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Year: 1872

The body is to die. No one who passes
the charmed boundary comes back to tell.
Imagination visits the land of shadows
sent out from some window of the soul
over life's restless waters, but wings its
way wearily back without live leaf in
its beak as a token Of merging life be-
yond the closely blending horizon. The
great sun comes and goes in the heavens
yet breathes no secret of the ETHEREAL viii
derness. The crescent moon cleaves her
nightly passage across the upper deep,
but tosses overheard no signals. The
sentinel stars challenge each other Us they
walk their nightly round, but we catch
no syllable Of their countersign, which
gives passage to the heavenly camp. Be
tween this and the other life there Is
great gulf fixed, across which neither feet
nor eye can travel. The gentle friend
whose eyes were closed in their last long
sleep, long years ago, died with rapture
in her wonderstricken eyes, a smile Of
inefable joy upon her lips, and hands
folded over triumphant heart; but her
lips were passed speech, and intimated
nothing of the vision that enthrolled her.
Year: 1872

Somebody remarks that little fish seem
to have the most sensible ideas of star,
in life they all begin on small seal,
and there il as much truth as wit In
the saying. Begin small. Counties
sermons have alrendy been preached on
that text. but until the practice comes uI
to the preaching there would set"; to be
need of more yet. 1t is not 50 easy for q
young couple who have been brought up
in comfort and luxuy to 90 backward in
the social life and begin according to their
means. II seems like a descent. and il
Is hard to make il gracefully. Better
that ii should be done. however. at FIRST,
than to come to il after brief period Of
luxurious living for in that case the last
state Is apt to be worse than the first.
Emulate the little fisher. therefore. and
begin ON a small scale.
Year: 1872

SoNE young Texas hunters, feeling
cold, built a fire in the woods. About
the time it got well under way they had
reason to believe that the fire had been
built over their powder flask. for the only
one who was not hurt by the explosion
counted the others as they came down.
Year: 1872

Az old minister says the best criticism
he ever received on his preaching was
from little fellow who had been follow
ing his sermon attentively, and suddenly
spoke out, as he heard repetition of a
remark previously made: "You said
that afore."
Year: 1872

The papers say "Ben Butler proposes
to take Louisville in his western tour"


We knew Ben would take anything he
could lay his hands on, but we are lit
tie anxious to know what he wants with
Louisville.
Year: 1872

THE PITrsBURG Gazette says that the
spirit of the Louisville press is whiskey.
That is probably the reason why the aver
age Pittsburger is always so eager to
devour Louisville newspaper.
Year: 1872

ed here to enjoy our equal and just rule; but those coming bent on theft and murder, must expect to meet punishment mild or severe according to circumstances. The sympathy and walls of foreigners for the misfortunes of their bad friends here, will neither undo what has been done nor nit igate what -~ill be done. If men from Mexico are here to commit crimes, or to help criminals, we tell all such their room Is better than their com pany, and the quicker they get away the better for all concerned. Men who seek protection of our laws that they may prosper better, had better not be too friendly to well-known desperadoes and outlaws. The sooner all such get out of this country, the better for all honest ones in it--Mex- ican as we'll as American.

 This will appear in Spanish next week.
Year: 1872

ABOUT the last of March and early part of April showers of rain and snow fell in the vicinity of Prescott, and The Miner says that the ground was pretty we'll saturated on the 9th instant with rain and snow, but evi- dently more is needed and hoped for.
Year: 1872

ON April 5, Delegate Mccormick had long and satisfactory interview with the President on Arizona Indian Affairs. On the same day he saw the Secretary of War upon the same sub ject. The President and Secretary spoke in the highest terms of General Crook.
Year: 1872

times appointed whom, although the Senate
confirmed the best public opinion did not
approve and some officers remained when
the same opinion thought that they should
have been removed. But the good sense
OF the country saw that if there were evil
traditional systems which could not be
broken by word or an act, and that if
sometimes the President had been i'll ad-
vised, yet that his Administration must
be Judged as whole, and could not be
condemned because of some doubtful or
notorious officers. 1t knew also that
lie travels a league while truth is putting
on its boots, and that while it is always
difficult to know the exact facts when
sides are hotly taken, yet that whatever
the abuses of the civil service, it was not
only steadily improving, but that Its sys-
tematic improvement had never received
from any Administration such careful con-
sideration as from that of General Grant


The result of this close observation of
the Administration is apparent in the
New Hampshire election. The failure of
the prolonged and bitter attack upon it is
equally plain. The President and the
Administration were the Republican plat
form, and the result is q vote of conf
dence. 1t shows that the people do not
believe that parties should be dissolved,
and the higher welfare of the country
abandoned to a scrub-race of new organ
izations. 1t shows profound conviction
that the defeat of the Republican party,
under whatever fair name and fine prom
Use and by whatever coalition that defeat
should be secured, would be peril not
to be tolerated. 1t shows, in fine, that in
the judgment of the people of New
Hampshire, who may be fairly taken as
the representative of the great mass of
intelligent and loyal American citizens,
the President and his Administration
have been tried in the balance and not
found wanting.-Hdrper's Weekly.
Year: 1872

EY HARRIErTE HAMMOND.
FOOLISH little maiden bought foolish little bon


net.
With a ribbon, and feather and bit of lace upon
And that the other maidcns OF the little town might


know II,
She thought she'd go to meeting the next Sunday,


just to show it.
But though the little bonnet was scarce larger
The getting of it settled proved to be a work of


time:
So when I was fairly tied all the bells had stopped


their ringing.
And when che came to meeting, sure enough the


folks were singing.
So this foolish little maiden stood and waited at
And she shook her ruffics out behind and smoothed


them down before,
" Hallelujah hallelujah," sang the choir above


her bead
" Hardly knew youl hardly knew you,'' were the


words she thought they said.
This made the little maiden feel SO very, pery


cross,
That she give her little mouth a twist, her little
For she thought the very hymn they sang was all


about ner bonnet,
With the ribbon, and the feather, and the bit of


lace upon II.
And she would not wait to listen to the sermon OF
But pattered down the silent street and hurried up


the stair,
Till she'd reached her little bureau, and in band.


box on il
Had hidden, safe from critics eye, her foolish little


bonnet.
Which proves, my little maidens, that each Of you


will find
In every Sabbath service but an echo of your


mind;
And that the little head that's filed with silly little


airs
VIII never get blessing from sermons or from


prayers.
Year: 1872

the Administration men, par excellence, in
Congress, have among them so many that
are not models of virtue But President
must employ those who will be employed.
He cannot go upon his knees to imperious
Senators. The People have made Presi-
dent higher than Senator. 1t is for pub
lie men who are truly patriotic to place
their counsel and influence with the Ex-
ecutive upon terms which he can accept
with self-respect. If they are cold, AFRO
CANT, divisive, it is not for them to COM
plain that the President passes by them to
men who are practical, and who help by
cordial sympathy rather than by moral
lectures


General Grant has not failed in any
pledges made by the Republican party in
his behalf The party itself has been
numbered by practical difficulties
as great as were ever accumulated
upon a political party. If in
some directions less, in other directions
more has been accomplished than was ex-
pected. No party ever goes into power
with the gift of prophecy. New events
change the complexion of a party's pur-
poses, and it must conform to the require
ments of facts. The enthusiasm of 1872
is not the popular enthusiasm of 1868,
and party may be truer to its principles
by not following out it's original course
than by rigid adhesion to 1t.


Now, not seeking to justify every neg
lect, or every performance, but applying
to the Republican party those allowances
and those tests which just men apply to
all human actions, we firmly believe that,
under General Grants Administration, the
Republican party has conducted the
country through period of resettlement
almost as perplexing as was the period of
war, and with a discretion and sue
cess which are not unworthy of the repu-
tation achieved by it in the stormy days
of civil commissions. During this period
General Grant has neither Jagged behind
nor run ahead of the Republican party.
If he has not proved brilliant, he has GER
tainly established a reputation for
no man before the public who
would not be an experiment. Grant has
been tried, his weaknesses and his good
qualities are known. Experience is heal
ing the one and developing the other.
His fidelity to the known wishes of the
party is unquestionable. What correction
of abuses comes to be demanded will be
achieved. 1t is the force of public opinion
outside of the government which fills its
sails, and gives it power to move. We
do not deprecate the criticism of able
journals. Just as fast as they can raise
the tone of public sentiment in the
community, they will secure the execu-
tion of that sentiment by the Administra-
ton.


In short, the Republican party, in our
Judgment, represents ideas and policies
indispensable to the growth of justice and
liberty in this great Commonwealth. 1t
was never more fitted to carry out the best
thoughts of our wisest men. And in
looking about for leader in the coming
campaign, we know of no one so likely
to secure success as the man who in his
military life, however slow or cumbrous
in his methods, seems to have invariably
come out victorious in the end. This has
been called good luck. The men who
habitually have good luck are the very
Year: 1872

spacious play ground. 1t should have
plenty OF soft green grass, and trees, and
fountains, and broad space to run and
jump, and to play suitable plays
would make it as pleasant, as lovely. as
it could be, and would give it to the
boys to play in; and when the play was
ended, would tell them to go home.


For when boys hang around the street
corners, and the stables, they get slouchy,
and listless of all things / dislike list
ess boy or girl. would have hundred
boys like hundred yachts, with every
spar straight, and every rope taut, the
decks and sides clean, the rigging all in
order, and everything ready to slip the
cable and fly before the wind when the
word comes to go.


But this cannot be if you lounge about
the streets, and loaf about the corners,
and idle away your time at the stables and
saloons.


When you are from home have some
business; attend to your business, and
then go home.-SUnddy School Scholar.
Year: 1872

Boys, don't hang around the corners OF
the streets. If you have anything to do,
do it promptly, right on, then go home
Home is the place for boys. About
the street corners, and at the stables
they learn to talk slang, and they
learn to swear, to smoke tobacco, and
to do many other things that they ought
not to do.


Do your business and then go home. If
your business is play, play, and make a
business of it. i like to see boys play.
good. earnest healthful games. If were
the town would give the boys good
Year: 1872

A SMART young man in East Arlington,
having had some trouble with his father,
went to Boston the other day and tele-
graphed to his parents that their son had
fallen OF India wharf and been drowned


The sad intelligence nearly crazed his
mother, and his father having made ar
rangements for the funeral, proceeded to
Boston for the corpse, while the young
man returned to attend his own funeral
Year: 1872

SOME boys recently, secretly attached
yellow card bearing the inscription
4 smallpox here, are you vaccinated ?"
TO the back of a gentleman walking on
State street, Chicago. The pedestrian
met with perfect ovation wherever he
went, but he had pretty much the entire
walk to himself.
Year: 1872

WANT IN LIFE.-There is nothing
more fortunate for modern genius than
to be born poor The ''silver spoon
class are a very comfortable people no
doubt, but the great trouble with them
is, their education is mainly of this or
der, and if they don't become very great,
they are extremely likely to become the
very opposite. There is no middle
ground for them, for they were not taught
to regard any. and consequently, they
are, as a general thing, unfit for it
Poverty has helped men to solve some of
the greatest problems of life. Half its
brave deeds have been a necessity. and
the most of its noble savings have been
born of determined opposition. 1t
does man good to put him at his wits
ends. Emergencies make men. Any
man can be general or pilot in a
calm; but storms show the metal. Rep
utation is made more by boldness and
will, than by ability and patience. Life
is too short to wait for the tide whose
ebb leads on to fortune. We must make
the most of present opportunities, but
we shall hardly do it unless present op-
portunities are in the main present ne
cessities. The man who works out these
to the fullest extent is the most success
full man.
Year: 1872

A CURIOUS FAMILY.-In Boone county
Kentucky, there is a family whose sim
gular manner of living and other pecu-
liarities excite general interest. The
head of the family is native of Scot
land, an educated man. well read, and
of fine conversational powers. He does
nothing for the support of his family,
and although they are in an almost
starving condition, is devoting his time
to the study of the Greek language
While he is thus engaged they are liv-
ing in miserable hut without floor or
windows, and with scarcely food enough
to keep them from starving. The woman
has neither education nor sense in fact
the only thing worth thinking of is fits.
She gives the family what attention it
gets, and prepares the food sent them
by the neighbors, while the husband is
engaged in his classical studies or in
prowling about the neighborhood reading
essays to his acquaintances.
Year: 1872




APERILoUs HOUR Medical evidences
prove that in chronic diseases, the greater
number of deaths occur just before dawn.
This is eminently true of brain diseases,
and of all those related cases where
death results from an exhaustion of the
vital power, through oyerwork, excess
i've excitement, or nervous prostration.
1t is at 5 o'clock in the morning that
the life force is at its lowest ebb, and
succumbs most readily to the assault of
epilepsy, or paralysis, or of the lethargy
that comes in those wildly beautiful
picture dreams, for which medical sci
ence has as yet found no name, and of
which it has taken no sufficient cogniz-
ance. Nine-tenths of those who die in
this way expire in their sleep. In many
such cases, if a friend were at hand to
awaken the sleeper when the attack
comes on, or, if he were to be awakened
by some accidental noise, he might, by
the use of a few simple preparations,
prolong his life for many years; for the
shock which is fatal to the man wrap
ped in deep sleep, when the system is
passive and relaxed, would be victorious
ly repelled were it armed with all its



waking energies. Men who do brain
work, and who are on the shady side of
forty, should be on their guard against
this insidious enemy. They should be-
ware of 5 o'clock in the morning, for it
is perilous hour. Do you find your
self unable to sleep, when you retire for
the night exhausted with your days
work q? Do you in vain turn from one
side to the other ? Does your brain
persist in working when you would fain
have it rest? Do old songs and scraps
of rhyme repeat themselves in your
memory with wearisome iteration, de-
flying your utmost to silence them p
Then beware You will be sure to
sleep at last. 1t is only question of
time for, sooner or later, nature will
assert her rights.-EngliShN Newspaper.
Year: 1872




only at rest from sheer exhaustion of all
her powers. She was afterward taken
to the police station in cab. = \


The young woman was badly hurt.
There were two deep wounds. it was af-
terward discovered, one a deep cash in
the scalp, passing from the frontal bone
and making the circuit of the head the
other on the left temple, where it is
impossible at present to tell whether or
not it is bullet wound OF the cash of
one of the bottles. The house on Con-
stance street last night was, almost like
the house of death, and those who came,
and went trod noiseless and with hushed
breath.


Jenne Bronson, the would-be assassin
in this fearful domestic drama, is wo-
man of singular beauty, but of violent and
Incorporate passions. Her welded life
was scene of incessant disturbance, and
it was only when her furious temper was
no longer to be borne that her husband
resorted I'd the alternative of divorce.
When some time afterward he sought
peace and happiness with 'Pearl Rivers, -
she swore bitter revenge, saying both
should feel the effects of her vengeance.
How faithfully she has carried out this
threat the events of yesterday attest
She was arrested by police officer Dorsey,
and carried to the Pacanier Station,
where she was locked up.-New Orleans
Times.
Year: 1872

I think it not best to dispute where
there is no probabability of convincing.



1t is impossible to speak against
christianity without anger, nor to speak
for it without love.-Jombart.


To tell falsehood is like the cut of
a saber; for, though the wound may
heal, the scar of it will remain.-,Soadi


Nothing more impairs authority than
a too frequent or indiscreet use of it
If thunder itself was to be continual, it
would excite no more terror than the
noise of a mill.-Anon.


If we had the keen vision and feeling
of all ordinary human life, it would be
like hearing the grass grow and the
squirrels heart beat, and we should die
oe that roar which lies on the other side
of silence. AS it is, the quickest of us
walk about well wadded with stupidity
George Eliot.


FRIGHTENED FROM HIS PROFESSION.
A young Kentucky physician who had
been regularly educated for his profess
sion, was called to the bedside of pa
tient that he had been attending with
his best care for some time, but who had
obstinately grown worse and worse, un-
til now his end seemed very near
doctor" said the dying man, 81 am
dying-I am certain am dying, and |
believe you have killed me- The doc
tor seemed to think very earnestly for a
moment or two, and then quite gravely
and seriously replied: Eyes, [ see that
you are dying; and on reflection. l be.
lieve that you are right believe that
/ have killed you; but. here l take my
oath that, if God will forgive me fo1
having unintentionally murdered you,
will never murder another-I will never
give another dose of medicine profession.
ally as long as 1 live And he kep1
his oath; he at once quit medicine en-
tirely turned his attention to the study
of law; obtained license in due course
and, after few years successful prac
tice, became one of the most eminent
Circuit Judges of that day in Kentucky
now nearly forty years ago.
Year: 1872

A Pekin, ILL.,, woman was asked by
the preacher if her husband feared the
Lord. She replied: Fear him ?
why, bless you, he is so feared of him
that he never goes out of the house Sum-
days without taking his gun along.
Year: 1872

AN EYE TO BUSINESS OR SEEKING
AFTER THE TRUTH.-Seyeral years ago
a boy walked into town, six miles, in
blazing sun, for the purpose of procur-
ing a bible. He had been told, he said,
that there was place where they gave
them away to the people who had no
money he said he had no money, and
was very anxious to get one of the good
books, and happening to fall in with
pious man, asked him to go with him
to the place where they were kept. Anx-
ious to encourage him in his early piety,
the man took him over to the stand of
an old Presbyterian deacon. who had
the much-coveted books in charge. He
introduced him to the deacon, telling
him the circumstances. He praised the
boy very highly; was delighted to see
young man so early seeking after the
truth, etc.. and presented him with the
best bound bible in his collection. Bub-
by put it in his pocket and was starting
off, when the deacon said :-"Now, my
son, that you possess what you so much
desired, suppose you feel perfectly hap
py?' "Wall do, old boss for between
you and I, know where l can trade it
for plaguy good fddlel''
Year: 1872




A GooD BoY.-A youngster attending
school has written to his mother the fol-
lowing letter:


Dear Mother; | got another licking
yesterday, but had on three pairs of
pants and it didn't hurt me much. Twas
licked because put six pins in Mrs
chair l knew that they would not
stick him, and made bet that they
would not. Mr.. - was so mean and
hard that the pins would not 60 in. |
won the bet which was dog. He is a
good dog, and am training him to bite
old "Hardsides, as we call him, some
night when he comes home after dark,
and if Zach is good after him as he is
after cats, l won't get licked any more
Zach and | killed the cats Sunday, tho
l was at sunday school and church all
day, and it wasn't a good day either.
That makes the third licking l got this
week. One was because I had bottle
of milk in my room, and the other be-
cause I wrote composition on negroes
that old Hardsides didn't like. [ said
that a negro was dark subject to write
on. 1t was like dark African going
down dark cellar in dark night with
out a light to look for a black cat thai
was not there. Old Hardsides stopped
me and licked me for that Send me
some more of them pies. make goot
trade with some of them. If you viii
send me five dollars | will stop all my
bad habits except cursing and swearing
and chewing and drinking and one o
two others. Yet you had better maxi
the trade. Give my love to Julie, ant
tell her to send me that little fiddle
left in the old trunk.


Your affectionate son,


BILLIE"