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Year: 1873

WASHINGTON, March IS. Senator
Wright moved that the senate take up
for consideration the resolution sub
mitted by him, proposing that the previ-
Gus question may be demanded either
10y a majority vote or in some modified
form.


Senator Thurman objected to the con-
sideration Of the resolution.


Senator Wright showed the necessity
of adopting some such rule for the pur-
pose Of facilitating the transaction of
public business.


Senator Sherman hoped the resolution
would be taken up and referred to the
committee on rules without debate, and
let them examine the whole subject and
report at the next session.


After considerable debate the senate,
by a vote Of 35 against so, refused TO
take up and thus refer the resolution.


On motion Of Senator Anthony the
commissioner Of agriculture was re-
quested to communicate to the senate
his annual report, with accompanying
papers, which were ordered to be printed.


Senator West asked the senate to take
up his resolution giving the commission
ers on the leyees Of the Mississippi river
leave to sit during the recess, and report
on the condition of the levees Of the
Mississippi; also, on the propriety of the
government controlling and maintain
ing the same.


The chair decided the resolution out
of oIdeT.


The senate proceeded to the consider
alton Of the case Of Senator Caldwell.


Senator COnkling said that Senator
Caldwell was legally elected, and now,
two years after the election, the senate
was asked to declare that he was never
elected at all, and that in law and fact
40 such election ever took place, and
that IN law the seal has been vacant all
the time. He CConkling) could not so
pronounce; his oath, as he understood
A. forbade him doing so, Every time
the senate transcended law, in order
that particular good might come, they
gilded with new light the exclamation
of Roland: "Oh, Liberty, how many
crimes are committed in thy namew
The senate could not hold that Cald-
well was not elected, and at the same
time maintain that they could eXpel
him; they could expel no one except
he be a member, and no one could be a
senator unless he was 50 elected, but for
the purpose Of eXpelling him would the
senate hold him up for a while as a sem
ator for the purpose Of knocking him
down: either Caldwell was elected or
the senate have no power to expel him.
Mr.. Conkling, without concluding his
remarks gave way for the executive
session, at the expiration Of which the
senate adjourned.
Year: 1873

A mother has no right to
bring up a daughter without
teaching her how to keep
house; and if she has no intelli-
gent regard to her daughters
happiness,wlll not do 1t.


By knowing how to keep
house, we do not mean merely
knowing how books should be
arranged on a centre table. and
how to tell servants what is to
be done. We mean how to get
a breakfasts a dinner, a supper;
how to make a bed, how to
sweep a room, how to do the
thousand and one different
things which are requisite to
keep a home in order, and make
it pleasant.


A person who does not know
how to do thing we'll, does
not know how to have it done
well. No number of servants
make up for the want of knowl-
edge in a mistress.


A family employed girl to
do general house work. She
came just at night, and the first
thing assigned to her to do was
to wash the supper dishes.
She washed them in cold water,
and without soap!


A gentleman sent home a
roastingpiece of beef quanti-
ty Of cut porter house steaks,
When he sat down to dinner
he learned that the new cook
had roasted the steaks.


Yet many a boarding school
miss, at the time of her marri-
age, might make either ofthese
mistakes.


Not one woman in a thousand
knows how to make bread as
good as it can be made. And
sour tempers, seedlings, dys-
pepsia, with its indescribable
horrors, and even death itself,
not unfrequently result from
bad cooking.


Mothers, whatever else you
may teach your daughters, do
not neglect to instruct them in
all the mysteries of house keep
ing, So shall you put them in
the way ofgood husbands and
happy homes.
Year: 1873

Williamw / had to break to her
the sad intelligence that we had
just buried him. She tainted, but
rallying, | took her to his grave,
where she wept as only q devoted
wife can weep.


She had come by Weldon to Stony
Creek, where a soldier in charge Of
a wagon had kindly conveyed her
to the city. Her last dollar had
been spent, and the soldier knowing
her helpless condition, proposed to
take her back to Stony Greek that
night without charge. ! gave her
Confederate paper enough to bear
her expenses back to Blackwater,
and she set out broken hearted at 7
o'clock that evening for home
From that time she became subject
to spasms, which became more and
more frequent and severe, until she
had after several hard fits in q sin
gle day, and one or more almost
every day. She lived in an humble
cottage adjoining the Christian
church in Suffolk, for several years,
and being afraid to enter the church
lest she should have a fit, sat often
at the window to listen to the SER
vices. Time rolled on and every
body became busy, and but few re-
membered the circumstances which
led to her condition. Her mother,
a widow, watched her and took care
Of her, and they were fed by sew
ing and the charity of friends
About year ago she moved on the
opposite side Of the street, where
her last days were spent. Let the
curtain here fall, and in commenda-
BILE sympathy, let the melancholy
end of the departed be remembered
only with pity.-Chrtstian San.
Year: 1873

The cause Of the destruction
of the steamship p-AHantic was in
vestigated at Halifax; and the
result of the investigation is
that the loss Of the steamship
resulted from carelessness on
the part of the officers, Cap,
Williams is suspended as a mas
ter for two years, and the fourth
officer for three months. A
very severe punishment when
it is considered that not more
than five hundred people were
murdered. ~ no taaa.aa.3
Year: 1873

A Test OF THE EXTINCTION OF
LIFE.-In view of the uncertain
ty regarding the final extinction
of life that occasionally arises,
DR.. Magnus proposes the follow
ing test for the decision of the
matter. If a limb of the body,
IA finger is best for the purpose)
be CONSTRUCTED by a strong leg
ature quite tightly, there will, if
the subject is yet alive, be a
reddening of the CONSTRUCTED
member. First the part in ques-
ton becomes red, and then the
red color becomes darker and
darker, and deeper in hue, un-
til it is finally converted into a
bluish-red, the whole limb being
from its tip to the ligature
which encircles it of a uniform
color, except that at the region
Immediately round the legature
itself there is to be seen a mar
row ring which is not blush
red, but white. Though there
may be slight discoloration af-
ter death, the doctor has salts
fed himself by experiment that
this cannot be confounded with
the complete discoloration that
attends the performance of the
test on a living limb.-Scfb.
ner's Monthly.
Year: 1873




Twas tired Of washing dishes; /
was tired Of drudgery. 1t had al
ways been SO, and I was dissatisfied.
I never sat down a moment to read,
that jamie didn'twanta cake, or
piece Of paper. to scribble on. or .
bit of soap to make bubbles, I'D
rather be in prison" / said, one day, 4
" than to have my life teased out"
as Jamie knocked my elbow, when
/ was writing to alfriend. y4aiiA


But a morning came when Lhad
one plate less to wash, one chair
less to set away by the wall in the
dining room; when Jamies' little
crib was put away in the garTet, and
in has never come down since. i Z
had been unusually fretful and dis
contented that damp May morning
that he took the Group. Gloomy
weather gave me the headache, and
I had less patience than at anyii
other time. By-and-by he was sing
ing in another room, ~ want to be
an angel" and presently rang out
that metallic cough. / never hear
that hymn since, that it don't cut
me to the heart; for the Group cough
rings out with it. Heigrew worse
toward night, and when my hus-
band came home, he went for the
doctor. At first he seemed to help
him, but it merged into inhammatory
Group, and all was soon over


81 ought to have been called in
sooner" said the doctor. saia a


1 have a servant to wash the
dishes now, and when a visitor
comes, l can sit down and entertain
her without having to work all the
time. v9g y


There is no little boy worrying
me to open his jack.knife, and there
are no shavings over the floor. The
magazines are not soiled at looking
over the pictures, but stand prim
and neat on the reading table just
as l leave them,


"Your.carpet never looks dirty"
said weary-worn mother to me.


ooh! no." 1 mutter to myself,
"there are no little boots to dirty it
now" I'D dls aoliel s.


But my fate is as weary as theirs
weary with sitting in my lone
some parlor at twilight, weary with
watching for the arms that used to
twine around my neck, for the curls
that brushed against my cheek, for
the young laugh that rang out with
mine as we watched the blazingfre
or made rabbits with the Shadow
on the wall, waiting merrily TO-
gether for papa coming home.7 ]
have the wealth and ease / longed
for, but at what priceP And when
l see other mothers with grown up
sons, driving to town or church, and
my hair silvered over with gray,
l wish 1 had murmured less.-Ihe
| AppedL.
Year: 1873

HoMINY PUDDlNe.-Prepare
as for batter cakes, add one egg
to each pint, some whole cinna-
man, sugar to suit the taste,
and q few raisins, and bake
like rice pudding. A little
butter or chopped suet map be
added, Serve hot Or cold, with
or without sauce. gas sa am,
Year: 1873

quest, she was too weak TO act. She had never
named Kaaoaopa to him as her intended devisee.
Both Puhalahua and Nakuapa were heard at various
times 10 speak of the child as their "hoiliRG," a
word meaning "heir' or "devisee." One witness
said they called her so the time of the original
adoption. On the other hand, many persons con-
nected by blood and marriage, an intimate terms
with the parties, testified that they had been
aware Of the ehild's adoption heir, or that she
was regarded BY the adopters as their heir To this
evidence the claimants counsel strongly objected
of a negative hearsay nature incompetent to rebut
evidence of adoption, but the Court admitted it
on the ground that no adoption of an heir can be
recognized valid unless it be shown that it was
made with sufficient clearness and publicity among
the kindred and family friends TO make them aware
of it.


1t docs not seem to me that the claimant has
shown her adoption as the heir of Nakuapa under
the rules of law already laid down by this Court.
am not satisfied of the fact on all the evidence in
her favor All the objections to oral wills apply with
full force in this class of cases. for memory is often
at fault in regard to declarations made many years
ago; and such declarations, unless confirmed in am
pie manner unsatisfactory for the the purpose of
showing so solemn act as the adoption of heir





incompetent under the Act which requires a written
agreement of adoption. If such evidence were ad-
missible the Statute it would certainly be
as likely TO show mere promise held out, or an in
tention never carried into effect to explain pre-
vious act Puhalahua's will, made in 1854, shows
that he early of the Importance of making
a will; SO was Nakuapa, as shown BY her attorney,
Mr.. Austin


The Court held, as the evidence shows, that the
adoption OF az heir must be shown by circumstances
of notoriety among the kindred and family circle of
the parties The objection to this evidence does not
seem TO me to be valid The relation sought to be
established is not the ordinary of pedigree, but
is one unknown to English and American law. Un-
der that law, evidence of family conduct and of
kindred is admitted. Berkely Peerage case, Camp,
4l6. Shrewsbury Baronetcy case, House Lords, ].
Tichborne Baronetcy case, =.


Whatever the grounds OF the English rule, whether
it be that such evidence is in the nature Of admissions
against evidence, part of the gestde, or confrma
tory of facts otherwise shown, in this this evil
dence is admitted on the broad ground that the
requisite publicity is portion of the case TO be
proved In private bilateral triIatera contract,
want of knowledge the part of those not parties
to it would be negative and incompetent; but it is
material in this case, which requires such knowl
edge to be shown in order to its validity.


see no sufficient grounds for thinking that Ma
kuapa adopted Knaoaopa as her heir, and therefore
l concur in the judgment of the Court disalowing
her claim.
W. c. Jones for the Claimant.
A F. Judd and S. B. Dole, contra
Year: 1873

ALLEN, Z. D.:


The question of the claimants right of in
heritance as an adopted child of Nakuapa was
which presided and after careful examination
of the law and evidence, decided that by the
ancient custom of Hawaiians, children adopted
as heirs were entitled to the inheritance, but in
this case the claimant had not established that
relationship and therefore was not entitled to
the inheritance on that ground. As my as
sociates have given very succinctly and clearly,
the testimony, consider it unnecessary to say
more than that see no reason, from any ad-
diiional testimony introduced in the subsequent
hearings, to change my opinion, and therefore
r concur with them.
Year: 1873

THE YOUNG LADIES' WARNING.
Don't marry man with the hope that you
may


Reform his bad habits at some future day,
For what you can't do before you are his wife
You'll never accomplish all the days OF you.
life.
Don't marry a man though your friends all ad.


wise,


II up to the wedding you do him desplse,
For you'd certainly find your hatred Increase
From the day Of your marriage until your de-


cease.
Don't marry man for the sake of home
For fyoa don't love him, he will leave you


alone,
Where you oft will regret that you ever did
That nothing would part you till death called


away.
DON'T marry man your foes for to spite,
For you surely will find you've the worst of


the fight,
For in spiting your toes In q manner like this
For life you will risk every prospect Of bliss.
Don't marry man for his good looks alone,
For beauty can never for vices atone,
man may be handsome In feature and form,
And be as great villain as ever was born.
Don't marry man for the sake of the name
Which his father before him did fairly OBJ


tain,
For the fathers good name won't lessen the


grief


or the wife of gambler, drunkard or


thief
Don't marry a man with gold-headed cane,
And large diamond rings and massive watch


chain,
For where you find men who are foppish and


vain,


It's sure indication of very weak brain.
Don't marry man with whom you would be
Ashamed to be seen in the best company,
For your shame would soon turn to anger and


hate,


And through life you'd regre. the choice Of


your mate.
Don't marry man who conceils he is wise,
Who doth the opinions of others despise,
FOR with such man no pleasure you would


see,


And his foe, or his slave you most surely


would be.
Don't marry man till one you do see,
Who both of you think you will ever agree
10 give and to take, to bear and forbear,
10 honor and love though poverty stare.
And when nan of this kind you do find,
Iheh go TO The parson, (who's always in


clined)
10 assist In uniting two fond loving hearts,
With band that he never can sunder in


paris X. q. #.
Year: 1873

A SMART man at Sandusky put arse
mic In q bottle OF wine. hoping that a
burglar would drink It, and his wife
placed lt among the other bottles.
The smart man Is now wondering
which is the bottle.
Year: 1873

a library. You can always have a few suel,
slips with you, and can easily jot the thino
down without trouble to yourself or alarm To
others whose words you may be writing
The next thing was their preservation. Take
an envelope of suitable size-the strong. cloth
lined ones are the best-Sea it up and then
cut it open at one end. Upon the outside of
the envelope write some subject, and put into
it all your slips which have to do with that
subject. Each envelope may represent but a
very limited range, or may be devoted to
single thng-a certain species, for example.
The envelopes may then be arranged together
in a box, including them all under some
general head, and the box put into drawer
representing some grand division, like zoology.
But perhaps the most important desideratum
is ease of use.


/ consider these slips the most convenient,
because they are mobile. We may have many
or few things to say about a subject, yet we
need not calculate our space with reference TO
possible encroachments upon some other topic.
Moreover, we can continually insert a new
slip bearing some new point into its exact
place, or remove some worthless or incorrect
note, without injury to anything else. Better
yet, the small size of the papers make it out
of the question to embody your thought in
any one kind of expression. Studied phrases
cling to your mind and hamper badly the free
use which you might make of the idea. Put
down your thought Lriefy, and just as it
| comes to you. One or two words about the
form Of making them out. Never write upon
but one side; but if you do have to write
| upon the back, put the word Over IN the
| lower right hand corner. Upon the back of
the slip it is well to put the date OF the writ
ing 1t serves both to recall the circumstan-
ces, and as a sort of index of the course Of
| YOUR mind
Year: 1873

AT old Egyptian festals, we are told,


Was aye a guest
Who through the feast sat rigid, silent, cold;


Whom no one prest
10 share the banquet, yet who still remained
TIL the last song was sung, the last cup drained
The cup,the song, the jest and laugh went round
No cheek turned pale,
No guest amazed did query e'er PROFOUND,


Or lift the veil
To learn the wherefore one alone sat mute,
With whom nor host, nor friend, exchanged
salute.
Usance and rose-crowned drapery did all;


That thing of bone,
That hideous skeleton in festive hall,


Evoked no grOan;
No thrill of horror checked the flow of mirth,
Unseen, unfelt that grisly type of earth.
But did the host return when all We're gone,


The lights put out,
The unseen presence of that nameleSs one


Might put to rout
All the gay fancies born of wine and song,
And speeches. dread the feeting night prolong
AT every hearth, in every human heart


There sits such guest,
We may not, cannot bid it thence depart,


Fen at the best,
We can but crown with roses, veil and drape;
The thing exists, though we conceal its shape.
We shroud our skeletons from public gaze,


And from our own;
Ignore their presence with Iife's lamps ablaze


Till left alone
With festal fragments, wine-stains, lights gone
We feel them with us, icy, bloodless, grim.
Our nerves would quiver to unveil the bones


OF the dead past;
We lock them in our hearts, with sighs and


To keep them fast;
lis but in solitude we turn the key,
And dare to look upon them as they be.
Year: 1873

Wonder of oak and maple,


Willow and and elm and all,
Are stirred at heart by the coming
OF the day their leaves must fail.
Do they think of the yellow whirlwind,
Or know of the crimson spray
That shall be when chill November
Bears all their leaves away?
Perhaps-beside the water


The willow bends, serene
As when her young leaves gliStened
In mist of golden green,
But the brave old oak is flushing
To wine-red, dark and deep,
And maple and elm are blushing
The blush of a child asleep.
''If die we must" the leaflets


Seem one by one to say,
"We will wear the colors of gladnesS
Until we pass away.
No eyes shall see us falter;


And before we lay 1t down,
Well wear, in the sight of all the earth,
The years most kingly crown"
So, trees of the stately forest,


And trees by the trodden way,
You are kindling into glory


This soft autumnal day.
And we who gaze remember


That more than all they lost,
To hearts and trees together


May come through the ripening frost.
Year: 1873

The moment a friend or even a mere
acquaintance is dead, how surely there
starts up before us each instance of un-
kindness of which we may have been
guilty towards him. In fact many and
many an act or word, which, while he
was in life, did not seem to us to be un-
kind at all, now bites back" as if it were
a serpent, and shows us what it really
WAS
Year: 1873

Always avoid the company in which
you are willing to tell coarse Jest, be-
cause for you it is demoralizing COM
pany. Grossness is never humorous !;
profanity is never admirable; and, if
your manner and speech once begin to
ravel out on that edge, all their manli-
ness and charm are in danger.
Year: 1873

A Keokuk lady while engaged in the
pursuit of her dometic duties, encoun-
tered mouse in the -four barrel Now,
most ladies under similar circumstances
would have uttered a few feminine
shrleks and then sought safety in the
garret. But this one possesses more than
the ordinary degree of feminine courage
She summoned the hired man and told
him to get the shot gun, call the bull
dog and station himself at convenient
distance. Then she climbed half way up
stairs and commenced to punch the fiou-
barrel vigorously with pole. Presently
the mouse made its appearance and
started across the floor. The dog at
once went in pursuit. The man fired
and the dog dropped dead. The lady
tainted and fell down the stairs, and the
hired man, thinking that she was killed,
and fearing that he would be arrested
for murder, disappeared and has not
been seen since. The mouse escaped.
Year: 1873

They didn't invite Jim Cummings to q
wedding ball in Nebraska, and Jim took
position at n window and shot with his
shot gun until he had effeotually marred
tho harmony Of the evening.
Year: 1873

Chastise your passions that they may
not chastise you. No one who is lover
OF money, lover of pleasure, or lover
of glory, is likewise lover of mankind.
Riches are not among the number of
things that are good. 1t is not poverty
that causes sorrow, but covetous desires.
Deliver yourself from appetite, and you
will be free. He who is discontented
with things present and allotted, is un-
skilled in life
Year: 1873

PLEASING INCIDENT OF THE WAR;
The Richmond Enquirer, speaking Of
General W, II. Lytle, of Ohio, killed
while attempting TO reinforce General
Thomas, in 1868, uses the following Ian
guage: He was killed far in advance of
his command, while gallantly leading an
assault on our lines. His horse bore his
corpse into our lines, and the steed and
his dead rider were both captured. So
soon as it was known that the author Of
that rare poem, as familiar and as greatly
admired South rs North, II am dying,
Egypt, dying" lay dead in the camp,
officers and men crowded around to take
a last look at the face of the poet-soldier
who had achieved so great literary tri-
umph. There was no rejoicing over the
death of this fallen enemy; but there
was, in truth, something on each sol
ler's cheek that for the moment washed
away the stains of powder. Tenderly
they took Tim up, and when the battle
was over an escort of honor, appointed
from among the leading Confederate Off
GERS, bore him back to his own camp
under flag of truce, on a rudely con.
stucted funeral bier, with his martial
cloak around him. In life he had touched
that chord of human sympathy which
makes all the world kin. and IN death it,
harmonious vibrations silenced all re
sentiment and thrilled the hearts alike o
friends and foes with uobler passior
than hatred or revenge,
Year: 1873


Emery, an old settler, testifes against it.
Your little capital will be licked up by the
tax collector as soon as you light, or you
will be impressed in the army or navy OF
Kellogg" SO the immigrant decides 70
save his money and his life by by defend
ing bis scalp in the Xellowstone. II a
Tennessee merchant thinks il possible our
lines OF imported goods are as good here
IS elsewhere, he reads the same proclama-
ton and decides to buy his boots in Bos-
ton. Our Fusion politicians in their des-
perate struggle after salary, slander the
credit and condition Of Louisiana in the
hope that it may make an issue tor foreign
intervention. Those who wish our trade
or immigration take these statements as
certificates, ana spread them abroad to
favor their own interests 1t is che young
Of the pelican who pierce her breast and
guzzle her life blood careless Of the pain
and death which their selfshness may in
hict upon her.