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The Passions that Induce Disease.

The passions which act most severely on
the physical life are anger, fear, hatred, and
grief. The other passions are comparative
" innocuous. What is called the passion of
love is not injurious until it lapses into
grief and anxiety; on the contrary, it sus-
tains the physical power. What is called
ambition is of itself harmless; for ambition,
when it exists purely, is nobility lifting its
owner entirely from himself into the exalt-
ed service of mankind. 1t Injuries when it
is debased by its meaner ally pride; or
when, stimulating man to too strenuous
efforts after some great object, it leads him
to the performance of excessive mental or
physical labor and to the consequences that
follow such effort
The passion called avarice, according to
my experience, tends rather to the preser
walton of the body than it's deterioration
The avaricious man, who seems to the luxu-
rious world to be debarriDg himself of all
the pleasures Of the world, and even to be
exposing himself to the fangs of poverty, is
generally placing himself in the precise con-
ditions favorable to a long and healthy ex-
istence. By his economy, he is saving him
self from all the worry incident to penury ;
by bis caution he is screening himself from
all the risks incident to speculation or the
attempt to amass wealth by hazardous
means; by his regularity of hours and per-
feet appropriation of the sunlight, in prefer.
encc to artificial illumination, he rests and
works in periods that precisely accord with
the periodicity Of Nature by his absteuii
BUSINESS in living he takes just enough 70
live, which is precisely the right thing to DC
according to the rigid natural law. Thus
in almost every particular, he goes on his
way freer than other men from the external
causes of all the induced diseases, and bet
ter protected than most men from the wors
consequences of thoee diseases which spring
from causes that are uncontrollable.-Dr. b
". Richardson, in Popular Science Monthly
1t never pays to fret and growl
When fortune seems our foe;
The better bred will push ahead
And strike the Drawer blow.
For luck is work,
And those who shirk
Should not lament doom,
But yield the pay,
And clear the way,
That better men have room.
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Mellow Soil Around Trees.

Unless the surface of the ground is mulch,
ed around the young trees over an area of
six to ten feet in diameter, the ground should
be kept clean and mellow. Every farmer
knows that hill of corn or potatoes will not
amount to much unless cultivated, and get
there are many who will neglect to give the
same care to tree which is worth hundred
hills of either of the former. In rich soil,
trees may grow rapidly without cultivation,
and no amount of grass or weeds will retard
them; but there are other things besides
growth to be looked after. If the weeds and
grass are allowed to grow up around the
stems of apple, peach or ounce trees, the
bark will become soft near their base by be-
ing shaded, and thereby be in suitable con.
dition for the reception of the eggs which
will eventually become peach or apple borers.
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The Most Northern Town IN the World

If you will take your maps and look in
the Northern part of Norway you may see
the name Hammerfest there, in small let
ters, but if not, the town itself is situated in
latitude seventy degrees and forty minutes,
so that you will know very nearly where it
is. Well, this little town of two thousand
and fifty-seven inhabitants is said to be the
most northerly one in the world. There are
probably scattered families and individuals
that live farther north, but no more northerly
organized city or village
The princi pal business of the people is
fishing and the manufacture of cod liver oil,
and the odor of the oil makes it very disa-
greeable place to stay in, except for those
who are used to it.
The sun sets there November Is, and rises
January %, so that the children have to 60
to school with lanterns, whenever the moon
doesn't shine, for about six weeks. But
then, again, to make up for it, in the sum-
mer the sun rises June l, and does not set
until July %. We should think the poor
little things would get bewildered and forget
when to go to bed and when to get up. The
long day must be about as unpleasant as the
long night. Still they manage to be as
healthy and as happy as if they went to bed
and arose with the sun every day, as you do,
and would be as unwilling to change places
with you as you would with them.
As for their food, gentleman writing
from there says they have fish and reindeer
for breakfast, reindeer and fish for dinner,
and for supper some more fish and reindeer.
Goats and reindeer abound, but there are
only six horses in the town. Wouldn't you
like to live there ?-Advance.
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"He Carries Them Up Hill. -

Tie other day the children were learning
the twenty-third Psalm, and we were talking
together about the Good Shepherd, and how
He takes care of the sheep and the little
lambs, and inpetuOus Many, eager to speak
her one thought, said rapidly:
ellie feeds them and drives away the lions
and bears
eyes, said Tiny thoughtfully, "and He
carries shem up the hill.
He carries them up the hill.
The words went to my heart with a
strength and sweetness the little speakers
had not dreamed of. Often, often since,
their music has thrilled through my tired
soul like an echo of the angels song.
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Train leaving Richmond at 90 NJ runs daily
Sunday excepted,) stopping at all regular stations
Train leaving Richmond at 80 runs daily,
stopping at Hanover, Louisa, Gordonsvie, Char
lotesville, Ivy, Mediums River, Greenwood Alton
Waynesboro, Stauntop, Goshen, Millboro,' Coving.
ton, and all regular stations west of Allegheny.
Accommodation train leaves Richmond for Cor.
louisville and all intermediate stations daily lex
cept Sunday at 4:S0 P. M.
Pullman sleeping car runs on 9:l0 p NJ. train be
tween Richmond and White Sulphur.
Trains arrive at Richmond as follows:
Express Train daily at.." 70 M
Mail Train daily Except Sunday at....... 40 N
Accom'on Train daily except Sunday at 80 A M
Trains coming into Richmond stop at stations as
above.
Trains make close connection with trains of the
Richmond and Danyille and Richmond and Peters
burg railroad, both to and from Richmond
For through tickets, rates. and information, apply
at 1926 Main street, at the companys office, Broad
street near Sixteenth.
CONWAY R. HOWARD,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent
I'M s. DUNN, Eng'r and Sup't Transportation.
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ingenious Machinery.

A correspondent travelling in Massachu-
sets says the most wonderful piece of ma
chinery be saw was that which cut the peg
and drove it into the heavy boot at the same
time. A strip of wood was placed in the
machine and the sole of the boot underneath.
The peg came down, and, before you could
see it, it was firmly in its place in the sole,
and the man guided it on until the work was
completed The machine for sewed shoes is
also ingenious. 1t is patent, and costs five
hundred dollars. A royalty has to be paid
on every pair of shoes. There is register
connected with the machine. Each pair of
shoes has stamp. Once a month one Of
the agents for the inventor comes around and
examines the register, and compares it with
the number of stamps used. If the two do
not balance correctly, they are made to do 80
before the agent departs. There are thirty
women employed at the small machines,
where fine work is done. The process for
putting on heels is quite interesting, and
that for polishing the heels is curious. A
jet Of gas passes through the fixing, keeping
it hot, which runs by machinery, and rubs
and rubs, until the leather looks black and
bright. 1t requires great many workmeD
and different departments for the cutting,
making, packing and shipping of boots and
shoes Nearly all of the skins used are
tanned and prepared here. French kid and
pebble goatekin are almost the only imported
articles.
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Black Rot Among GRAPES.

Black rot in grapes is one of the diseases
of which we know little beyond the fact OF
its appearance and disastrous results. Like
the pear blight, apple-tree blight and black
rot in apples, it is one of those microscopic
fupgod diseases which appear and disappear,
leaving US no wiser in regard to causes or
cure. We have known the black rot in
grapes to be very destructive in dry seasons,
especially during cool, then again in bot,
moist weather, as in the present summer,
when few varieties have escaped.
The vines during the prevalence of this
disease do not appear to be affected in the
least. The growth may be vigorous, and
the leaves large and healthy, while every
grape on the lunches becomes black and falls
of. The fruit on young vines is as likely to
be affected as those on old in fact our old
est Concorda, planted some thirteen years
ago, are we'll loaded with healthy fruit, while
that on younger vines has nearly all disap-
peared Rogers Hybrids are total failure
this season, the black rot making clean
sweep of the different varieties. The Martha
is not affected, neither is the Clinton nor
the Delaware, although all stand in close
proximity to others which have rotted badly.
Sulphur is frequently recommended as a
preventive against this disease, and we have
seen it tried with apparently good effect
But the price at which the best varieties OF
grapes have sold during the past few years
is rather strong argument against spending
much time in attempting to ward off disease
The vineyardist, however, runs no greater
risk in raising grapes than the orchardist
with his pears, apples and other larger kinds
of fruits, for all are liable to fail occasional
ly, and when everybody has an abundant
crop, prices are certain to run low.--Rura
New Yorker.
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4pnsRhpld aEntd5.
THE LITTLE HAND.


The following beautiful lines were written by
9onoria Marshall. wife Of Sir Henry Lawrence OF
ne British East India service. They may prove
profitable reading, not only TO the young, but 70 All
Who see this paper.
That hand Of thine, my precious child,
How Oft its soft earess l WOO.
And ask, with many hope and fear,
What is that little hand TO do
How duetile, soft, unwOrn by toll,
The ready instrument Of play,
Il executes the faneies quaint
That makes thy life one holiday.
It rolls the ball, it guides the pen,
And eiphers strange can deity trace;
And on, with warm affections gush
It fondly strokes my careworn face.
The mimic arms it well can Weld,
And rein thy small and steady steed;
And when we con the lettered page
Points to the tiny words we read.
And in thy parents hands tbs elasped,
When night and morn our prayer IS prayed
And pillows Oft thy rosy cheek
When slumber's spell is on thee laid.
Twill not be always thus, my boy,
For real life has other tasks;
What IS that little hand to DO
Once mora lhy ySasaipG mother asks.
Isit to guide the seaman's helm,
Or point the gun mid flashing swords F.?
Or will it WELD the student pen,
And clothe thy thoughts in living words
win it be hard and worn with toll,
Or pale with sickness hvid hue?
o, could thy mothers heart divine
What is that little hand to do
But might her fervent prayer prevail,
UnsulHed should that hand remain,
Clean from eorruption's filthy touch,
And pure from every sinful stain.
Still ready for thy Masters work,
The servant of q willing mind,
More prompt to give than to receive,
And grasped in many greeting kind.
And may another hand be found
To hold it in loves welded grasp
And may the hands which GOO then joins
Be one till death shall lose their clasp.
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ID edmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
IL Route.

ID edmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
IL Route.
ON AND AFTER DECEMBER 18th, 1874, mail
trains on this road will run as follows:
2.36 P. M. DAY MAIL leaves Byrd.Street station
daily, connecting with the steamer Key.
port at Quantico, with trains of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at their
wharf opposite Alexandria-due in Bal.
timore at 800 m; and at Washington
with the Baltimore and Potomac rail.
road for Baltimore and the North and
West
11:1OP. M. NIGHT MAIL leaves BYRD. Street sta.
ton. Except on Sundays,) connecting
at Washington with the Baltimore and
Potomac and Baltimore and Ohio Rail.
roads.
6:O5 P. M. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN for Han.
over junction leaves Broad-Street sta
ton Except on Sundays.)
5:O5 A. M. NIGHT MAIL, arrives at Byrd.Street
station Except on Mondays)
1:3O P. M. DAY MAIL arrives at Byrd Street sta
ton daily.
S:37 A. M. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN arrives
at Byrd-Street station Except Sundays J
FREIGHT TRAINS leave and arrive at Broad.
street station on Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday
nights for all points North and West
Through bills lading and rates given to all princ
pal points North and West.
By order of General Superintendent.
c. A. TAYLOR,
General Ticket and Freight Agent.
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THE PRINCE OF WALES on his trip to India,
make Rome, Athens, and Alexandria in
Egypt his way stations for refreshment. He
takes six carriage horses besides number
of hunters, from his stables. During the
voyage on the Scraps the Princes table will
be supplied with milk from two COWS belong.
ing to his Royal Highness. The Scraps has
taken two Orkney heifers, thirteen sheep,
and three pigs, designed as presents for the
King of Greece.
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Take any dozen young apple trees in the sec,
tons where the apple-borer is abundant, and
allow a portion to be choked with weeds and
the remainder we'll cultivated, and then watch
the result. From our own experience, we
believe that the chances are nine to one IN
favor of those cultivated being exempt from
this pest Western Farmer.
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LEsSoN XXXVII.

BY REV. JAMES B. RAMSEY, D. D.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-28
Thoughts for Saturday Night.

Temptation is never dangerous until
it has an inside accomplice. Sin within
betrays the heart to the outside assail-
ant.
If tomorrow you should want, your
sorrow would come in time enough,
though you do not hasten it /; let your
trouble tarry till its own day comes.
The Joy resulting from the diffusion of
blessings to all around us is the purest
and sublimest that can ever enter the
human mind, and can be conceived only
by those who have experienced it,
Idleness is the dead sea that swallows
up all virtues, and the self-made sepul-
chre of a living man. The idle man is
the devils urchin, whose livery is rags,
and whose diet and wages are famine
and disease.
What we habitrate ourselves to ad-
mire, we love to associate with and
what we associate with, we gradually
initiate, and adopt its features into our
loves. They who associate with the
good are much stronger than they who
alone go out to fight the evil.
Enjoy the present, whatever it may
be, and be not solicitous for the future ;
for if you take your foot from the pres
ent standing, and thrust it forward to to-
morrows event, you are in a restless
condition. 1t is like refusing TO quench
your present thirst by fearing you will
want to drink the next day.
Were the happiness of the next world
as closely apprehended as the felicities
of this, it were martyrdom to live 4; and
unto such as consider none hereafter, it
must be more than death to die, which
makes us amazed at those audacities that
burst be nothing and return unto the
chaos again.
Every true hero grows by patience.
People who have always been prosper
Gus are seldom the most worthy and
never the most strong. He who has not
been compelled to suffer has probably
not begun to learn how to be magnani-
nous, as it is only by patience and forti-
tude that we can know what it is to over
come evils, or feel the pleasure of for
giving them.
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A Boys Composition.
LOBSTERS.

It is cewrius about these fellers that
they never git their natcherel cutler til
they have been billed awile in OF water,
but wen thave been dun that they git
red like sealn wacks, but you wuddent
stick nonvloap with Holsters, Wot ]
won to knoe is what Holsters is, for they
aint fishes, and they aint beestsee, and
they aint bird, cos they don't lay eggs
and fiji. Its no good asIin my father,
cos hede say you go and fetch me q
nice one billed, and lie see if L can fine
out for you, Johnny. He helps me lit
tier, my father does, about ritin this
than all most any boldly, and don't see
he is much use any how. If was my
mother wud thro him way.
A wicked feller he thot it wude be Q
funny thing to give his girl booquay OF
posies with lobster into it, wich wude
pinch her nose, but vile he was takin
it to her house he forgot and smelt it his
own sef, and wen he was howlin cos
the lobster had got him, pleaseman
come up and said wot was the matter.
But Wen he see the lobster hangin on
the mans noze, for the hours had fel of,
he said the pleaseman did, wy don't you
use hanchkif, you dirty feller, and wen
the man said how can l, the pleaseman
he said you shet up, was a tollkin tc
the lobster.
Uncle Ned he says Holsters is the best
drivers in the world, for there aint nc
animal but wich vii go wen a lobster
takes hold of their tails and tells 'em tc
gee up. Once there was a lobster and q
dog, and they fot fite. But fore they
began the lobster, wien was in the water,
got down close to the bottem, and said
now come on. But the dog it said you
know vel enuf cant git at you, you got
to come on your own self. Then the
lobster it said how coud it git out on the
bank, you put your tail in the water
and give me lift. So the dog did, and
the lobster trke hole of the dogs tale
and pintched as hard as ever it coud, and
the dog struck out eros the fiels, yelp-
in pretty loud [ can tel you, and dron
the lobster behine. Wen it had run til
it cudden go no more it stop, and there
wassent no lobster left excep jus one OF
its cloz, wich fel of wen the dog stop.
Then the dog see it and said you mean
little feller, you have spile nice fite be-
tween me and lobster
Wen you see lobster in the water il
is all ways on the pint of swimmin real
fast, for it keeps a backin and a backin
to git good start, bu' L never see one
yit wich cude make up it's mine to be
off. One kind is call grayfish, tho
NOSE foxes col it croffish. If 1 cuddent
say things right Ide sell out, that's how
| look at it.