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Year: 1871

From the top of the stairs Jeannette
was looking down laughingly upon the
group, comprehending just enough of the
whole to know that something excessive
y funny had happened. AT Walter's sug
gestion they returned to the sitting-room
and each one gave faithful account o
his personal part in this comedy oferrors
Jim Hill included among the number.


And so the night wore away, and the
bright September morning that followed
found the Family Compact" broken, the
poor dead deacon to the contrary, never
theless. Here the story ends.
Year: 1871

Be thine own palace or the worlds thy
Jail. ."-DOure.


In character, in manner, in style, in al
things, the supreme excellence is sim
plicity.-LenQtNOso


Adversely is the diamond dust HEAVIER
poiishes its own jewels with


Night drew her mantle over the world
and pinned it with star.-N u. Wills


Forgiveness is the odor of sweet flow
ers when trampled upon.
1t is easy in the world to live after the
worlds opinion; it is easy in solitude to
live after our own; but the great man is
he who in the midst of the crowd keeps
with perfect sweetness the independence
of solitude.-Emerson.
Year: 1871

The upper portion of the harbor has
been dredged to its full width, for this
season. The channel will now be deep
ened to thirteen feet. A sufficient amount
of the unexpended balance of appropria-
tion will be reserved for any dredging that
may be necessary next spring. Michigan


City EnteSprise.
Year: 1871

The following to drive off rats is going
the rounds of the press: Take bunch
of matches and soak them over night in a
teacup full of water; then take out the
matches and thicken with dough, adding
a spoonful of sugar and little lard. Lay
about the premises where the rats and
nothing else will get it. 1t is decidedly
the best exterminator extant.
Year: 1871

Advices from Michigan state that over
one thousand families resident in that and
the neighboring states are preparing to
emigrate to Nebraska. 1t is said that from
five to six thousand persons are concerned
in this movement
Year: 1871

1t was nearly eight o'clock before Ly-


dia came down from her chamber, dressed
for her walk jeanette had begun to grow


anxious and nervous in consequence of


her tardiness. Her own toilet had been


made an hour before and since that time


she had taken her station at the great
front window, looking eagerly up and
down the road Silently Lydia stole out
Year: 1871

or of his life might have been changed.
But sometime along in the tedious


hours came the memory of his child


hood, the words OF his mother. the old


Bible stories, the aspiration after no.


bility of spirit, the solemn resolutions


to be true to his conscience. These


angels of the memory came fiocking


back before the animal, the bulldog


gedneSs, had "set,n as workers in


plaster say. He remembered the story


of David and Nathan, and it seemed


to him that he, with all his abilities


and ambitions and prospects, was


about TO rob Bud Of the one eve


lamb, the only thing he had to rejoice


in in his life. In getting Hannah, he


would make himself unworthy of
Hannah And then there came to him
vision CT the supreme value of true
character; how it was better than sue
cess, better than to be loved, better
than heaven. And how near he had
been to missing it And how certain
he was when these thoughts should
fade, to miss it, He was rs one fight
ing for a great prize who feels his
strength falling and is sure Of defeat.


This was the real. awful Struggle
in the Dark" a human soul-figh =
ing with heaven in sight, but certain
of slipping inevitably into hell! 1t
was the same old battle. The Image
of God fought with the Image Of the
Devil. 1t was the same fight that
Paul described so dramatically when
he represented the Spirit as cOntendirg
with the Flesh. Paul also called III :
dreadful something the Old Adam, ard
/ suppose Darwin would cali il the re-
mains of the Wild Beast. But call it
what you will, ii is the battle that eve
ry well-endowcd soul mast fight at
some point. And to Ralph it seemed
Old Adam, the Flesh, the Wild Beast,
the Devil. was certain. For, was not
the pure, unconscious face of Hannah
on the DEVILS side? And so the bat
tie had just as well be given up at once
for it must he lost in the chi.


But to Rail- II lying there in the still
darkness, with his conscience as wide
awake as if it were the Day of Doom,
there seemed something so terrible in
this overthrow of the letter nature
which he knew to he inevitable rs
the voice of conscience became LluGt-
ed, that he looked about for help. He
did not at first think of God but there
came into his thoughts the memory
of a travel-worn Gallilcan peasant,
hungry, sleepy, weary. tempted, tried,
like other men, but having a strange,
divine Victory in him by which every
thing evil was vanquished at his com
ing. He remembered how He had
reached ont n Hand to every lclDlpSS
one, how he was the Helper Of every
weak one. And out of the depths OF
his soul lie cried to the Helper, and
found comfort. Not victory, but, what
is better, strength. And so, without
a thought of the niceties of thcologoi-
cal distinctions, without dreaming that
it was the beginning of religious eX-
perience, he found what he needed,
help. And the Helper gave his be-
loved sleep.
Year: 1871

ten and able to work, and we'll git n
tile place about as big as Granny
Sanders's, and -n


Ralph did not hear another word of
what Shocky said that afternoon. For
there, right in front of them, was
Granny Sanders's log cabin, with its
row of lofty sun-1lower stalks, now
dead and dry III front, with its rain
water barrel by the side of the low
door, and its aslI-barrel by the fence.
In this cabin lived alone the old ard
shriveled hag whose hideousness gave
her a reputation for almost supernatu-
raj knowledge. She was at once doc
tress and newspaper. She collected
and disseminated medicinal herbs and
personal gossip. She was in every re-
gard indispensable to the intellectual
life of the neighborhood. In regard
to her medical skill we cannot express
an opinion, for her "yarbs ~ are not to
be found in the pharmacop9ia of sci
encc.


What took Rqlph's breath was to
find DIR. Small's fine, faultlcSs horse
standing at the door. What did Hen
ry Small want to visit this Old quack
for?
Year: 1871

THE STRUGGLE IN THE DARK.


1t was q long, lonesome, fearful night
that the school-master passed, lying
with nerves OH edge and eyes wide
open in that comfortlcss bed in the
" furdest corner" of the loft of Pete
JOnes's house, shivering with cold,
while the light snow that was falling
sifted in upon the ragged patchwork
duilt that covered him. Nerves shat
tered by sleeplessncss imagine many
things, and for the first hour Ralph
felt sure that Pete would cut his throat
before morning. And you, friend
CSifIow, who have blunted your palate
by swallowing the Cayenne pepper OF
the penny-dreadfuls, or of a certain
S TT of Sunday school books, you wish
me to make this night exciting by a
hand-to-hand contest between Ralph
and a robber. You would like it bet
ter if there were 4 trap-door. There's
nothing so convenient as a trap-door,
unless it be a subterrancan passage.
And you'd like something of that sort
just here. It's so pleasant to have
ones hair stand on end, you know,
when one is safe from danger to ones
self. But il sou want each individual
hair to bristie with such Struggle
in the Dark" you can buy trap-doOrs
and subterranean passages dirt-cheap
at the next newsstand. But it was,
indeed, real and terrible Struggle
in the Darln that Ralph fought out at
Pete Jones's.


When he had vanquished his fears
of personal violence by reminding
himself that it would be folly for Jones
to commit murder in his own house,
the question of Bud and Hannah took
the uppermost place in his thoughts.
And as the image of Hannah spelling
against the master came up to him, as
the memory of the walk, the box alder
tree, and all the rest took possession
of him. It seemed to Ralph that his
very life depended upon his securing
her love. He would shut his teeth
like the jaws of bulldog, and all
Buds muscles should not prevail over
his resolution and his stratagems.


1t was easy to persuade himself that
this was right Hannah ought not to
throw herself away on Bud Means.
Men of some culture always play their
conceit off against their cOnsciences,
| TO a man of literary habits it always
! seems TO be great boon that he con-
| fers on a woman when he gives her his
| love. Reasoning thus, Ralph had fix
ed his resolution, and if the night had
| bcen shorter, or sleep possible, the col
Year: 1871

Il sems Curiously enough. to be taken for granted
that neither American painters nor scuptOrs can do
their work well at home, OF, at least, 90 wei as they
can do 1t abroad Thus we are told that Mlss Sseb-
bns. preferring to live in the United States, viii
abandon sculpture as she can get no inspiration In
America I'VE wish that she would try. Tho
human FORM to the delineation Of which her art Is
mainly devoted Is to be found here 10 well as In
Rome or Florence We are somewhat conventional
Il Ia true but has nature altogether left usf When
are we to have Art Of our own, IL we content our
selves with Art at second hand from sbrOadi We
can understand that the sculptOrs hand and eye
work with o moro agreeable facility In ltalyj but
though for little while the labor may be greater
and lees satsaotory there Is no obstacle winch may
not be removed by cheerful hope. On earnest WILL
and an unfagging purpose. Ancient Rome, It Is
true went to Greece for esthetica inspiration; but,
admitting the Roman lack of originality and the
Roman coarseness, we nay yet AJAX to what foreign
sources Greece herself was indebted for what called
"inspirationp
Year: 1871

Let us have no folly about the cholera
whether panic or apathy. The dreaded dis
ease is on our shores. The season is favora-
BILE; the condition of the city is frightfully
unfavorable. To breed panic out OF the ar
rival Of twenty -four cholera patients In yes
sel on board which forty-one have died would
be foolish ITO neglect present peril would be
no less 30. We need not be alarmed
at anything but the indifference with
which our unwelcome visitor is contem-
plated. We can afford to be calm !;
we cannot risk indifference. The city
must be fortified against the disease which is
already here while we were congratulatlng
ourselves on an escape which we have not
deserved; for just now the city is specially
defenseless with respect to an invasion OF con-
tagious disease. Never, probably, was 1t so
filthy, and never before were so many pesti-
lence-inviting denominations spread over the
CITY. And though the season is far advanced
into Winter this fact alone will not save US
from deadly pestilence If it once secures
foothold within the city limits. If we do not
at once secure cleanliness or some reformation
of the shameful and disreputable condition of
Manhattan island, we may as well concede
that there is nothing to prevent the plague
from marching over it from one end to the
other.


1t is true that the City's financial embarrass-
ments have interfered with some of the plans
which might have made the City q less inviting
prey to disease; but this eIigency Is too press
ing not to Overtop all other considerations.
We want no more bother aboutparks, large.
I" pipe men" aud "small-pipe men," fountains
and boulevards, while streets and alleys are
foul with the acCumulaHons Of q years Offal.
The City, debt-lsden and Over-taxed though it
be, must not be left an easy victim to the
plague. We can postpone all other internal
improvements but this one of restored cleanli-
ness. We can put up with the menace of un-
employed labor, but not with that Of the grim
destroyer which waits at Quarantine to see
whether the City shan still be ready for its
entrance, or shall have its streets, lanes, by
ways, and markets swept gaRnished, and
c1aanRad. s..fk .
Year: 1871

Turkey is feeling the impulse which the
extension Of railways has given to trade and
commerce all over Europe. An imperial hrman
directing the beginning Of an important and
elaborate system of public works In
Turkey, which has Just been issued,
Is only the response Of the so-Called "Sick
Man" to the general demand for speedisr
facilities for passenger and commercial traffic
throughout the civilized world. This vigorous
pushing Of schemes to cover the Ottoman
Empire with railways and fringe its seaCOast
with avaIlable hsrbOrs is In cOnSOnance with
the liberal policy Of the present Sultan, but it
seems grotesque to hear Of railways and
steamboats in the Land Of the Crescent for
all that ....
Year: 1871

We have from England an awful instance Of the
demoralizing influence Of Mr.. Darwin's monkey
theory upon a susceptible and sensitive mind. A
young man, the other day, drowned himself in the
River Eden, at Carlisle Before the suicide took the
fatal jump he handed to an old man packet to be
delivered to the Chief Constable, In this was o
last letter. saying that, as Mr. Darwin had proved
men to be descended from monkeys, the writer did
not wish to live any longer. We suppose that this
sensitive youth might have reconciled himself to
continued existence II he had only been told that
his great-great- grandfather was hung for horse
stealing; but to be convinced that the ancestors
whom he had always held In pious reverence were
merely monkeys, or chimpanSees, or balloons, or
gorillas, was more than naughty Briton could en-
dure. The fact goes against the truth Of Darwin
ism for one with the blood Of an intelligent monkey
in his veins would not have acted so fOOlishly.
Year: 1871

A plausible ground for the retirement Of
the late Chancellor of the A.stro- Hungarian
Monarchy. Count Beust is suggested by the
special correspondent of THE TRIBUNE at
Vienna. Up to the resignation of HOhenwart
the opinion appears to have prevailed to q
considerable extent in Vienna that Count
Beust was partially identified with the policy
of that Minister. II this were the case it is
not improbable that the Chancellor became
involved In the fall of the Minister.
Year: 1871

In suit brought by the widow Of pas
senger killed by the explosion of the Staten
Island steamer Westheld, to recover damages,
the owners of the vessel yesterday set up the
extraordinary plea that the passenger had no
right on the boat because, under the laws of
the State, Sunday travelling is a misdemeanor!
That is to say, it was illegal for the murdered
man to travel on Sunday, and therefore legal
TO blow him up on that day.
Year: 1871

worlEmcn of the kingdom are rapidly marching
up 10 0 generAl strike for higher wages, In
the face Of On impending financial derange-
ment resulting from tho Franco -German war,
and tho consequent unsetHement of the mar
kets OF the world. The manufacturers cannot
yield to the demand and hold their commercial
ground. What thenf Tho srithmetical and
dynamic proportions Of sixty per cent. OF q
population to forty per cent are tremendously
auRRestive.
Year: 1871

The RICHEST BoY IN AMERICA The
papers are telling about boy In New
England, now fourteen years Of age,
who is supposed to be the richest boy
in the United States because be has a
great deal Of money. To our mind
the richest boy in America is the one
who is gooi-hearted. honest, intelli-
gent. ambitious, willing TO do right
He is the one who loves his mother.
and always has kind word for her !;
who loves his sister or sisters, and
tries TO help them with true affection.
He is the boy who does not call his IA
ther the 'old man. but who loves him.
speaks kindly To and of him and tries
70 help him as the signs Of Old age
gather fast upon his brow.


The richest boy is the one who has
pluck TO fight his destiny and future
He is the one who has the manhood to
do right and be honest. and is striving
TO be somebody who is above doing a
mean action. who would not tell lie
to screen himself, or betray friend
He whose young mind is full of noble
thoughts for the future, who is deter.
termined to win a good name by good
deeds-this is the richest boy in Amer
lea. Which one of our readers is it !?


This boy we like, we would be glad
to see, would like to take him by the
hand and tell him to 60 on earnestly,
that success might crown his Efforts
Ana if he is poor boy We could meet
him at the threshold, bid him enter.
and give him good advice, well and
kindly meant. That other rich boy in
New England We don't care anything
about, for there are fools and snobs
enough to worship, hatter and spoil
him.
Year: 1871

The Western Rural says that the best
management of sleeping oms in Sum
mer Is to air them most thoroughly every
sunshiny day, and not at all in cloudy
or damp weather, Tor if the windows are
opened the bedding will absorb the
dampness; keep only inner doors and
fireplace open. From ten O'Clock until
three the windows, doors and fireplace
of sleeping rooms, on clear, sunshiny
days, shonld be kept open; the bed
clothes should be spread out and the
beds or mattresses should have the full
est exposure possible BY being thrown
over the foot-rail Of the bedstead: at
three. make up the bed and adjust the
room.
Year: 1871

MUTUAL HELPs.-Sir Walter Scott
wrote The race of mankind wonld
perish did we cease to help each other
From the time that the mother binCis the.
child's head ill the moment some kind
assistance wipes the dew Of death from
the brow of the dying, we cannot exist
without mutual help. All, therefore, thai
need have right TO ask it OF their fellow
mortals, and no one who has il in his
power to grant, cen refuse without
incurrinp quilt -
Year: 1871

curve il carried east Of Third-ave., crossing
the Bowery diagonally near the Cooper instl-
| tute. and thence northwardly between Second
,,d Tb;rd-ayes.. with one slight curve
| % avoid natural elevations in the surface,
20 Harlem Bridge The western line is
somewhat less direct. TO avoid diagOnally
crossing the rich district between Broadway and
| Fifth-ave., and thus adding greatly 10 tho
cost of the road the line will run west along
the south side of Bleecker-st. to the head
of Sixth-ave., and thence northwardly be-
tween Sixth and Seventh h-ayes. to the Broad
way crossing at Thirty -fOurth-st. Thence
the line diverging to the west follows on a
tangent the general direction of Broadway and
the Boulevard 10 Sixty -fourth-st. Here
crossing the Boulevard it will run north
wardly between Ninth and Tcntli-aves, To
Kingsbridge.


The location of The Lower Depot at TryOn-
row has doubtless been influenced by the fact
that The kew-YOrk terminus of the East River
Bridge IS TO be opposite the same central point.
Such a consideration could not, indeed, escape
the projectors of the road. The line of the
bridge extended through Brooklyn is a tangent
TO Prospect Park, and along this line the neces-
sites of Long Island will one day build a
railway FOR quick transit by steam. Every
year of the increasing prosperity OF Brooklyn
makes thls need more pressing and apparent
and when the Viaduct Railway liz finished 1t
will find "a natural extension across East
River through Brooklyn into Long Island as
across the Harlem into Westchester. Thirty
minutes by steam from Prospect TO Central
Park is not merely a possibility but a proba-
bilty of the decade.


The chief obstacle 70 the completion of such
| a work il, of course, the great cost Of the
right of wav through private property, and OF
the Viaduct structure. Those acquainted with
the route 70 be traversed as laid down on
our map, will see at a glance that it penetrates
district not particularly rich i'll valuable
buildings The main line will cut through the
region of the Five Points and Baxter st.
where few large buildings exist aud the
branches will run through their main length
along avenues so far removed from Broadway
and Fifth-ave. that they are not yet built up
with the imposing and costly style of structures
seen on those streets. The cost OF purchasing
these blocks will. however be very great, but this
must inevitably have been the case IN any event
A cheap route is now impossible on Manhat-
tan Island and a cheaper one, I'll things con-
sdered than that indicated could not probably
be found The engineers who have been Sc
,ected to build this road have estimated that
another very similar in direction and style
will cost $2l0OO,0O0, on which investment
they have calculated net income of $4,000
OOO 1t Will not take long, if these estimates
can be proved correct. to secure the requisite
capital for the construction of a work which
the people so eagerly demand.
Year: 1871

his nights work would not he sufficient, even
| if it were valid II does not appear that nc
was so much intoxicated AZ to deprive MIN OF
such faculties "a he possessed. The lquor ne
had taken only walked into active operation
the worst passiOns of his nature, and ana not
deprive him of his mental and physical con-
troll of himself But even if he had been AZ
COMPLETELY under the influence of whisky az
he pretends, that would not in the least pai-
Late his guilt. There is no maxim clearer Vi
more lust in law OF in morals than that "nic"
inculcates the full responsibility OF every man
for ,cts committed in drunken madness which
he has brought upon himself. Ii any Other
ruIe were held. there would be at once an emu
to tbe administration of Justice. Any one con-
templating a crime would only have to drink
a glass OF brandy beforehand as full defense
against punishment
Still less il there any force in his plea that
others have gone unpunished for crimes aS
grave "A bis. There is no doubt that the uc-
moralization and corruption 40 long preVaieho
among orr authorities and on the bench mas
at last been dimly recognized by even thaC
norton of the public which cares nothing,
strictly speaking for politics; and 1t was un-





ent administration of justice when gave iorcc
and energy to the popular demand for
prompt conviction of Foster. But nothlhS
couId be more unfounded than his clam that
because iustice had not been done on others,
il ia therefore unfair to dispense 1t to him. H.
as the advocates of capital punishment pre-
tend the use of executions is in their example
and warning, there could be no case more Iuliy
meeting these requirements than the one uh-
der consideration, where man VINO priueo
himself on a sort of connection WITH our rullhS
order. and who certainly relied upon THIS 10
secure him impunity in the indulgence OF his
evil passions. has seen his patrons powerleSS
to protect and afraid to defend him against
the Judgment. of the law supported by an
awakened and righteous public opinion


But a deeper moral is taught by this case
which should not be suffered to fall entlrely
ont of sight The death penalty has been
shown by the lessons OF experience to be SD at
variance with the instincts of our Christian
civilization, that it is almost impossible to
inhict it, except in cases like those when the
wretched man now lying in the Tombs Calls
" sensational ones. 1t is too much to ask or
our busy age that to secure the adequate
punishment of crime whole community should
be shaken to its center by a spasm OF ayenging
sentiment at each recurrence of deeds OF vlo-
lcnce. In the reaction which follows from these
rare revivals of public conscience, score OF
murderers may go unwhipt without protest or
remark Give us laws in consonance with the
demands of modern civilization, and then we
may have some hopes of their constant and
regular execution II is time we were free
from these alterations of impunity and ven
geauce