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Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-11-04

Take care of them. Do not let them
stir without watching. They NAV do
something if you do. To be sure, YOU
never knew them to do anything very
bad, but it may be on your own account
they have not. Perhaps if it had not
been for your kind care they might
have disgraeed themselves long time
ago. Therefore do not relax any
effort TO keep them where they ought
to be; never mind your own business
let that take care of itself. There is
a man passing along-he is looking
over the fence-be suspicious of him
perhaps he eOntemplates stealing some
of these dark nights; there is no
knowing what queer faneies ne may
have got into his head.
If you find any symptoms. of any
one passing out of the path of duty.
tell every one else what you see, and
be particular to see a great many. 1t
is a good way to circulate such things.
though it may not benefit yourself or
any one else particularly Do keep
something going-silenee is a dreadful
thing; though it was said there was
silence in heaven for the space of half
an hour, do not let any such a thing
occur on earth it would be too much
for this mundane sphere. If after all
yoHr watchful care you cannot see any
thing out of the way in any one you
may be sure it is not because they
have not done anything bad; perhaps
in an unguarded moment Won lost
sight of them-throw out hints that
they are not better than they should
be-that you should not wonder if the
people found out what they were,
after awhile, then they may not carry
their heads so high. Keep it going,
and some one may take the hint and
begin to help you along after awhile
then there will be music and every
thing will work to a charm.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-11-04
Important Life Insurance Case.

The Court of Appeals of this State
has just given an important decision
in a case between the American Life
Insurance Company and the widow Of
the insured Marcus W. Gibson.) The
widow had applied for the payment of
the insurance, and had been refused
by the company, on the ground that
her husband had invalidated his poll
cy by committing suicide The de-
fense set up by the company was in
these words:
''First-That the proof furnished
omitted to state truly the cause of the
death of said Marcus.
"Second-That the said Marcus w.
Gibson committed suicide, by design
edly shooting and wounding himself,
with the design and for the purpose of
producing death; of which shooting
and wounding said Marcus died"
The company also attempted to
prove that Gibson was an atheist or
infidel, and therefore that the suicide
was intentional, the deceased not hav-
ing the fear of God before him; but
the court ruled out this as irrelevant,
and held tnat in an action to recover
for an insurance upon the life Of the
ueceaSeu IL Is incompetent 70 inquire
into his religious faith with view Of
influencing the question whether, in
such case, death was oecasioned by an
intent of self-destruction or of aeei-
dent.
The Court of Appeals, therefore,
affirmed the Judgment of the lower
court by giving Judgment for the re-
spondent, thus virtually establishing
the principle that a life insurance
policy is not OF necessity invalidated
by the suicide of the insured person;
or, in other words, that though man
should be suspected of having commit
ted suicide, his widow and children
are not therefore to be deprived of the
amount of his life insurance, whether
he was a christian or heathen. Men
York EUeHiIlg Post, 23d.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-11-04
Self. Government.

The way to freedom is through Obe-
dienee to law; the way to bondage is
through laxity of self-governmeEt.
The basis of civil society is the cOnvic-
ton that men can, and do, distinguish
between right and wrong; between
good and evil between the just and
the unjust; between yours and mine.
If men can recognize these things,
and obey them, then laws have moth
ing to do, and laws may grow mild.
Just in proportion to the responsible
ness of the Individual, laws have little
to do. No country requires so little
governing as one in which the people
govern themselves. If self-govern-
ment is wanting, then lawsmust have
more of the iron in them, and penal
ties must be more stern. You can
change the name, and no longer call
it ''penalty ~ YOU can call it motive
or help; but still it will be pain; and
pain Is that which men do not like.
External arrangements to compel
right conduct must be augmented just
in proportion as interior ability to gem
crate right conduct becomes enfeebled.
The man that takes care of himself is
the freest man in the world. The
man who cannot control his own pas
siOns or feelings, or conduct, goes back
into the cold embrace of irresistible
natural laws, or notifications of them,
which men make in the help of sOei-
ETY..
The doctrine of liberty of choice,
and of personal responsibility for con-
duct and character, leads to personal
excellence, to social purity, and to civ
il liberty. The contrary view, that
man is irresistibly controlled by exter-
nal laws, although at first sight it
may seem to give men greater scope
and variety, yet leads directly to des-
pOtism and cruelty. believe that the
doctrine of the irrespOnsibleness of
man in one hundred years, or in three
generations, would again lock up sOci-
ETY. in the embrace of fiTrefragable des-
potism. l hold that dignity of man
intellectually, his nobility in the
household and in society, his power
and his glory in his various civil assO-
Citations, and even the liberty of the
state, strange as you may think it,
turns upon the doctrine of free agen-
CIV and moral accountability. If you
look back through history you Will
ind that those ages which have been
most potential under the influence of
this doctrine have been ages marked
by the birth of liberty in the state ;
while, on the contrary, any doctrine
that tends to lower human response
bility and moral accountability tends
also to lower manhood, to reduce the
purity of the household, and ultimate
" to bring society itself into bondage.
The doctrine of accountability begets
in society broader and broader in
telligence, and lays deeper and deep
er the foundations of liberty.-Henry
| Ward Beeeher.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-11-04
WHOLE NO. 27l8.
The lesson Of fFarthnnakes.

In an article on the recent eonyul-
sions in South America, the EvdngeI-
lists says:
Such convulsiOns as these teach US
that what we considered as most Sc
cure, the great globe itself has no as
surance of abiding forever. Within
the hollow earth the elements are IA
ging with destructive force. Who can
put limit to their power? Who shall
say that they may not only upheavea
portion of the earthis crust, but eX-
plode il altogether? One planet Of our
system, we have reason TO believe, has
been thus destroyed already. The as
terOids that revOlve between Mars
and Jupiter, are supposed to be the
fragments of a planet that once held
majestic course, like the earth around
the sun-but which now flying assuE-
der, 90 wandering darkly in their eter-
nal courses. Who shall say that the
earth may not be destined to a similar
destruction? OF course we do not pre-
dict such a catastrophe, for it is a mat
ter about which we have no knOwl-
edge, apart from the vague intima-
tions of the scriptures. Only as neg
ative argument is il irresistible. 1t
DlONCo lllAl NLOoC AnalCAAaA kAA4Ac1O-
pliers who profess to say such a thing
cannot occur, assert what is far above
their knowledge. They profess to be-
lieve in the stability Of nature. If
they had been on the coast of Peru a
few weeks ago, they might have
thought differently. Destruction
may extend not only to a kingdom or
a continent, but to a world. A year
or two since astronomers told US that
they observed with their telescopes
strange phenomenon, A STAR on FIRE!
For months they watched it flaming
in the midnight sky, till it slowly
consumed away and the glare in the
heavens sunk into ashy darkness.
Who shall say that it may not be the
fate of our planet to be thus destroy
ed? Such facts give new force TO those
solemn warnings of Gods word, that
'the earth being on fire shall be de-
strOyed, and the elements shall melt
with fervent heat" "Wherefore, see
ing that all these things shall be dis
solved, what manner of persons ought
we to be in all holy conversation and
gOdliness."
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-11-04
What Does .eSelah,, Mean!

Everybody has asked that question.
The Bi6LiOthecd Sdcrd says:
The translatOrs of the Bible have
left the word Selah, which occurs 50
often in the Psalms, as they found it,
and, of course, the English reader
often asks his minister or some learned
friend what it means. And the min
lister or learned friend has most often
been obliged to confess Ignorance, be-
cause il is a matter in regard to which
the most learned have by no means
been of one mind. The Targums, and
most of the Jewish commentators,
give to the word the meaning of eter-
ndLy fOFeUer. Kimehi regards it q
sign to elevate the voice. The authors
of the Septuagint translation appear to
have regarded it as a musical note,
equivalent, perhaps, to the word re-
peat. According to Luther and 9th
ers, it means silence! Gesenius eX-
plains it to mean: Let the instru-
ments play, and the singers stop
Wocher regards it as equivalent to
suTnltm cOrdd-up, my sOull Sommor,
after examining all the seventy-fOuI
passages in which the word occurs,
recognizes in every case IAN actual
appeal of summons to Jehovah. They
are calls for aid and prayer to be
heard, expressed either with entire
directness, or, if not in the imperative
Hear, Jehovah :" or Awake, Jeho-
vahI" and the like, still earnest adj
dresses to God that he would remem-
Der and hear, etc.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-11-04
YOUR HOUSE.
BY MRS. NJ. A. K1DDEE.

Be true to yourself at Me start, young man,
BE true to yourself and God;
Ere you build your house mark well the spot,
Test all the ground and build you not,
ON the sand or the shaking sod.
Dig, dig the foundations deep, young man,
Plant firmly the ouier wall;
Let the props be strong and the roof be high,
With an open turret toward the sky.
Through which heavens dews may fall.
Let this be the room of the soul, young man,
When shadows shall herald care,
A chamber with never n roof or thatch
To hinder the Lighter door TO latch
To shut i'm the spirits prayer!
Build slow and sure-'tis for life, young man,
\ life that outlives the breath:
For who shall gainsay the Holy Word?
'Srheir works do follow them, saith the Lord, ,,
''Therein there is no DEATH
Build deep, and high, and broad, young man
AS the needful case demands;
l ct their title-deeds be clear and bright,
Till Won enter your claim to the Lord of Light,
For the house not made with hands,
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-11-04
The EditOr--.A SehOOIbOy's Compost
tiOu.

A sehOolboy's composition on ''The
Editor" ran as follows, in a school not
far from Cincinnati:
1.-THE EpTrOR.-The editor is one Of
the happiest animals in the known
world He can go to the circus, after
noon and evening, without paying a
cent; also to inquests and hangings.
He has free tickets 20 pienies and
strawberry IL walls, gets wedding
cake sent him, and sometimes gets a
licking, but not often, for he can take
things back the next issue, which he
generally does. 1 never knew only
one editor 10 get licked. His paper
busted that day, and he couldn't take
nothing back.
while other folks have to 90 to bed
early, the editor can sit up late every
night, and see all that's going on.
The boys think it's a big thing 10
hang out till 10 O'Clock. When / am
a man | mean to be an editor, so can
stay out nights. Then that will be
bully. The editor don't have to saw
wood or do any ehopping, except with
his scissors. Railroads get up exeur-
siOns for him, knowing if they didn't
he'd make 'em git up and git. In
politics he don't care much who he
goes for if they are on his side. If
they amt he goes for 'eD1 anyway, so
it amounts to nearly the same thing.
There is a great many people trying
to be editors who can't and SOME OF
them have been in the profession for
years.
They can't see it though. IfIwas
asked if had rather have an educa-
tiOn or be a eircus-rider, would say
let me go and be an editor"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-11-04
The CHRONICLE.
..DRUNK AND DISORDERLT."
ny f. 5. BROOKS.

Lost in the dregs Of the purlieus Of shame,
Crushed meath the wreck OF her beauty ana
Out from the haunts Of the vicious she came,
Clothed mean and squalidly.
Dragged from the plague-spots oi horror ana
Rags foul and seanty where jewels had been,
This is the charge that against her goes IN
drunk and disorderly.
sgurned by the thr'ng whom her grace had
by the poor whom herbeauty had fed,
Purity. virtue and happiness dead
Living so horribly.
Deep the disgrace of n once happy VIE, -
Reeking with blasphemy, brawling with
81 ~ ..Drunl1 and disorderly."
This was the cause of the terrible stain,
he who should ever her honor maintain
Ruined by crime and desire for gain'
Though striving sturdy.
Sin quickly enters through Poverty's gate
Easy her fall from fair Virtues estate,
Step follows step until this is her fate
Drunk and disorderly.'
OH YOU. who living in comfort and bliss,
Shrink as you would from some fearful abyss,
Thanking the Father you are not like this
Loathing her bodily.
Pray for her-think Wen OF Wilal she mas DeSl'
PRAY for her-caSt Off by friends and by KIN;
Pray for her-steep'd tho she now be in sin
Drunk and disOrderly."
Loathe rather him, who so greedy for gold,
Honor, wife, home and life's happiness sold;
IOathe the fell lust which too often doth
mould
Natures so SOrdidly.
Strive to bring forth from her misery love.
strive from the creature the woman to move;
God neveAfhinks Of these charges above
"Dfhnk and disorderlY.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-11-04

An estimate of the English harvest
of 1868 shows that the yield of wheat
has been nearly equal to that of 1854,
but is not of so good a quality as the
crop of 1868. The yield has been at
the rate of thirty-twO bushels an acre,
or five above the yearly average. Mr.:
Caird anticipates that England will
pay els, ,0OO, 600 less for foreign wheat
than last year, but there is detieien-
cy of 100000 in barley and oats,
while the hay and green crops were
nearly annihilated by the prOtraeted
drought. In the growth Of potatoes
there is an increase of eighty thousand
acres, and the crop will be of an aver
age character.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-11-04
More Yarietr in Food Wanted.

The farmer raises food for other
people, but Oftentimes does not cater
wisely for himself. There is much
Just reflection upon farm life in that
old miserly maxim first uttered as a
sarcasm: "Sell what you can; what
YOU can not sell, eat; what you can
not eat, give to the pigs" We do not
believe thrift lies in this directicn.-
The producers of food are entitled to
the best their farms affCr I'D, and in the
long run this is economy. One secret
of the strong drift Of our farming pop
ulatiOn toward the city, lies in the
farmers table. Children crave a
variety of good wholesome food, and
enough of it, and any stint of it is GER
tain to be remembered when they
come to shift for themselves. The
citizen always has a variety of food
within his reach, and nothing but
poverty prevents him from enjoying
all that the farm sends to market. He
has all the fruits and vegetables in
their season, and in the best condition
in which he can get them. He has
fish and flesh in great variety, and his
appetite is never clOyed. But upon
the farm, where the best of everything
is produced, salted meats are too often
the staple provisions the year round,
and corn meal cooked in some form is
perpetual feast. Now, there is no
reason in the world why the farmer
should not be the best fed man in the
community. He ought to be, as an
advertisement of his business. a
tailor of all men, can not afford to
dress shabbily. Coarse, ill-fitting
boots are bad card for a shoemaker.
The producers of food should show us
how to cook and enjoy it. Many far
mers we know do give US this adver-
tisement of their business. Their
guests sometimes forget to come away
when their visits are finished. But
this is less evil than a hospitality
which one is ashamed to offer, and
which no one accepts a second time
The physical man should be kept in
the best condition by a varied and
generous diet, and the glory of the
farm be made to eliminate in the fine
specimens of men and women it pro-
) duces. es.-ADlPFicdn AgFicUlt,Pist.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-11-04

GARDENING FOR LADIES.
up your beds early in the morning
selC buttons on your husbands shirts
do not rake up any grievances; pro
tect the young and tender branches OF
your family; plant a smile of good
temper on your face propagate the
tendrils of affection wherever they
appear; and carefully root Out all an
gry feelings, and expecta good crop Of
happiness.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-11-04
wEsrERN REsERyE.B BANK, !

" AhE-h-si NyII4Oi -AII6' 10i ~ =
NOTICE is hereby given, to the
Y holders Of the outstanding notes Of the
late Western Reserve Bank, and to all other
parties interested, that after the expiration
Of six months from this date, application
will be made TO the Auditor, Secretary and
Treasurer Of State 10 surrender TO said Bank,
the stocks deposited to secure the out-stand-
ing circulation Of said Bank, in pursuance OF
the forty-fifth (45th) section of an act entitled
an Acf TO incorporate the State Bank of
fhio and other Banking Companies passed
Deb. "a. 1885. H B. PERKINS, Pres't.
NJ B. TAYLER, Cashier.
Aug 10 lS6S-6IR
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-11-04

A witness in court, who had been
cautioned to give precise answer to
every question, and not to talk about
what he might think the question
meant, was interrogated as follows:
"YOu drive a wagOn?"
mo, sir, 1 do not"
"Why, man, did you not tell my
learned friend so this moment ?"
mo, sir, L did not"
"Now, sir, put it to you on your
oath, do you not drive wagon?'
mo, sir.n
'What is your occupation then?"
Il drive a horse, sir"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-11-04
nETITION
DETITION
Daniel B. Woods, et..al.l In the Court
VS. of Common n
buIl Counfv OhfO

VS. Of Com IN n
Alexander Mcconnell, ct. al Pleas, Trum-
bull County, Ohio.
The defendants, Alexander Mcconnell,
Rebecca c. Mcconnell, and Alexander Nc
ConneII Jr. are notified, that said plaintins
have filed their Petition in said Court, against
them, stating the recovery Of Judgment ior
S9SS, II, and costs, by said plaint!fis, against
said Alexander Mcconnell, and that he mas
no property xhereon 10 levy, but has an IN
terest in the following property, to-wlt: Sltu-
ate in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, and being
part of Lot No. g. on the north side OF South
Street and west ofMain-Streef, between that
and Franklin Alley, and being the lot on
which stands the easterly house OF three
houses known as the "three sisters, and IA
bounded east blythe lot ofOwen Moser, north
by the north line Of Lot 6; west by the line OF
the Lot next west. and south by South 81;
and being about forty-six feet in width, ana
the west line ofwhich rms ten inches VEST
Of the said house, and that said mouse was
conveyed by said Alexander Mcconnell, TO
his SON the said Alexander Mcconnell, Jr,
and by him conveyed TO his mother, the said
Rebecca {. Mcconnell. That both SAID con-
yevances were without considerations, ana
made TO defraud the creditors of said Alex
ander Mcconnell.
said Petition asks that said sales be SET
aside and said lands sold and appneu
10 the payment of said judgment and costs,
and for other relief.
Defendants who are not served with sum-
mons, must answer by the 18th day OF De-
cepaber 1853 and said cause will be for hear
ing at the next term of said Court.
BUTCHINS & GLIDDEN,
Sept. %, IS6S-6t Pitts Atty's
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-11-04

BANKRUPTCY. In the District
DCourt Of the United States for the North
ern District Of Ohio. In the matter OF Moses
Maehenheimer Bankrupt. In Bankruptcy.
To trItOnl Dldv Concern: The undersigned,
residing at Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio,
hereby gives notice of his appointment as
Assignee OF Moses Bachenheimer, Of Warren,
County OF Trumbull, State of Ohio who has
been adjudged Bankrupt upon his own Pc
tftion by the District Court OF said District.
W. T. SPEAR, Assignee.
Warren, o., Oct, H lS6S-St.
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THE GREAT UNITED STATES
TEA WAREHOUSE
-OF-
T. Y. KELLEY & CO.,
Nos. 26, rs, & 80 VeSey Street,
NEW YORK CTTY.


Are now supplying families throughout the
country with Teas and COfiees through the
system Of clubs and their regularly appoint
ed agents at q slight advance on cargo prices
and guaranteeing their teas to be pure and
fresh, and also give entire satisfaction, OF
they can be returned and the money refun-
ded.
mers pay only one profit. instead Of seven OF
eight, as he must do when he purchases OF
the ordinary grocer. We defy competitions
We call special attention not only TO our
standard goods, but our fancy brands OF
Oolong and Young Hyson Teas-peculiar 1a-
yors-and teas sixty days from Japan. Our
Coffee department is also managed on the
are sold on their merits. We only ask trl-
al. All our importation on our teas and coi-
fees can be had Of our regular appointed
agents. All our goods are goods put up by
ourselves in one n packages, at our ware
house in New York, and retailed at HO1T,
STRATTON & HAPGOOD'S Drug Store, No.
5 Main Street, Warren, Ohio, at the small
advance of cents a pound over our New
York prices This brings the goods at the
prices they can be purchased for over our
counters, with the freight added.
LOOK AT OUR PRICE LIST.
oolong, Black, 6Oe, 7Oc, SOC, eoc, and best
Mixed, Green and Black, 6Oc, zoe, soc, and
Young Tyson, Green. eOc, 7Oc, soc, SOC, 500
81, 10, and best 81 . q b.
Imperial, Green, 9oc, s., 90, sl,25.
English Breakfast, Black, zoe, soc, soc, sl.OO
best s., 20 y d. so. ~ -
Japan, S0c, 800, s, ,25 z n.
GunpOwder, 9Oc, l,25, 81 so 2 ..
Shantung Moyune Young Hyson, in origl-
nal Chinese packages 81 80 , pkg. Kiangsi
Oolong, in original Chinese packages, 81 80 ?
package. -
FANCY BRAN NDS-Ninyong, Oolong Black
sl,25 2 \. Nankin Mogune Young Hyson,
Green, 81 80 ? b. - b
Uneolored Japan Teas 80 days from ia
PAM put up expressly for us in Yokohama
81, 40. gr s-eL
GROUND COFFEE-Pure Rio, 20, ., SOC, 3
=. Best old Government Java, 40c, z n Roy
al Club Sc = D. Mountain plantation, 6oe
> n.
Belcdre Of i1lit0tioa and bogus companies
All our goods bear our trade mark on each
bag. No others are genuine. --f- =
May y lSRS-Rm = ~. q
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WESTERN RESERVE SEMINARY
WEST FARMINGTON, OHIO.

THE Fall Term of this institution
begins Tuesday, August Is, 1858. The
Seminary is in a prosperous condition, and
affords superior advantages to youths Of both
sexes desiring a good, thorough education.
The Institution is furnished with Philosophi-
cal, Chemical and Astronomical Apparatus,
Anatomical Plates, Maps, Globes, DC, and
Cabinet OF Minerals.
Boarding $3.50 TO 81, 90 per week, and rooms
for self boarding at low rates. Boarding
Halls are being erected which will afford rare
advantages to those wishing to board them
selves. A. n. CRAFT, Principal.
July Is, lS6S-lyr.