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Year: 1872

SLEEP WHILE IT Is DARK-This is the
rule that nature teaches US, and her teach
ing is always correct. As soon as it is dark,
labor and study should be laid aside; the
mind and muscles should be gradually re-
laxed by light exercise and pleasant, cheer
ful conversation, until twilight has deep
ened into darkness, and then, when the
system has been tempered down evenly,
and the mind is at perfect rest, go to sleep,
and you will not wake until the sky lark
calls you In the morning, when the first
mellow light OF approaching day shoots up
In the east; then is the time to rise, and
not sooner. If this rule be adhered TO
every morning will find you fresh and Wig
orous-prepared TO live and enjoy life: and
every returning night will find you ready
TO relish sound. sweet, refreshing sleep.


IL Is often question among people who
are unacquainted with anatomy and phy.-
ioiogy, whether lying with head exalted or
on level with the body Is the more IN
wholesome. Most, consulting their own
case ON this point, argue in favor Of that
which they prefer. Now, although many
delight in bolstering up their heads at night
and sleep soundly without injury, yet we
declare ii to be a dangerous habit. The
vessels in which the blood passes from the
heart to the head are always lessened in
their cavities when the head is resting in
bed higher than the body: therefore. in ali
diseases attended with fever, the head
should be pretty nearly ON level with the
body; and people ought to accustom them
selves 70 sleep thus. and avoid danger.
Year: 1872

SALT AND CoUGHs.-In these days when
diseases on the throat prevail, and partic-
ularly dry and hacking cough, that is not
only distressing to themselves but to those
with whom We are brought into business
contact, those thus afflicted may be benefit
ted by trying the following remedy: Last
fall we were induced TO try what virtue
there was in common salt. We commenced
by using it three times = lay-morning,
noon and night. We dissolved . large
tablespoonful of common salt, in about half
q tumblerf1l Of cold water, and with this
we gargled the throat most e6ectually, just
before meal time. The result has been that
during the winter We were not only free
from the usual coughs and colds TO which,
as tar as our memory extends, we have al
ways been subject, but the dry, hacking
cough has entirely disappeared. We at
tributed 1t entirely to the salt gargle. and
do most cordially recommend it 70 those Of
our readers whs are subject to disease Of
the throat
Year: 1872




Beauty is not accidental and law
less on the contrary, we believe it
does obey an infallible law. Always,
in its present form, it IS religious /;
and the varying estimates of differ
ent tastes are graduated according
to the purity of the religious concep-
tions involved. In the last anaIases
beauty is one truth, and both are
written IN cipher which the religious
sense alone can interpret and resolve.
The significance of things is definite;
but 1t is revealed to us according to
a sliding scale, of which religious
culture measures the degrees. It is
indeed our light thrown upon nature
which interrupts beauty but if that
light be religious, finer elements viii
become apparent, and beauty be-
come more clear. It is sympathy
with the outward world that unlocks
its treasures that sympathy is born
of religion, and is strengthened and
deepened by every accession of spir-
itual life. To the mind of God, un-
doubtedly, every fact in the material
world has a fixed significance, a pre-
else and definite value. The uni-
verse Is his art, and struggles to ex-
press the crystalized and imprisoned
thoughts which he has written there.
A delicaae correspondence connects
every beast and bird and tree and
flower with some type of thought, or
passion. or emotion, present in the
Creators mind at their foundation,
and of which they are organized ex-
pOnents. But we rise toward, and
appreciate so much of this infuite
art as the purity of cur inner life can
gauge. Likeness to the divine ma
ture only will admit us to the secrets
Of the divine mind. All the chang
ing degrees of significance, which
the objective word assumes, from
that feeling of health and buoyancy
and animal enjoyment which the
lowest minds experience in a clear
and bracing morning. to the un!ath-
omable inspiration of the poet and
the artist are determined by its pres
ence and it's purity. The truth of
this position cannot be shaken by
any seeming contradiction of expe-
rience or history. Raphael may
paint finer pictures than Canning,
by assiduous culture, could even i'm
itate but the finer sympathy with
nature, the purer delight in her COM
panionsbip, and deeper suggestions
from her inexhaustible stores of
truths will visit the soul of him who
has drunk deeper of the clements of
moral life. There are few of US who
cannot verify this by our experience.
Not while our souls remain stepped
in sensuality, or fettered by dull and
sordid cares, will come the revela-
tions that are hidden in the uni
verse. The lilies of the field have
no meaning to the cold eye of ava
rice, but to the warm spirit of Jesus
they reflect the doctrine of universal
providence. And So, with us, it is
in moments of calmer meditatiOns,
in seasons of quiet prayer, or after a
noble deed that the awakened ener-
gies of our inner life spontaneously
interprets the oracles of nature.
And thus where we least expect it
we find that love exists. Beauty is
always relative to our state of mind,
but it has also an objective existence
that reveals itself according to our
piety and virtue.-T. Starr King.
Year: 1872

A terrible wreck happened some
years ago off the coast of Tuscany.
In his report of the affair, the Tus-
can coast guard remarks, with eyi-
dent complacency: "I lent every
possible help to the vessel with my
speaking trumpet, but, nevertheless,
many corpses were found upon the
coast next morning" What are
words without deeds &? You plead
for the destitute, but where is your
guinea? You are eloquent for fallen
women, but what are you doing to-
ward their rescue? You demand an
educated ministry: what institution
are you aiding? You pity the wild
ow and the fAtherless to what or
phanage do you contribute ? Silence
is most becoming In those whose
speech is not illustrated by suitable
action,
Year: 1872

A correspondent says: 1 promi s
ed some time ago to send you a rem
dy for ague which I never knew to
fail. There must be some good
brandy, black pepper and piece of
flannel to cover the bowels handy.


When the chill is at its hight, let the
person go to bed. Now let some
other person dip the flannel in cold
brandy. Don't wiring out the fan
mel. Spread it on the table, dust it
over with pepper out of the castor,
then sprea1 it over the bowels, pep
per side down; at the same time
give half a winsglassful of the bran
dy and half a teaspOonful of the
pepper to drink; this must be done
when the chill is at its hight.
Year: 1872

One who knows, says that German
women prefer the man who is agree
able, and keeps his word strictly.
French women choose a man with
open brow and smiling counten-
ance. The Russian females prefer
a countryman of their own who
looks upon Western nations as bar
barians The Danish remain close
ly at home, and desire to hear moth
ing Of travel abroad. The Spanish
woman selects q man capable of
avenging his honor and her own.
The Hollanders one who is peace
able in his ways, and desires never
to hear of strife and war. And the
American ladies marry the earliest
good offer they get, taking the first
man that will take them, caring
nothing for his rank or social posi-
ton, and still less whether he be
halt, lame, deaf and dumb, or blind
-jfhe has but plenty Of money. How
fortunate for us that we live in such
a country!
Year: 1872

One of the most remarkable cures
on record has been nearly effected
upon the person of Miss Hattie
Thomas Of Waterbury, Conn, who
was seal ped in button manufactory
over year ago, from the nape of
her neck to her eye balls, so that the
skull was laid bare. Death was ex-
pected, and almost hoped for, as the
only relief that could come TO her,
but the doctor noticing that she
rallied from the first prostrating
effects of the accident, determined
to experiment with the French pro-
cess of ''skin grating" and after
the head had been brought into a
healthy state of suppuration, he
made the first attempt, taking the
seed Skin" from the patients arm.
The result was admirable, but ex-
haustion was in1uced by the new
wounds, and supply of skin had to
be taken from other sources. The
nurse of Miss Thomas kindly vol
unteered the doctor, delighted
with success, applied the knife to
his own arms, and many young lady
friends came forward ard sacrificed
portions of their own bodies for the
salvation of their suffering sister.
Over one hundred separate pieces
made up the new scalp, and Miss
Thomas has souvenirs of her friends
much better than bedquilt blocks,
or even locks of hair.
Year: 1872

A NAN a hundred years old went to
have a pair of shoes made. The
shopkeeper suggested that he might
not live TO wear them out, when the
old man retorted that he com
menced this one hundred years a
great deal stronger than he did the
last one.
Year: 1872

Or THE many Poles immigrating
to this country, it is remarked that
a very large percentage are journey
men tailors. This IS doubtless
owing to the mutual attractions be-
tween the needle and the Pole.
Year: 1872

A CITY fop who was taking an air
ing IN the country, tried to amuse
himself by quizzing an old farmer
about his bald head, who solemnly
remarked, "Young man, when my
head gets as soft as yours, I can
raise hair to SELL"
Year: 1872

SPEAKING of theoretical farming,
Josh Billings says that he once knew
a man who wouldn't even set a gate
post without having the ground
analysed to see if it possessed the
proper ingredients for post-holes.
Year: 1872

WIVES are common commodity
among the Cinnamon in Montana and
one ofthem bet his wife against money
at cards recently, and lost; but just
for Joke on the winner he made a
dead heather of his late spouse before
she could be carried away. and the
Sheriff Is going to remonstrate with
Year: 1872

In the year 1s43, during the Millerite ez-
element in the usual quiet town Of Durham,
"Aunt Sally" who would weigh nigh
unto two hundred pounds, came to the con-
clusion that she was bound "to go up" and
one evening in meeting, in the midst Of warm
season of exhortstion, she arose and said.


"Ohl brethren and sisters, bless the Lord
I'll soon get away from this wicked world; I'm
going to meet the Lord in a few days. Ny
faith is powerful strong. Oh yes, powerful
strong it is. So strong" continued the old
lady extending her arms and motioning them
like bird on the wing, " that it does seem as
if I could fly right away now and meet the
Lord in the ali"


The minister, who was as great an enthusi-
asst on "going up" as the old lady, encouraged
her by exclaiming:


"Try, sister, try perhaps you can fly if
your faith is only strong enough"


"Well, can" she exclaimed, al know |
can, and l will +"


She was standing near window which was
raised on account Of the oppressive heat-for
it was summer. With her handkerchief in
one hand and her fan in the other, she mount
ed the seat, and thence to tho top Of the pew,
and gave leap into the air, with flying mo-
ton Of her arms, expecting to ascend heaven
ward. But the law of gravitation was too
much 70. her faith and the gravity Of the au-
dience. Down she came with an enormous aud
not very angelic grunt, shaking the whole
house with the conclusion.


She arose, folded her wings, aud with great
meekness sneaked back into the seat, evidently
disappointed.


The next evening some Of the young folks
asked he7:


"Aunt Sally, why didn't you fly last night,
when you tried so hard? ?"


al couldn't get the right flop" was the
meek and conclusive answer.
Year: 1872




"Nr. Allen, would like to go home earlier
than usual this evening" and the speaker,
young girl Of twenty, looked into the face Of
the man before her with an eager, anxious ex-
preston. Certainly you can go, if it is i'm
portant, Miss Lloyd" was the reply, and she
was soon on the way to her modest little home.
She was. no child, this Jessamino Lloyd
Earnest, brave and true, she was every inch
woman Her. history, though common one,
is, nevertheless, pitiful, always. Her father
had died i've years before, and left his family
nothing. Her mother was Of that delicate,
clnging type, who, when the great trouble
and disappointment Of their lives came, broke
down utterly. Jessamine had sought and
obtained the situation Of" bookkecper in the
fourishing dry goods establishment Of "Allen
& Co." 1t is useless to speak Of her trials in
the rough path of life. cannot describe her
to you as she walked rapidly home that cold
December evening, but looking in her face
you would know it was one you could trust
always. She soon reached home and hasten
ed to her mothers bedside. 1t would have
done your heart good to see the lighting up
of the pale face, as Mrs. Lloyd turned and saw
Jessamine. But they were all in all to each
other this mother and daughter. After few
moments of silence, Mrs. Lloyd turned to
Jessamine and said, "Mr. Spencer is coming
tonight for bis answer my daughter what is
it to be-" She looked at her mother and then
at the comfortless room, and said with look
Of sadness on her sweet, patient face, Mother,
We arc very poor; in the many trying times
we have had, l think the future has never
looked quite so dark and hopeless as now
Mr.. Spencer is wealthy, and offers me home
for myself and you. do not love him, but
when ne comes will pledge myself to be his
wife" Do not blame her, you who are sur
rounded with all that makes life beautiful
On the ono hand she saw poverty, toll, priva-
ton; on the other, comfort, ease and luxury.
Can VIC wonder that she chose the latter? No
one knew of the many hours she bad spent in
trying to know her duty; and no one heard
when the cry from her heart arose for help to
do her duty Alright.


They were married few months later, and
very faithfully did Mr.. Spencer keep his
promise to Jessamine and her mother. Every
comfort that wealth could command was theirs,
and all that a noble, generous heart could in
vent was done for their enjoyment. And when
Jessamine saw and knew that her mother could
not be with her long, when all she desired
could be given without stint, with no thought
of the morrow, and that her last moments
could be made so peaceful, her heart was hap
py in the thought that through her this had
been accomplished. A few days later, when
husband and wife stood together by the bed
Of death, and closed in thOir last sleep the eyes
of her so dear to them both, Jessamine knew
that from the depths of heart came the words,
so full Of tenderness, Ny husband, I love
you"
Year: 1872

BoyED HAM.-Soak a nicely cured ham tho
night before you wish to cook it, in sepid water.
Next day place it in large dinner pot Of wa
ter Of the same temperature, and boil it briskly
eight or ten hours. Take it mp in a wooden
tray, let Il cool, and carefully take out tho
bone; cut it clear at the hook and loosen IL
around the bone on The thick part With thin,
sharp knife, and slowly pull it ont. Then
press the ham in shape and return it TO the
boiling liquor. Take the pot of the fire and
let the ham remsin in it, until cold. II is lie
beef tongue when cut across in slices.
Year: 1872

4 witness Of recent shooting affray in
Memphis, Tenn. utterly refused to testify in
the case, and was committed TO Jail for con-
tempt Of court. His testimony had once
when at college been the means Of hanging a
yorng friend unjustly. Kneeling beside the
dishonoTed corpse of his roommate he "tOok
a solemn oath never again to testify in any
case where his testimony might possibly cause
the extreme penalty of the law to be inflicted
upon any person" Rather than break this
oath he will remain in Jail for life.
Year: 1872

According to the New York Herald, frauds
in the tobacco and whisky business, amounting
to the handsome sum Of one hundred and sixty
millions Of dollars, were perpetrated under the
administration Of tho late Collector Bailey, in
New York. Bailey is fugitive from justice
10 South America.
Year: 1872

GAS EXPLOSION Lycurgus u. Uhler,
teller Of the Citizens National Bank, Alexan-
dra in entering the vault Of that institution
on Tuesday morning discovered strong odor
of gas, and touched match with view of
lighting the gas jet. In 4 moment he was
whirled around and blown out the door Of tho
vault with great violence, bis hair sngsd, his
face, hands and neck badly burned, and his
outer clothing scorched into shreds. II is sup
posed that the burner was not tightly closed,
end that the gas accumulated during tho
night in the vault. The noise Of the explosion
is said to have been like the report Of "a
pound gun Mr. U. lies in critical condition.
Year: 1872

A little boy after watching the burning Of
a schcol house until the novelty Of tho thing
had ceased, started down the street, saying
at am glad the old thing has burned down
I didn't have my jcgfry lesson, no how ?"
Year: 1872

A singular case of speedy retEibu;ion is re-
corded in the Louisville Commercial. Among
tho ruins of the Jacksonville Car Werks was
found body which it is believed, was that
Of the incendiary to whom the destruction of
The buildings must be attributed. lie entered
the structure through a small aperture which
afforded Just space enough to admit him.
On reaching the middle Of the building he start
ed bis fire, which, fanued by the high wind,
was too quick for him, and, blinded by tho
dense smoke, he struggled forward, and while
groping his way about was smothered. His
remains were hardly capable Of identification,
but he is supposed to be man discharged from
employment by the company several weeks
since.
Year: 1872




The Detroit City Record says that it is
very poor policy to circulate stories, or
make statements, the immediate effect Of
which is to retard the deyelopmenc of 4
community, and that for the sole purpose
Of gratifying miserable, contemplate
spirit Of personal spite, or petty jealousy.
4 good deal of this kind Of work, accord
Ing to the Record, has been going on in
that town for 4 time past, and some Of it
has come from parties whose good sense
ought to teach them better. 1t i happy
thought that such a spirit Of shortsighted
selhshnesS is confined TO Detroit City, away
out on the Northern Pacific Railroad We
hope that none of the citizens OF that un-
fortunate. place viii come to Superior, fer
Ne are fearful that in such IN event they
might teach some of our folks to circulate
stories, or make statements, the immediat e
effects OF which would be to rctard the de-
relopment of this community, and accom-
plish nothing but the sole purpose Of graft
flying a miserable, contemplate spirit Of
personal spite, or petty jealousy. Oh. no..
" do not want any OF that kind of people
III our town. We are just rs well off with
out them We do not need them, we do
not, really.
Year: 1872

expenses swcllcd the volume of their


extravaganza, that their expenditures in


inc years OF peace were greater than in
me years Of wax. The truth is, they had
gottcii INTO such cXtravagant ways that
thcy could not check up when the war


was over. But We intend to drive them
naked and exposed from this last cover
Tor their extravaganza, and sweep from
under their sinking feet the last atom OF
ground on which they can hope to stand.
throwing out everything connected
with the war, let us now examine what
are termed the mere ordinary expenses
OF the State Government, which should
be no largo IN inc Of war than in the
Years Dt lfn.c..
Year: 1872

Lei us now come down to later date.
Alter holding power in this State from
1900. the Radical party met with de-
feat III 1870, and we now propose to
contrast their last year in office with the
iir>t year OF the new Democratic admin
istraiion. The following table will
snow the expenses of the State Depart
menis for 1870, the last year Of Radical
RUE. ara 1871. the first year Of Demo-
cratic rule:
Year: 1872

The spring in which this war written was the
last time that the writer saw the scenes de-
scribed, for before the return of another spring
her spirit had taken its fight to where flowers i'm
mortal bloom in unfadng beautyl


The winter that ruled, with so mighty a sway,
Like monarch dethroned, hath stolen away,
And earth once again, on her forehead so brown,
Bears the token Of spring, like beautiful crown.
Golden winged vapors like messengers fly,
Bearing the tidings across the blue sky,
And the pleasant voiced wind coming out of tho


wood,


Hath prophesy now Of every thing good.
The buds of the maple, the birch and the beech.
Throw of their brown caps and list to its speech.
And the violet opens its eye in the hedge,
And the brook runs laughing from under the


ledge.


On the wild wood knols, where the sunlight hath


fell,


Iho twining arbutus hath hung out its bell
ANA the winter starved bee thus early doth como
Io I'LL the sweet bell with its tremulous hum.
There the wee vinelets meet and gracefully cross
Their delicate stems on the emerald moss,
and among the green forms that soonest awake.
Is seen the quaint horn of the curious brake.
Oh, ye that are heavy laden with sorrow and care.
70 out in the sunlight and breath the soft air
That bring fragrance like incense and myrh
FROM the balsanic leaves of the cedar and fir
Go list to the music that nature hath made.
Like life stirring anthems triumphantly PLAYED,
FOR the new wakened earth forgetting her years,
Is singing once more the song Of the spheres.
LOOK up once again and take by the hand.
The promise OF hope that ever shall stand.
That the perishing to dust doth return.
The light of the spirit forever shall burn.
Year: 1872

thousands who died that it might yield


the fruits of patriotism and virtue. Let


US sesk to elevate the masses to higher


state of national and individual virtue.


Let the spirit of christian patriotism be
widely diffused, that the rights of all
may be acknowledged and maintained /;
securing to the high and low, the rich
and poor, oc every race and color, who
dwell under the broad egis Of our Re-
public the blessings of liberty and equal
ity, so justly granted and secured by the
freest government upon the earth. These
blessings may then 60 on, increasing in
their influence to cheer and bless future
generations, and our nation now so rap
idly increasing in the true elements of
national greatness and power, shall stand
forth, ever the model Republic of the
world in intelligence and virtue, wealth
and power, commanding the homage and
respect from the nations of the world, to
which it is so Justly entitled.