to al
low to the horse its natural use and action
The motto of this system is, "No frog, no foot
no foct no tnrse.D a. saving abnndariig sisA's-
- SSzs.>aI1Siy the Keynote s. the whole
method. From his first to his last page, evil
dair" enforces the truth, that without the ac-
tion of the frog on the ground there can be no
healthful condition Of the foot. We cannot do
better, perhaps, than to quote from page IL of
the book on this point:


'The world is for the most part lin horse
shoeing) Just where it was a thousand years
ago, possibly worse off, for the original purpose
of shoeing was only to protect the foot from at
triton or chipping and but little iron was used
but, as the utility of the operation became ap-
parent, the smith boldly took the responsible
ty of altering the form of the hoof to suit his
own unreasoning views, cutting away, as su-
perfuous, the sole and bars, pairing the frog to
a shapely smoothness, and then mailing on a
broad, heavy piece of iron, covering not only the
wall, but portion of the sole also, thus putting
it out of the power of the horse to take natur-
al, elastic step.


In short time the hoof, embraced by the
sole and bars, begins to contract, the action of
the frog upon the ground, which in the natural
foot is three-fo fold, acting as cushion to receive
the force of the blow, and thus relieve the
nerves and joints of the leg from conclusion,
opening and expanding the hoof by its upward
pressure, quickening the circulation, and there
by stimulating the natural secretions-ths all
important part of the organization, without
which there is no foot and no horse, becomes
hard, dry, and useless. Then follows the whole
train of direful consequences.
Year: 1873

The relative price for iron in this
country and England is now receiv-
ing a good deal Of attention from
British technical journals, and as some
of them come to the conclusion that
merchant bars are cheaper here than
there, the Importance Of the subject
is evident. THERE'S however, doubt
on the subject The Iron Age says ::
"What is really the money differ, nee
between the prices of iron in England
and in America This is q question
Gf vast Importance to all in the iron
trade, on its answer depending more
than one arrangement as to wages of
men, besides the maintenance Ofpres-
ent prices i'm this country. A cOntri-
button Ia exact knowledge on this
point is furnished by the following
figures, obtained from a Liverpool
shipping firm Of high standing in the
iron trade:
Year: 1873

The Germantown Telegraph says.
We believe thai as a rule there is no
better way to grow a potato than to
take a piece of worn out sod land, and
after putting a good dressing of half
rotten stable manure, plOW it down
over thepotato sets about three or
four inches deep, the sets being about
eighteen or twenty inches apart, and
the rows about thirty inches. As for
the size of the sets, we hardly think
this of so much consequence as the
condition of the soil. IL is the fitness
in this respect which does the busi-
ness, for after the plant has once left
the parent root it depends wholly OH
the soil for its food. Perhaps one
large piece is better than a small po-
tatO, as there will be less number of
sprouts; but even this is in a measure
theoretical, a. many persons protest
they have hal just as good crops from
small pOtatOcs as cut pieces Of larger
ones, in spite Of the objection to the
sDrOUt
Year: 1873

A serious obstacle to a reform in


Spain is the inYariable impression


which deludes every Spaniard that
/ his country is first among the nations


of the earth, and he will not confess


anything that would cast sldr upon
/ her. Thus when King Amadeo left


for Portugal, though he had resigned


kingly power, he was assailed all
along the route with everything from


epithets to bullets. Some of his Span


ish attendants acknowledge this, but


most of them deny it for the reason


that it would put them in bad light
among other civilized nations. The
administration of justice is another


point which injuries the hesympathies OF
| the people and makes them swift to
throw responsibility for human suffer-
/ ing upon the government. The shad-
ow OF the SoldeTO is great demOral-


izer. King AmadeO's Secretary at
one time, not long ago, hearing a
noise iafront of the palace, one after
noon, rushed out with an attendant
to find a man stabbed, and the crowd
standing around at a respectful dis
tance, offering no assistance. The
Secretary went to the dying man, IN
did his clothes to discover the extent
of his wounds, and called upon the
crowd to assist him. All, including
the royal servants, refused to touch
the body, alleging as an excuse that
the murdered man must remain
where he Is until the arrival of the
Judge. In vain did the Secretary APP
peal to those present in the name of
humanity; all turned a deaf ear to his
entreaties. Shortly afterward, some
one caught sight of the coming Judge
and announced the fact upon which
one and all hastened nimbly to de-
part, leaving not soul on the spot
but the Secretary and the royal ser
wants. The Secretary explained to
the Judge what had occurred, upon
which latter declared he must arrest
him, "But am the Kings Secreta-
nv, and came out to assist this dying
man !' exclaimed the astOnished Ital-
ian. ''That is no fault of mine" re-
torted the Judge; call persons found
on the spot where the crime has been
committed must be arrested" As
once in the bastile there is no certain
ty of securing a trial for months, and
even years, it is not strange that Mad
rid should produce but few good Sa-
maritans, nor that the reverse of Cruz
ell selfishness, or at least Indifferent
people, should be the rule.
Year: 1873

him "that a man was all tied up oct
there" and he had returned to the
fence. Understanding the situation
be and his men had moved around so
IS 70 secure an advantage. Raleigh
capture was the result.


When the rascal found his senses
he was terribly taken back, and cursed
enough for a whole Flanders army:
We took him back to Grafton, and
when 1 last saw him be was on his
way to the penitentiaTy to serve q
sentence of fiften years.


The mortgage was lifted after all,
and the gift which Law & Law sent
little Katie Gray kept her in dresses
for many a year
Year: 1873

In Washington, the other day, a fe-
male member Of a colOred theatrical
troupe went into a dry goods store
and called for some flesh-cOlOred hose.
The clerk placed before her a DOx Of
black stockings, and that impertinent
young man has never Oeen able to
tell whether he was blown up by
nitro-glycerine or was struck by a
shot from a seveuty-pOunder.
Year: 1873

A man in Oregon, on the evening
Of ftherecent earthquake, had informed
his wife that he mad an important
business appointment which he was
re eluetantIy Obliged to keep When
the shock came be rushed hOme with
q billiard cue in his hand. which he
had forgotten to replace, and now his
wife won't hear of any business APP
pOintment after O'Clock, T. NJ.


A Mormon ehureh kas been estab.
Year: 1873

A WORD FOR THE PooR.-The winter


will be hard one. Work will be scarce


and money searcer. Already the great


manufacturing firms have discharged


many of their hands, anl those who


have not dismissed employees have reduc,


ed wages so low that the effect of the


two is not very different. To beg, to


steal or to starve seems the only solution


to the problem of life for these enforced


idlers. When there is scantiuess of work


there is inevitably plentitude of crime.


1t is stated that twenty thousand men
and women, dependent on their daily
earnings for support, were out of employ
ment last winter in New York and it is
feared that the number this season may
be doubled. Many of these must wan
der into the country in search of the la
Dor they cannot find in town. When
they ask at your doors for work, try to
find something for them, if it be only for
a few hours. Trust them, even if their
appearance be uncanny. Give them
work and pay them for it. Money that
comes without labor is generally the least
charitable of gifts. To live upon pecu-
mary aid that has had no equivalent, is
to lose selfrespect and to lose self-re-
spect is to lose the balance wheel of
healthy organization.


Engage all the help this winter you
can possibly afford. Have your sewing
done, not by expensive modistes, but by
the poor women who stitch by the day or
Job. Hire the chore- woman for an extra
cleaning, now and then. Let the wash
er-woman's boy do the errands you have
been in the habit of doing yourself
them for selfrespecting toll,
instead of making them the recipients of
a mortifying charity. Do not save pen
nies, and call it economy, by performing
the task which, by the law Of mutual
help, belongs to others. 1t is keeping
from them that which is their right Re-
rain from buying luxuries, if you will,
out do not take from the needy, through
/ mistaken idea of thrift. t.-iScri6ner for
Jaasuary.
Year: 1873

Who of my young friends have read


the sorrowful story of Enoch Arden,
so sweetly and simply told by the great


English poet2 1t is the story of man
who went to sea, leaving behind sweet
young wife and little daughter. He was
cast away on desert island, where be
remained several years, when he was
discovered, and taken off by passing
vessel. Coming back to his native town
he found his wife married to an old
playmate good man, rich and honor
ed, with whom she was living happily.
The poor man unwilling to cause her
pain and perplexity, resolved not to
make himself known to her, and lived
and died, alone. The poem has remind
ed me of very similar story of my own
New England neighborhood, which
have often heard, and vhich [ will try
to tell, not in poetry, like Alfred Tenny-
sons, but in my own. poor prose. l
can assure my readers that in its main
particulars it is true tale.
Year: 1873

One bright summer morning more
than three score years ago, David Mat
son with his young wife and his two
healthy barefOoted boys, stood on the
bank of the river near their dwelling.
They were waiting there for Pelatiah
Curtis to come round the Point with his
wherry, and take the husband and faith
er to the port few miles below. The
Lively Turtle was about to sail on a
voyage to Spain, and David was to 90 in
her as mate. They stood there in the
lovely morning sunshine, talking cheer
fully f; but, had you been near enough,
you could have seen tears in Anna Mat
sons blue eyes, for she loved her hus-
band, and knew there was always dan
ger on the sea. And David's bluff
CHEEKY voice trembled a little now and
then, for the honest sailor loved his snug
home on the Merrimack, with the dear
wife and her pretty boys. But present

ly the wherry came alongside. and Da-
vid was just stepping into it, when he
turned back to kiss his wife and children
once more.


"In with you, man." said Pelatiah
Curtis. " There's no time for kissing,
and such fooleries when the tide serves. -


And SO they parted. Anna and the
boys went back to their home, and Da-
vid to the Port, whence he sailed off in
the Lively Turtle. And months passed,
autumn followed the summer, and win
ter the autumn, and then spring came,
and anon it was summer on the river
side, and he did not come back. And
another year passed, and then the old
sailors and fisherman shook their heads
solemnly, and said the Lively Turtle was
a lost ship, and would never come back
to port. And poor Anna had her bonn
bazine gown dyed black, and her straw
Year: 1873

The hardest thing ever said Of England, j..
the assertion that it spends in Intoxicating
drinks $40 600 900 of dollars annually. And
the hardest part of the whole thing j. tho
probability that the assertion is pretty neaI
true.


Rev. Mr. Smith, Of Easthampton. Mas,
is gentleman Of peculiar ideas and insist,
that it is no more injurious to the health tc
drink liquor moderately than to eat bread
with Yeast in it. To This the Rochester
Democrat responds "The comparison isnot
a good one, for the two articles have an en-
tirely opposite effect or we are much mis-
taken And the remark is quite unnecessa-
~ for there are no immoderate drinkers
We never saw but one man who wasn't
ready to swear that he was merely Il mode
rate drinker, and he was too drunk to swear
to anything


The Franklin County Good Tcmplars, I'm
ion at its recent session adopted a resolution
on the subject of temperance legislation
giving expression to the opinion that full and
sufficient temperance legislation cannot be
relied on from present political parties, there
fore the time has come when the temperance
vote of Vermont should be organized for tn,
purpose of effectual political action, securing
the nomination and election Of legislator,
who will pass all needed laws in favor o
temperance and prohibition, and pledgins
themselves as temperance men to assist ii
carrying out that action.


Rev. Mr.. Bush, retiring chaplain OF tn,
Binghamton Asylum for hebriates, has writ
ten a letter to one Of the New York paper
Year: 1873

They found him there an hour afterward,
bat he asked no questions, made no repl ly to
their attempts at consolation, and they left
him alone with bis dead


There was "hurrying to and fro in sum
ner that day, for many were left homeless
many bruised and crippled by the storm;
And the mourners. who wended their way up
the long hill to the burying- ground, were a.
sad as though the silence had been broken
by the tolling of solemn bclls.-han.s
NOnthlg.
Year: 1873

One OF the most annoying complaints in
the range of medical knowledge is cold in
the head. But you would not think so. No
newspaper which publishes intricate receipts
for complicated diseases, tells, even in the
most vague way, how to cure cold in the
head. No volume on physiology comes to its
relief No doctor in regular practice pre-
tends to know anything about it. 1t is the
wandering Jew of ailments. 1t invadcs every
household with impunity, and snaps its fe-
verisk finger in the very face of medical SCI
ence. And medical science promptly dodges
and is glad it can. The man with cold in
his head is mournful fabric to contemplate


He is ostracised from company. He is barred
out from the family circle. He loses his in
terest in everything but stove and handker-
chief, and were he called upon to give an
expression it would be found that his itlea OF
heaven was place where stove fOundries
and cotton mills were about equally divided.
His eyes are watery, his skin is drawn tight
to his flesh, his nose is swollen, of fiery red.
and sorer than strange dog. What he
mostly fears is the draft, but in spite Of his
most active endeavors he is sure to get into
it; and he is hardly able to conceal his sur
prise at the pressure of business the family
is subjected to, which keeps the door open
about two-thirds of the time, and establishes
an almost uninterrupted current OF air about
the legs Screwed up back of the stove with
his nose like beacon shining above it, he
patiently holds his handkerchief to the blaze,
and finally slips into kental calculation as
to which will first lose its moister--his cot
ton or his blood. There he sits all day, with
the handkerchief as a flag of truce rendered
by the fire in his head to the fire in the stove,
and at night he goes seuddding through
cold hall, sneezing at every leap. Long after
every one else is asleep he starts up with a
terrific sneeze, and finds that his feet are
sticking out below the quilts, and that the
handerchiefs, which he meant to have care
fully located for just this emergency, is no.
where to be found.-Dam6s.ry Ne,cs.
Year: 1873

From the Danbury News.


Once upon time local editor dreamed


that he was dead and in another world. He


approached the gate Of a city before hiia,


and knocked fer admittance, but no cnc an


sWered his summons. The gate remained


closed against him. Then he cried aloud


for an entrance, but the only response was


scores Of heads appearing above the wall on
each side of the gate. At the sigh. of him
the owners of the heads set up dismal
howl, and one of them cried: .: Why did
you not notice the big egg gave to you?'
At this h0rrid and most unexpected intcrro-
cation, the unhappy local turned in the d-
restion of the voice to learn it's owner, when
another voice shrieked, "Where's the piece
you were going to write about my soda foun-
demand: "Why did you write piece about
old Peddles fence, and never say word
about my new gate?" Whatever answer be
was going to frame to this appeal was cut
abruptly off by the astonishing query:
"What did yeu spell my name wrong in tho
programme for!" The miserable man turned
to flee, when he was rooted to the spot by
the terrible demand: ''Why did you put
my marriage among the deaths?" He was
on the point of saying the foreman did it,
when shrill voice madly cried: "What
made You put in my runaway, and spoil the
sale of my horse?" And this was followed
by the voice of female Historically pro-
"This is the brute that bo.chcd
my poetry, and made me ridiculous!" Where
upon hundreds of voices screamed: "Where's
my article?" "Give me back my article"
" Where's my religious notice, that brought
in at the eleventh hour?" And in the midst
of the horrid din the poor wretch awoke,
pcrspiring at every pore, and screaming FOR
help. The next day he resigned, and we had
10 hunt up another local editor.