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I A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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MARCH111.1876,

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I HENRY BOWEN. THE SORT OK A MAN HE IS. Tke Position in which He Places Himself'

[Chicago Inter-Ocean—Editorial.)

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indicate that the real cause of the rottenness has as last been reached. It is not at all impossible that this crafty, oily, unscrupulous, jealous man, combining in himself both the elements of a Chad band and an Iago, may baveoriginated and carried on this whole horrid business from the beginning until the exposure a year ago. It is not at all impossible that he has used Tilton, Moulton, and the latter's wife as mere tools is his work, finally getting them so far involved personally that they wore compelled to go forward more or less believfng—especially the latter—in the truthfulness of their accusations. He has made the most spasmodic efforts to escape, but he has been pushed to the wall. At last, proposing to give the names of his informants toasecrot committee, his proposition was accepted, and the men he named chosen. Then be found another hole for escape. He would not permit either Mr. Beecher or his counsel to be present. N« only that, but he demanded a pledge that the names of the parties he proposed to give should never be revealed by the committee, not oven to the man he proposed to damn by his revelation! Not only that, but he made a condition that he was to bo asked no questions whatever after the names bad been given There never bofore was so monstrous a proposition made to an intelligent body. If the angel Gabriel himself should be tried in such a manner he would be liable to be convicted in thirty minutes. Even the Savior of men, persecuted as He was, was permitted to confront the rabble that accused Him. We believe it to be a solemn duty which the press and people owe to common justice to brand this man Henry C. Bowen as asocial outlaw. Ho has outraged honor, degraded Christianity, slandered the dead, and violated the confidence of the living Let him go out alone, a moral leper to be forever dosplsed aad shunned. THE POSITION IN WHICH BOWEN PLACES

HIMSKLK.

[From the New York Tribune, Sril Mr. Bowen declares that he received at various times the confessions of various women that they had been criminally intimate with Mr. Beecher. These confessions ho received, of course, undor the most solemn obligation of secrecy which a gentleman can incur. But, said he, I will violate that obligation—jus* a little. I will give their names to a committee of three. It doos not seem to have

occur

mi to any of the persons con

cerned in the negotiations that it would be an upardonable baseness to give them even in a committee of one. when a gentleman accepts a confidence sncli asMr. JBowen tells us was reposed in him, he guards it with his life. He can never betray it, either for his own vindication or the condom nation of another. He is eternally disgraced if ho so much as

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the secret in the privacy of

his own family* But his willingness to give up the names to a committse of the church— provided the deed can bo dono behind tho door—Is not the most extraordinary part of his proposal, lift insists that no woman whom he implicates shall have the privilege of confronting and contradictintt him. Ho will destroy them, but he must do it in the dark he will not face the victims of the outrage. The Church required that any woman whom he might accuse of sin should be allowed to come befor© the committee, either in

rson or by a reprercntatlve, and show oould that the accusation was unjust: and whon Mr. Bowen refused this condition tho church reeled his proporitlon altogether. It could not deoently have done otherwise No civilised triTanniU condemns unheard. 00 SO

THE BAD.

{Depressed Exchange

Tb6 pwUctJonmade by John Adams 100 years ago, la a H*ier to his wife, seems like to be verified. Ho wrote, '•The spirit of venality you mention is the m«*t dreadful ami alarming enemy America has to oppose. It is as rapacious and insatiable as tho crave. This predominant avarice wi«l r£n America, if «fae is over ruined. If Ooa Almighty does not interfere by His grace to control tl»ls universal idolatry to the m*u.mon of unrighteousness, we shall be given np to the chastisement of his Judgments. I am ashamed ol the age I lire in."

A SEDUCIVE SUMMER. Pittsburgh Leader.) It is predicted that the rammer willbe to productive of firnlta and vegetables that maple trees shall bear cherries and mullcn-stalks raise bananas.

THE BELKNAP DISGRACE.

ONK er THE LKSSOJfS

lod. Journal—Editorial

There la one aspect of tha Belknap ease, which, involving though it does considerations of a painftil and delicate character, must be recognised and treated

Oar heart grows sad over Bowen. Is evident that this unfortunate man, who for thirty years baa been looked upon as a meek and lowly Christian gen tleman, preaching piety and indorsing railway bonds through his newspaper, laying up sixpence in heaven and livefranc pieces on earth, must at last step out in full view of his neighbors, and have his cloak stripped from his iniqui ty and the full glare of the sunlight let in upon his hypocrisy. We are all only worms, and Bowen must feel himself a very helpless kind of worm indeed, Just now. There is no escape from his shame, no matter which way be inay tarn. He stands revealed as a conspirator. a hypocrite, and a falsifier. A wn animator, because he combined with Til ton and Moulton to degrade and ruin his pastor a hypocrite(^ecause, while firing Tilton's heart with the vilest accusations against Mr. Beecher, he professing to the lattor's face to be his firmest friend and admirer a falsifier, because, after getting Tilton to write a threatening letter to Beecher. promising to join him in a demand for the resignation of the latter, be carried the letter to its address, declared himself ignorant of its contents, and proceeded to denounce Tilton as a criminal. These are only specimen acts, which may be supplemented with a hundred more. He stated iu writing, for instance, that he knew of nothing that should prevent his recognizing air. Beecher as a Christian minister, while now he declares that even at the moment when he made that statement, and for years previous, he had been aware that the latter was a libertine of the worst possible character. And while knowing this he has sat under the ministrations of Mr. Beecher, has employed him on his religious journal, ana has expressed the utmost confidence in him as a Christian teacher. begin to think, more than ever before, that at the bottom of this whole scandal lies Henry C. Bowen, curled up like a worm

it deserves. The evidence shows conclusively that the corrupt and criminal transaction which has resulted in Mr. Belknap's overthrow and disgrace had its origin in female cupidity and desire of display. Though the money passed through Belknap's hands, it was understood to be for the benefit and behoof of his first wife whileshe lived, and of bis second one since his second marriage. Thus the origin and continuance of the corrupt arrangements are clearly traceable to female roily and the lack or true womanly principle. This is no excuse for Belknap, for he should have had honesty and manhood enough to spurn the first dishonorable proposition, and so have saved himself and family from disgrace. It is even possible that he might have fallen without the assistance of a foolish and fashion-worship-ping woman. But, however this may be, the fact is as we have stated. The women of America may well tske warning from this conspicuous example of weakness and criminality on the part of theirsex who have thus permitted their love of display and dress to lead thfem and their husband into an act of gross dishonesty, involving his political ruin and personal disgrace. The curso of Washington, and in a smaller degree of vhe whole country, is this infernal love of money,this worshipping of mammon, this devotion to fashion and society. It is not confined to tho Republican party nor to politics. It is found in social as in political life, and is apart of the underiving sentiment of xYnieric&n society^ Wealth and stylo and fashion are worshipped poverty, plainness and obscurity are despised. Honesty is left out of the case. Women are ready to sacrifice domestic happiness, womanly principle, maternal duty, and sometimes even virture itself to maintain a certain position and stvle of personal display while men, yielding quite as readily to the samo ignoble motives, surrender their manhood, their self-re-spect, their honor and all to the behests of a tyrant which says they must maintain such and such an establishment, and their wives must dress so and so, under penalty of forfeiting their position insocietv.

Society! what is fashiona

ble society in the United States but a soheme of the devil for demoralizing its votaries, wasting time and money, poisoning domestic happintss.and destroy ing homes The demands of "society' and the behests of fashion are driving men to bankruptcy and ruin every day not only in Washington but elsewhere not only in politics but in business There is no more corruption in politics thai* out of politics. The fall of Belknap is no more surprising than was that o'f Winslow, the Boston forger. The proportion of honest men in office is fully as great, comparatively, as those out of office. The trouble lies in the demoral ized condition of society itself, and this again is traceable to the influence of a great civil war, followed by an era of wild speculation and general reckless ness. A natural outgrowth of this con ditionis a slavish worship of wealth and an almost utter disregard of the means by which it is acquired. Nay, more if wealth itself cannot be acquired, "fashion" demands that the semblance of wealth should be maintained at all hazards. Mr. Belknap went to Washing ton from a small provincial town. Prob ably in all his life he had not lived at the rate of §3,000 a year. But the false conditions of Washington society required that he should assume a certain style of living. Though his salary was but $8,000 a year he and his family must become leaders of fashion and copy the style of those who had an income of twice' or three times that sum. This could.not be done honestly, but rather than remain out of "society,"or confess thrir inability to shine alongside of their neighbors, they resorted to dishonorable and criminal means of increasing their revenue. Receptions must be held, elegant entertainments given, expensive toitets procured, etc., and as honor and honesty were deemed of less account, they were sacrificed on the altar of mammon and at the behest of a corrupt and corrupting code of social morals. It is high time for good men and women, honest men and women every where, to set their faces and raise their voices against this demoralizing, degrading standard of social ethics. Let it be made unfashionable to be fashionable. Lot the true, intelligent women of America frown on tho frivolities of Vanity Fair. Let honest poverty be recognized as honorable, and let living within one's means be made the first duty of an American citizen. Let sealskin cloaks and diamond jewelry which aro not paid for be made badges of disgrace, and thoso which are dishonestly paid for be made passports to prison. Ii6t us make a united effort to bring the public mind to a juster view of things, and public morals to a more ooirect standard.

Tun management of tho Centennial is making a pretty good thing out of what the French call selling "concessions"— the exclusive right to certain privileges In and about the buildings. This has been tho custom at the European expositions, bot we hardly think that such astonishing figures were realized as are reported from Philadelphia. Here are some of these conccasions: One man gives $50,000 for the privileged sweep Fng out the buildings another pays $12, 000 for the privilege of hiring out rolling or bath chairs for visitors to rest themselves upon one gives $30,000 for the oxelusive right to sell soda water within the enclosure, besides which he is to pay a royalty of 20 cent# on every gallon sold tlie Centennial Catalogue Company $100,000 for the right to print and sell the official catalogue a tobacconist pays $18,000 for the tobacco and cigar trade six restaurants pays #0,000 each a pop com roan gives $7,000 for tho exclusive right to vend pop corn, and a peanut mati $1,000. This Is not one-half tho list of "concessions," but enough to show that the privilege business is a profitable one.

SOQLtlLEVILlN PAJtUt [New York World Letter.] It Is well known they are ail under strict surveillance of the police, on whoso books every woman who wishes to adopt this profession is forced to inscribe ner name. It Is also a fact that whenever a girl comes to thus register ber name, every effort Is made by the authorities to induce her to rescind ber resolution. She hi offered employment* a ehanoe to return to her parents should they live at a distance, etc. The nature of the life on which she is about to enter Is painted to her in vivid oolars. Some few are thus saved bat the majority persist In their design and voluntarily close behind them the gate which leads to horror and abomination, and through which she who passes, most truly leaves all hope behind.

THE OUTSIDE CHTUMCB. There are two churches in America to-day the inside church and the outride church. The one la composed of men and women who profess to be pious: the other, of men and women who are pious, and yet make no public profession. Whether these latter might not be Joined to the former, we will not stop to discuss In this article. Personally we believe that many of them oould be, if the church would interpret the conditions of membership lesa technically and more spiritually. If the church would regard itself more as a school, and less as an end and refuge ot piety, the doors of its membership could easily be flung open to the admission of all students of Godliness. And many think that this should be. It is a great pity that so many men and women oi devout minds and spiritual sensibilities should be outside of the Christian brotherhood. It if. a loss to religion, abstractly considered, and what is more deplorable, perhaps, a loss to the working forces ot the religious world. Still it is pleasant to feel that the piety of the nominal church, does not represent the piety of the country. Names amount to very little the spirit which characterizes a man's life Is everything. We rejoice that there is an outside church, that there are thousands of reverent and devout men and women that the church does not number on its rolls. Some of them are not members of the inside church, because they are larger than the inside church could hold.

The inside church represents grooves, and these men and women cannot run in grooves. Their minds ore not conoentrative, but diffusive. They cannot think within the limitsW old time systems. They are prophets, and their thoughts are in forecast of a knowledge yet to be popularized. They are searchers after truth yet to be formulated. For facts in science and religion which are already tabulated they care little, save as to supplying data for fresh inferences, and sequences yet to be written out. It is a great loss to the nominal church that these men and women are outside its fold. But in the plan of God, which no nominal church organi zation ever has expressed or ever may express, these men and women—and women are not lelt uncounted—the freshness of their thought, the energy of their inquisition after unascertained truth, the linenoss of their culture, the cleverness of their wit, tho purity of their lives, are among the potent factors that represent the on wart! and upward progress of humanity. They are the sharp edged coulters that cleave the hide-bound sward of personal bigotry and ecclesiastical exclusive ness. They do magnificent work for God. They glorify his name by their original investigations. They produce the raw material which some coming age shall weave into the fabric of tho world's future civilization. Many of them aro stoned to-day but the next generation shall garnish their sepulchre.—[Golden Rule. WHAT ONE CAN GO THROUGH.

The Worcester Spy tells this extraordinary story: "A Taunton man of forty-six hashad a checkered career. He has Deen shipwrecked once, narrowly escaped baking in a railroad accident, has been run away with times innumerable, was shot in the neek at Gettysburg, bad a taste of the horrors of Libby Prison, fell overboard from a whaler, and, before being picked up, left two fingers in the mouth of a shark, was drafted twice, had the right arm broken in two places during the New York riot, stood on a barrel with a halter round his neck, in an Alabama town at the outbreak of the rebellion, from sunrise to sunset in 1863 was crushed under a falling build ing during a California earthquake, and was—without food or drink nearly fifty hours, and when homeward bound from the mines of the White Pine region, narrowly escaped lynching through a mistake in person. Amid all be proserves his equanimity and refuses to believe that luck is against him.

WHICH SUNDAY*

Evoiy civilized nation of the world will take part in the centennial exposi tion. The commission have determined to close it on the Sabbath—that is on Sunday, the Sabbath of the christians. If they close it on the Sabbath of every nation represented there—and why should the nations be shocked in their moral sonso by a failure to do so?—it will always be closed. For the Greeks they will close it on Monday for the Persians on Tuesday for the Assyrians on Wednesday for the Egyptians on Thursday for the Turks, the Arabs and all Mohammedan nations jn Friday for the Jews and Seventh-day Baptists on Saturday and for christians they will close it on Sunday.

JKNNIK JUNE" relates this reminiscence of her life at Southbridge, Massachusetts: "I kad only one enemy at Southbridge, to my knowledge, and that was an elderly deacon's wife. Tho way it came about was this: I was my nepbow's teacher, and on one occasion, when wo had been Invited to dine in stato at her house, she called out to Egbert in a high voice from her end of tho table, 'Sonny, won't you have some puddin'? and to the horror and consternation of his papa and myself, tho terrible Infant replied, quite as loudly, •I guess if you lived at our houso my aunt would mako you say pud-ding!' I am sure at that moment I wished grammar and correct pronunciation were with truth at tho bottom of a well, but it was ofnoavMll. Going home, my reverend brother remarked, 'It will never be forgiven, Jennie'—and ho proved to bo right it never was."

TERRE TTATTTK SATURDAY evening mail

KILLED BY A KNIFE THROWER. [From the Rocky Mountain News.] Julia Bernard, a passable vocalist, clever danseuse, and a very petty girl, met with a tragic death in Helena, Montana, the other day. She was standing against the board while an uctor was showing his dex erity in hedging her in by hurling knives i- to the board. Six knives hid been stuck beneath each aim, just above each shoulder, at each side of the head. One more waited to be planted just above her head. The aim of the thrower was too low. The knife penetrated the brain, and the girl sank aown to die on the stage. The actor Is under arrest.

TERRIBLE NEGRO SVPFRSTITION. A negro !n Arkansas recently persuaded two other negroes to accompany him Into the back part of the Bolton

Elantation,

fngof

where he made one of them

ill the other. He then cut oil all the fingers on the left hand of the dead negro, and put them In his pocket then cut out h» heart, ate some of the fat from the left ride of it, and then burned the entire heart. He then made the third negro bury the body. He gave as bis reason for cutting off the fingers and

tutting them In his pocket, and the eatthe fat from the left part of the heart, that hereafter nothing oould hurt him, neither devil nor man, and that he would be successful in all fotnre undertakings.

CONFKDERA TE MAKESHIFTS. Every household became a nert of domestic manufactures, every farm had IU sorghum field. Splnnina-wbeels and looms, which in former days had been used for clothing tha riaves on large plantations, but wbloh during the era of cheap dry-goods were comparatively idle, were again set going. Ladies whose whit* hands were all unused to such labor learned to card, spin, and to weave. Knitting became as fashionable In Southern parlors as It Is In German homes. Homespun dresses were worn by the first ladies in the land, and she «ho w*a cleverest to contrive and deftest to execute had highest praise f.oin ber associates. Foreign dyes were wi ll-nigh unattainable, and the woods at home were ransacked for the means of coloring the home-grown flax, wool, and cotton. Black-walnut bark furnished a rich brown, varying in intensity with the strength of the dye swampmaple, a clear, purple pokeberries, a sol&rino, bright, but not durable wild indigo gave a tolerable blue, and elderberries an unsatisfactory black. Indeed, no experiment with bark, root, leaf, or berry ever resulted in any substitute for logwood and as black was tho dye most needea for Southern garments in those dark days, the blockaderunners learned to make it part of their regular cargo.

Atone time in some sections of the South there was fearful destitution of sait. Speculators held it at enormous prices. Even the rich were forced tc use it sparingly. The poor seemed like ly to suffer for lack of i% and live stock were in many cases denied it altogether. •Barrels and boxes which had been used for packing salt fish or pork were soaked in water afterward, which was boiled down and evaporated for the sake of tae salt thus extracted. The earthen floors of smoke houses, into which the precious mineral had lean trodden year after year, wero dug up, and the earth given to cattlo, or treated with water after the same manner as tho salt sea soned boards.

The government at Richmond came to the rescue, and seizing tho salt works throughout the country, issued regular rations to each family at nominal price' for the rest ef the war. By this high handed measure the people were saved from a salt famine.

Coflee was a luxury ssldom enjoyed, and for which rye or wheat, roasted and ground, was the usual miserable substi tutc. Some quick witted person con ceived the idea of using sweet potato chips instead. These made a more palatable drink, but were, after all, only a hollow mockery. Dried raspberry leaves were used for tea, and some people fell back upon sassafras, the North Carolinian beverage, grimly assuring those who scorned it that it was good for the blood and would save doctor's bills Not a few eschewed all these transpar ent deceptions—if that may be called deception wbieh deceived nobody—and when unable to afford milk, drank cold water with patient heroism.—[Mrs. P. Handy, in Harper's Magazine foi March.

THE MINUET.

[N. Y. Tribune

There lives in (iermantown, Pennsylvania, a silver-haired old lady, born over one hundred years ago, named Mrs. Margaret Boggs, who at one of the courtly private assemblages ol that era, led the minuet with Washington, and from her it is possible to learn the manner of the genuine minuet de la cour without resorting to the libraries. The occasion was a tea party of about twenty guests, of which Mrs. Boggs, then eighteen, was one. She wore that evening a satin dres3 with a very long train —so long, in fact, that in entering the house it was necessary for her maids to come behfnd and lift it as she walked. Her hair was arranged in front like a cushion, and fell in natural curls down her shoulders, and was all powdered, after the pretty colonial fashion. Washington led her by the hand to the floor. The music was slow and dignified almost choral in its character. After a profound salutation to the company, three slow steps forward were taken, followed by an'equally grave salutation to each other. At this point a modern society man would have laughed, but there was no laughing with the dignified Washington. After the reverence the young lady was led to her place by the hand. There then began a series of slow, graceful evolutions by which the imaginative old French masters who perfected this dance intended to represent the varying relations ot two newly formed acquaintances to each other in good society. At times the partners wero ten paces apart. They would pass each other gracefully but gravely two or throe times, as though reluctant to meet then advanoe slowly with a smile, and Join hands then coquettishly retire still facing and smiling then hesitate and pirouette, and even absolutely turn away from each other ultimately, however, advancing with a smile ar.d joining both hands, and returning to their places,

FHE TOW-LINE!:

Oftentimes I havo seen a tall ship glide bv against the tide, as if drawn by some invisible tow-line, with a hundred strong arms pulling it. Her sails hung unfilled, ber streamers wore drooping, she had neither side wheel nor stern wheel still she moved on stately, In serene triumph, as if with her own life. But I knew that on the other side of the ship, hidden beneath the groat hulk that swam so majestically tbero was a little toiling steam tug, with a heart of lire and arms of iron, that were hugginp it close and draggftig it bravely on anc 1 knew that if the little steam tug un twined her arms and left the tall ship, it would wallow and roll about and drift hither and thither, and go off with the refluent tide, no man Knows whither. And so I have known more than one genius, high decked, full freighted, wide sailed, gay pennoned, that, but fbr the bare, toiling arms, and brave, warm beating heart of the faithful little wife that nestled dose in his shadow and clung to him, so that no wind or wave could part them, would soon have gone down tho stream and been beard of no more.—[O.

Holmes.

GOING TO THE CENTENNIAL. flfew York Letter.] All along the Delaware and Hudson Canal, parties are forming to go to Philadelphia during the Centennial upon canal boats, and live and oat upon them while there. A party at Mlddletown. Connecticut, are going to chartora small steamboat for several weeks, and live oh board while visiting Philadelphia. It is computed that fully 000,000 people will visit the Centennial from New York city and Brooklyn alone.

MISCONCEPTION. JNow Y*rk World.]

It would appear fttm the lamentations of the Indiana distillers on being sent to the penitentiary aa If all the disgrace lay In being punished for stealing—not In stealing. In

Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.—I Know Its.

QOLDEN WOBDS.

He who lives well is tha beat preaeher. Accursed is he who dallies with tha devil.

Forgive others first and yourself afterward. Great souls have wills—weak souls only wishes.

The voice of the msjority is no proof of justice. False modesty is the most decent of all falsehood.

A good kick out of doors is better than a rich uncle. Don't measure other people's corn by your own bushel.

Too oft is transient pleasure the spring of lengthened woes.

Wise men argue cases, and fools decide them.—[Anacharais. Better ride an ass that carries us than horse that throws us.

Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most like it least. To be vain of one's rank or place is to disclcse that one is below it.

Life is a eomedy to him who thinks, aad a tragedy to him who feels. '«11 Coxcombs, an ever empty race, are trumpets of their own disgrace.

Confidence is the weakness of youth, and distrust the weakness of age It matters much whether you are really good or merely wish 10 appear so

He gets wisdom in a fortunate way who gets wisdom at another's expense. The man who knows that he is a fool is not very far from being a wise man.

A man can do what he ought to do and when he says he can not, he will not.

The beauty that Is In the heart will eventually shine out in the countenance.

Heroes are scarce, but the man who can make poverty respectable is one of them.

Each year one vicious habit routed out, in time might, make the worst man good.

To follow foolish precedents, and wink with both our eyes, is easier than to think.

He wbo docs not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

Life is tho jailor, death the angel sent" to draw tho unwilling bolts and set us free.

A fact is a divine revelation, and he Who acts contrary to it sins against its divine author.

Accept commotion before stagnation, the leap of the torrent before the stillness of the swamp.

Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their friendship.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined but often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

Let no man who wants to do anything for the soul of a man lose a chance of doing something for his body.

The man whose only ambition is to make folks laugh will never get above tha reputation of being a first class monkey.

When by night the frogs are croaking, kindle but a torch's fire—ha! how soon they all are silent! So truth silences a liar.

None are more to be pitied than those who have the means of gratifying their desires before they have learned to govern them.

Since most people act from impulse rather than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we aro apt to think them.

Brutes find out where their talents lie a bear will not attempt to fly a foundered horse will long debate before he tries a five barred gate.

They who are most weary of life and yet are most unwilling to die are such as have lived to no purpose—who have rather breathed than lived.

About as mean a position as any man can put himself Into is to work all the time tor the devil, and look all the timo to the Lord for his pay.

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth. No opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are rot wholly wrong: as no watches so effectually neceivo tno wearer as those that are sometimes right.—[Colton- ..

NEURALGIA.

A Phvsician of a London hospital writes to the British Medical Journal: "Tbore is no recognized reason why of Into years neuralgia of the face and scalp should have increased so much in the ifemale sex, as compared with our own. There is no doubt that it is one of the most common of female maladies—one of the most painful and difficult of treatment. It is also a causeof much mental depression, and leads more often to habits of intemperance than any other. This growing prevalence of nenralgia may to some extent be referred to the effects of cold upou the terminal branches of the nerves distributed to the skin and the reason why men are less subject to it than women may to a great extent be explained by the much greater protection afforded by the mode in which the former cover their heads when they are in the open air. It may be observed that the surface of the beaa which is ac tually covered In man is at least three times that which fashion allows to women indeed, tho points of contact between the bat or bonnet and the head in tho latter are so irregular as practically to destroy any protection which might otherwise be afforded.",

JOYCES PLUNDER.

[!5t. Joneph Il«patch to Chicago Times.] Visscbcr, the city editor of tho Omaha Herald, relates some interesting personal reminiscences of Col. Joyce, late of the St. Louis whisky ring, now a sojourner In the Missouri penitentiary. Joyce was a private, and, by the way, Joyce never reached a higher position thin regimental adjutant—and says that up to that time the latter had never owned a ten-dollar bill in his life, being a green Irish boy. About a year ago Joyce called to see Vlsscher, then connected with the St. Joseph Press, and, as they were waiting in the depot when Joyce was about to depart for St. Louis, be turned to him with the remark: "Vlaoh. how much money have you

Eis

ot f" The party addressed fumbled In

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a moment, and then

responded: "I gwm I've got enough to bur us a glass of beer apieoe want someT" "No," said Jovoe,

Mis

that all

von have?" "That'll about cover It." wmsthereplv. "How much have you got, Joyoe?,r

MI'm

worth $800,000 I'm

one of yer fellers that cuts off coupons, I am," respond*-d he of the whisky ring.

LIFE LENGTHENED.

1. Cultivate an equable temper many a man baa fallen dead In a fit of paasion. 2. Eafregularly, notover thrice a day, and nothing between meals. 3. Go to bed at regular hoursi Get up as soon as you wake of yourself and do not sleep In the daytime, at least not longer tnan ten minutes before noon. 4. Work always by the day aad not by the joh. 5. Stop working before you are much tired—before you are "fagged out." 6. Cultivate a generous and accomodating temper. 7. Never cross a bridge before you oome to It this will.save hair tho troubles in life. 8. Never eat when you are not hungry, nor drink when you ire not thirsty. 9. Iiet your appetite always come uninvited. 10. Cool off In a place greatly warmer than the one In which you have been exercising this simple rule would prevent incalculable sickness, and save millions of lives every year. 11. Never resist a call of nature a single moment. 12. Never sllow yourself to be chilled "through and throughit is this which destroys so many every year in a few days sickness, from pneumonia, called by some lung fever, or inflammation ef the lungs. 13. Wlioever drinks no liquids at meals will add years of pleasureable existence to his life. Of cold or warm drinks tho former are the most pernicious: drinking at meals induces persons to eat more than they otherwise would, as any one can verify by experiment, and it is exc&<8 in eating which devastetcs the land with sickness, suffering and death. 14. After fifteen years of ago, if not a day-laborer, and a sedentary persons after forty, should eat but twico a day, in the morning and about four in the afternoon for every organ without adequate rest will "givo out" prematurely. 15. Begin early to live under the benign influences of the Christian religion. lor it "has the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come."—[Hall's Journal.

SCARLET FEVER.

It is as unnecessary for a child to dio of-scarlet fever, says Good Health, as it is that itshould be blind with a cataract. Let us see: At any time before tho body has finished its ineffectual struggle we are able to help it, not by wonderful medicines but by the knowledge of anatomy and the application of common sense. We consult tho sympathetic nerve and do what it commands us to do. Wo must give this child salt when it wants it must give it acid whon It has fever—not vinegar but lemon-juice, bocause the first coagulates albumen and the latter does not, on account of tho surplus of oxygen which it contains. To imitate the soothing mucous in the intestines—which is now wanting—and to give some respiratory food at the samo time we add some gum arable. To restore and relieve tho injured nerve we apply more warmth. In practice we can fulfill all this with the following simple manipulations: Undress tho child and bring it to bed at the very first sign of sickness. Give it, if it already has fever, nothing but warm sourish lemonade with some gum arable in it. Then cover its abdomen with some dry flannel. Take a well-folded bed-sheet and put it in boiling hot water, wring out dry by means of dry towels and put this over the flannel on the child's abdomen. Then oover the whole and wait. The hot cloths will, perhaps, require repeated heating. According to the severity of the oase and its stage of progress, perspiration will commence in the child in from ten minutes to two hours. The child then is saved—it soon falls to sleep Soon after the child awakes it shows slight symptoms of returning inclination for food. Help Its bowels, if necessary, with injections of oil, soap and water and its recovery will bo as steady as the growth of a greenhouse plant, if well treated. Of course If the child in already dying nothing can save it or if it has effusions in the lining of the heart, or of the brain it is much better that it should die. But if the above is applied in due time, under the eyes and direction of a competent physician, we will guarantee that not one iu a hundred children will ever die of scarlet fever. We know this will startle some of our readers, especially those who have children already, but we shall go still further. We maintain that a child will never get scarlet fever if it is properly treated. If a child has correctly-mixed blood It will not catch the disorder il putin bed with a sick child. This Is still more startling, but nothing is oaSier of proof.

DON'T WORRY YOURSELFC To regain or recover health persons should be relieved of all anxiety con cerning diseases. The mind has power over tho body. For a person to believe he has a disease will often produce that disease. This we see effected when the mind of one is intensely upon tho disease of another. It is found in the hospitals that surgeons and physicians who make specialties of certain diseases aro liable to die of them themselves and the irental power is so great that sometimes people die of diseases which they only nave in imagination. Wo have seen a person seasick in anticipation of asea-voyago before reaching the vessel. We have known a person to die of cancer in the stomach when he had no cancer or any other mortal disease. A blindfolded man, slightly pricked in the arm, has fainted ana died from believing that he was bleeding to death. Therefore well persons, to remain well, shoald be cheerful and happy and sick persons should have their attention drawn as much as possible from themselves. It is by their faith that men aro saved and it Is by their faith that men die. If ho wills not to dio he can often live in spite ot diseases and if he has little or no attachment for lifehowiii slip awav as easily as a child will fall asleep. 'Men live by their souls aud not by their bodies. Their bodies bave no life of themselves—they are only resources of life, tenements for their souN. Tho will has much to do in continuing the physical occupancy or giving it up. —[Journal of Health.

REMEMBER THIS.

Now is the time of the year for Pneumonia, Lung Fever, Coughs, Colds, and fatal results of predisposition to Consumption and other Throat and Lung Disease®. BOCT*HKE'S GERMAN STRCP hm been wed In this neighborhood for tne past two or three years without a single failure to cure. If you bave not used this medicine yourself, go to your Druggist's, Groves

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them of its wonderful success among their customors. Two doses will relieve the worst case. If you have no faith in any medicine, just buy a Sample Bottle of Boechee's German Syrup for 10 cents and try it. Regular size Bottle, 75 cents. Don't neglect a cough to save 75 cents. Don't neglect a cough to save 75 cents.

"A STITCH in time saves nine."

bottle of Dr. Bull's Oougb Syrup will often save large doctor bills. Keep it handy, for it only costs 25 cents.