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Year: 1872

A HORRIBLE HANGING AFFA1R.-The
Wilmington Journal of yesterday con-
tains the following particulars Of the
hanging at Sumter on Friday last of
Taylor Wilson, for the murder of Tho
mas Keith:


The gallows were arranged by theRad-
ical sheriff of the county very peculiarly,
an anvil being attached to the end of the
rope, which was expected to fall when
the rope was cut and thus break the
neck Of the condemned man by suddenly
jerking him up instead of allowing him
to drop. The thing worked very badly,
Wilson being raised from the platform a
few inches only, and very gradually. He
suffocated slowly for little less than
five minutes, and then succeeded in rails.
ing his hand and drawing himself up by
the rope. At this juncturc came the
most horrible part Of the whole affair,
the sheriff advancing towards him, and
holding his hands to his side until he
vas too weak to raise himself again, and
was compelled to endure a slow DEATH
The affair was described to US as one OF
the most horrible on record.
Year: 1872

It is not very charitable or broad
view which takes it for granted that
such newspapers Of the country as avoid
sensationalism, do SC from fear Of suits
for libel. 1t might iustas reasonably be
objected by proflisate persons to men Of
good character that they are moral and
decent because virtue is economical. To
meet such cavil, as applied to newspa-
pers, it is enough to say that if editors
choose to make them the medium Of i'm
purity, they can do so without incurring
the penalties of libel. It's quite possible
to make newspaper an indecent publ
cation without aSsailing any particular
individual. The great aim Of o j ournal
in this regard should be to respect the
delicacy and purity Of the public, and
whenever it becomes necessary to chron-
icle occurrences Of scandalous charac-
ter, to discharge the unpleasant duty in
as brief and delicate terms as possible,
and so as not to minister to sensational
ism or pruriency. This much is demand
ed in the interests Of public virtue and
decency, as we'll as of the family circles
into which newspapers 6nd their way
Baltimore Sun.
Year: 1872

There is class Of people in this world
by no means small-whose prominent
peculiarity is whining. They whine be-
cause they are poor; or, if rich, because
they have no health to enjoy their riches;
they whine because they have "no luck'
and others prosperity exceeds theirs;
they whine because some friends have
died and they are living; they whine
because they have aches and pains, and
they have aches and pains because they
whine, and they whine no one can tell
why. Now We would like to say word
to these whining persons; First, stop
whining-it is no use, this everlasting
complaining, fretting, fault.fndirg and
whining. Why, you are the most delu-
ded set of creatures that ever lived! Do
you know that it is well-settled prin-
ciple of physiology and common sense
that these habits are more exhaustive to
nervous vitality than almost any other
violation of physiological law? And do
you not know that life is pretty much as
you makeit? You can make it bright
and shiny, or you can make it dark and
shadowy. This life is only meant to
discipline us-to fit US for a higher and
purer state of being. Then stop whining
and fretting, and 60 on your way re-
joicing.
Year: 1872

At the present time, when the mar.
riagc relation occupies so much of the
public attention, the following views of
the late Theodore Parker on this subject
are not without interest:


"Men and women, and especially
young people, do not know that it takes
years to marry completely two hearts,
even ofthe most loving and well.assortcd.
But nature allows no sudden change.
We slope very gradually from the cradle
to the summit of life. Marriage is grad
ual, fraction Of US at time. A hap
py wcdlock is a long falling in love. l
know young persons think love belongs
only to the brown hair, and plump,
round, crimson cheeks. So it does for
its beginning, just as Mt. Washington
begins at Boston Bay. But the golden
marriage is part Of love which the
bridal day knows nothing Of. Youth is
the tassel and silken flower of love, age
is the full corn, ripe and solid in the ear.
Beautiful is the morning of love, with
its ftophctic crimson, violet, purple and
gold, with its hopes Of day that are to
come. Beautiful also is the evening of
love, with its glad remembrances, and
its rainbow side turned toward heaven
as we'll as earth. Young people marry
their opposltcs in temper and general
character, and such a marriage is COM
monty good match. T;iey do it in
stinctiVely. The young man does not
say, "My black eyes require to be wed
with Llue, and my over vehemence re-
quires to be little modified with some
what Of dullness and reserve" When
these oppositcs come together to be wed,
they do not know it; each thinks the
other just like itself.


Old people never marry their oppositcs;
they marry their similars, and from cal
culation. Each of these two arrange
nents is very proper. In their long
journey, these two young opposites will
fall out by the way great many times,
and both get out of the road but each
will charm the other back again, and by
and.bye they will be agreed as to the
place they will 60 to and the road they
will 60 BY, and become reconcilcd. Tie
man will be nobler and larger for being
associated with so much humanity rn-
like himself, and she will be nobler
woman for having manhood beside her
that seeks to correct her deficiencies and
supply her with what she lacks, if the
diversity be not too great, and there be
real picty and love in their hearts to
begin with. The old bridegroom, having
much shorter journey to make, must
associate himself with one like himself
Men and women are married fractionaily !;
now small fraction, then a large frac.
ton. Very few are married totally, and
they only, | think, after some forty or
fifty years Of gradual approach and ex-
pertinent. Such large ard sweet fruit
is complete marriage that it needs a
very long summer to ripen in, and then
a long winter te mellow and season it.
But real happy marriage Of love and
judgment between a noble man and
woman, is one of the things so very
handsome that if the sun were, as the
Greek poets tabled, a god, he might
stop the world in order to feast his eyes
on such spectacle.
Year: 1872

Judicious advertising always pays.
1fyou have q good thing, advertise
it. II you haven't, don't
Large type isn't necessary in adver-
tising. Blind folks don't read news.
papers.


Don't be afraid to invest in printers
ink, lest your sands of life be nearly run
out.


Never run down your opponents goods
in public. Let him do his own adver-
tising.


Let your advertisements have some.
thing of tile dash in them, without great
exaggeration.


You can't eat enough in one week to
last you whole year, and you can't ad.
7ertise on that plan either.


It's as true of advertising as anything
else in the world-if it is worth doing 1T
all, it is worth doing we'll.


Hand.bills and circulars are good of
their kind, but they cannot take the
place Of newspaper advertisements.


1Gudicious advertising is like fishing
where there's no fish. You need to let
the lines fall in the right place.


No bell can ring so loudly as a good
advertisement. People will believe what
they see rather than what they hear.


Small advertisements and plenty Of
them, is q good rule. We were all
babies once, yet we made considerable
noise.


When you ADVERTISE see that you do
iton the same principle that you buy
goods. Get the most you can for the
moLey.


We don't recommend advertising as
the best way to get a wife; but We
know that it is the best way to get
good trade.


People who advertise only once in
three months forget that most folks
can't remember anything longer than
about seven days.
If you can arouse curiosity by an ad.
vertscment, it is great point gained.
The fair sex don't hold all the curiosity
in the world.


4 constant dropping will wear a rock.
Keep dropping your advertisements on
the public and they will soon melt under
it like rock salt. ...


Quitting advertising in dull times is
like tearing out dam because the wa.
ter is low. Either plan will prevent
good times from ever coming.


"Dull times" it is said, "are the best
for advertisers. Because when money
is tight, and the people are forced to
economize, they always read the ad.
vertisements to ascertain who sells the
cheapest, and where they can trade to
the best advantage.


According to the character or exten,
Of your business, set aside liberal per.
centage for advertising. Keep yourself
increasingly before the public; and it
matters not what business Of utility you
may be engaged in, for, if intelligently
and industriously pursued, a fortune
will be the result


The man who adeertises shows not
only business talent above his neigh.
bors, but he may be at once reckoned
among the Independent, generous and
public.spirited Of the community. He
who hides his light under a bushel, when
such advantages as those at present
afforded are too freely offered him, does
not deserve to succeed.
Year: 1872

lily his bride was excessively anxious to
see.


Arriving at Chicago in due time, and
finding the weather so severe as to rem
der the journey by stage impracticable
for the season, they were compelled to
enter cheap lodgings and engage in some
sort of occupation for the winter.


Ellen, wiser than most young brides,
kept her own counsel about the roll of
bills presented her by Aunty Harris,
and thus gave her husband no reason to
believe that he could have other tempo
rary dependence for livelihood than
his own hands and brain; but she soon
plainly saw that he would depend upon
her, for he engaged an infant school for
her at terms to suit himself, and eoolly
so informed her after the bargain was
completed.


The darcy blood arose at this, not
but that she was willing and anxious to
work, but she felt that if her lord and
master had consulted her wishes it
would have been easier for her to endure
the burden. With compressed lips and
resolute heart she took up her Iabors
and performed them faithfully, while
her able-bodied consort remained idle,
eontenting himself by saying that he
could find no work to do.


''Take my school, then, and let me
rest" said Ellen, when the term was
half completed.


Her health was rapidly giving way
under the double 'curse" so often borne
by wives whose husbands not only ''rule
over them," but, in addition, compel
them TO earn the "bread" for both 'in
the sweat of the face"


"HOw would it look for me, a man
weighing two hundred, to engage in
teaching an infant school?" he said,



"Quite as well as it looks to see you
living off my labor" was Ellen's bitter
but unspoken reply.


TO be eontinucd.l
Year: 1872

FRIED BEEFSTEAK TO RESEMBLE
BROILING.-Heata a spider so very hot
that flour will burn on it instantly;
wipe it free from dust, and lay in the
steak;it should brown Immediately; take
it from the spider before it has had time
to cook any part except the browning of
the side that came in contact with the
spider; lay it on the platter, which
should stand over hot water; heat the
spider again; wipe it free from fat; and
brown the other side in the same man
ner as the first. Have butter, pepper
and salt for tim gravy laid on the plat
ter to melt, while the last is browning;
remove the steak to the platter, and soak
it in the gravy, add a tablespoon of boil
ing water to the gravy, and serve inn
mediately. When these directions are
followed to the letter, there are but few
that would imagine the beef otherwise
cooked than broiled. Is is far before
poorly brOiled steak. If desired we'll
done the process must be repeated, not
left in to fry, until cooked through, as
that would give taste like fried beef to
the whole dish. If the juice of the meat
stands on the steak, when the first side
is browning, lift the beef carefully, so as
to pour it from the beef into the platter.
If any escapes to the spider, it viii be
worse than wasted if added to the gravy.
Year: 1872

A young lady in a neighboring town
has taken up dentistry for a living. All
the gentlemen patronize her. When
she puts her arm around the neck of the
patient, and earesses his jaw for the of
Tending member, the sensation is about
as nice as they make 'em. One young
man Is hopelessly infatuated with her.
consequently he hasn't tooth in his
mead. she has pulled every blessed one
of them, and made him two new sets
and pulled them. She is now at work
on his fathers saw. He holds the saw.
Year: 1872

AS Russia will not raise crops much
beyond what are necessary for home
this year, she may afford
us a market for portion OF our surplus.
No one need starve in this world if the
United States are informed in season.
Year: 1872

OF all the disagreeable habits the
world was ever tOrmented with, scolding
is the most annoying. To hear a saw
filled, to hear n peacock scream, or an
Indian yell, is music compared with it.
Year: 1872

Do not be above your business.
He who turns up his nose at his
work quarrels with his bread and
butter. He is a poor smith who is
afraid Of his own spark; there is
some discomfort in Gil trades ex-
cept chimney sweeping. If sailors
give up going to sea because Of the
wet; if bakers left off baking bread
because it was hot work; if plow-
men would not plOw because it was
cold, if tailors would not make our
clothes tor fear of pricking their
fingers, to what q pass we would
come. Nonsense, my fine fellow,
there's no shame about an honest
calling: don't be afraid of soiling
your hands, for there is plenty of
soap to be had.


All trades are good to good ira
ders. Lucifer matches pay well if
you sell enough Of them, You can
not get honey if you are frightened
at bees, nor plant corn if you are
afraid Of getting mud on your boots.
When bars of iron melt under the
south winds; When you can dig the
fields with toothpicks; blow ships
along with fans; manure crops with
lavender water, and grow plum
cakes in hower-pots, there will be 4
fire time for dandies; but until the
conTes we shall al have a
great deal to put mp with.
Year: 1872




The six years that followed the
death of his wife and the loss of
his child passed wearily to James
Durant. He visited nearly every
country in the Old World, seeking
among scenes of natural beauty and
granduer as well as historic interest,
for the mental rest which could ne
yer be found. Once more he turned
his steps toward America, and
sought his Masonic friend Wads-
worth. Finding that gentleman
about starting out with his family
on a journey to the Atlantic coast,
Mr.. Durant accepted the invitation
to accompany them TO Saratoga and
Niagara, then to New York, where,
leaving the ladies, Mr.. Wadsworth
and Mr. Durant wandered from
town to town along the coast, enjoy
ing the beauty Of the scenery and
the quiet hospitality that greeted
them mol than the crowded hotels
and the fashionable style of the
popular watering places. Fancy
and the kind hand of Providence at
length led them to the little town of
B, and the second evening after
their arrival they visited the Mason
ic Lodge. A warm welcome was ex-
tended to those Brethren from such
distant homes, and both were invited
to address the Lodge. MIR. Durant
said:


'Brethren, I have travelled much
and Tong. I have found Masonic
sympathy in every part of the-globe,
and everywhere is Masonry sub
staatially the same. can hardly
tell where reside. The world seems
to be my home, as remain but q
short time in any town or country,
but my name Is recorded in an Eng
lish Lodge, 1 love my English breth-
ren, for they first brought me from
darkness to light, and l love Eng
lish soil, for in it sleeps the love of
my youth. But 1 love American soil
also, for here L have found the warm
est of welcomes, the kindest Of
brethren. And here, too. my own
child is sleeping in American wa
ters, even beneath the very waves
that wash the shores of yoaF beau
tiful village


"Six years have passed since this
friend and brother robbed himself
of his life-preserver, that my little
Eva might perhaps escape, and we
hoped that the elements might be
Year: 1872

A woman, in many instances, has
her husband S fortune in her power,
because she may or may not conform
to his circumstance. This is her
first duty, and it ought to be her
pride. No passion for luxury or
display ought to tempt her for a mo-
ment to deviate in the least degree
from this line of conduct. She viii
find her responsibility in it. Any
other course is WTetchedness itself,
and inevitably leads to ruin. Moth
ing can be more miserable than TO
keep up appearances. If it could
succeed, it would cost more than it
is worth; as it never can, its failure
involves the greatest modification.
Some Of the sublimest exhibitions
of human virturc have been made
by women, who have been precipita-
ted suddenly from wealth and splen-
dor to absolute want. Then n man s
fortunes are, in a manner, in the
hands Of his wife, inasmuch as his
own power of eXertion depends on
her. If it be harrassed and worn to
a morbid irritability, her gentle
tones steal over it with 4 soothing
more potent than the most exquisite
music. If every enterprise be dead,
her patience and fortitude have the
power to rekindle them in the heart,
and he again goes forth to encOun-
ter with the tolls and troubles of
life.
Year: 1872

The most convenient and salts
factory way to keep eggs fresh that
we have ever tried is to punch nu-
merous holes in a tin pail, fll it with
Jresh eggs, lower the pail with the
eggs into 4 kettle of melted tRliow,
which is as hot as can be without
burning ones finger when thrust in
to the liquid; then lift the pail out
quickly, and the melted tallow will
flow out, leaving a thin coating over
every egg. Let the eggs be removed
as soon as possible from the pail,
and be placed on the ends in a keg
or barrel, which should be kept in
4 cool cellar until the eggs are want
ed for use. We have kept eggs IN
this manner more than six months,
so fresh that expert Judges sup
posed they were fresh. As the eggs
are so much colder than the melted
tallow, q thin pellicle Of cold taliow
viii be formed almost instantly,
which will render the eggs inpervi-
Gus to air.
Year: 1872

A@A' ~ AAA AANs


Light is one of the most attract
i've agencies in enlivening and beau
tifying a home. We all know the
value Of sunlight as n health-g Civ
ing agent to the physical system,
and j. is no less so to our moral and
spiritual natures. We absorb light,
and it nourishes us with strange
power. We are more active under
its influence, can think better and
work more vigorously.


Let us take the airiest, choicest
and sunniest room in the house for
our living room - the Workshop
where brain and body are built up
and renewed. And let US there
have a bay window, no matter how
plain the structure, through which
the good twin-angels of nature
sunlight ard pure air-can enter.


This window shall be the poem
Of the house. 1t shall give
freedom and scope for eye and
mind. We can hang no picture on
our walls that can compare with the
living and eyer-changing pictures
which God shall paint for us
through our ample window. Rosy
dawns, golden-hearted sunsets, the
tender green and changing tints of
spring, the glow of summer, the
pOmp of autumn, the white of win
ter, storm and sunshine, glimmer
and gloOm-all these we can have
and enjoy while we sit in our shell
tered rooms as the changing year
rolls on.


Even in q gloomy house, where
walls and furniture are dingy and
brown, you have but to take down
the heavy curtains, open wide the
windows, hang brackets on either
side, set flower-pots on the brack-
cts and vines in the pots, and let
the warm sun stream freely in, to
bring health to our bodies and JOY
to our souls.
Year: 1872




The annihilation of our system of
labor, ,ssays the Norfolk Virginian,
renders it imperatively necessary
for US to resort to severe economies.
We must alter the style of our
dwellings to accord with our
changed condition and the circum-
stances which surround US. Espe-
cially will our kitchens have to be
provided with "all the modern i'm
provemants," and so located as to
be under the immediate supervision
of the mistress of the house. The
farmer will find it to his advantage
to avail himself more than ever be-
fore Of labOr-saying machines. And
so on through every department OF
life; whatever will economic time
and labor must be studied and
adopted by our people as far as
practicable. s'


The youth of the State must be
reared with a full knowledge of the
value of manly self-reliance and
should be taught to work for them
selves. When we cease to entertain
extravagant and erroneous ideas
of the social dignity-Of idleness,
then, and not till then. will we begin
to build up our waste places, as the
trite phrase runs. This age looks
more and more every day at results,
and although the war has left US
impoverished, although. we are Op,
pressed with debt and taxation, and
struggle under a most iniquitOus
Constitution, still we have resources
within ourselves which n race of bU-
sy workmen can develop, and that,
too, with the certainty Of accumula-
ting wealth and power. This theo-
ry is not all incompatible with sound
education for our boys in the Ordi-
nary meaning of the term. They
can be students Of books, and work
also at plOw or the forge; with axe
and hammer; and a recognition of
the circumstances by which we are
teaches every thought
full parent in the State that the next
to be successful, must
be able to work with their hands as
well as with their heads.
Year: 1872

For TUE TOoTHLEss.-A cores
pondent Of the English Magazine
gives the following curious remedy:
Put a piece Of quick lime as big as q
walnut in a pint of water in bot
tie. Clean the teeth with a little Of
it every morning, rinsing the mouth
with clean water afterwards. II the
teeth are good, it will preserve
them and keep away toothache; If
the teeth are gone, it will harden
the gums so that they will masti-
cate crusts and all.
Year: 1872

The following letter was written
by Mr.. Greeley to a citizen of Wash
ingtOn at the time he went on the
bail bond of Jefferson Davis: OF
FICE OF THE TRIBUNE, New York,
May IS, 1S67.-Dear Sir. I beg you
not to feel concerned about me. I
shall stand straight up to the rack,
and though / expect to lose a good
many subscribers, I mean TO be
vindicated in the end by the good
sense and right feeling Of the peo-
pie, North and South. l know what
is right, and have acted accordingly,
aud trust TO be better understood
in the end. Yours,


HORACE GREELEY"
Year: 1872

Both Of MS guilty and both Of us sad
And this is the end of passionl
And people are silly-pcoDle are nnd
Who follow the lights OF fashion;
For she was a belle, aud / was a bean
And both ofrs giddy-headed-
priest and a rite-a glitter and show.
And this is the way we welded.
There were wants we never had known


before,


And matters we could not smother,
And poverty came in an open door,
And love went out at another;
For she had been humOred-I had bQen


spoiled,


And neither was sturdy-heartcd-
Both in the bitches and both of rs


soiled,


And this is the way we parted.
Year: 1872

a Western New York miss un-
guardedly volunteered the remark
in the family circle that when gen
tlemen eat warm maple sugar it gets
into their moustaches and makes
them scratchy. Her father is curl
GUS to know how she found out so
much.
Year: 1872

Our Radical friends do not seem
to have the faintest idea OF the is


sues involved in the coming canvass.
They talk as though the contest
was the old one, between Democracy
and Republicanism; whereas it is a
struggle between the friends Of pop
ular government and ring govern
ment. The people are on one side
and the Office holders on the other.
Year: 1872

A WRITER in The Country Gent'e"ta"
that late winter and early
spring celery should not be earthed up
ot all lust before winter sets IN, he
saws have all the plants carefully lifted
with spade and the earth partly sha-
ken out from the roots. Place them III
trench in place protected from the


winds, and cover them over with foo'
of dead leaves.