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Year: 1873

Age is the heaviest burden man can bear,
Compound of disappointment, pain and care
For when the minds experience comes at length,
It comes to mourn the body's loss Of strength
Resigned to ignorance all our better days,
knowledge just ripens when the man decays.
Year: 1873

What gullible set of people we
must be, if we may Judge by the ex-
ceeding slenderness of the devices
used for our entrapping at ever street
corner Take the soda.water signs,
for instance. Now and then we see
one which contents itself with the
bare announcement, Soda w ater.
On the next corner one reads sCoid
Soda Water.' Another has it 'Ice.
cold Soda later; another The
Coolest Soda-W ater in the city.
We saw one the other day which
read Arctic Soda, w Water; another
Zero Soda Water ; and still another
which shamelessly asserted that
sWe draw our Soda Water at q tenn.
perature below Zero Now and then
the vender of this effervescent drink
allows his sense of humor to effer-
vesce also. and so we are confronted
by sign which reads Contracts
taken to cool you off for five cents.
One man, who's shop we pass every
day, has devised new name for his
tipple, calling it 'Hyperborean Soda
Water OF course we all know very
well that there is really no rercepti-
BILE difference in the temperature of
the water drawn from those different
founts, and we know, too, that the
man who says he draws his sat tenn
perature below zero does nothing of
the kind. And yet these signs must
have some effect in attracting Gus.
toners, or the dealers, who certainly
know their business, would not rack
their brains or spend their money in
getting them up.


The fact is that people are very
easily deceived, and dealers in other
things besides soda water make pro.
fit of their knowledge of the fact.
sThe cheapest store in town. is a
common announcement and the
very fact that it pays to paint up
such statement is proof positive
that there are people who unhesitat.
ingly accept it as true, knowing all
the while that many another dealer
stands ready to assert the same
thing with regard to his own estab.
lishment. Selling off below cost
has come to be an exceedingly old
story, but it makes its victims by the
score even yet.-Erchange.
Year: 1873

Come back come back for the light went out


When your eyes looked away from my own
Grieyed and weary, wander about


In the cold and the dark, alonei
Trying to find my way to your side


Come, darling, aud take my hand
Once drew it away in my pride


From the tenderest one In the land !!
Come back come back with the Springs swee


prime


With the birds from over the seal
For turn my face from the golden time,


And my ear from its minstrelsy
For my passionate soul cries out for the day
When your heart fell away from mine
Cries out for the cup that pushed away,
Spilling it's costly wine.
Come and your kiss shall kindle again
The passion b, DOM of my cheek!
Come and read in my eyes the pain


That my lips are too proud TO speak
Come for lie in the cold without,
Stabbed with agony wild,
ALI for yoa-and my heart cries out
Like poor little motherless child
Year: 1873

very abrupt which leads us to the point in all
this question, and it is this--that without a
large commercial marine the people will not
stand powerful navy, and without power
full navy we must expect to smile and say we
are sorry whenever virginius is boarded and
her people are shot to death. Will Congress
listen to these plain truths, which are written
in the interest of the nation, and will it give US
a navy in harmony with the times?
Year: 1873

1t has been bruited about for some time
among the knowing ones that Tom Scott, of
the Southern Pacific Railroad, and Jay Cooke,
of the Northern Pacific, with all their retalners,
henchmen and forces generally. are about to
make an onslaught on Congress for aid to
carry through their lines. 1t has been said,
too, that there is an alliance offensive and
defensive, between these chiefs, and that
whether they move together or separately the
campaign has for its object the benefit of
both. This, we say has been the current
talk, whether true or not. And now it
appears Colonel Scott is in Washington
sounding the depths and shoals Of Congress
sional consciences. He has had interviews,
it is said, with several members of Congress
already. The report is that an application
will be made to Congress at the ensuing ses-
sion for aid to both these Pacific railroads,
but that it is not proposed to ask such aid as
will add to the public debt. What is exactly
meant by this we do not know, but imagine it
means large slice of the public lands, and
also, perhaps, the loan Of bonds, such as was
made to the Union and Central Pacific roads.
That may not be considered by such financiers
as adding to the public debt. True, the gov
ernment and people of the United States are
bound to pay these bonds, and do actually
nav interest on those Of the Union and
Central Pacific. Still, they are not reck-
oned by the Treasury Department as part
of the public debt. Can any simple
minded citizen fail to see the difference
between being responsible for and actually
paying debt and not being burdened with
Pacific Railroad managers and the Treasury
Department make it out. But have we not
had enough OF this sort of fnancierng and
extravaganza on the part of the government
Ii people will make railroads before they are
wanted, or, as has been said Of Jay Cooke s.


from nowhere to nowhere, let them do SO at
their own risk. Let not the people have to
pay for them either by the loan Of bonds or
by appropriations Of the public lands The
inheritance Of the people-of future settlers
has been shamefully squandered away upon
railroad companies. Let US have no more OF
that. We protest in advance against any
more reckless waste of the peoples property.
The EVENT OF THE OpERATIC SEASON
The production of Verdis last work, s'AYda,'
tonight at the Academy Of Music, in ad-


vance Of London, Paris and st. Petersburg,


is an event Of no ordinary significance in the
| history OF opera in America There Ia n com
Year: 1873

THERE Is 80 PROBABILITY that the con-
spiracy formed against Senator Caldwell will
succeed the indications now being that the
Committee on Privileges and Elections will
report unanimously against the Senate
taking any action in the matter. There Is
no evidence Of any bribery or corruption on
the part Of Mr.. Caldwell.
Year: 1873

SYRACUSE, Jan. 1.-Henry Fraich was found
euty this evening of murder in the first degree for
killing one Peter shaer last August by stabbing him
with bayonet. His counsel attempted to show that
Fraich was 80 ncensed by certain words reported as
having been said by shaer that he became temporarily


insane and was not responsible for his acts. Judge
Morgan In his charge the jury, sad It Ia no excuse
for man that he has violent temper. The law does
not allow anger an element OF insanity and man
NAV lose his temper and become dangerous but the law
holds him accountable for his acts The Judge also said
IL was be regretted that the Legislature had not
given the courts discretionary powers TO sentence prs
oners for greater number OF for msnslsugher In
the third degree. The fall from murder TO manssugh-
ter was too great.
Year: 1873

abors OF the alchemsts OF old they have done some
incidental mischief in fostering vain expectations auu
promoting useless efforts the example OF such shgic
minded devotion to the speculative side OF science is
undoubtedly noble one and apart from the Vaue OF s
results is justly entitled 20 admiration ana respec"
Year: 1873

The Isle of Shoals correspondent of
the Springfield Republican says that
the visitor who arrives at night, and
first views the scene at Appledore by
the light of an early morning sun, must
of necessity, be deeply impressed with
its loveliness. There are, upon the At
lantic coast, but few fairer pictures than
that which is presented from the hotel
porch when the last shadow of the night
has disappeared behind the western
horizon. In the foreground little cove
indents the rocky shore of the island,
and here a navy OF pretty boats rides
at anchor, tossing gracefully upon the
crests of the waves, and tugging rest
lessly at the cables, as if eager to be
gone. Away to the left White Island
rises boldly from the pillows, the high
est summit crowned with lighthouse
which stands clearly out against the
blue sky and wears picturesque grace
not to be accounted for by the roman
tic beauty of its surroundings and its
perfect harmony with the scene in which
1T is so prominent an object. Far away
across the waters in front stretches the
New Hampshire coast line, hazy and
indistinct in the morning light while
beyond this and to the northward the
mountains of Maine raise themselves in
in a dreamy, misty outline of blue and
makes the tender background of the
picture. They say that sometimes when
the atmosphere has exceptional clear
ness the sojourner at Appledore can
trace against the horizon the faint out
lines of Mount Washington and Mount
Jefferson, distant many a mile from the
coast,
Year: 1873

A correspondent recently heard a sue
cession of strange, cracking noises out
of doors at night, and had great diff
Guilty in finding the cause. The sound
came from some fallen walnut tree
leaves, and he naturally expected to
find that some species of insect caused
the leaves to rustic.


cat the next spot where 1 examined,
I closely watched the modus operandi,
and saw the dry, brown leaves gradu-
ally curling open, moving like little au-
tomato one opening would touch an
other, and that in turn rolled open, with
the peculiar rustling sound that had at
first attracted my attention. But there
was no worm there. What then was the
power that carried on this general move
ment g? Upon meditating little, the
truth flashed upon me it was simply
that the day had been remarkably warm
for an April day, and the heat of the
sun had warped the leaves, curling them
up like voluta but as the sun set, the
northeast wind had blown the clouds
and moisture from the Atlantic, and,
coming in contact with the dry leaves,
had caused them to uncurl. Thinking
that some motion would accelerate their
movement, stamped upon the ground,
and Immediately the whole garden
seemed alive with motion. The occur
renee seems of>small account, but it IL
lustrates in perfectly natural way the
force and effects of variations in tenn
perature."
Year: 1873

The Davenport Uowa) Gazette vouches
for the absolute truth of the following:


A citizen of North Davenport had an
only daughter who was betrothed to a
young man of fair promise, a clerk in
Dubuque. Arrangements had been
made for an immediate union when the
bride-elect diel. The young man re-
turned to Dubuque. Nervous fever set
in, and an hallucination seized him that
his lost one was present in the room,
draped in the same garb which had en-
veloped her clay. He minutely des-
cribed her and her position even when
his friends would sit or stand where he
declared her to be, he saw her glide
away and take another place. This went
on for weeks, and the patient was gradu-
ally sinking when friendly ruse was
tried.


Coming to Davenport, his mother
found that the funeral garments were
purchased at the store of @. & NJ, and
made by Mrs. B. She procured the
material, had it made up in fac-simile,
and returning, young lady as near IN
height and appearance as could be
found, was dressed to resemble his
deceased love, and during one OF his
fevered and brief slumbers was intro
duced into the room, taking her seat In
a shaded corner.


Hisawakening was anxiously watched.
He woke, and turning his eyes in the
direction of the pious fraud, stared with
fixed eyeballs for few seconds, then,
raising himself almost upright in his
bed, flung his arms aloft, and shrieking
in an unearthly voice: "My God, there
are tho of them" fell back and expired.
Year: 1873

To live simply to master and control


our expenditure, is sore need in all


classes. The influences which surround


us, the habits which we fall into as q


second nature, all sway us in the same


direction. Every family and every


class seems to have caught hold of the


skirts of the one above it, and be des-


perately holding on. Well, as Mr..


Goldwin Smith says, the best thing that


they can do is to let go-the only thing.


indeed, which will give themselves any


comfort, or make their lives of real use


in their generation. The moment they


will do SO, and begin resolutely to live


without regard to what their neighbor


on the right spends on carriages, or


their neighbor on the left on upholstery


they will find themselves rich for all
good purposes. From that moment it
can no longer be said of us with truth


that we dare not trust our wits to make
our houses pleasant to our friends, and


so we buy ice creams. And this most
needed of all reforms is Just the one
which every soul of us can carry through
for himself or herself. We cannot
sweep our whole streets. No doubt.


But every one of us can sweep our door
step, and if he will do it quietly and
regularly, anon his right-hand neigh
bors follow, and before long the whole
street is swept. And in this way, and
by this means, can almost all these So
cial tangles which we have been glanc-
ing at casually this evening be set right.
Simple living! To it even the great
household question, at once the most
harrassing of social troubles, will in the
end yield, will begin at once to look
not wholly insoluble and hopeless
Speaking of this sore question in the
Nation the other day, one of the witt
est of American essayists took up the
cudgels for Bridget against her numer-
ous accusers. ''My good friend" he
urged "what else have you any right
to look for? The things which Ameri-
can life and manners preach to her are
not patience, sObermindedness, faith
fulness, diligence and honesty, but self
assertion, discomfort, hatred of superb
ority of all kinds, and eagerness of phy-
sical enioyments ;" and the words come
home, l fear, with singular force to us
islanders also in those days. Let us
hope that the picture of the good COM
ing time which he goes on to draw may
prove true for us also. "Whenever the
sound of the new gospel which is to win
the nations back to the ancient and no.
BILE ways is heard in the land, it is fair
to expect that it will not find her ears
wholly closed and that when the alter
Of duty is again set up by her employ.
ers, she will lay on it attractive beef
steaks, potatoes done to a turn, make |
ibations of soup, display remarkable !
fertility in sweets, an extreme fondness
'or washing, and learn to grow old in
)ne family. ."-ThOnaas Huges.
Year: 1873

The Saturday Rerie,O points out the
contrasts between the public character
and the private being Of most authors
thus 1.-THE lively novelist is taciturn,
morose kind of person, ever ready to
start topics of grave and depressing
nature. The poet whose songs are full
of that delicious melancholy that makes
them so divinely sad is q rubicund,
rosy-gilled gentleman. brisk, middle
aged, comfortable, particular as to his
wines, and prone to personal gossip and
feeble humor. The lady novelist who
sails very near the wind, and on whom
the critics are severe by principle, is as
quiet as Quakeress in her conversa-
ton, and as demure as q nun in her
bearing. The sour female essayist, who
finds everything wrong and nothing in
its place, has face like the full moon,
and looks a. if she fed on cream and
butter" It is conjectured that the
lady who sat for the last etching was
Miss Frances Power Cobbe.
Year: 1873

A gentleman occupying respectable


position in a mercantile house observed


the worn looks of a lad who had been


lately engaged. Addressing him kindly


he asked if he were ailing. The lad re-


piled that he was merely overfatigued.


As there was nothing in his work at the


office to induce this his interrogation


made further inquiries, which elected


that he only received Sc week that


his board and lodging in Brooklyn alb


sorbed s. of this, leaving 81 for ferries
and all other expenses /; that under
these circumstances he had cast about
for night employ, but after the most
active effort could only succeed in pro-
curing so cents night as super at a
theatre. But this alas, he had now been
compelled to give up. He found that he
could not stand the burning OF the cam
die at both ends. He had been obliged,
on leaving the Office at half-past five, to
rush over to Brooklin for his supper,
then recross to New York and run, with
the thermometer at eighty and ninety
for he couldn't afford the car-to an up
town theatre. He reached it painting
and running down with perspiration,
donned his fantastic attire, and then
remained for hours in q heated atmos-
phere. It is not very remarkable that
he had found this process exhaustive,
but he was, nevertheless, greatly panied
at having to give it up. Moved with
the gentleman who had
questioned him availed himself of his
position to suggest to his
principal that $6 week was an made
quate salary. The principal admitted
this, and by consenting to raise it to
80 made the poor boy happier than a
Vanderbilt or Drew when they pocket
. million. But in extenuation Of such
small remuneration he observed, and
very truly, Remember the crowd of
applicants we had who would have been
thankful to come for fve." Now achief
cause Of this enormous supply Of needy
clerks il their mothefs' rage for gentil-
ity. The fathers don't caro- much about
It. but whether Pope was or was not
Year: 1873

Hol We who listless and moping


Sit dismally twirling your thumbs,
And gloomily waiting and watching


For something that thus never comes;
You might just as well, foolish mortals.


Expect you'll by lightning be struck;
One will happen as soon as the otheri


Don't staad around waiting for luck
There's ssying-a COED and true one


(Take courage, you poor one who delves
With stout heart SO brsve) that "beaven
Will help those who first help themselves; :"
And you'll find, If you wish for good fortune,
pretty good way Is to tuck
Up your shirt-sleeves and start out aud md it
Don't sit around waiting for luck.
1ou may pine and NOPE on forever


Find fault and deplore your hard fate
But you'd better remember the proverb,
And &C; on ii ere it's too late;
You may pout and grumble forever


Just so long you will md you are stuck
10 the mire Of sloth and abassment-


Don't sit around waiting for luck
There is wealth to be hsd-go and seek 1t,
And with it get honor and fame;
BY the sweat of your brow you can gain them,
And carve for yourself proud name;
But to do this takes tact and ambition,
Persistency, hope-and some pluck.
Are you resdyl-then lose not a moment
Don't sit around waiting for luck.
Year: 1873

Like all other business, it takes time 10
learn this, but after n few weeks work
good pny cun bs made. Only those who
intend to work are wanted. Those who
will be discouraged because large pay
cannot be earned at first, need NOT apply,
We wish to sta here TINT girls formerly
employed by us at the same rates, have
made from five 10 nine dollars per week
on Hoop Skirts, amd from six to twelve
dollars on BustIes. We charge nothing
for teaching our help and nothing for the
materials wasted in learning. All we re-
quire of them is that they work long
enough to fully learn tine business; know.
ing they will then be satisfied good pay
can be made. We guarantee steady em-
plOymcmt during the dull as we'll as the
busy season. Applications from those
who mean work received from 0 A. M. to
5 E. WI. ne those living out of town we
give any information required by mail.
Year: 1873

That woman who has been calling at the
Post Office twice day for some half score
years has turned up again. This time it is
the Woburn, Mass, Post Office she besieges,
and according to reliable papers from which
we get the information, she has been calling
at the Post Office there for twice a day for
twelve years. 1t is not known whether there
has been Post Office there for twelve years,
but then that is immaterial, so far as the
point of the story is concerned.
Year: 1873

The new Mayor of Boston has evidently
sat down suddenly on slippery coal cover on
the sidewalk; at any rate he is making war
on those winter nuisances and has instructed
the police to see that they are roughened or
removed.
Year: 1873

Each body had been deposited near a
tree, which was then prvned in a
manner to indicate that one burial had
been made in that spot, so that thes
would be no danger of digginga grave
where one body already rested. This
systematic arrangement showed tha,
the murders seriously and deliberately
counted upon filing up the patch OF
ground with corpses, making churc,
yard without church, a cemetery will
out tomb The bodies were all de-
posted after a regular SYSTEM the
right arm folded across the breast an
the left stretched down at the side
There was no disposition to economics
ground, as if it was feared that th.
burial place would not accommodate ali
the victims, for some of the bodies
were placed on the side in narrow
bitches, and some doubled up in j.
squatting position. Three more bodi Is
were discovered day before yesterdar
making twelve in all The search stili
continues, and it is impossible to say
how many more may be brought t,
light.


The wounds on the head, which are
identified in all the bodies that have
been unearthed, and the arrangement
of the house, have indicated the man
ner in which the victims met their
death. They were all travellers who
stopped at the house for refreshments.
They were seated at table in back
room, near which hung curtain
Ooe or more persons, whether male
or female, was concealed behind this
curtain, and struck the traveller on the
back of the head with hammer. The
victim was then siezed and dragged to
the trap door, his throat cut, and the
bod y dropped into the cellar below
where it was allowed to remain till
night came. 1t was then taken out
and buried without attracting atten ton
All the bodies were marked in the same
manner, except that of a little girl
who had acco panied her father, and
who is supposed to have been throws
into the grave alive, as her body shows
no marks of violence. The spoils OF
the Bender family, engaged in this
traffic In human lives, must have been
small, as none Of the murdered travel
ers are known to have had any consid-
cradle money with them It is sup
posed, however, tnat the Benders hao
confederates posted along the road
to inform them of favorable opportun-
tiles, and many arrests have already
been made. The Bender family, the
two women and two men, escaped and
have not yet been apprehendel. The
detective Beers, had tracked them to
St Louis at last accounts, and it is not
probable they will be harbored in any
quarter of the globe Chicago Tri-
bune.
Year: 1873

My neighbor is in active business and / am
only a farmer out of debt. aud with little ut
interest, bringing up and educating family
of children. He comes to me, holding out
note, large, for me to sign, saying, ..I wish
you would just writo your name on the back
of this; 1 need the money very much it
will be great accommodation to me, and
you will only have to write your name.", My
answer is: "My friend, do yon really UNDER
stand what my position would be before tho
world and tho law if were to do this2
should instantly proclaim that from state of
complete independence, and without the
slightest reason for similar favor from you,
and for no consideration Whatever, except
friendship, have agreed to take upon myself
the risk of your business. but with the diff
ference against me. that If you lose ] lose,
and if you gain | do not. share in your
lossessnd not in your profits. But not only
this; should affirm before the public that
you are responsible when really know moths
ing of your circumstances, and in SO far, help
you to deceive Others. I give you false
credit. In short, do that which no honest
man, trne to himself and to his family, can
do and be blameless. Will any right minded, i,
real friend, with this view of the case, ask Of
me such possible sacrifice 2"


Country Gentleman.
Year: 1873

BLACKBERRY GoRDIAL-To one quar-. of
blackberry juice, add one pine of white sugar,
one tablespoonful of cloves, one of allspice,
one of cinnamon and one nutmeg Boil ali
together fifteen minutes add wincglass full
of brandy or good whisky bottle while no.
OF cork tight and seal one dose is wine
glass full for an adult; half for child.