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The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28
Puzzle.

live in . nice little house, With but one little window for
 light,
 Aud over that window you'll see . A nice little shutter, shut tight Tho most of the time; and yet l never get lonely or asd, For I know that I'm doing my duty {; Then tell me why should feel bad ? I know that I'm valued right we'll For'ths knowledge I daily impart, For I'm often consulted, you see, By the anxious and fearful of heart. Though I've never been out of my
 house,
 I've travelled the wide world
 around;
 Though have but one hand and no
 feet
 Keeping still seldom am found. l never have spoken word To any live soul you must know, And yet day and night without faii Im telling the right way to 60. Without me, the world would bo sad, For commerce would surely decline And the ladies, poor things, must
 fofekp Their siIks and their faces so fine, Aud . thousand and-zo-f0rths beside Of ills would fail upon man; Then sst all you. wits right at wcrk And guess who l am, fl you can.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28
Fidelity.

Never forsake q friend. When enemies gather around, when sickness falls upon the heart, when the world is dark and cheer less, is the time to try true friend chip. The heart that has been touched with true gold will re- double it's efforts when the friend is sad and in trouble. Adversity tries true friendship-The who run from the scenes of hypocrisy, and prove that interest only moves them. Ifycu have a friend who loves you, who has studied your interests and happiness, be sure to sustain him in adversity. Let him feel that his former kind. ness is appreciated, and that his love was not thrown away.-R Real fidelity may be rare, but it exists in the heart. Who has not seen and felt it's power? They who deny it's worth and power have never loved j friend or never laborcd to make q friend happy. The good aud the kind, the affec tionate and the virtuous, see and feel the heavenly principle. They would sacrifice wealth and all but honor to promote the happiness of others, and in return they would be rewarded for their love by sympathizing hearts ant doubled favors when they have been brought low by disease ant diversity.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28
How tO be Handsome.

Most people like to be hand some. Nobody denies the great CT power which any person may have who has good face and who attracts you by good looks, even before a word has been spoken. And we see all sorts of devices in men and women to improve their good looks--paints and washes, and all kinds of cosmetics, includ- ing plentiful annointing with dirty hair oil.
 Now, not every one can have good features. They arc as God made them; but almost any one can look well, especially with good health. It is hard to give rules in very short space, but in briel these will do:
 Keep clean--wash freely ani universally with cool water. Al | the skin wants is leave to act free ly, and it will take care of itself Its thousands of air holes mus not be plugged up.
 Eat regularly and simply. Tn stomach can no more work al
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28
X Beautiful Extract.

sGeneration after generation says . fine writer, sshavc felt as we feel now, and their lives were as active as our own. They passed away like : vapor, while Nature wore the same aspect of beauty as when her Creator com manded her to bc. The heavens shall be as bright over our graves as they are now around our paths. The world will have the same at fractions for our offspring yet un- born that she once had for our selves, and that she new has for our children. Yet . little while and all will haze happened. The throbbing heart will be stilled and we shall be at rest. Our funeral will wend its way, and the prayers VIII be sad, and our friends VIII all return and we shall be left be- hind in silence and darkness for the worm. And 1t may be for . short time we shall be spoken of, but the things oflifc will creep in, and our names will be forgotten. Days will continue to move on, and laughter and song will be heard in the room in which we died; and the eye that ,nourned tor us will be dried and glistcn with joy; even our children will cease to ehink of us, and will not remember to lisp our names. Then shall we have become, in the touch ing language of the Psalmist, forgotten and gone out of mind.'
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28
RUssELLVILLE. ARK. THURSDAY. JANUARY 2

the time, night and day, than . horse; 1t must have regular work and regular rest
 Good teeth are . help to good looks. Brush them with . soft brush, especially Il night. Go to bed with teeth clean. Of coursc, to have white teeth, it is needful tn let tobacco alone. Every woman knows that. And any powder or wash for the teeth should be very simple. Acids may whiten the teeth but they take off t:-e enamel or injure 1t.
 Sleep in cool room, in pure air. No one can have . clean skin who breathcs bad air. But ms re than all, wake up the mind and soul. When the mind is awake, the dull, sleepy look passes away from the eyes. I do not know that the brain expands but 1t seems to. Think, rcad--not trashy novels, but books that have have something in them. Talk with people who; know something; hear lectures and learn by them. This is one good of preaching. A man thinks and works, and tells us the result. And, if we listen, and he9r and understand, the mind and soul are worked up.
 If the spiritual nature is arous- ed, so much the better.
 We have seen . plain face real ly glorifed by the love of God and man Which shone through 1t
 Let us grow handsome.
 Men say they can't afford books, and sometimes they don't even pay for their newspaper. In that case, 1t does them little good, they must feel so mean while they are reading It.
 But men can afford what they really choose. If all the money spent in self-indulgence Gin hurt ful indulgence,) was spent in books Gin self-improvement, we should sec . change. Men would grow handsome and women too. The soul would shine ont through the eyes. We were not meant to be mere animals.
 Let us have books and read them, and lectures and hear them, and sermons and heed them.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28
Failure in Business.

It is the man who fails and then rises who is really rest'in his way.
 Horace Greedy tried three or four lines of business before he founded the Tribune and made it worth $1, 100000.
 Patrick Henry failed at every thing lie undertook until he made himself an ornament to his age and nation.
 The man who never failed in business cannot possibly know whether he has any grit in him, or is worth q button. Stephen A. Douglas made din- ncr tables, bcdsteads and bureaus many long year before he made himself . giant on the floor of Congress.
 The founder of tho New York Herald kept on failing and sink. ing his money for ten years, and then made one of the best paying newspapers on earth. General Grant learned to tan hides, but could not sell leather enough to purchase n pair of brooches. X dozen years ago he was hauling wood to town at $40 a month; and yet he is at the head of q great nation.
 l Peter Cooper failed in making hats, failed as Il cabinet maker:
 but as often as hc failed he tried and tried again. until he could
 stand upon his feet alone, then
 crowned his victory by giving
 Sl, ,0O0,000 to help the poor boys l in time to come. l Abraham Lincoln failed tomake
 both ends meet by chopping wood;
 failed to earn his salt in the gal
 lev slave life of Mississippi fiat
 boatlnan; he had not wit enough
 to run a grocery, yet he ns ..e
 himself a grand character of tho
 18th century. The lesson for every young man
 is this: As long as you have 7 health and power to do, if you fail at one thing try another, and a
 third--a dozen even. The young
 man who has the gift of continu- ance is one who will, be able to breast the angry waters of human Encouragement.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28
Gratitude is tho memory of the

Gratitude is tho memory of the heart
 Those that are bound for heav- en must be willing to swim against the stream, and must not do as most do, but as tue best do.-Hen- ry.
 The smallest dew drop on the meadow at night has n star sleep ing in its bosom, and the most insignificant passage of Scripture has in it a shining truth!-T. De Witt Talmage.
 Grace is n glory militant, and glory is q grace triumphant. 1; grace is glory begun, glory is grace made perfect; grace is the first degree of glory, glory is the high est degree of grace.--Dyer. When some die, all that can be said of them is, "They lived in splendid style, were driven in splendid equipages and died leav- ing to their heirs a splendid for tune."
 We yearn for our heavenly home, for tho peace that is prom ised us; we would fly to the noun. tain tops, but we find the way ul is by little, slow, toiling steps, ons after another.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28
"God bless the honest laborer,
 The hoary son of toll, The worker in the clxttering mills,

The WOrkcr lo the ctatgeran8 Mlll9,
 The deliver of the soil.'
 The true kings of Q nation are it's producers--its farmsfs and mechanics. Though rough, and often uneducatcd. they bear upon their honest brows the "royal ste D aud seal of God;;" and their drops of sweat arc worthiAr "than diamonds in . coronet." Without them, the pride and glory of.a na- tion would be gone. Nay, more. Blot out the farming interest, and at one fell blow you utterly destroy the national existence. Do away with the mechanics, and you de. stroy cities, towns, railroads fac tories, navigation, and the entire commerce of the continent. All honor, then, to our noble working men! We never strike hand. with one without feeling that W, touch tue hand of a nations noble man.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28
Advice to the Girls.

Do not estimate the worth of . young man by his ability to talk soft nonsense, nor by the length of his moustache.
 Do not imagine that an extra ribbon, tied about the neck, can remedy the defect of . soiled col lar or an untidy dress.
 If your hands are browned by labor, do not snvy the lily fingers of Miss Fuss and Feathers, whose mother works in the kitchen while the daughter lounges in the parlor.
 Ifa dandy, with cigar between his fingers, asks you if smoking is offensive to you, tell him, em phatically, "Yes." The habit should be, even though the odor may not.
 Do not waste your tears on the immaginary sorrows of Alonxo and Melissa, nor the trials of the dime novel heroines. Seek rather to alleviate the suffering ones on earth.
 If your dress is inconyeniently long, and a gentleman steps upor it, don't get angry, but meekly beg his pardon, ss you ought. Al ways cherish psrtiality for thu smell of dish watcr-it is moro conducive to health and far lesl expensive than Bouquet of Eden.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28

Christ cannot but be most pre- cious to a believer, because all his precious comforts come from Christ. The Lord Jesus is faircI than the fairest. sweeter than the sweetest, nearer than the nearest, dcarer than the dearest, and rich CT than the richest, and bettel than the best. The elect pre- cious is of all the most precious n Dyer.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28
X Remarkable Incident.


 ! The first Mansonic funeral thss occurred in California took place in lSi9. and was performed over brotlier found drowned in the baS San Francisco. An ac- count of the ceremony states that on the botly of the deceased was found a silver mark of Mason, upon which were engraved the initials of his name. A little fnther investigation revealed to the beholdcr tue most singular exhibition of Masonic emblems that was ever drawn by the in genuty ofman upon the human skin. There is nothingin history or tradition of Frecmasony equal toit. Beautifully dotted on his left arm, in red and blue ink, which time cosld not eface, ap- pearctl all tle cmblcms of the cn- tire apprcticeship. There was the Holy Bible, square and com pass, the twentv-four inch guage and common gravel. There were also the Masonic pavement, rep rcsenting the first floor of King Sololncn's temple, the indentcd tessel which surrounds it, and the blaziug star in the center. On his right arm, and artistically ex- ccuted in the same indeliblc liquid, were the cmblcns pertain ing to the Fellowcraft's degree, viz: The square, the level, and plumb. There were also the i've columns representing the five orders of architecture: the Tuscan, Doric Ionic Corinthian and Composite. In, removing his body, the trowel presented itself with all the other tools of opera tive masonry. Over his head, was the pot of incense. On other parts of his body were the bee hive, the book of constitutions, guarded by the Tylcr's sword, pointing to g heart; the All.Seet ing Eye, the achor and ark, the hour-glass, the scythc, the forty seventh problem of Euclid, the sun moon, stars and comets; the threc steps which are einblematic of youth, manhood and age. Admirably cxrcuted was the weep ing virgin, reclining on broken column, upon which lay the book of constitutions. In her right hand she held the pot of incense, the Manson,c emblem of a pure heart, and in her left hand a sprig of acacia, the emblem of the i'm mortality of the soul. Jmmcdi- ately beneath her stood winged Time, with his scythe by his side, which cuts the brittle thread of life, and the hour-glass at his feet, which is ever reminding us that life is fading away. Ths withered and .attcnuated fingers of the destroyer were placed amid the long flowing ringlets of tn.
 disconsolate mourncr. Thus wer,
 striking emblcms of mortality
 and mortality blended in on,
 pictorial representation. It wa,
 a spectacle such as Masons nevc
 saw before, and in all probabilit,
 such as the fraternity may neve
 witness again. The brother
 name was never known.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28
Rules for the Preservation of
 Health.


 Health.
 Wash yourself now and then. Change your inner garments occasionally Chew your meat; eschew greasy grayics.
 Don chew your tobacco. Drink as little as yon choose, Keep your temper.
 Tempt yonr keeper. Avoid failing out about triGcs. Fail out of windows as seldom as possible.
 If your constitution requirss you to sleep during the sermon, sec that the sexton has an airod night-cap for you, and a hod of hot bricks to put under your feet. Keep your mouth shut on dusty days.
 Never open your mouthin frosty weather.
 Close your mouth very. tight when the wind blows from the cast. II your business compels you to go out before breakfast, havc some breakfast first. If it is wet under foot house your poor feet. Beware of the. ices of hummer and the snows of winter. Do not swallow too many tcle- grams.
 Keep out of the street when gold is falling.
 If the silver of advancing years is on your head don't change 1t oil for paper.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28

The old city ofTroy had but one gate. Go round and round the city, and you could find no other. So the strong and beautiful city of Heaven there is but one gate, and no other. Do you know what it is? Christ says, II am the door"
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28

There cannot be q secret Chris tian. Grace is like ointment hid in the hand; it bctrayeth itself. If you truly feel the sweetness of the cross of Christ, you will be constrained to confess Christ be- fore men.-M'Cheyne.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28

Surely now every lady has a right to wear Q life-preserver ou her head if she pleascs. A short time ago the soprano ofa Rostoa church fell down long flight of stairs. She struck on her head, and her life was saved in < conse- quence of a thick braid of false hair which she woro,
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28
The snufr-Colored Suit.

I scarcely knew how it happened, hut timbcv must iisve fell and struck me on the head.
 The first thing that l realized after it was that l was straight and still on something hard, and when l tried to move myself and speak, ! found 1t impossihle to do 50. I concluded that must be in some very tight dark place, for Icduld not see; in fact l soon learned that, though perfectly conscious, 1 could do nothing hut hear. A door opened and footsteps ap. preached; but l felt n cloth taken from my face, and . voice which I recognized as that of MT Jones, the father of my wife that was to he-eAid:
 ..EIe hasn't changed much,' and his companion, whose voice knew tO be the village undertaken, Hop kips hy name, lightly:
 "Bctter looking dead than alive. How does Jerusha feel about it! Take on much?'
 'Oh, no. she had her eye on an other fellow anyhow, and 2 better match. too, excepting the money part. Though l had nothing against Ben only, he didn't know much, and was about the homcli- eet man l ever knew. Such q mouth; why it really seemed as though he was going to swallov Knife, plate, and all, when he open e,l it at dinner"
 "Wcll," sad the cheerful voice of Hopkins 4hc'll never open hh mouth agaia r and then iSe pss cecded to measure mt for m,. cof An, for it seemed that 1 wns dead or they thought WAS which was all the same to the greedy pockc, of the undertaken. I had heard of undertakers who always whis tied joyfully when they got | measure, but 1 never believed i before. But that man actually whistled a subdued dancing tun, while he measured me, and i seemed to me that three or lfo~t icicles were rolling down my back to the music of his whistle.
 His duty done, they covered m, face again and left me to my owl reAections, which were not partic dia4y comforting, although f'hs' often heard 1t remarked, that med itation was good for the soul, an, this was the best chance l ha' ever had to try it.
 An hour must have passed whel the door again opsnetsy' and $w persons came whispering along t where lay, and the voice of m promised wife fell upon my ear.
 "I dread to look at him, Bob; h was so mortal homely, alive, b must be frightful dead"
 I ground my teeth in imagin' ton, as I reuenbersd how oftc ne had gone into rsptures, (
 ,tended to, over my noble broy
 Id expressive mouth; and ho that she often declared that if were taken away from her sb would surely pine away and die.
 One of them raised the cloi aud I knew nJey were boklug , Ie. Bob was her second cousi aud l knew he was the ''othcr fe ltw," whom her father had me- honed.
 "Sesms to me you don't fe
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28

A week filled up with selfish ness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make . good Phariscc, but q poor Chris t,an. There are many persons who think Sunday is . sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28

there, outwardly as quiet as . lamb, inwardly boiling with wrath. It was too much; the deepest trance could not have held out against tue loss of that suit. With ! powerful effort l sprang up and screamed. Jerusha dropped my clothes and her mother, the dus- ter, and both ned from the room and the house, never stopping till they reached Dr. Browns across the street. With difficulty l man. aged to get my clothes. I had just got them fairly on, when Mrs. Jones and her daughter, followed by a numerous company of men, women and children, came peering cautiously into the room. I sat on my board and looked at them. Such | scared looking crowd was enough to amusc an owl, 90 l laughed; l knew it was unbecom- tug, but I couldn't have helped it if they had chucked me in my cofiln-which the undertaken was just carrying past the window and buried me next minute. l laughed till I jared the chair out from under one end of the board and down 1 came with a crash. Then the doctor vcntured into the room, saying rather dnbiously:
 "So you are not dead yc. BenY
 "Wcll, no, not exactly" l re- piled, "sorry to disappolnt my friends about tie funeral, how ever."
 "Yes," he said rather abscntly, "bad, rather-that is-Ahem!"
 "Fooled out of that -colored stripew I thought, as 1 looked at Jerusha-
 "Go and speak with him, said her father, in . staid whisper. "He's got the stamps, and you had better marry him after all."
 They began to gather around me and congratulate me on my e. cape. I noticed that they cried . great deal more now than when I was dead. Jerusha camc and hung around my neck sniveling desperately. Igavc her not over gentle push, and told her to wait next time until l was safely buried before she set her heart on my old clothes.
 70, l am 90 gladr' she said sweetly, without appearing to no tice what l had aaid about the clothes -"that you are not dead, Benny, dear. My heart seemed all withered and brok D to see you lying all cold and white. l wept bitterly over your pale face my bolo ed"
 "Yes," I replied, Il heard you and Bob taking on terribly. It was . lucky die for me-"
 Could you heary' she gasped.
 "I rather think l could, some,' I replied.
 She looked toward the door, but it was crowded full, so she made a dive for the open window, and went through it like deer. She shut herself up in the smoke house, and would not come out until after had left the hous.
 Bob would not fill bis promise of marriage with his cousin be- cause she tried to make up. with me again; 30 she is living a life of single blessedness.
 While l am writing, my wife is cutting up my snuff colored clothes to make . stripe in q new carpet for our front room.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28

"We regret to noticA,' says tho Brooklyn Argus, a growing sni- mostly toward life insurance among middlc-aged hnshands with young wives.r a
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28

The gift of prayer may have praise from men; but 1t is the grace of prayer that has power with God. Dyer.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-08-17

Thou,Dson's Bank-NOtc Reporter. We had
FORGOTTEN il. But Mr.. KELLEY has recalled
II to our attention, and SIC tremble to thlnk
that there are some men who wish to restore
the old State-hsnk system and 1hontpSon s
Bank Note Reporter Did you ever SEGA copy
OF this wonderful monthly, or weekly, 1--WE
have forgotten whch.}i 1t contained page al
ter page OF descriptions OF counterfeit bank
notes. So maIy c2un'crieiis aud o! such
de,cripiion on The Illinois banks. So many
and of such q description on the Indiana
banks. so many and of such a description
on the Ohio banks, the Virginia banks, the
Louisian. banks, the Alabama banks, aud the
banks Of all the other States. Hundreds OIL
toa MS that you had never heard Of were the
seats Of banks whose notes had been counter
feite,,. None but bank-officer and not even
u bank. ifcer oce half the time could tell
goou nnte from bad one. =
And not only were counterfeit notes lol'
lowed up and prescribed as well as described
By Til MrsoS, but upon every page was q
memorandum something like the following
" Bank of MillingtoG, broken. The notes
are genuine, beautifully executed, and such
a. almost every body would take without
dreaming that they could be bad. but there
ia now so such bank" Wildcat money was
to be found everywhere. Good money SUI
fered along with the bad. We once saw q
conductor on the South-Side road refuse to
take tiye.doliar note on bank in Wheeling
from 6. p. r. JAMES though the note was
rs good rs gold. Indeed, a passenger present
gave MIR. JAMES Ave dollar gold.piece for
the Wheeling note.
Pray let us agree that our present currency
is the best we ever had. From Maine to
Texas it passes from hand to band without
any apprehension on the part Of the re-
cever that be will End it set down as worth
less in Thon,psOn's Bank-N0te Reporter.