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Year: 1873

The Secrets of the Chinese Inquisition

 ---How the Work is Dsne---A Victim.

 The examination of the charges of conspiracy against the members of the mysterious Chinese tribunal has been deferred, says @ San Francisco paper, and in the meantime the police are making every effort to secure evidence for their conviction. The safe taken from the council room still remains at the police headquarters. The Celestials refuse to open it for an inspection of it's contents. The curiosity to know what 1t contains is intense, many be- ieving that the tales of the Spanish in- quisition would pale before the start ling revelations which an inspection of the records of this society Supposed to be in the safe) would bring to light. On the other hand, there are those who re- gard the Chinese as too cunning to place on record any of the more serious judgments of this council.

 Their mode of procedure with a doomed offender is dark and secret. A hired assassin is chosen among their lower classes, the victim is pointed out, and the assassin is offered certain sum of money, generally supposed to be $1, ,000, to put him out of the way. The man who is thus condemned is not ap- prised of his sentence, but the hired assassin dogs his steps and watches his opportunity. At time when he least suspects it the quick daggerpierces him from behind. or the favorite weapon of the Chinese, the murderous hatchet cleaves his brain, and he falls victim to this fearful power" His body is either cut up into pieces and burned, or secretly buried, or placed in sack and anchored ill the bay. His bones do not return to the Flowery Kingdom. How they account to the home Government for this noncompliance with one of their strictest rules is unknown, but Chinese ingenuity is equal to that small requirement in the line of falsehood.

 Two or three years since Chinaman was found drowned in the river near Sacramento, few days after he left this city. It was well known that he was under the ban with this society-in fact, that he had defed their power. The evidence that he had been foully dealt with was conclusive. He had a brother residing in this city who spoke English well. He did not make move toward discovering his brothers assas- sin, but meekly bowed to the supreme power of this terrible society.
Year: 1873

LOOK BEFORE You LEAP.-My young friends, do not make haste to wed. Un- happy marriage is the quintessence of unhappy bondage. It wounds daily our fondest and sweetest impulses, it trifes with and buries our holiest and dearest affection, and writes over the tomb thereof, "No hope" It embitters the victim with the thought that lost for ever to his or her life glory of great love; closed forever to him or her, the portals of happy home-that fountain of freshness and delight, at which the soul must needs drink to gather strength for the heat and burden of the outside battle.
Year: 1873

Some years ago new fire company was organized at Reading, Penn., and the members one evening thought they would have little innocent fun at the expense of Hopkins, their Captain. They decided to rush around to Hop kins' house just after dark, to throw up their ladders, pull out their hose, climb on his roof, and scare him with the be- lief that his dwelling was on fire. But that very day Hopkins moved out of the house. and clergyman moved in, with

 out the company being aware of the change. So about eight o'clock they dashed out and went through all the movements, getting on the roof and splashing water around and creating terrific disturbance generally. A rival company, noticing what was going on, also hurried to the scene, and without understanding the joke, attached their hose to a plug, smashed in the front windows, and began to empty two inch stream on the family of that Pres byterian clergyman. They squirted dow shutters with an axe, broke down tore off the shingles, and bawled GurOuSu GruIupeIS uuIl1 Iu0 u1Ieu SlE1 had convulsions on the kitchen stairs. The fire company tried to explain, but the new corners thought an effort was

 being made to get them out of the way, and fight ensued, and presently fire men were sliding off the roof, and pelt- ing down the chimneys, and bleeding over the entry carpet, and having bois- terous encounters with spanners and brass horns on the stairs. And the next morning that divine and his family moved out. They said the place seemed to be too animated and sensational for aquiet domestic circle. They wanted a house where there was calmness and peace where they could have more security for their privacy and pianos, and for their front doors and shingles, and peace of mind and window sashes.
Year: 1873

I heard that in this land were many poor, Therefore sought them out from door to door. Methought had gift would comfort give, And make them wish on earth to longer live. My gift I offered freely everywhere To those who some deep want did seem to bear But all in vain; for only ampler store Of gold they wished whereby to heap up more My gift was love-which they must needs pass

 by,

 Since it exacts the largest usury.
Year: 1873

A new Darwinian theory has been pro-
pounded in Detroit. A man named Darwin
was lately before the police court there for
drunkenness, and Indignantly exclaimed:
my theory is that beer is not Intoxicating
He was sent up for sixty days for not making
his practice correspond to his theory.
Year: 1873

They have great church privileges in
San Francsco-greatar, we fear, than
they improve. 1t is said that those who
are too lazy or too diffideut to enter any
one of the churches on Sunday may stand
anywhere within mile of his pulpit and
hear DIR. Cox expound the gospel to his
congregation, while in their Offices, one or
two blocks off, San Francisco editors can
peruse their exchanges and hear the Doc
tor preach at the same time, such a per-
feet Boanerges is this reverend gentle
man.
Year: 1873

a mamma in the rural districts lately
gives her fve-y year-old hopeful an outfit of
fish tackle. Soon she heard shout from
Willie, and running out found one of her
best hens FAST winding up the line in her
crop, whether the hook had already pre-
ceeded it. Willie, observing the troubled
look of his mother, quietly remarked
'.Dou't worry, mother. guess she will
stop when she get to the pole"
Year: 1873

The romantic devotion of Shaun, who
sacrificed himself for Arrah, has been
initiated in real life by young girl in
London. To save her betrothed, the
actual culprit, she went into Court and
swore that she had stolen the diamond
pin of the abstraction of which be wa.
accused. This would be called true love
by the seniimentaist; but ah !how much
more noble and beautiful and unselish
was the conduct of the young Pbiadel
phia lady who sold her new bonnet the
other day that the man she loved might
purchase a ball ticket! That now, is
high minded devotion of which few, very
few women are capable
Year: 1873

The India rubber hustle" is again
heard from. This time it was Brook
lyn young lady, who was thrown from her
carriage. She made ninety seven and
half bounces, in all, and was finally, res
cued, by hook and ladder company,
from the top of telegraph pole, where
she had stuck in attempting to complete
the ninety eighth bounce
Year: 1873

A New Orleans letter to the New York
Times states that new reform party is
being formed in Louisiana, composed OF
the best citizens, which will admit the
equality of all men without regard to race,
color, or previous condition, and accepts
all the United States constitutional amend
meuts aud Congressional laws relative
thereto
Year: 1873

The Medical Home has the following
receipts which may be of value:


a tea made of chestnut leaves and
drank in place OF water, will cure the
most obstinate case of dropsy in few
days.


A tea made Of ripe or dried whortle-
berries and drank in place Of water, is a
sure and speedy cure for scrofulous diff
Guilty however bad.


a tea made of peach leaves is cure
for kidney difficulty.


A plaster made of fresh slacked lime
and fresh tar, is sure cure for a cancer,
which, with its roots, will soon come out
Year: 1873

An Irishmau, when he applied for a
license to sell whisky, was asked by a
magistrate if he was of good moral char
acter. He replied, Faith ! don't see
the necessity of a good moral character
to sell whiskey.
Year: 1873

They sat IN the sUn together


TIL the day was almost done;
And then at its close an angel


stepped over The Ihrcs hold stone.
lie folded their hands together,


lie touched their eyclids with balm,
Aud their last breath loatcd upward
Like the close Of q solemn psalm.
Like a bridal pair they traycr'cd


The unseen mystical road,
Tlat leads To the bcautiful city


Whose Builder and Maker is God.
Perhaps, in that miracle country,


They will give her lost youth bsck,
And the flowers Of vanished ,pringtim,
Shall bloom in the spirit, track.
one draught OF the living waters


Shall restore his mauhood's prime,
And eternal years shalt measure


The love that outliycs time.
But the shapes they left behind them,
The wrinkles and silver hair
Made sacred to Us by kisses


The angels imprinted there.
Wen hIde away in the meadow,
When the sun is low in the West,
Where the mOonbCIms cannot tiud them
Nor the wind disturb their rest.
But we'll let no tell tale tombstone,
With its &c and date, arise
O'er the two who are no longer
In their Fathers home in the skies.
Year: 1873

IMPORTANT To ANKEUPTs.-Pe Persons
who are indebted to a bankrupt estate
must be very careful how they make
payments to any one who claims TO
represent it. After commencement
of proceedings in bankruptcy the title
to all such debts will rest in the assign
ee, althOuge he may not then be ap-
pointed, and the payment to the in
solvent himself, or TO any other party
for him, after such time viii be of no
avail to protect the debtor from pay
ing the same amount over again to the
assignee, who can sue for and receive
it. We know of a coal-dealer here
who sold all his customers their Win
ter supply of fuel and then became
insolvent and applied for the benefit
of the bankrupt act. After the pro-
ceedtngs wore commenced and public
notice had been given in some obscure
paper not generally circulated, the
dealer went around and collected all
his bills His customers paid him in
good faith, knowing nothing of his
pecuniary troubles, and took his re-
ceipt. Every one of them was obliged
afterward to pay the debt over again
to the assignee, who had the dealers
books and proceeded to collect every
dollar not paid to him before the pro-
ceeidngs were commenced -Ncc York
EuchnHgc.
Year: 1873

\ friend Of ours, says the Lynch
burg Republican, who suffered a
horrible torture from neuralgia,
hearing Of noted physician in
Germany, who invariably cured
that disease, crossed the ocean and
visited Germany for treatment
He was permanently cured after a
short sojourn, and the doctor free
~ gave him the simple remedy
used, which was nothing but a
poulticc and tea made from our
common field thistle. The leaves
maccratcd ani used on the parts
affected, as a poulticc, while a small
quantity of the leaves are boiled
down in the proportion of 4 quart
to a pint, and a small wincglass Of
the docoction drank before each
meal. Our friend says he has re,
commended it far and near, and has
never known it to fail of giving re
lief, and in almost every ease ha,
effected u cure.
Year: 1873

You see men of the most delicate
frames engaged in active aud profes-
sional pursuits vino really have no
time for illness. Let them become
idle; let them take care Of themselves;
let them think of their health-and
they die! The rust rots the steel
which use preseryes.-BUlirer.
Year: 1873

"a A member Of the 'eWoman's
Congrass' in New York said in
speech the other day that lit is not
the business of every married couple
TO have children" No, 1t is not ex-
actIy their business, but it is mighty
hard to make them think it isn't.
Year: 1873

A young man applied for situation on . Western paper, the other day, stating that he had had great lmany years experience in journalism. As, s,he had good clothes and didn't look hungry enough to warrant this assertion, he received no encouragement and it has since transpired that he had on ly skept journal ever since he was eleven years old" And that editor says that he never knew a man or boy who could keer diary longer than three days that was iii for anything else under the heavens.
Year: 1873

To see how eagerly human being will catch at a straw, it is not necessary to wit. ness drowning. The phenomenon is now manifest chiefly within saloons, where one end of the straw is immersed in tumbler.
Year: 1873

on asking for his pay the lady handed


him bundle, which she said contained


a valuable waterfall which he could sell.


He took the 'fixin' to a hair-dresser,


and found to his chagrin, that it was
not worth a quarter, being an old iute
concern which had done long service.
He declined to go back to the lady, as
he said, for she might poison him for
the purpose of stealing his old boot So


The young men are becoming every
day more discourteous, so the girls say.
They take their dogs instead of their
lady friends out riding nowadays. There
are advantages about a dog as a riding
companion, we must admit. He dosen't
take up so much room. He dOsent
make remarks when horses are acting in
a manner which requires your whole at
tention, and get enraged because you
don't answer him. He don't wear long
wells and streaming ribbons to get into
your eyes every time the wind blows.
He dosen't grab at the reins every time
your horse SHES or stumbles, and,
moreover, "ma don't expect him
home at half-past five.
Year: 1873

Our table is spread for two tonight,
No guests our bounty share;
The daInask cloth is snOwy-white,
The service elegant and bright,
Our china quaint and rare;


My little wife presides,


And perfect love abides.
The bread is SPONGE the butter gold,
The mullins nice and hot;
What though the winds without blow cold
The walls a little world enfold,
And the storm is soon forgot.


In the firehght's cheerful glow
Beams a paradise below.
fairer picture who hath seen
Soft lights and shadows bient;
. The central figure of the scene,
She sits, my wife, my love, my queen,
Her head a little bent;


And in her eyes of blue


I read my bliss anew.
watch her as she pOurs the tea,
With quiet gentle grace
With fingers deft and movement free
She mixes in the cream for me,
A bright smile on her face;


And as she sends it up


I pledge her in my cup.
Was ever man before so blest?
I secretly reflect.
The passing thought she must have guessed,
For now dear lips on mine are pressed,
An arm is around my neck;


Dear treasure of my life,


God bless her, little wife


- Overland Monthly.
Year: 1873

Tho United States yacht American was
sold at the naval academy last week for FIVE
thousand dollars. The government guaran-
tees no title. II Is supposed the reason for
this that there may be some who never gave
the United States their right 70 the prize mon
ey from her when she was presented to gov
ernment by part at least of her captors


The war department will next week invite
Year: 1873

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph Cthus) mean that your sub
scrlptior Is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure In extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons.
but cash alone VIII pay expenses. and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such q
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


~ We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advlr ce.
Year: 1873

The following are the ideas of an old farmer m Maine on seed potatoes, as given in the Lewistown Journal: We use too ripe seed

 when we propagate from tubers that have lain in the ground till dead ripe. Plants that are propagated by tubers require diff ierent treatment from those propagated by seeds. Our corn and grain that we use for Iced we like to have stand little longer than the main crop, ard become perfectly inatured. On the same principle our corn is selected from the ripsst, best developed ears and kernels But potatoes for seed should be dug and placed in a cool, dark cellar, just as soon as majority of them will slightly crack open m boiling. This is most invaris- ply while the tops are yet green and grow Ing fast. The tubers are then in their viz orous state. Disconnect them from the na- rent stalk at the time and they retain their vigor. Instead of deterorating. as most all of us know the older sort have, their vitality

 IS increased, and they yield better. with less tendency to rot. As long ago as 1915. and subsequently,, observations led him to make some experiments to test the theory and he hhds It the proper course to pursue. IL ia not often that the late planted potatoes are better for seed than those planted carly The lateness of their planting presumediy prevents perfect ripening, hence the princi pie of the above reasoning would be in force. Prairie Farmer.
Year: 1873

The Secretary of War directs that officers Of the quartermaster's department, likely to be brought in contact with horses affected with the epizootic, be instructed to use the following receipt as a remedy in the treat ment of horses attacked with the disease VIZ; Chlorate of potash q solution of one teaspoonful in pail of water One fourth of this quantity to be given twice day to each horse.
Year: 1873

The editor of the Albuquerque (New Mex ico) Review was, a short time ago, made very glad by the arrival of an Eastern mail, which, owing to the horse disease, WAS the first mail received there in a long time.
Year: 1873

An artificial tree two feet high, with
artificial birds fitting from branch to
branch; and coy steamship, rising
and falling on the swell of an artificial
sea, is one of the sights in a Kearny-
street window.
Year: 1873




The labor saving genius of Young
America is something amazing. He
Is an illustration: An Evanston pa
rent sent Young Hopeful out to draw
the baby for an airing. Young
Hopeful thought he would save Ia
Dor by saddling that duty off upon
his noble mastif. He thereupon
improvised a harness out of the
the clothesline and hitched the noble
mastif to the carriage. Just then
the noble mastiff7s faYorite canine
playmate frolicked along the road,
and cutie obliVious of the new duty
he was obliged to perform, the noble
mastiff sprang to his more agreeable
companship. And then these two
animals started for a run, and that
baby accompanied them. A howl
from the startled Hopeful brought
the parents to the scene, and then
ensued a chase for those dogs and
that baby that beggars description.
Up this street, down that, through
this blind alley, across that broad
avenue. The dogs gathered fright
as the pursuers gathered numbers
and the baby gathered lungs, until
friendly stump relieved the car
riage Of its load, and the precious
infant, in its lovely white embrOid-
cred clothes, was picked mp out of
the mud, good deal more fright
ened, happily, than hurt. But the
boy! Well, his sunday-school teach
er found the boy 8 model Of deport-
ment on that day. He considered it
ungentlemanly to sit.
Year: 1873

Music in family is a means of do
nestle cheerfulness. A musical
family, in spite of cares, perplexi-
ties, or even trials, may be a cheer
full family. Cheerfulness is the sense
of the term which implies good spir-
its, and in which needless depression
of mind and morbid melancholy are
kept away. You can have the sun
shine for cheerfulness in your house
in the most rainy, cheerless or win
try day that ever was, if you can
have music. Music provokes good
nature in a family, and in this world
where there is so much evil nature
manifested in a thousand ways, and
in the family sometimes, as lWell as
elsewhere, anything which will pro-
mote good nature is TO be priced.
Who can fret and scold when the
very air around is blended with har-
Imony.
Year: 1873

The hopelessness of any ones ac-
complishing anything without pluck
is illustrated by an old East India
fable. A mouse that dwelt near the
abode of a great magician was kept
in such constant distress by its fear
of cat, that the magician, taking
pity on it, turned it into a cat itself
Immediately it began to suffer from
fear of q dog, so the magician turn
ed it into a dog. Then it began TO
suffer from fssr of a tiger, and the
magician turned it into tiger
Then it began to suffer from its fear
of a huntsman, and the magician, in
disgust. said: SBe q mouse again.
AS YOU have only the heart of a
monse. it is impossible to help you
by giving you the body OF a noble
animal"


1t is the same with amouse-heart-
ed man. He may be clothed with
the powers and placed in the posi-
ton Of brave men, but he will al
ways act like a mouse; and public
opinion is usually the great magi-
clan that finally says to such q per
son, "Go back to your obscurity
again. You have only the heart of
a mouse, and it is useless to try to
make lion Of yOu."
Year: 1873

This was told Of a farmer by the


name Of Scott, who lives on a small


farm in Craftsbury, Vt, quite in the


northeastern part Of the Green


Mountain State. However We nav


theorize on the matter, Mr.. Scott
1 seems to be successful in his prac-
| tice:


He formerly cut his hay at the


usual time, say sometime in July or


the first of August, and as he usu-


ally kept cows to eat his fodder, he
fed some meal in connection with


his hay, attaining about the same re-


suits that our best farmers do. Some


fifteen years ago he commenced cut


ting his grass earlier, having become


satisfied that he had spoiled some Of


the best dairy COWS he ever had by


ieedlng meal, and correctly reason


ed that by cutting his grass earlier


he could dispense with meal and
still attain as good results at the
pail. The result more than justified
his conclusion, for he found that his
cows not only gave more milk, and
made more butter and of a better
quality, but they maintained a high
er condition both in flesh and health.


This led him to continue his ex-
periments, cutting his grass still
earlier, until for the past few years
he aims to have his first crop Of grass
cut and in the barn before and heads
appear; his theory being that if the
grass is cut before the seed stock
commences to shoot upward, the
same stock that is cut off will con-
tinue to grow instead of starting
new shoot from the root, as is the
case where the cutting is delayed
until the seed stock is partially or
fully developed. He thus secures
an earlier growth for the succeeding
crop.


His land, which is in the highest
condition, produces, in favorable
seasons, three crops, others net so
good, two, while some of thepoorest
be cuts but once; but it must all be
cut before our national holiday
July 4th-else, in his opinion, iS is
unfit for food for COWS; and I have
peculiar demonstration of the fact
hat his cattle so fully coincide in
lis opinion that they viii accept
lay cut after that date, though 9th
.rwise of the best quality, only un-
Ter compulsion.


Mr.. Scott has set of Fairbanks
scales in his barn floor, and uses
hem faithfully in conducting his ex-
oeriments. He has obtained as high
IS five tons per acre, at three cut
,ings on some of his land, of hay
cured sufficiently to pack away in
he NOW. By actual experiment it
OOk an average of twenty-five
pounds a day of this hay to keep q
arge COW during the winter in the
highest condition, and thirty pounds
'e= day, fed TO a pair of yearling
teers with no other feed, produced
n average growth of over three
'ounds per day during an entire
Iinter.
Year: 1873

Dyspepsia is qnite common among
farmers, and it cannot be due to any
lack of exercise. 1t is rather due
to too much exercise at the wrong
time. By this we mean that the
farmer when he comes in after a
half-day's hard labor with a strong
appetite, eats a hearty meat, jumps
up from the table and rushes off di-
rectly to work again. He should rest
half or three.quarters Of an hour at
least, after such a meal, before at
tempting any active labor. This
will, in nine cases out Of ten, we
believe, prevent this disease among
farmers who eat wholesome food
properly cooked.