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Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-02-02

DOMESTIC JARs.-Harsh judgment
rough words, small but frequent acts ot
selfshness and injustice, sometimes
quite poison the heart that promised to be
healthy, and curse the state that prom
ised to be blessed. There are families
who possess every earthly comfort
health, money, occupation-but are mis-
cradle from the jealousy and quaTreling
that prevail within them. There are
married couples who live in sorrow, not
because they are in want, not be-
cause of any great domestic aff1iction,
but because each thinks the other un-
kind, arbitrary, incOnsiderate. Young
people sometimes marry with their ewes
shut, and thus instead of being mated
with angels, as they fOOlishly expected, ,
they found out afterward that thev were
only man and woman, with the com
mon Work-a-day weaknesses and faults
of their respective sex. Their sham
love gets sOUred, and they yreproach each
other for not fulfilling the sentimental
promises and exaggerated prospects with
which they entered into the marriage
state. Take all the relationship of life.
and we should find that the far greater
part of their sorrows comes from the
same cause. Get any to tell YOU hon
estly with gives them annoyance and
disqUietude, and you will find they say
it comes from want of kinkness, sympa-
thy, fellOw-feeling.-They viii tell YOU
that they could bear other things. if
they met with more consideration, sup
port, encouragement, or what not, from
the people with whom they have to do
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The Evening Star.

The LOWEST of stars, Venus, is particu-
larly billiant and conspicous in the west
ern sky. She has always been a favor
ite with astronomers and poets alike,
whether as the Shepherds Star, as the
Vesper orb of eve, or as bright Lucifer,
Son Of the Morning. At present she is
the evening star, and is passing from
her superior to her inferior conjunction
with the sea, and every evening
sets earlier. She is approaching the
grand solar center, and on the 23d of
FEBRUARY she will reach her inferior con-
junction and turn her darkened side to-
wards US, reappearing on the western
side of the sun as a morning star. She
is alternately a morning and evening
star for a period of 292 days, although
her annual revolution takes only 225
days, but as the earth moves in the
same direction it takes this additional
time for the earth, the sun and Venus to
come into the same position regarding
each other. The approaching transits
of Venus lend her additional interest.
The last one occurred in 1869, and the
next will occur in 1874 and 1882 These
events are anticipated with profound in
terest by astronomers, as they will en-
able them to verify the distance of the
sun from our planet. This vast problem
is of the greatest consequence, and there
is an admitted error in the computed
distance. All during this month Venus
viii be unusually bright and interesting
to Star-gaZers.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-02-02
Successive Good Actions

The building value of actions is to be
found in their continuation. It is daily
and hourly repititiOn of minute right
things, in every part of a mans nature,
that, after all builds him up. Now and
then it is given to men to do some re-
splendent thing. And people are accus-
toned to measure themselves and 9TH
eTs by the report and brilliancy of sim
gle acts, that may have less relation to
their well-being and character than a
thousand obscure actions which no one
notices, and the actor least of all, but
that after all, are the most important.
Now, anybody can build the model of
statue; anybody can cut the marble, so
far as the gross rude form is concerned;
but after you have got the head, the
arms and the trunk, you can make any
thing of it. 1t may be a Hercules, or
AppOllO, or AppOllyOn, according as you
20 on with it. It is little touches on the
rough shape, all over the ear, the eyes,
the forehead, the cheek, the mouth, the
chin, that gave expression to the statue.
And mems characters are moulded by
the little things that are wrought in or
upon them to give them strength or
beauty as the case may be. 1t is not
| the blast which throws the block out
IEOul bl6 udIIy JudG ludA6S UlG statue,
| it is not the pOnderOus strokes which
hew and shape the block that makes the
statue; it is the little blows that are oft
repeated, and continue all the day long,
and from day to day that fashion it.
And it is not human life those great
things which have sound and report, or
which produce obvious effects, that give
character and expression, but the null
titudinUus and oft repeated little things,
unnoticed and seemingly unimportant.
It is not that great justice which man
squares himself to enact, that makes
him a Just man. Tt is the habit of
thinking justly about your neighbors,
and dealing justly with them in little as
well as in great things, and that not
only to-day, but tomorrow, and all the
time, whether seen or unseen. It is the
habit of loving justice and having an
appetite for it, for its own sake, this
week and next, this year and next, till
it is as much part Of your nature as the
blood in your veins. It is a series of
little justices that build man up in in
tegrity.
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RailroadPrOgresa.

We have nearly fifty thousand miles
of railroad in the United States. We
have sufficient roads laid down and in
operation to 60 around the world and
back again.-The cost of these roads and
equipment is 50, ,212, 200, 900, which is not
as much as the public debt. In four
foolish years we threw away more
money than it cost to build all our rail
roads. The building up enterprise OF
forty years, was more than nullified by
the tearing down process that ensued
from 1861 to 1865. How much better it
would have been spent in the equipment
Of another fifty thousand miles Of rail-
road, making one hundred thousand in
all, than to have thus been squandered
It was the formation and success of the
Republican party that caused the squan-
dering.
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OUT OF THE GUTTER.

RAGGED, dirty and ugly He had fal.
len in the muddy gutter; his hands and
his face were black, his mouth wide Op.
en-, sending forth sounds not all together
musical. A rough hand lifted him ur
and placed him against the wall. There
he stood, his tears making little cutters
down his begrimed cheeks. Men as they
past laughed at him, not caring for a
moment to stop and enquire if he were
really hurt. Boys halted a moment tC
ieer and load him with their insults
Poor boy he hadn't a friend in the
world that he knew of. Certainly he did
not deserve one; but if none but the de-
serveing had friends, how many would
be friendless?
A lady is passing her kindness of
heart prompts to stop and say a
word the boys who are Joking their
companion and laughing at his sorrow.
Then she looked fiXedly at the dirty
crOuching lad against the wall.
"Why, John, Is it you ?'
He removes one black fist from his
eye and looks up. He recognized her.
She has taught him at the ragged school.
-" Oh, ma'am, Pm hurt so bad ~
She had him examined, then taken to
the hospital Afterwards she visits him
kindly and frequently.
a year passed by.
There is a fire one night. A dwelling
house is in flames. The engine has not
yet arrived. The inmates cannot be res
cued. A boy has looked on. Suddenly
he shouts. ''Oh, she lives here ~ Then
he climbs up the heated fallen stairs. He
fights against the suffOcating somke.-
He hunts about till he finds what he
sought. She has fainted-is dying per
haps. No! he will save her. Five min
utes of agOniZing suspense, and she is
safe in the cool air.
The by-standers are struck with the in
tTepidity of the boy. He only walks
away, muttering, She didn't turn away
from me when I was hurt"
Oh, friends, the stone looks very rough,
but it may be diamond.
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Face of the Mother,

Heaven has imprinted on q mothers
face something that claims kindred to
the angels. The walking, watchman
eye, which kept its ceaseless vigils over
her slumbering child-the tender look
the angelic smile-are objects which
neither pencil nor chisel can reach, and
which poetry fails in attempting to por-
tray. Upon the enlogies of the most
eloquent tongue, we should find Tekel
written. 1t is the sympathies of heart
alone, where live the lively picture, and
the eye may look abroad in vain for its
counter part in the words Of art.
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sleep and Death

"To love without fearing death, F." saiC
Hufeland, is the only means of living
happy and dying at good old age. PeO-
pie who dread death seldom attain long.
evity. If death presents itself to US un.
der n Tepulsive and terrifying aspect, it
is solely owing to our habits and preiudi-
ces having perverted our feelings
Montague justly said that it is the dark
ening the room, the faces full of gEiefand
desOlatiOn, the moaning and crying, that
make death terrific. Civilization, by in
vesting death with the most lugubriOus
associations that it can cOnjure up, has
also contributed to render it q hideOus
spectre. 1t is the reverse with the pa
tent. In nine cases out of ten it is not
only relief, but almost a sense of vol
uptuOUsness. Sleep daily teaches us the
reality Of death. "Sleep and death are
twins, said the poets of fantiquity Why,
then, should we fear death, when we
daily invoke its brother as a friend and a
consolation? EIife,U said Button, "be-
gins to fail long before it is utterly gone. "
Why, then, should we dread the last mo-
ment, when we are prepared for its adj
vent by so many other moments of a sim
liar character? Death is as natural as
life. Both come to us in the same way,
without our consciousness, without our
being able to determine the advent of
either. No one knows the exact moment
when he goes to sleep, none will know
the exact moment of his death. It is
certain that death is generally a pleasUr-
able feeling LUcan used to say that life
would be unsuppOrtable to man if the
gods had not hidden from him the hap
piness he would experience in dying
TulliUs Marcellinus, Francis SuaTez, and
the philosopher La Metric, all spoke of
the vOluptuOusness of theirlast moments.
Such are the consultations which philOsO-
ply presents to timid minds that dread
death. We need not say what much
higher and lOftier consultations await the
Christian who is firm and steadfast in
his faith, and has before him the pros
pect of eternal life.
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II is a remarkable fact in all ages and
among all nations the existence Of the
Almighty and of Satan have been ae-
knOwledged and believed in some way.
The old Egyptians called his Satanic
majesty TyphOn, the Greeks called him
Iitrn, the Persians named him OnrO-
maze, the Scotch designate him as "Auld
ClOOtie, ~ and the German nominate him
.Der Tuyful." The Imagination of the
Chinese has invited no less than ten
devils and hells. One presides over a
hell stuck full of knives; another an
iron tank filed with boiling water: a
third is a hell Of ice; in another is the
punishment of pulling out the tongue of
those who tell lies; another % hell of
poisonous serpents; another q he'll of
blackness and darkness, and in pray
ing they say, AMay not fan into the
hell of swords" and into this or that
place of torment. According to many
poets, the DEVILS favOrite lurking place
is in black eyes.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-02-02

WHAT A PIANO Is MADE oF.-The
actual materials used in a pianO-fOrte
may be worth stating. In every instTu-
ment there are sixteen kinds Of wood,
namely, pine, maple, spruce, cherry,
walnut, whitewOOd, apple, Eastwood
and birch, all of which are Indigenous;
and mahogany, ebony, holly, cedar,
beech and rosewood from Honduras,
CeylOn, England, South America and
Germany. in this combination elastic
ity, strength, pliability, toughness, res
Onance, lightness, durability and beau
ty are Individual qualities, and the gen
eraI result is voice. There are also used
of the metals, iron, brass, White-metal,
gun-metal and lead. There are in the
same instrument of seven and a-half
Octaves, when completed, 214 strings,
making a total length of 7S7 feet of steel
wire, and 500 feet of white (cOvering)
wire. Such a piano viii weigh from 800
to ] 900 pounds, and viii last with con-
slant use mot abuse) fifteen or twenty
years. The total manufacture Ofpi5I1os
in New York alone averages Is 600 per
annUm.
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From he POTtSROUth Tine
THE NEW SONG OF sAIIBO.

THE NEW SONG OF sAMBO.
OBoE noah dis darlzey's heart am glad.
I feel 60 good sll obah,
Ibleve our eaWs am EWine to cum
Ont formost in Octobah,
no de rads in sixty-seben.
War ded agin the nlggah,
Bat shuah since den de Black Brigade
Hab grown good deal biggah-
How bad die darkey den did feel.
De sleep Tiebe ny pillah,
TUX I'd hang myself uOh grief
Ny harp upon de willah:
But since my Iubly brudders now
For one noah fire hab rallied.
IEe moved to sing ies one time noah
A jubilantiu ballad.
De weak kneed rad who was afeerd
To vote rite den. spec he
VIII shuly had de nerve dis fall
To do it indirectly,
He talked go brave, butcouldn'l go
De black pill when he voted;
Ispec he'll git itdoWn this iall
Case # an shugah coated.
Fur now we talk OF rebs, de war.
An pints OBJ DAT like nachah;
Well for de wool rite in your eyes,
An git de Legislachah
Sich kind OBJ talk am jes de way
Our speakahs hab to folch you,
An some fine mornin you Il wake up
And find de nigs hab got you.
Deafeenth 'mendment won't 90 down.
De people am agiH It,
But what wiz all people do
Fanensede house an senit!
Dem don't care FOR de votahs viii.
Dey al fte neaf or hannah;
Dey'Hpun it fru jes az dey did
Las spring in Indianah.
De mendment bodders massa Hayes.
BE don't knO how 70 work It;
At las he's found the shurest way
An dat am jes to shirk it:
An now he talks Of banks an bons.
lbs Democrats de debil:
II aKed to splane de niggah law,
Yells coppahead an rebel
But white folks what's de use. don't Hayes
An an de RAIDS declare it.
Dat tf yOu do not lub de law
You'll hab to grin and bear it,
Fur dis state shud vote it down.
Dat no5bah would annul it,
De uddah States wud walk rite up
And force It down her gullet.
Den wake de banjo SCUM de horn,
An form yourselbs in dances;
bleve dis fail, suah az fate,
Us nigs hab got de chances;
But II dc rads 20 back on us
Agin at die elecshun,
Ny voice am den fob blud an wah
Wen rase de insurrecshun
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MY FIRST STEP TO RUIN.-My frs
step to ruin exclaimed a wretched you'll
as he lay tossing from side to side on The
straw bed in one corner of hi.
prison house, "DIy first step to ruin
was going fishing on the Sabbath. ]
knew it was wrong, my master taught
me BETTER my Bible taught me better.
| didn't believe them, but / didn't think
it would come to this am undone. I
am undOne. am lost n7
Perhaps he said-'Itis not pleasant to
be cooped up in a church. What harm
is there in taking stroll into the woods ?
What harm i'm carryinga fishing tackle,
and sitting ON the bank to fish ?D What
harm? Why, the harm is that God is
disoheyCd who says, Remember the
Sabbath day TO keep it holy The mo-
ment q youth determines to have his
own way, choosing his own pleasure be-
fore Gods will, that moment he lets 90
his rudder, his compass, his chart
Nothing but Gods word can guide YOU
safely over the ocean of life. Give that
up, and you will get bewildered; YOU
are drifting; you viii be lost.
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Double Nan.

All the stories told of the Siamese
twins hardly equal the Scotch double
man, of whom the following account is
given by the Rerum ScOtiarum of His
tOria; During the reign of James III. of
Scotland, and at his court, there lived a
man double above the waist, and single
below that region. The king caused
him to be carefully brought IN. He
rapidly acquired a knOwlege Of music.
the two heads learned several LANGUAGES
they debated together, and the two M
per halves OecasiOnIy fought. Tbev
lived, generally, however in the great
est harmony. When the lower part of
the body was tickled, the two individ-
uals felt together; but when, on the 9TH
er hand one, of the upper individuals
was touched, he alone felt the effect.
This mOnstrOus being died at the age of
Is years. One af the bodies died several
days before the other.
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VIRGINIA, the mother of Presidents,
mother of States, and the oldest settled
State, is not recognized by the authori-
| ties at Washington. Five years after
the war, Congress puTsUes the policy Of
hate, revenge, and exactiOn. The Old
State must give guarantees that her peo-
pie win sustain Radical party measures,
| or she can have no rights under the gov
eminent, and is to be remanded back to
military rule. In obedience to an act Of
Congress and the proclamation Of the
President, Virginia has held an election,
chosen State officers, and complied with
the tyTannical demands Of an usurDing
Congress. But that is not sufficient. It
is not 'l0yalty" to the Union that IS
demanded, but 'l0yalty" to the Radical
party. She can have no representation
in Congress because it is feared that she
viii follow the example Of the Empire
State, and repudiate a party which has
shown itself more tyrannical and des-
peTate in wrestling from the people their
rights than the meanest despOt in Eu-
rope. Let US hope that the days of
American despOtism are numbered.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-02-02

A man who had several apprentices
was accustomed to feed them quite large
ly on bean soup. This was well enough
at first but after q little while, with each
successive soup, q smaller number Of
beans appeared. One day at table, after
the good man said grace over it, la
Squeers one of the boys, after a scrutin-
izing examination ofhis dish, was seen
to suddenly rise from the chair and COM
mence TO strip "What are You about
there, Tom? exclaimed the master.
"GOin, to dive for bean !n was the re-
ply.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-02-02

| THE CHINEsE.-AIr. Johnson, a Den-
! ocTat from California, has introduced a
/ bill into Congress declarat0ry Of the
States to protect themselves against a
nuisance, and that Chinese Immigration
should be discouraged. The bill provides
thatanY State suffering from filthy had
its, or degrading vices, OF customs prac-
ueed by Chinese residents, may, IF such
habits, vices, or eustOmes become nui-
sance, protect itself, by State legislation
Notwithstanding the existence Of any
treaty between the United States and the
Chinese gov eminent. Tt also declares
that the free importation and immigra-
ton Of Chinese IabOrers, and Of debased
and abandoned females is not good for the
country, and, therefore, should be re-
strained by all lawful means.
This may bring the whole question up
for discussion, and will demand such set-
tlement as to indicate where the two
parties stand in relation to the great
problem.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-02-02

DAN. BRYANT at the Ministries, tells
Of the most complex family ever known.
something in this wise:
II married a young widow, who lived
with her step-daughter, who my father
had married. Ny wife was therefore the
mOther-in-law and daughter-in-law Of
my father. i am the step-father Of nv
mOther-in law, and my wifeis step-
daughter is my step-mOther. Well my
step-mother-that is to say, nay faEheris
wife and my wife's daughter-had asOn.
He Us my step-brother, of course, but be-
ing the son Of my wife's step-daughter.
my wife is Of course, his grandmother.
and I am his grandfather as well as his
step-brOther. Ny wife also had bow
My step-mOther is, consequently, the
step-sister Of my boy and also his grand
mother, because he Isl the child Of the
step-sOn, and my father is the brother
in-law Ofmy son, who is the son of my
step mother. I am my mothers bnosa--z-
er-in-law, and my wife is the F9
own son, my son is the-E7lf
father, and I aTn-gFIv own 81
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Touch Tnns.-Tbese are the words

TOUCH TI8IEs.-Tbese are the words
which meet one at every turn, and at
every counter Money is scarce, and
they who have it are 10th to part with it
to pay their debts. IF every one would
pay their claims as soon as presented.
different state Of things would be exDer-
fenced. A gTeenback might pass through
dozen hands a day and settle a dozen
claims, if all would act up TO the prinei-
pie inculcated. A London grocer once
made the experiment Of marking q GER
tain coin, paying it out, and keeping
count how often it came back. Al dozen
times in one day was the count. The
best remedy for hard times is to whistle
and keep up courage, practice encouOmy
pay debts promptly, and adapt y0ur eX-
penses to your income.
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DELAwARE ro IL - - -

DELAWARE 10 BE Made THE STATE
OF CHEsAPEAKE.-An effort is now ma
king to consolidate the State of Della
ware the eastern shore of MARYLAND
and AccOmac county i'm Virginia, fntoo
new State to be called Chesapeake. Tl7o
thirteen counties in the three States
make the peninsula lying between
chesapeake, the Delaware river and the
Atlantic Ocean. Tt is believed tbet
these counties have a population ana
identical interests of sufficient inlnor-
tOnce to warrant their creation infoo
new State. Under the proposed ni9n-
Delaware, of course loses its idePtif,,
but this is to effect the objection which
the people Of Virginia and Marvtand I'm
tue counties adjoining might have 10
aLiileAa9tlo 70 SO small q State as Dela-
ware, which by compromise NAV ~
come the larger and more imnSrtect
State Of Chesapeake.
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ENTERPBIsE has opened jlc. neigh
method Of travelling. A COM lance
been organized i'm New YoTtn. max
sends you around the world fat nom
hundred and fifty dollars in goldl8
New York the tourists win take tAeS
for England, thence TO AleNandri
the regular British packet, thence
through the Suez Canal TO Eden, at o.
South of the Red Sea, from whence Et
lish East India boats viii take them N
Canton or Shanghai OF to Nonpasati 3
in Japan. Thence they win have ~
cross the Pacific to San Francisco. d.
return to New York by rail- Tho frs
party is to leave i'm February, and it is
estimated that it win take ninety davs
to make the grand round After y
while there viii be pleasure excursions
to the North Pole where there viii be "a
hotel and rink for the accommodation oil
parties desiring to spend the summer.
and picnics in the interiOrOf Africa. un-
der the direction OF Dr. Livingston, win
be the fashionable dissipation.
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on and after Monday, NQTem7er l5lli- -.
Trains Till leave urllnai lt the following nouns
viz