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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1873-12-10

What Il glorious thing for the human heart
is occupation Those who toll hard seldom
yield to f;lncied or real sorrow. When grief
sits down, folds its hands, and mournfully
feeds upon its own fears, weaving the dim
shadow that little exertion might sweep
away into a funeral pail, the strong spirit IL
shorn of its might, and sorrow becomes our
master. When trouble flows upon you, dark
and heavy, toll not with the waves and wres-
tie not with the torrent rather seek by occu-
patton to divert the dark waters that threaten
to overwhelm you, with n thousand channels
which the duties of life always present. Be-
fore you dream of 1t, those waters will fertil-
ize the present. and give birth to fresh flow
ers, that will become pure and holy In the
sunshine which penetrates to the path of duty,
in spite Of every obstacle.
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KsowLEDeE, IRIS Use AVID ABUsE.

4 "a
"What an excellent thing is knowledge"
said a sharp-lcoking, busting little man to
one who was much older than himself
knowledge is an excellent thing repeated
he; my boys know more at six and seven
years Of age than did at twelve. They can
read all sorts Of books and talk on al sorts Of
subjects. The worid ii 4 great deal wiser
than II used to be. Everybody knows sone-
thing Of everything now. 10 You not think,
Sir that knowledge Is m excellent thine7n
why, sir, replied the ID man, boxing
gravely. that depends entirely npop The use
to which it is applied II may be : blessing
or a curse. knowledge is only an incrsase|of
power, and power may be bad as veil AZ .
good thing
That is what | cannot understand, = said
the busting little man: " how can power be
a bad thing?" secs
81 will tell you,, mcekly replisd the old
man, and thus went on: & When tho power
Of horse is under restr,int, the animal is
useful, bearing burdens, drawing loads, and
carrying his master; bnt when that power is
unrestrained, the horse breaks his bridle,-
dashes the carriage that he is drawing to-
pieces, or throws his rider
81 see see y said the little man. -
"When the water of large pond is pro-
perry conducted by trenches, it renders the
fields around fertile; but when it bursts
through its banks it sweeps everything before
it, and destroys the produce Of the field. =
az sec! see ~ sud the little man, II
see
"When ship is stored Alright the sail
that she hoists up enables her the sooner to-
get into port bnt if stecrcd wrong, the more
sail she carries the further she win SO out of
her course"
81 see! see = said the little man, II see
clearly !" - ,,l
"Well, them continued the old man, stif
you see these things so clearly, hope you can
see too that knowledge, to be q good thing.
must be rightly applied. God grace in the
heart will render the knowledge pf the heaa
a blessing but without this 1t may prove 10
us no better than curse ~
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IT'S WELL.

as it well with the Chd?" And she answered."
is we'll"
Yes IL Is well though nccr again on earth
His gentle prattle and his laugh shall ring
Though neyernorc around the household hearth
shall his dear footsteps light and comfor, bring.
IT'S WE'LL though now beneath deaths dark eclipse
His joyous eye hath closed to ope no more,
Though silence lasting seal Is ON his lips;
And mirbe Is c check so soft before.
IT'S we'll though thousand are the me- mores
From toys still soiceful of his childish play;
And mid the household tones yen hear not his
At morn, or noontde, or declining day.
IT'S well, for his swe II pr scnee was q loan,
Like sunbeam Onnur pathway kindly given,
The blessed t;iver hath hut claimed his own
The earliest dead the soonest live in heaven.
tTiS we'll for now the :" better land" appears
Nearer aud dear n which the love hath won,
There faith beholds him through her rising tears,
Reckoning with cherib hand his mourners
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Grown persons are apt to put u lower esti-
mate than is just ON the understanding OF
children. They rate them by what they
know the children know very littlc but their
capacity for comprehension Is very great !;
hence the continued wonder Of those who are
unaccustoned to them, at the "old fashioned
ways" of child who has had no play
fellows, and at the odd mixture Of folly and
wisdom in his sayings. A continued battle
goes on in child's mind between what is
known and what it compartments. Its an
swers are foolish from partial ignorance, and
wise from extreme quickness of apprehen-
sion. The great art Of education IL SO to train
this last faculty as neither to deprcss or over
exert it. The matured mediocrity Of many
an infant prodigy proves both the degree of
expansion to which it is possible to force u
child's intellect, and the boundary which ma
ture has set to the success of such false cul-
ture.
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LAMBERTvILLE Nj. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1873.
4 BEAurTsUL 1xcIDESr.


The intelligent horse, says the Tay, Field
and Farm, very often sympathizes with ami
NAL distress. About year ago, dog was
set upon BY q crowd Of cruel boys, and pelted
with sticks and stones. The poor dog had
given no offence, but this mattered not. ne
tried to escape from his tormentors and had
nearly succeeded in doing 50. when q stone'
hurled with great violence, struck him on the
fore leg, br,aising the flesh and frncturing the
bone. The animal howlcd piteously, but none
Of his prosecutors went to his relief. Having
injured him. they turned coldly away and LETT
him to his fate. The dog limped into the
stable of Mr.. Edward kirkpatrick, moaning
pitcously. In one Of the stalls Of the stable
was a wellbred young horse of more than or
binary intelligence. The distress of the dog
seemed to move the heart Of the horse to pity.
He bent his head, caressed the canine, and
inspected the broken LEG. Then with his
fore feet he pushed some clean straw into one
corner of his stall, and made soft bed
ON which the dog was induced to lay himself
down. A close and affectionate intimacy was
at once established between the horse and the
dog. The horse was being largely fed on bran
mash, and one day when receiving his feed,
thinking the dog might be hungry, the equine
bowed his head, caught the canine gently by
the skin of the neck, and with his teeth lift
ed him into the trough or box. Tho. dog fell
to with hearty will, which showed that his
hunger was great, and that his gratitude was
equal to his appetite. Days and weeks pass
ed, and the dog and the horse continued to be
firm friends. The bran mash fed them both,
and the invalid grew strong and fat on the
wholesome diet. At night, the two animals
thus strangely brought together, slept in
I the most loving manner. The horse would
arrange soft bed for the dog, and then lay
down and tendcrly encircc the canine form
with one of his fore legs.
1t is seldom that such beautiful and ar-
thentic incident is brought to our notice
| The horse showed for the unfortunate
more OF that feeling which we term human
ity than did the dozen youths who were pre-
sumed to walk in the image of their God
Nay, it took the poor victim of mans perse-
cution to its heart and home, and tenderiy
nursed the same back to health and strength.
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LEANING A LrrTLE.--A negro once said
in prayer meeting, Brcdren, when was .
boy took a Ratchet and went into the woods.
When ! found q tree dat was straight, and
big, and solid, didn't touch dat trse but
when found one leaning a little, and holler
inside, soon had him down. So when do
debbil goes after Christians, he don't toucl,
dem dat stand straight and true, but dem dat
lean a little and are lollcr inside.''
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Prisoner-to learned magistrate" Has
any one q right to commit a nuisance -
Learned magistrate" No sir, not even the
Mayor-no. sir, not even the Governor.
Prisoner" Then you can't commit me, for I
was arrested as nuisance, and you've tecid-
cd that am one"
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Some letters were recently received from
Europe, at the New York post-ofiice, bearing
very remarkable addresses. One was direct
ed to care Of Town Hall, broadway, Mas
sachusetts State Of New York !" another to
" Montevidea, Florida, South America, Unit
cd States, N. w., and q third to Luigi, Sa-
vana, ncgociant, America, Washington street,
New Jersey, Illinois,
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The other day q young fop asked one OF
Barnum's men, g where is the mummy -
The hitter replied, !" He is dead = aud the in
quirer passed on perfectly satisfied, for he
couldn't expect that even Barnum could pre-
vent an occasional death among his curios-
tiles.
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A Portland man, caught fishing for trout on
another mans land the other day, completely
silenced the owner, who demonstrated, with
the majestic answer, "Who wants to catch
your trouta I am only trying to drown this
worm"
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who then can make trouble?" and knew
that my Mamie was at last beyond reach of
Seth Guile, with the Lords own hand forever
stretched out between her and all evil. !"
And do you think that can always be
true for any body, Miss Coultcrs" said Bes-l
sic, with grave face
Christ is the captain Of the Lords host, .
said Miss Coulter. Did ever any out-gcn-
eral Him. One thing my Mamie could not
do--she could not talk of what had been.
From that day Seth Guile's name never
passed her lips, nor mine. l. was sure she
knew all but she never spoke of it. Like
fair, sweet shadow, she left her bed at last,
and began to move softly about the house,
doing by degrees her old work. Like beam
from heaven, she went on shining from that
time until the end" M&e#
.sWas 1t longr" asked little Bessie, with a
shiver.'' a7ah
Every long, as men count. More than
forty years scattered their SHOWS and dropped
their rosy leaves more than forty times she
saw the June light flush over the world, and
the October orchards crimson with their fruit,
before the Lord said, 1t is enough And
when at last He took her home, there were
two glad hearts-my Nannie's and mine."
Forty years - said Mym. ooh, Miss
Coulter how did she live through all that
time? !"
"By the will of God! said Miss Coulter,
solcmnly. 81 had almost said upon his will.
1t seemed to be the one thing life had left for
her. Aud morning and noon and night, day
in and day out, it was her life. Working for
DEMONSTRATING His message not only on her
lips, but her face giving to every ono her
quickest sympathy, the tenderest help; coun-
selling, comforting, drawing others to Christ
so she lived. Most of all, her heart went
forth to the young things Of the village, and
they were not slow to find 1t out. They came
to her with their troubles, they told their joys
first to her. Even love stories and love let
tiers yielded up their secrets before that face
of refined silver; and no girl thought herself
dressed for her wedding unless my Mamie
sat by to see. To the weddings themselves
she never went.
81 don't see how she could bear any of it,
Bessie said under her breath"
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WINDS Oh eaf'.i cou'a reach hel o"' io.'o'c's'
ana she saw inc c'ou.-n.'''s Az n'' rev
ana 'nihss no a'e' S'u so''e''' VINO
was in her third engagement.
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HARPER'S WEEKLY.
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The IIseky maintains positive position,
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hems-Louisrihe Courier journal.
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If men had more scruples, they wouldn't
indulge in nearly 50 many drains.
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4" A Cosssplefe Pictorial Histosy Of the Times"
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[Thc following beautiful poem was written by an
inmate of Bockley Almshouse by the name of William
Asbury.1 e
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-13
Remarkable Patchwork.

Here is something remarkable. A
woman in New Haven was recently bereft
of her scalp by the idiosyncracies OF
shaft and belt The doctors saw that TO
remedy the evil they would have to have re-
course to transplanting, and so they actual
ly succeeded in getting sufficient num-
Der of pieces from other peoples heads to
give this unfortunate woman new scalp.
We hope those New Haven doctors used
more discretion than did he who attended
a man named Finlay, who met with a
similar accident in Oriskany, n. Y, some
thirteen years ago. Bits of scalps from
seventeen different persons were secured
by this doctor and adroitly stitched to the
head of Mr.. Finlay. When it was done,
people came miles to see Finlay's head,
and Finlay himself, with his checker
board Uranium, was the happiest man in
Oriskany. But when the capillary glands
got in working order, and the hair COM
menced to grow, the top of that mans
head presented the most extraordinary
spectacle on record. The doctor, who
was about half the time in liquor, had
consulted expediency rather than Judg-
ment, and secured that new scalp with
out any reference to future developments.
We never saw anything like it. Here was
tuft of yellow hair, and next to 1t bit
of black, and then flame of red, and a
little like silk, and more like tow, with
brown hair, and gray hair, and sandy
hair, and cream colored hair scattered
over his entire skull. And what mad
man that Finlay was, and nobody could
blame him. He would stand up against
the barn for an hour at time, and sob
and swear 1t was very fortunate that the
doctor was dead. He went off two weeks
before, with blue ague, which is mild
sort of disease. Finlay kept his hair cut
short, but that didn't make any difference.
Then he tried dyes, but they only made
matters worse. Then he got wig, and
this covered up the deformity; but some
times at church he would get asleep, and
the wig would fall off and make the chill
dren cry Once at the county fair he fell
asleep and the wig dropped off, and the
committee on domestic goods, when they
came around, stood in front of Finlay's
head for some five minutes, in wrapt de-
light. They then Immediately decided
that it was the most ingenious piece of
patchwork in the list, and never discov-
cred the mistake until they attempted to
pin the premium card to it. At that Fin
lay awoke, and knocked down the chair
man of the committee and chased the 9th
ers out of the building We hope those
New Haven doctors have been more par
ticular, as it is not subject to trifle with.
- Dnnb1lrU Mems
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-13

ton for escape, felt that the boat could
never reach the laundering balloon, and
hoping ONLY to sustain his companions
courage. yelled to him to cling on to the
ropes to the last, knowing that he could
not swim. Slowly that boat approached,
until it was alonside of the laundering
balloon, and almost in mid-ocean. Those
who have been at sea know how difficult
it is to shout through a gale to COM
panion in distress, but when almost GER
tain death stares person in the face, 1t
is difficult thing-he cannot hear
a single word, and SO it was with Austin,
although admonished in the sternest
tones, which danger alone countenances..
to let go his hold upon the valvc-rope OF
the balloon, and, although he had al
ready been under the water four or i've
times in the almost Intellectual attempt to
keep his head above the surface OF those
terrific surges that sweep through the
Golden Gate, he did manage to hang to
the balloon until Clough leaped away
and swan to the rescuing boat, which he
reached, and, calling upon the boatmen
to pull with all their strength, succeeded
in rescuing the unfortunate Chronicle re-
porter.-.Sdn Francisco Morning Cal, DC
t0ber 49,
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Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-13

"A company is organizing in London
for the purpose of working extensive fields
of peat in the highlands of Scotland 1t
is proposed to use the Clayton process,
by which the fiber of the peat is thor
oughly cut up, and converted into dense
pulp, which, when dry, becomes solid
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far superior to coal.
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THERE is NO DEATH.-If it be true
that Nature abhors vacuum, it is equally
true that the Great Creator abhors death
and glories in life. There is really no
such thing as death-the term is a mis-
homer, used to designate the changes
which occur in life. Life, eternal life, is
created by the laws of Almighty will
power, which are as immutable in their
application as is the existence of the Gre
ator Himself When God made life, He
made everything necessary to sustain it,
but left it for mans progressive intelli.
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