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Year: 1870

How DEXTER Is SHOD.-Each shoe is
carefully balanced The surface which
comes in contract with the ground slight.
ly curves from heel to toe, so that when
the horse is standing firm, the principal
weight is borne by heel and centre, no
heavy pressure being felt upon the toe.
Just as a line drawn from the heel to the
toe of mans boot would demonstrate a
slight curve, so is the natural curve given
to each of Dexters shoes. When a man
walks, there is a rising sloping action,
from heel to toe. and when horse is
trotting there Is rolling motion from the
back part of the hoof to the front. Ac-
knowledging the principle to be correct,
it stands to reason that a horse will
gather more quickly and with less friction
ifinstead Of the heel and toe being forced
to the same level, the former is raised u
little higher than the latter. To secure
exact proportion to this curve, Mr.. Bon.
ner takes each shoe and places it on the
surface of marble slab, and weighs il
with critical eye. In the toe of each
shoe slight excavation or sloping linden.
ture is made for the purpose Of giving
irmness to the step of the horse by the
force Of conclusion the soft earth is forced
up into this excavation, so that in rising
from heel to toe the shoe does not slip
backward. This sloping indenture mus
be carefully proportioned to the size and
weight Of the shoe, for otherwise it NIGH
create friction and prove positive draw
back instead Of an assistant. This mode
shoeing certainly has worked we'll il
Dexter's case, for the marvel is still {
marvel, and all of his recent performan
ces, which have so much astonished th'
world, have been made in shoes construct
ed after the pattern described.-Tnrt
Field and Farm.
Year: 1870

a BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT. In Angus
tine Daly's great play, Under the Gas
light" Laura Cortland utters these beau
tiful sentiments:


Let the woman vo1 look upon be wise
or vain, beautiful or homely, rich or poor,
she has bnt one thing she can really give
or refuse-her heart. Her beauty, her
wit, her accomplishments she may sell
to YOU, but her love is the treasure with
ont money and without price. She can
only ask in return that when You look
upon her, your eyes shall speak mute
devotion; that when you address her,
your voice shall be gentle, loving and
kind. That You shall not despise her
because she cannot understand, all at
once, your vigorous thoughts and ambi-
tious plans, for, when misfortune and
evil have defeated your greatest purpose
her love remains to console you. Yon
look upon the tree for strength and grand
enr; do not despise the flowers because
their fragrance is all they have to give.
Remember, love is all that woman can
give-but it is the only earthly thing
which God permits us to carry beyond
the grave. :.
Year: 1870

! Ii we were to suggest one thing which,
aooVe all other things combined, would
most contribute to the happiness of the
young housckeerer, it would be to learn
how to cook as a husbands mother cook
ed. "Mother used to make coffee 80 and
! so; Mother used to have such wa files -
"Mother knew just how thick or how
tt'1n to make squash pie - and 'Oh, if


l could only taste of mothers biscuit ~
ouch are the comments OF the husband
at too many meal tables. 1t would be
only little more cruel for the husband


to throw his fork across the table. or to


dash the contents Of his tea.cup in his


wlfe's face. The experience of IL contrite


husband is good reading for those men


whose daily sauce is chow mother did


it, He says:


II found fault some time ago with Ma


ria AIMS custard pie, and tried to tell


her how ny mother used to make Gus


tard pie. Maria made the pie after my


recipe. 1t lasted longer than any other


pie We ever had. Maria set it on the


table every day for dinner, and YOU see


| couldn't eat it because I forgot to tell


her to put IN any eggs or shortening. 1t


''tio NN"AoiDiS a. Dut Ill Il III VI HcliCIOSItf


| stole it from the pantry aud gave it to


a poor little boy in the negllborhood.


The boys funeral was largely attended


by his former playmates. didn't 60


myself.


Then there were the buckvheat cakes.
told Maria Ann any fool could beat her
MAJ. ing those cakes, and she said had
better tr,- it. SO did. clnptied the
batter all out Of the pitcher one evening
and set the cakes myself. l got the flour
and the salt, and the wafer, and, warned
by the past, put in IL liberal Quantity OF
eggs and shortening. shortened with
tailow from roast beef, because I could
not find any lard. The batter didn't
look right, and SO lit my pipe and pom
dered. least-yeast, to be sure. had
forgotten the Yeast. went and woke
up the baker and got six cents worth of
yeast. SGT the pitcher behind the sit
ting room stove and went to bed. In the
morning l got-up early and prepared to
enjoy nay triumph; but didn't. That
Yeast was strong enough to raise the
dead, and the batter was running all
over the carpet. Iscraped it up and put
it into another dish. Then l got fire
in the kitchen and put on the gridIle.
The first lot Of cakes stuck to tue grid
die. The second dittocd, only more.
Maria came down and asked what was
burning. She advised me to grease tie
griddle. l did it. One end OF the grid
die got too hot. dropped the thing on
my teHderest corn while trying to turn
it around. Finally the cakes were ready
for breakfast, and Maria got the other
things ready. We sat down. My cakes
didn't have exactly the right flavor. Il
took one mouthful and it satisfied me.
l lost nay appetite at once. Maria would
not let me put one on her plate. think
those cakes may be reckoued dead loss.
The cat would not eat them. The dog
ran off and stayed away three days after
one was offered him. The hens wouldn't
go within ten feet Of them. I threw
them into the back yard, and there has
not been pig Oh the premises since.
eat What is put before me now, and do
not alIude to my mothers system Of
cook inr'
Year: 1870

It is difficult to impress on the young
the Importance of things they know


nothing of by experience; but if the


power Of habits can be taught them by


an internainable ding dong, the lesson
ought to be rung into their ears every


day of their young lives. There is moth


ing so indomitable as habit, W neither
it: be good or bad, and particularly if it
be bad. Good habits sometimes drop
away from us like an old garment that
we have become tired of; but a bad one
is apt to cling to US like cocklebur on
the back Of . sheep. The reason may
be that bad habits come naturally to our
fallen nature, while good ones are con-
tracted and maintained only by con-
stant effort: and when the effort ceases,
the habit ceases with it. If young peo-
pie would save themselves world OF
trouble and sorrow, let them look to their
manners, of body, mind and morals. 1t
is not very difficult to contract good
habits in diet, in behavior, in business,
in reading, in the methods Of reflection
and study, and in those qualifications
that involve NJ orals, in the time of youth,
when the plastic nature easily takes the
impress Of influences around it and
then is the time when the youth, by his
own exertions, aud reinforced by all the
aid that friends can lend him, should
strive to fall into wholesome practices !:
and then il the time above all, when he
sionkl strive with all his might and main
to avoid bad ones. One or two evil
habits contracted then will adhere to
him ell through life, if not severed with
blood aud tears. by q desperate effort, at
a later period of life. A wrestle with
one of these bad habits in the prime of
life is a terrible affair; only the strong
aud resolute come out victors from these
tile weak and irresolute may
gain a Temporary advantage with the foe,
but theioe will, is nine timesout OF ten,
vanquish them in the end, and hold them
slaves for life. At Is a mans habits are
generally contracted; at 80, they are
hardened; at 40, they are part Of him
seelf-bene nf his bone, and flesh of his
flesh i; aud 10 get rid Of them is like get
ting rid Of o part Of his ewn nature
Exchange. -
Year: 1870

DYING RICH.-The ship Blittania was
wrecked off the coast of Brazil, and had
on board Il large consignment OF Spanish
dollarst In the hope Of saving some of
them. a number of barrels were brought
on deck, but the vessel went to pieces so
fast that the only hope for life was by
taking at once to the boats.


The last boat was about to push off,
when a young midshipnan went back to
see if any one was still on board. ToAis
surprise, there sat man on deck a
hatchct in his hand, with which he had
broken several OF the casks, the contents
of WHICH he was now .heaping up about
him.


What are you doing thele?" shouted
the youth. "Don't You know that the
ship is fast going to pieces"


The ship may CO." said the man; II
have lived 4 poor wretch all my life, but
| am determined to die rich''


The officers remonstrances were ans,
wered by another flourish of the hatchct,
and the man was left to his fate.


We should count such person a mad
man, but he has too many imitators. Men
seem determined to die rich ut all haz-
ards. Least of all risks do they count
the chance Of losing the soul in the
struggle at any moment whatever.
Year: 1870

. EFFECT OF FRIGHT UPON ANNALS
Few people are aware of the singular
power Of sudden fright upon brute ami
mails. We knew Of horse which fell
dead at the sight of locomotive. We
have an incident to record still more
wonderful. A countryman. discovered
in his yard three dogs at play. Having
a great horror of dogs, especially when
they cncroachcd upon his premises, he
approached them stealthilv and shouted
at the top o: his voice. Two of the ami
mails lea ped as if they had received a
shock of electricity, and vanished: the
third dropped dead. This anecdote is
literally true-Ex.
Year: 1870

Some idea OF the railway travel in
to and about London may be had from
the fact that the total number of trains
entering and leaving the city is fifty-four
per hour, or nearly one per minute dur
ing the whole of the twenty-four hours
OF the day; and this immense business
is conducted with a freedom from acci-
dent that is almost exemption.-Ex.
Year: 1870

. CURE FOR WARrs.-Take small piece
of raw beef, steep it all night in vinegar,
cut as much from it as will cover the


wart. and tie it on, or, if the excrescence
is on the forehead, fasten it on with strips
of sticking plaster; 1t may be removed


in the day and put on every night. In


one fortnight the wart will die and peel
off: The same prescription will cure
Year: 1870

SUNLIGHT A NECESslTY.- Sun baths
cost nothing, and are the most Tefre~h
ing, lift,giving baths that one can take,
whether sick or we'll. Every housewife
knows the necessity of giving her wool
eus the benefit of the sun, from time to
time, and especially after a long rainy
season, or 4 long absence of the sIln.-
Many nill think of the injury their
clothes are liable to, from dampntss,
who will never reflect that an occasional
exposure of their own bodies to the sun
light is equally necessary to their own
health. The sun baths cost nothing,
and thai is misfortune, for people are
still deluded with the idea that those
things only can be good OF usetul which
cost money. Let it not be forgotten,
three of Gods most beneticent gifts to
man--three things the most necessary
to healtll-sunligit, fresh air and water,
are free to all ; YOU can have them in
abundance, without money and without
price, ifyou will. If you would enjoy
good health, then see to it that you
are supplied with pure air to breathe all
the time that you bathe for an hour or
SO in the sunlight; aud that You quench
your thirst with no other huid than
water / Exchange.
Year: 1870

Senator Conkling in Q recent speech said
The Republican party could not be spared
the nation needs it yet" Needs i. for WHAT
To legisla,e agsinss the many for the benefit
of the few =? To give away the balance OF
the public domain To send military into
Southern States to coerce citizens into vot
lug for railroad monopolists :? To violate
our Constitution ? To centralize power a'
Washington To demoralize and corrup'
the nation If these are national needs, the
Republican party cannot be spared.
Year: 1870

a lew weeks ago poor, lonely bachelor,
who had never loved or been loved, left his
dreary home for the sake of little exercise.
The morning was bright and sunny, and as he
walked up Broadway he gazed longinlgy at the
girls as tney passed him, and thought of his
wretched condition As he saw their bright
and smiling countenances, aud the happy
faces OF their male companions, he could moi
but contrast his own loneliness and single mis-.
cry. These thoughts weighed upon him, and
he became quite melancholy As he was
standing on the sidewalk, gazing listIessly
about, he saw beautiful young girl coming
toward him leading venerable blind man.
Unmindful Of the danger she incurred from
the passing vehicles, her whole thought was
devoted to her charge, which she finally land
ed in safety on the sidewalk. He thanked
her for her kindness, and she left him. The
lonely bachelor saw the whole transaction
aud it struck him so forcibly that all his
ideas concerning the gentler sex Of the COM
munity were changed. He took good look
at the young lady, that he might know her
again, and went his way. He subsequently
described her to some Of his friends, and after
ascertaining who she was, procured an intro.
duction. He found sho was just as good as
he thought her, aud now he is married
mani OF course, be told her of the incident
that led to their acquaintance. She in turn
told il to her lady friends, aud the conse.
qaeuce is that new society has been started,
called The Young Ladies' Humanitarian
Association for Helping Blind Men Across
tho Street Bachelors, look out.
Year: 1870

A WORD OF COOP COUNSEL TO THE Gov
ERNoR.-Should the enormous and outrag eous
job known as the Broadway Arcade Railway
bill come before him for his 81 ma ,ure, let him
give it his veto. We regard the scheme as
wholly visionary, and we are convinced that,
if attempted to be put into practice, it will
result in the destruction of our finest business
thoroughfare or in blockading it, meanwhile,
for an indefinite time, 10 the great embarrass-
ment Of all the business operations OF tho city
Not only, therefore, in behalf of the prope. ty
holders on Broadway, but in behalf Of all the
business interests Of the city, We earnestly call
upon the Governor to veto this Broadway
Arcade bill should it come to him for his sig
nature; for in this righteous veto We are sure
that he will be sustained.
Year: 1870

The proposed measure for raising revenue
from internal taxation, which General Butler
contemplatcs bri ging before Conress and
an outline of which was published in the
HERALD yesterday, is a sweeping one and
would change tho whole systcm. 1t is pro-
posed by this to abolish the present incom,
tax, and instead thereof to tax invested capi-
tai, bonds Of all descriptions, loans, divid nds
OF joint stock companies, mortgages, legacies
or bequests, and so forth, and to raiss revenue
from stamps and upon liquors and tobacco.
The whole scope OF the measure is to tax
wealth and the proceeds of wealth, as well as
Injuries which are not necessary, but winch
are rather Injurious TO health. IL is to relieve
the poor and Industrious classes as much as
possible from the burdens OF government ana
to make the rich bear more Of them. There
is the stamp OF broad and comprehensive
craftsmanship in General Buffers new ojcct
of taxation and for raising revenue. 1t would
certainly be o popular one. II would no
doubt raise large revenue at much less cost
and with great red ,ctioa Of the present
revenue service. General Butler has got hold
OF subjec. worthy of his talents, and it is to
be hopcd As will press it vigorously upon Con
Dresa
Year: 1870

Consress-rho End Of the Georgia Bill.


The Senate worked hard all day yesterday
and nearly all night ON tae Georgia bill.
Chandler, Hamilton, Schurz, Trumbull and
nearly everybody but Garrett Davis who, by
q strange whim, for once yielded up his desire
to talk, made q speech of the usual tenor.
notwithstanding the diversions made the day
before in favor of q new line OF argument
AT about midnight the bill was passed, with
the Bingham amendment stricken cut, and the
Pomeroy amendment, declaring Georgia again
the Third Military District, its present govern
ment provisional, and providing for an election
in November next, was inserted This Is
defeat Of the Bullock party, but at the same
time 1t is severe blow to the hopes OF the
nation that reconstruction had como to an end.
The House seems to engage in nothing but
contested election and tariff discussions. Even
these, however, are twined about with that
element OF fun that prevails wherever Butler
and Cox are, and SO the House proceedings
are not always so heavy, even when dealing
with pig iron, as the Senate when treating Of
Georgia. The contested election cases Of
course go one way. The majority usually
make great show of impartial justice in
allowing the weaker side to discuss
the matter, but they never so far
commit themselves as to admit demo-
cratic contestant, no matter how the
evidence tends. The case now under consid-
Grafton is that of Sypher, Of Louisiana,
against St. Martin. The actual vote in the
election resulted in 4,2S0 for Sypher, republic
can, and 1863 for st. Martin, democrat but
the Governor OF Louisiana struck out four
teen thousand of st. Martins votes and two
thousand Of Sypher's, on the ground Of fraud,
leaving ST. Martin still ahead by nearly two
thousand votes. This is the insignificant dis
crepancy that republican ingenuity in Con-
grcss is now called upon TO Obviate, and 1t is
ingenious or shameless enough to do it. Sy-
phcr himself is naught, but his politics is
equal to even greater emergencies than this
The Tariff bill is the subject OF great deal of
light and airy talk. The protectionists last
night made great effort to recover the duty
they lost on pig iron the night BEFORE but so
far they have only suffered On additional de-
feat in reductions on scrap iron.
Year: 1870

There seems to be Iull in Congress on
Mr.. Washburn's government telegraph project.
Why is this? His bill is before US, and an
excellent well considered one it is. We are
satisfied he will not let tho matter sleeps for
it is too important. and will give him such
lasting fame that he cannot permit his bill to
be smothered or passed over. There is reason
to believe, indeed, that this measure is rpen-
ing, and that the members Of both houses of
Congress are becoming more favorable to it
every day. The powerful telegraph COM
panies appear to be giving up the contest,
seeing that a governmental telegraph system
is inevitable. Besides, the provisions of the
bill are so liberal to them that they have no
ground of hostility left. Their property is
to be appraised by two appraisers appointed
by the government, two by themselves,
and one TO be chosen by these four,
and the government proposes to take their
lines at the valuation of these appraisers.
What could be fairer? OF course these
monopolsts would like to get the par
value of their watered stock, and thus make
the government pay two-thirds more than
tho market value of it; but such a claim
would be preposterous. They would do well
to get fair valuation Of their property as it
now exists-of the actual materials, buildings
and SO forth-without requiring more. The
stock of the Western Union is now at thirty
two to thirty-three, and the valuation of the
appraisers, as proposed by Mr.. Washburns 8
bill, would give the company, probably, that
amount for its property. That is all that
onght to be expected At all events, the time
has come when the government should take
control Of the telegraph system of the country
in connection with the Post Office. The well
fare of the public and progress of the country
require this. If the telegraph companies will
not voluntarily acquiesce in measure 80 fair
to them Congress should compel them to yield
for the public interests. Mr.. Washburn should
press his bill through without delay.
Year: 1870

WENDELL PHlLLPs AND THE HERALD.-
Wendell Phillips thinks that, with a capital
of ten millions, he could make better paper
than the HERALD. We should like to see him
raising ten millions fox the experiment; for We
think the experiment would prove that other
things beside money are essential 10 the build
ing up of popular newspaper.
Year: 1870

The EMiGRANT WAVE Flow from Europe to
the United States has not yet reached full tide.
Ten steamships will leave the port OF Liver
pool during the next ensuing week for This
country, taking out six thousand five hundred
persons. They will be heartily welcome !;
there is plenty of room. This is the only way
In which the peoples Of the Old World can
humble the crowns and prove the intallibility
Of democracy.
Year: 1870

THE CRY AND COUNTY TAX LErvEs were
passed in the Assembly last night. Of course
they were not read through, the omission OF
that duty being custom of at least Eve years
standing, according to Mr.. Frear. There may
be some minor amendments made in the Senate,
but none were offered IN the House, and they
passed just as they were printed exclusively
In the HERALD OF Saturday.
Year: 1870

MILK INSPECTORS Legislature now
has before it the proposition to make milk
inspectors to keep company with the
Meat Inspector. 1t is good to have such
officers, but bad to give special laws to such .
subject. The inspection of all articles sold for
food in this city should be assigned to o bureau
in the Health Department, and 1t will be found
that there is already plenty Of law on the books
10 jussify such performance Of the duty.
Year: 1870

The CooLlE TRADE AND OTHER MATTERS.
Very little is heard nowadays about coolie
emigration to the South. In fact, the whole
thing seems to be treated by all par
ties very coolly since the ratification
of the fifteenth amendment. Where's
Koofsmanchlakoof- or what's his-name-
the coolie trader But in conjunction with
the decadence of the coolic trade we have
information of frightfal mortality among the
blacks in the South, averaging in one place, it
is stated, hundred per cent more than that Of
the whites, in population in which the latter
have an excess of three thousand. Another
thing is remarkable about the colored popula-
ton in the South-namely, the scarcity of
negro children under fve years Of age. The
inference is obvious-the lack of maternal
care for the offspring and proper medical at
tendance In the meantime European cmi-
grafton is rapidly filing up the Southern
"waste places" and in not many years it will
not be surprising TO find Anglo-Saxon blood
preponderating there over that of the African,
as that does ut present over the Monsolian.
Year: 1870

Our DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATURE, which Bit
terly opposed the fifteenth amendment, seems
inclined at present to accept it gracefully.
In the State Senate yesterday bill removing
disabilities from colored voters was passed by
q vote of twenty-five to one, although it was
afterwards reconsided and laid on the table, in
order to amend 1t by proposing the repeal of
the Registry law. The shrewd democratic
managers thus show their full comprehension
Of the Importance of the new voting element.
They, too, like the republicans, intend to bid
for the negro vote, and between the two,
Sambo is likely to have perpetual 'Jubilo." "