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Year: 1873

A gentleman in the cab line on the
arrival Of a party of Quakers at the
terminus spotted them, and thought
to do & neat and tactful thing, so be
said to the eldest broadbrim, "Will
thee have a carriage?" OF course the
delighted party hired the cab. "Has
thou thOu's luggage?" he next in
quired. They ali got out again.
Year: 1873

The vampire superstition has again
been revived in Europe. BY this sim
gular belief the idea exists that q
buried man or woman, with its life
still conscious, arises from its grave
ct night, and sucks the LIES blood Of
its nearest relative. Every person
bitten by vampire becomes himself
a. vampire, and Is forever doomed to
this dreadful occupation. To crush
out this horrible superstition It viii
yet become necessary for Germany to
pass a law against eannibalism-
which of itself is q striking comment
ON nineteenth-century civilization.
Year: 1873

This story is told of woman who freely
used her tongue 10 the scandal of others,
and confessed TO the priest what she had
done. He gave her rioe thistle top, and
told her to go out in various directions and
scatter the seeds, one by one. Wondering
at the penance, she obeyed, aud returned
and told her confessor. To her amazement,
he told her to go back and gather the scat
tered seeds; and when she objected that it
would be impossibia, he replied that it
would be still more difficult to ga her up
and destroy all the evil reports which she
had circulated about others.
Year: 1873

THE origin of tea is thus told by the
Hindoo mythologists. Darms, a prince of
that country, went on pilgrimage to China,
vowing he would never rest on the way.
But he once, worn out, fell asleep, and was,
on waking, so angry with himself that he
cut off his eye-lids and flung them on the
ground. They sprung up as tea shrubs,
and to this origin is due the power Of tea
to produce wakefnlness.
Year: 1873

The storm continues, accompanied by


light rain. Last night in the crowded Gel
lars in the older parts of the city, the poor
had to hattie with the rats driven from the
sewers by the rising food, and their wretch
Year: 1873

BEGIN with considering him the best,
and brightest, and most beautiful child
upon the face of the earth. Look upon
him as the eighth wonder of the world!
Tell everybody so. Keep telling them so
until he is big enough to hear and under
stand, for he should not be suffered to
grow up in ignorance of his own import
ance.


Stuff him with sugar-plums when he
cries. 1t will teach him to cry more, that
he may get more sugar -plums. 1t will
give him a suggestive lesson in causes and
results. He ought to cry. Healthy chill
dren always cry, and it is healthy to listen
to them. Crying develops the lungs
wards off early consumption.


Always let him have his own way. If
you do not, it will break his spirit, and
what is boy good for whose spirit has
been broken?


Solomon's head was not level when he
said: Spare the rod and spoil the
child" Probably his brain was softening
Never command him to do anything
Ask HIM to do it if he pleases, but if he
doesn't please, never oblige him to. 1t
might rouse his temper, and give him an
attack of collie or indigestion.
If he should become disobedient and
impudent, as perhaps he may-children
are liable to-consult doctor at once.
If you fee this gentleman well, he will tell
you that the child has .'too much brain
large mental activity; mind of unusual
precoclty," ETC., etc, all of which will be
pleasant for you to hear, since it will give
you the idea that you have brought gen
lus into the world. He will tell you that
the child mustn't be crossed. You must
be careful how you deny him what he
wants. Must not let him get angry. Let
him have his way


After he gets older, he will be likely to
learn the manly science of profanity and
the gentlemanly accomplishments of
drinking and gambling.


Well, youthful spirits must be run off
in some way-must have some outlet. Say
as thousands have said before you, that
you would rather have two knaves than
one fool in the family. That is a very
nice way of putting it, and consolng too


Make much of his bright sayings. Re-
peat them to your friends, if they don't
see wit in them, it is because they haven't
brains enough to see wit in anything


Let him begin young to order the SER
want, so as "to get his hand in Give
him all the money he wants to spend.
Let him go out evenings. Don't tie him
| to his mothers apron-strings and make a
milk-sop of him.


If he calls you governor" and his
mother " the old gall don't reproye him
1t is only young America cropping ont
and isn't America "the land of the free
| and the home of the brave ~


Get him revolver by the time he is
ten, so that he may be ready for emergen-
cies-a watch, and a revolver, by all
means. AT eighteen he will need fast
horse and betting-book. r
| Persevere in this course, and by the
time he is twenty-five the world will have
| heard from him at the end of a rope or in
Congress-nobody can foresee which.
In this democratic country who can
| predict results?-Neao York Weeklg
Year: 1873

Opposite the Wells stables on Market
street is boarding house frequented by
a number of street Car conductors and
drivers and among the boarders there is
a young man named Leslie, a conductor.
He is much addicted to somnambuIism,
and in his abnormal condition he some
times performs feats which would tax the
skill of the most practiced gymnast
Night before last, while in a fit of SOM
nambulism, his performances were wit
messed by two or three hundred persons.
His room is in the third story of the
house. f. I'm which access can be gained to
the roof. On the night in question, be-
tween eleven and twelve o'clock, he was
observed upon the roof in his night-dress,
going through a series of performances of
the most unique description, a sort of
tumble of acrobatic, military and pugilis


tic maneuvers, astonishing to behold, and
especially SO in view of the dangerous
locality where they took place. No man
in his ordinary condition of mind would


be induced to attempt the performance Of
such feats in such place. A flip-fiap
somersault from the edge of parapet
wall sixty feet high is something frightful
to contemplate, yet that was among the
minor feats of this wonderful performer


After running up and down the parapet
walls of two or three of the adjacent
houses, climbing around the chinneys on


the outer side, dancing hornpipes. on the
ridge pole, sitting on the caves with his
legs dangling over, and numerous other


games of that sort, he finished up with a


performance of slack-wire walking on the


iire-a telegraph, the wires of which


passed over the building adjoining his
boarding house During the performance


of this feat, which he did with as much
apparent ease as he would walk on the
sidewalk, the spectators below were in
breathless suspense, expecting every mo-
ment to see him fall to the ground and be
dashed to pieces. After continuing this
exercise for few minutes, he suddenly
iumped on to the roof of the house,
sprung up from thence to that of his own
place of abode, which was six or eight
feet higher, and from thence took flying
leap into the window of his own room,
which was open, and the performance


was closed Every one was afraid to in
terfere while it was going on, lest fatal
results might ensue, but as soon as he en-
tered his room, several of his acquaint-
ances rushed in and found him lying on


the bed sleeping soundly. He was with
difficulty awakened, and appeared entire
Iy unconscious of what he had been
| doing. His feet were found to be badly
lacerated by the bricks and telegraph


wires, but otherwise he did not appear to


have suffered injury.-4Kissourl Repud-
lican.
Year: 1873

from the peels, and boil in waters pint
TOR dozen pulps-to extract the acid. A
few minutes boiling is enough; then
strain the water with the Juice of the
lemons; put pound of white sugar to a
pint of the juice; boil ten minutes, bottle
1t, and your lemonade is ready. Put
table spoonful or two of this lemon syrup
into glass of water, and you have
healthful, cool drink
Year: 1873

Feeble and faint, and grim and gray,


Ia his las, dark hour The Old Year lay;
And heavily came his parting breath,


And Dis eyes grew dim in the mists % death
Yet iE months past. when the Spring time smiled.
This gray Oh year was a merry child
And he riyaled the lark il cleft the air,
And 'Eined bright bulls in his golden hair.


Then the Summer came, and the buds were flowers,
And the nightingale sang In the blooming bowers
And a pensive youth, he loved the night,
And The silent stars, and the pale moonlight
sun The months rolled BY, and the autumn now
Gave it, golden fruit from each bending bough
Aud with mind mature, he had reached, at length,
The full perfection Of manly strength.
But the leayes grew sere, and the autumn passed,
And the tall trees bent 20 the wintTy blast
And the days wore on, and the end drew nigh,
And the weary Old year lay down 10 die.
Feeble and faint, and grim and gray,
In his last dark hour the Old Year lay;
And heavily came his parting breath,
And his eyes grew dim in the mists Of death
Yet not alonc-for Old Time stood there;
lie watched at his side with paternal care
And he gaz-I on the glass in his ygithered hand,
And jeai0usly counted each ebbing sand.
Nay not aone-fDr company vast,
The shades Of the numberless years Of the past
EneireIed the couch where the dying year lay,
And mounfuIy beckoned his spirit away.
Then sullenly toIisd from a crumbng tower,
The solemn strokes Of the midnight hour
And the ghost or the gray Old Year was free,
With the shadowy past, in eternity
Year: 1873

COMPULSORY VoTING.-The newspapers in


various quarters are beginning to discuss the
subject of compulsory voting, and some appear


to advocate it itserieusly. They want laws passed
or constitutional amendment adopted to


make voting imperative upon free American
citizens, and a failure to vote punishable by
fine and imprisonment. It is difficult to inn
agine how any public print or public man in
America can seriously entertain such pr0pO-
sition for moment. The very phrase "com-
pulsory voting" is contradiction. Voting
implies choice, and q choice cannot be c0nl-
pulsory. To make voting compulsory would be
to undermine the foundation upon which the
republic stands, by All arbitrary act Of tyranny.
The will Of the people expressed by their free
choice is the bloom which preceded all the fruit
Of our republican institutions.


II a man wishes to stay away from the polls
on election day. his right to do SO is unques-
tionable. He is exercising his free choice and
republican privileges just as much as the man
who votes. That is his way of expressing his
opinion of the candidates to be voted for He
ought not to be compelled to vote for man
whom he may consider unfit to hold Office, and
he may place all the candidates in this category.
That is his right, and to vote for his own man
in such a case would be foolish 1t would be
far more republican to compel man to marry
after certain age, as some of the ancients did
than to drag hun to the polls or punish him for
his refusal TO GO An election place under the
operation Ot such law would be public pill
lory of opinion, and it would fail in every sug-
geston Of free government. Every voter
would feel degraded under the pressure OF
c compulson to vote Better leave the way to
the ballot box free, as is the ballot itself-.No
Republican.
Year: 1873

SCHOOL MARINA benevolent and kindly
dispositioned school marm. somewhere in the
classic wales of Kentucky, is in the habit OF
Furnishing refractory pupils by holding them
up, aud gently shaking them, by the ears. A
few days ago n boy more ungovernable than
the rest, pulled his ears out by the roots and
fell to the floor, for which act Of outrageous
disobedience, the young outlaw was very
properly severely punished Who now will
say thatwe are no better than our fathers were I
Year: 1873

RAILROAD matters on this coast seem
To be considerably mixed up just now.
Some sales have already been made, and
there are rumors Of many others about to
be consummatcd. If there is any truth
in these reports, we may look for an al
most entire change Of proplietorship in
our milnad lines.
Year: 1873

TIE Senate Committee on Elections
submitted preliminary report on the
Louisiana matters to the Senate. The
report is that neither the Greeley nor
Grant electors were gally elected that
the Committee are not prepared to report
whether or not Louisiana has legal
State Government.
Year: 1873

II Congress refuses to grant or lease n
po ton OF Goat Island to the Central Pa
ciic Railroad Company, it is proposed to
ask Congressional aid in dredging San
Antonio Creek, on the Oakland side of
the Bay, and fixing a terminus there.
Whether San Francisco will claim that
will iniuge the harbor, remains to be seen.
Year: 1873

TUNNELING THE BAY.-A proposition
has been laid before the Board of Super
visors of San Francisco, wherein it is
proposed to tunnel under the Bay from
Oakland to San Francisco the tunnel to
be used for railroad purposes and to cost
from seventy to eighty millions of dollars.
Year: 1873

10 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


There Is one feature OF this Cuban massacre
which / think deserves special mention and con-
sderaton that is the execution OF the poor sailors
or the Virginius.


Now admitting that the ship was in her charac-
ter all that these fends claim, were those unIortu-
nate sailors in any way responsible? At the time
they shipped they undoubtedly did so according to
United States law at that time the vessel had no
munitions OF war aboard, and it is not probable
that they knew more than her destination. Can
we afford to have our seamen murdered by the
dozens Can we as . nation tolerate such an out
rage on class OF men who have always stood by
us in our hour Of need? The families OF these mur
dered men must have tangible indemnity, and
such action must be taken by our government as
will prove to Jack that the government
or the country Is true to him as he
Is to it, The blood OF innocent brave
sailors OF the United States has been spilled. Will
anything bur the blood OF their murderers atone
for the outrage2 Give their surviving comrades
their fellow toers OF the sea--a chance to avenge
their deaths; and If they do NOT give their mur-
derers such lesson as will prevent recurrence,
am very much mistaken III the men OF the United
States Navy. Yours, truly,


AN AMERICAN SAILOR.
Year: 1873

We call ut tenton to our Seidlitz Powders 80 uni
ycrsaly popular everywhere. They made up
fresh and pure every few days and claim them to be
To be good they must be fresh and pure. This is
special claim, to provo which they need only to be
tried. Don't forget the place to get them, at


FUS'rER'S DRUG STORE
Year: 1873

conveying the mail on route No. -, from

 --, do swear that I have the ability pecuniarily to fulfill my obligation as such bidder; that the bid is made in good faith, and with the intention to enter into contract and perform the service in case said bid shall be accepted; and that the signatures Of the guarantors thereto are genuine, and that l believe the said guarantors to be pecuniarily responsible for and able to pay all damages the United States shall suffer by reason of my failing to perform my obligations, as such bidder.
Year: 1873

Tho Inhuman Celestials Before tho
Courts-A Horrible State of Affairs In
San Francisco-How . Woman and
Her Husba nd Arc Taken Before . Secret


Society.


SAN FRANCISCO, August =, 1873


Eight Cinnamon, members OF the secret tribunal
OF the Hip Yee Tong Society, were on trial to-day
before jury at the Police Court, on q charge OF
conspiracy to extOrt money from Lum Yat Sung,
by threats of death on his failure to pay $3.50 as
price for his wife, who ESCAPED from the keeper Of
q brOthel, to whom she had been Sold


Lun Yet Sung swore that soon after his marriage
he was summoned and taken before the tribunal
of the society, where thirty men were present and
the door secured by an armed guard; that All
Yee, one Of the prisoners, told him he must
pay the money or return the woman or he would
be killed; that the Hip Yee Tong Society would
spend $4,000 to secure his death; that he pleaded
he had no money. when they finally gave
him two days time to raise the amount
and released him, when he fed back to the Mission
School for prot ectiOn. Sung remains at the school
and does not go out unless escorted by white
men.


DR.. Lob Shi, who speaks English nuently was
sworn to translate q large number of documents
which were found by the police IN the
rooms Of the society. He translated several:
was kept Of the sale OF woman
to the keepers of brothel and punishments In
ficted upon her, he refused to 90 any further.
The Court admonished him, but still he refused to
proceed.


The Court threatened to send him to jail, but he
siVen V til p' Monssy SDs a"o to oonsder as the mat
ter. A complete translation OF all the documents
found Is in the hands OF the authorities. The trial
Will continue on Monday next.


Great crowds Of Cinnamon are watching the pro.
ceedings in the case with eager interest.
Year: 1873

The Fusion OF Bourbon Intcrests-The


Prospect OF . Restoration.


Count de Chambord has, as we are informed
from Vienna, again accepted the throne of
France. The tender was made to him by q
deputation of French legtimists some short
time since. He has now directly replied, ac-
cepting. He always and ever accepts; it is
according to dynastic rule and in accordance
with the creed of Divine right Whether the
King dc jure will be more lucky in his crown
realizations just at present than he has been
heretofore remains for solution. He argues
his case with great ingenuity, as will be seen
elsewhere in the columns of the HERALD.


From Vienna we learn that the Count
aforesaid, who hopes to be Henry the
Fifth, has politely returned the visit of
the Count de Paris The interview we are
told, lasted an hour. It is said that the Count
de Paris formally acknowledged the Count de
Chambord to be the head of the house of
Bourbon and of the royal line of France. It
becomes evident that, for a time at least, a re-
conciliation, 80 far as the two princes are con-
cerned has been effected. Looked at from q
royalist standpoint, reconciliation of the
heads of the two houses-the elder and the
younger-is, in present circumstances, the one
thing needful. De Chambord, though mar
ried, is childless, and there is every reason to
believe that he will be the last representative
of the elder branch of the Bourbons. At his
death De Paris will be the recognized head of
t1o rop ;1x n hoo hooy, he Ia
sire of the French royalists to bring about q
reconcilation--the plan being that De
Chambord shall take the throne, De
Paris being recognized as heir ap-
parent De Chambord is ffty-three
years of age and De Paris Is thirty
five. 1t is no longer doubtful that Mac
Mahon favors q fusion of the interests of
the two houses and MacMahon, more
than any other man to-day, is master of the
situation in France. The imperalists are
understood to be more or less in favor of the
restoration, the Prince Imperial being yet too
young to allow them to push his claims with
any prospect of success It does seem as if q
determined attempt were about to be made to
stiAe the Republic. The Assembly is omnipo-
tent, and if the Assembly is determined to
restore the monarchy there is not, 80 far as we
can see, any power in France strong enough
to hinder them MaoMahon may be strong
enough to play the role of General Monk
but the French are peculiar people, and it
would not be at oil wonderful. strong as Mac
Mahon is with the army, if he should be
found counting without his host France ia
evidently on the eve of another crisis, and it
remains to be seen how she will comport her
self. The Republic ought not to go down
without struggle A royalist restoration
will not make the Empire impossible, nor
will it quench the hopes of republicans. The
old factions will remain, and the struggle for
supremacy will be resumed.
Year: 1873

The FRENCH INDEMNITY TO GKRMANY-
France has completed the payment of
the third quarter of the last milliard OF
the war indemnity to the Prussians. This
fact proves that France is really the
most wonderfully recuperative nation OF
the Old World, and also that her home in
dustrial resources are almost inexhsustible by
reason Of their rapid accumulation. Prussia
is placed on her ''last quarter" but Bismarck
will no doubt bear himself bravely in that sad
financial contingency
Year: 1873

STREET DISTRACTIONS have become matter
of suferance in this city, and few raise their
voices against them. Yet, if we mistake not,
there is law against such nuisances. The
streets of the city are popularity supposed
to be the property of the public. Building
contractors think otherwise. In this wonderful
reform age of ours would it be too much to
direct the attention Of the police and their
superiors to the many violations of the law
which meet the eye in all the cross streets up
town2
Year: 1873

AN EASTERN PRINCE IN DANGER OF AssAs-
srNArroN.-By telegram from Vienna we are
informed that the life of the Prince Hospodar
of Montenegro, Nicholas the First was
attempted by assassins yesterday. His High
ness was severely wounded. His predecessor
on the throne, Danio the First, was cut off
from life by the hands of murderers. The
sudden death Of Prince Nicholas, particularly
by assassination. would aQitate the Eastern
Year: 1873




favorably situated for making commodious
and beautiful piers wharves and docks, and
hardly any have worse They disgrace the city,
Yet the work that was projected is suspended
through false idea of economy and want Of
public spirit. No doubt the best system of
improvements along the whole water front on
both sides of the island could be executed
without any loss to the city or any unneces-
sary burden upon the taxpayers. With all the
superior advantages and facilities that would
be given to shipping the dues charged ship
masters and our merchants need not be in
creased vast revenue, fully sufficient 10 pay
interest on the cost of the improvements might
be derived from warehouse sites along the
docks and wharves. Then, what convenience
and saving it would be in the handling and
local transportation of merchandise if, in
connection with such beautiful sys-
tenn of piers, wharves and docks and
adjoining warehouses, there should be
freight as well as passenger railroads along
the rivers and crosswise into the business
centres. The filth, obstruction and confusion
we now see on the side of the rivers and by
the shipping would be removed in great part
or entirely


Look, too, at the markets, particularly at
Washington Market. Instead OF being
slightly and clean-clean enough, as it
ought to be, for ladies to vist-it is
simply disgusting and disease breeding
Washington Market and all the downtown
markets, which are much in the same con-
dition as that, should have handsome struc-
lures. be we'll drained and DO kept az clean ~