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Year: 1873

At certain seasons, as in spring and
summer, the appetite of even the very
robust is apt to fail, and the relish for
meats and heavy food to wane. This
is all right enough, for animal diet in
warm weather heats the blood, tends
to headaches, and is generally un-
wholesome, unless sparingly used
On the other hand, fresh vegetables,
berries, fruit and bread are cooling,
corrective, and what the palate most
Graves. Don't be afraid to 60 with
out meat for a month or so, and, if
you like, live purely upon vegetable
regimen. We will warrant that you
will lose no more strength than is
common to the time, and that you
will not suffer from protracted heat,
as when dining on the regulation
roast.


Many persons regard hearty de-
sire for food as something unrefned,
indelicate, and to be constantly dis
couraged. This is a greater and more
harmful mistake than that of coaxing
the appetite. 1t is just as necessary
for the man who works only with his
brain to eat beet and mutton, as for
the man who labors solely with his
hands. The stomach and the brain
are twins; the former being the elder,
and having prior right to care. Let
that be well provided for; and it will
sustain its brother. The people who
strive to check wholesome and
natural appetite are the people who
regard dinner merely as a feed, hot
the center of an agreeable social GUS
tom and as the domestic event of the

day. We are sorry for them, as they
must regard eating at all as prosaic
duty, obligatory on them because they
have bias in favor of living. We
all know that we must eat to live but
we by no means live to eat simply be-
cause we enjoy what we eat. We are
not gourmands because we relish
chops, nor are we invalids because we
want straw berries.


A good appetite is good thing;
but not if it is to be worried by urging
or neglect. -"Home and Society,"" in
Scribner's tor Augnst.
Year: 1873


20 that I had the ,oi,ags of doue, that 1 NIGH
flee a,cay and be at rest."--Psalms iv. 6.
So pray'd the Psalmist to be free


From mortal bonds and earthly thrall
And such, or soon, or late, shall be


Full oft the heart breathed prayer OF all |;
And we, when Life's last sands we rove
With faltering step and aching breast,
Shall sigh for wings that watt the dove,
To flee away and be at rest
While hearts are young and hopes are high,
A fairy scene doth Life appear;
Its sighs are beauty to the eye,


Its sounds are music to the ear,
But soon it glides from youth to age,


And Of its joys no more possessed;
We, like the captive Of the cage,


Would flee away and be at rest.
Is our fair woman's angel smile,


All bright and beautiful as day'
So of her cheek and eye the while,


Time steals the rose and dims the ray
She passes to the spirits land


And we with speechless grief oppressed,
As er the faded form we stand,


Would gladly share her place Of rest.
Beyond the hills-beyond the seas


Oh for the pinions Of dove,
Oh for the mornings wing to flee


Away. and be with those we love.
When all is fled that's bright and fair,
And Life is but wint'ry waste,
This-this at last must be onr prayer,
To flee away and be at rest
Year: 1873

"Of course he will.'


"By all means. Only see how he
acted when his wife lived with him !
Now that she's left him, and all re.
staint is removed, he'll 60 the rest of
the downward way in no time"


Hll give him just one year to be
buried"


"Pshaw! Half that time will finish
h im."


"Well, Ipity him, too, but I pity
her more.--He brought the misery on
both"


Such was the gossip of half a dozen
villagers, who stood in front of one Of
the principal stores one summer even
ing, while the subject oftheir remarks
went staggering along on the opposite
side.


1t was evident that he was trying
to walk straight, but such endeavors
always seem to make adrunken man
walk more crooked. However, it
proved he was not lost to all sense of
shame, and still retained an aversion
to being ridiculed and despised.


But Harry Rogers had carried on at
a fearful rate for year or two past.
He had just one vice-drink; but that
was enough. He had married a
worthy farmers daughter, Nettie Ray,
only few years previous, but such
had been his conduct during more
than year past that she had been
obliged to cut him loose to pursue his
profigate course alone, and legal
separation had just been effected.


Hawy's home was on little farm,
a mile from town. He owned it, but
then it was heavily mortgaged, and in
another year foreclosure was certain.
1t was not likely his creditors would
spare him when he made no effort to
meet his obligations.


A week passed after that summer
evening on which all had agreed in
predicting his early ruin-two weeks
"A month or two. What mystery is
here? To the utter bewilderment Of
the prophesying sages, Harry discon-
tinued visiting the tavern, and was
rarely seen in the village. When he
did come to the store he speedily
transacted his business and then went
home-sober


Wonders never cease when they get
start. He was next reported as ac-
tually at work on his form. Had but
one man told this in the village, he
would have been marked as lacking
veraclty but as several ladies vouch-
ed for the feet, it was worthy of Gre
dence. The little farm began to look
healthier as the summer wore on. The
fences Strengthened up, the weeds dis
appeared; the animals looked fatter
and happier, and the little cottage
looked neater.


Time wore on, and the great change
was more remarkable every day.
Harry's charitable creditors called and
told him he might have his own time
to pay off the mortgage. The fall
came; and the farm yielded an abuu-
dance of crops, and Harry found him
self beginning to drift along with the
tide ofprosperity.


And Nettie had begun to live her
young girlhood over again. as it were,
under her her fathers roof, but some
how it was not like the happy, joyous
girlhood of memory. 1t was sober
and quiet now, and she fell into the
train of musing; and every now and
then there passed through her mind a
certain thought-she was neither maid
nor wife.


She avoided the vicinity of her late
home, nor had she once seen Harry
since the separation; but she had
Year: 1873

We need not say that this is the
height Of the fly season, nor should
there be need OF impressing upon
wives the necessity Of keeping dining
rooms darkened until dinner is ready.
No man likes to sit down in a glare of
light, and a swarm of flies, to eat a
hot dinner. And he won't do it either.
He will seize the first thing he can get
hold of, and 90 for those flies. 1t
may be towel, or it may be a linen
coat, but it is more likely we are pain
ed to say, to be q table cloth, whose
loose ends are constantly dropping
out, and creating unexpected means
Of destruction. And when he has got
those flies up to the window for the
sixteenth time, and for the sixteenth
time sees third of them float out
through one window and Immediately
sail back through another, with ten
new acquaintances apiece, and the
rest go back over the top of his head,
that man will drop the balance of his
sanity as if it were a hot iron, and
steellng his heart and binding his
eyes to the better and holier things of
our nature, will dash in among those
flies like maniac, and inside of two
minutes the long ends of that table.
cloth will have Tapped all the SCOT and
dust from the stovepipe and door
frames, denuded the mantal of its trea-
sures, filled the air with hot soup and
ice-water, and broken the backs of
five flies. Then the miserable wretch
will grimly seat himself in the ruins
and as grimly eat what is attainable,
while the wife of the miserable wretch
will 90 into the bedroom, and close
the door after her in such "a manner
as would make the foreman of boil
er factory jump. -Danbwy Neos.


BALLoUs MAGAZINE FOR OCTOBER.
A very nice number is Ballou's for
October 1t contains remarkable
quantity ofreading matter, all divided
into stories and poetry, engravings
and useful reading, such as any one
likes to get hold of to pass away an
hour or two in a pleasant manner.
Terms Is cts number or S1.50
year. For sale at all the periodical
depots in the country. Address
THoMEs & TALBOT, SO Bromfeld
Street, Boston, for back or current
numbers.
Year: 1873

Nor WELL DoNE.-Liverpool was re-
Gently the scene of lawful tragedy, the
details of which were grimly horrible. A
man named Connor was hanged for mur-
der, and the business was bungled in
such way that public feeling veered
round in favor of tho unfortunate Grim
inal Calcraft was the executioner, and
certainly has had experience enough to
thoroughly understand his business.
But when the bolt was drawn and the
criminal suddenly dropped, the rope
snapped in two, and Connor fell on his
feet at the bottom the hole over which
he ought to have hung suspended. As
soon as the condemned man recovered
breath he tried to unpinion himself, and
asked, piteously, "What do you call this?
Do You call this murder? After this you
should let me off," Being placed on a
chair while the drop was refxing, the
chaplain began again the interrupted
ministrations of religion. Addressing
himself to his spiritual cousoler, Counor
remarked, "Surely this is enough. I
stood it like brick the first time" At
ter delay Of eight minutes the unhappy
man was successfully and apparently
painlessly dispatched, to the infinite relief
0t the officials and reporters in attend
ance. This is by no means a solitary in
stance Of this kind; and the moral pointed
is obvious: il hanging must be the pun
ishment OF murder, why not learn the art
Of hanging2 III It's to be done, 'twere
well twere done quickly However, in
this particular case, it was found impos-
sible to censure the hangman, as rope
maker who opportunely happened to be
on the jury declared the rope to be
athoroughly good one one-manufactured Of
Manila hemp, and thoroughly suited to
its purpose. There has been great deal
Of discussion excited by the untoward
event, and the multitudes who oppose
hanging find another argument in favor
Of their views on the subject Of capita


punishment. I'M ..r.
Year: 1873




Having a photograph taken is one Of
the great events in mans life. The
Chief desire is to lsob the very best,
and on the success Of picture hinges in
many cases the most important epoch
IN life. To work up a proper appear
anee time enough is used which, if de,
voted 10 estching feas fof their phos-
phorus, would cancel the entire nation
al debt and establish New, York. daily
paper. When you have completed your
toilet you go to the gallery and force
yourself into a nonehalence of express
sion that is too absurd for anything.
Then you take the chair, spread Your
legs gracefully, appropriate a calm and
Indifferent look, and commence to per-
spire. An attenuated man with pale
face, long hair and soiled nose now
comes out of cavern, and adjusts The
camera. Then he gets back of you and
tells you to sit back as far as you dan
in the chair, and that it has been a, re-
markably back spring. After getting
you back till your spine interferes with
the chair itself, he shoves your head
into pair of ice tongs, and dashes at
the camera again. Here, with a piece
of discolored velvet over his head, he
bombards you in this manner 50 Yof1r
chin out little, please" The chin lis
protruded. That's nicely now; 8 little
more. The chin adyances again, and
the pomade commences to melt, and
start for freedom. Then he comes back
to yon and slaps one of your hands on
your leg in such apositioli- ito give you
the appearance of trying to lift it over
your head. The other is turned under
itself, and has become so sweaty that
you begin to fear that it will stick there,
permanently. A new stream Of pomade
finds its way out, and starts downward
Then he shakes your head in the tengs
till it settles right, and says it looks
like rain, and puts .y0uF, chin out again,
and punches out 4your ehest,S ana says
he doesn't know what the. poor are to
do next winter, unless there is a radi-
cal change in affairs, and then takes the
top of your head inione hand and your
chin in the other, and gives your neck
= wrench that wonld earn any other
man a prominent position in a new hos.
pital. Then he runs his hands through
your hair and scratches your scalp, and
steps back to the camera and the injured
velvet for another look. BY this time
new sweat and pomade have started out
The whites of your eyes show unpleas-
antly, and your whole body feels as if
it had been visited by an enormous
cramp, and another and much bigger
one was momentarily expected. Then
he poiuts at something for you to look
at tells you to look cheerful and COM
posed, and snatches away the velvet and
pulls out his watch. When he gets
tired, and you feel rs if there was but
very little left in this world to live for,
he restores the velvet, says it is an un-
favorable day for a. picture, but he
hopes for the best, and immediately
disappears in his den. Then you get up
and stretch yourself, slap ON your hat
and Immediately sneak home, feeling
mean, humbIed, aud altogether too
wretched for description. The first
friend who sees the picture says he can
asee.en0ugha resemblance make Ger
tain that it is You, but you have tried to
i look too fornial to be natural alad grace
ful ~- Z
Year: 1873

The New York World, in a review OF
the labor market and the progressive
shrinkage of values, says:


The Typographical Union will use its
influence to persuade all employers
throughout the city not to discharge
their operatives, but rather to reduce
the wages of all, or put them on short
time. This plan, they think, would
prevent much suffering which can in no
other way be avoided. The same men
will advise. all their confreres to assist
the employers by willingly working g
little longer for the old wages or ac-
cept a reduction of pay. This is nc
time, they think, for employers and en-
ployed to be at war. The panic is ca,
lamity to all, the rich as we'll as the
poor, and they contend that all ought
to help one another to weather il
through.


The coopers are the only workingmer
on strike at the present time. A large
number of that very numerous class
have taken exception to the course pur.
sued by the firm of Havemeyer 4 Elder,
aad are trying to make them yield to
the demands of the workingmen by
uniting on strike. Thus far the firm
have stood their ground, keeping theil
shop in working order by importing
coopers from the country.


About 200 parasol-makers, girls, are
at present idle in consequence of g
strike. The employers recently reduced
the prices from and II cents apiece te
5 and 10 cents.


At one book printing company and
binding establishment in Williamsburg
the largest in the vicinity of New York
the operatives have been put on nine
hours time. In the various job Offices
the expenses of running have been cut
down to the lowest.
Year: 1873

The City of Birmingham, England,
suffers from an emborrdS deS richeSses.
A gentleman recently deceased, who
seems to have possessed more money
than brains, bequeathed a valuable dia-
mond to the corporation, and the mem
bers of the Town Council have been
puzzling their brains to decide what
they should do with the legacy. One
of the Aldermen suggested that the gem
should be placed il the art gallery, but
it was objected that it would not be safe
there, and would be altogether too
tempting" The Mayor thought it
would probably "be better in public
hail." while one of the Council express
ed the hope "that it would not go forth
to the town that the Free Libraries
Committee were afraid to trust the dia-
mond in the art gallery" After much
discussion it was decided that the dia-
mond should be placed on exhibition in
the art gallery, but that His Honor the
Mayor should have the privilege of
wearing it on such occasions as he may
desire" The importance of the Brum-
magem civic functionary will doubtless
be much enhanced by his appearance
under the shelter of the corporation
gem.
Year: 1873

People who prefer wetting the winters
store of coal to lay the dust on putting
it into their cellers, do not generally
know that they are laying up for them
selves store of sore throats and other
evils consequent upon the practice.
Even the fire-damp, says an exchange,
which escapes from the coal mines,
arises from the slow decomposition of
coal at temperatures of but little above
that of the atmosphere, but under aug
mented pressure. BY wetting q mass
of freshly broken coal and putting it
into cellar, the mass is heated to such
degree that carbureted and sulphu-
retted hydrogen are given off for long
periods of time and pervade the whole
house. The liability of wet coal to
mischievous results under such circum-
stances may be appreciated from the
fact that there are several instances on
record of spontaneous combustion of
coal when slowed into the bunkers on
holds of vessels. And from this cause,
doubtless, many missing coal vessels
have perished.
Year: 1873




Gerald Massey, the English poet and


lecturer, appeared on Sunday evening


in New York before large audience,


his subject being the words of Robin
son Crusoe's man Friday: eff that
God SO strong why He not kill that
devil ?" The lecturer stated that in
this passage of De Foes there was
more food for thought than in any other
he had ever written, and the expecta-
tions of the audience were great when
he started out in very intelligent
manner. Before going far, according
to New York papers, the lecturer
plunged into sea of mythology, He
braic and Egyptian, from which he did
not return even at the end of the lee
ture, leaving his audienceso completely
bewildered that nobody had any idea
what he was talking about. A city
paper says "Mr. Masseys learning
will claim him recognition as a lecturer;
but if his other lectures are as mystical
as Why Does not God Kill the Devil p
very few of his auditors will under
stand, although they may admire him. u
Year: 1873

The daily papers are just beginning
to find out what business men knew
about the panic, namely, its influence
on manufacturing enterprise, and now
that the worst part of it is over, they
are filling their columns with details of
the ste Jpage of manufacturing, etc.
Those who are at all acquainted with
the boct aud shoe manufacture know
that we have now arrived at the usual
season for stopping between the fall
and spring trade, and if the panic has
cut us off from three or four weeks
trade, the full influence of that was dis
counted three or four weeks ago, and
only i'll effects can result from an at
tempt now to revive the general dis
trust and want of confidence which pre-
vailed toward the latter part of Sep
tember. We have now, we trust, got
beyond the influence of any such efforts,
and we are sure that, in the boot and
shoe trade, the prospects of alarge and
profitable business in the near future
were never better. Collections are rea-
sonably good, because manufacturers
have made up goods only on orders and
have not over-suppied the market,
SO that they have no surplus on
hand. The country is, also, notoriously
short of goods, which they must and
will have as soon as money becomes
easier throughout the country, as it is
now fast becoming in New York city.


Manufacturers and leather dealers
are showing their confidence in this
prospect by their preparations for the
future, and by the firmness with which
both the raw goods and manufactured
articles are held, and those who base
their action on the newspaper reports
so far as to presume that we are going
to have dull, hard winter in the shoe
and leather business will, we are con.
fident, find themselves mistaken. We
have had no failures of any consequence
in the trade, and with the money market
daily working easier, the distribution
of goods must be accelerated in the
future to make up for the deficiencies
thus Inexperienced. --Shoe and Leothe,
Chronicle.
Year: 1873

At an English theatre, the other eve-
ming, an actor playing King Henry V.
struggled bravely half through the play
with evidently severe indisposition. AT
last the poor fellow gave up the battle,
and, white as death and almost breath
less, came to the front of the stage, and
in a nearly inaudible whisper said that
he "felt as if his last hour had come.
He chad struggled for three weeks,
and suffered God only knew what, in
his endeavor to keep that engagement.
He had come on the stage that night,
knowing that it was at the risk of his
life. He was no craven, but he was
now entirely defeated, and could not
proceed. He asked for their sympathy
as Christian men," And he had it, for,
as he was carried fainting from the
stage, his audience gave him the hearty
evidence of their sincere alarm and in
terest.
Year: 1873

All who go West do not find tie
happy home expected. One man who
was doing we'll in the East relates his
experience as follows:


I thought could do better, so sold
out, pocketed my money and started
for the West. When I arrived there
things we're not as 1 expected to find
'em. But [ wish to say to all your
readers who have had similar expe-
rience, and are homesick, don't come
back after the manner of one poor fool
/ know of. tell you the railroad COM
panies got over 5000 for carting me and
mine out and back. Now don't be a
lunatic, as was, but "stick. came
back to please wife's relations, but
when / had been back three weeks they
wanted to know what l came back for;
now then I can go here and there to get
days work and get my pay-well,
some time.


People who go West with no definite
idea Of where they are going and what
they expect to do when they get there,
will in nine cases out of ten be badly
disappointed.
Year: 1873

Some one has given the following
reasons why people should dress plain
ly on Sunday. These reasons are as
valid any other day in the week =


1t would lessen the burden of many
who now find it hard to maintain their
place in society.


1t would lessen the force OF tempta-
tions which often lead men to barter
honesty and honor for display.


If there was less strife in dress OF
church, people in moderate ciroum-
stances would be more inclined to
attend.


Universal moderation in dress at
church would improve the worship by
the remittal Of many wandering
thoughts.


It would enable all classes of people
to attend church in unfavorable wea-
ther.


It would lessen, on the part of the
rich, the temptation to vanity.


1t would lesson, on the part Of the
poor, the temptation to be envious and
malicious.


1t would save valuable time on the
Sabbath.
Year: 1873

Col. Cochrane, a Grange officer, says
to reporter that the cost OF farming
has been greatly increased by the
building of railroads, or at least since
their introduction. Before the war he
could hire men who were capable OF
conducting his farm, without his super
vision. for less money than he now has
to pay for hands who hardly know
enough to hitch up team and go into
the field to work unless somebody tells
them how to do it. The only hands he
can now hire are Germans, and they 90
only about half as much work as the
Americans he used to get. The same
is true of work in the houses; no matter
how able and willing the farmer may
be to hire servants, his wife must pc
drudge.
said, girl who knows enough to COOK
a meal. and who will hire out to do
housework. The servants are the most
inferior kind, and even they can't be
depended on to stay at the very Time
they are most wanted. If you make
contract with them in the spring for
the season, and agree to pay them $2 a
week and board, when the hot weather
comes they begin to grumble, and Whe9
the harvest begins they "can't stand
the work any longer" and the next
thing you hear they are binding IN the
harvest field for dollar day, while
the farmers wife is left alone with from
a dozen to 25 harvesters to provide Tor;
These hardships the Colonel attributed
largely to the railroads-they paid un-
skilled laborers better wages than the
farmers could afford to, and they opened
up new country for homesteads for the
better class of men who formerly worked
out by the month.
Year: 1873

A shool-examiner lately gave bright
looking boy this sentence to correct
" Between you and l this is good but
ter" The boy shortly returned the
slip thus marked: incorrect the
larnn-nost is onittad. y