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AN ACT to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitu tion of the United States, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person who, under color of any law, stat ute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of any State, shalt subject, or cause to be subjected, any person within the jurisdiction of the United States to the deprivation of any rights, privileges or immunities secured by the constitution of the United States, shall, any such law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of the State to the contrary not withstanding, be liable to the party in jured in any action of law, suit in equity, or other proper proceedings for redress; such proceeding to be prosecuted in the several district or circuit courts of the United States, with and subject to the same rights of appeal, review upon error, and other remedies provided in like cases in sueh courts, under the provisions of the act of the ninth of April, eighteen hun dred and sixty-six, entitled “An act to protect all persons in the United States iu their civil rights, and to furnish the means of their vindication ;" and the other reme dial laws of the United States which are in their nature applicable in such cases. SEC. 2. That if two or more persons within any State or Territory of the Uni ted States shall conspire together to over throw, or to put down, or to destroy by force the government of the United States, or to levy war against the United States, or to oppose by force the authority of the government of the United States, or by force, intimidation, or threat to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States or by force to seize, take or possess any property of the United States, contrary to the authority thereof, or by force, intimidation, or threat to prevent any person from accepting or holding any office or trust or place of confidence under the United States, or from discharging the duties thereof, or by force, intimidation, or threat to induce any officer of the United States, to leave any State, district, or place where his du ties as such officer might lawfully be per formed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or to injure his person while engaged in the lawful dis charge of the duties of his office, or to in jure his property so as to molest, inter rupt, hinder, or impede him in the dis charge of his official duty, or by force, intimidation, or threat to deter any phrty or witness in any court of the United States from attending such court, or from testify ing in any matter pending in such court fully, freely, and truthfully, or to injure any such party or witness in his person or property on account of his having so at tended or testified, or by force, intimida tion, or threat to influence the verdict, presentment, or indictment, of any juror or grand juror in any court of the United States, or to injure such juror in his per son or property on account of any verdict, presentment, or indictment lawfully as sented to by him, or on account of his being or having been such juror, or shall conspire together, or go in disguise upon the public highway or upon the premises of another for the purpose, either directly or indirectly, of depriving any person or any class of persons of the equal protection of the laws, or of equal privileges or im munities under the laws, or for the purpose of preventing or hindering the constituted authorties. of any State from giving or securing to all persons within such State the equal protection of the laws, or shall conspire together for the purpose of in any manner impeding, hindering, obstructing, or defeating the due course of justice in any State or Territory, with intent to deny to any citizen of the United States the due and equal protection of the laws, or to injure any person in his person or his property . for lawfully enforcing the right of any person or class of persons to the equal protection of the laws, or by force, intim idation, or threat to prevent any citizen of the United States lawfully entitled to vote from giving his support or advocacy in a lawful manner towards or in favor of the election of any lawfully qualified person as an elector of President or Vice President of the United States, or as a member of the Congress of the United States, or to injure any such citizen in his person or property on account of such support or advocacy, each and e ,, ery person so offend ing shall be deemed guilty of a high crime, and, upon conviction thereof in any dis trict or circuit court of the United States or district or supreme court of any Terri tory of the United States having jurisdic tion of similar offenses, shall be punished by a fine not less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment, with or without hard labor, as the court may determine, for a period of not less than six months nor more than six years, as the court may determine, or by both such fine and imprisonment as the court shall determine. And if any one or more persons engaged in any such conspi racy shall do, or cause to be done; any act in furtherance of the object of such con spiracy, whereby any person shall be in jured in his person or property, or deprived of having and exercising any right or privilege of a citizen of the United States, the person so injured or deprived of such rights and privileges may have and main tain an action for the recovery of damages occasioned by such injury or deprivation of rights and privileges against any one or more of the person engaged in such con spiracy, such action to be prosecuted in the proper district or circuit court of the United States, with and subject to the same rights of appeal, review upon error, and other remedies provided in like cases in such courts under the provisions of the act of April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and to furnish the means of their vindication." SEc. 3. That in all cases where insur rection, domestic violence, unlawful com binations, or conspiracies in any State shall so obstruct or hinder the execution of the laws thereof, and of the United States, as to deprive any portion or class of the peo ple of such State of any of the rights, privileges, or immunities, or protection, named in the Constitution and secured by this act, and the constituted authorities of Office re ig, MU street rjan.4,ll. Mehl 5-tf such State shall either be•unable to pro tect, or shall, from any cause, fail in or refuse protection of the people in such rights, such facts shall be deemed a denial by such State of equal protection of the laws to which they are entitled under the Constitution of the United States; and in all such cases, or whenever *any such in surrection, violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy shall oppose or obstruct the laws of the United States or the due exe cution thereof, or impede or instruct the due course of justice under the same, it shall be lawful for the President, and it shall be his duty to take such measures, by the employment of the militia or the land and naval forces of the United States, or of either, or by other means, as he may deem necessary for the suppression of such insurrection, domestic violence, or com binations; and any person who shall be arrested under the provisions of this and the preceding section shall be delivered to the marshal of the proper district., to be dealt with according to law. SEC. 4. That v:hcnever in any State or part of a State the unlawful combinations named in the preceding section of this act shall he organized and armed, and so nu merous and powerful as to be able, by vio lence, to either overthrow or set at defi ance the constituted authorities of such State, and of the United States within such State, or when the constituted au thorities are in complicity with, or shall connive at the unlawful purposes of, such powerful and armed combinations ; and whenever, by reason of either or all of the causes aforesaid, the conviction of such offenders and the preservation of the pub lic safety shall become in such district impracticable, in every such case such combinations shall be deemed a rebellion against the government of the United States, and during the continuance of such rebellion, and within the limits of the dis trict which shall be so under the sway thereof, such limits to be prescribed by proclamation, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, when in his judgment the public safety shall re quire it. to suspend the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus, to the end that such rebellion may be overthrown : Provided, That all the provisions of the second sec tion of an act entitled "An act relating to habeas corpus, and regulating judicial pro ceedings in certain cases," approved March third, eighteen 11 , ,ndred and sixty-three, which relate to the discharge of prisoners other than prisoners, of war, and to the penalty for refusing to obey the order of the court, shall be in full force so far as the same are applicable to the provisions of this section : Provided further, That the President shall first have made proc lamation, as now provided by law, com manding such insurgents to disperse : And provided also, That the provisions of this section shall not be in force after the end of the next regular session of Congress. SEC. 5. That no person shall be a grand or petit juror in any court of the United States upon any inquiry, bearing, or trial of any suit, proceeding, or prosecution based upon or arising under the provisions of this act who shall, in the judgment of the court, be in complicity with any such combination or conspiracy ; add every such juror shall, before entering upon any such inquiry, hearing, or trial, take and sub scribe an oath in open court that he has never, directly or indirectly, counselled, advised, or voluntarily aided any such combination or conspiracy r and each and every person who shall take this oath, and shall therein swear falsely, shall be guilty of perjury, and shall be subject to the pains and penalties declared against that crime, and the first section of the act en titled "An act defining additional causes of challenge and prescribing an additional oath for grand and petit jurors in the United States courts," approved June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty two, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. SEC. 6. That any person or persons, having knowledge that and of the wrongs conspir ed to be done • and mentioned in the second section of this act are about to be done and committed, and having power to prevent or aid in preventing the same, shall neglect or refuse so to do, and such wrongful act shall be committed, such person or persons shall be liable to the person injured, or his legal representatives, for all:damages caused by any such wrongful act which such first named person or persons by reasonable dil igence could have prevented; and such damages may be recovered in an action on the case in the proper circuit court of the United States, and any number of persons guilty of such wrongful neglect or refusal may be joined as defendants in such aotion: Provided, That such action shall be com menced within one year such cause of ac tion shall have accrued; and if the death of any person shall be caused by any such wrongful act and neglect, the legal repre sentatives of such deceased person shall have such action therefor, and may re cover not exceeding five thousand dollars damages therein, fbr the benefit of the widow of such deceased person, if any there be, or if there be no widow, for the benefit of the next of kin of such deceased person. SEC. 7. That nothing herein contained shall be construed to supersede or repeal any former act or law except so far as the same may be repugnant thereto; and any offenses heretofore committed against the tenor of any former act shall be prosecuted, and any proceeding already commenced for the prosecution thereof shall be continued and completed, the same as if this act had not been passed, except so far as the pro visions of this act may go to sustain and validate such proceedings. Approved, April 20, 1871. A Mechanical Curiosity. Mr. Buck, a Worcester jeweler, has made a miniature engine which he claims is the smallest in the world. The Spy says: It is made of gold and silver, and fastened together with screws, the largest of which is one-eightieth of an inch in size. The engine, boiler, governor and pumps stand in a space seven-sixteenths of an inch square, and are five-eights of an inch high. Perhaps a better idea of its smallness will be conveyed by saying that the whole af fair may be conpletely covered with a com mon tailor's thimble. The engine alone weighs but fifteen grains, and yet every part is complete, as may be seen by a mi croscopic examination ; and it may be set in motion by filling the boiler with wa ter and applying heat, being supplied with all valves, etc., to be found upon an ordi nary upright engine. To attempt an esti mate of its power would seem like rather small business; but, for a guess, our opin ion is that a span of well-fed fleas would rurnish more force if they were properly harnessed and shod. The little thing would tug away several minutes if encour aged by a drop of water heated by the application of a burnt finger. HUNTINGDON, PA., .:FEBRUARY 7, 1872 too' Aotra. Cold !--Bitterly Cold ! ! Cold! bitterly cold! The moon is bright, And the snow is white, Beautiful to behold, But the wind is howling Like hungry prowling Wolves on•the wintry world. Cold !—bitterly cold! My shawl is ragged and old, The hearth deserted and dark. Gladdened by never a spark, And my only light Is the pitiless white Of the moonbeam's chill, Silvery chill, Cruelly—splendidly bright, This frostly Winter's night— Cold !—bitterly cold ! Babe, more precious than gold, nest, little one, rest! Sleep my own one, Clasped to thy mother's breast; Though thin and wasted her form, Her arms shall enfold, And shield thee from the cold; For the love in her breast is warm. Though the chill night breeze they the life-blood freeze— Cold I—bitterly cold! Cold I bitterly cold ! My eyes are dim, And my senses swim. I am prematurely old ! Foodless and fireless, Almost attireless, Wrapt in rags so scanty and thin, With bones that stay through the color less skin, Weary and worn, Tattered and torn, If! should wish I had !vier been born, Tell me, is it a sin ? Cold world I—bitterly cold fflteg-gtiltr. NOT GUILTY. IN the Spring of 18—, I was called to Jackson, Ala., to attend court, having been engaged to defend a young man who had been accused of robbing the mail. The stolen bag bad been recovered, as well as the letters from which the money had been rifled. These letters were given me for my examination, and. I returned them to the prosecuting attorney. Having got through my preliminaries about noon, and as the case would not come off before the next day. I went into the court room to see what was going on. The first case that came up was one of theft, and the prisoner a young girl not more than seventeen years of age, named Elizabeth Medworth. She was pretty, and bore that mild, innocent look - Which is seldom found in a culprit.— She had been weeping profusely, but as she found so many eyes upon her, she be came too much frightened to weep any more. The complaint against her set forth that she had stolen $lOO from a Mrs. Nasby, and as the case went .on I fount that this Mrs. Nasby, a wealthy widow, living in the town, was the girl's mistress. The poor girl declared her innocence in 'the wildest terms, but circumstances were hard against her. A hundred dollars in bank notes had been stolen from her mistress' room, and she was the only one who had access there. At this juncture, when the mistress was upon the witness stand, a young man came in, and caught me by the arm. "They tell me you are a very fine law yer," he whispered. "I am a lawyer," I said. "Then save her ! You certainly can, for she is innocent." "Has she no counsel ?" I asked. "None that is good for anything—no body that will do anything for her. Oh, save her, and I will give you all I've got. I can't give you much, but I can raise something." I reflected a moment. I cast my eyes toward the prisoner, and she was at that moment looking at me. She caught my eye, and the volume of entreaty I read in her glance resolved me in a moment. I arose, went to the girl, and asked her if she wished me to defend her. She said yes. I then informed the court I was ready to enter the case, and was admitted at once. The loud murmurs of satisfaction that ran through the crowd told me where the sympathies of the people were. I asked for a moment's hesitation, that I might speak to my client. I went and sat down by her side, and asked her to state candidly the whole case. She told me she had lived with Mrs. Nasby nearly two years, and had never any trouble before. About two weeks ago she said her mistress had missed a hundred dollars. "She missed it from her drawer," the girl said to me, "and asked me about it. I know that Nancy Luther told Mrs. Nasby that evening that she saw me take the money from the drawer—that she watched me through the keyhole. Then they went to my trunk and found twenty-five dollars of the missing money there. But, sir, I never took it; somebody must have put it there." I then asked her if she suspected any one, _ _ "I don't know," she said, "who could have done it but Nancy. She has never liked me, because she thought I was better treated than she. She is the cook. I the chambermaid." Sho pointed Nancy Luther out to me. She was a stout, bold-faced girl, about twenty-five years old, with a low forehead, small eyes, pug nose, and thick lips. I caught her glance at once, as it rested on the fair younn. p prisoner, and the moment I detected the look of hatred which I read there, I was convinced that she was the rogue. "Nancy Luther, did you say the girl's name was?" I asked, for a new light had broken in upon me. "Yes, sir." I left the court room and went to the prosecuting attorney, and asked him for the letters I had handed him—the ones that had 'been stolen from the mail bag.— He gave them to me, and having selected one, I returned the rest, and told him I would see that he had the one I kept be fore night. Mrs. Nasby resumed her testimony. She said she intrusted the room to the prison er's care, and no one else had access there save herself. Then she described herself about the missing money, and closed by telling how she found twenty-five dollars in the prisoner's trunk. She could swear that it was the identical money she had lost, in two tens and one five dollar note. "Mrs. Nasby," says I, when you first missed the money, had you any reason to believe the prisoner had taken it ?" "No, sir," she answered. "Had you ever detected her in any dis honest, act ?" "No, sir." "Should you have thought of searching her trunk, had not Nancy Luther advised and informed you?" "No, sir." Mrs. Nasby left the stand, and Nancy Luther took her place. She came up with a bold front, and cast a defiant look uon me, as if to say, "Trap me if you can."— She then gave her evidence as follows : She said that on the night the money was taken she saw the prisoner go up stairs, and from the shy manner in which she went up, she suspected that all was not right, so she followed her up. "Eliz abeth went to Mrs. Nasby's room and shut the door after her. I stooped down and looked through the key-hole, and saw her take the money and put it in her pocket. Then she stooped down and picked up the lamp, and as 1 saw she was coming out, I hurried away." Then she went on, and told how she had informed her mistress of this, and how she proposed to search the girl's trunk. I called Mrs. Nasby back. "You said that no one save yourself has access to the room," I said. "Now couldn't Nancy Luther have entered the room if she wished ?" "Certainly, sir ; I meant that no one else had any right there." I saw that Mrs. Nasby, though naturally a hard woman, was deeply moved by poor Elizabeth's misery. "Could your cook have known, by any means in your knowledge, where your money was ?" "Yes, sir; for she has often come to my room when I was there, and I have soften given her money to buy provisions of market men who happened to come along with their wagons." "One more question.; have you known of the prisoner having used money since this was stolen ?" "No, sir." I now called Nancy Luther back, and she began to tremble a little, though her look was bold and dosant as ever. "Miss Luther," said I, "why did you not inform your mistress at once of what you had seen, without waiting for her to ask about her money ?" "Because I could not make up my mind at once to expose the poor girl," she said, promptly. "You say you looked through the key hole and saw her take the money ?" "Yes, sir." "Where did she place the lamp when she did so ?" "On the bureau." "In your testimony you said she stooped down when she picked it up. What do you mean by that ?" The girl then hesitated, and finally said she didn't mean anything, only that she picked up the lamp. "Very well," said I, "how long have you been with Mrs. Nasby ?" "Not quite a year, sir/ I "How much does she pay you a week ?" "A dollar and three-quarters." Have you taken up any of your pay since you have been there ?" "Yes, sir." "How much ?" "I don't know, sir," "Why don't you knew ?" "How should I ? I have taken it at dif ferent time, just as I wanted it, and kept no accounts." "Then you have not laid up any money since you have been there r "No, sir, only what Mrs. Nasby may owe me." "Will you tell me if you belong to this State ?" "I do, sir." "In what town?" "She hesitated, and for a moment the bold look forsook her. I nest turned to Mrs. Nasby. "Do you ever take a receipt 4oni your girls when you pay them ?". "Always." "Can you send and get one of them for me?" "She has told you the truth, sir, about the payments," said Mrs. Nasby. "Oh, I don't doubt it," I replied, "but particular proof is the thing for the court room. So, if you can, I wish you would procure the receipt." She said she would willingly go, if the court said so. The court did say so, and she went. Her dwelling was not far off, and she soon returned and handed me four receipts, which I took and examined : They were signed in a strong, staggering hand, by the witness. "Now, Nancy Luther " I said, turning to the witness, and speaking • in a quick,' startling tone, at the same time looking her sternly in the eyo, "please tell the court and jury where you got the seventy five dollars you sent in your letter to your sister in Somers ?" At this she started as though a volcano had burst at her feet. She turned pale as death, and every limb shook violently., I waited until the people could have an op portunity to see her emotion, and then I repeated the question. "I—never—sent—any," she gasped. "You did !" I thundered, for I was ex cited. "I—l didn't," she faintly murmured, grasping the railing at her side for sup port. "May it please your Honor and gentle men of the jury," I said, I came here to defend a man who was arrested for robbing the mail: In the course of my preliminary examination I had access to the letters which had been torn open and robbed of money. When I entered upon the case, and heard the name of the = witness pro nounced, I went out and got this letter, which I now hold, for I remembered hay inc, seen one bearing the signature of Nan efLuther. "This letter was taken from the mail bag, and it contained seventy-five dollars, by the post-mark you will observe that it was mailed the day after one hun4red dol lars were taken from Mrs. Washy's drawer, and is directed to Dorms Luther, Somers, Montgomery county. And you will ob serve that one band wrote the letter and signed the receipts, and the jury will also so observe. And now I will only add that it is plain to see how the hundred dollars were disposed of. Seventy-five dol lars were sent off for safe keeping, while the remaining twenty-five dollars were placed in the prisoner's trunk, for the pur pose of covering the real criminal. I now leave my client's case in your hands." The case was given to the jury imme diately following their examination of the letter. They bad heard from the witness' own mouth that she had no money of her own, and without leaving their seats, they returned a verdict "not guilty." _ _ . I will not describe the scene that fol lowed, but if Nancy Luther had not been instantly arrested for the theft, she would have been obliged to seek protection of the officers, or the excited people would have maimed her at least, if they had not done more. The next morning I received a note, handsomely written, in which I was told that the within was but a slight token of the gratitude due me for the ef fort in behalf of the poor, defenseless maiden. It was signed "Several Citizens," and contained one hundred dollars. The youth who first begged me to take up the case, afterward called upon me with all the money he could raise; but I refused his hard earnings, showing him that I had already been paid. Before I left town I was a guest at his wedding—my fair client being the happy bride. failing Ur the palm The Flight of Youth Would anybody be young again if he had to take with it the penalty of going back and doing over again all the foolish things he was guilty of in his youth ? I wouldn't. "Give me back my youth again !" did you say ? Friend, it's a mistake. Ten to one you wouldn't have it again if you could. If old- Time were to come boldly to you to-day, saying, "Take back, 0 wise middle aged Noodle, these twenty past years of your life, with all the pains and disap pointments which have made you clear sighted and sound-headed, with all the silly actions you perpetrated in those days, and all the occasions on which you made a long-eared donkey of yourself; worry through a second time all the tight boots and tribulations, all the tooth-aches and heat-aches of your youth; do, be and suffer it again ; be, in short, once more just the soft young Noodle you were twen ty years ago,"—ten of manhood's hearty hopes to one dolorous wail for your lost youth, that you answer, "Pass on, Father Time ! And you may as well tip those twenty golden sandgrains back into the lower half of your hour-glass. I do not want them !" It gives an odd feeling, especially if you are a woman, to find yourself getting to be a little bit middle-aged. First, you will notice that you begin to be left out of every young folks' picnic, and to get fewer notes in pink envelopes than you used. Then you begin to be faintly haunted by vague, sneaking doubts as to whether white mus lin and blue ribbons are becoming to you. Finally, and worst of all, once and a while you will see an infant of the male sex, whom you remember as a rosy little fellow in checked aprons when you were twelve years old, suddenly lifted over your head in the shape of a long, gawky biped, with the tender down of a first moustache sprout ing from his upper lip. That gives yon an intensely exasperating sensation. Nor is it pleasant to have saucy young snips of girls talk of you behind your back as old Sarah Thompsen. Then, too, you may as well make up your mind to the hard fact of middle age when you chance to open some old gilt edged book of poetry, and discover, care fully pressed- away between the leaves a little lock of faded hair, and you can't re member in your life whose it is. I have had half a dozen snob myself. They were precious as gold once, no doubt, but I make confidential confession to yon that if I were questioned on the rack, couldn't now tell whose heads they came from. What makes me know that they were precious as gold in their time, is the fact (you will observe this is another confidential confes sion) that they are nearly all locks of long ish-short hair, before college students began to affect the present prize-fighting style of shaving their pates. 0 poor little rings of faded hair, I grieve to say it, bat I have forgotten you all. Again, when you go to a party and dance more than half the night, far into the small hours, and then partake of that grind stone mess called a party supper, maybe you notice you feel gumpy and out sorts next day. Well, that's a sign, too. Es pecially if you have found yourself pausing to listen now and then to the chattering talk of persons younger than yourself, and sarcastically wondering whether you ever made such a wholesale idiot of yourself, or whether very young misses always deluge society with such quantities of simpering nonsense and affectations. (I believe they do.) It is a sure sign if you find yourself constantly feeling a call to give your yang er sisters advice which they don't want, or to treat them now and then to a bit of a preachment, for which you get no reward except thankless insinuations about saving one's breath, to cool one's broth. Or maybe you say to your sister Ella, who is sixteen and pretty, "When von have lived as long as I have, you will find that the majority of very young people have precious little common sense." Beecher en Death. Mr. Beecher was in an unusually talka tive mood the other night, and dis coursed familiarly in his lecture room about the various ideas of death., He did not think it an evidence of special Christian grace to be willing to die. He didn't think it natural for the young or for - those full of the activities of life to desire to die. It is better to be willing to live and to do the duties of life, When Paul said it was better to depart he was an old man in pris on. If an October pippin says it is ready to drop, is that ,any reason a little green apple in June should be ready ? It is the business of green apples to get ripe. All the representations of the New Testament about death are full of cheer and hope.— For Paul to die was to go to Christ. Dy ing is not growing short of breath and feeble of pulse ; it is flying up to the all loving soul of the universe. It is going to sweet companionship. We struggle on thro' the universe, finding little compan ionship, but we go to the spirits of just men made perfect. We go where all the conditions lift us up N a realm of nobility. There all is in concord. There is no sel fishness, no hardness and crudeness and rudeness or revenge; all are working up with one sweet impulse with the great genial creative force of divine love. These thoughts ring in my soul like the bells of a far off city drawing me thitherward. Dying is the easiest thing men do. Suf fering is in life, but as a rule men die as easily as a door turns upon its hinges. Dying is going home, not to supineness, not to oriental luxury, but to supreme ac tivity, where every part is developed and cultivated in the realm of love. Bless God for the privilege of dying ! My brother Charles, who was always in a dying mood, once congratulated my father upon the fact that he couldn't live much longer. "Umph, said the old man, "I don't thank any of my boys to talk to me in that way. I don't want to die. If I had my choice, and it was right to choose, I would fight the battle all over." "Father," continued Beecher, "was a war-horse, and after he was turned out to pasture, whenever he heard the sound of a trumpet he wanted the saddle and bridle." "Consider Me Smith." A good story is told of old Dr. Cadwell, formerly of the University of North Caro lina: The doctor was a small man, and lean, but as hard and angular as the most irregu lar of pine knots. He looked as though he might be tough, but he did not seem strong, Nevertheless he was, among the knowing ones, reputed to be agile "as a cat," and, in addition, was by no means deficient in a knowledge of the "manly art." Well, in the freshman class of a certain year was a burly beef mountaineer of eighteen or nineteen. This genius conceived a great contempt for old Bolus' physical dimensions, and his soul was horrified that one so deficient in muscle should be so potential in his role. Poor Jonei—that is what we'll call him —no idea of moral force. At any rate, he was not inclined to knock under and be controlled despotically by a man he imag ined he could tie or whip. At length he determined to give the old gentleman a genteel, private thrashing, some night, in the College Campus, pretending to mistake him for some fellow student. Shortly after, on a dark and rainy night, Jones met the doctor crossing the Cambus. Walking up to him, abruptly : "Hello Smith ! you racal—is this you!" And with that he struck the old gentle man a blow on the side of the face that nearly felled him. Old Bolus said nothing, but squared him self, and at it they went. Jones' youth, weight and muscle made him an "ugly cus tomer," but after a round or two the doc tor's science began to tell, and in a short time he had knocked his antagonist down, and was astraddle of his chest, with one hand on his throat and the other dealing vigorous cuffs on the side of the head. "Ah ! stop ! I beg pardon, Doctor, Doc tor Cadwell—a mistake—for heaven's sake Doctor !" he groaned. "I really thought it was Smith ! ' The doctor replied with a word and a blow alternately. "It makes no differanee ; for all present purposes consider me Smith." And it is said that old Bolus gave Jones such a pounding that he never made an other mistake as to personal identity. Saved by a Horse Let any man who ever struck a faithful horse in anger, read this true story and be ashamed of himself : Some years since a party of surveyors had just finished their day's work in the northwestern part of Illinois, when a vio lent snowstorm came on. They started for their camp, which was in a grove of about eighty acres in a large prairie, nearly twenty miles from any other timber. The wind was blowing very hard, and the snow drifting so as nearly to blind them. When they thought they had nearly reached their camp, they all at once came upon tracks in the snow. These they looked at with care, and found, to their dismay, that they were their own tracks. It was now plain that they were lost on the great prairie, and that if they had to pass the night there, in the cold and snow, the chance was that not one of them would be alive in the morning. While they were shivering with fear and the cold, the chief man of the party caught sight of one of the horses—a grey pony known as "Old Jack." Then the thief said, "If any one can show us our way to camp out of this blind ing snow, Old Jack can do it. I will take off his bridle and let him lose, and we can follow him. I think he will show us our way back to camp." The horse, as soon as he found himself free, threw his head and tail into the air, as if proud of the trust that had been put upon him. Then he snuffed the breze and gave a loud snort, which seemed to say : "Come on, boys ! Follow me ; lead you out of this scrape." He then turned in a new direction and trotted along, but not so fast that the men could not follow him. They had not gone more than a mile when they saw the chearful blaze of their camp fires, and they gave a loud liuzza at the sight, and for Old Jack. What to do in Emergencies . If a person falls in a fit, and begins to snore loudly, with a very read face, it is appoplexy. Let him be seated so as to favor the blood going downwards, away from the head; apply cold cloths to the bead, or cushions of equal quantities of snow, pounded ice and common salt. If the person is perfectly still,face pale, and there is no preceptible breathing, it is a fit of fainting. Do not touch him, except to' loosen the clothing ; then keep off five or ten feet distant, so as to allow the air to come in ; make no noise and there will very soon be a calm, quiet return to con sciousness and life, for it is only a momen tary cessation of the blood to the head. But suppose there is a very violent motion of the hands and feet, and all sorts of bodi ly contortions, it is epilepsy. Let the man cantort until he is tired; you can't hold him still ; all your efforts only tend to ag gravate the trouble and to exhaust the strength ; all that ought to be done is to keep the unfortunate from hurting him self. There is no felt suffering, for as soon as he comes to he will tell you that he remembers nothing of what has passed, ap pears to be the only calm and self possess ed person in the whole crowd, and is ap parently as perfectly well as before the occurrence. Dizziness often comes in stantaneously, and we begin to reel before we know it. Shut the eyes, whether you are walking along the street, looking over a precipice, ascening a ladder, or climb ing to a ship's masthead ; the fear of diz ziness disappers instantly if you look up ward.—Hall's Journal of Health. Eating too Past. Eating too fast generally involves eating too much—more than is needed for the support and nutrition of the body—and the reason for this is, that the organs of taste, which are our guide in this matter, are not allowed sufficient voice; they are not allowed time to take cognizance of the presence of food ere it is pushed past them into the recesses of the stomach. They do not, therefore, have opportunity to repre sent the real need of the stomach. I hold that thirty minutes should be spent at each meal, and spent, too, in chewing the food a good portion of the time, and not in con tinued putting in and swallowing, but in pleasant chat and laugh, instead of the continuance of the intense nervous pres sure of the office or library. If you lay out to spend thirty minutes in this way at your meals, you may rest assured you will not eat too much, and what you do eat will be in the best condition for appro priation to the needs of your system.—Dr. Jackson. NO. 6. Gems From the Poets. Hie diddle diddle, The cat's in the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon, The little dog laughed To see the sport ; The dish ran away with the spoon Jack and Jill Went up the hill, To get a pail of water ; Jack fell down, And broke his crown, And Jill come tumbling after. Sing a song of six-pence; A pocketfull of rye ; Four and twenty black-birds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing, Wasn't that a pretty dish To set before the King ? The King was in the parlor, Counting out his money; The Queen was in the kitchen, Eating bread and honey ; The Maid was in the garden, Hanging up the clothes, When 'long come a little bird And picked her on the nose. [ln order to render this sterling poem with effect, the nasal appendage of the audience should be gently tweaked at the conclusion of the last stanza.] Little Jack Horner Sat in the corner, Eating his Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plumb, And asked "How is that for high ?" Ride a cock-horse to Bamberry boss, To see an old woman ride on a white horse, Rings on her fingers, and bells on her toes. She will make music wherever she goes, Little Miss Muffit Sat on the tuffet, Eating her curd and whey; Up jumped a spider, And sat down beside her, And frightened Miss Muffit away "Falling in Love." This expression has a vast amount of material infelicity to answer for, as if it were a kind of accidental plunge in the dark, with ten chances to one that it would be a breakneck operation, anyway. Genuine love is not a mere passional attraction ; its abiding place is in the soul. It should be guided by judgment, affectional judgment —an intuitive perception suitableness, or adaptness. We do not advocate a selection from expediency or interest, governed wholly by reason or intellectual apprecia tion, nor should the dictates of the heart be violated by an exercise of judgment alone; but, in a matter of such vast im port, great care should be exercised lest mere fancy, passion or caprice lead the heart captive. It will not do to affirm that unions are predestined in heaven ; that love is intended to be stone blind, although a majority of marriages would un fortunately, confirm the latter assertion. It will not do to trust to chance that the sequel will be glorious ; that luck will bring it out all right. Such expressions, in regard tc matters of the heart, are as fatal as in all other affairs of life. Indeed, they are more so • they are but the wild vagaries of a blind optimism. Love will bear dissection ; poets and dreamers to the contrary, notwithstanding. It is as capable of giving a good and intelligent reason, if interrogated, as is friendship ; and surely no one is so chimerical as to cherish a blind infatuation for a friend without seeinc , in that friend a reasonable foundation for such esteem. Mere theorists may insist that love is posi tive, inexhorable and irresistable ; but the sober minded and practical know just as surely that it is amenable to good judg ment and common sense; that it can be held in by bit and bridle, and guided in to wholesome paths. Open Windows at Night. Very much has been written on this subject, and written unwisely; the facts are that whoever sleeps uncomfortably cool will get sick. To hoist a window sky high when the mercury is at zero is an absurd- ity. The colder a sleeping apartment is the more unhealthy does it become, because cold condenses the carbonic acid formed by the breathing of the sleeper. It settles near the door an is rebreathed, and if in a very condensed form, he will die before the morning Hence we must be governed by circumstances; the first. thing is, you must be comfortably warm during sleep, otherwise you are not refreshed, and inflam mation of the lungs may be engendered and life destroyed within a few days. An open door and an open fireplace are sufficient for ordinary purposes in cold weather. When outer windows are opened, it is well to have them down at the top two or three inches, and up at the bottom for the same space.—Hall's Journal of Health. A Good Recipe Here is a very good recipe for making tattlers. Take a handful of weeds called Runabout, and the same quantity of the root called Nimble-tongue, a sprig of the herb called Back-bite (either before or after the dog days) a tablespoonful of Don't you-tell-it, six drachms of Malise, a few drops of Envy, which can be purchased at the shops of Miss Tahibita Tea-Table or Miss Nancy Nightwalker. Stir them well together, and simmer them half an hour over the fire of Discontent, kindled with a little Jealousy; then strain it through the rag of Misconception, cork it up in a bot tle of Malevolence and hang it upon a skein of Street-Yarn ; shake it occasionly for a few days, and will be fit for use. Let a few drops be taken before walking out, and the subject will be able to speak all manner of evil, and that continually. Have Pity. Woman, do not scorn the unfortunate of you sex. Remember that instincts and characteristics do not materially differ in all classes of women. Conditions mould the life of every person, and on the brow of the lowest, most debased woman, God has placed a crown of womanhood which, though tarnished and blackened now, will somewhere in the eternal future be clean ed, purified, and shining bright. We can each lend an influence more than we do, to brighten and not to tarnish these jew eled crowns.
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