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Year: 1873

pect help as no one could tell where
wewere. Very soon We were hailed


by q boat containing two men, Who
came on deck, and commenced calming
our fears byitelling us the distance from
shore and that landing was easy. The
boats were lowered and the women
sent on shore. The men followed until
every soul was on land. The doctor
of the ship did great deal
to help putting up the tents
on shore and getting something
70 ea:. He was the only man who
paid any attention to US when we got
onland.l We had to stay on the rocky
shore from Saturday until Thursday,
sdfIering from want OF food and shelter.
We got one buiscuit day, and piece
of lat meat which we could not eat.
The women soon wore out by hunger
ard e1 poeure, and men went round the
country after tea and milk for them.
On Thursday morning the vessel split
in two, and everything was swept away.
Our baggage had been landed before
the ship went 10 pieces. Three days
baking was swept away and the cook
barely escaped with his life. The peo'
pie from the country around did noble
work, they furnished the sick women
with lea, and gave up their beds 10
them. On Wednesday evening the tug
came 10 take us around the harbor, but
the waves were 80 bad we were not able
10 embark until Thursday morning.
Year: 1873

From The Grafton sentinel.
II the postofice department were try.
ing to invent q way in which the great
est possible amount of inconvenience
could be caused by the mail service on
the B. & o. R. R., it could not more ef-
fectually move In that direction than 1t
is now doing.


Some two years ago when the mails
were put upon the early train from
Wheeling. it was done only after long
and painful struggle in which the
strongest influences that could be were
brought to bear on the department.
And recently Part OF the advantage


thus gained was lost, and the morning
mail for this city and Cumberland did
not leave Wheeling until near noon.
Tois kept the Wheeling dailies from
re1shing Grafton before night, and
al poin,s east OF us, not direct
lv on the road did not
get the mail until the next dav. Yet
bad as this had been, it is hereafter to
be even worse. Since last Wednesday
the way mail for distribution between
Wheeling and Cumberland has been
closed in the former city at 6 p. NJ. All
OF this mail mater for points east OF us
lies here until 10 o'clock the following
day. Thus it lakes mail two days to 60
from Wheeling to Cumberland! And
at me same time first class passenger
coach makes the trip in seven hours.
Well may The Wheeling ItelHge"cer
say


"If anything could inspire an utter
contempt for the way the Government
conducts the business OF carrying the
mails for the people, while forbidding
them from doing it for themselves, tits
such stupid, obstructive and vexatious
arrangements as these about to lie in
ficted upon us.


Only one more step remains to be
taken. That is for the Department 10
refuse to carry the mails at all. And
that would be in perfect keeping with
the looee, irregular and incomprehensi-
bic manner in which it has proceeded
durirg the last twelve months.


Add to this unnatural, illiberal and
jackassy rulings" which have eminat-
ed from the department, and now hang
Ike mill stones on the correspondence
of the country, clogging business and
puzzling postmaters from one end of the
nation 10 the other. In one village we
have seen postmasters refusing to for
ward mail matter unless entirely pre-
paid. Some would deliver lctte.s and
papers, not fully prepaid, on receipt OF
the regular postage. Others charge and
collect double the prepaid rate. And
each claims to be acting under "in-
struclions from the Department" And
we have no doubt they we're


il consideration of all these things
we are reluctantly forced to join the in
creasiDg number of newspapers through
out the country which complain Of the
utter ioetfclency OF the Postmaster
General and his assistants, and demand
a change Creswell has been tried and
found wanting in ever the common
sense which average business men pos-
seas, and in the name OF the people who
suffer from his abominable over.oflici-
ousncss and criminal neglect, we ask
that he be removed from q position
which he disgraces and department
which he is fast rendering the laughing
stock Of the entire country.
Year: 1873

A NUMBER Of our exchanges, both in
this State and elsewhere, have COM
mented upon the recent determination
OF the Board of Education to make no
distinction as to sex in the salaries
TO be paid TO teachers in the public
schools. The action OF the Wheeling
board has been warmly and universally
approved. No single word OF dissent
has been uttered in any quarter, but
from all who have spoken Of the
matter have come words of commend
alton and approval. There is reason
to hope that the action Of the Wheeling
Board Of Education may be extensively
initiated in this regard and that to
other citiesmay extend the influence o.
the good example that has been set
here. u justice Of the measure is
apparent and the prejudice OF sex is
rapidly giving way before the DISPOSE
tion to deal fairly and equally with all.
Year: 1873

TEE Wheeling and Belmont Bridge
Company ought 10 be influenced by
public sentiment, or by such other
means rs may be brought to bear upon
it, 10 illuminate the roadways of its
bridge over Back river. The conven-
fence of the public demands some relief
from the dangers Of the dark and
gloomy passage through the bridge.
Year: 1873

ken and deeds done in the body. Leave
him with prayer for mercy in the hands
of his God But use rightly his life for
an example to be Stunned as to its object,
development and end.


A few words of application: | trust I
have no future murderer in this house.
l do not doubt that there are the ele-
ments of great many, and that proper
training could develop the horrid mon
ster God forbid that we put ourselves
in training


l pray you set before yourselves to-
night some grander aim than Indulgence.
some higher purpose than good time.
Gather up your will and VOW to live life
worthy of the God that made you and
the destiny He offers you. There are
crowns to be won, empires to be ruled,
qualities and powers with which you may
clothe your spirits. Never mind the
sacrifice, make the selfdenial, trample
indulgence under your feet, bear your
cross, for God calls you to be men. Seize
these crowns, win these empires, and be
men. And especially if indulgence has
begun to blind your eyes to moral truth.
to make it seem that virtue IS of no great
consequence. that chastity is prudery.
that it is not worth while to be too strict.
and one must SOW some wild oats. Glance
forward to the utter blindness that is fast
darkening in upon you, and call out lust
lily to Jesus Lord Oh that | might re-
ceive my sight now"


And if sin has laid its blighting hand
Of weakness on you-and you are not so
strong to resist evil as you once were
before the final palsy comes, gather up
all your powers, break the withes that
bind you, and go forth to be free. You
may find power lacking. Then call on
Jesus, who is strong, to deliver the weak
ho1i hof i'm


Oh, young friend, l mean business.
You mean pleasure That is not the way
to it. That is the way to curse and death.
Whatsoever a man sows that must he
reap He that sows to the flesh must of
the flesh reap weakness, depravity, death
and corruption. Never was a wild oat
sowed (and by that I mean sin 1one) that
did not yield crop. 1t is fearfully fer
tile seed, and none of it ever falls on
wayside, stony or thorny ground. 1t
bears its hundred-fold every time. 1t is
crop that sows and perpetuates itself
like Canada thistles It's fruits appear
not only in ones self but it taints the
second and third generations. Jacob was
wild youth who thoroughly reformed,
but he had some Yillainous children be-
gotten after his likeness. David had
some sad blots on his fair fame. / know
he washed them out with bitter tears.
but that did not prevent his having sew
eral Stokes among his sons.


Lift up your hearts to God and ask his
help to aid your holy purpose from this
time to be pure, clear-sighted and strong,
cost what it may. 1t will cost the sur
render of your heart and life unto God.
1t will yield durable richness of right
eousness and fullness of joy at his right
hand. May it be your blessed lot and
mine
Year: 1873

A short distance this side of Union, on
the Union and Titusville railroad, there
is very long and very high trestle, and
one upon which nobody ventures who is
at all inclined to be light-headed. Inn
mediately this side of the trestle there Is
a sharp curve in the road, SO that per-
son walking on it can not be seen by the
engineer of an approaching train untll.lt
is nearly upon him. On Friday last, as


Mr.. VIM. Toles, engineer of Mr. Holmes


train, came around the curve at a good
rate of speed, he was Mortified to discov-
er a lady about the middle of the trestle.
and hardly trains length from him,
Quick as thought Billy" whistled down
brakes" gave her sand, and threw back
the reversing lever, while at the same
time he knew that it was an utter impos-
sibility to check the heavy train before
the victim would be overtaken and crush
ed to death, and with fixed eyes he await
ed the catastrophe. The lady heard the
warning whistle, and turning her head
saw the iron monster almost upon her.
Escape seemed impossible, to remain was
certain death, to jump to the ground be-
meath, a distance of thirty to forty feet,
equally certain death, and to attempt to
run ahead and escape was out OF the
question. Unlike ten thousand young
ladies-and she is said to have been
young and fair-out of ten thou sand and
one, she did not scream or faint or in
dulge in any nonsense of any kind, but
realizing the situation in an instant, and
taking the chances all in, she proceeded
to an action which saved her life. About
thirty inches below the ends of the ties,
and Immediately under the stringer
which supports them, there is a loist i've
inches wide running from one support of
the trestle to another and to this the
clear-headed girl resorted to safety.
Stepping to the end of the ties she swung
herself down to this narrow thread with
the apparent ease of a gymnast, and with
her arms clasped around it stretched
herself at full length along it as the train
thundered by almost over her. As soon
as the engineer saw her action he threw
off his brakes, and putting on steam hur-
ried past as soon as posaible, when she
nimbly sprang to the track again and
pursued her journey as though nothing
had happened.-T TFtusviLLe Pe'an Herald,
Nou. f.


well, what of it2 Itwas a narrow es-
cape, no doubt; but why was she so inn
prudent as to venture into such place?
We infer she had small Cautiousness,
with largo or very active perceptive fac
ulties, and was selCpossesed There
are many lives lost from lack of selEpos-
session. One browns, where, if not fright
or till rescued The lesson we would
teach from the above fact is this: keep
off the railway track, or other danger
Gus places where you have no business,
no right or occasion to be; and no mat
ter where you are, keep cool, exercise
common sense, and save your life L
Journal
Year: 1873

somethin to strengthen that weak mind
of yourn."


As their carriage whirled away, Mr..
Horace Benedict remarked to his mother:
"Mrs. Conway is beautiful, q charming
little woman, but that female relative of
hers is perfectly dweadful. Positively
horrifying pom my soul"


After their departure Conway went in
search of the footlnan in order to wiring
his neck for having disobeyed orders.
Finding him in bed groaning with the
neuralgia, he sought the house-maid, but
meeting Kate in the hall instead, he
poured forth the vials of his mighty
wrath upon her devoted head


Mrs. Benedict will have something to
talk of for the next month" he said


"She would not have missed this morn
ing's entertainment for anything All of
the old woman's chatter will be repro
duced for the edifcation of her acquaint-
ances."


Not quite all, think" returned Kate
quietly "The ultimate conclusion of
aunt Betty concerning Mr.. Horace was
entirely too correct to be particularly
relished by Madam Benedict"


"He is fool of course, but do you sup
pose madam that 1 want my friends in
sulted2 p


Certainly not. 1 am very sorry on
your account that this has happened. I
admit that although one of the best of
women aunt Betty is likely at times to
talk too much. But Bertranl, as it can
not now be helped, had we not best let
the matter pass without any more words p


"Of course; you have had enough to
grieve you to-day" he sneered. AUNT
Betty's revelation at the breakfast-table
for instance.


He had no desire to say more upon
this subject, until he ascertained whether
or not Kate knew of the strategy $50 he
termed it) he had employed to gain her
hand. If she guessed it she would have
an efficient weapon with which to defend
herself If not, he could taunt her to
his hearts content. That Victor was
aware of his duplicity he well knew. But
how had he discovered it? He deter
mined to investigate the matter at his
earliest opportunity, and contented him
self in the meantime by treating his wife
with extreme coldness.


(To be Co71tinued)
Year: 1873

The easiest and simplest remedy for
chapped hands is found in every store
room. Take common starch and grind
with a knife until it is reduced 10 tho
smoothest powder. Take clean box
and fill it with starch, thus prepared, so
as to have it continually at hand for use.
Every time the hands are taken from the
suds or dish-water, wipe them, and while
they are yet damp, rub a portion of
starch thoroughly over them, covering
the whole surface, The effect is magical,
Tho rough, smarting skin is cooled and
soothed and healed bringing and insur-
ing the greatest degree of comfort and
freedom from this by no means insignih-
cant trial.
Year: 1873

VINO REQUlRE MosT SLEEP ?-Those who
think most, require the most sleep. Time
gained from necessary sleep is not saved,
but lost. Mind and body win both suffer
Most people, however, do not think
enough to make early rising particularly
dangerous. 1t is the hard'working pro
fessional man, the close student, or the
man of business with many cares upon
his miud who suffers most from loss OF
sleep.
Year: 1873

TRENTON, March, 1s.-In the House
to-day a preamble and resolution was Of.
fered setting forth that, whereas whole
sale rumors Of corrupting influences used
among the members Of the House, were
in circulation TO secure the adoption or
defeat OF certain measures affecting the
honor Of the Legislature seriously. They
further resolved that special committee
be appointed with power to send for per-
SONS or papers, and investigate into the
truth OF said rumors and report as early
as practicable. Adopted; So to 8.
Year: 1873

CoLuMBus, O., March 1s.-In the House
this afternoon House bill to authorize one
Justice Of the Peace to try an action
against another Justice for refusing to pay
over money they have officially collected,
was passed; also House bill to increase
the fees Of witnesses In Justices Courts
to one dollar per day. The Currency
Committee reported back Senate bill to
repeal the usury law, recommending ita
passage, after being amended so as to al
low banks OF issue TO charge not to exceed
nine per cenlum. The bill was ordered
nrinted. -
Year: 1873

It would seeem from the telegram ol
our Charleston correspondent "Henry"
that the House OF Delegates refused Mon
day to lay on tho whitewaSh prepared ior
the adornment OF Mr.. WALKER, the
Public Printer, by himself and his emf
nent counsel. The House declined to
vote, as they had proposed, that the char
ges were not sustained. That was
equivalent to voting that they were suS'
tanned. This Is a complete though reluc-
tant vlndicatlon Of the report made by
Gov. JACOB and the three other Demo-
Gratis who Investigated Mr.. WALKER's &C.
counts last summer. After this vote OF
guilty" the House acted very inconsis'
tently in diminishing the matter by an In
definite postponement and attempting to
shoulder the responsibility for failure to
prosecute upon GoE JACOB. We do not
see that there has ever been time since
charges were preferred against Mr.. WAL
KER when Gov. JACOB could have assum.
ed the responsibility Of prosecuting
him without q want Of due Difference
TO the Legislature which that body
would have hotly resented. The Legis.
lature was in session when charges were
first made. II undertook to deal with the
matter and appointed q commission to in.
vestigate and report to the next Legisla-
ture. Il did not suspend Mr.. WALKER
meanwhile or direct the Governor to do
so. Perhaps the Governor might have
done that much upon his own resporsi.
billty; but In view Of the fact that the
Legislature was fully acquainted before
its adjournment with the character Of
Mr.. WALKER's offence but had not sus'
pended him; Of the further fact that
printing needed for the public iniOrma'
ton and for prosecution Of tho public
business would have been delayed and
embarrassed; and Of tho further fact that
such action by the Governor after the
Legislature had declined 10 suspend
would have subjected him to the
charge of prosecuting Mr. WALKER
for personal reasonS-we do not see
that His Excellency could well havo
done anything in Mr. WALKERS case
more than he did, which was, by instruc'
ton Of the Legislature, to sit as the head
Of tho commission investigating his ac'
counts. When the result Of that investi'
cation was communicated to the present
Legislature, we do not sec but the Gov
ernor's responsibility in the matter was
at an end. If he had suspended MIR.
WALKER, or directed the Attorney Cen
eral to prosecute, at any. time after tho ad'
Journment OF the last Legislature and be-
tore the meeting Of this, the present Leg.
islature would have been furious over his
want Of Difference 10 the legislative au-
thority. Ifhe had done so since the meet
ing of this Legislature, with the report Of
his commission yet undisposed Of, proba'
bly, nothing short Of impeachment would
have satisfied the offended legislative dig
nifty. The Legislature when in session IS
the supreme directory power in the State.
The Governor Is only an executive officer
who must obey itS direction. The Legls'
lature took this case out Of the Governors
hands in the beginning and undertook to
deal with it. Tho Legislature, therefore,
and not the Governor is responsible for
the failure to do.anythIng.
Year: 1873

MENTAL RECREATION. Mental diversion,
mental exhileraton, mental release from the
cares and business and worries of life, are
not only essential to healthful thought and
healthtul condition of the mind but they
materially promote bodily vgor and physical
well being. Amusements should more
largely enter into American family life than
they now do; it is the absence of it to too
great an extent which leads to many social
evils, to many habits and practices which
ruin the health and the morals of our sons
and our daughters in a great many cases.
If boys and girls, from fifteen and upwards,
do not find amusements at home, especially
during the long Winter evenings, they sigh
for places where eyhileration can be found;
the sons for the street.-the daughters for the
dance, for the theatre, for Wis ting those of
their associates whose home are more lively.
Young people en- not be expected to have
books and newspapers always in their hands,
or set demurely by the family fireside by
The hour, in hemmnig and stitching and
knitting.


Games and pastimes should be more freely
introduced into our families; there should be
more off hand visiting, of informal calls,
where one neighbor can drop into another
nelghhor's house after dark, and spend an
hour ortwo in unresirained, social intercourse,
without form or ceremony for two or three
nights in the week; thus giving air, exercise
and recreation.
Year: 1873

York Times accounts in this way for the
demise of the corpulent King of the Sand
wich Islands:


The interesting King of the Sandwich
Islands died chiefly for the lack of the nut
rtious diet on which some of his ancestors
had mainly existed When the noble race
of tie Knmehamehas always had "nice,
cold missionary on the sideboard," they
always HonrisI,ed till green old age, and
afterwards furnished in their own carcasses
The Funeral baked meats" But the fifth
Of the royal stock proved milksbop, who
preferred mutton to man, and soon fell vic
tim to indigestion.
Year: 1873

The day is cold, and dark and dreary;
1t rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the moulderng wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall
And the day is dark and dreary
Ny life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
1t rams, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the Wondering Past
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast
And the days are dark and dreary.
BE still, sad heart and cease repning
Behind the cloud is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of ALL
Into each life some rain must fall.
Some days must be dark and dreary.


IoNGFELLw
Year: 1873

The Watchman and Reflector makes the
following sensible remarks upon an i'm.
portant subject:


Study out of school hours is once
more receiving little attention, but not
half SO much as it deserves. We protest
against the practice as injurious to both
the mind and the body of the pupil. The
hours assigned for school room duties are
as many as health or propriety require !;
a child needs all the rest OF the twenty.
four Tor physical and mental health and
growth. We do not want 10 see or hear
of precocious children; we want no such
hot house pressure; and if, perchance,
some boy or girl has an inclination TO
oyerwork, let it be checked instead of
encouraged. This precocity seldom
reaches mature life; the lamp burns
brightly for while, but soon exhausts
itself. II parents and teachers would be
content with reasonable progress in
studies-would think that a child's body
is OF some Importance rs well as the
mind; would realize The power in the old
quotation, Sana mems in sana corpore ::
a sound mind in sound body'-tbey
would be wise in their generation. There
is a false pride in this matter that works
only mischief"
Year: 1873

Last summer, in the dog days, Southern
played joke on his Scotch terrier. Jack,
to cure him of making acquaintance with
other dogs when out for 4 walk. When
he saw another dog. Jack would rush up
and rub his nose against that of the
stranger. and indicate, in his doggish
ways, that he would like 10 bo his friend
When the season for muzzling came,
Sothern put n muzzle upon jack and took
him out for Il walk. Somewhere near
Union Square he met Florence, and as
the twain stood in conversation Florence
noticed that whenever Jack applied his
nose to that Of another dog, the latter
bowling down the street, leaving tho
terrier very much aston:shed. Florence
could not understand it,and finally asked.


"Ned, what is the matter with Jack,
that all the dogs run away from himI"


"Oh, nothing said Sothern. except
that before | started out fixed a couple
of cambric needles in his muzzle so that
they stick out about an inch beyond the
end OF his nose"


Well. the result was that Jack was
afraid to 90 near any other brute of his
kind, and all those who had been inter-
viewed with those needles were careful
to keep away from him. Sothen says
he will take out patent for his invention.
provided Bergh does not have him arrest
ell for cruelty to animals.