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Year: 1873

No man, probably, ever become a
drunkard deliberately and from choice.
And many drunkard would have been
saved from the awful position, could he
have realized at the outset Of bis Course
of occasionaland moderate drinking, that
he would inevitably become one.


The coil of serpent is not more cof-
tain and deadly in its result than the en-
slavement Of tho men who weekly, or
daily, or occasionally, at the social party.
sips his wine and whisky. He may boast
ofhis strength of purpose and will where
by he is able to go a certain length and
then to stop. But the chances, so to speak.
are all against his doing it. Humanity
speaking, if he feels himself to be safe,
he is a doomed man. At first, the chains
hang 50 lightly that he does not feel their
pressure; and they glitter 50 in the sun
light that he fondly believes them golden.
Nor is he undeceived until he discovers
that his boasted strength Of purpose and
Of will is gone; and now, though he
would, he can not flee from the destruc-
tion so clearly imminent


Moderate drinking is the DELILAu by
whom men, able, talented, good and use
full men--or Sampsons--are shorn Of their
strength. "Nons that 60 unto her return
again, neither tako they bold of tho
paths Of life." 'She hath cast down
many wounded yea, many strong men
have been slain by her.-Christian In.
dec.
Year: 1873

Render, have you noticed in tho news
papers for the past four months that you
can scarcely pick up one Of them that
does not contain one or more accounts Of
deaths resulting from the use OF intoxi-
eating liquor. In one paper last week,
We read Of three instances, Rum de-
thrones reason, and the poor unfortunate
man, in state Of insonsibility, lies down
on a railroad track and is killed by tho
coming train. Another lay drunk before
his fire, and while alone a spark set fire
to his clothing, and the house was burned
and be with il. Another fell from
steamboat and was drowned. Can we
not draw lesson from these daily acci-
dents? Do they not warn Us to avoid the
cup. Let us profit by this unfortunate
occurrence and resist the tempter while
we can.--Erctange.
Year: 1873

Out Of about thirty business firms, of
one kind and another, in Cleveland, only
three of them feel that they are able to
advertise. Of course this commendable
liberality proves that ours is commercial
town of considerable importance. 1t will
be an easy matter to locate Universities,
Railroads, and othcrl public enterprises,
at such point. A town whose business
can afford to pay its 'o,al newspapers, all
combined, the enormous sum Of two hun
dred dollars per annum, for advertising,
is bound, at no distant day, to be great
inland cNy--in horn. We are msking
a living without this patronage-can get
as much advertising as we want from
abroad, which pays equally as well-and
we don't have to take the pay in store
goods--but still we dislike to print pa,
per and send it abroad with only two or
three local advertisements in tit speaks
bad of our business men--shows that they
are long way behind the spirit Of the age,
and that as far as business is concerned,
there Is no life about it. This may be the
way to attract the attention Of men of
means to a place, but for the life Of us we
cannot see it in that light through these
specks. If you want the outside world to
know that Cleveland is a real live town
let your lights shine through the columns
of your local papers.-If you don't want
to advertise in the BANNER, you have two
others printed in town, 60 and advertise
in chem. We have fine circulation, and
of course we would give our neighbors
the advantage Of it in preference to stran:
gers. If they refuse it it is no fault of
ours if the town is placed among one horse
towns.-We are easy as far as we are con-
cerned-we can live without it.-Ctve-
land Banner.
Year: 1873

We beg to call the attention Of Merchants
buying goods in our market, to the above
card, and would solicit ar inspection Of
our stock. To cash and prompt time buy
ers. We offer special Inducements Our
goods in the entire Notion Department is
complete. aud win be sold as low as the
same goods can be bought in any market
AL. &. II. C. GILLESPIE 4 co.
mar2S
Year: 1873

A LONDON PUFF FOR OUR CENTENNIAL.
President Grant announces that an interna-
tional exhibition will be held at Philadelphia
in the year 1876. The resolve TO dis inguish
his second term of office by an invitation to
the whole world to the city OF Brothery Love
is one which will give general satisfaction in
the United States. The Quaker metropolis
is peculiarly fitted by its historical and geo.
graphical position, for such gathering. and
we believe that the presidents invitation
will meet with very laige response. Both
exhibitors and visitors will probably show
their willingness to contribute to the sue
cess of the exhibition. That success must,


of course, depend in great degree on the


largenesS and the liberality of the plan;


and we may trust to the energy of the


American people TO make it a quite worthy
successor of the splendid show by which vi


emma is at this moment equaing if not sur


passing, all previous exhibitions. As a COM
p4ete representation of the industrial activity
of the New World, there will be enough to


distinguish it from former exhibitions, in


which OF course, Europe has held the first
place, anG to give it marked individuality,
1t is probable that, ii the scheme is success
fully carried out, a large number of Euro
Eeans may make it the occasion of a visit to
the wonderful continent on the other side Of
lhe Atlantic, Thus, apart from the influence
it may have on trade, it will at least give an
impetus TO transatlantic travel; and make,


not Amerieans, but America and its institu.
tions. better known on this side the sea. We
cordially hope that the exhibition may prove


to be one OF the greatest successes OF the
Presidents stration.-LOpdOn Neus.
Year: 1873

Very conscientious and. Jaw abiding are the
people of Rochester, Ind. Two intoxicated
young men went to bed on the railroad track,
the other night, and, in the ordinary course
of railway travel, were run over and killed.
But the people had an idea that the bodies
must lie undstuibed till the coroner came,
so the mutIlated remains of the young men
were subjected to repeated hammerings and
crushings by passing trains, till sleepy coro-
oner could be summoned from his house,
some miles distant.
Year: 1873

Street organ-grinders in Saratoga make
from eighteen to twenty dollars day; and
we are glad to assure the professors in this
locality that there is so great scarcity OF
them that all the children and some of the
grown people of that beautiful village refuse
to be comforted
Year: 1873

For Concrete Stone Bubble Stone. Cement and Sand
required in the construction of the U. S. Custom
House and Post Office at Rockland, Me.


OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT


q. S. CUSTOM HOUSE AND POST OFFICE
Year: 1873

When the gray air breathes chill in earl,


Spring,


And coldly fall the cheeress sunset CLEANS
When the sere grasses rustic, whispering
OF life that is, of death that only seems
When the wild wind soughs in the weaving


wood


With secret summoning of bud and leaf
And walls along the bare and withered rood
AS in an ecstasy OF lonely grief;
Then smiling from docaying fern and sedge--
First signal of the new awakening earth
On sunny slopes along the forest edge,
Surprising with its loveliness their doarth,
The dainty sweet arbutus half conceals
The delicate beauty its perfume reveals.
Year: 1873

es, and plenty of Irish moss tea; but
he did not attend Miss Tracy's ball.


And that unfortunate girl Of the
period is still on the quj rire for a
matrimonial partner, with the requisite
amount of capital.
Year: 1873

would accept them, should be glad to
let you have them. Your boy can stop
when he goes from school and get the
basket


4 should be very thankful indeed
for them, said the other fervently and
with Frightening of the eye which had
been SO downcast before.


She soon went on her way. far more
hopeful than when she came in. and
Mrs. Lewis thought over and over as
she turned over her ample stores: Can
L ever repine again?' With heart
full of thankfulness to God that she
had gift by which she could earn such
liberal wages, she laid out one and an
other little garment for the poor wo-
mans children.


: 1t would take weeks of shoe-binding
to earn even one of these. = she thought.
What if l had to buy them at that
slow rate?" "


From that day. when tempted to re-
pine at her tasks. She had but to think
of binding shoes at four cents a pair.
and she grew content. All. if we would
oftener look at our mercies instead of
our crosses, it would be a great gain to
body and soul. Mrs. King conferred a
greater good than she received. d.-Lubr-
an ObSerrer.
Year: 1873

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


Would you permit laboring man, in behalf of
many others of his class, to give his views on the
school question: am, and hope to die, a Catholic
and believe the more education one has the better
ne is fitted to select between right and wrong be-
eve it would be criminal to keep children from
our public schools If there are no better ones to
send them to- First provide better ones, and II
selves OF so favorable an opportunity. Until then
let the children have light, as all must concede
ignorance Is darkness, ana any one VINO, on any
pretence whatever. encourages 1t cannot be In the
service OF God. Let the people or all creeds and
nationalItes favor educatlon as 1T Will bring us
nearer to God and secure US against tyranny ana
oppression.


A MANHATrANVILLE LABORER.
Year: 1873

e'esseo privilege to support him by my prayers,
my influence and my substance, az God shall
prosper me. And II the evangelical clergy OF the
Protestant Episcopal Church prove unfathiul TO
their awful trust, ana shall desert US in this
hict between truth and error-as q OF their num-
per nave already done-we, OF the laty in humble
reliance on God, must carry on and complete this
tighten the hearts and c0nsciences OF all pious
ministers and laymen oil the Protestant Episcopal
Church, and enable them TO decide this moment0us
question solely and entirely with view to the
glory OF God and the eternal welfare OF their fellow
men. PROTESTANT.
Year: 1873

The brig Mary Celeste, abandoned of
all her officers and crew, was picked up
at sea by a British vessel near the West
ern Islands, not very far from the Euro
pean coast, and taken into Gibraltar.
She was sound throughout as on the day
when she sailed, had her canvas set, and
only needed a man at the helm to have
sailed smoothly into port. Captain


Winches, who was sent out to inspect
her condition, has reported to us in per-
sou the result of his examination.
There was nothing in or about the ves-
sel tc furnish a hint of the reason why
she vas forsaken. The captain, Ben
iamin S. Briggs, of Massachusetts, had
his wife and child with him, and their
wardrobe was left untouched, and her
work as she laid it down, perhaps at the
moment of leaving, precisely as 1t
would appear in any well regulated
home if the mistress had stepped for a
moment to the door and been unexpect-
edly shut out. A report was circulated
that a bloody sword was found, but this
our informant examined, and decided
that the mark in question, supposed to
be blood, was only q spot OF ancient
rust.


The vessel was worth more than her
insurance, so that the underwriters here
have no suspicion of any foul play or
intended wrong. The most reasonable
suppositiOn is that she grounded on a
shoaI. which certainly lay in her intend
ed pathway, and only foated after she
had been abandoned by her officers and
crew. 1t is certainly to be hoped that
the missing company will come safely
to land at last. to unravel the seeming
mystery, but the distance of time which
has ELAPSED leaves but a slender chance
of such a recovery. She sailed hence for
Genoa, as our records show, on No
yember 7th. The last record IN her
Iogbook was November oath, and she
was discovered by the brig Del Gratia
lBritish) ten days after-that is, Deeem-
Der 4th. It is not yet too late to hear
that the wanderers were saved, but
every day which elapses without tidings
from them lessons the chances of their
safety.


Nothing was missed from the cap
taiu's stores but q quadrant, his personal
effects otherwise remaining intact.


In the forecastle the order was still
more remarkable. The chests of the
crew contained abundant provision of
clothing; some of it entirely new, and
none of it disturbed to signalize any
preparation for exit. In one chest a
good draft on a foreign banker for thirty
dollars was carefully placed as when the
owner left this port.


These appearances forbid all suspicion
of mutiny or quarrel among the little
company who took to the boats and left
a sound ship under full sail to its un-
guided course.
Year: 1873

1t is said that the recent advance in
the price of pork in New York is owing
to the heavy demand from the larger
and wealthier countries of Europe for
pork TO be converted into bacon for
army food. The fact that one or two
houses in New York city held great
quantities of pork has given rise to ru-
mors of an intended corner, but no well
founded statement on the subject is
made,
Year: 1873

Farmers, from their isolated lives,
should struggle all the more to make
all the appointments Of home beauti-
fnl and attractive, that the tender
chords of affection between themselves
and their families may become holy,
enduring bond, and The home remain
the one Mecca to which the spirit ever
turns through all the vicisitudes of
life.
Year: 1873

l must take time to mention that l
went with my young friend to visit
the poor farmer, the man with only
forty acres and ono team, and the
grounds about his house were like a
lovely park. The house was a little
brown gem Of . cottage, with green
Year: 1873

With the accession of McMahon to
the Presidency, the Bonapartes have
returned to France, and the indica-
tions are that they will soon make
trouble. The deposition of Theirs
was an intrigue brought about by the
temporary union ofall factions oppos-
ed to Republic it was planned by
the Bourbons and for the purpose of
placing one of their family on the
French throne. McMahon is q LIE
gitimist, but is no better than a Re-
publican in the estimation of the
Bourbons if he does not favor their
schemes, and any toleration of the
Bonaparte faction by him is likely to
be followed by demonstration that
Will hurl him from his seat as sudden
ly as he was elevated to it.
Year: 1873

DR.. Dio Lewis, in one of his lee
lures to the boys, singled out red
headed little fellow, and asked him
what the wax was in the ear for. He
said he selected a red-headed boy
because red-headed boys are gener-
ally the smartest. The boy stood up
and said he did not know. The doc
tor would not take such an answer.
If the boy didn't know, he must tell
at least what he thought the-wax was
in the ear for.


"Well, said the boy, "the wax is
in the ear Observation-Disclosures
it wants be in the ear.


He questioned another little boy
who claimed distinction by having a
red head, and his answer was that it
kept the passage to the drum moist.
This was correct; but it has further
uses. Ear wax is deadly poison to
insects. It some times accunulates
and becomes hard, causing partial
deafness; but a little warm castor
oil, mixed with spirits, would remedy
that, or an injection of lukewarm
soapsuds.
Year: 1873

The New York Court has decided
that the publication of Woodruff and
Clafin's Weekly is not included in
those termed obscene by the law,
and Colonel Blood, Mrs. Woodruff,
and Miss Clafin were declared not
guilty. The ofense, as described
under the Indictment, was very doubt
full. Had the case resulted otherwise,
the judgment would have reached
a large number of newspapers in the
country that pride themselves on
their greatness, responsibility, and
independence, but which publish in
nearly every issue columns of disgust
ing scandal that degrades and pol
lutes a large class of readers.
Year: 1873

A free public library is something
which every town snould have.
Every Que possessed of refined taste
and liberal education appreciates a
book; and though all persons do not
have these requirements, free library
will contribute largely to their attain
ment.


1t may be true, and doubtless is,
that great many people who have
the opportunities for reading afforded
by the libraries do not avail them
selves of them. Indeed, it is said
that the Astor Library in New York,
where one hundred and sixty thou
sand volumes may be consulted
every day in the year, barring Sun
days and a brief vacationlin August,
is patronized by but comparatively
few of the inhabitants of the city.
Still, it is of great value to the pub
lie. The public press draws largely
unon it for valuable information.
Science is greatly aided by the in
formation its tones contain. In
short, its vast stores of knowledge are
of constant utility in very many ways,
which a casual observer would almost
fail to notice. Suppose that the
general public does care very little
for books, is that any valid reason
why the opportunity should not be
given for improvement in that re-
gard? We may not be a "bookish
people, but we are becoming so,
perhaps slowly, but nevertheless there
is progress here. the time will not
always be when our people shall con-
stitute, as a whole, what some unchar-
liable critics have been pleased to
call an illiterate multitude.


Let us have free public libraries,
and by-and by, when the struggle for
wealth which now seems to so nearly
absorb the entire time and energies
of our people, shall have given place,
as it eventually will, to taste for a
better acquaintance with books, we
shall be in a condition to crafty
and healthy demand in
that behalf.
Year: 1873

We are pleased to see that the Republi-
cans of Iowa, at their State Convention a
few days since, spoke out in denunciatory
terms of the Congressional Salary grab, and
demand the repeal of the law authorizing that
great outrage upon the people. We are in
clined to the opinion-as we said at the time
of the passage of this bill-that those men,
bers of Congress who voted for that law,
might as well make up their minds to retire
to private life at the expiration of their
present official terms.
Year: 1873

The law prohibiting free exchanges and
free circulation to newspapers is tax on
knowledge, direct attack on intelligence
and literature.


Men dislike to have privileges taken away;
and, if they can obtain no compensation for
what they are deprived of, they are pretty
likely to take something away from the de-
priver. Thus Congress, feeling that public
opinion demanded the discontinuance of
the franking privilege, discontinued it, and
took two compensations, ,-one an increase
of their own pay; and the other a retributive
deprivation, namely, the discontinuance of
free exchanges and free home circulation of
newspapers; for the newspapers had stirred
up this very public opinion. Of these two
discreditable performances, the former is
an e1 post tactO measure, which is wrong on
the same principle that forbids penalties to
be inflicted on crimes committed before the
making of the law. This principle is sim
ply, Laws may not take men by surprise.
Even wrong-doer must have ample notice
that he is to be punished In like manner
should paymaster have notice what he is
to pay his servant; but our congressional
servants of the people" propose, it would
appear, both to carry the bag, and to help
themselves to what is pat therein. 1t is
morally wrong, as well as politically mex
pedient, that congressman should have the
power of altering his own pay, for the same
reasons that have caused its absolute pro-
hibition to the President; and the Constitu-
ton should be amended so as to prevent
it in future, by adding to the first sentence
of the first paragraph of the sixth section of
the first article the words given below in
Italics, which would cause that sentence to
read as follows: 1.-The senators and repre-
sentatives shall receive compensation for
their services, to be ascertained by law, and
paid out of the treasury of the United States;
and achich shall neither be increased nor d.
nlinisaed for any senator or representative
during the period for acliich he shall haze
been elected" This would allow full swing
to patriotic restitutions by those feeling
themselves overpaid. IL From the Examin-
er in Old and New for August.
Year: 1873

The anniversary of the battle of Bunker
Hill, June IL, was a memorable day in the
history of the late c. L. Vallandingham.-
On that day he ran the blockade at Charles
ton on Confederate steamer, on that day
be arrived at his home in Dayton, on his re-
turn, and on that day he accidentally in
ficted on himself the wound of which he
ded.-Ch.
Year: 1873

The brilliant Khivan campaign of Russia
terminates in treaty of peace preserving the
Khan on his throne in consideration of two
millions of roubles indemnity, and doubt
less private compact not to interfere with
Russian designs. In new and fort on the
Oxus the Gar takes another stride toward
English India.
Year: 1873

The only client of the late Chief JUS
tice Chase during the first six months
after putting up his shingle as attor-
ney-at-law, was a man who paid him
half a dollar for drawing up an agree
ment, and then came back in few
days after to borrow the half dollar.
Year: 1873

A piece of glass an inch long was
taken from the head of Rochester
man recently, in whose skull it had
been imbedded for twenty years.
He had complained occasionally of a
pain in his head.
Year: 1873

am composed of letters seven,
My first is in Earth, also in Heaven,
My second is in month, but not in year,
My third is in lager, but not in beer,
My fourth is in dear, but not in love,
My fifth is in rose, also in dove,
My sixth is in vine, but not in flower,
My seventh is in simmer, but not in sour,
Dallas, o. "OLD DOCK.
Year: 1873

Why does widow feel her bereavement less when
she wears corsets? Because then she is so-laced.
Why was the elephant the last animal to enter the
ark? Because he had to carry his own trunk.


Why is meat not done ike a good conundrum7
Because ii is rare.


To what place would you consign bad Conserva-
tive? A RefOrm-a-Tory.


Why are handouts like guide-books? Because
they are made for twO-wrists.


WIS is a nice young lady like hinge7 Because
she is something to adore.
Year: 1873

First we all must doubtless be


While on earth we have place;
When from thence we are removed,
Next our lonely graves may trace;
A famous traveller both may tell,
Whom rumor says is safe and well.
Year: 1873

NEW York, June 5.-The steamer
Frolic, with the members Of the PolAris
expedition on board, was intercepted of
Sandy Hook by government boat and
ordered to proceed direct N Washington