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Year: 1875

Never deceive dying pei son unless
by the doctors express orders. 1t is not
only wrong to allow any soul to go into
eternity without preparation, but how can
you tell but that he has so ething he
ought to tell or do before he goes away?


II you have a sick friend TO whom you
wish to be Of use, do hot content your.
self with sending her flowers and jelly.
but lend her one of your pictures 10 hang
in place Of hers, or bronze to replace
tho one at which she is so tired of star.
ing.


Don't have needless conversations with
the doctor outside of the sick-room.
Nothing will excite and irritate a nervous
patient sooner. Ii you do have such
conversations. don't tell the patient that
the doctor said nothing" lie won't be.
l'eve you, and he will imagine the worst
possible.


ln lifting The sick. do not take them by
the shoulders and drag them up on TO the
pillows, but get some one 10 help YOU
Let one stand on one side Of the patient,
the other opposite, then join hands under
the shoulders and hips and llt steadily
and promptly together. This method is
easy for those who lift, and does not
disturb the one who is lifted


Do not imagine that your duty is over
when you have nursed your patient
through his illness. and he is about the
house, or perhaps going out again
Strength does not came back in moment
and the days when little things worry and
little efforts exhaust, when the cares of
business begin To press. but the feeble
brain and hand refuse to think and ex-
ecule, are the most trying to the sick one
and then comes the need for your tender
est care, your most unobtruSive watch
Iuness. -" Home and Society :" .ScriJner
for September.
Year: 1875

! wonder why
The white clouds stay up in the sky
The birds light low that ny SO fast;
The downy thistle falls at last
But the fair clouds arc always high.


| wonder why!


Iwonder how
The little bird cling 10 its bongh
Sometimes at night when awake
And hear the trcetops moan and shake,
think, "How sleep the brides now"


wonder how


lwonder why
We leave the fair earth for the sky
wish that we might always stay;
That .he dear Lord might come some day,
And make it heaven Yet we must die.


| wonder why


ST Nicholas
Year: 1875

Don't whisper in the sick-room.


When the doctor comes to see you. re.
member how many pair of stairs he has
to climb every day. and 60 down TO him
if you are we'll enough.


When you are sitting up at night with
patient. be sure to have something to eat
il you wish to save yourself unnecessary
exhaustion.


Remember that sick people are not
necessarily idiotic or imbecile, and that
it is not always wise TO try to persuade
them that their suffsrings are imaginary.
They may evenat times know best what
they need.
Year: 1875

The scrip thus taken mp was
burned in presence of the
Board.


A resolution was offered and
adopted requesting the Mayor
to superintend the digging Of a
dich, from the store house of
G. j. Meyers to Robinson S
church, and to draw on the
Treasurer for cost which is not
TO exceed ten dolIart.


The Bourd adjourned sine
sic.
Year: 1875

A Frenchman more noted for
his cOnceit and for a certain
amount of success with the fair
sex than the cleanliness of his
linen, was posing the other day
before a beautiful and witty
woman, when he delivered him
self of this rather arrogant sens
timent: "Woman, | change
them as l do my shirts ''Ah,"
said the fair one, looking atten-
lively at the collar Of his shirt,
Il should never have believed
YOU so constant"
Year: 1875

A week ago Monday the postmaster
OF Fox Lake, absconded and at last
accounts was in Canada. He has for
several years been town treasurer, and
we believe is some s4OO behind in his
town accounts. and as he had not made
his last quarterly report as postmaster,
and was five weeks behind with his
money order reports, it is supposed
that he is deficient to the Post-ofice
Department, though to what extent we
have not learned. Mr.. Jones has al
ways been looked upon as an honest
man, and why he should have allowed
himself to become thus ensnared is
unaccountable. He could have taken
away but small sum, as large share
of the town money remains deposited
on the Fox Lake Bank, and his post
office deficiency cannot be very large.
His departure was undoubtedly more
from shame than for pecuniary profit
Bearer Dam Argus.
Year: 1875

WHERE TILToN GETS HIS MONEY.
1t is one of the mysteries Of the tri-
al where Tilton finds money to secure
such counsel as he employs. These
eminent men are never idle. They
are not accustomed to spend four
months in an arduous trial, TO the ne
glect OF everything else for nothing.
Theodore has no money to spend, and
be must have stout defenders and
friends or he would go under. The
story is that a wealthy lady in New
York was at one time an eminent sup
porter of the Woman's Rights Move
ment. To it she gave time and mon-
ey. Among the foremost she moved,
among the most advanced she stood:
but when the doctrine and practices of
Free Love were grated on she step
ped out. Once or twice the name of
this woman has been mentioned in
this trial. She was SO greatly agitated
that she was made sick and took to
her bed. 1t Was the purpose Of Til
ton to put this woman On the stand.
The threat so excited her that she
agreed to give handsome sum to car
~ on the trial, if she was let alone.
The amount paid varies. Some put
it at S. 900 others name $40, 5000 as
the sum.
Year: 1875

The Delavan Republican states that
young man hailing from the town of
Walworth got slightly intoxicated, and
among other things, made an assault
upon an old lady 70 years of age. He
was arrested and sentenced to the
county Jail, but while Judge Menzie
was busy making out the commitment
papers the prisoner quietly stepped
out of and down from the temple Of
justice, and, to show his utter con
tempt for Judge, jury, Sheriff and
spectators, he turned the key in the
door, and locked them all inside, ane
thens elevating himself on his left ear
waltzed of, and had not been seer
since.
Year: 1875

AN ALADDN-LIKE CHANGE FROM THE OLD TO


THE NEW EDIFTCE


This evening the old Post O11cc building, which has
been occupied thirty years will be abandoned and
the magnificent structure on Broadway to bo hereafter
used for the mail service of the metropolis will take Its
many seemed to be persuaded that the dawn of 1877
would arrive before this end could be attained Il may
be said that during the week thought that
the stories floors to be employed for postal service
particularly the first and basement could not be ready
for the transaction OF business on Monday morning.
the corps of clerks from Nassau engaged put
ting things in shape expressed doubt to the read
of the department to operations the
time specified, without any chance of failure.


All mechanics will be out OF the building this evening
and the floors completely clear for operations precisely
the Same and evenly as they have heretofore pro-
gressed on Liberty street.


A VISIT To THE OLD BUILDING


yesterday brought TO view scenes seemingly OF incon-
gruy but really disorder regulated by order Every
thing the move tut the usual and regular order
of the postal system did seem, t. the locker on
wavcring for moment Bales were being packet up
and despatched to the City Hall Park, and the notca
and other postal matter will be delivered tomorrow
Sunday morning at the new building the same If no
change whatever had taken place


This feat-a remarkable one, too-of transferring n
most important branch Of public business in a few
hours recalls what accomplished by the HERALD in
removed from Nassau street it's present
situation facing the Post Onice building. In an
hour or two the HERALD, its compostors pcss rooms
bookkeepers, &C., we're installed in their premises
Year: 1875

THE FLATBUsH PATIENTS AND THEIR NARRATIVE


OF ABUSE


The investigation to tho alleged matreatmcnt OF
patients at the Kings County Hospital, Flatbush, was
resumed before the Board Of Commissioners yesterday
The first witness examined Edward p Smith, NJ d.,
who testified that he had charge OF the case of the
complainant, Mrs. Maria Pennington from the time Of
her entry until tho 18th of July; she never com.
planned OF treatment him If she had had her front
teeth Knocked out by the Hardy she alleged
it likely she would have told the witness of the fact
during the FIRST part OF her treatment her food
principally Of milk punch and becftca complained
to the witness against the doctors nurses had
seen Mrs. Hardy under the influence Of liquor; never
heard of tho treating the patients badly Mrs Pen
nington gave the great deal of trouble; had
heard of nurses being under the influence of liquor,
but never heard of Mrs. Hardys being s0 those who
were had been discharged.


President Norris said that he went before Judge
McCuc, who told him that the Board Of Charities had
no authority TO summon witnesses but IL the
refused to como and give evidence IT should be taken
that their charges were not proved. He said he had
summoned the accusers but that they had failed
spond. superintendent Cook, NJ d.. testified that he
never heard carousas tho corridors angry disputes
or mcrrimcnt; had seen five six nurses discharged
two Of them for ntoxication, Of them Tor staying
out night one for going out without permisson
another because of the sworn affidavit made by pa
tent TO the clerk, and another on complaint OF the
steward


Robert Crimming testified that he went to Police
Headquarters to find Sergeant Frost the detective in
order to serve a notice on him to attend the cxamna-
ton but could not find him; had also lcf written
quest for Mrs Frost and Miss Graham to attend wit



Armand Kocfer, clerk in the County Hospital, ics-
tined that on August ii Mrs. Pennington and Miss
Graham were discharged he asked Mrs. Pennington
where she going, and she said she was going to
Gold street, near Front that her husband wanted her
TO come home Miss Graham told him she was going TO
remain few days with Mrs Pennington the only
death in Ward y was that OF Mary Lynch since the
complainant had been there. This closed the cxamina-
tion, and the committee then report at the
next meeting OF the Board OF Commissioners of Chari,
ties
Year: 1875

sion. as has been done in Paris and st.
Louis, and as has been attempted in
London The language. is:


"The question of regulating prostitu-
ton is one which must sooner or later
come before the sanitary authorities of
this city. 1t has already thrown society
in England into tumqlt of excited dis
cussion. Could an inspector be better
employed-could he be more strictly in
the line of his duty both as profession :
al man and as an officer of the Health
Department., than when making observa-
tions and records which shall give the
Department the mastery of the situation
when this question comes up for discus
sionP'


We put the Science of Health on record
against any and every measure to regu-
late prostitution. Its only possible effect
is to increase RIGHTEOUSNESS by making
men, and boys too, imagine that there is
little or no danger of disease. The sex
ual function lies at the very base of hu-
man happiness and human existence.
Nature has attached the most terrible
diseases to perverted Amativeness-the
most terrible and agonizing that human
nature can endure. And we suspect that
nature is right and the doctors wrong.
The medical profession cannot interpose
between cause and effect, and nullify the
laws of nature. But if these medical
gentlemen who are so benevolently anx-


ous about the health of the community,
will impose precisely the same condi-
tions on men prostitutes as they propose
to do on women prostitutes we will go
for the law, or regulation, or license or
whatever the thing may be- called in
legal parlance. 1t takes two parties, and
of opposite sexes, to practice prostitution.
And it is well-known that for every wo-
man prostitute there are ten men pros
titutes. Let the men who visit houses
of prostitution be registered as well as
the women (who are generally the vic
Tins of mems villainy,) and we will vote
for the regulation" We will hold up
both hands, jump up both feet, and give
the Science of Health to the advocacy and
enforcement of the law, and if we do not
send some heavy bombshells into the
camp of the conspirators against equal
legislation for both sexes on sexual sub
jects we will agree to swallow dose of
drug medicine, which we have not had
the misfortune TO do in more than forty
years.
Year: 1875

only results from practlce-that 1t is a
cultivated habit But it is certainly IN
deniable that weakness in man and-in
all other animals will resort to deception
to accomplish its purposes, when it de-
spairs of succeeding by any other means.
When power fails or is questioned then
deceit exercises its wiles. A sense of
fear also develops the faculty. The child
who cannot hope to succeed in its desires
by its own inherent power, or who seeks
to screen itself from proper punishment
for some improper act committed, will
right away lie about it. And that, too,
before it has had the advantages of an
education in that department The lie
springs up NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. spontane-
ously-to the lip. If too young to utter
it in the articulate vernacular tongue 1t
will manifest the same idea by some sfg-
nificant action. We therefore apprehend
that truth is the result of cultivation and
education


Lying has produced most fearful
scourges upon mankind. 1t stalks abroad
in every community, and is nourished in
every family. 1 begins early in life, and
keeps closely attached to us as we plod
along in our earthly pilgrimage. 1t as
sumes all kind of forms. Sometimes in
sinuating acts, and sometimes the very
truth ltSeu may convey uej lor Pc
culiar shake of the head, and intonation
of the voice, and mode of expression,
may convey false impression, and even
the truth itself, by the tone and method
of its feeling, may be used to deceive.
In short, the intention to deceive is the
gist of the lie, no matter how it is ac
complished.


1t taAes long time and the most care
full scrutiny of ourselves to escape the
power which this villainous part of our
nature is sure to exert. We used to watch
our words and actions and the impulses
of our hearts with the most sleepless Wig
ilance, for in the moment of irresistible
temptation the very strongest are liable
to fall. We need to fortify ourselves with
the most rigid code of morals, and to seek
the assistance of a power mightier than
that of man. to successfully overcome the
snares that lie all along our pathway On
the side of lying we are the weakest and
most liable to err. Let us therefore pur
sue truth for its own sake, and for the
love of it. Let US avoid all forms of de-
ception, and try to live pure, open and
truthful lives.
Year: 1875

1t is a common complaint that the
world is fearfully given to lying. 1t has
prevailed from the earliest ages, and the
very first pages of sacred history contain
its record. Subterfuge, prevarication and
downright lying seem to enter into every
department of human progress. Where
have we an account of a more deliberate
lie than the beloved Jacob told to his
poor, old, infrm and blind father Isaac,
when he covered himself with goatskin
and carried to him steaming hot mess
of mutton, and palmed it off upon the
old man as delicious preparation of ven-
ison such as he loved, and proclaimed
himself as Esau the first born, and thus
carried off the blessing that truly belong
ed to his unsuspecting brother?


Imagine the venerable patriarch reach
ing out to touch his beloved child. His
eye is dim so that he cannot see him.
His nerves are unstrung so that he can
not q Use. He is in his dotage, and his
physical power exhausted. He is mere
wreck of his former vigorous self. He is
in that period of life when his infrmities
demand all the care and attention, and
support, and sympathy, and assistance
that loving hearts can render. And yet,
just at the very time, above all others,
when we would naturally expect that he
should be protected from all deceit, this
supplanter, Jacob, does not hesitate to
practice upon him the infamous arts of
the liar. As the old man talks to him,
the voice sounds like the voice of Jacob,
but when he touches him his hands seem
to be the hands of Esau. And after being
solemnly assured that he is his very son
Esau, he eats of his "venison' and gives
him the blessing of the first born. Poor
old man you have had no lack of com
pany, and from your day down to our
own, who have been the victims of SINH
lar deception. They comprise an innu-
merable army. They are as thick as the
leaves upon the trees, or the blades of
grass upon the hillside. Could they be
piled together they would reach higher
than the tower of Babel. as contemplated
by its builders, and would be permanent
monument to the depravity of human
nature.


Lying seems to be natural to mankind.
We know it is not pleasant reflection to
acknowledge that this is true We like
to maintain the dignity of our humanity,
and we try very hard to explain away
every ything that would detract from it
Certain philosophers, therefore, will
argue that truth is natural and that lying
Year: 1875

The true economy of human life looks
It ends rather than incidents, and all
lists expenditures to a moral scale of
values. The real wastes of life are not
those men who prate sfevct- most volubly
and condemn in censorious tones.-De
Quincy pictures a woman sailing over the
water, but awakening out of sleep to find
her necklace united and one end han ging
in the stream, while pearl after pearl
drops from the string beyond her reach !;
while she clutches at one just falling, an
other drops beyond recovery Our days
drop one after another by our careless
ness. like pearls from the string, as we
sail the sea of life. Prudence requires a
wise husbanding of time to see that none
of these golden coin are spent for nothing.
The waste of time is more serious loss
than the extravagances against which
there is such loud acclaim.


Here are thousands who do nothing
but lounge and carouse from morning till
midnight, the drones from the human
hive, who consume and waste the honey
honest workers wear themselves out in
making, and insult the day by their dis
sipation and de5auch. Here are ten
thousand idle, frivolous creatures who
do nothing but consume and waste and
wear what honest hands accumulate and
entice others to live as useless and worth
less as themselves. Were every man and
woman honest toilers, all would have an
abundance of everything and half OF
every day for recreation and culture. The
expenditure of few dollars for articles
of taste is small matter in comparison
with the wasting of months and years by
thousands who have had every advan-
tage society could offer, and exact every
privilege it affords as a right.
Year: 1875

1t was Washington dispatch, and it
told very briefly how Christmas was OBJ
served at the National Capital A mere
passing note; statement of a simple fact;
hardly worth more than flying men
tion. 1t only said: THE police report
the arrest OF an unusually large number
of intoxicated persons, mostly young
men," That was all. A larger number
than usual deliberately extingushed
their sense of responsibility to society
and to themselves and having so de-
throned their reason, went reeling
through the streets, in which condition
they were arrested by the police, and
safely held until kind nature had re-
stored what they had thrown away, and
they had ceased to be dangerous to society
or themselves. And they were mostly
young men," Not much of an item that.
70 great many readers who skinned
over it, it suggested nothing. 1t had no
special significance to them. There was
nothing in it touching the financial ques-
Year: 1875

There is probably not another word in
language that wears such disagreeable
look to the average young man, as the
one that serves as our heading. The ira
ditions Of young men are against it.
Nearly every young fellow of spirit for
time, has hearty dislike of all that
savors of saving. 1t is manly to be gem
erous and careless of money. As economy
is to him the synonym of meanness, SO
he equally mistakes the meaning of gem
erosity, and allies it with wastefulness.
This misconception has, we think,
great deal to do with the improvident
habits of young men 1t is good thing
to hate meanness, but it is bad thing to
think that economy comes under that
head. The mistake has been the ruin of
multitudes; for by the time man sees
his blunder he has frequently contracted
habits that make reform very hard indeed
land in many cases impossi ble. The
prodigal can seldom become steady citi-
zen without hard wrenches.. If young
man could only see what his experience
will teach him by-and-by, that moderate
prudence in money matters will save him
a great deal of care and ill-luck in after
life, there would be an alarming decrease
in the quantity of liquor and cigars sold.
1t is really want of thought more than
anything else that keeps man poor
The ambition-vague generally-of the
ordinary young man, is sometime to have
a home of his own, with a wife and chill
dren, Most of them manage to get the
two last, while but mournfully small
proportion accomplish the first. Yet it
might easily be otherwise just a little
selfcontrol, steadily exercised for few
ryears, would PIT money enough in the


hands OF mosU-y -lrgs men, to get the land
a y l. 4 -.


ally safe for a good degree of comfort
and peace of mind in the world, so far as
| material things go. The sooner young
man rids himself of the absurd idea that
prudence is meanness, and self-indulgence
generosity, the sooner will he be in fair
way of escaping hand-to-mouth existence
in after years.
Year: 1875

Jenny June got hat that turned up
on one side, and her husband criticised
it so severely that she wore her old bon
net when she went to see the Sphinx,
and lol it was the only one there.
Everybody had on a new hat, and every
one had it turned up high on the sides.
Said her husband, Good heavens have
all the women gone crazy?' Yes re-
piled she, meekly, "and why can't GO
crazy too?" MY dear" said he, you
may; it would be ridiculous to be the
only sensible woman in the world" So
hereafter she is going to wear her gray
felt, turned up on one side, in peace,
Year: 1875

In hospital in Montpelier France, is
patient who has just swallowed ther-
mometer left on bis table, while suffering
from temporary delirium. They have
great deal of trouble with him now.
When he drinks hot coffee that ther-
mometer flies up against the roof of his
mouth hard enough to lift his hat off,
and when he eats ice cream it gets down
in his boots and worries his corns.
Year: 1875

Her fingers fingered moment over
the low melancholy notes of the piece,
till the air seemed laden with their sol
emn harmony. Then she turned toward
the couch of her father for the old smile
of approval. His pale face was calm with
unmistakable repose, and a heavenly
smile fingered on the lips from which
life had just departed.
Year: 1875

THE once great Sacramento Union IS no more. It was always great newspaper, and in times gone by, was reasonably as well as ably edited. Of late years, it has been bullying and intolerant. IL fought everything and body in q public capacity, that did not submit to it's overbearing course. It professed to be above all others in advocacy of the peoples rights, and the people, with that perversity which is the offspring of belief that they under stand their own business and Know their friends, steadily withdrew their support from it, and let il die in a rage, aggravated by very bad case of delirium tremenS. Only a few years ago. The Union was held to be worth $l5O000, and one-siXth of it sold at that rate. Last December, it was put up at auction, but the death damp was 90 visible about it, that it's owners alone would bid on il. They kept the era zy thing along for d ew months, and then sold the corpse to it's enemies. The Union is BOW consolidated with the Sacramento Daily and Semi-Weekiy RccOrd-a paper heretofore the ableSt on the Pacific Coast, and as neWSy as any. It will now have the news of the Associated Press and At

 lantic and Pacific ASSOciatiOn-hence ALL the news. Ever since 1871, The Union has been wrong on almost everything, includ- ing Indian and railway matters, and The Record has been mainly with the people on all great questions, and we are very glad the old Union remains will be de- gently used hereafter, as they will be by