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Year: 1873

Don't try to quench your sorrow in
rum or narcotics when in trouble. If
you begin this you must keep right on
with it, till it leads you to ruin or if
you try to pause you must add physical
pain and the consciousness of degradation
to the sorrow you seek to escape. OF all
wretched men his condition is the most
pitiful who, having sought to drown bis
grief in drink, awakes from his debauth
with shattered nerves, aching head, ard
depressed mind, to face the same trouble
again. That which was at first painful to
contemplate will, after drink seem un-
bearable. Ten to one the fatal drink will
be again and again sought, till its victim
sinks hopeless pitiful wreck.


Work is your true remedy. IF mis-
fortune hits you hard, you hit something
else hard pitch into something with q
will. There's nothing like good, solid,
absorbing, exhausting work to cure
trouble. IF you have met with losses,
you don't want to lie awake thinking
about them. You want sleep, calm,
sound sleep, and eat your dinner with aD
apr fetite. But you can't unless you work.
If you you say you can't work, and 60
loafing all day to tell Dick and Harry Of
your woes, you'll lie awake and keep
your wife awake by tossing spoil your
temper and your own breakfast the next
morning, and begin tomorrow feeling ten
times worse than you do to-day,


There are some great troubles that on
ly time can heal, and perhaps some that
can never be healed at all but all can
be helped by the great panacea-work.
Try it, you who are afflicted. 1t is not Il
patent medicine. 1t has proved its effica-
cy since first Adam and Eve left behind
them with weeping their beautiful Eden.
1t is an efficient remedy. All good ply
scians in regular standing prescribe it in
cases of mental and moral disease. 1t
operates kindly as we'll leaving no dis
agreeable SeguelG, and wc assure you
that we have taken large quantity OF
it with most beneficial effects. 1t will
cure more complaints .han any nostrum
in the materia medica, and comes nearer
to being "cure-all' than any drug or
compound of drugs in the market, And
it will not sicken you, if you do 10. take
it sugar-coatcd. .-Rural Nec Yorker
Year: 1873

~ Ntii!liD up anu tOhil tliN tIlSsl


And see what my soul doth wear.


1t was the avenue that made me
take the house; mobody's avenue in
particular, yet it seemed to belong to
each one Of the small group Of cottag-
es to which it led from the hlgh road.
1t had existed as a sort Of lane before
the cottages were thought of, and
great trees had had time to grow up
in a lcisurely way and meet overhead.


y long gate closed it in at night
from the snares Of the outer world,
and gave greater sense of security to
the lonely spnisters and timid widows
who lived in the cottages.


On this night q thick mist enfoled
the trees and me Us with sombere
garment, and the remark of one of our
old neighbors when she heard our des-
tlnation came back to me like bird
of ill-omen: ''Going to Dovecotes
Then you will live and die an old maid.
No one ever goes there but the doctor
to make them sick, and the lawyer to
write their wills, 1t is too far from
the village to walk, and too near to
make it worth while to ride"


She evidently spake not without
knowledge, and keenly felt the little
fine point that was wrapped up in it.
1t had fearful sound to be an old
maid all my days, for old maids do live
immensely long lives, having neither
great joys nor great sorrows to wear
out their bodies. 1t almost seemed
that, with little more effort, they
might live forever. | was TWENTY-FIVE
years old, and no love passage had ever
been mine. If one must be an old
maid, it would be some consolation to
have a few old love letters and bunch
of dried flowers to turn over in Win
ter evenings, 1t was an old familiar
track IN my mind; my thoughts trav-
eled it often


The hour was not very late, but the
fcg made darkness that might be
tel;. Suddenly | heard voices near
me, but whether in front or following
it was impossible to tell, as | distin-
guished no footsteps.


81 fear we have made mistake, u
said a woman's voice, trembling in spite
of hard tone in it. 'If you cannot
bear with me while we are lovers, what
will become Of me by and by ?"


at is only when we are alone that
| should ever suspect that we are low.
ers, )" rejoined masculine voice.
Year: 1873

While Phineas Rice, an early
Methodist preacher, was serving
in one of the New York church
es, he found that many Of the
young people of both Fse4es,
were accustomed to leave, the
church before the close of the
evening service. This annoyed
him and he determined to stop
it. The next Sabbath evening,
before he commenced his SER
mon, he said:


"Some of my brethren have
been greatly afflicted that so
many young women leave the
church before the services are
through. But l tell them that
they ought not to feel so,s for
doubtless most Of those that 90
out are young women who live
at service, and their mistresses
desire them TO be at home at
nine o'clock; and if they are
not at home by that time, they
will either lose their place OF.
offend their mistresses, and
they don't want toldol either.-
They must either go out in time
to get home at 9 o'clock or stay
at home altogether. This would
be very hard for them. yuTAnd
servant girls have beaux as well
as other girls, and the young
men have to go out and wait up.
on them home; and so, hereaf-
ter, when these young women
leave the chhrch before the SER
vice is over, you will under
stand who they are, and not feel
badly about it."


The brother who gave this
fact said, 1--WE were no more
annoyed after this; they either
stayed away, or stayed till meet
ing was closed" S'al
Year: 1873

Hymen is enjoying vacation in
Nova Scotia. All marriage licen.
ses in that province must receive
the signature of the Governor be.
fore the ceremony can be legally
performed and as Governor Howe
is dead and his successor, Judge
Johnston, is still in Europe, the
lovers of Nova Scotia must wait
for his return.
Year: 1873

An old woman in Maine
crossed over bridge that was
marked dangerous" without
seeing the sign. On being in
formed of the fact on the other
side she turned about in great
alarm and fecrOssed it. 1885,. D i'i.
Year: 1873

There is nice boy at Sparta,
Wis. Heamused his leisure hours
by boring a hole through the dam
Just to see the water spirit. 10
fifteen hours after be started
the leak the dam had given way,
carrying off a valuable mill.
What a flogging that boy would
got in ancient Sparta!
Year: 1873

In a recent case of assault
with intent to kill, in Indiana,
it was shown that the affiray
came about from a father in
sisting on remaining in the
room with his daughter and her
beau. The jury cleared the
young man. sts
Year: 1873

heartily and said was clever rascal
and he was proud of me.


But how about the goblet and pap
spoon? You haven't been drawing tht
wool over my eyes about them, too,
have you, chr


I told the truth about the goblet and
papspoon.


Why you are regular trickster;'
said my uncle. "I believe you would
deceive Satan himself. But I won't t
get angry with you, for I used to play
the same games when I was young"


In word he became reconciled, and
my uncle settled upon me sufficient
income to enable me to suit my irksome
duty as clerk. He has gone back to
Vermont, and I can but say in conclu-
sion that when he pays us another visit
I can show several little people" that
l call my own, and without telling a
falsehood.
Year: 1873

PUr AGREEMENTS IN WR1T1Na.-How
many misunderstanding arise from the
loose way in which business matters
are talked over, and then when each
party puts his own construction on the
conversation, the matter is dismissed
by each, with the words: "All right;
all right" Frequently it turns out all
wrong, and becomes a question for
lawyers and the courts. More than
three-fourths of the litigation of the
country would be saved if people would
put down their agreements in writing
and sign their names to it. Each word
in our language has its peculiar mean
ing, and memory may by the change of
it's position in a sentence, convey an
entirely different idea from that intend
ed. When once reduced 20 writing
ideas are fixed. and expensive lawsuits
are avoided.
Year: 1873

A story is told of the late Rev. Mr..
Sprague, of D., which sets the re-
markable simplicity of the learned par
son in very ludicrous light. Paying
visit to one of his parishioners, he
threw the bride off his horse and over
the post of n rail-fence' near the house.
During his stay the animal contrived to
disengage the bride from the post and
get it under his feet; seeing which a
servant girl drew the reins through one
of the mortices and placed it over the
top of the post, in the form of nooss.
The parsOn, going to unite the horse,
was indescribably astonished to find
the bride, which he had simply thrown
over the post, thus passed through one
of the holes.


"This beats ALL" circulated he to
himself; Il never saw the like of it in
NIL my lifo before To be sure, we
reld OF u camel going through the eye
OF u needle, but this was in the days of
miracles. No, no; never saw the like
of this before"


He examined it anew; he tried to get
the bride out, but it surpassed his in
genuity.


Yes, it must be, said he, "the
horse has actually crawlcd through the
post-hole-there no other way to ac-
count for it,


Full of this impression, and despair
ing of making the animal retrace his
steps, he whipped out his knife, and
was about cutting the reins, when the
same girl, perceiving his quandary, re-
leased the horse and explained the
mystery. But if the simple parson had
been astonished before, he was little
less SO now, to find his own penetration
surpassed by that of a servant-girl.


Hey, girl" said he, Il believe you
nre right. But how, in the name of
wonder should girl like you know
more than man of my learning? It's
astonishing! astonishing! Miraculous!
miraculousw


HoopING Flour BARREL. Putting
hoop on family -four barrel is an
operation that will hardly bear an en-
core. The woman generally attempts
1t before the man comes home to din
ner. She sets the hoop on the edge of
the slaves, takes deliberate aim with
the rolling pin, and then shutting both
eyes brings the pin down with all the
force OF one arm, while the other in
stinctly shields her face.


Then she makes dive for the cam
phor and unbleached muslin, and when
the man comes home she is sitting back
of the stove, thinking of St. Stephen
and other martyrs, while the burnt
dinner and camphor are struggling he
roically for the mastery. He SAYS if she
had kept her temper she wouldn't have
got hurt. .j


And he visits the barrel himself, and
puts the hoop on very carefully, and
then he laughs to himself to think what
a fuss his wife kicked up over such a
simple matter. that only needed little
patience to adjust itself, and then he
gets the hammer, and fetches the hoop
sharp rap on one side, and the other
side flies up and catches him on the
bridge OF the nose, filling his soul with
wrath and his eyes with tears, and the
next instant that barrel is flying across
the room accompanied with the hum
mer, and another candidate for camphor
and rag is enrolled in the great army
that is INCREASINGLY marching toward
the grave. h..


q Man is the only creature en-
lowed with the power of laughter; is
he not also the only one that deserves
to hA 1au0ho1 AZ o -Hro,;JJ,
Year: 1873

MAKING PEOPLE HApPY.-A poetical
writer has said that some men move
through life as band Of music moves
down the street, flingins out pleasure
on every side through the air to every
one, far and near, that can listen.
Some men fill the air with their strength
and sweetness, as the orchards of Octo-
bsr days fill the air with the ripe fruit.
Some women cling to their own houses
like the honevsuckle over the door; yet,
like it, fill all the region with the sub
tile fragrance Of their goodness. 1t is
SO to hold the royal gifts of the soul
that they shall be music to some, fra
GRANGE to others, and life to all! It
would be no unworthy thing to live for,
to make the power which we have within
us the breath of other mems joys; to
fill the atmosphere which they must
stand in with brightness which they
cannot crea.e for thems slves.
Year: 1873

The following description of the
manner in which the Kellogg usurpa-
ton manages matters in Louisiana is
taken from the editorial columns of the
New York Herald:


Appointments are made without any
pretence of authority, and the hired
ruffians known as the Metropolitans," i"
an armed force created in New Orleans
in violation of law, and composed of
all the thieves and cut-throats whose
knives are at the service of any one who
can pay for them, are sent from parish
to parish to make war upon the people,
if necessary, drive out the legal author
tiles and to install the Kellogg ap-
pointees. With Characteristic coward
ice the white rufians prompt the ne
groes to take prominent part in the
fighting, and hence the trouble is fast
assuming the terrible aspect of war
of races.


Commenting upon this subject the
Herald says:


Do the American people pause to re-
fleet upon the fatal consequences of this
condition of society in one of the SOW
ereign States of the Union? Do they
persuade themselves that the liberties
of the people of Louisiana can be
stripped from them, that the legally
elected officers of the Louisiana State
government can be driven from power
at the point of the bayonet and the lib
critics and rights of other communities
and other States be yet preserved. Do
they picture to themselves the horrors
of war of races, or imagine that in
the event of q conflict between the
whites and blacks of Louisiana the
scenes that would follow could be con-
fined to one State of the Union? The
occurrences in Louisiana to-day are
fraught with danger to the peace of the
Union, and to the lives of hundreds of
thousands of innocent persons. The
only hope of safety lies in the contin-
ued patience and endurance of the un-
happy people of that oppressed State.
They may possibly be called upon to
endure nearly four years of tyranny
and outrage, but even that will be bet
ter than contest the extended evils Of
which no person can foresee.
Year: 1873

The sculptor Crawford was accustomed
all his life to read lying. To this very
largely physicians attribute the loss of his
eye. Very soon cancer formed on the
other which caused his death.


The great historian Prescott lost his eye
sight when a student, by bit of bread
thrown in sport by fellow-student at the
table. Never be careless in such little
matters. A pair of scissors or a fork,
thrown in sport or anger, has often caused
the loss of an eye; which the wealth of
the world cannot replace.


A friend, who was very anxious to fin
ish set of linen for her brothers, spent
almost winter in fine stitching, sitting up
often late at night over the work, in which
she took great delight The result was,
the nerve of the eye became so injured
that she was obliged wholly to give up
sewing, knitting and reading, under pen
atty of becoming totally blind.


A young lady, who lived but ten miles
by train from school, used to spend the
time in studying certain lesson while she
was riding down in the morning. The
result was severe affliction of the eyes,
which disabled her from studying for a



long time II isalways hurtful to the eyes
to read in train, though We may not see
the bad effects so plainly when it happens
only occasionally. A steady practice like
this young lady's, may produce even worse
results when the system is in bad state.


Never read by twilight, nor before cat
ing in the morning The little you gain
in time will be doubly lost by failing Of
the eyesight long before lifes sundown.


know young clergyman who is re-
markably well read man, but whose eyes
are perfect deformity. He said he
ruined them by reading at night, long and
intently, when he was getting his educa.
tion. He seems to have no control Of the
lids, which twitch and move in most gro.
tesque manner. Don't fancy you can dc
what you please with your eyes, and yet
have them serve You faithfully. Take a.
good care of them as you would of gold
for gold can never replace lost eyesight.
Year: 1873

Why 1T Is.-Almost sinless century
is said to have rolled over the happy city
of Fankfort-on-the- Main. Out Of the TO-
900 inhabitants, not one in all that time
has died by the hand of the murderer,
Whether it has been as free from other
crimes we are not informed, but probably
no city ever had like record before. This
state of security is accounted for by some
by the strict and unrelenting laws of the
country, from which the criminal has nc
escape, and which recognize no pardonine
power
Year: 1873

We commend the following truthful
words to the attention Of every wife and
husband in the land


There was much more than mere With
cism in the remark of the old bachelor
who had paid attentions to maiden lady
for twenty years, visiting her regularly
every night, when rallied for not marrying
off | were married should have nobody
to court, and no place to go at nigh" "
He had deeply felt the contrast between
his own delicate and ethereal enjoyments,
and the hard, discontented, fretted life, Of
too many married people; and his answer
was irony. He saw there was something
in courtship which too often exhales and
expires after marriage, leaving a cold, dull,
monotonous burden where all was beauty
and buoyancy before. Let us see what
that something is. In courtship nothing
is taken for granted. Both parties are
put on their good behavior. Love keeps
itself fresh and active by constant expires
sion in word and act. But, strange to
say, courtship usually ends with marriage.
Very soon both parties yield to the sense
of possession, and the feeling of security
robs gallantry of motive and extracts the
poetry from the mind. The beautiful
attentions which were so pleasing before
marriage are too often forgotten afterward;
the gifts cease, or come only with the
asking; the music dies out of the voice
everything is taken for granted, and the
love that, like the silver jet of the foun-
tain, leaped to heaven, denied its natural
outlet, ceases to flow altogether. Then
come dull, heavy, hard days, with two
unhappinesses tied together and wishing
themselves apart, and not always content
with merely wishing. This is unnatural
and wrong. What married life wants to
give it new tone and sweetness is more of
the manner as well as the spirit of the
romantic courting time. Very much of
the pleasure Of courtship comes from the
constant attentions of the parties to each
other. Their affection voices itself in all
possible ways. Every sentence is edged,
with compliment aud spoken in tender
tones. Every look is confession, Every
act is a new world in the exhaustless vo-
cabulary of love. Kiss and caress are
parenthetic clauses and gestures in the
dialect of love, and gifts and sacrifices are
the more emphatic expressions of the spirit
no language can fully aticulate and no
devotion declare. And it is the fact that
affection confesses itself continually in look
and act, making the voice musical and the
fingers poetic in their touch and doing,
that makes experience so beautiful the only
Eden many woman ever has on earth.
Love must have expression or it will die.
1t can be kept forever beautiful and blessed
as at the first, by giving it constant utter
ance in word and act That more it is
allowed to flow out in delicate attentions
and noble service, the stronger and more
satisfying and more blessed it will be.
FNN


The house becomes home only when love
drops its heavenly mama in it fresh every
day, and the true marriage vow is made
not once for all at the altar, but by loving
words and helpful service and delicate at
tentions to the end.-Golaen Age.
Year: 1873

The death of Viscountess Beaconsfeld
removes one of the most remarkable wo-
men in England Her husband, the Right
Honorable Benjamin Disraeli, enjoys the
honor Of having derived from her not only
the social rank which gratifed his patri-
clan temperament, but the inspiration Of
many Of his political promotions, and her
influence upon him, both in public and
private life, is admitted to have been all
powerful. She was to him at once a
source Of wealth and wisdom, and withal
held the silken rein 50 lightly that no one
can say Of the ex-Prcmier that he spent
the life Of a hcn-pecked husband.
Year: 1873

''If all the world must see the world,
As the world the world hath seen,
Then it we're better Tor the world


That the world had never been.
Yet fthe world would see the world
As the world the world might see,
Then happier world than this world,
Perhaps could never be.
oh, world that lives upon the world
You travel far too slow!
Oh, world, green grave Of all the world
How wondrous swift you go.'
Year: 1873

Life, replete with light and gladness,
Life, so full of shade and sadness,
Is, as we draw our waning breath,
The toilsome weary way to death.
Death, the harbinger of sorrow,
Death, which comes to-day, tomorrow,
Forever ending care and strife
Is but the stepping.stone to life.
This, from the cradle to the tomb,
Is the inevitable doom!


But God immortal life will give
We live to die, and die to live!
Year: 1873

| M. Editor:


Being one whose name sppears on


the Delinquent List, ! am anxious to


know something more concerning


back Taxes than l can learn from mere


rumor. Some Of US have paid this


tax on demand not thinking of trying


in any way to evade principal or PEN


atty, which | shall designate tax in


terest. Although some of US were
not aware that we were owing any
thing Of ths- I'D, yet when The -.
counts wsro pr 1Dented IND We could
fnd no roeeir1s against them, we
concluded they were justly against
u, and as law abiding citizens we
were in duty hound to pay them.
Now I cannot understand why our
Board of Supervisors should order
the making up Of the list (which has
taken Treasurer and Deputy over
yesr) and then, order the collecsics
Of the same according to law, COM
pelling those who were ,cilling to pay
tar interest, while At their last ses-
sion they have said to the un.ci2yIng
and rebellio,as, that they shah only
pay common ten per cent. on oil tar
prior to 1868. II any were to be
relieved of this tax interest, why
were not al relieved. whrn the
list was completed aad subjece = the
inspection Of the Board before the
collection had begun! II there has
been misnanagement on the part of
our former Trcasurers and the Super.
visors at the same time released them
from their bonds, how could our
Board help knowing this prior to
their last session? / think there has
been neglect somewhere or the list
would not extend back to the year
1862. But does this neglect render
our tax law null and void? If the
County Board can pass laws in con-
Aict with the statute, what was there
to prevent them from doing it in
time to protect the Treasurer and his
deputies from the censure of those
who are not readers Of the proceed
ings of the Board. II the resolution
had been made retroactive there
would have been less room for those
who are suspicious to believe that
one set Of officers were bui6ing up .
reputation BY an action which places
another in . state Of Jeopardy.


TAX PAYER.