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Year: 1873

As / intend this article to be political
one, l shall endeavor TO keep personalities
out of it; but somehow the subject always
takes me back to the time when Charley
and first went out West.


You see. it was our wedding-tour, and
that alone would be sufficient to make one
remembera journey for a lifetime. | was
not at all eager that this grandeur should
be added to our espousais, and would
/ much rather have dispensed with it.
Fashion was not so extremely rigorous at
that time and oh, how glad L Donld have
been TO have not gone away one step from
home, but boarded with mammal


We might have had that big sunny room
on the second floor, with the little snug
gerry off, and mamma would have given
me that pretty white and green set, cur
tains and porcelain and everything to
match, and could have had my own dear
little rocking-chair and work-box and
writing-desk, and we should all have
shared the piano; it needn't have been
moved an inch out of its old place in the
back-parlOr. Mamma and | could have
been together the whole day long, and
when evening came, Charley would have
come in with the rest, and what dear old,
jolly. splendid life il might have been, il
l Charley's rich old uncle had never been
born. or hndn't gone out West, or hadn't
made Charley that very advantageou:
offer to bring his young wife and come out
there md get rich.


X Get rich! That was the poison that in
fused itself into our vitals, and cast that
glittering glamour over everybody's Wis
ion but mine-thank God! not mine.
was too young and too much in love to
care about getting rich, and / wasn't SO
selfshly in love with Charley that could
quite gladly give up my people and deai
l old home to feed on an unholy ambition


Every kindly and gracious line in my


nother's face was dear TO me; / loved
/ very hair, gray or black, in the head OF
n ~ father; and although my brothers and


iwere continually having little petty dis


puies about something, we kissed and


made up afterward, and loved each othel


lAe more dearly.


Bat what with ''wifely duty ano


romanly DEVOTION" and 1.-THE grand


Frit of enterprise" the sacrifice was


aeked ont in such gaudy colors that one


vas forced to stop and wonder if it could
Il e possible that |, Kitty Malcolm, was


really going away from home and kindred


70 travel thousands of miles-almost, IN


act, to the exact spot where the sun really


set; to leave father and mother and boys


and go away out there in the desert with


Charley Pierce!


Ny wedding dress was, OF course, ruined


while lay perfectly unconscious and un


able to remonstrate (for | tainted deat


away at the end of the ceremony, they


a.renched me with water. never even put


ung rug or anything to catch the deluge


anu shree entire breadths were spoiled be


5onu redemption. Then wiped my eye


Oh Oloy my oonnet-strings, and spotted m!


saJ'es, J ana rumpled my travelling dress


hid hid was altogether very disconsolate an,


ueuraggled piece Of matrimonial woe whel


We started on that dlreful Journey.


/ VI course loved Charley Pierce. One
Year: 1873

The Post-office clerks desire us to say
that they all know the story OF the man
who wrote a note on a postal card, in
closed it in an envelope, put ON three
cent stamp, and mailed it, saying what a
great convenience it was. The clerks in
the stamp department have suffered un-
told agony from this story. Every postal
card they have sold has drawn it out. One
man leans ON the window, and tells 1t
every time he buys stamp. One fellow,
an old thoroughbred granger, came In
from his farm in Stark county 10
tell 1t. and then told it wrong.
One man told it to them in Dutch, and a
high-school boy scanned 1t for them.
Sometimes half dozen men will stand at
the window and tell it by turns, just as
they get money orders. One Villain
wouldn't pay his box rent till they had all
quit work and come up to hear that story.
Saturday preacher came to the VIM
dow, mailed some tracts and told that sto-
nv. thereby destroying the clerks belief in
future punishment. A deaf and dumb
man told it on his fingers, In excited pam
tomime. and then, fearing they had lost
some of il, lie wrote it out on slate. The
victims of this narrative now wish TO in
form the people Of Peoria that they have
the anecdote by heart; they can say 1t
backward and whistle 1t, and II ever they
get lonesome for want Of it, they can tell
It to each Other. Peoria lIH.) Review.
Year: 1873

.These facts" says the official report,
appeared so important, and were SO much
opposed to the opinion of the best in
formed persons upon the subject, that In
order to prove beyond all question that
the increased strength was due to the re-
peated previous strains, and not to the d.
minished length of the bars, we consid-
cred proper to make experiments upon
this point. We therefore took several bars
of the same kind Of iron, of the same di-
ameter, but varying in length from ten
inches to ten feet, and found they were
all equally strong. 1t may be proper to
state the circumstances which usually at
tend the fracture of iron bars, namely,
that considerable heat Is evolved at the
breaking place, and that the diameter OF
the bar Is everywhere reduced, but partic-
ularly so at the place Of fracture but it Is
worthy of remark that at the second and
SUBSEQUENT fractures of the bars, II gene
rally happened that little or no heat was
given out at the place Of fracture, and that
the general diameter of the bar was not
again sensIbly reduced, except in some In
stances, at the place of fracture The
publication of these results In govern
ment blue book is sure to attract general
attention to this important queshon.-No-
RENDER GALAXY.
Year: 1873

Some experiments recently made In Eng
land to ascertain the effects of strain on
wrought iron, give results quite at vari-
ance with the supposed data of previous
experiments, and are therefore worthy Of
attention. 1t is usually supposed that the
effect of strain is to diminish the strength
of iron; but if these experiments are to
be trusted, the contrary appears to be the
case, and that very heavy strains, even to
the extent of the breaking strain, and this
even several times repeated, actually In
creases the strength Of the iron by every
application. The results of the several ex-
periments are stated as follows In Iron:


: M.ar ne In Strafn.
Year: 1873

FROM present indications the "twin relic
of barbarism" is destined to flourish at the
rate converts to Mormonism are coming to
this country from England. One thousand
arrived Tuesday and more are on the way.
The condition of the farm laborers in Eng
land doubtless has something to do in in
creasing the number of these converts, as
any change that will relieve them of the pres
ent hopeless servitude is eagerly sought.
Year: 1873

THE resolutions of the Bridgewater meet
ing which appear in the Aroostook Pioneer
contain but one distinct proposition of gene
raj interest, and that is that the Administra-
ton does not take the course that suits the
''outs' in relation to the civil service. Anoth-
er resolution charges the Administration with
the Credit Mobier transaction and the salary
grab With the former it had about as much
to do as it had in the construction of the
moon. As to the latter the'vote of Congress
shows majority of twenty on the part of the
Administration party against it. OF course
the President might have vetoed it, and many
of his warmest friends openly express their
regret that he did not. As to the balance of
the resolutions they are but the personal
grievances of certain very excellent but an
CRY men.
Year: 1873

THE Springfield Republican is making Wig
orous war on the practice of pool-selling at
the college regatta. 1t highly commends the
action of the College Rowing Association in
taking ground against it--a sentime 1T which
all good people will applaud.
Year: 1873




Don't live single hour Of your life
without doing exactly what there is to
be done in it, and going straight through
it from beginning to end. Work play
study-whateve it is--,ake hold at once
and finish it squarly and clearly then
10 the next thing, without letting any
moments drop out between. 1t is won-
deriul TO see how many hours these
prompt people contrive to make OF o
day lit is as if they picked mp the mo-
menls that the drawlers lost. And If
you fud yourself where you have SO
many things pressing upon you that you
hardly know how TO begin, let me tell
you secret. Take hold of the very first
one that comes to hand, and you will find
The rest will fall into file, and follow you
ike company OF well drilled soldiers |;
and although work may be bard to meet
when it charges in squad, is easily van
qnished if you eau bring il into line
You may have often seen the anecdote
of the man who was asked how he had
accomplished so much in his life. "My
father taught me-" was the reply, "when
had any thing 10 do, to go and do it."
| There is the seccret-the magic word
1 nom
Year: 1873

TRUE To HIS INs1fNCT.-The New York Sun
tells story OF Jack Carter, counLerfeiter who
has spent about tWenty-nine years In Sing Sing
prison, but whose last sentence Of ten years ex-
plred last Saturday And the loss Of his sitnation
grieved him, for he had found q e0ngenhl field
for rascalty, and had industriously titled It, His
good behaviour while In prison had gained him
the confidence OF the keepers and he had for
some time been clerk in charge OF the time books
OF the convicts and II Is stated had made some
thing handsome by shortening terms of service
at 500 each. The average shortening was hall
the sentence.
Year: 1873

The Controller Of the Currency has called on the
national banks for statement of their condition
at the close Of business ON the 25th of April last
This calling upon the banks tor Q statement on q
day past is the true policy. though some Of the
more suspicious among them are of opinion that q
certain favored few have intlmations in advance
as TO about the day that will be iXsd on
Year: 1873

Renne's Pain-Killing Magic Oil is the
surest cure for rheumatism in use. In
fact it is good to cure any kind of pain or
lameness. and it is clean and delicious to
use. 1T works like charm.
Year: 1873

SHOOT Folly AS IT FLIES, and stop
using preparations on your head which are
composed of poisons Use NATURE HAIR
RESTORATIVE, which, by its cleanliness,
fragrance and purity commends ITSELF
See advertisement
Year: 1873




SAYS The Aberdeen Examiner Il i gem
orally conceded NY tho best informed com
mereial Journals Of the country that the
manufacturing Of cotton in the United
States will III very few years be confined
to the South, but still those of our people
who continually whine over "hard tines
and ano chance for investment" sit with
folded arms, waiting till enterprising stran-
gers appear upon the scene aud establish
cotton factories right under their noses,
with which their only connection will be
that Of patrons There is available capital
enough in1,eveIy coupty in Mississippi 20
establish half dozen large cotton mills,
aud enough cotton made in any fertile
township in the State to run one to its
utmost capacity, but the people have not
the nerve to avail Themselves Of the al
yantaces which Providence has given them
and thereby become independent Of New
England build Of what are now mere
hamlets aourishing cities, aldings0n hum
dgsl per cent to she surrounding fields,
and pocketiqg the several hundred per cent.
that rewards the millcrs who built the lint.


The sentimental talk about the South's
poverty Is all noonshino this Is thc wealth.
lest country On the face ol the earth, and
can boast more men who have homes Of
their own, full corn cribs and money IN their
pockets than my other, in proportion to
popularity, that we Know Of; and i two
tbalds Of cotton out Of every hundredpacke
in this couhtrythis season wds subscribed
toa capital stock Of cotton factory, or
even given as a bonus to any company that
would, build one, it would do more to- ad-
vance the interests Of the people and the
price Of land than a dozen successive good
crops.


Sooner or later and we think very soon
cotton factories will be started all over this
country, aud it tremaips to be.seen whether
or not our own people will act soon enough
to be able to control the stock and divide
the profits.
Year: 1873

to the word of God, and showed that
for thousands Of yssrs things had come
to pass, just as that fire, which could
be accounted for insthe same rationalis-
tic way, without reference to God ;
and yet the Bible refers them to God,
and even represents him as saying, Il
make peace and Z create evil" (not
SIM Il the Lord do all these things. y
l tried at the same tire to correct
the notion that these evils if wrough
Of God, were to be considered punish
ments. Often, if not always, they are
an effort of love, to correct, restrain,
teach, prevent, save. The Boston fire
was not to be taken as proof that it
was bad city, but rather that God
loved the city, and the whole country,
and was chastening it betimes.


And now good friends and brothers,
we are met, with our heads and hearts
full of disaster that touches some OF
us very closely indeed | trust, you
who feel it most are trustful children
Of the great Father who cares for us
all, and are able to say with philoso-
ply and trust and wisdom like
Jobs, 1.-The Lord gave, and the Lord
hath taken away; blessed be the name
Of the Lord 1T is easy to account
for the fire last night, by saying ''it
was midnight no one was on the
ground" I'VE had no fire company
sit was elesssneglect ''the build
ings were old and dry and close togeth-
er'-"there was a strong wind but
you observe. the same sort Of account
might have been given Of all Jobs IBIS
fortunes, yet he over leaped all inter-
mediate causes, and rested on God.
Was JOB unscientiic Be it so faith
in God is better than any science that
be- Titles it. But the time is coming
when it will be the grand business and
the grand success of science, to prove,
that faith IN God, such as Abraham S
and Jobs, is the truest philosophy
the only wisdom,


Accept the situation then, not as
victims of a grim accident, not as sub
jcets of irrational force, but as the
children Of God your Father who is
rich enough to burn up a thousand
worlds like hisfand be none the poor
er--no less able to provide for and
bless you. Be strong and of good
comfort, Gcd means good say, there
fore, Blessed be the name Of the
Lord"
Year: 1873

If lie does not livefin the county in
which he resides, apd the paper is not
printed in tie sans county III which it
has It's press work Done, then the coun-
ty must pay doubb postage on the man
we mean two dent county must be
affixed to every postage stamp-that is
to say, every two ounces of a man
we mean the pap@ county--the man
well we must leaye this raling to the
discretion Of the postmaster.
Year: 1873

A reporter of a London paper recent
ly paid visit to one of the large old
buildings in that city that is let to FAM
lilies of worthy poor people who use the
apartments for homes and work shops.
He found building containing seventy
four rooms, having, ON an average, four
occupants. One room was rented to a
dock laborer who was out of work. His
wife and daughter were supporting the
family by making the uppers. of carpet
slippers. By working early and late
they were able to make dozen and a
half in a day, for which they received
three and half pence a dozen. A
widow and two children made the sticks
for iucifer matches, and for their joint
labor received three shillings per week.
One old woman earned her support by
making wooden skewers for meat, for
which she received eight pence per
thousand, part of which went for
wood to make them. The shayings
were her only fuel Her furniture was
broken chair and an old table. A
knife, MILESTONE, a cup without saucer
and O teapot constituted the remaining
articles in the room. Her only food was
bread and tea Several women were
found sewing umbrella covers, for
which they received ten pence per
dozen. Many of the men in this build
ing sifted cinders for the use of brick
burners, by which means they earned
ten pence per day. Few of them had 6
change of clothing, and none had means
to support themselves more than forty
eight hours.
Year: 1873

Tom Scott, as he is familiarly styled,
is reputed to be Monte Cristo in
promptness, and by the fullest exercise
of this quality he is enabled to do all
the work deyolving upon him as great
railway manager. He makes notes of
all his engagements, whether they be in
the North, South, East, or West-not
only in regard to dates, but to the pre-
else hour and minute. Should he agree
to meet somebody in Galveston, Texas,
on the 18th of next October, at ii o'clock
in the morning, he will certainly be there
if he be alive and well. So it is with
any other engagement on this or the
other side of the sea and if he should
say he would meet man at any given
time In the moon, he would do his very
best to, get there IN an extra train. So
extremely punctual himself, he demands
the same punctuality IN others. IF they
are five minutes behind, they lose their
opportunity, and are forced to wait upon
Scots convenience.


Nothing but the love of power-un-
less it be the love of excitement, or the
result of fixed habit-can induce any
man as wealthy as Scott is to work so
hard as he does. Sixteen or seventeen
hours q day is reported to be his aver
age time of labor, and his capacity to
sleep soundly keeps him fresh and Wig
orous enough to prosecute his countless
plans and perfect his immense railway
ombinations.- York Letter.
Year: 1873

There was a case before the Superior
Court of New York city, a few days ago,
that involves an important point of law
in connection with strikes. The plain
tiff, railroad company, had contracted
TO deliver a certain number of
tons of coal The contract was so word
ed that the plaintiff was to be released
from it in cases of storms, disasters or
strikes. After delivering few hundred
tons, the company ordered a reduction
of the wages paid to it's employees.
Thereupon they struck, and the COM
pany could deliver no more coal under
the contract. The defendants refused
to pay for the coal already delivered,
and the company sued to recover the
price of it, to which the defendants set
up as a counter-claim the failure to car
ry out the contract. The plaiatiff put
in replication, setting up that the fail
ure was caused by a strike, which re-
leased them from the duty of fulfilling
the agreement. The decision of the
court was that as the strike was caused
by the plaintiff in reducing the wages
of its workmen, it could not use the oc-
currence for it's own advantage.
Year: 1873

The pursuit of information is some
times attended with difficulties, even in
San Francisco. One inquirer, who ap-
Piled to the Chronicle for information
as to where Cain obtained his wife, is
cruelty rebufed, the only reply vouch-
safed him being this !: "Upon any sub
iect of public nature-we never refuse
to throw the desired light. But this is
altogether different thing. 1t Is a
family matter with which we do not care
to meddle. Gain died some time before
many of us were born, and such idle
curiosity regarding the family affairs OF
a deceased person we regard as repre-
hensible, and calculated to violate the
sanctities of domestic life. For these
reasons, and because we do not wish to
iniure the feelings of the relatives OF
the deceased, we decline to answer the
question"
Year: 1873

Nature will be reported. All things
are engaged In writing their history.
The planet, the pebble, goes attended
by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves
its track upon the mountain, the river
its channel in the soil, the animal its
bones in the stratum, the fern and the
leaf its modest epitaph in the coal. The
falling drop makes its sepuleher in the
sand or stone; not a foot steps in the
snow or along the ground, but prints In
characters more or less lasting a map OF
its march every act of the man in
scribes itself in the memories of his fell
lows, and his own face. The air is full
of sounds-the sky of tokens; the
ground is all memoranda and sigma
lures, and every object is covered
over with hints, which speak to the in
teligent.
Year: 1873

So the three robbers went to prison,
and Seth Amity was clear in the eyes of
all men, and what he cared for most, in
those of Mary Fenton. Dana had told
her that he had robbed the bank, and
that the officials had proof of his villainy,
and she was strong enough to cast off
the man she believed to be villain. She
made ample atonement for those mo-
ments of doubt, for she is now his wife,
and will love him the better because she
sinned against him an hour


The stolen property was nearly all
recovered and returned to the bank.
Dana was sent to Sing Sing, where he
was found dead in his cell six months
after the prison door closed behind him.
Whether he died by his own hand or
conflicting passions of his own heart no
man knows.
Year: 1873

The following occurs in "The Ascent
of Mount Hayden" in Scri6ner's for
June One evening Messrs. Spencer
and Hamp, DESTROYS of testing the cleans
ing qualities of the hot springs, at
tempted to wash flannel overshirt be-
longing to the former in their boiling
waters. After carefully soaping the
garment, they committed it to one of
the least active cauldrons in the basin,
when to their establishment the water IN
the spring suddenly receded, carrying
the shirt ont of sight. Curiosity led
them the next morning to revisit the
spring, which proved to be geyser of
considerable force and as they stood
in mute astonishment upon the ledge
down its corrugated sides, listening to
the gurgfng and spluttering of the wa
ter and the ominous intonations from
beneath, an eruption suddenly took
place, which projected the missing shirt,
amid a column of water and vapor, to
the height of 30 feet IN the air, and in
its descent it was caught upon one of the
numerous silicious projections which
surrounded the edge of the crater, and
recovered. During our stay in the ba-
sin, we had the good fortune to witness,
beside the eruptions already mentioned,
the Castle, the Beehive and the Grotto
in action. A hard wind was blowing in
the morning, when the Castle, by va
rious throbbings, pulsations and shak-
ings, gave notice of its intention to dis
charge.
Year: 1873

A SINGULAR ACCIDENT. While en-
gagged in working sewing machine, on
Saturday, lady living on Orange street
had the needle run through and break
off in the small finger of her left hand.
The shock and pain caused her to faint
away, but upon recovering she resumed
work, and shortly afterward, while
gathering the article she was sewing
under the needle, her attention was at
tracted by some one speaking to her,
when the needle pierced the finger next
to the one before injured and pinioned
it to the bed of the machine. The eff
forts of those in the room failed to re-
lease the hand, and DR.. Peters was called
in. He succeeded in detaching some
portions of the machine and relieving
the unfortunate lady from her painful
position. n.-NesUdrk Register.
Year: 1873

The Supreme Court Of Ohio few days
since decided subscriptions to railroad cor.
porations unconstitutional. Thus the Buck>
eye State has grsndly wheeled into line with
Michigan, Kentucky, Wisconsin and Others


There are some excellent points in this
decision that have important bearing on tho
question before Montana. We have hsd
editorial mention of It some days, but the
decision itself reached here too late for this
issue and will he presented next week. Let
the people of Montana be the great Supreme
Court that will crush out the subsidy fraud
before ever II attains strength enough to
crawl into the temples for the d,spensation
Of organic and statutory law. !.