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Year: 1872

DR.. S. W. Mitchell, in Lippincott's 8
Magazine, writes an article about
"Phantom Limbs" and thus speaks of
the sensation of lost members of the
body, absent in fact but present in ner-
veus consciousness


There is something almost tragical,
something ghastly. in the notion OF
these thousands Of spirit limbs haunt
ing as many good soldiers, and every
now and then tormenting them with the
disappointments which arise when, the
memory being off guard for moment,
the keen sense of the limbs presence
betrays the man into some effort, the
failure of which of sudden reminds
him Of his loss. --s


Many persons feel the lost limb as
existing the moment they awaken from
the mercifnl stuper of the ether giver
to destroy the torments of the knife
others come slowly to this conscious
ness in days or weeks, and when the
wound has healed; but as a rule the
more sound and serviceable the stump
especially if an artificial limb be worn
the more likely is man, to feel family
the presence of his shorn. member
Sometimes blow on the stump viii
reawaken such consciousness, or, IS
happened in one case, reamputatior
higher up the limb will summon it agair
into seeming existence.


In many the limb will be recalled by
the man by irritating the nerves in it:
stump. Every doctor knows that, wher
any part of a nerve is excited by pinch
a tap, or by electricity-which is an al
together harmless means-the pain, if il
be nerve of feeling, is felt as if il
were really caused in the part of which
the nerve finally passes.


A familiar illustration is met with
when we hurt the "crazy bone behind
the elbow. This crazy bone is merely
the ulner nerve, which gives sensation
to the third and fourth fingers, and in
which latter parts we feel the numbine
pain of blow on the main nerve. II
we were to divide this nerve below the
elbow the pain would still seem to be
in the fingers, nor would it alter the
case were the arm cut off
On one occasion the shoulder was
electrified three inches above the point
where the arm had been cut off. Fol
two years the man had ceased to be con
scious of the limb. As the current
passed, although ignorant of its posi-
bic effects, he started up. crying aloud
ooh, tue hand, the hand?" and tried tc
seize it with the living grasp of the
sound fingers. AS the current was bro
ken the lost part faded again only to be
recalled by the same means. With 9th
ers it is presence never absent save ir
alann
Year: 1872

It was with utter amazement that we
read, the other day, in q morning jour,
nal, an advertisement requesting an
agent of some reliable life insurance
company to call on the advertiser, as he
desired to take cut policy. Did that
man realize what the consequences will
be7 Vast hordes Of life-insurance
agents will Immediately swoop down
upon that man. They will surround
him at his meals; they win bore him in
church; they will burst into the psrlor
while be is courting; they will shake
him up and wake him, and pull the Gov
ers off of him while he is in bed; they
will force themselves into the carriage
with him when he goes to funerals !;
they will break in upon him at family
prayers. If be closes and lock his
doors, they will slide down the chimney
with mortality tables; they will come
up through the drain-pipe with expla-
nations OF the ten year plan; they will
wrench off the windows shutters, SO as
to read death-rates to him; they will
shin up the water-spouts, and souse
down through the trap door in the roof
with documentary evidence that the er-
dowment-plan is the best one. If he
should seclude himself on a desert is


land, he would hardly step ashore be


fore he would see fifteen or sixteen hun
dred life-insurance agents padding
through the breakers in canoes. If he
should buy suit of submarine armor
and sink himself two miles deep in the
middle of the Atlantic ocean, he wouldn't t
touch bottom before an insurance agent
would be down there in a diving-bell
with doctor, asking questions about
the disease his grandmother died with,
and wanting to sound his liver. If, in
sheer despair, he should blow out his
brains, we actually believe that half the
life-insurance agents in the country
would commit suicide, in order to ex-
plain the tontine system to him as soon
as he got "over the river" The man
has evidently made a mistake.-A az
AdeIer, -.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Greeley's whole course while in
Congress was characterized by great ac
tivity--he was restlessly Industrious
there, as he is said invariably to be else
where-and was marked by a desire to
make all his work as a representative of
the people, count for their good. His
first recorded act was the introduction
by him, December 5, Of bill ITO dis
courage speculation i'll public lands, and
to secure homes thereon to actual set
tiers and cultivators." All through his
Short Term we find him laboring zeal,
ously to secure legislation which would
make our public domain a means to the
elevation of our poor man to independ-
ence and wealth We also find that he
guarded carefully the expenditures of
the public treasure so far as Congress
had the regulation of them, and when
appropriation bills were under consider
alton, he was as active and watchful as
Judge Holman himself. He never would
consent to any useless expenditures
On one occasion, the Army Appropria-
ton Bill being under consideration in
Committee of the Whole, he vehement


ly attacked the clause appropriating
thirty-eight thousand dollars for the
expenses of recruiting. He thought
the sum too large-the system of re-
cruiting was wrong any how. "He be.
lieves that an abundant supply Of men
could be found for the army by merely
putting up flag for them, as was often
done for hiring laborers on railroads
and other public works" He inveighed
bitterly against the methods pursued to
fill the ranks Of the army, charging that
intoxication, fraud, corruption and bri-
berry were used to "rob wives of their
husbands, and widows Of their sons,
under circumstances which would ordin-
arily render individuals liable for indict


ment" He contended that the army
was only kept up to fight Indians, which
was all wrong, saying that "if one half
the moEey now spent in Indian wars
was expended in keeping the indians
quiet, instead Of driving them out OF
the country, it would effect an immense
saving to the Treasury which has been
since tried, and proven pretty success
full Indian policy. This was only fe.
days after the beginning Of the session,
and showed that Mr.. Greeley did not
need to come to Washington and serve
term or two, to enable him to form
opinions as to what legislation was nee
|ded He had considered these questions
as fully, as private citizen, as he could
have done in Congress.
Year: 1872

a terrible sea was raging outside last night.


Tho tug Bismarck left her tow outside night
before last. on account Of the heavy southeast
wind. Tho brig VanSchwich brought them in
yesterday morning.


1t is reported that two unknown vessels are
ashore south Of this port
Already movement is being made toward
laying up the lumber shipping portion Of our
lake crafts II hayo been laid up in this port al
ready, and others will soon follow.
Year: 1872

WASHINGTON, June 3.-The Tax BILL as
agreed by the Committee Conference places spirits
at consolidated tax Of 70 cents proof gallon, and the
rect1ers' samp is reduced from TO 10 cents barrel
The act goes into effect the 1st of April on
all wines, liquors, cOmDounds known denominated
as wine, and made IN imitation Of sparkling wine or
ch ampagne. and all liquors not made from grapes,
currants rhubarb, berries not grown in tho United
States, but produced by being rectihed mixed
with distilled spirits, or by the infusion Of any
matter in spirits to be sold wine or
su bstute OF wine tax Of ten cents bottle or pack
age containing than one pint and not more than
quart and at the for any larger quantity
Of such merchandise however the may be put up,
or wha tever may be the package


The uniform tax OF 20 cents tobacco takes place ls
Of July next All tobacco and snuff stored In any
export bonded warehouse SHALL and after that date
within six months after the passage OF this
act, be withdrawn from such warehouse upon
the payment OF the tax, for export,
under regulations OF the Commissioners Of Internal Reyo
nue., now in force, concerning the withdrawal OF
any tobacco or snuff remaining ia any export
bonded warehouse for period OF more than six months
after the passOge OF this act shall be forfeited TO the


United states aud shall be sold or disposed OF for the
benefit Of the I'm such manner as shall be prescribed
by the Commissioner OF Internal Revenue under tue
direction OF the Secretary OF the Treasury.


and after the LIST OF October, lsil all the taxes lm-
DO scd by stamp and by virtue OF Schedule OF Section
I70 OF tho Act OF juno 5O 1854 except only the TAX c
Year: 1872

How CHILDREN SUFFER FROM FEAR.
No pain is more dreadful to endure
than fear. Few parents realize how much
their children suffer from this cause.
There is nothing to hurt you," is an as
surance which does not allay the apprehen-
sion. An underlined something existing
often only in the imagination, is the occa-
sion of just as real suffering as most tam
gible evil could be. This suffering from
fear has much to do with the almost uni-
versal dislike which children have of
going to. bed. They are left alone in
some chamber away from the family-a
wise arrangement 50 far es quietness is
concerned, and judicious entirely if the
child exhibits no fear. But only those
who remember what horrors possessed the
imagination when they, as children, were
left alone IN the dark, can fully realize
the suffering of nervous child. Il don't
mind you whipping me, father" said a
little fellow who had been repeatedly pun
ished for crying when put to bed alone,
IF you will only stay with me-
Year: 1872

A writer in our Masonic periodicals
discourses thus eloquently on the science
and literature of the Order:


Masonry has a literature that has come
down to US along the ages, gathering to
itself, century by century. and year by
year, still rarer gems of thought and
science and knowledge, until to-day. in
this advanced age of progression and
learning, we can point to the literature of
Masonry as not whit behind the progress
sive wisdom of the nineteenth century.
Were Masonry simple charitable society,
whose only attractions consist 10 well con-
fered degrees is it to be supposed for an
instant that this, alone would have pre-
sertsd attraction sufficient to bind to the
order the wise and learned men of the
whole world and of every age? No!
We're this all there were of Masonry it
never could have withstood the ruthless
current of time that has swept into OBJ
liyion systems. dynastics, and institutions
some OF them as ancient as herself. 1t is
because possessed of other virtues that it
has come down to US hoary with age, in
imperishable strength and silent grandeur,
like the adamantine foundation of earth
itself. And this attractive virtue is to be
found in its literature The wise who
have sought its shrine and penetrated its
arcana,5 have been surprised at It's full
ness. the depth. the beauty of its science.
The moral and religious have fingered
with pleasurable emotions over the wealth
of virtuous precepts and examples there
taught. The philanthropist receives
therefrom a stimulant to greater exer-
tions for the amelioration of mankind.
The scientific. antiquarian, and sage who
enter the Temple Of Masonic Literature,
find there rare, an exhaustable, intellec-
tual feast To those, then, who have
heretofore considered the acme ofMasonry
to consist in its charities and the polished
workings of its degrees. we recommend
that their attention be turned to its liter
ature, as the substance of Masonry. while
the workings of the Lodge are but its
forms. Read, and study it, then-it will
ennoble and polish the man, and fit
the mind as living stone for a place in
the great Temple of Souls.


..Litcr4turr-serenr philosophy


Ediisiye source of evidence and truth


Without thee what were uninlig ightened man


savage roaming through wood and wiius,


Rough clad void OF every liner art


And elegance OF liie."
Year: 1872

USEFUL TRUTHs,-Deserve friends
and you will have them. The world is
-teemipg with kind hearted people, and
you have only to carry kiud, sympathetic
heart in your own bosom to call out good
ness and friendliness from others.


1t is mistake to expect to receive wei
come. hospitality, words of cheer and help
over rugged and difficult passes in life, IN
return for cold selfshness, which cares for
nothing in the world but self.


Cultivate consideration for the feelings
of other people if you never have your
own injured. Those who complain of the
most ill-use are the ones who abuse them
selves and others the oftenest.


If life to you is not all you would have
il. seek to make it better and more enjoy
able yourself
Year: 1872

THE WINTER OF THE UEAET-Let
it never come unto you. Live so that
the good angel will protect you from that
terrible eyil-thc winter of the heart.
Let no chilling influence freeze the foun-
tain of sympathy and happiness in its very
blasted hopes, like snow ON ~iliered
depths: no more blasts If discontopted-
ness moan and sliriek through its dcsolate
chambers.


Your pathway may lead you among
trials which for u time, seemed utterly to
impede your progress, and shut out the
very light of heaven from your anxious
gaze. Poverty may take the place OF ease
and plenty; your luxurious homc may be
exchanged for single lowly room-the
soft couch for the pallet of straw-rich
viands for the coarse fcod of the poor.
Summer friends may forsake you, with
scarcely passing word or look of compass
sion. You may be forced to tell wearily,
steadily on, to earn livelihood you may
encounter fraud and the base avarice
which would extort the last fartling, till
u we'll nigh turn in disgust from your
fellow beings.


Death may sever the dear ties that bind
you to earth, and leave you in fearfal
darkness, That noble, manly boy, the
sole hope of your declining years. may be
taken from you while your spirit clings tc
him with wild tenacity which even the
shadows of the tomb cannot wholly subdue
But still look upward-put faith in proyl.
dence-and the winter of the heart vii
| not come to you.
Year: 1872

A whole family in heaven! Who can
picture or describe the everlasting joy
Nofather, nor mother. nor son, nor daugh-
ter is away. In the world below they
were united in faith and love aud peace
and Joy. LII the morning of the Resur'
rection they ascend together. Before the
throne they bow together in united adora-
ton. On the banks of the river of life
they walk hand in hand and, as family
have commenced career of glory which
will be everlasting. There is hereafter
to be no more separation in that family


No one is to lie down on a bed of pain
Never in heaven is that family to move
along in the slow procession, nor in the
habiliments of woe to consign one of it.
members to the tomb. God grant that il
His mercy every family may be united.
Year: 1872




One of the saddest sights to me is tha
of young girl drifting on the wide SCI
of life without mother There is som,
thing wanted in her life; something tha
was a part Of her daily being is lost, and
leaves avoid, a sense of incompleteDes
that is seldom filed. She is at the mercy
of the world, with no sure refuge to turr
to, no hand to guide and control he
wavering steps, no bulwark against the
shafts of temptation and malice.


Some natures doubtless feel the lone
illness of such position far less keenly
than Others; and circumstances of course
may rob the bereavement of much of it:
bitterness. But the gensitive, affection
ate child, who has once lived in the lighi
of a mothers holiest love, must ever fnd
life's pathway darker without it: and
believe me, however gay or frivolous she
may appear to you, there are hours when
the lonely heart inourns in secret over g
grife which you cannot comprehend.


In that hour so long ago. yet fresh as
yesterday in my memory-when they told
nue. my mother was dead, 1 felt that grie
was my own-a grief that could moi
carry to any bosom on earth, since
strange lesson for childhood's to learn
hers had grown cold to her child. And
never shall forget the sense of bcreaYe-
ment, the feeling of desolation. that
seemed to drive my frightened soul into
itself, as sat with my brother on the
steps of our home, and saw them hollow
ing out the deep. damp grave on the hill
where we had SO often gathered wild
flowers to lay on her pillow. We were
mothcrless. 1t was left to later years oi
sorrow and waywardness to teach US the
bitterest import of the word but we felt
then its weight, crushing our young heart
with their first great grief.


/ have no words in which to express
the loneliness and insolatian of the years
that followed But L feel sure that
many an orphan girl can understand
them


Early womanhood, bringing its fresh
sweet impulses, it's pure friendships and
and trusting condolences, changes and
brightens the whole existence of the or
phan girl as well as of others. And then
when it is felt the least, perhaps, is the
most perilous season of motherless girl
hood. Happy for her, if she escape the
faint of the worlds poison-if she walk
unharmed amid the snares in her path
way. with no mothers eye, to watch, nc
mothers hand to guide and guard. But
if she fall, what woman's eye looks pity
and compassion on her? The sIinted
mother in heaven, for aught we know
weeps tears. of forgiving tenderness ovel
her erring darling; but on earth she finds
no mercy.


oh be kind to the mothorless girl
even though she be hayward and thought
less And you,- mothers. who have
daughters, prattling at your feet or bud
ding into womanhood's rosy charins-pray
God to spare you to them! Though the
way seem long, and your burden heavy
ask not to rest your tired feet upon the
everlasting hills. For their sakes beal
the cross with patience, and ask for grace
to fulfill the noblest and most blessed
task given to woinan-that of true
! and faithful mothcr-Ladi:s Pea1t
Year: 1872

DANp1Es.-Boys. do not be dandies.
Do not imagine that fine dress or snowy
airs are going to carry you through the
world. Do not think that wearing pair
of eye glasses or carrying a gold headed
cane will create favorable impression on
sensible minds, These little things will
only make you appear ridiculous in soci, i,
ety. If many of you would spend bali
of the time in storing your minds with
useful information and common sense that
YOU do over your pomades, perfumery'
Shoe blacking, and the little semi-invisible
matches of downy hair on your faces, you
misname noustaches, it would enable you
to acquire accomplishments and graees
that would render your usefulness IN tins
world infinitely greater. and your lniiu'
ence of more consequence than 1T other.
wise would be.
Year: 1872

Stun AFFE EcTATIoN-There is moth
ing more beautiful in the young than SIM
p.icity of character. 1t tbs honest. frank


and attractive. How different is afiecta-
ton. The simple minded are always
natural. They are,- at the same time.
original. As for originality, if they ever
had it, they have crushed it out, and
buried it from sight utterly, Be your
self, then, your friend. To attempt to
be anybody else is worse than folly. 1t
is contemplate to try it. But suppose
you could succeed in initiating the great
est man that ever figured in history ,woald


that make youany better? BY no means.
You would always suffer in comparison
with the initiated one, and be thought of
only as a shadow of a substance. the
echo of real sound, and the conterfeit of
pure coin. Let the fabric of your char
acter, though ever SO humble, be at least
real. Shun affectation. go.
Year: 1872

KEEP THE HEART ALIvE.-The
longer | live, the more -expedient | find it
to cndeavor more and more to extend my
sympathies and affections. The natural
tendency of advancing years is to narrow
and contract those feelings. l do not
mean that wish to form new friend
ship every day: to increase my circle OF
intimates-these are very different affairs.
But find it conduces to my mental health
and happiness to find out all | can which
isamiable aud lovable in those L come in
contact with, and to make the most of it.
1t may fall very short of what L was once
wont to dream of; it may not supply the
place of what | have known, felt aud
tasted; but it is better than nothing. Ii
seems to keep the feelings and affections
in exercise it keeps the heart ali~e in. its
humanity and till we shall be all spiritual
this is alike our duty and our interest
| The MOrdUian.
Year: 1872

TsDITDN " ID hEoS


We have received the Little Rock Ga
zetie. 1t seems to be making haste slow
" in advocating the cause adopted by
the convention at Little Rock. If she is
going to work in this matter, let her come
out boldly at once; if not, let us know IL.
The people intend to have an organ at
the seat OF government which will advo-
cate our views, even if we have to start
another paper. The Gazste has done
noble work and we have sustained her
and appreciate her, but can't stop to dial
ly with these matters now, we mean bus-
mess. If there are any lagards let them
90 to the rear at once This is no
child's play, nor a fight for men, but a
work OF the masses for common good.


EARNEST
Year: 1872

lHE LOCAL NEwSPAPER.-The local
paper Is an absolute necessity to the
county and confannity where il is pub
lished. All the citv papers cannot sup
ply the place Of the Game papcr. That
should be the first love at every man
and woman, for with the paper i. the
locality Unidentified. The paper gives
the county aud town where printed
much of their Importance in the world.
and gives in detail the local news. which
cannot be gained bv any other source
Every days issue of the paper i 30 much
local history, and the rise, growth, and
development of the town and county
can be measured and record only by the
local newspaper that constantly Is gath
cring its items. The home paper at any
price is the cheapest paper one can take.
tor in il j. found the information to bs
obtained from Lo other sonrce.- Cyere-
iGUd Ue,uId.
Year: 1872

The SICK CHAMBER AT N1GHT.-The glare
Of the bright light at night tends to keep an
invalid from sleeping; and yet in many cases
it is not desirable to be in total darkness. If
burning candle has common salt put on the
melted part of it, until it reaches the black
part of the wick, it will not only cause the
candle to burn very slowly, but make it give
dim, mild and mellow light, proving very
agreeable to the invalid.


Another expedient in this connection. A
room can be very we'll ventilated, in the hotter
nights, by lighting candle and placing it on
the hearth in the fireplace; this causes
draught upward, which is promoted by the
fresh air coming in al an open window or door,
In the Winter, fire should be always burn
ing in the CRATE or fireplace, more necessary
at night than in the day time; it not only
keeps the air of the room pure and good, but
it prevents the room from getting too cool,
thus endangering pneumonia or lung fever, in
proportion as the invalid is debilitated.


Halls Journal Of Health.
Year: 1872

are extremely injurious to every age and sex
and condition of life. 1t ought to be the most
pressing necessity which should induce q per-
son over fifty to run twenty yards. Those
live longest who are deliberate, whose actions
are measured, who never embark in any en-
terprise without sleeping over it," and who
perform all the every day acts of life with
calmness. Quakers are proverbially calm,
quiet people, and Quakers are thrifty folk,
the world over.