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Good Night.

How tenderly and sweetly falls the
gentle "goed night" into loving hearts:
as members of the family separate and
retire for the night What myriads OF
hasty words and thoughtless acts, engen-
dered in the hurry and business OF the
day, are forever blotted out by its benign
influence. Small token indeed; but IT Is
the little courtesies that make up the
sun of a happy home. 1t is only the Ut
tie courtesies that can so beautifully
round off the corners in the homes of Ia
boring men and women. The simple II
thank YOU for q favor received Will NIL
with happiness the heart OF the giver.
True wealth is not counted by dollars
and cents, but by the gratitude ana afiec-
ton of the heart. If q home be haPpy,
it is of Heaven the truest earthly SYMBOL
If home be happy, whether the owners
possess patch of ground OF one or one
thousand acres, they are indeed wealthy
beyond mathematical calculations. Then
how much more lovingly are the sable
folds of night gathered around the happy
homes; how much more confdlngly do
its members repose their weary bodies in
the care of Divine goodness, soothing
their over-taxed minds to the livng e re-
alities of beautiful dreamland; awaken
ed, refreshed and invigorated for the
coming days labor. by their having bid
their loved ones an affectionate good
night" And if, during this life, we have
faithfully attended to all these little
courtesies, these little soul-needs, if we
have guarded carefully all Gods hearts
placed in our keeping, at the close of its
brief, yet eventful day, how much the
easier to bid all our dearly beloved ones
a final good night"
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How does Food Nourish Usi

Taking ailments into the stomach is
only a preliminary process. There it is
mixed with peculiar fluid, which oozes
from the inner walls OF that organ, which
is a powerful solvent. Meats or vegeta-
bles are quickly melted down, as it were,
the product always appearing within
about an hour as grayish, pultaceous
mass Next, it passes from the stomach
(on the right side. just under the ribs)
into a membranous tube. which is thickly
studded with glands. each pouring out a
fluid peculiar to itself, to combine with
the onward moving ingesta. At the dis
tance of twelve inches on the route. bile
from the liver is added; and then bland
secretion from the pancreas, or sweet
bread, which alone, of all Others in the
system, dissolves butter, oils, and lard,
converting them into an emulsion. Mil
lions of tubes, smaller than hairs, open
within the tube, sucking up milky
fluid (chyle), the product of the food and
the admixture since it arrived at the
stomach. Then it is conveyed by the
distal extremities of the lymphatics (the
small tubes above mentioned) into
tube the size of a wheat straw. Once in
there, it ascends up the whole length of
the abdomen through the chest direct.
Thence, mixing with impure venous
blood it goes to the right chamber of the
heart, and thence is sent to the lungs.
By drawing in breath, the oxygen in
the air is united to the new fluid and the
returned old blood; it revivifies one and
vitalizes the other. From the food, the
solid parts of the body are not only
made, but kept in epair.-Scientlfc Amer
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Can the Farmer Stand the Taxi

We are not thinking. now. of the Inter
nal Revenue tax-which so many manage
to evade-nor of our State, county, town
and road taxes, which we cannot avoid
These are comparatively moderate, and
still the world moves on.
There is however another tax, though
it is not called by that name, from which
few of us can hope to escape, and which
is entitled to the gravest consideration.
1t is cutting into our substance like a
two-edged sword-on one side is idleness
on the other extravaganza Worst of all,
the sword is welded by our own flesh
and blood, by those who love US, and
whom we love--by our own daughters.
The reader will please notice that we
make no assertions in the heading of
this article; we only ask question.
We are not, ourselves, prepared to give
a definite answer; but we think there is
at least grave cause for an xiety in the
habits and tastes of farmers daughters.
On our drive to town this afternoon, we
met three young women, daughters of
ordinary farmers-men who have the
usual struggle to make both ends meet,
and who practice the usual economies in
their households and on their farms.
These damsels were so dressed that, at a
little distance, they looked like the
daughters of the rich city people who
board in our neighborhood in the sum-
mer. AS they came near, it was plain to
see that they had economical in material
as they had squandered in form and color,
and this marked wide difference be-
tween their brighter examplers. Yes,
save as they might, there was not one of
them who had not on her person-count-
ing everything from bottom CATERS, to
what Mr.. Punch calls "Chig-non-sense,"
and hat feathers-the value of a first-class
moving machine, with reaper attach
ment. If this were the end, it would
not be so bad but it is only the bad be-
ginning. 1t is not the capital invested
in fnery that tells on our fortunes, but
the awful interest in the shape of renew
ais first-class two-dollar "black hair"
we might stand and be done with it, but
the fashion changes. and black hair wears
out, and the next style is worse yet, and
costs three dollars. And SO it goes from
the crown of the head to the soles of the
feet; there is the same eternal grind
that wears away clothing and finery alike.
The more it costs, the more we must
spend in repairs; and your modern
country Miss, with her attire, is apt to be
well-dressed mortgage upon their
fathers farm, and to become a sort of or
namental milestone about the neck of
the man who marries her.-Land and
Ld,U Adviser.
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Small Beginning.

There was once New England lad.
named Erastus B. Bigelow, who began
life very poor But the boy had talent
for work, and was ingenious and indus
trious. A good old farmer used to pat
the little fellow on the head, and ask
him, jokingly, to come over to his place
and learn to be farmer.
The led believed that business was
business. and turned the offer over and
over in his mind. At length he decided
to take up with it, and getting consent at
home, he walked away to the farmhouse
in perfect confidence in the farmers
surprised, set the boy at work, expecting
he would give out before night and trot
off home. But the child performed faith
fully his tasks, and was delighted with
all around him, especially a pet lamb
named Dolly, which he took a great
fancy to. Dolly would follow him about
his work, and the boy had always a
caress for her. Finally. when Saturday
night came, the boy ventured to suggest
that he should make some arrangements
about his wages The farmer with a
merry twinkle in his eye, asked the child
his terms. The boy had his mind made
up. He offered to work for him six
months if he would give him Dolly at
the enQ OF L0aG time. ne MOueraGe Oe-
mand was accepted, and the boy worked
faithfully for his beloved pet But finally
a trouble arose in his mind. He would
be like the man who won an elephant in
the lottery What could he do with it
How could he feed it after he took it
away from the farm? 1t gave the child
many anxious hours, and the workmen
on the placel rather enjoyed increasing
his perplexity. Finally the farmer sug-
gested that he should give up Dolly and
take stout pair of cowhide boots and
cloth for suit, in place of
her. The little fellow wisely accepted
the proposal, though not without many
a tug at his heart-strings. After his six
months were up he had proved so useful
that he was hired over for the season at
a dollar a week and board. The farmer
gave him. besides. bright silver dollar
when he left him, and these first earn
ings were the foundation stone of great
fortune he was afterward able to amass.
1t was fairly laid by honest, faithful in
dustry, and this is capital any boy may
have to begin life with.-Presbytcrian.
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The Simple Secret.

Twenty clerks in a store, twenty hands
in a printing Office, twenty apprentices
in a shipyard, twenty young men in a
want to get on in the world,
and expect to do so. One of the clerks
will become a partner, and make a for
tune; one of the compositors will own
and become an influential
citizen; one of the young villagers will
get handsome farm. and live like
patriarch-but which one is the lucky
Lucky There is no luck
about it. The thing is almost as certain
as the rule of three. The young fellow
who distances his competitors is he who
masters his business, who preserves his
integrity, who devotes his leisure to the
acquisition of knowledge, who gains
friends by deserving them, and who saves
his spare money. There are some ways
to fortune shorter than this old duty
highway, but the staunch men of the
the men who achieve some
thing really worth having. good name
and serene old age, all go in this road.
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Advice to Boys.

Be brisk, energetic and prompt. The
world is full of boys, and men too, who
drawl through life, and decide on no.
thing for themselves, but just draggle
one leg after the other, and let things
take their own way. Such people are
the dull stuff of the earth. They hardly
deserve as much credit as the wooden
trees, for trees do all they can, in merely
growing, and bearing only leaves and
seed. But these poor drawling, drag
Cling boys do not turn their capabilities
to profit half as far as they might be
turned they are Improbable, like
rainy day in harvest time Now the
brisk, energetic boy will be continually
awake, not merely with his bodily eyes,
but with his mind and attention during
the hours of business. After he learns
what he has to do, he will take pride
in doing it punctually and well, and
would be ashamed to be told what he
ought to do without telling. The drawl-
ing boy loses in FIVE minutes the most
important advice, the prompt, wide
awake boy never has to be taught twice,
but strains hard to make himself up to
the mark, rs possible, out of his own en-
ergies. Third-rate boys. are always de-
pending on others, but first-rate boys
depend upon themselves, and after lit
tie teaching, just enough to know what
is to be done, they ask no further favors
of anybody. Besides, it is glorious
thing for boy to get this noble way OF
selfreliance. activity and energy. Such
one is worth hundred of the poor
dragging creatures who can hardly wash
their own hands without being told each
Ene bow - q done.
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Work and Success.

All the world over the men who work
are the men who win. 1t has always
been SO, and always will be. They who
despise labor despise themselves. The
drones in the hive of humanity are stung
to death by the consciousness of their
own folly Still. in the face of selfen-
forced morals. of indisputable facts, there
have been, and there are, men and wo-
men claiming distinction because they
do nothing-imagining idleness to be an
honor. Because they are zeros they fancy
they make figure in the world, forget
full that zeros add naught to the sum of
progress and prosperity. Fortunately,
and fitly in this era of uncommon sense,
rarer than genius always, the conceited
do-nothings are disappearing fast; by
normal law. too. since Nature does not
keep what che does not need The days
of Show and Sham, of Title and Theory.
are rapidly passing. Civilization has
come to mean reason, truth, practica.
bility. This generation says to every
man: 81 care not what you are; but
what can you do? If idle or inefficient,
stand aside for your betters; for they are
your betters who can and will work. /
judge each and all by their labor and its
fruits II
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If publishers generally would devote .
few lines in their columns to pithy edito-
rial notices of their patrons they would
employ the space to far better advantage
than to use it by the column, in long ed
itorial growls, about the unreasonable
ness of advertisers asking for free notices.
The latter are of no earthly interest to
anyone but themselves, and. if adver.
tisers ask too many favors, would il not
be quite as business-like to remind them
individually of the fact, as to rush into
print with. long-winded abuse of the
practice of giving editorial notices.
This seems to be chronic subject with .
large class of publishers, but, in our
opinion, the practice lacks dignity and
decency Why berate your best friends
and patrons, as class, because some one,
with more cheek than judgment, asks
favor that his relations with the publisher
do not wsrEaat s-sHavsle4 RspsEssr.
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Thoughts.

We sometimes think-and so do you -
That life has little that is true;
Not much of friendship or of love,
That speaks the life of realms above,
And yet we closely hug the wreck,
As welded arm the welded neck,
Which proves howe'er the mind may rue,
The heart knows much of life is true.
We sometimes dream-and so do you -
What lies beyond those depths of blue?
And dreaming thus, we feel that life
Must be devoid OF every strife!
Yet, dreaming on, we hesitate
To lift our hand and ope the gate,
We lack in faith, or are too wise
To trade for dreams cen life that dies.
At times we'd swear-no doubt do you
That giddy Fortune favors few,
We look on riches, power and fame,
And say, how brightly life can flannel
While deeming them kindly blaze,
Where joy can warm itself with praise;
And yet, the highest of the high
By bitterest grief are called to die.
And thus we learn-and so must YOU -
Each life has all that is life's due;
Exact proportioned to the sweets,
The bitter is that each one meets;
And so the night divides the day
Some light, some darkness for our clay;
And though the day seems gladdest-far,
'Tis night that leaves the Gate ajar.
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A Professor went out for sail. When
the boat was some distance from the land
he said to the boatmsn DO you know
anything about historyT' mo,
replied the boatman. Then" replied
the professor "half your life is lost"
After a little while he asked, do you
understand mathematics p NO" re-
piled the sailor. well then, three-quar-
ters of your life is lost" just as he
spoke puff of wind upset the boat and
capsized the professor and boatman in
the water The latter cried, do you
understand swimming ?" NO" gasped
the professor: Then, replied the boat
rsSn, I'll your Gfe is idet
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FANCY @ GOOD i.

Fine albums, port monnies,, card cases, vases of
the very latest and richest decorations ever
brought to this market. Wine sets, toilet sets,
Cash ceivers, cigar stands and holders, cigar
cases from cheap to something very fine. In con-
nection with large variety of silk & satin vel
styles, also variety that never has been seen
in this market. Gents combination shaving
mugs and boxes, and brushes of all dimensions.
No competition in my line. You that want bar
gains rush in, as the first choice is always the
best. Drugs and medicines always on hand,
cheaper, fresher, and better, than can be pur-
chased elsewhere, from the fact we always, in
all cases. give the business our full attention.
Pure brandies, gins, wines, liquors, imported
Pennsylvania Rye and Kentucky Bourbon for
medicinal use only, always on hand. Parents
in all cases sending minors for spirits must in
variably send a written order
Thanking my customers for their liberal pat
ronage in times past, trust they will always
get bargains at Hale's. Don't fail to call.
w. F. HALE,
Druggist and Apethecary,
Grafton Block, Broadway, jackson, o.
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CHURCH DIRECTORY,

CHURCH DIRECIORY.
Methodist Episcopal Church, Portsmouth st.
r. ev. j. H. ACTON, Pastor. Public preaching
every Sabbath at l01z o'clock A. NJ, and 81
p. NJ. Prayer meeting every Thursday night.
Sabbath School and Bible Glass every Sabbath
at 0 o'clock, A. NJ.
Presbyterian Church, on Church Street
Rev. j. TX. GIBSON, Pastor. Public preaching
every Sabbath at 1917 a. M and 81 p. NJ. Sab
bath School and Bible Classat O'Clock A. NJ
Christian Church, on Broadway Street-Elder
r. J. BACKUs, Pastor. Public preaching the
LIST and Sd Sabbaths in each month, at I01z o.
clock, A. NJ, and 3D. p. NJ. Sabbath School at
9 O'Clock, A. NJ. Prayer meeting every We'd
nesday night, and every Sabbath at I01z oclk
when there is not public preaching.
Methodist Protestant Church. corner Church
and Pearl Sts.-No regular services.
Baptist Church, on Broadway Street-Services
atthe usual hours, in the Welsh language.
Free VIII Baptist Church. Petrea.-REv.
THOMAS E. PEDEN, Pastor. Covenant meet
ing the 4th Saturday and Sabbath of every
month. Sabbath School every Sabbath at
3 O'Clock p. M.
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WAGON SHOP.
T OUIs BERDEL,
Wagon & Carriage Maker.

Shop in the brick house formerly occupied by
w. A. Gilliland as gunsmith shop, on Ports
mouth street, near the Gibson House.
He carries on the Wagon and Buggy making
business in all its branches.
REPAERLNE done ON shqrb notlcess,s~
%3OW@ on haId Rn6 cUG Ga1e. IRuK 26 7s~y
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Ready cash, to ft a select stock that will COM
pete with the fine selection that
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-03-20
Home Conversation.
(Ohio Farner.1

Children hunger perpetually for new
ideas, and the most pleasant way of re-
ception is by the voice and ear, not the
eye and the printed page. The one
mode is natural, the other artificial.
Who would not rather listen than
read? An audience will listen closely
from the beginning to the end of an
address, which not one in twenty Of
those present would read with the
same attention. This is emphatically
true Of children. They will learn with
pleasure from the Ii ps Of parents what
they deem it a drudgery to study in
books; and even if they have the mis-
fortune to be deprived of the educa-
tional advantages which they desire,
they cannot fail to grow up intelligent
if they enjoy in childhood and youth
the privilege Of listening daily to the
conversation of intelligent people.
Let parents, then, talk much and
talk well at home. A father who is
habitualIy silent in his own home may
be in many respects Il wise man; but
he is not wise in his silence. We
sometimes see parents who are the life
Of every company which they enter,
dull, silent and uninteresting at home
among their children. II they have
not mental activity and mental stores
sufficient for both, let them first pro-
vide for their own household.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-03-20
New Political Definitions.

Height Of impudence Hiding ones
speculatiors behind a wiie's petticoat
Henry Wilson.
Forgetful misunderstanding bacl,
a dividend and forgetting to explain
the matter.-James A. Garfield.
Honest legislators Taking stock
when only worth ninety-four dollars
per share, and sending it back when
worth two hundred and titty-seven
dollars, with dividends.
Congressional morality-Denying
a fact on the stump and owning up tc
it when corncred with the evidence. -
Henry Dawes.
Innocence-Interviewing Geo. +.
Train and Oakes Ames in relation to
taking Credit NIobilier stock, and
thinking they would pour money into
his lap without anythin expected in
"Reminiscences a. Garfield.
National Banker-A man who loans
money to and receives money from
Congressman without security, only
forms sake --Oakes Ames.
A Good Father-in law-One who
allows his son in-law to make a good
thing in stocks when he is one Of the
Directors.-James Brooks.
Moral Cowards Taking stock and
dividends, and when investigation
is talked Of sending both back.-Bing
ham, Wilson and others.
Benevolence-Buying stock Of
Ames, and when investigation is talk
ed of, and Ames is getting into hot
water, surrendering five hundred dol
lars. --Schuler Coltax.
Rather Mixed-Applying ten thou
sand dollars towards an election for
Senator, all in a legitimate way.
Mature acknowledgements re-
vising their sworn testimony before a
secret investigation when the oath of
secrecy is removed. - Gecelo1d Plain
Dealer.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-03-20

sidents showed us Il set of furniture, a
wedding outfit brought to Chicago in
1886, bought Of Mr.. Southwick, who
is now u man of immense wealth and
still in active business in great
Broadway establishment. The we'd
ding of Stokes with Miss Southwick
seemed to lack nothing that wealth,
position and social surroundings could
bring to insure happiness. They made
their sumptuous home in the Hoffman
House, and moved among the most
brilliant life Of the metropolis.
The next scene in the drama brings
the infamous woman Mansfield into
the plot, and from the house tf the
harlot the path turned downward. A
quarrel between Fisk and Stokes fol-
lowed. 1t was carried into affairs of
business. Fisk refused to allow the
Hunters Point concern to declare a
dividend and thus cut off Stokes sup
plies. This disgraceful relation with
Mansfield become more shameless, and
the father-in- Southwick, sent his
daughter and her child to Europe
early in 1871, to remove her from the
scene of scandal. Stokes, enraged at
Fisk, used his position as Secretary
to collect 100000 from Devoe, an oil
merchant, which sum he held openly
and defantly as his share of the pro-
fits. Fisk caused his arrest on Grim
inal charge; Stokes turned tc his
wealthy relatives. No one of them
would bail him and ne was forced to
make terms and summit, and refund
the money.
His relations to Fisk were bitter,
and out of the evil passion and Grim
inaity of his position with Mansfield
grew murder. Turn to Solomon again,
and there is no mystery in the chain
of sentences. 1t is said that the same
steamer that took out to Europe the
murder of Fisk by Stokes carried a
divorce procured by her family for his
wife, who still remains abroad.
The story of family grief and re-
verses is not all told The senior
Stokes, after thirty years Of retirement
and enjoyment Of a luxurious home, is
bankrupt, and homeless in his old age.
One Of the daughters died two weeks
after marriage. The second daughter,
the wife Of a Mr.. Sutton, attached her
self so strongly to the fortunes of her
brother that her husband discarded
her, and she is in refuge with her aged
aud penniless parents. The second,
son, young man Of great promise.
died two months ago ofgrlef IL shame
at the family reverses and the whole
tale of the innocent and suffering vic
tins by this complication of crime and
shame is not to be fully told without
including some Of the best known and
esteemed of New York families.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-03-20
Is Friday an UnIucky Day.

Friday, how long regarded as day
Of ill-omen, has been an eyentful one
in American history.
Friday, Christopher Columbus sail
ed on his voyage of discovery.
Friday, ten weeks later he discov
cred America.
Friday, Henry the VII. of England
gave John Cabot his commission
which led to the discovery Of NORTH
America.
Friday, st Augustine, the oldest
town in the United States, was found
ed.
Friday, the Mayhower, with the
pilgrims, arrived at Princetown; and
on.
Friday they signed that august
compact, the forerunner Of the present
constitution.
Friday, George Washington was
born.
Friday, Bunker Hill was seized and
fortified.
Friday, the surrender Of Saratoga
was made.
Friday the surrender of Cornwallis
at y yorktown, occurred and on.
Eriday, the motion was made in
Congress that the United Colonies
were, and of a right ought to be, free
and independent.
The man who setup all night weigh
ing ton Of coal with a pair of steel
yards and by the pailful to see that he
had full weight, thought he was ahead
a few pounds when he remembered
that he had not deducted the weight
Of the pail.