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Year: 1873

the end of her journey in an agony
Of apprehension that she has got
on the wrong train, and will be
landed at some strange station, put
into a close carriage, drugged and
murdered, and to every last male
passenger who walks down the aisle
she stands up and presents her
ticket which she invariably carries
in her hand. She finally recogniz-
es her waiting friends on the plat
form, leaves the car in burst of
gratitude, and the train is 10 miles
away before she remembers that
her reticule, fan, parasol, lunch
basket, verbena, shawl, candy,
tumblcr, veil and bouquet are on
the car seat where she left them OF
in the depot at Peoria, for the life
of her she can't tell which.
Year: 1873

A youngster in Muskugum County,
Ohio, thought he would like a game
rooster, so he wrote to the editor OF the
Courier for information as to how to select
a pure blooded one. Here is what the
editor says about it:


"Joe s. writes from Blue Rock and
asks us to tell him how to pick good
game rooster We are not certain that
we are the most proper person in the
world to apply to for such information,
never having picked one. However, we
are no towards, so here goes. In the first
place catch the game rooster, either by
running him down yourself, or by hiring
a small boy 10 do it for you. Next, Cf
you have had no experience in wringlng
necks, and you don't seem to have had
any)-next, with the left hand take him
by the legs and carry him to the wood
pile, and after procuring an ak, gently
press his eraw against log, near the
top. This is a critical moment. The
rooster will begin to have confidence in
you by this time, If you have handled
him carefully, and will stretch out his
neck 10 know what 1t all means. Then's
your time. Let the ak fall, edge down,
so as to strike about two inches back OF
the comb, and at the same time letting go
your hold on your bird. He'll flop some,
but don't mind that. The next thing to
do is to heat couple of gallons Of water,
sealding hot, take IL to some convenient,
out of-the way place, get the rooster,
plunge him in head first time or two,
then take his legs in your lefthand so the
spurs will be above your thumb and fore
finger, elevate him on level with your
face, catch hold of the saturated plumage
with the right hand, the same as II you
we've going to peel elm bark and-then
pull. You'llpi pick him, you bet. At least
we have never seen one that could not be
! picked In that way"
Year: 1873

wonder if girls realize what an influ-
ence they might have over their brothers
by exercising little selfcontrol. saya
little, perhaps that is too moderate
word it would hardly be too strong to
say great deal, for know very well how
tormenting boys are oftentimes, and how
they put ones patience to the severest
proofs. But, after all, there is nothing
gained by finding fault with them, for the
next day after we have scolded and lee
tured them for prowling about the house
and helping themselves to whatever there
is to eat, they will go and do the same
thing again. grant that it is provoking
to have all the doors left open, and the
tracks of mud on the floor and carpet,
and that it is discouraging to have boy
swallow his food without chewing, show
all he has in his mouth while eating, drink
with his mouth full of meat and potatoes,
put in his food with his knife, or any
way to get it in; it is discouraging, es-
pecially if the boy is getting on in years,
and quite disgusting to his more refined
and delicate sister But it is not positive
ly wicked, and have known such boy,
a boy who did not half wash himself be-
sides, grow to be great and good man,
and behave as we'll among civilized peo-
pie as any gentleman of them ali. don't
know as there is any reason why boys
should net be as tractable and comfortable
as girls, but as class they are not
and we must accept the fact and
govern our department toward
them accordingly. They will be
out evenings without always account
ing for themselves, which their sisters
would not think of doing or be allowed
to do if they did think of it; and they
won't get up in the morning when they
ought to; like enough they are lazy, and
perhaps they smoke and won't study. 1t
| is an unpleasant state of things to say the
least of it, and ought not to be so. But l
don't know any other way for sisters to
help the matter than by uniform kind
ness and forbearance. If possible, never
find fault with them, and let the sisters
never miss a chance for commendatlon.
| 1t is surprising how little Judicious
praise will set a boy thinking OF his short
comings, and planning how he may de-
serve more. Don't look at them when
theg are eating. 1t is very comforting TO
remember that boys do learn to eat prop
erly when they have stopped grow e,
and all the fault.fDding in the world does
not hasten the matter. l don't believe
there is boy in the world whowould not
be susceptible to the refining influence Of
gentle, loving sister, who was ready to
help and encourage him. Sisters, do all
you can to make the home such cheer
full, delightful place, and yourselves so


good-natured and obliging, that many OF
the places where your brothers now seek
amusement will lose their attraction, and
a coarse, loud, fast girl become repulslVe'
Christian Union.
Year: 1873

THE FA1R.-The Western Washington


Industrial Fair opened this morning at
the University with very good showing
of articles for exhibition and reasona-
bly, fair attendance. We have not had
time to LOOK in upon it yet, but we are
told by visitor who last season attend
ed the State and several District Fairs
in California, that the articles on exhi-
bition here, though not So numerous,
are superior to any he saw in California
Year: 1873

The Emigration Commission, sent to Europe
some tmo since by the Secretary Of tho Troas-
ury, arc preparing their report, which will be
made part of tue secretary'a annual report to
tho next Congress-. It is stated TINT they will
recommend permanent international commits
sion, for the better protection Of emigrants to
this country, aud to provide for redress in tho
case Of frauds.
Year: 1873

[From Ingersos Life and Times of Horace Greeley. ]


Mr.. Greeley never became heartily addicted
to full dress" The last time the writer of
these words saw him was in 1870, on the
Capitol steps in Washington City. He stop
ped and talked for, perhaps, half an hour,
though the day was broiling hot Irecollect
that he was dressed in faultless style, and of
afterward remarking to Mr. Hawkins Taylor,
with whom we walked up the avenue, that
Horace Greeley was the best dressed man
| had seen in Washington" His cravat was
not adjusted precisely in the mode, his hat
was evidently worn as hat, not as an orna-
ment, and his boots were not thin-soled; but
his whole toilet was that of careless elegance,
beftting distinguished gentleman, who spent
no great amount of time before his looking
glass. The many thousands who have seen
him on lecturing tours and on other occasions
when he was off editorial duty when not
being driven before the tempestuous winds
of his busy life-can scarcely credit the nu-
merous accounts we have had of his careless
ness as to Dress Yet they are correct in the
main. His marching suit was not the same
as that he wore on dress parade and the grand
review. And it is certain that he never be-
slowed much time in getting himself into his
best clothes. Several years before his death
he lectured on one occasion at the city of
hamilton, y. "A barber was sent Tor to
shave him, and act as temporary valet de
@anlJre, by whose labors Mr.. Greeley ap-
peared IN the faultless fashion of an exqui-
site. He surveyed himself in the glass mo-
ment, and-exploded. Relying his cravat
and jerking his standing collar about with an
energy of manner and of idiom, while the
Valet vanished out of the storm, the lecturer
appeared in due time with his wearing gear
little awry about the neck, but otherwise
Without violation of the mode. He has been
seen on the streets of New York wearing
coat literally out at the elbows For many
years of his life he was absolutely Indifferent
as to his dress, and at no time did he have
.ne lesire or the patience to give special at
enllon to his personal appearance. That he
oaine to be passably well dressed gentleman
On on occasions when not hard at work, is . fact


which we may in justice rather credit to the
SINUS OF his tailor than his own. Ii there
i has been one man who gave less attention to


MS toilet, as toilet, than any other, that man


"as' most likely. Horace Greeley. 1.'
Year: 1873

Colonel A. P. Field, Attorney General of
Louisiana, has obtained leave of absence
from Governor Kellogg, and leaves town
to-day to spend a few weeks among his
friends and relatives in Illinois and the
West. Though pretty we'll advanced in
years. Colonel Field entered with all the
zeal and enthusiasm Of a young man upon
the discharge Of the duties of his office last
winter. and is justly entitled to little
recreation during the time the courts re-
main closed for the summer. He has for
years stood at the head Of the criminal bar
in New Orleans, and gave up a lucrative
position to devote his talents to the service
of the State; and the same ability and skill
that in old times enabled him to save SO
many Of his clients from what the public
thought they deserved. has been used lat
teriy with most wholesome effect upon evil
doers. We commend the Colonel to the
kind attentions of cur friends in the North
If they want to know anything about Louis
lana affairs. he can enlighter them.
Year: 1873

The Galveston Ne,vs publishes late
speech of Colonel George Williamson on the
necessity of Central American commerce to
New Orleans:


Not word Of tho above but applies to
Galveston with more force than to New
Orleans, and if . large percentage of the
valuable trade from that quarter be not
brought 60 this city it will be the fault of
her own III srchants. With our present rail-
road connections with Missouri, Kansas,
Nebraska and other sections west of the
Missouri. We can conduct q trade more
cheaply and more expeditiOusly than New
Orleans; while we can certainly offer su-
peri0r. inducements to the traders ct the
other end of the line.


We SEQ how it is. While We have been
attending to politics and everything else Of
no particular benefit to US in New Orleans,
we have allowed Galveston to reach over
US and grasp at the commerce that naturally
belongs to our port. She has flung her rail-
roads over her wide borders, through the
Indian Territory and across to the central
city OF the cOntiaent, and is now reaching
out her other other hand after the trade Of
the Gulf of Mexico.


Meantime, the Shreveport people are very
happy to think they are Just establishing
railway connections with the gulf without
coming near New Orleans. and propose to
commemorate the event with o grand cele.
bration and banquet some time next month.


All of this is very good for Texas, the
Red river valley and our own interior: but
what is going to become of New Orleans
We can not claim to be a manufacturing
city-hardly . commercial one, any more.
We are only an immense freight depot; but
we ought to be great deal better one than
we ara.
Year: 1873

A Western farmer, it is reported, refused
to look at q simple sewing machine re-
Gently, as he always "sowed wheat by
hand" He is said to be related to the man
who did not want threshiue machine on
his farm, "for," said he. "give me harness
tug or barrel stave, and I can make my
family toe the mark according to law and
Year: 1873

An exchange is kind enough to tell all
the world how to enjoy the "height OF the
season" at the watering places. Its direc-
tions are: "Get a top story room at the
hotel and OCCUPY it,
Year: 1873

NASHVILLE, March 20, S =. VI.
The bill to establish an Insane Asylum
in East Tennessee passed the House to-day
on its third reading. 1t will be approved
by the Governor and will become law
There will be no quorum in the Legisla-
ture after tomorrow and further legisla-
ton will be impeded


The revenue law and the law providing
for equalizing assessments will both fail to
pass for want of time to act upon them.


An extra session of the Legislature now
seems inevitable and will be called by Gov
ernor Brown.
Year: 1873

/ do not know when or how it may
please God to give you the quiet Of mind
that you need but tell you / believe it is
to be had and in the meantime you must
go on doing your work, trusting in God
even for this, He will be better pleased if
your faith keeps you from weeping, and
from going about your duties mournful.-
George dcDORald.
Year: 1873

LEGAL CONDITION OF WIVES IN
FRANCE.-A correspondent of the New
York Nation thus describes the legal
condition of wives in France under the
Code NapOleon: ''The mothers fate is
decidedly worse than the fathers. Be
fore the Revolution she occupied high
position in the family, which continued
after the fathers death TO group itself
about her. The Civil Code denies the
widow all right, even of simple enjoy
ment, in her husbands inheritance.
This wrong is of course, remedied so far
as may be, in practice, but it has been
the potent ally of other influences in de-
grading woman in the family, both in
the relations of wife and mother" And
yet, by n strange contradiction, while
France oppTesses woman, it deifies the
Virgin. A religious paper published at
LouTdes, is full of such phrases as these:
"At last we have entered on q new path.
France seems at last tired of her RevO-
lutiOnary agitatiOns. And what is the
cause of this social renovation? The
apparition of the Holy Virgin in our
grotto cannot be wholly without weight
in the balance of our destinies. 1t was
perhaps the eliminating moment of the
period. Why should the Queen OF
Heaven come down among US if it is not
to revive our hopes, if it is not to make
her subjects happy, as we know that
France is the kingdom of Mary ?''
Year: 1873

Just before the election in Ohio a
worthy deacon was called upon to pass
around the hat at large church meet
ing. And the deacon is q devout man,
but unhappily, rs it CHANGED, he wore a
echite hat. Over this he spread a large
handkerchief and proceeded; Inc nrsI
seat was filled with staunch old farmers.
He knew their poeket-books were pleth-
ori: and their hearts full of good, ana ne
fell sure that their contributions would
sink the handkerchief to the bottom Of
the hat. But alas! not a man contrib
mel He drew a sigh and went on from
scat to seat, till arrested by the voice of
the minister calling out, Brother
s."


GsPass the handkerchief alone, Broth
or s., or go with your open hands,
or take another hat, for there is nobody
in this congregation that will drop one
cent into the thing you are carrying
nowp'


The effect can be imagined. Another
hat was substituted, and the congrega-
tiOn 'shelled outn an amount which as
tonished all.
Year: 1873

European horticulturists have lately
adopted mode of making rose cuttings
root with more certainty, by bending
the shoot and inserting both ends into
the ground, leaving single bud uncov-
cred at the middle, and on the surface of
ground. The cuttings are about ten
inches long, and are bent over a stick
laid fiat on the ground, holes being cut
on each side Of the stick for the reeep-
tiOn of the ends of the shoot. The roots
form only at the lower end of the shoot,
but the other end being buried prevents
evaporation and drying up. n cores
pondent of the London Garden states
that he has tried this along with the
weaker cuttings: while the latter have
shown symptoms of drying and failure
ali the former have grown vigorously.
Year: 1873

Women are no more eXtravagant than
men. Women are naturally less eX-
travagaut than menI Let woman know
on what scale she must manage her
household, and she will manage it on
that scale, and with far more ease and
elegance than man would secure. In
dressing herself and children in home,
comfort and luxury, the ordinary woman
Will make thousand dollars do n great
zeal more than the ordinary man.
90 not believe the woman of sound


mind can he found who would know
ingiy exceed her husbands income, or


who would not share and further all his
reasonable wishes to lay up reserves for


the future. The woman who buys lace
shawls which she cannot afford does il
because she thinks she can afford il.
She has no intelligent acquaintance
with her own circumstances. Her hus-
band is the pOssessor ofan indefinite in
come. His grumbling amounts to moth
ing. He always gFumbles when there
is a large bill to pay; but he alway:


paws, and she knows no reason to hin
| der that he always will pay. The only
trouble she apprehends from this pur-
chase is a little more Of that of which


she has already had good deal.-Gdt
| Hamilton.
Year: 1873

EIGHTY-SEvEN YEARS UNDER WoM-
ANS RULE.-We lately visited an aged
clergyman, who has been for some years
withdrawn from the duty of a rural
charge, and now lives i'm town with a
married grandniece. Talking of his un-
usually protracted life-for he is between
eighty and ninety-he said very good
humoredly, "During all this long time
/ have never been out of the hands of
women. First / was under the care of
my mother, who guided me as she
thought proper for fifteen years. Then
went to college, where / lived for some
years in the charge of an aunt. Imme-
diately after concluding my studies L
got q call, and took up housekeeping in
the parsonage with one of my sisters. /
was in her hands for three years, and
then married. My wife had the man.
agement of me for ten years, when she
died, and my sister came back again.
After a second experience of the sisterly
sway / married again, and was under
charge of the second Mrs. - for fifteen
years more. At her death q niece came
to take care of me, but she had not
reigned long, when she got husband OF
her own to govern, and left me. After
that was handed over from one neice
to another, till / left the parsonage an
old gray-headed man, as you see me,
and came here to be under the rule OF
this lady-pointing to the above-men-
toned grandniece-so that, from the
first day of my life till now, may say
that have never been, for any space OF
time worth speaking Of, exempt from
woman's rule. They have done what
they liked with me at all times during
eighty-seven years, and will do so to the
end of the chapter"
Year: 1873

d. "aaa.


WE SHALL MEET AGAIN.-The fol-
lowing is said to be one of the most bril-
liant articles ever written by the la
mented Geo. ID. Prentice:


The fiat of nature is ineXOrable.
There is no appeal for relief from the
the great law which dooms us to dust.
We flourish and fade as the leaves of
the forest, and the flowers that bloom
and witherin day have no Trailer HON e
upon life than the mightiest monarch
that ever shook the earth with his foot
steps on the shore. Men seldom think
of the great event of death until the
shadow falls across their own pathway,
hiding from their eyes the faces of loved
ones, whose living smile was the sun
light of their existence. Death is the
antagonist of life, and the cold thought
of the tomb is the skeleton OF feasts.
We do not want to 90 through the dark
valley, although its dark passage may
lead to paradise; we do not want to lie
down in damp graves, even with princes
as bedfellOws. In the beautiful drama
of "IOnen the hope of Immortality ut
tered by the death-devoted Greek, finds
deep response in every thoughtful soul.
When about to yield his existence as a
sacrifice to fate his Clamantha asked if
they should meet again, to which he re-
piled: 81 have asked that dreadful
question Of the hills that look eternal
of the clear streams that flow forever
of the stars among whose fields of azure
my raised spirit has walked in glory.
All are dumb; but as l gaze upon thy
living face, feel that there is some
thing that mantles through its beauty
that cannot wholly perish. We shall
meet again, Clamanthan
Year: 1873

The news Of the singular discovery Of the
hundred pound note, and ofits still psre sing
ular disappearance, spread Ike wildfre
through the village Moreorer, the tale was
told with many exaggepsfons. Itwas repor-
ted that while I asin the act Of repeating
the Lords Prayer, the note miraculously be-
came visible between the open leaves of the
Prayer Book which held in my hand The
old gossips shook their heads; that hundred
pound note was no real piece Of earthly paper;
it owed its origin to demoniacal agency, and
was permitted to appear for the sake ofstirring
up bitter enmity between Reuben and David.
1t was asserted that they had not only branded
each other with the disgraceful name of thief,
but that they had exchanged blows across
their fathers corpse. This latter charge was
entirely without foundation.
Year: 1873

maiden, Maria, had become buxom matron
with halfa dozen children about her knees,
but she gave me hearty welcome, and ma
king me sit down in her trinity furnished par
lor to drink glass of wine, showed me IN
frame over the mantle-piece a Photographic
fac-simile of the famous HUNDRED POUND
NOTE,
Year: 1873

It was a touching sight to see the old worthy
day.laborer, worn out with the weight of years
and excess of toll, as he lay on his humble
bed, TRANQUILITY awaiting the summons which
would cali him to another and happier world
The SHOWS of many bitter winter had lent
Year: 1873

good anecdote is told Of an lnveterate Eng.


lish sportsman, the late Earl of Oxford, grand,


son of the famous Sir Robert Walpole This


nobleman had weakness for doing every.


thing that other people didn't do, and espe-


cially in connection with sporting. A freak


with which his memory was identified, long


after he passed away, was his habit Of driving


a four.in- hand team of red deer stays, which


he reduced to such perfect discipline in his
own park that he wasat last tempted to make
an excursion with them to Newmarket. The
incident that befell him here excited no small
degree of amusement among the then Prince
of Wales set, of which Lord Oxford was an
habitue. As the phaton, with its strange team,
approached Newmarket, the cry of pack Of
staghounds was suddenly heard in the air.
The huntsman of the pack had been exercising
his hounds in the neighborhood of the heath
and was astonished, on crossing the road, to
see his dogs put their noses to the ground, and
give tongue in chorus as they set off in pur-
suit. The scent left by four stays was natu-
rally breast high nor was it long before the
deep voiced music of the eager pack smote
upon the sensitive ears of Lord Oxfords team.
Fear prevailed over discipline, and, in spite
of all the efforts of the noble charioteer, the
stags dashed off at lightning speed, and
wbirled the light phaton after them, with the
celebrity of whirlwind. In vain did the
trained grooms on horseback take part in the
headlong race. Tae stage rushed along main
street of the little town, and never stopped
until they turned at full speed into the open
portals of the Ram Inn. The doors were
slammed just in time to exclude the foremost
hounds, and "this singular circumstance"