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Year: 1875

The following beautiful lines are from the pen
Mrs. Mary E. Kali:
built an altar fair and bright,
And placed it on the sand
lts pillars decked with costly gems,
Were fashioned by my hand
OF all things great, on earth or sea,
said its workmanship should be
The finest in the land.


When from its censor of pure gold
saw the incense rise


Poor foolish heart. vainly asked,
Where is the sacrifice?


4 voice came throbbing through my brain
Your altar is but cay


A wave dashed high upon the shore,
And washed it all away


All! vain is sorrow now, / cried,
And useless is regret;


The clouds that broke my altar down
Are big with mercy yet.


tarncd to heaven and asked for help
To build again once more
And found the place to build would be
4 rock upon the shore.


Faith, Hope and Love then helped me rear
4 structure firm and high.
Its base is built upon rock
Its summit in the sky.


The flowers that on my altar twine
Shall bloom through all the years,
For when the sunshine dries their leaves
water them with tears.
VIII, II trials come and storms assail.
And sorrow leaves its trace
The rock whereOn my altar stands
II my sweet hiding place.
Year: 1875

A Paris correspondent, who has fallen,


doubtless, into the European practice of eat


ing late suppers, says it is mistake to sup
pose the medical faculty hostile to sleep fol-
lowing supper. He discussed the question
recently with an able physician, who said to
him: ''There is nothing more absurd than
to pretend that it is unhealthy to sleep imme-
diately after the days last meal. Is not man
an animal? Do not animals, without excep-
ton, sleep Immediately after eating? Do we
not feel like sleeping after each days last
meal? And is it not by an effort that we
shake off sleep? Evidently the body yearns
for Sleep Exercise Immediately after every
meal is pernicious. Rest is healthful. What
rest is compared with sleep which reposes the
mind, the lungs, even the heart? See the
peasants. No person enjoys better health
than they do. Supper is the best meal of
their day. No sooner have they supped than
they 60 to bed. Look at the actors. There
was Cubinni. He dined at three, went to his
dressing room in the Italian Opera House and
slept till the theatre opened its doors. At
midnight he supped heartily, and straight to
bed he went He died of sheer old age You
know Mons. Theirs habit? The moment
dinner ends be stretches himself out to sleep,
and sleeps an hour. sThe truth is, if you look
about you, there will be found that the great
majority of men go to sleep Immediately af-
ter making their best meal. You certainly
never saw anywhere in the world healthier
or stronger women than those Of the great
markets. What is their rule of life? Dinner
and to bed. Take another, the very opposite
class astronomers. They keep late hours.
Their best meal is taken when the stars say
Good night Then they 60 to sleep. Did
you ever hear of an astronomer dying under
100? The great majority of servants and
mechanics 60 to sleep Immediately after TAX
ing their best meal. They are right. They
obey Natures voice, which always gives ju-
diciOus counsel.
Year: 1875

gFrom ''The French at Home


The face of the American woman is more
| beautiful than that of the native of any other
country. 1t has delicacy of color and feature,


and fineness and intellectually in expression;
but the body supporting the head, regarded


from an artistic and hygienic point Of view,


is inferior. For breathing and digesting, the
| upper part is lacking in depth. In word,
the American is more fragile; she is hardly
a Diana, and the French is something more,
although not the Hebe of Rubens. The
French woman's face is as handsome as that
of any other in Europe, and fades more slow
ly At forty she glides into an embonpoint
with an unwrinkled face and good COM
plexion-at the age when English women
become heavy necked, frowsy, and the Amer
ican pale and wrinkled. The climate has
something to do with this, but doubtless her
nourishing food, generous wine, and out OF
door air much more. Her mode of living
contributes thereto-the exercise and devel-
opment of each function in a more natural
and sensuous manner than with us. There
are ascetic ideas in America which have
tendency to retard the physical development
of woman; for mind mOlds matter. The ex-
tremes of American life are unfavorable to
healthy growth, in its fastness as well as its
asceticism, where the flesh is corrupted by
dissipation or mortified by certain religious
teachings. Aside from these causes is pre-
valent notion that it is beneath the dignity of
men and women to occupy themselves with
what they shall eat and what they shall drink.
The American has more intellect than her
French sister, but the latter has sottness
where she has pertness. There is nervous
excitability in one, mellowness and equality
of character in the other. The forced, bril-
liant vitality of women in America is subject
to fits of reaction, for nature has its limit.
In the French woman the mind is more even
and cheerful, and in the absence of exhaust
i've and irregular demands made upon it, the
uniform health is better. In qualities of
purely mental character, the equal of the
American woman cannot perhaps be found
in the world; but with all her knowledge and
intellectual activity, she lacks that which
made the Greeks what they have been and
the French what they are-organic cultiva-
ton. Entwined in these words are taste and
art. A ripper civilizatian, though not purer,
shall invest her with knowledge of these
things, and harmony of character not now
possessed; and with it will come, alas! that
decadence in morals which always marches
on the neels of the beautiful in every age and
in every climate. It is sad that such heavy
tribute should be exacted as the price of an
added enjoyment, but art is inexorable.
Year: 1875

happy thought" struck Ronald. He
forthwith booked it," This was to get
payment of interest for seven years on
the money. THIS the bank refused to
pay, and he accordingly brought suit
against the bank to compel its payment.
The case came to trial in tie Superior
Court, Circuit, part /, before Judge
Speir 1t took but a short time to put
in the testimony for the prosecution,
developing the facts related above. AS
soon as the plaintiffs last witness had
left the stand motion was made, on
behalf Of the defense, TO dismiss the
complaint, on the ground that accept
ance Of the principal was bar to re-
covery Of interest. This was argued


long and learnedly, and then Judge
Speir denied the motion, after which a
recess was taken. On the reassembling
OF the court the counsel announced to
the court that in the interview the case
had been settled by plaintiff agreeing to
accept $780, And thus ended the suit.
Year: 1875

The Danbury man writes from Europe
pathetically You have seen pictures
Of shepherds with the proverbial crook
in their hands. | didn't think a party
could be a shepherd without this crook.
| was glad that the first man | saw tend
ing sheep carried one Of these crooks.
didn't know what crook was for, but
always believed that it was badge for
the occupation, whose origin could not
fathom, handed down from century to
century since the time sheep were in
vented. Imagine my genuine disgust
when | saw this shepherd use the sacred
crook to capture the straying animals by
catching hold of one of their hindlegs
and tripping them up. The awful truth
came upon me like fash, and | sat
down heavily, broken hearted man.
had thought its beautiful emblem, and il
proves to be hindleg snatcher. must
have more salary or | will sink into an
early grave, | fear"
Year: 1875

"A COMMON EXPERrEYCE.-Mr. Mid
dlerib limped little when he went home
the other night and, evinced feverish
haste 20 get his boots off. Soon after


supper he drew his razor out Of tho case,


and in response to his wife's inquiry if he


was going out, he snarled out Nav


Wv, he wasn't" Then she didn't think


to ask him what be was going to do. She
watched him whilc he barred his dexter
foot; then he laid his bare foot across his
left knee and made an "ofier" at it with
the razor, but stopped short. Then he
reached undor the foot with the razor and
came Up with it on the other side and re-
mained in that position a few moments
in deep thought. Then. he took the razor
in the other hand and bending forward
until all the blood in his system settled
just above his eyes and his head was


about six inches from the stove, he caught
hold of his little toe and made slash at
the corn on it with the razor. By this
time his head was so hot that the hair
fairly cracked so he straightened up and
moved to the other side of the room, and
testify said ho wished that he had G,0OO,-
900 lamps and he might be able TO have
one when he wanted to use it. His wife
took the lamp from the sewing table, and
put it on the floor beside him. Then he
reached his bare foot up as near to his hip
as he could and made dive at the corn
again. Then he tried holding his foot in
front Of him and leaning out after it, but
he could touch any part OF it, he said, ex-
cept the corn. Then he put his foot down
fiat on the floor and stopped down to it.,
and began carving. His wife and daugh-
ter could only tell how he progressed by
the sibilant sounds nc made in drawing
in his breath between his teeth. He did
this once or twice, then suddenly dropped
tho razor with brief but expressive re-
mark bearing on the subject Of future
punishment and sarcastcally wanted to
know if he should 60 down town and buy
n rag or could he get ono in the house,
and two or three old shirts and sheets


were instantly. rendered him when he
very carefully tied up his thumb, and
gazing thoughtfully at the unscathed
corn which decorated his toe in all the
glory Of its untouched hardness, said he
would employ the services Of the first
regularly ordained chropodist that came
along. For if there be anything in the
world that can compel man to go into q
variety Of painful and ridiculous contor-
tions without accomplishing anything, it
iscarving a Burlington Haaoheye.
Year: 1875

The farmer planted a seed,


A little, dry, black seed;
And off ho went TO other work
For the farmer was never known to shirk-
And cared for what he had need.
Tho night came OH with its dow,
The cool and silent dew;
Tho dawn came, and the day,
And the farmer worked away
AT labors not a few.


Home from his work one day
One glowing Summer day
His children showed him perfect flower;
1t had burst into bloom that very hour,
Ho'o, cannot say.


But know if the smallest seed
In the soil of love be cast,
Both day and night will do their part:
And the sowcr who works with a trusting


heart


VIII find tho flower nj last.
Year: 1875

THEY have some bumptious girls at
Ft. Scott. A young man of that town
went out riding with two of them the 9TH
er day and they got into row over their
claims on his affections, and in their
struggle the object of their attachment
was knocked overheard and tho horses
ran back to town with the girls, leaving
the man who was loved too much to plod
in afoot.
Year: 1875

The pilot organizations in our differ
ent cities appear to be very sharp In
looking after legislation in their exclu.
sive behalf Those of New York have
already got new bill before the Leg
islature of that State to counteract the
force of the recent decision of the New
York Court of Appeals against oT-shore
pilotage. 1t Is stated that the new bill
Is not only intended to set aside the dc.
cision. but to Incl ease the pilot fees.
TIE Shipowners' Association have pro.
tested against the bill, as well as over
two hundred merchants, who declare II
will be injurious to the commerce oi
New York,
Year: 1875

A SILVER BULEr-A somewhat re-


markab'c occurrence is exciting pco.


pie in the vicinity Of Hastings, Michi-


gan, and inducing something almost


like superstition. A farmer, travelling


through a dense piece Of woods, came


suddenly upon huge buck stretched


out upon the ground and evidently
engaged in closing up his affairs with


life. There was no wound upon the
animal, and it was apparently dying
merely of old age. The farmer mcrci-
fully put the buck out Of misery by a
bullet in the head, and then, doubtless
with buckskin gloves and brccches in
mind, cast his eye over the skin of the
animal. A hard round lump just be
meath the hide attracted his attention
and was cut open, when, to the farm
crs surprise, there was revealed a sill
yer bullet, such as was once used for
carrying secret messages. The bullet
was taken home. when. after much
difficulty, the farmer succeeded in un-
scrcwing the thing, revealed a mes
sage written in cipher upon paper OF
the greatest thinness. Naturally, this
discovery attracted much attention in
the ncighhorhood, and persons sup
posed 70 be experts have been called
upon to test their skill in translation
thus far without effect. The bullet
does not appear greatly marrcd, and
there is no clue Of any kind TO its his
tory The only plausible explanation
which has suggested itself is that the
bullet, entrusted 10 some messenger
years ago, by al accident became
mixed with lcadcn balls and was so
lodged in the buck where il was car
ricl about until the aEimal died of
sheer old age This is merely the the
pry advanced. unsupported by sin
rlc fact bearing upon the curious
problem which the farmers are trying
10 solvc-Er.
Year: 1875

ADVERTISING A. A MEANS or Success


Somebody says that successful mcr
chants are those who have advertised
in some way. Advertisement of ones
business is absolutely necessary to
success Where advertising does no
direct ft-if such thing be pos.
sblc-it co,fcrs indirect advantages
by building up the newspaper press,
which advcrtiscs and illustrates the
city and its citizens to the world. We
have never seen good business man,
thorough in his business affairs that
did not make advertising profitable
We regard judicious and sharp adver-
tising as a means Of success. No
man who can give this subject due
consideration and practical trial can
fail to be convinced Of its great innu-
cncc upon trade. 1t creates business
and if every merchant advertised LID
orally and .judiciously, we arc salts
fed it would greatly increase their
trade.
Year: 1875

The adage that providence helps
those who help themselves" don't ap-
ply to those who help themselves to
the best on the table, and leave their
fellow-boardcrs to skirmish for the
rest.
Year: 1875

UNDER the Act of Congress offering
one hundred and sixty acres Of land t,
any person who would plaat forty
acres of them in trees and cultivate
them for eight years, about one thou.
sand and one hundred persons had ta-
ken up one hundred and seventy thou
sand acres of land in Minnesota up to
January last. Other western States
and Territories are following in like
proportion.
Year: 1875

THE Providence Press says it never
heard in funeral grafton or sermon,
and seldom in private conversation, the
opinion expressed that man with a
ten thousand dollar income had gone
to hell.
Year: 1875

"R-Acs!"-Just as the rays of the
rising sun gilded the rosy morn, and
the lark brushed the dew from his
brown feathers and trilled Joyous
lay, the voice rose from the walk and
penetrated the ears of every sleeper
for a block around. It was not voice
crying "Excclsiorw or voice raised
in adulation Of the beauties of a joyous
morning. 1t was plaintive voice..
and there was quaver to it as it
called out:


"R-agsw


When the great bell struck the hour
of noon, and the busy streets were de-
serted by all save slowly-meandering
policeman or two, and an occasional
lad hurrying along with dinner-pail
in his hand, plaintive voice sounded
along the streets and echoed and rever-
berated in the stairways. It was not
the voice Of good man, admonishiug
the people to turn from the error Of
their ways. 1t was not the chant Of
the auctioneer, giving third and last
CALL nor was it the monotonous, mu.
sical slang of the man who sells set
of gold jewelry for the paltry sum of
twenty five cents. 1t was voice cry
ing:


"R-agsw


When the golden sun dipped behind
the horizon, and the evening shadows
chased each other across his face and
wavered and quivcred above Times
grave, there came riding on the quiet
evening air long drawn wall 1t was
not the cry of a child in pain. 1t was
not the sad sob of loving wife as she
bent over the cold and litcless form of
a kind husband. 1t rose with the shad-
ows, sounding through halls and crept
into chambers. 1t was that same cry,
that same


"R-ags.-Detrou Free Press.
Year: 1875

MUST GO TO SCHOOL OR HAVE AN EXCUSE The law is that all children between the ages of and Fl must attend school at least three mouths in each year, provided they live within two miles of school, or render an excuse for being absent, and yet we are credbly informed that there are quite number running riot and growing up in ignorance about town and in the vicinity The object Of the school law is to provide the mean. by which the children of the poorest people may have an equal show for an education with the weaitniest, and the compulsory clause is enact ed in the interest of such children as have pa- rents too ignorant or too careless of their chil. dren's welfare to see that they attend upon the means provided for their benefit. Those who have children running wild would consult their own and the children's interests by immediately gathering them up and starting them to school. If they are too poor to buy books, all they have to do is toapply to the trustees, who are bound to provide them.
Year: 1875

FIRE ALARNs-There was an alarm of fire a short distance south of our office. on Wednesday evening" proceeding from & building in the rear of Ben Liudenbaum's shop, but it was subdued before doing any damage. We heard of another somewhere on Cortez street the same evening, out think 1t did not amount to much, There has From time 10 time been efforts made to provide against lire, but they all fall through with. the occasion that calls for them at the time, and to- oay the town is entirely at the mercy of hre should one get started. What became or the nook and Ladder movement of few months ago we are not informed. We had the authority oi the city council for telling people where the nooks and ladders could he fourd in case Of need, yet have never seen one of the hooks or ladders at the places named or elsewhere. We know Of nothing in the way of fire company tnat will enlist the interest of its members unless nas an engine, then they will take pride in 1t ano Keep 1t in working order. Such company snould be organized and an engine bought, even II took all the money that could be raised by "xsf'on, the sale of lots and otherwise. If some socn palpable evidence of real benefit from the sh'age government should manifest itself we mould probably hear of no more efforts to disin- corporate.
Year: 1875

A QUESTION OF TIME.-IIorn says of Esch's purchas of twenty-six cows last week, that it was just like buying d hundred. When these all have calves and they and their calves all have calves again there will be hundred. It is only a question of time
Year: 1875

sg-rHE GRATIFYING SUCCESS MET
WITHIN THE PAST, BOTH IN THE
SALE AND WEAR OF THESE GOODS,
WARRANTS THEN IN AGAIN CALL
ING THE SPECIAL ATTENTION OF
CONSUMERS TO THE ELEGANT DIS
PLAY THEY NOW EXHIBIT, 1T BEING
THE LARGEST THEY HAVE EVER
SHOWN.
Year: 1875

Mexico. They are not rich like the lode mines; one man could not Nash out more than twenty cents a day; but they had thousands of subjects work ing at it all the time. But in the silver veins (quart2 mining they did nothing. It is the old hines worked once by the Spaniards that I speak of working. They are as rich as ever and cannot be exhausted for hundreds of years"

 But how does one get a title to them'"

 Ut is done under a special law, which makes no distinction between residents and fUreIgners-all the later laws are favorable enough to foreign CTS. You have to co what we call de nounce' a mine You select the prop erty and go to the nearest village-the smallest village has prefecto-and to the right officer 'denounce' the mine that no body has worked it lately. Then proclamation is made in the four corners of the village for four Sun days; at the end of that time you take possession and have some weeks to be. gin work. If you do that the mine is yours. Under this law the old mines will no doubt all be taken and worked before many years, as they are certain ly very rich"

 Speaking generally on the condition of the country Sefior Levek said:

 "The people are uniformly polite and hospitable, but a little slow and unenterprising Labor is quite cheap from twenty-five to fifty cents a day and large part of it is done by Ind ians of the original Mexican race, who are very industrious. The population of the whole Republic is about eight millions, of whom not more than 8 million and halfare pure Spanish. A very large proportion of the rest are Indians of the Pueblos or villages. As laborers they are valuable. Their living is exceedingly simple and cheap, and while at work in the mines they go entirely naked, except the cloth worn abouut the loins. Since the ac- cession of Lerdo de Tejada the policy has been more liberal towards foreign CTS than ever before. Mexico is taking proper measures to be we'll represented at the Centennial, having already ap- pointed five commissioners over as many departments, with ample powers and means with which to set There will be at the Exposition specimens of every mineral and almost every mine in Mexico"

 SefOr Levek will return to Mexico to superintend the shipping of speci- mems which will be sent to Philadel- phia in April or May.
Year: 1875

WE have six beautiful illustrations on a large scale, showing the principal build ings In Fairmont Park for the Internation- al Exhibition in Philadelphia next year They are ornaments for parlor and pub lished by The Centennial Gazette Co. as per advertisement in this paper. After next Monday they may be seen framed, in THE CITIZEN office.
Year: 1875

GEORGE M. PINNEY one of the tru-
ly loyal and ever faithful, who has
been a shining light and model leader
of the Republican party ofSan Fran
cisco for years and who all those years
has held lucrative Federal office, has
turned out a defaulter and like all
loyal defaulters has pocketed his steal
ings and absconded. We remember
GEORGE as spry little California
street luminary. He was first bull
and then bear and then a bear and
then bull and all the time rogue
and an answering supporter of the
Administration. The Bulletin and
Cali discovered that GEORGE was
stealing from the Government and
said as much. Thereupon he COM
menced libel suit against those papers
and then ran away. He left wife
and several children and escaped with
q woman not his wife and two hum
dred thousand dollars. Ofsuch is one
truly loyal Federal Office holder.