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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-03-03

A gas-illuminated car went through
New York by the midnight train on
wednesday night over the Worcester r
rout. During the nine hours occupied
in the trip, only ten cents worth ol gas
was consumed and the car was lght'
ed up as brilliantly as parl0r' IL
was deemed by the passengers 10 o0
luxurious Improvement altogether
worthy of general adoption lot inc
benefit of the travelling public. The
gas metre holding the required guam
tity of the subtitle fluid, isplaced ur'
derueath the car from which pipes
supply jet at either end Of the ente
rior.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-03-03
HYMN TO THE PEOPLE.
ny c. STUART

Not to be blest with warriors strength
To WELD the sword and wear the glaiyp,
Or rise to conqueror's fame at length,
Proclaims the good or makes the brave.
To have the power to bide tho scorn,
And rise above the hate and strii,
or those TO wealth and title born
Is the crown'd courage of our LIE.
What are the swords that prop king
The banners in his army's van
To strength Of soul that dares to spring
And show the monarch in the mani
Kings and the mightest men ofsrms,
Strong as the heads Of realms they bids,
Sport as they may with fortunes charms.
They are like leaves upon the tide.
In dim ofold sepulchres they lie,
The feast olslence and decay,
While the true worldhoart beate,h high
And thrones itsel(upon to-day.
Give me the man whose hands have tossed
The corn seed to the mellow soil,
Whose feet the forest depth have crossed,
Whose brow ia nobly crown'd with toll.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-03-03
NEWSPAPERS IN OLDEN TIMES.

NEWSPAPERS IN OLDEN TINES.
When newspapers were first estab-
lished they were quite destitute ofad'
yertisements, and nothing was more
common than for papers to be issued
with blank page. The first news.
paper printed in America had only
three pages of reading matter, as there
was not foreign or domestic news
enough to fiji out all the columns. In
England, after a while, a new method
was adopted to fill up the space not
required for the current news, by pub
fishing selections from the sacred
scriptures, and many an old newspa'
per is now extant with q whole page
copied from the Bible. Chapters from
the New Testament were placed at
the head of the column, and the space
below was filled out with psalm Of
the required length. In the perio4
which this, to us novel, proceeding
was resorted to fill out the newspa
,per, the Bible was not so common o
50 cheap as at present, and doubtless
much good resulted from the practice
What would some of the subscriber
to our popular journals say If thei
favorite sheets was to appear Will
seven or eight columns selected from
the scriptures! Doubtless in some
quarters, even in our day extracts iron
Ii1e Bible would be new indced!"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-03-03
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FOR
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Now, who will take us up on this
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ence who "gOes in" for we will do AZ
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number of subscribers. OF course the
subscribers must pay in ADVANCE
Ladies, 90 to work--all OF you.--
We have got library Of over 200
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best of standard works, and all OF
which we will dispose OF as above
stated. Nor are these books soiled--
most of them being new.
I'd. To the person who will get us
fifteen advance-paying subscribers
we will give a copy of Moorc's Po'
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Also, DR.. Livingstone's Explorations
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splendid engraving entitled "The VIZ
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extra copy of the Journal one year,
worth S2-in all making
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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-03-03

,Clubbing.-We will supply either
Harper's Magazine, or Graham's, or Co.
,ley's and the Home Journal, one year, for
four dollars. Arthur's Home Magazine,
or Peterson's, and the Home journal, ons
year, for %.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-03-03
Fifteen Subscribers.

al. We will give for twelve sub.
scribers, a history of the Mutiny in
India. worth 90. Also. any three dol
lar Magazine for one year. Also, n
copy of the Great South> n large
book worth SO rs, making
Nine Dollars and serenty;frs cents
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-03-03
1velre Subscribers.

Let us hear from you soon.
These propositions are only inten'
ded to aid our subscribers in doubling
our list for next year, and are so lib
cral that many will certainly avail
2, themselves Of the chance to make
something. Should other works than
those we have mentioned be prefer
red wewill try ard supply them.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-03-03

B@r Single copies sold at 10 cents.
E0r When credit for the paper is CIV
en- 10 the end of the year three dollars
will be inuariably charged.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-03-03

Virtue must not yield 10 vice.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-03-03

BH~ Subscriptions for shorter TIME
than one year must be paid in advance.
bkH~ Hereafter no club subscriptions
at less than the regular price ($2) will
be received. However, when club oi
five subscribers is sent US, we Will allow
an extra copy gratis TO the ge''efup OF
nhe rlnh
The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-01-20
The Eye of the Needle.

Some traveller to the Holy land informs US
that there is Cor was) at the side ofthe principal
gate of Jerusalem, asmal one which, upon oe-
casions of great urgency, was opened for the adj
mission of persons after the great gates of the
city were all closed for the night. This gate,
from its small size, was called the Eye of the
Needle, and to get camel through it at all was
no small task-for loaded camel to pass was
an utter impossibiity.
With the above fact before the mind, one can
see that the words of orr Saviour when speaking
of the " strait gate and the "rich man." were
more literal than many suppose. And we see
how as the rich man passes into the narrow way
the sides and the low top the strait gait scrape
everything from bin in which he had before
trusted No one can take anything but himself
through. Far easier is it to strip camel of it's
burden than to dvest rich man of his trust in
riches
The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-01-20
Novels,

1t must be injurious to the human mind never
to be called into effort the habit of receiving
pleasure without any exertion of thought, by
the mere excitement of curiosity and sensibility,
may be justly ranked among the worst effects of
novel-reading Those who confne their read
ing to such books, dwarf their own faculties,
and finally reduce their understandings to q de-
plorable imbecility. Like idle morning visiters
the brisk and breathless periods hurry in and
hurry off in quick and pro6tless succession;
each, indeed, for the moments Of its stay, pre-
vents the pain of vacancy, while it INDUCES the
love of soth; but altogether they leave the
mistress of the house (the soul mean fat and
exhausted, incapable of attending to her own
concerns, and untitled for the conversation Of
mere rational Coleradge.
The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-01-20
B. B. Blackwell, Publisher.
e et'g 81 . o l.,
[FoR THE PREssl
Gods Forbearance.
BIZ K.

The day of rest is kindly given,
That We may think of God and heaven
That we may learn salvation's plan,
And Gods unbounded love to man.
Vile sinful man profanes the day,
And wastes the precious time away.
Can God in mercy then forbear,
And still the guilty rebel spare?
The Saviour she'd His precious blood,
y That sinners might be brought to God
Yet they the Saviour's love forget
And all His tender calls neglect
And when they bid Him to depart
To cease the knocking at their hearts,
He leaves them for season, then
Comes back, and gently knocks again.
The Spirit pleads in accents mild, -
Come, now through Christ be reconciled.
And when His heavenly voice they slight,
He fingers, loath to take His fight.
Why is it God forbears so long,
And still their guilty lives prolongs?
Why when they all Hislove reject
Does He regard in mercy yet
Oh why such goodness to them showed,
When they discard the Saviour's blood
All! "God is love- His word declares;
This truth alone saves from despair
The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-01-20
AMR RON q 10 JS2Sg2o

"Damn'd to everlasting fame - this his
torical parsonage was rapidly becoming myth
cal in the minds of the people, when a cruel
light arose upon him. Quietly he had been re-
posing in his dark abode; his name banished
forever from every place where its sound would
offend female purity from where youth might
be corrupted by its association with any manly
virtue; from where honesty still fingers among
public men when TO- semi barbarian digs him
up, tricks him out in the garniture and blazonry
of ancient and fabulous knighthood; and SO
EFFORTS the reluctant public gaze upon him.
By one J. Parton, this misdeed has been en-
acted Figure aside, this man, having tried his
hand on the living Horace Greeley, was embold-
ened by success such as it s,-to see what
he could make of dead lion. And he sat him
self down, pen in hand, to 1.-THE Life and
Times of aaron Barr Lieutenant Colonel In
the army of the Revolution, United States Sen
ator, Vice President of the United States,"
&C. and this said j. Parton author of HUI
morous Poetry of the English Language"
Life of Horace Greeley" &C., made Won
UefIul DOCK ol $50 pages, tno polo opJ0oU vi
which is the reversal in the public mind OF a
Judgment passed by it, with great unanimity,
more than half century since upon the char
acter Of AARON BURR"
So of Partop's object, speaks dissecter of
his resurrected hero, a venerable scholar and
civilian in the 'sinetieth gear of has age
What bother to the falsifer of modern history,
and to the reVamper and rehasher of old anec-
dotes, and bon naotS, and on dits, are these long
lives and fresh memories.
This venerable nonagenarian with great fa-
cility, makes Parton's Burr into hero of ro-
nance not the Burr of history, but of fancy
or rather the real lilipnt of fact inflated into
brobdignay of fable.
By no means, however, does this dissecter Of
Parton's book thus speak Of the original of his
hero Nay, he says that the subject OF his
work AARON BURR, was man of extraordinary
talent, both native and acquired, no person Of
sense viii deny, or feel any disposition to ques-
tion." He was good disciplnarian and a
brave soldier" says this old man eloquent; but
he shows him to be any thing rather than the
The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-01-20
Volume 1, Number IL.
gabbath geatiug.
God Help the Poor.

God Help the Foor.
Darkly the winter day
Dawns on the moor:
How can the heart be gay
Who can endure?
See the sad weary wright
Wanders from noon to night
Shelterless homeless quite!
God help the poor
Now tho red robin, here,
Sits ON the sill;
Not cen grain of here
Touches its bill;
So with the houseless poor,
Wandering from door to door,
Seeking norsel more
Lord tits thy will.
Night spreads her sable wing;
Where can they lie?
Sorrow like theirs must bring
Tears to their eye;
Full the cloud torrent falls,
Down they must lie in halls
Each to his maker calls,
Lord, let me die
Ye whom the heavens bless,
Give from your store;
Twill meier make your treasure less
Must make them more.
Por he that gives cheerfully
God loves so tenderly;
Give to them-pray with me,
"God help the poor ("
The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-01-20

Consider your estate, aud leave playing and
jesting to children.
Soft words may appease an angry man; but
bitter words never will.
Would you throw fire on house in flames to
extingnish them?
Continue to speak the truth though you know
it to be hateful
1t is blessing to house to have number
of guests at table.
If yeu wish your enemy never to know your
secret, never divulge it to friend.
The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-01-20

Reader! whoever you are, who have neg
lected to remember that to die is the end for
which you were born, know that you have
personal interest in this scene. Turn not away
from it in disdain, however feebly it may have
been represented. You may escape any other
evil of life but its end you cannot escape. De-
fer not then its weightiest concern to its weak
est period Begin not the preparation when
you should be completing the work. Delay not
the business which demands your best faculties,
to the period of their debility, probably of their
extinction Leave not the work which requires
an age to do to be done in q moment-a mo-
ment, too, which may not be granted. The
alternative is tremendous The difference is
that of being saved or lost. 1t is no light thing
to perish.-Hdnnah Moore.
The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-01-20

1t is whimsical to such complaints as we do
against the strictness of religion-the strictness
and slavery of fashion is much greater.
The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-01-20
gl istel1 u u E d 1t 8.
iron THE PREsS.l

iron THE PRESs
a Literary Curiosity, and something more.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-09-07

NUMBER 85.

"What did do! said pay me that
money ard didn't he pull me in and pa
me every cent I"
The intensity Of his manner, as he thus
related his exploits, cannot be rendered on
paper--especialIy when he exclaimed with
closed teeth-"pog me that money i''
He took the transcript, and limped out.
In another day the helpless debtor, an over
match for all The regular thumb. screws of
the law, came in to beg pieously would
call of The bloodhound. told him il was
the creditors affair, noI tnlns. Mex, dav
| met Buriing at the cor Ter of Cortland ST..
looking mild and happy, and asked Linn
how he succeeded. 81 ha4en'l got IL VET u
was the reply. "He hasn't found me out.
but he has just paid me five dollars to let
him dine at the hotel down there, without
my company. We've taken all our meals
together for the past two days, and he be.
gan 10 find his appetite fail
Whether the FIVE dollars was credited ar
the judgment, or pocketed as a personal
perquisite, never knew.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-09-07
Dreadful Accident 10 n Linn

The Cleveland Plaindeaer tellslof fear.
lul accident in Van Amburgh's menagaerie.
Some OF the new keepers commenced 10
torment the lion. Wishing TO hear him
roar, the brutes spit tobacco jdice In hi.
eyes This thoroughly maddened him and
his frenzy was terrific. The lion made n
Tremendous dash against the cage bars
.hey gave way-he cleared the cage with
oound' and sprang for the affrighted wretch
on pole. In the blindness of his RAGE
the hon missed the man, striking his own
head against the pole and splitting himself
from head TO tail 1t was done as evenly
as though ii had been sawed by an expert.
enced mechanic. The uproar brought MIR.
Van Amburgh TO The spot The emergen.
cy required promptness. This was no time
iof reflection or argument. Seizing the ele:
waited parts of the lion, the great ",amerp
ciapped them instantly together. They
stuck, and the lion was soon restored to
consciousness. But imagine Vans agony
when he saw that he had put the lion to.
gether in:the wrong way! tha, two of ths
ANIMALS legs were put up and the other
Two down But the lion got well, and
seems TO enjoy himself better than ever
When he gess tired of walking on two logs
ne Hops over on the other two. He is said
10 be curious looking lion.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-09-07
Force Of Imagination.

Buckland, the distinguished geologist.
ole day gave a DINER after dissecting a
Mississippi alligator, having asked good
many OF the most distinguished classes 10
dine with him. His house and all his es-
tablishment were in good style and taste.
His guests congre9a,ed The dinner table
looked splendid, with glass, china and
plate, and the meal commenced with excel
lent soup. elbow do you like the soup?"
asked the doctor, after having finished bis
own plate, addressing famous gourmand
of the day. ''Very good indeed - answer
ed the other. "Turtle is il not only ask
because do not find any green fat" The
doctor shook his head. "a think it has
something of a .mnsky taste," said another,
mot unpleasant but peculiar sk'All alliga.
tors have" replied Buckland," the cayman
peculiarly so-the following whom dissect-
ed this morning, aud you have just been
eating! J" There was general rour Of all
the guests. Every one turned pale Two
or three ran out of the room and only those
with stout siomachs remained TO the close
OF an excellent entertainment "See what
imagination Isl" said Buckland "if had
told them it was turtle, or terrapin, or birds
nest soup, sal, water amphipa or fresh, or
the glutton of fish from the NAV of sea
bird, they would have pronounced it excel
lent, and their digestion been no worse,
such is preiudice!' "But was Ii really an
alligator ?" asked a lady GAS good calls
head as ever wore a coronet !" answered
Buckland.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-09-07
q hoife pocirp.
BEAUTY, WIT AND GOLD.

In bower a widow dwelt
At her feet three lovers kne,;
Each ador'd the widov much,
Each essay'd her heart TO tonchj
One had wit, and one had gold,
One was cast in beauty's mould;
Guess which was it won the prize,
Tongue, or purse, or handsome eyes ?
First began the handsome man,
Peepiug proudly DER her fan,
Red his lips and white his skin,
Could such beauty fail 10 win
Then stepped forth the man Of gold,
Cash he counted, coin he told !;
Wealth the burden Of his tale,
Could such golden projects fail
Then the man OF wit and sense.
Wood her with his eloquence
Now she heard him with sigh,
Then she blush'd scarce knowing why
Then she smiled TO hear him speak,
Then tear was on her cheek
Beauty vanish, gold depart,
Wit had won the Widows hear.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-09-07

RAILWAY TRAvsL.-The editor of the Ian.
caster Express is puzzled to account for the
immense travel on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road. He says :-"Five, six, and sometimes
as high as seven cars 20 the train pass
through our city, and all of them filed
Where do all the people come from where
are they going 10? Thirty years ago two
four horse coaches could carry all the pass.
engers from east TO west. Thirty years more
and our arrangements will be as far behind
as the days of 'Reeside & Co.. are behind
u.s. The receipts for passenger travel over
the road during the present month must far
exceed those of any corresponding month
since the road has been in existence.n
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-09-07

The LONDON TINES OFrrcE.-Mr Story,
son of one of the proprietors of the Roches-
ter Democrat, writes 10 that paper an ac-
count of visit TO the Office of the London
Times. We copy portion of the narrative:
One of the most in,erestir G and novel de-
parlments of the establishments is that in
which the stereolyping process is carried
on. You know perhaps already that every
number Of the Times is printed from stereo-
type plates, .hus saving great wear and
tear OF the type. The stereotype plate is
taken from itin three minutes, by new pro-
cess, invented by Swiss, and known only
TO him. A thin layer of soft and damp pa
per msche first receives the impression of
the type, and after II has been hardened by
the application Of heat, the melted lead is
poured on which is 10 form the stereotype
plate"
The papier mache has the power Of
resisting the action of the melted lead, and
come out of the fiery trial uninjured, and al.
most unscorched. The plates are remei,ed
every day after the issue is printed from
them, and the waste Of type metal from Gay
to day is very slight. By this power of
multiplying the number of forms from
which The same side or the paper can be
printed, the Times can use three or four pres.
ses at once, and thus print its SO 900 copies,
on an emergency, in two hours time. The
Times employs in its establishment some
s50 persons. 1t has eighteen reporters al
he House of Parliament, and for these as
a,zell Is the majority Of its compositors, the
working hours are the night hours exclu-
aixeIy. Ii owns four cabs, which are en-
piazel| soieiy in carrying reporters 10 and
fro BaI0eon Printing House Square, and
the "a ii Westminster The reporters
relieve sz1h other at the houses every quar-
ter of az KouF. and thus though The debate
in the 6znnlons last ill four O'Clock in the
morning < Iinss gives it in full by SUM-
rise, thou overs two whole pages of
the journal.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-09-07
EPITApHS.

adopted TO he Prevalent Causes of Death
Broken Bridges-Mispiaced St1iiehes- Coils
ions Crossings Untratched-Making up Los
1ime-Dra,U Bridges Open Without Signals
etc.
"a sudden pitch
From misplaced switch
Laid me dead in the ditch"
"Of the track the engine rushed
Some were drowned and was crushed
"What is life IT'S but vision,
Here died by collision,
Twenty more died by the same,
Verdict---'N Nobody 10 blame"
"Sisier, mother, aunt and me
Were run over. Here we be.
We should have had time to mizzle,
Had they blown the engines whistle"
"Sweeping round curve
Whose outer Texture bordered an abyss,
The cars were can,ed down the precipice,
And seven OF us killed. But what of that
Twas the curve did it. And the engineer,
Being upon bender, was excused"
"Train-borne traveller, rushing by,
AS thou passest pipe thine eye,
Here car, we'll filled with freight,
Killed sixteen and wounded eight,
For moment, friends be, weepers,
AS you pass the railroad sleepers.
You may share our fate-why not
Ere you reach the next depot.
"Here are deposited the bones,
(The flesh being torn off,
OF an unknown man,
Who, being deaf, blind and lame,
Neglected 10 obey the customary signals,
And was run over as punishment,
For his contumacy, [gine
The engineer promptly stopped the en-
After it had cut the body in two,
And, with mos; exemplary humanity,
Conveyed the remains 10 an adjacent wood
shed,
Where all means of resuscitation were
tried;
But alas
The vital spark had fed
For the humanity they displayed,
The engineer and signal men
Were presented by the company
With service OF plate,
Go thou and do likewise"
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-09-07
MONSTER GRAPE VIsE.-The York Coun

MONSTER GRAPE VIsE.-The York County
Star says: We measured few days ago a
vine, its equal in size we doubt whether is
to be found in this country. 1t is of a wild
or natural growth, and we are not aware
either OF the quality or variety of the fruit
1t bears. The main vine measures thirty.
seven inches in circumference. or is frac'
tion over twelve inches in diameter; the
branches from which, 10 the number of q
dozen or more, cover FIVE large forest trees
running to their very tops, possibly sixty
feet in height"
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-09-07

z An exchange goelh it thus-"A lady
in Indiana has obtained divorce from her
husband, because he always laid with his
back to her."
All wrong The woman might have got
over on :he other side oi.him # beats all
what queer laws Indiana has.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-09-07

PArIEkcE.--"T remsmbsr,p says Wesley
s.hearing my father say 10 my mother,
chow could you have the patience 10 tell
that block. head the same thiu& t~enty times
over 7" "wby," said she, <'if I had told
him but nineteen times, sliooId have lost
all my labor"
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-09-07

~ A pretty girl attended ball out West
recently, decked off in short dress and
pants. The other ladies we're shocked
She quietly remarked that if they would
pull up their dresses about the neck rs
they ought TO be, their skirts would be as
short as hers
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-09-07

II A tipsy loafer mistook globe lamp
with letters on it for the "Queen of Night !:
"Pm blessed" said he, eff somebody hahn:
stuck an advertisement on the moon ~