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Year: 1873

The first condition of success
in furnishing either a large or a
small room, is that there must
be no overcrowding. This is alb
solute. When outline is lost,
beauty, as a matter Of fact, is
lost. We must all know many
rooms in which, perhaps, the
worth and beauty of each indi-
vidual thing is indisputable, on
entering which the first thing
that strikes one is a sense of
Incongruity. What might have
been an art collection, is degra-
ded to the level of an old curl
osity shop, Most women are
born with a love for beau
.y; but generally, unless this
lpve is cultivated and train
.a, it runs to water and
filters itself away upon
small things. Women go into a
shvp and hover over a counter
for an hour, engrossed in the
purchase of fifty minute things,
each one of which is pretty
enough in ITSELF but not one of
which can be clearly defined at
a distance of two yards, and not
one of which repays the trouble
Of minute inspection. These
are packed away in shiny cabi-
nets, that are blazing with or
.mulu scroll work, on spindle
legged what-nots that seem to
be designed for no other purpo-
ses than to be knocked down at
brief intervals, and on mantle
pieces that confuse ones brain
during the long periods when
the need of being near the fire
forces one to face them. tits a
better and higher system Of
economy to buy two or three
good bronze or marbles, on
which the eye can always rest
with pleasure, than to spend
ten times the sum on a hetero-
geneous mass Of the parti-col-
ored rubbish which many accu-
mulate, Gin order," they call it,
''to take off the naked look Of
their ROOM Better the naked
look of ten thousand times,
than the false decorations.
Year: 1873

7is The idleris an annoyance--ia
nuisance. He is no benefit to
any body. He is an intruder
in the busy thoroughfare Of
eYery day life. He stands in
our path, and we push him con-
temptuously aside. He is Of no
advantage to any one. He an
noys busy men. He makes
them unhappy. He is an unit
in society, He may have an
income to support him in idle
ness, or may sponge" on his
good-natured friends; but in
either case he is despised.
Young men, do something in
this busy, bustling, wide-awake
world. Move about for the
benefit OF mankind, II not Tor
yourself, Do not be idle. Gods
law is, that by the sweat Of our
face we shall earn our bread
That law is a good -one, and
the bread we earn is sweet


GOD has written on the flow
ers that sweaten the air; on the
breeze that rocks the flower; up
on the rain-drop that refreshes
the sprig of moss that lifts its
head in the desert; upon every
penciled shell that sleeps in
the cavern of the deep, no less
than upon the mighty sun that
warns and cheers millions of
creatures which live in it's light
upon all his works he has
written, "None liveth for him
self"
Year: 1873

Do not stop to tell stories in
business hours.


If you have a place of bust
ness, be found there when
wanted.


No man can get rich by sit
ting around stores and saloons.


"Never fool" in business mat
ters.


Have order, system, regular
ity, liberality and promptness.


Do not meddle with business
you know nothing about.


Never buy an article you dc
not need, simply because it is
cheap, and the man who sells
it will take it out in trade.


Trade in money.


Try to avoid hard words and
personalities.


Do not kick every stone in
the path. More miles can be
made in a day by going steadi-
ly on than by stopping.


Pay as you go.


A man of honor respects his
word as his bond.


Aid, but never beg.


Help others when you can,
but never what you cannot af-
ford, simply because it is fash
ionable.


Learn to say ''no." No oneces-
sity of swapping it out dog
fashion, but say it firmly and
respectfully.


Have but few confdents-the
fewer the better.


Use your own brains rather
than those Of others.


Learn to think and act for
yourself


Be vigilant.


Keep ahead rather than be-
hind the times.


Reader, cut this out, and if
there be any folly in the argu-
ment, let us know.
Year: 1873

The horses of the Pacific
slope, which are now undergo
ing the epizootic, do not suffer as
much as theio Eastern relatives
did The warm climate renders
the disease slight that but
few Of the horses are obliged to
suspend their labors.
Year: 1873

IT is way some people have, and they
know no happiness without 1t. Unless
they can be a central point in room, the
persons to whom the largest amount of
attention is given, and who attract all re-
CARDS, they are miserable; IL they are
sensitive as we'll as vain, they fret at being
snubhed; il only vain, they chafe at TN
deserved neglect. This comparative
neglect they cannot endure their ego
tism must have attention by fair means or
foul; they must do or say something to
startle the surrounding world into eager
observation, and so bring themselves to
the front. They are not In the least de-
gree particular as to their method.


When they cannot attract attention by
supremacy in grace, in beauty, in wit,
they manage to do SO by exaggeration
by outrageOusness in dress, by audacity
of speech, by insolence, or eccentricity OF
bearing: they are satisfied If their bizar-
rerie attracts; and they are not over-criti'
cal as to the quality of attention it brings
them. They never see the covert satire
never catch the subtle sneer they are
impervious to ridicule, deaf and blind to
con empt. So long as they see all eyes
turned on them, so long as they are In
the center of a crowd gaping open-mouth.
ed with undisguised astOnishment, OF
viewing them with butter-bred compo


sure through forest of uplifted glasses


they are satisfied with life on the whole
and have no complaints to make agains
| their lot.-Lady's Magazine.
Year: 1873

AND now even Lord O'Baldwi the
gigantic smasher, has set his face sternly
against the prize ring. 1t is too vile a
thing 10 receive his support. He has
given it patient trial, and at last is forced
to throw up his hands with an exclama-
ton of disgust. O'Baldwin has suffered
much for his profession since coming to
America. He has borne Imprisonment
like martyr, but the jail terrors could
not drive him from his high and holy
mission. He cared not for prison bars so
long as his friends rallied around him In
the brief days of his liberty, and dapplauded
him as heroic representative of he man.
ly art of selEdefense. But when these
friends turned against him, and with
cowardly blows struck him down in a
ring where a rude kind of chivalry and
physical manhood were presumed to go
hand i'm hand, the proud heart of O'Bald-
win was touched, and he resolved to suffer
martyrdom no more. From the Jail at
Steubenville the Irish pugilist sends forth
a manifesto closing with these pOrtentous
words ''Since prize-fighting no longer
deserves the name, and the question at is
sue is not who is the best man, but wnere
he was born, and if his nativity does not
suit, what other means can be adopted,
even to murder, If necessary, to prevent
his defeat l abandon forever the prize
ring to such men as Riley, Geohegan and
their cowardly tools" This is sad, and
vet it Is cheering. Sad for the reason that
o Baldwin should have wasted so much
of vigorous life in cause which he Is
forced to confess is without manhood or
honor; and cheering because the retire
ment of the Irish giant from the ring
gives rise to the hope that prize-fghting
has seen its best days in America. When
the ring becomes so low as to be branded
as the synonym of thievery and cowardict


by professional bruiser like O'Baldwin


then let us trust it is indeed past redemp


ton. Having retired from the:ring In dis


gust. we are little bit curious to learI


how Lord O'Baldwin proposes to MAKE


himself useful. Will he carry a hod, Of
run gin mill ?-Tlu.f, Field and Farm.
Year: 1873

MEN and women make their own beau
ty or their own ugliness. Lord Lytton
speaks in one of bis novels of man
"who was uglier than he had any busi-
ness to be :" and If he could but read 1t,
every human being carries his life in his
face, and IS good.lOoking or the reverse as
that life has been good or evil. On our
features the fine chisel of thought and
emotion are eternally at work. Beauty Is
not the monopoly of blooming ycung
men and of white-and-pink maidens.
There is slow growing beauty that only
comes to perfection In old age. Grace be-
longs to no period of life, and goodness
improves the longer it exists. We have
seen sweeter smiles from lip Of seventy
than upon lip of seventeen. There is
the beauty Of youth and the beauty OF
holiness-a beauty much more seldom
met, and more frequently found IN the
armchair by the fire with grandchildren
around his knee, than in the ballroom OF
promenade. Husband and wife, who
have fought the world side by side, VINO
have made common stock Of JOY and sor'
row. and aged together, are not infre.
auently found curiously alike in persona
appearances, and in pitch and tone o


yoice-just as twin pebbles on the beach
exposed to the same tidal influences. ar
each others second self. He has gained
feminine something. which brings hi


manhood into full relief. She has game.
a masculine something which acts as fol
to her womanhood.-Lady's Magazine.
Year: 1873

THE late tidings of the silence of the
Atlantic cable of 1865, while causing tenn
porary uneasiness, ought to raise no fear
for its ultimate restoration. 1t may be
there are vet some vital lessons for the
scientific world to learn before our great
transoceanic telegraphs are secured from
interruption; but every ray of light that
has been brought to bear on the feasibility
of long cables Is cheering. When the cable
of 1866 was laid, it was only after it had
been subjected to crucial tests and proved
to be many times more perfect than had
been required. Sir William Thomson and
Mr.. Varley, who represented the Atlantic
Company, and tested the mighty f1rand
as it lay coiled in the Great Eastern, re-
ported that the current of electricity pass
ed through it so fully that, "of one thou
sand parts over nine hundred and ninety
nine came out at the other end" The
galyanometer enabled its inventor, Pro-
| fassor Thomson. to detect the slightest
| flaw in the cable or fault in the current.
and when the first monitiOn came that the
Gu rent was not flowing freely, the spot
| in deep ocean where the injured or defect
| i've piece Law was instantly fixed upon.
| On this occasion, and subsequently, when


a piece of wire not longer than a needle


was found to have been driven through
the outer cover, and as when nail driven
into the North Sea cable had destroyed III
insulation, the mischief was traced to hu
man hands. During the Great Eastern'i


voyage from Valentia, Bay exquisitely sen


sitive was the copper strand that the elec
tricians at Valentia could tell by the IN
dications on the mirror galvanometer, In


comparably sensitive. every time the biz


ship rolled. The final fracture Of the ca


Bile, when the shores Of Newfour diane


were almost in sight, was also traced Z


malicious interference with itin the ship


hold, and not to any magnetic storm


"sweeping wildly across it, with the fur,


of a yoiceiess tempest" as London pa
Der explained its silence. There are n
known difficulties in the submarine geog
raphy itself likely to affect the cable
dent that any interruption to its workin
cannot be more than temporary.-N. J
Herald.
Year: 1873

Do what you can to make sunshine IN
the world. Lift up the curtains. We do
not mean the curtains of the room, but
the curtains which darken the spirit OF
your brother, your friend, your neigh
Dor, or even of a stranger, If the curtain
strings are within your convenient reach.


Lift up the curtains, and let the sum
shine In. Light is better than darkness,
and how cheap 1t is! A kind and cheer
ing word to one who is in trouble and is
perplexed, and almost discouraged; a
word of heartfelt sympathy to the affiict-
ed; a loving word of counsel to the
young; a word of assurance to the doubt
ing; q "soft word which, though it but.
ters no parsnips, turneth away wrath"
to the prejudiced and unreasOnably pro-
voked all such words as these are sun
shine to those to whom they are spoken.


81 have never found anything else SO
cheap and so useful as politeness," said
an old traveller to us once. He then went
on to state that, early in life, finding how
useful it was, frequently, to strangers, to
give them some information OF which they
were I'm search, and which he possessed
he had adopted the rule always to help
everybody he could in such little oppor'
| tunities as were constantly Offering In nis
traveis. The result was, that out OF tht
merest trifies of assistance, rendered II
this way, had grown some of the pleas
ATTEST and most valuable acquaintance
that he had ever formed.


How many great men have testified tina
/ their whole lives have been influenced D,
some single remark made to them In thei
boyhod! And who cannot recall word
spoken to himself in his childhood, L


which, perhaps, the speaker attached n
importance whatever, but which san
deep snd immovably into his memory
and which have never lost their powe
over him?


Make sunlight! the world at best


dark enough. Do what you can to max


it more cheerful and happier.-Erehang'
Year: 1873

now are the cause of so much vexation
and expense to suitors. 1t would also
greatly diminish the burden of jury duty,
and make it unnecessary to summon the
large panels now required. On the
other hand, the opponents of the bill In
sist that it would lodge too much power
in the hands of four men, and that the
bribery of jurors would be resorted to
more frequently than at present. WHAT
ever the fate of Sir j. Coleridge's bill, it
is probable that at no very distant time
the method of trial by jury will be modi-
fled both in England and in this country,
at least in civil cases. By making the
agreement of ten men sufficient the obsti-
nate or purchased twelfth juror who ap-
pears i'm so many cases would become an
unknown quantity. 1t is undeniable,
however, that to do this would be TO over
turn fundamental principle of English
jurisprudence which has survived. the test
of many centuries of practical application
~ y Sun
Year: 1873

WE are sorry to record that the women
employed in the Treasury Department
have been accused as body, both on the
floor of Congress and elsewhere, of being
loose and immoral In their character. 1t
is doubtless true that some improper
women nave been employed in the Trea-
sury. 1t would be miraculous II out of SO
many women employed it were otherwise,
under the former imperfect system of ap-
pointment. But that more than an incon-
siderable proportion are otherwise than
yirtuous and modest, we confidently deny,
and our denial is based on a thorough
acquaintance with the facts. The simple
truth is that these women as class are
as yirtuous, as modest, as intelligent, as
respectable, and as discreet and lady-like
i'm their demeanoY as the ladies Of any
CON munity of which we know, and that
even the few who constitute the unfortu-
nate exceptions to this encomium are
compelled, by the force Of the common
sentiment of both men and women in the
Department, to conduct themselves dis
creetly and properly while there.


Could their cruel traducers but visit the
Department and observe the deportmeD!
of the woman clerks, day after day; could
they see them at their fatiguing employ
ment; ould they know that mosto OF them
have either children or young brother'
and sisters or aged and indrm parent'
dependent upon them for support; ina
MANY of them lost the strong arm which
they had hoped would shield them from


want and misery during the late war; tina


many were themselves on the field Of bat
tie or In the hospital, ministering, as onl..


woman can, to the sick, the wounded AM


the dying, and that most Of them II de


prived Of their positions would hay


scarcely any other resource for the sur


port Of themselves and families than tn


charity of friends or Of the world. we ar


sure that an end would be put at ono


and forever to the detraction Of the wome


who earn their bread by hard labor In tt


Treasury Department. - Seribner's fl
AprI.
Year: 1873

TIE Louisville Courier-Jovnal has not
vet fully made up its mind as to whether
Hamlet was mad or not, but thinks that
the Ct nduct of his mother and uncle was
calculated to make him little angry.
Year: 1873

The ToNGUE.-A white fur on the
tongue attends simple fever and in
hamation. Yellowness of the tongue
attends arrangement of the liver,
and is common to bilious and typhus
fevers. A tongue wildly red on the
tip and edge, or down the centre or
over the whole surface, attends in
tlammation of the mucous membrane
of the stomach or bowels. A white
velvet tongue attends mental diseases.
A tongue red at the lips, becoming
brown, dry and glazed, attends typhus
state. The description of symptoms
might be extended infinitely, taking
in all the propensities and obliquities
of mental and moral conditions. The
tongue is a most expressive as well as
unruly MEMBER Scientific American.
Year: 1873

LEVY BROTHERS mean business. They know
that maj ority Of persons cannot afford to pur-
chase goods at old prices. They have determined
TO work for the people this winter, and trust to luck
when times grow better
Year: 1873

from responsibility and punishment on account
Of the intrusion upon marital honor, and thus
openly establish the principle that man may
take the life of felloW-man in his own hands
undcr this or any other circumstance except that
Of defense. Yet, so long as emotional and
perceptional insanity is permitted to act as bar
to punishment for crimo, this doctrine is secretly
admitted and approved
Year: 1873

~ have no time to read" is the COM
mon complaint, and especially Of wo-
men, whose occupations are such as to
prevent continuous book perusal. They
seem to think, because they cannot de-
vote as much attention to books as they
are compelled to devote to their avoca-
tons, that they cannot read anything.
But this is great mistake. It isn't
ths books we finish at sitting which
always do Us the nest good. Those We
devour in the odd moments, half doz-
On pages at time, often give
Us more satisfaction, and are more
thoroughly digested than those We
make particular effort to read. The
men who have made their mark in
the world have generally been the
men who have in boyhood formed the
habit of reading at every available mo-
ment, whether for FIVE minutes or five
hours.


1t is the habit Of reading rather
than the time at our command that
helps US or the road to learning. Many
| Of the most cultivated persons, whose
| names have been famous as students, have
given only two or three hours day to
their books. If we make use of spare min
utes in the midst of our work, and read a
little, if but page or paragraph, we
shall find our brains quiekened and our
toll lightened by just so much increas-
ed satisfaction as the book gives us.
Nothing helps along the mouoronous
daily round SO much as fresh and strik.
ing thoughts, to be considered while
our hands are busy. A new idea from
new volume is like oil which redu-
ces the friction of the machinery of
life. What we remember from brief
glimpses into books often serves as q
stimulus to action, and becomes one of
the most precious deposits in the treas
ury of our recollection. All knowled &c
is made up Of small parts, which would
seem Insignificant in themselves, but
which, taken together, are valuable
weapons for the mind and substantial
armor for the soul. "Read anything
continuously" says DR.. johnson, ''and
you will be learned" The odd minutes
which we are incliued to waste, if care
fully availed of for instruction, will, in
the long run, make golden hours and
golden days that we shall be ever thank
full for.-"Home and Society - Serb.
mer's for August.
Year: 1873

"Gold Ill the shorts have won =
and Jay Gould and his clique are press
ed to the wall, has been the cry in
Wall street the past week or two, and
what does it mean? 1t means that one
set Of gamblers have got the better Of
another set 1T means that Mr.. Gould
and his clique are losing; and in Wall
street what one loses another makes
Not all the missionary Of the city is
needed for the purlieus. The highly
respectable districts neei it quite as
lnuch--and none more SO than the re
gion of Wall street. We do not refer
to "black friday we 10 not mean
the day when rural bankers were COM
PEELED to buy in Chicago 4 North
west at four times its Wholesome to
Save themselves from utter ruin In pock-
ct others to save their credit at the ex-
pense Of beggarv. No; we mean no
specific day ; we mean all the time that
this wicked gambling and cheating are
going on we meail yesterday day
we had almost said-forever And
to think that the participants in this
business are ahong our wealthiest, MOS.
respectable and seif-conpiaisant citi
zens 1t is little excuse that these
gentlemen support literally their re
spective churches worshiping, in form,
God on Sunday-and serving with un-
bounded zeal, the devil, the other six
days


There is Honest banking. There arc
bankers and brokers, as upright and
good men as any who sleep Under our
city roofs at night, whose Christianity
Is a living, al powerful fact whose
voices are often heard in the din and
the uproar of the Stock Exchange.
Such men and we are glad to know
there are many honor their business
as they honor their Master But then
there are those who are ever willing
parti cipants in any scheme which will
put money in their pockets. and this
utterly regardless Of the means employ
ed Some of these are bankers. some
brokers, some railway magnates, some
consulting lawyers, some dishonored
men, deposed from positions Of trust,
who rush into the street, taking their
blackened characters ii their hands, at
the sacrifice of that coscurity which
shoald be their only protection Such
are they *ho make CORNERS, work
for a squeeze in everything except
dishonesty; and under the guise Of
points set lies afoat, which course
up and down Wall street like the
swinging of the tide.


1t is with these rognes of Wall
street we have to do. Were the bless
ed Saviour to visit our city to day, we
believe, and we speak it reyerently,
among his first acts would be to drive
out the money changers OF Wall street.
and we do not believe it would be with
scourye Of small cords either.


Last winter an eminent clergyman or
the Episcopal Church delivered series
cf lectures on the Seven Deadly oins
| I've rather think there are more than
seven though J and one on the SIN OF
| Covetou>ness was listened to with marx
ed attention by large audience. In
the course Of the lecture tia speaker
Year: 1873

There may be as great difference
between St. Johns Gospel and the
book OF Chronicles as between mans
BRAN and the hair Of his head never
taeless, the life Of the body is in the
hair as we'll as the brain. .-Hodge
Year: 1873

Temperance and a prudent ccono-
my are the two great means Of secur
ing an honorable independence in the
world. God has promised His blessing
to them in His Holy Word, and what
ever He promises lie will not fail to
perform.
Year: 1873

LEXINGTON, Sept. "a number Of per
sons have arrived here TO be in attendance
at the races, which commence on the
Kentucky Associations course on Mon
day next. -


This city has never been ircer from all
kinds OF sickness than at present. There
has not been single case Of cholera here
nor any symptoms oft The weather Is
cool and pleasant, and the evidences are
that there will be fine racing and large
attendance.
Year: 1873

RICHMOND, Sept 5.-During a storm In
Nansemond county the house OF Charles
f Sumner was struck by lightning and
two OF his children killed, and his wife
and another child probably fatally injured,


Page McCartleY, who killed one Nor
decsi in a duel is not to be tried at present
owing to the severity Of his own wounds.
he will give bail in the sum Of $4,000,