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Year: 1871

WARDS New GROUP OF STATUARY.-A
happy exception to the hideousness OF which
the HERALD has often complained, as charac-
terzing most Of the public statues erected in
this city, is found In the white marble group
that now stands out in beautiful relief against
the heavy, massive granite of the Equitable
Building on Broadway. An emblem of the
idea Of which the massive building is itself
monument, 1t represents female figure of
exquisite proportions protecting with shield
a mother and child. 1t thus artistically
symbolizes the protecting shield which life
insurance holds over the widow and the father
;/ss. Executed In Italy, after model by the
celebrated American sculptor, J. Q. A. Ward.
Il was cut from q single block of Carrara
marble Of perfect purity. II was first unveiled
as the Grand Duke Alexis was passing before
II on the day Of his reception IN New York.
The example of the Equitable Society might
we'll be followed Abolish the costly and
senseless carvings that disfgure so many of
our conspicuous buildings. Let the face Of
each structure be made plain and massive,
while the ornamentation is concentrated In one
such splendid and significant work Of art. The
result will soon be marvellous Improvement
Ia New York architecture.
Year: 1871

TIE PRINCE OF WALEs.-Our latest reports
Of the condition of the Prince of Wales have
revived the hope that he may possibly re-
cover. The probabilities, however, are SO
heavily against him that we fear that at any
moment we may get the tidings Of his death.
Meantime, from the universal public sympa-
thy awakened for the Prince, the unhappy
Queen and the royal family, whether life or
death Is the issue of this severe ordeal of dis
ease through which the Prince is passing it is
morally certain that the British monarchy
will. at least for some time, be strengthened
by political reaction in its favor against the
radical agitators Of the great cities of England.
Should the Prince live it is hoped that he will
become wiser man than he has been; and
In the event Of his death, the public mind
being prepared for it, we apprehend no dis
turbances or serious excitements in the British
islands touching the government under the
Queen, nor in reference to the regency by
which, soon or late, she must be succeeded.
Year: 1871

1t is energy Of will that is the soul Of the
intellect wherever it is, there is life where
it is not, all is dullness aud dependency and
desolation. People who have no experience
Of it imagine that it is destructive to the
nerves, exhaustive Of the animal spirits that
it aggrayates the wear aud tear Of life oGves-
siyely. But this is au idle notion, as idle as
the habits aud humors Of those whe entertain
it. We leave it to any man, who knows its
real effect, TO strike the baance-to compare
the exhaustion Of an indolent day with that OF
an active one to say in which OF the two
cases the subject is in better heart for work
and fitted to undergo it,


Whatever we may be about, one thing we
believe, is certain, that if the spirits are spent
by energy they are utterly wasted by idleness
at worst, energy can only end in relaxation
il is superior to it for a while, and possibly at
last may fall into it whereas, idleness is ac-
tual relaxation from first to last, and can be
nothing else But even this view, favorable
as it is, is yet not favorable enough p be just
/ The fact is, that violence is not necessary t
energy any moro than tyranny is to kingship
on the contrary, it is the greatest energy thai
does the most work


Energy, literally from the Greek, mean
inward. workingness the blooming OF the
flower is energy, the increase Of fruit energy
the growth Of the body is energy yet, in all
these there is no violence the efficacy is moi
destructive, but vital without it the who'll
fraine must fall at once into corruption; witt
| it, instead Of corruption, We have life. Blu
this, it may be said, is a refinement. 1t ma.
he so, but it is true in fact nevertheless. Th
ransayer will find it difficult to produce any
thing from the subject of surer or more essen
/ tial truth
Year: 1871

and quarrelling between the children and the
parents Are there not many households
where there are little feuds that are kept up
from day to day, and from week to week, and
where the adversares are watching each 9th
or, and waiting for chance to pay of the
indignties that they have received? Ga the
other hand, how many households are there
that call themselves Christians, and have a
right to, because all day long each one is shin
ing on the others because each one is re.
moving distractions, taking away attritions,
smoothing aspcrities, and seeking to make all
aniable and all happy2 Such are Christian
households


When after the long, loathsome voyage
entered the channel and saw, dim, upon the
horizon, the blue line Of shore, and smclled
the strange odor in the air, said to my noble
friend Capt. Knight, "What is this smell 2''
BLESS your heart :" said he, ait is tho land
SMELL" All the smells Of the sea put togetb-
er were never 30 iwcct as the land smell
Aiar of the land was it LAY like a little rib
bon on the horizon-and yet, it sent its odor
clear out to where we were.


There are persons so lovely that you cannot
go near to them without perceiving they ex-
hale gadness and cheer aud happiness. Bless
ed are such Blessed arc the happiness
makers IN w. Bcecir, IN Piynouih
Pulpit
Year: 1871

A mother on the green hills Of Vermont
was holding by the right hand her son, a lad
Of sixteen years. mad with the love Of the
sea. Aud as she stood there she said


Edward, they tell me-ior never saw
the occan-that the great temptation Of a sea-
mans life is drink Promise me- before you
quit your mothers hand, that you will never
drink" "And, said he, for he told me the
story,"I gave the promise and | went the
globe over-Calcutta and the Mediterranean,
San Francisco and the Cape of Good Hope
the North and South poles, saw them all III
forty years and never saw a glass filled
with sparkling liquor that my mothers form
by the gate did not rise before me, and to-day
! am innocent of the taste of liquor


Was not that sweet evidence of the power
Of single word? Yet that is not half "for,
said be, yesterday there came into my count
iug-room man of forty years"


DO you know me p


"'No.'"


"'Wel," said he, '''I was brought drunL
in your presence on shipboard you were
passenger; they kicked me aside; you tool
me to your birth and kept me there till hac
slept off the intoxicaton you then asked nj
/ if had mother; said that | never hear
word from her lips you told me Of your
at the garden gate and to-day am maste
of the finest ship in New York, and cam
to ask you to come and see me-


How far the little candle throws its beam. Tn
mothers words on the green hills of Vermont
God be thanked for the mighty power Of
single word
Year: 1871

In early childhood, you lay the foundation
of poverty or riches, in the habits of your
children. Teach them to save everything
not for their own use, for that would make
them selfsh-but for some use Teach them
to share everything with their playmates but
never allow them to destroy anything. | once
visited family where the most exact econ
omy was observed, yet nothing was mean OF
uncomfortable. 1t is the character Of true
economy to be as comfortable on little, as
other can be with much In this family, wher
the father brought home package, the Older
children would, of their own accord, put away
the paper and twiue neatly, instead of throwing
them in the FIRE, or tearing them to pieces
II the little ones wanted piece of twine tC
scratch-cradle or spin a top, there it was ii
readiness aud when they threw it upon thu
floor the elder children had no need to be tolC
to put it again in its place.
Year: 1871

The best thing to give to the poor is em-
ployment.


Silent deeds are better than Improbable
words.


The chief secret of comfort lies in not
suffering trAes to vex one, and in prudently
cultiyalng an underground of small pleasures,
since very few great ones are let on long
leases.


How easy it is to please and be pleased,
as well as edited, if one will take the fra
GRANGE Of the rose instead of the thorns and
hold the knife by the handle and not by the
edge.


The only way for man to escape being
found out is to pass for what he is. The
only way TO maintain good character is to
deserve it. 1t is easier to correct our faults
than to conceal them


There are many fruits which never turn
sweet until the frost has lain upon them
and there are many elements OF life that
never grow sweet and beautiful till sorrow
touches them.
Year: 1871

4 man named Southworth, living in May yille \. Y, has just ejected from his stomach Q frog that has been living there for fourteen rears, Mir. Southvorth has had a great dea' of trou5e with tdat Frog It used to begin to croak at the most unreasonable hours. When Mr SoutLworth would go to church, for in stance, the frog would remain silent until the congregation would engage ia silent prayer, and then it would set up such a terrific howl that the sexton would rush in aud collar South worth, and drag him out to quiet him down on the grave yard. Sometimes that frog would give nocturnalserenade alter Southworth was fast asleep in bed. and then Southwour'h would rise as mad as anything seize stomach pump, and try to draw the frog up But tbe subtle reptile had had that trick played uPon it too often during these fifteen years and 1t always shiuned up the tube piece, out oi the draught, and waited until sou,hworth exhaust~ ed himself, Southworth never fooled that frog a great deal.

 And when frogs were iu season southwoFth used to fish for this one with fly but it ai~ ways refused to rise, and the fly buzzed around so in Southworth's alimentary canal that It nearly tickIed Southworth to death. So South worth had to wait until the other day, when the frog thought he woul step out to see a friend and when 1t did come out Southworth closed his jaws behind it and then killed it with a fork. He says the frog used to at twice as much as he did Y; but we have been thinking it over, and it seems to us that the statement must be exaggerated.

 This is a plain statement of the case ot Mir. Southworth and that frog, as given by the O" ha State Register, but the Jamestown. N. Y. Journal gives the following version of the con- cuding part;

 The Register has nearly the whole story in. It should be stated however that the unhappy man tried to drown the frog with various kinds of Iiauors without s7ccess At last SouthTorth went into the printing business and the frog vae soon starved out Thaswas ths reason he l "rz." not for the parpose of seeing friend as the Register suPposes

 The worst of it ig, s supposes that the frog is still there and is trying 0 drown it with mix ed drinks
Year: 1871

THE Vallejo (Cal.) Chronicle gives the
following account of spirited runaway
match


An exciting runaway match took place
Yesterday in which the would-be bride
groom, by superior speed and bottom,
ovcrcame all obstacles and won his prize.
The hero is c. W. Benedict, formerly
leader of the Vallejo Rifles Brass Band,
and at present band-master on board the
California the heroine is young lady
of this city. The two had formed a
mutual attachment, and were engaged to
be married But 1.-THE course of true
love never did run smooth" and the
Young lady had big brother who was
strongly opposed to the match, not being
satisfied with the social standing of the
suitor. So a runaway match was ar
ranged, and yesterday the latter engaged
a splendid double team of Johnnie Brown
lie. and, resplendent in naval uniform
and brass buttons, drove around 10 the
residence of his affianced. The two then
drove off 10 Suisun. Meanwhile the
brother finding his sister absent, smelt a
rat. and having an idea what was up,
straightway got a buggy and started after
the Tunaways. The latter, arriving in
SuisuI, had put up at hotel, and iancy-
ing the coast was clear were enjoying
themselves leisurely, when the brother
| appeared on the scene. Inc couple catch
| ING sight OF him, made for their team,
and jumping in, started for Fairfield al d
! break-neck pace to get the license.


Their pursuer whipped his horse afteI
! them and finally overlook them IN tho
clerks Office. Here hc tried to prevent
the clerk from Issuing a license, but both
parties being OF age, the latter could NO
4 refuse. Armed with his license, Benedic
handed his sweetheart into the buggy
and was about stepping in himself, whsI
the brother coiared him. \ serious scutii'
ensued, but Benedict finally shook HIN
off. and started for Suisun to find justIc
TO perform the marriage ceremony, IN
Year: 1871

"A correspondent in the Germantown
Telegraph says that the best food to make
hens lay is a mixture of bran and mid
dlings. His mode of preparing the food
is to mix about five parts of bran with
one of middlings. In the morning." he
says, Il wet up with water about four
quarts of the mixture in large tin pan,
taking pains to have it rather dry, though
all damp. This I set in warm, sunny
spot, south of their shed, and they walk
up, take few dips, don't seem to fancy
it like, but they soon return to it, and
continue to feed from it at intervals dur
ing the day"
Year: 1871

was adopted calling the Secretary of the Treas
ury for information to the number of persons
employed, and the total compensation paid there
for. in the collection of Customs for the fiscal year
ending June 80 1871 in the United States =. The
Apportionment bill was further considered in Com
mittee of the Whole, and the number of Represent
atives of which the House should be composed was


fixed at 2S3, and an amendment was adopted provld-


ing that no new State shall be admitted having less
population than the number fixed ratio of
representation. and the bill, amended. was re-
ported to the House and passed. without division.
Year: 1871

ONE OF THE RINGS OF Saturn
LOST. = Professor Struve, the dis
tinguished astronomer of Pultowa,
has been for some years watching
the rings of Saturn: and the inner
one of the three rings-an obscure
partly transparent mass of what ap-
peared to be vapor-has been seen
to approach the body of the planet.
and to widen its distance from the
other rings. which seemed to be
fluid in character. or perhaps made
up of small bodies. moving together
like streams of meteors, which sup
ply the periodical showers. But
during several months past this
inner ring has fallen more rapidly,
and finally the attraction of Saturn
entirely overcame the centrifugal
force, and it closed upon the body
OF the planet, forming a belt, which
was gradually diffused over its sur
face. SO that there is now no trace
whatever of the ring left. Is this to
be the fate also Of the other rings,
or will they ultimately gather into
as has more commonly
been supposed?
Year: 1871

OUTSTANDING THE PENNIES. There
are but few excuses for an impecu


nious old age in this country, where
labor is so we'll renumerated, and
where the avenues of employment
are so numerous. However moder-
ate it may be. there is no one who
does not receive a sufficient income
to lay aside a few pennies daily; and
if an individual begins to save only
four and a half cents day at twenty
one. the amount SO saved, including
interest, will foot up to fifty eight
hundred dollars when he is three
score and ten. If instead of spend
ing twelve cents day for a cigar,
he lays them aside, he will have
nearly fourteen thousand dollars at
the end of the same time. How few
people there are who could not save
tifty-tive cents day without discom-
mOding themselves in the least, and
yet this sum would amount at the
end of the time specified to fifty
eight thousand dollars. There are
thousands of men who daily throw
away double and treble this sum
over the seven thousand bars of
New York city. There but few who
suddenly acquire wealth, but look
around and select those who have
secured a competence, and it will be
found that they have done SO by
outstanding the pennies which
others carelessly let slip through
their fingers.
Year: 1871

Some financial misfortunes led Charles Stark, q
German butcher doing business at 49l De Kalb ave-
hue, to attempt to drown his troubles through an
excessive OF ardent spirits and for the past few
days he has been under the influence OF liquor
Yesterday, while In TINS condition. he procured q
re over and shot himself through the head, caus
ing mortal wound. The unfortunate man was still
alive last evening"
Year: 1871

The COushatta Times has this information
and advice:


We regret that all reports concur in the
opinion that not exceeding halt a crop of
has caused the bolls to open with greater
rapidity than usual, and long before Christ
mas, it may safely be said, the entire crop
will he gathered. Taken in conjunction
with the fact that not more than half
erough corn to supply home demands will
be realized, the prospect is rather gloomy.


We invoke the commencement and prac
fice OF rigid economy on the part of every
herence to economical rules on the mart of
al to drive pressure from the door during
the planting and culture of the cron OF
1885, therefore the di. idends of the present
meagre crop should be we'll husbanded for
the operations OF another year.
Year: 1871

We find this paragraph, headed the '.New
Orleans People Alarmed in the Washing.
ton Chronicle:


Colonel Moore, superintendent of the
CustOmhOuse at New Orleans is in Wash
ingtOn. He represents the situation in that
city to be one of terrible excitement and
unnecessary alarm because of the absurd
stories set aAoat relative to the coming of
an alleged tidal wave, which, according to
the predictions Of some persons there, is to
engulf the entire population of that city.


Whoever Colonel Moore is, he should
know that the people of New Orleans are
not and have not been alarmed, and his ex-
aggeratiOns are inc xcusable.
Year: 1871




Gentlemen We have been Informed that
you have threatened to prosecute us to the full
extent OF the law for making and selling, or
any person Tor buying or using our stave peach
baskets, on which you claim Letters Patent.
Your advertisement in the SMYRNA TINES,
May 3lst, Is also intended to prevent the sale
OF our stave baskets by threatening any person
VINO may buy them with legal prosecution.
Inc peach growers of this Peninsula have
100 long used the stave peach baskets, and
during the last two years been forced to pay
entirely too high prices for them to be easily
lfiSntened by such eXpedients as you seem to
thlnk Will prevent the further use of them un-
less bought OF you, at such prices as you may
charge them, now that we are making n much
better basket, and selling them at lower prices
than nan they have teen sold heretofore.


We desire, however, to inform YOU that we
are now making our stave peach baskets and
selling them IN large numbers to peach grow
erS who express themselves well pleased with
Them Our orders are daily increasing.


ii you desire to test the legality of vour
Letters Patent, as claimed on our stave basket,
you now have the opportunity. We will also
1urhlsh You with the names of one or more re-
sponslble persons who have bought our baskets.
against whom, we are authorized to state. Won
can also institute suit.


Very truly, your ob't servants.


WORDEN X EVANS,


Smyrna, DEL
Year: 1871

The llALEs.-This variety of peach is prov
Ing decidedly unsatisfactory, and from every
quarter OF the State the complaint is the same,
VIZ. that they are too frail to be profitable.
The Mddletown Transcript says: Hale s
Early are loosing favor in this neighborhood,
many persons talking of pulling them up on
account Of their dscaying and falling off before
they mature. They are a highly colored peach
and when they mature perfect are the prettest
peach that grows.


The Det0'CGredn says "The complaint is
general that this peach is rOttng on the tree
before it is well colore} This is especially the
case where the cultivation of the orchard has
been neglected. Those who have well trimm.
ed, clean orchards have been most successful
IN raising this variety. The opinion generally
prevails, however, that it is not worth cult
waiting and that it injuries the sale of later and
better fruit" "


The Milford Mutual Friend says: Hales
Fairly Peaches are being shipped in considera-
BILE quantities from this place. This variety,
| heretofore so precarious, is doing better this
season, especially from the trees which are five
or six years old


The Georgetown Journal says: "Some of
our peach growers have suffered heavily by
the g peach rot" The Hales early have rot
ted fearfully and nearly all that have been
shipped were detective"


To this we might add similar testimony
from our Maryland exchanges.
Year: 1871

THE PEACH BASKET SUIT.-Recently we
stated the suit of Richard Mitchell as. Wor.
den ami Evans, known as the peach basket
case, was abandoned. So We were informed
by the defendents in the case, but the state
ment seems to be incorrect. We now state,
upon the authority OF the counsel of the plain
tiff, that the case has not been abandoned.
but that testimony is being taken before the
Commissioner Of Patents, in Washington, and
it will come up for trial in October
Year: 1871

clerk 10 the Treasury Department, entered
the Office of ustice of Peace Wall, colored
man, and fred two shots from a revolver 8,
him. One of the balls seriously wounded


wall in the abdomen. The latter had called
on Davenport at the Department at the in
stance OF woman who represented that
Davenport sold her worthless stove, the
object being the return of the article and
recovery of the money. Davenport has been
arrested
Year: 1871

Whether it be that age causes animals
to become reckless, or that their length
ened sojourn in the world has familiarized
them with their strength, and impaired to
them knowledge of their powers of de-


struction, or that the lassitude resulting
from their infrmities caused their tempers
to become soured, know not. But when
the old bull buffalo has separated himself
from the herd, and retired; as it were, into
private life, he becomes most pugnaci-
Gus, and fearlessly attacks all intruders.
Fortunately his activity has deserted him
at this soured portion of his existence, and
but little exertion is necessary to avoid
his onslaught. l once saw one of these
hero-veterans die natural death, an un-
usual occurrence, for their enemies are
numerous, and always ready to attack
them when in that weak state that pre-
cedes dissolution. Well, my hero was sit
ting on mound, a setting fiery sun slow
ly dipped the western bounds OF the
landscape behind him, and made his
huge outline loom doubly grand. Foo


had been scarce with me, aud conse-
quently l made more than usually
careful stalk to get within range the
doubted the possibility of success, yet
closer and closer, without causing any
visible alarm, | advanced. At length,
when had decided that the range did not
require lessening, felt convinced that l
had been seen, for the head and eyes
were turned toward me; but no angry
shake of the horns, paw of the ground or
fash of the eye evinced hostility, and,
moreover, the figure appeared to lessen


with each respiration; and the air of in
| capacity for further exertion was indelibly
stamped upon the veteran monarch of the
prairie. My gun was for the moment for
gotten, and l gazed with wonder, and
possibly with sorrow, at the apparent ap-
proach ofdeath. By degrees the veterans
forelegs were placed farther and farther
apart, rapidly diminishing strength in
stinctly compelled this method of support
ing the towering figure at length the body
swayed, and, with lurch like founder
ing ship, rolled on its side, and life de-
parted from the carcass at the same mo-
ment. Up to the termination of the career
of the noble brute he had remained upon
his limbs, defying decay with his last
breath. With sorrow looked upon the
body, regretted that life had fed although
at the same time, had been drawn to the
spot with the intention of executing the
Office in which l had been fore-stalled.
BETTING was such death to the greatest
hero, succumbing only when nature re-
fused to grant further support, yielding up
the life and strength he had gloried in
without sign of regret.-AH Round the


World, by Capt. Parker Gilmore.