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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-04-09
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An Englishman witnessed an execu-
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he went home and hanged himself.
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but that din't kill him. He couldn't ea'
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Princeton, Thursday, Sept. Oath, 1874
Democratic Liberal Platform.

Vice Prest, III. State Farmers Assn, Tor btH {
gressiona District.
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The following is the official text of the
platform adopted by the Illinois Demo
cratic Liberal State Convention, August
26, 1874:
First The restoration of gold and silver as the
ments a. soon as possible without disaster u 'he
business interests of the country, by steadily oppos
ng imitation, and by the payment OF the national
Indebtedness in the money of the civilized world.
Second. Free commerce; no tariff for any pur-
pose but for revenue.
Third. Individual liberty and opposition to the
sumptuary laws,
Fourth. The right and duty Of the state to pro-
tect its citizens from extortion and unjust olscfim
nation by chartered monOpolies.
Fifth. Rigid restriction OF the governments both
state and national to the legitimate dom ,in OF po-
litical power, by excluding therefrom all executive
and legislative intermeddhng with the affairs OF so
ciety whereby monopolies are fostered. privileged
classes aggrandized, and individual freedom un
necessarily and oppressively restrained
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Independent Reform Congress
sionaI Convention.

A, the Independent Reform Convention held IN
snrnyaeld on the 10th Of June last was instruct,
ed by the delegates from the sixth o0ngres.0na'
District to cali Congressional Convention at
Princeton, Thursday, Sept. oath, 1874
at o'clock p. NJ In compliance Herewith, the IN,
s.n.ndsnt Reform voters Of the Sixth Congressional
District are requested to send delegates to Prince
ton At the time above named, for the purpose o.
nominating one candidate for Congress- ana 70
transact such other business as may come before
the convention. ,,, =, oro de,ecate
The basis OF representation Will be one oeiesa'e
for every 1850 inhabitants ana one deiesa.. ~
fraction exceeding half that number, under the cen
sus OF 1870, to-wit: g.
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Lee ......10 Putnam. ...........'''
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gressional District.
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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1874-12-23
Business and Prayer.

If protested disciple would not have his
secular business become as a milestone about
his neck to drown him in perdition, he must
be man of prayer; he mist daily secure
spiritual communion with God. If he suffer
his business to consume his time and spirit so
as to deprive him of opportunities for prayer,
reading the Bible, and real communion with
God, he must decay in piety, and his service
of mammon eat up his service of God. No
one who believes that God answers prayer
viii think of emitting either secret or family
devotion for want of time, even when BUSH
ness is unusually urgent. Which is worth
more to you or your family--an additional
period of your own unblessed labor, or the
blessing of God on your efforts, won by
spending that time in pleading with him in
prayer? The plea of want of time is essen
TALLY atheistical none should urge it but
those who regard prayer as an empty mock
cry that never receives an answer from the
Lord. Let the day begin with the cOmmun-
ion with God, let the disciple pass the whole
day in the spirit of prayer, and all its scenes
will be inscribed with "Holiness to the
Lord"
This point may be best enforced by the
words of a devoted disciple of Christ. He
said, with great esrnestness and simplicity,
"I have made discovery this summer
which regard as of great value. used to
defer my morning deVotiOns till after the
first work of the morning. But this summer,
Immediately on rising, before doing aught
else, pray; and I pray until / feel Gods
presence. Then 1 read the Scriptures until
breakfast, and I find my heart warm and
ready to engage with interest with family
prayer. At noon the hay wants turning,
but push on to spend season in prayer;
and the heart having become warm in the
morning, it needs but little to restore its
fervor, and / am soon at work again with
lively sense of Gods presence. When all is
done, 1 look back on the day spent with God,
and give thanks for all his mercies, COM
mending myself to him. And now" he add
ed with the greatest animation, " | can COM
mend the plan to all Christians. 1t has
carried me all through haying and harvest
ing, and in the busiest of it all have had
as much enlargement of heart and spiritual
Joy as ever in my life. London Tract Mag
1ziDg
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1874-12-23
Every One Of You.

This was Peters expression when unfold
the freeness of the salvation of Jesus to the
people at Jerusalem, who had, less than two
months before, clamored for his blood. At
ter expounding the truth, that the crucifed
Jesus was the Messiah of Israel, he said to
the motley crowd of hearers who were
"pricked in their heart" Repent and be
baptized, every one of you, in the name OF
Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins, and
ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. "
"Every one of yeu." whether he be betray-
er, or Judge, or executioner of the Holy One;
whether one of the mob that chose the thief
instead of the loving Teacher, or of the court
which could not enter heather house for
fear of deGlement after listening to suborned
evidence; or of the brutal band which, while
the Saviour was writhing in agony, could
cast lots over His garments. To "every
one" of these Peter promised the remission
of their sins and the gift of the Holy Ghost.
And the words have been recorded as a
source of true comfort and ground of hope
for inquiring sinners of all time. To "eVery
one" of the race of sinners, Christ is offered
freely, on the condition of repentance as the
Precipitation of their sins, no matter how
great tbeg raw sBaesnt every enc Of
you for the remission of sins, and ye shall
receive the gift Of the Holy Ghost.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1874-12-23
Imperfect Training of Youth.

lions Herald laments the haste which is
manifested by our youth to leave school, and
the imperfect training with which, in cOnse-
quence, they start in life. 1t says:
"This early cessation from school train.
ing is bad every way. In former days, when
lads became apprentices to learn trade,
they had, by stipulation, period of study in
the winter or in evening schools secured to
them; but our children now bid final adieu
to their textbooks when they leave their
school for the store or shop. The result is
a general and manifest immaturity. They
are exposed too early to temptation without
the proper defence. They have neither So
hdity nor tried probity of character. Herein
we see the fruitful occasion of the constant
misoarriages and dishOnesties in business in
our times. Our young people have not
been properly ballssted, and they soon blow
over. The same Incidence of habit that oc-
casions their exit from school induces the de-
sire for positions where there is little work
and large opportunity for dress and pleasure.
Manual labor is eschewed, and clerkship pre-
ferred until that is overstocked, and offers
the most uncertain position for advancement
and ultimate business success. Young men
untitled for professional life, without ade-
uuate basis or training for extensive business,
are driven to live by their wits, and become
the confidence men of the period.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1874-12-23

short of that kind of familiarity which breeds
contempt, and with whom no one takes a
liberty. For this, one can scarcely give a
reason. She would not ramp or rave If she
was displeased, she would not scOld, she
would not strike; but there is certain
quality in her which We may not be able to
familiarize, yet which would make US ashamed
to pass beyond the boundaries of the strictest
respect, and which restraints others less con-
sCiously critical than ourselves, as certainly
as fear. 1t is the respect we pay to those
who respect themselves; the consideration
and honor which all real purity of nature
demands and obtains. This is womanly dig
nifty in its lOveliest aspects, and the kind we
all desire to see in woman, whom it would not
burden, nor render the less lOving.-Sator-
dag RevieV.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1874-12-23
WOmanly Dignity.

Nature, which has given weapons of as
sault or means of defence to almost all living
creatures, has made men audaciOus, and has
endowed woman with dignity. And dignity
has the best of it. In fact, womanly dignity
may be accepted as one among many ex-
plantations of that legendary power WHICH
turned the brsyest man to stone, and made
the might of the strongest like the water in
their bones. What can any one do against
it p? As well try to perpetrate the armadillO's
coat of mail by needle, or make hole in a
pachyderm by pOp-gun, as fire woman to
passion or melt her to pity when she has
once entrenched herself in the stronghold of
her dignity. No argument can shake her,
DO reasoning convince her; despair dies
away to querulOusness, and the plesdings of
love itself fall dull and blunted from her
stately selfpOsseSsiOn, like so many toy shafts
hurled against polished and impenetrable
surface; indeed, how can you rage in anger,
or abase yourself in entreaty, to a creature
who is Jelly polite, lOftily unmoved not to be
goaded into the smallest demonstration which
would put her in the wrong and give you a
vantage-pOiDt against her, and whose calm
eyes look at you with a kind of superior scorn
which, while it maddens you, offers no point
Of attack What can you do? Simply no
thing. The means of defence which nature
has given are unasssilable, and dignifed
woman is mistress of the situation by the
very power of negatiOn, if by none other.
But there are various kinds of dignity, and if
some are more exasperating than others,
some are very lovely and among the greatest
charms of womanhood. There is in particu-
lar that soft dignity which belongs to women
who are affeetiOnate by nature and timid by
temperament, but who have a reserve of
self respect that defends them against them
selves as well as against others. These
have a quiet dignity, tempered by much
sweetness of speech and manner, that is the
lOvehest kind of all, and the most subtle as
well as the most beautiful. They are ike
the Lady in COmus, and seem to cast the
spell of respect on all with whom they are
associated. No man, save of the coarseat
fiber, and such IS only physical strength can
control, could be rude to them in word or
brutal in deed; for there is something about
them very indefinite but very strong withal,
which seems 10 give them special protection
from insOlence; and loving woman of soft
manners, whose mind is pure and who re-
spects herself, is armed with power which
none but the vilest can despise. This is the
woman who gets a precise obedience from
her servants without exacting it, and whose
children do not dream of disputing her wish.
es who, though so gentle and afable, stops
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1874-12-23
A Puzzled Frenchman.

81 begin to understand your language
better" said my French friend, Mr.. Ar.
court, to me; shut your verbs trouble me
still, you mix them up so with your preposi-
tions."
81 am sorry you find them so trouble
some," was all l could say.
81 saw your friend Mrs. James just now, y
he continued. "She says she intends to
break down housekeeping. Am l right
there ?"
"Break up housekeeping, she must have
said"
ooh! yes, I remember. Break up house
keeping"
"Why does she do that?" asked.
because her health is broken into"
"Broken down, you should say"
"Broken down-oh, yes! And, indeed,
since the smallpox has broken up in our
city
"Broken out"
"She thinks she will leave it for few
weeks"
"Will she leave her house alone ?"
"No. She is afraid it will be broken
broken How do say that!
"Broken into"
Certainly; that is what meant to say. "
sis her son to be married soon?"
"No. The engagement is broken
broken"
"Broken off.
eyes; broken off. J"
"Ah I had not heard that"
"She is very sorry about it. Her son
only broke the news to her last week. Am
1 right? | am so anxious to get the English
WE'LL"
"He merely broke the news. No prepo-
sition this time"
cit is hard to understand The young
maa, her son, issfne fellow. Abreaker, l
think"
GA broker, and very fine fellow. Good
day." So much for the verb "to break"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1874-12-23
WOrrisOme People.

"Marths" is a generic term. 1t applies
TO sll ages and conditions. 1t means every
one who, for lack of trust in Providence, is
Over-snxiOus about the things of this world.
1t means every one who is PeeVish and fret
full, because, as he may say, his affairs do
not 60 smoothly. 1t means every one who
always looks down on the dark side of things,
forgetting that if he would raise his eyes a
little higher, he would see the sun of heaven
shining. 1t means all those who magnify
their mOlehill of discomfort into mountain
of affection. 1t means all those who are
bedrsggled in the mire of worldly cares, be-
cause they will not view them from heav-
emily standpoint. Martha is the name of
those who, to their actual troubles, add many
imaginary Ones-who are always taking
thought for the morrow, though the Lord has
said that the morrow shall take thought
for the things of ITSELF" All those are
Msrthas, who, absorbed in self and its i'm
mediate surroundings, make them the centre
of the universe, and their own efforts its
motive power. No wonder that when they
fail in any undertaking, or meet with unex-
pected obstacles, they are irritated and dis
hesrtened. Martha is in the nursery, the
kitchen, the counting-house, the work shop,
the schOOl.rOOm, the temple-in every place
where men and women may attempt to carry
out their own ends by their own strength,
and may encounter opposition and discOm-
6ture.-ReU. James Reed.