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Year: 1870

The presence of baby equalizes all
social conditions. On the floor of
some Southern hut, scarcely so CON-
Portable as a dog-kennel, I have seen
dusky woman look down upon her
infant with such an expression Of de-
light as painter never drew. No So
cial culture can make a mothers face
more than q mothers as no wealth
can make a nursery more than a place
where children dwell. Lavish thou
sands Of dollars on your baby-clothes,
and after all the child is prettiest
when every garment is laid aside
That becoming nakedness, at least,
may adorn the chubby darling of the
poorest home. : In the coars-
est household, the mother Of a young
child is placed on a sort OF pedestal
of care and tenderness, at least for
time. She resumes something of the
8acredness and dignity of the maiden.
: And to the true mother, how
ever cultivated, or however ignorant,
this period Of early parentage is hap
pier than all else, in spite of its ex-
hausting cares. In that delightful
book, the letters of Mrs. Richard
Trench, (mother of the well-known
English writer the most agreeable
passage is perhaps that in which, af-
ter looking back upon life spent in
the most brilliant society of Europe,
she gives the palm Of happiness to the
time when she was a young mother.
: The coarsest father gains a
new impulse to labor from the mo-
ment Of his baby's birth; he scarcely
sees it when awake, and yet it is with
him all the time. Every stroke he
strikes is for his child. New social
aims, new moral motives, come vague
y up to him. The London coster-
monger told Mayhem that he thought
every man would like his child to have
a better start in the world than him.
self After all, there is no tonic like
the affections. Philosophers express
wonder that the divine laws should
give to some young girl, almost child
the custody Of an immortal soul. But
what instruction the baby brings to
the mother! She learns patience, self
control, endurance; her very arms
grow strong, so that she can hold the
dear burden longer than the father
can. She learns to understand char,
acter, too, by dealing with it. "In
training my first children" said wise
mother to me, II thought that all were
born just the same, and that was
wholly responsible for what they
should become. learned by degrees
that each had a temperament of its
own, which I must study before
could teach it." And thus, as children
grow older, their dawning instincts
guide those of the parents; their ques


tons suggest new answers, and tC
have loved them is liberal education


For the height Of heights is love-
The philosopher dries into skeleton
like that he investigates, unless love
teaches him. He is blind among hi;
microscopes, unless he sees in tht
humblest human soul revelation tina


dwarfs all the world beside. While
he grows gray in ignorance among
his crucibles, every girlish mother il


being Illuminated by every kiss of hel
child. That house is so far sacred


which holds within its walls this new


born heir of eternity.-T. ". Hig


giason.-AtIantic Monthly.
Year: 1870

Where did you come from, baby dear?
Out of the everywhere into here.
Where did you get your eyes so blue?
Out of the sky as I came through.
What makes the light in them sparkle and spin?
Some of the starry spikes left in.
Where did you get that little tear?
l found it waiting when l got here.
What makes your forehead so smooth and high?
4 soft hand stroked it as / went by.
What makes your cheek ike warm, white rose?
l saw something better than anyone knows.
Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss?
Three angels gave me at one kiss.
Where did you get this peariy ear?
God spoke, and it came out to hear.
Where did you get those arms and hands:
Love made itself into hooks and bands.
Feet whence did you come, you darling things?
From the same box as the cherubs wings.
How did they all just come to you?
God thought about me and so / grew.
But how did you come to US, you dear?
God thought about you and so l am here.
Year: 1870

Two homes among the mountains stood,
And both had goodly lands:
One looked upon the inland fields;
One watched the white beached-sands,
And caught from south and caught from mort
A view of misty hills,
And river threaded valleys, fecked
With busy toiling mills.
One house stood forth as if it scorned
The shrinking orchards shade
And straight and trim from door to gate
The smooth brick wall was laid.
No flowers bloomed: the lawn was smooth
As velvet from the loom:
And down the lane some poplars stood
In stiff and stately gloom.
The robin at his peril sang
Among the cherry trees;
The very corn fields seemed to hate
The free and easy breeze.
The cows were Of superior breed,
The horses strong and sleek:
The good wife-ever at her work
A woman sad and meek.
The man himself, an honest man,
Whose children knew the birch:
Hard-working, sober, fair in deal,
And always prompt at church.
The other home, through bloom and bough
Played bo-peep with the sea;
'Rouned columned porch the jessemine sweet
Crept green and fragrantly.
The birds came fearlessly to stay,
And white hands, deft and fairy,
To warbled song and step Of health,
Made butter in the dairy.
The simple rooms were sweet and rich
With gleamings from the wood,
The hills, the sea, and everything
OF beauty and of good.
The poets book, the artists gem,
Each for its own high sake;
And the glad-ome music everywhere
Which happy children make.
One man his austere precepts hold
Fen higher than his gold
Yet lived beneath his thrift and calm,
Impoverished and cold.
The other shed an influence sweet;
Nor felt nor knew the thrau;
For one loved God in church and creed,
And one loved GoD IN ALL.


Hearth and HIM
Year: 1870

During the debate in the Continen.
tai Congress on the establishment ol
the Federal army, a member offered
a resolution providing that it should
never exceed three thousand men
whereupon Washington moved an
amendment that no enemy should ev.
er invade the country with force
exceeding two thousand men. This
joke was perfect success, and the
laughter which it excited smothered
the resolution.
Year: 1870


Cress-NeRd EalgnG 4, vi - ~ 4@ 80 IA
My first is in snow but not in rain,
sMy'second is in loss but not in gain; ~ Z
Ny third is In hound but not in cat,
My fourth is in mouse but not in rat;
My ffllt isin window hut not in gass,3
My SKIN Is III female but not in lass;
My seventh is in winter but not in cold,
Ny eighth il In silver but not in gold;
My ninth Is in meadow but not in park,
My tenth is in peacock but not in lark;
My eleventh lin knife but not in spoon, "a
My twelfth is in star but not in moon;
Myshineepth Is ~ academy shek - in
s@ Schooi,
MY fourteenth Is in sanity but not in fool ;an
My fifteenth is in clover but not in hay, e
My sixteenth is in yes but not in nay;
My whole is the name Of q society that is


working for our good this day.s-Nsl
The answer Is solicited.
Year: 1870




Boys by Score Of 12 to o..


Yesterday the Harvard boys made their appean
ance on the Capitoline ground to play the Stars:
but. as is their wont, the Brooklyn amateurs did not
show up till four O'Clock Public opinion was pretty
evenly balanced as TO the respective merits of the
two teams; but those who had witnessed tue steady
careful play OF the Harvard boys ON the PREVIOUS
day with the powerful Atlantic nine were OF
opinion that the stars would he obliged to pIav
second fiddle. There was very little TO choose be-
tween the TWO sides as respected their batting, the
Stars being, perhaps, the more powerful batsmea
and the Harvards the more brilliant Gelleys A
more evenly contested game could not have been
witnessed; the interest and excitement cOnse.
quenty Of the warmest kind from beginning 10 he
end. This Is the second defeat which the clever
Star organization has met with within the last few
weeks, ana If 1t has the effect o. making them a
little less confident 20 their superiority over
all other amateur Clubs II Will prove of great benefit
To them. Or one thing, however, they ought ~ be-
careful, and that Is To play the game 10 the end
In a businesslike manner. Although they may be
beaten and had they played their usual steady
game yesterday In the ninth inning OF the narvards
the might have been but instead or II 10
o. Being beaten by run IN 81 game OF nlnc
innings IS creditable performance on both Sides
but 10 be beaten two TO makes the tarashtnX
more decided mastery retreat Is frequently as
honorable to the defeated party as Is the victory
the actual conquerors r. therefore. they had tried
to Chicago their adversaries instead OF playing care
creditabe to them. The following score win aford
full details OF the game In the ned and at the bat
and Will preclude all further necessity for referring
10 the play
Year: 1870

PARIS August IL, 1870.
III the Corps LegisIatif last night The Minister or
War read the following despatch:--


METZ.
accept the resignation OF lie Bpur as ma, or
general OF the army. NAPOLEON.
Deputy Gambetta read q communication from
many citizens OF Paris. thanking the deputies for
what they had DONE and urging them to push for
ward the armament oil Paris and the calling out OF
the reserves


The Minister OF war stated that large number
OF additional men would Join the army within a
very short time.


Gambetta thanked the minister in the name of the
country


The Minister asked leave TO retire as he had much
to do, and took his leave amid the applause OF the
Chamber
Year: 1870

The humorous Congressman from
Kentucky-Mr. Kent--in late speech,
thus described the public debt:


"There is one way, however. and
only one way by which the human in
tellect can approach realization of the
magnitude of this sum, and that is by
comparison. Each greenback dollar
bill is about seven inches in length.
Now place two thousand five hundred
millions of them in line, and you will
find it will be over two bundled and
fifty thousand miles long Geographers
tell us it is twenty five thousand miles
around the earth. Our public debt
would therefore make band of green
back dollars that could encirele this
globe more than ten times. 1t is said
to be two hundred and forty thousand
miles from the earth to the moon. Ii
this is so. our debt would make u rope
of greenback dollars long enough to
cable the moon to the earth, and have
over ten thousand miles to swag!"
Year: 1870

The printed scheme of the dogma Of
infallibtity has been distributed. II
contains five canons:


l. II any one should say that the
Episcopal Chair of the Roman Church
is not the true, real and infallible chair
Of Blessed Peter, or that it has not
been divinely chosen by God as the
most solid and indefcctablo anu incor-
ruptible rock of the whole Christian
Church let him be anathema.*


2. If any one should say that there
exists in the world another infallble
chair Of the truth of the Gospel Of
Christ our Lord, distinct and separate
from tie Chair of Blessed Peter, let
him be anathema.


8. If any one should deny that the
divine magisterium Of the chair Of Bless
ed Peter is necessary to the true way of
eternal salvation for all men, whether
laymen or bishops, let him be anath-
ema.


4. If any one should say that each
Roman Pontif, legitimately elected, is
not by divine right the successor of
Blessed Peter, even in the gift Of the
infallibility of mag'steriuna, and should
deny to any one Of them the preroga-
tive of infallibilty for teaching the
Church the word of God pure from all
corruption and error, let him be anath-
ema.


5. If any one should say that gen.
eral councils are established by God in
the Church as power of feeding the
divine flock in the word of faith supe
rior to the Roman Pontif, or equal to
him, or necessary by divine institution
in order that the n,aqisterium of the Ro-
Bishop should be preserved infallible,
let him be anathema.
Year: 1870

Ten thousand white men are de-
prived of the ballot in Rhode Island,
and the Radical party can do nothing.
If they were negroes, something
would be done. But white men have
NO rights which Radicals are bound to
respect.
Year: 1870

For the night-sweats Of consumption,
o leading Partisan physician employs
phosphate Of lime in daily doses of
from thirty to ninety grains, with sue.
cess, it is said. This suggests that
perhaps limestone region is a good
place of residence for q consumptive.
Year: 1870

A writer in the Atlantic Monthly


makes the following intelligent and


foreible argument in favor of reducing


if not abolishing the tax on incomes f:


The present law expires by linnita-


tion in 1870, so that, if the tax is again


to be collected, it must be by re-en-


actment; and there is no reason to


believe that this can be effected with
out large notifications. Yet after all,


it is fairly a question whether such


notifications as are likely to take


place can be considered as reduction


of taxation. It is not in the least inn
probable that an income tax at three
per cent, but without some of the pres


ent Irrational exemptions, would bring
nearly if not quite as much money in
to the treasury as the present duty of
five per cent. The fact is, the tax is


too high, as the whisky tax was last
year. Five per cent is a great deal for
only one form of taxation, when it is
remember what small margin at


best is allowed by the necessary ex-
penses of living in these days, What
man must have requires so large a
part of the income of all but the
wealthy, that very little is left for
pleasure or leisure. Take a represen-
tative income of twenty-five hundred
dollars, with thirteen hundred dollars
of exemption. At five per cent the
lax Is s44Gy QO1l4rSs 4 CT now lew
heads of families of that income ever
have a clear sixty dollars, which they
feel able to devote to distinctly lux
urious expenditure! For income of
this class, it is not exaggeration to say
that the tax absorbs the whole of what
would otherwise be the pleasure fund
of the family; not small sacrifice to
make when it is remembered that the
same taxpayer has already paid a
hundred and fifty dollars, at least, to
the government in the duties on for
eigu goods, while he has suffered from
a general enhancement of prices, in
consequence of State and Federal tax
alton, to twice that amount. And it
is really not the best finance. to main
tain the income tax at such a point, in
ordinary times, as to constitute griev-
tax. Tt is 50 regarded in England. 1t
should be kept up in time of peace; |
but at it's minimum, not its maximum. |
Year: 1870




w z have had eur Banner on the
outer wall, with PRICES 50 Low that
no firm in the State of Ohio undertook to
meet us. We have driven our foe to the
wall, and occupy the field without fear.


We have sileneed all men who years ago
some power or competition. They
are now willing to confess eonhdentiaIIy
that there is no use trying to meet or beat
US in prices, because we are game on
Clothing "set-to." Their only hope is in the
ignorance OF their customers, who will not
look around to see the difference in our
prices and theirs, which amounts to at least
Year: 1870

ONLY One BURGLARY IN Two MoNTHs.-
Where is there another city of the same
amount Of population Of which the like can
be said? This healthful state of public
morals is q fact, and must be accounted for
in some way and the manner in which
such a state Of things is brought about Is
this: In the first place, our police and de-
teetive force has quietly and 80 persisrently
dogged the steps of vagrants and profes-
sional thieves generally that they have left
them no rest for the soles of their feet and
secondly, when such characters are brought
before the Police Justice they are so sum-
marily disposed of that when once out of
his clutches they are too glad to leave this
inhosDitable city. The healthful exercise
OF the chain.gang does not agree with a
kleptomanial constitution, and wholesome
terror of breaking stones constrains them
to emigrate 10 other localities where they
can ply their vocation with less chance Of
interruption. .....-... F..


1t is pleasing commentary upon the
efficiency of our police force that only one
burglary has been committed In two months,
and i'll that case the goods, amounting in
value to some 1900, were recovered in less
than twelve hours. One case of hall thiev-
ing, i'll which instance the doors were left
wide open, and the thief was literally led
into temptation by the number of nice
articles which the cold weather would
naturally suggest as worth the taking of.
Year: 1870

| EDUCATIONAL MEETING IN THE HALL OF
THE HOUSE OF DgLEGATEs.-The public are


cordially invited to attend the meeting to


be held at the Capitol tonight. Messrs.
Creery and Newell, from Maryland-the
former the Superintendent Of Education


for the State Of Maryland, and the latter
the Superintendent of Public Schools TOR


the city Of Baltimore-win deliver ad-
dresses: These gentlemen have been long
engaged in the management of, and are tho


roughly acquainted with, the system of


public school instruction. and are fully


qualified to throw flood of light upon this


question, which has become Of such great


moment to our city and the State at large.
Their addresses will be replete with timely
suggestions ms to the general scope and the


details OF the working of public schools,


the grand object to be attained, the enlight-


eminent OF the masses, and how best attain
able; as also the relations Of teacher and
pupil, and the best means of encouraging
and assisting the young in treading the maths
of knowledge; In these interesting ad-


dresses we look forward with pleasure to u


literary treat.
Year: 1870

About 5 o'clock on Friday afternoon an
unusual and nearly fatal accident occurred
at the Inlet. In the storehouse of Mr.
King quantity of barley was being let
down from large BIN In the third story to
the second story, through the usual spout
leading from above. Mr.. Charles Hing and
his cousin, George King. were superintend-
ing the process, and Jerome Leonard,
about sixteen years Of age, was in the
third story. When the grain In the large
bin began to settle In the centre, young
Leonard got on it and sat down in
the centre, right over the spout, where
the grain was going down the fastest.


Probably the sensation of slowly sinking
induced him to remain, which he did strange
to say, until the barley had closed in around
him so much that when he Attempted to
stir, he only sank the faster and caused the
grain to pour In around him the more, Just
us would happen to person in bed OF
quicksand. He became alarmed, and the
other boys ran down to give the alarm. MIR.
Hing at once shut the spout through which
the grain was running at the rate Of twenty
bushels per minute, and went I'D stairs.
When he looked in the bin he saw only q
hand sticking out of the grain. 1t moved
for few minutes and then dropped timber
on the grain. Mr.. King jumped in and took
hold Of the hand, but could do nothing to.
ward pulling the boy out. The grain kent
sliding down and burying the victim deener.
The hand turned black, and when other aid
arrived it wasthoGght young Leonard must
be dead.


They began shovelling, and succeeded in
getting hold of his feet (for he had gone
down Just as he sat, his head and feet the
hiShest), but couldn't pull him out. They
feared to shovel for fear of cutting his head
but one Of the men got wooden shovel,
and succeeded in finding his hair without
striking him. The grain was then cleared
away by hand till the boys nose and mouth,
which were full of grain, were uncovered,
His face wss black, and he did not breathe
for some seconds. Soon he gasped, opened
his eyes, and began to breathe. Meanwhile
it was impossible to pull him out till about
sixty bushels more grain had been drawn
of, those in the bin supporting his head,
hut ali siuking with the body. The boy
was finally got out, almost senseless. He
was taken home, medical aid called, and he
is now recovering. 1t was narrow escape
from suffucution, and should be warning
to boys who play about storehouses.
Year: 1870

The word raise in the sense Of
rear, bring up, is generally, re.
garded as an Americanism. It
has been shown, however, in a
recent publication, that the word
in this provincial sense was in
very good credit in England as long
ago as the sixteenth century. The
word tote, too, which most edu-
Gated people, we suppose, would
not touch with q pair Of tongs,
has been shown to have been de
rived from the practice of lifting
a suit from one English court to
another Of the higher rank. Two
more cases in which our British
having lost ! word, charge
as with innovation and bsrbar
lsml
Year: 1870

The butchers Of New York city
are anxious to ascertain who Of
their number will slaughter, clean
and dress q bullock quickest, and
have q match pending TO that effect.
The people Of New York are anx.
ious to discover who OF the
butchers win be first to reduce the
retail prices Of meat
Year: 1870

SNAKE stories; tales of the old
woman who never saw q railway,
of the rich girl who works in
a factory, Of the veteran Of the
Revolution who loves to saw q
cord of wood a day, and OF Wash
ington's body servant still extant
in the aesh-are expected to turn
up. in various forms, once or
twice a year. Tales OF happy
family regulations among the
brute and the fowl, may also be
considered as legitimate. The 10.
test variation upon that theme
comes from Troy:


"a gentleman has a cat, which
recently became the mother ofone
kitten; also setting hen, which
hatched one egg before the others.
The chick had to be removed from
the Matching eggs, but the query
was where to put Il. Finally, the
gentleman placed the chicken
with the kitten, in the charge of
the cat The cat adopted the
little waif, and the latter reCipro.
Gated. The kitten and the chicken
are inseparable; and when
chickey attempts to wander away,
the cat quietly paws It back and
invites Il to nestle With the kitten
at Is breast"


= vii be hard to bet this
scnehiag narrative.
Year: 1870




Special Dispatch to the Missouri Democrat


RENO, November 5.-The Central Pa
cifc passenger train bound eastward,
due here at | am, arrived at Verdi, a
small station eleven miles west of Reno,
on time. Just as the train was starting
from the station three masked men
boarded the express car, and five more
Immediately came to their aid from the
rear. These five evidently came from the
west on the train. Six stepped on the
express car, which they detached from
the main train by cutting the signal
rope. Two jumped on the engine, and
placing pistols to the engineer head,
commanded him to move on, which he
did. Two brakemen tried to keep the
masked men off the car, but pistols
placed at their heads compelled their re-
treat. The conductor rushed forward,
but pistols stopped him. Finding a
hatchet, he came forward again in time
to see the engine and express car sepa-
rated from the train and flying down the
track.


The robbers then placed the fireman
and express and mail messengers in the
mail room and locked them up. When
within six miles of this city they stopped
their train, broke open the express boxes
and robbed them of 81 600 in gold coin.


A later investigation shows that they
put the coin in old boot tops and es-
capped to the mountains.


A double-barreled shotgun and pick
were left by the robbers at the quarry,
where they opened the boxes.


All the telegraphs were cut west of
Reno. Two of the Western Union wires,
however, we're repaired by daylight, and
business is not interrupted. Parties are
searching the mountains, and will prob
ably be able to throw more light on this
bold robbery during the day.


The railroad wires are still down.