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The New York herald., 1876-11-06
PARK THEATRE.

BOOTHS THEATRE.
sARDANAPALUS, at 4. NJ. Mr.. Bangs and NrA Agnes
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BROOKLYN THEATRE.
LONG STRIKE, Mt 8 +. NJ Mr.. Stoddard, Miss Rogers.
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IQelT l6tucIS dAu tuAb Ia III CiSCbAOA
which the two parties have made substan-
TALLY the same declarations of policy in
their respective platforms. Could there be
a more melancholy demonstration of the
untamable ferocity of party spirit, or more
signal vindication Of the grave warnings of
Washington?
A still more noteworthy evidence of the
headlong tendencies of party spirit is fur
nished by its conquest Of portion of the
American press from which something bet
ter might have been expected. Immediately
after the Presidential election of 1872 quite a
number of the ablest and most widely cir
culated newspapers in the United States
enlisted under the banner Of inde-
pendent journalism. Nothing ever gave
us greater pleasure, since we believe it to
be one important Office of the press to mod
crate the heat of party contests, check
the excesses of party spirit, and,
to repeat the language of Washington,
'by force Of public opinion to mitigate and
assuage it," The prosperous journals of the
country have no pecuniary temptation to
lend themselves to partisan objects. The
day is long past when tho leading journals
of our larger cities needed to court the favor
or fear the frowns of politicians. But our
Joy in seeing so many journals ranged on
the side OF independence was premature and
short lived. 'They did run well for sea-
son;" but they have nearly all succumbed to
PARTY spirit In The Asst aesious trial. pusina
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SHORTNEss OF LIFE.-Pliny makes a
striking computation in regard to the
shortness of life. We never recall it with.
out being powerfully impressed by its
truth. "Consider," he says. 1.-THE time
spent in sleep, and you will find that a
NAH actually lives only half his space. The
other half passes in a state resembling
death. You do not take into the account
the years of infancy, which are destitute OF
reason, nor the MANY diseases and the
many Cares of old age, those penalties of
longevity, The senses G, ow dull, the limbs
are racked, the sight, the hearing, the pow
er Of walking the teeth, also, die before US;
and yet all u:iis time IS reckoned in the Pc
riod of life.''
But, short aslife is at the best, those who
complain Of its brevity let it slide by them
without wishing to seize and make the
most of golden moments. How much time
do we Waste in indecision, in vain regrets,
delusive hopes and ungrounded fears
What vast portion of our previous exis-
tence is wasted IN mere waiting ! waiting
for something that seemsnecessary for our
happiness, and the want of which prevents
us from enj ying the present hour.
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THE LORDS PRAYER.-I used to think
Jie Lord Prayer was short prayer; but,
is live longer, and see more of life, be-
gin to believe there is no such thing us
getting through it. If a man, in praying
that prayer, were to be stopped at every
word, until he thoroughly prayed it, it
would take a lifetime. ''Our Father
there would be wall a hundred feet high
in just those two words to most men. If
they might say, ''Our Tyrant," or "Our
Monarch or even ''Our Creator" they
could get along with it: but "Our Father"
why, the man is almost SAINT who can
pray that. You read, "Thy will b. DONE"
and you say to yourself. "Oh! can pray
that" and all the time your mind. goes
round i'll immense circuits and far-o1 dis
tances. But God is continually bringing
the circuit nearer to you, till he says,
"How is it about your temper and your
pride? How is it about your business and
your daily life?" This is revolutionary
petition. 1t would make any mans shop
or store tumble to the ground to utter it..
Who can stand at the end of the avenue,
along which all his pleasant thoughts and
wishes are blossoming, like flowers, and
send these terrible words, 'Thy will be
done," crushing down through it?
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A TRUTHFUL SKETCE.-Let man fail
in business, what an effect it has on hi
former creditors! Men who have takel
him by the arm. laughed and chatted witt
him by the hour, shrug their shoulder
and pass on with cold "How do you do?'
Every trife of bill is hunted up and pre-
scented that would not have seen the ligh
for months to come, but for the misfor
tunes Of the debtor. If it is paid, wei
and good: if not, the scowl of the sheriff
perhaps, meets him at the corner. A MAJ
that has meyer failed knows but little OF
human nature.
In prosperity he sails along gently, watt.
ed by favoring smiles and kind words from
everybody. He prides himself on his nam'
and spotless character, and makes his
boast that he has not an enemy in TIT
world. Alas! the change. He looks al
I the world in different light when re
J verses come upon him. He hardly knows
how Co move, or to do this thing or thu
other; there are spies about him, writ il
ready for his back. To know what kinti
of stuff the world is made of, a man mus
be unfortunate and stop paying once il
his lifetime. If he has kind friends, then
they are made manifest. A failure is d
moral sieve; it brings out the wheat ant.
| shows the chaff. A man thus learns tina
words and pretended good will are not and
do not constitute real friendship.
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ORIGIN OF THE WORD "PRoTEsTANT. .
With the month of April is associated
the derivation and dissemination in for
NAL and official manner of the designation
of Protestant. The Emperor Charles The
Fifth called a Diet, at Spires, i'll 1j29. to
request aid from the German princes
against the the Turks. and to devise means
to allay the disputes growing cut of LII
theirs rebellion against Catholicism. The
Diet condemned the reformers and issued
a decree in support of the doctrines Of the
ancient Church. Against this decree six
Lutheran princes and the deputies of thir-
teen towns of the Empire formerly pro
tested on April II, $780, From this act
the designation of Protestant, which was
then gi ven to the followers Of Luther, is
derived. The Calvinists were subsequent
ly included, and the title became general
for all the sects outside the original Chris
tan Church. The six protesting princes
were John and George, the Electors OF
Saxony and Brandenburg; Ernest and
Francis, the two Dukes of Lunenburg;
the Landgraye of Hesse, and the Prince of
Anhalt.
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DAMAGED MEN.-You can see any day
in the streets of any city, men who look
damaged. Men, too, of good orr ginal ma
terial, who started out in life with gene
rous aspirations; once it was said that they
were bright, promising la DIS; once they
looked happily into the faces of mothers,
whose daily breath was "a prayer for their
purity and peace. All whgt if some of
them have vowed their souls away to con-
tiding wives who silently wonder what can
be the meaning of this change-the cold,
slow-creeping shadows--that is coming
over the house and heart.
Going to the bad; the spell of evil COM
partnership the willingness to hold and
use money not honestly gained; the steal
thy, seductive, plausible advance of the ap-
petite for strong drink; the treacherous
fascination Of the gaming table; the grad
ual loss of interest in business, and in do
ings which build men up; the rapid weak
ening of all noble purposes; the decay Of
manliness the recklessness and blasphemy
against fate; the sullen despair Of ever
breaking the chains Of evil habits. What
victories of shame and contempt, what
harvest of hell, have grown from such seed
AS this
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TEACHING CHILDREN COURAGE.-Co ur
. a vital element of Christi.n chivalry.-
Without it, indeed, neither truth nor fidel-
'ty to promise can b. hoped for. The COW
.rd is sure to lie when truth means punish
nent, and sure to retreat from his engage.
nents when they involve peril. We need
Valiant souls that have learned to endure
md scorn pain, and to face danger fear
essly and promptly when duty requires
some parents evade this vital part of train
ing by CLOSES and deception. A mother
Who has taken her boy to the dentists to
.et tooth out will often say, if he is
shrinking, sit still, my boy, it won't hurt
you" Now she knows it will hurt him,
nut thinks it she can only get him by this
levice to sit still and let the dentist get
;lold of the tooth, then his discovery of the
pain will not hinder its extraction. This
is double mistate. 1t destroys her boys
confidence in her: for he detects her in a
lie. And, though it gets the boy this time
to sit still, it is under deluSi0n that there
is to be no pain, whereas he should be
caught to face the pain and to scorn it,
This makes the difference between the
towards and the heroes. A regiment of
poltroons could march up to a battery as
;heerfully as regiment of heroes, if they
Thought there Was no enemy at the guns.
the difference is that the heroes know the
llnger aud yet face it valiantly.
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! DON'T WORRY ABOUT YOURSELF
The journal of Health" says: To regain
| or recover health, persons should be re
lieved from all anxiety concerning dis
eases. The MUD has power over the body
For person to think he has isease will
often produce that disease This we see
effected when the mind is intensely con-
centrated upon the disease of another. It
is found in the hospitals that surgeons
and physicians who make speciality of
certain diseases are liable to die of it
themselves, and the mental power is 80
great that sometimes people die of dis
eases which they only have in magma
ton. We have seen persons seasick in an
ticipation of a voyage before reaching the
vessel. We have known person to die Of
cancer in the stomach when he had no
cancer or any other mortal disease. A
blindfold man Slightly pricked in the arm
has tainted and died from believing that
he was bleeding to cath. Therefore, well
persons, to remain we'll. should be cheerful
and happy, and sick persons should have
their attention drawn as much as possible
from themselves. 1t isIby their faith men
are saved, and it is by their faith men die.
IF he wills not to die he can often live in
spite of disease; and if he has little or no
attachment to life, he will slip away as
easily as child will fall asleep. Men live
by their souls, and not by their bodies
Their bodies have no life of themselves;
they are only resources of life-tenements
of their souls. The will has much to do
in continuing the physical occupancy or
giving it up.
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ALL FOB THE REsT.-Qr. johnson used
to say that a habit of looking at the best
side of every event is better than thou
sand dollars year. Bishop Hall quantity
remarked, ''For every bad, there might be
a worse; and when man breaks his leg,
let him be thankful that it was not his
neck.o When Fenelon's library was on
fire, "God be praised, he exclaimed, ''that
it is not the dwelling of some poor man ~
This is the true spirit of submission-one
of the most beautiful traits that can pos
sess the human heart. Resolve to see this
world on its sunny side, and you have al
most half won the battle of life at the
outset.
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ExrRAvAGANCE.-A your purse, not
your prile, what you shall buy. Let not
desire to excel your neighbor in display,
run you into lavish expenditures. There is
no foible so attractive for the time as ex-
travagance. People call it liberality, noble
ness of spirit and enlarged views; they
look Oh with admiration, as they do at u
brilliant display Of fireworks, but the fire
once spent, then comes the reaction. Dress
IS perhaps the greatest medium of extr ava
gance. Shakespeare, Fuller, and many
old and standard writer's advise display,
and costly attire, but it is very quesriona-
bly, policy in a republic like ours, where it
is sure to provoke envy ard Distinction
This is one of the means of those who ex-
pend so much self-denial and thought to
keep up the show of what they have not,
while one-half the same labor expended in
restricting themselves to the hardest reali
ties would be to much better effect. And
yet we would have no reader of ours foster
or practice a niggardly spirit. The fact is,
it is the same with our expenditures as
with our enjoyment-pleasure and diet
ought to be in perfect harmony, bearing a
just proportion to each other, for while
immediate pleasure puts nature into dis
order, So also "a sparing and dry way of
living dulls the spirit and faculties. And
thus, while undue lavishness tends to de-
range ones means and leads to many evils
so likewise mean and parsimonious spi-
/ it tends to render US blunted unto all good
influences, and shuts us out from the con-
partnership and regard of our fellow-men.
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NOVEL READING.--Theid ideal world in
to which we 20 for relief from our daily
drudgery may reflect light upon ordinary
things. Or I'd .ybe in an enervating region
OF periodical lotus eating. Some people
might think that their sympathy for Oil
yer Twist excused them from caring about
any flesh and blood sufferer. Others might
be enabled to see more wildly sorrows
which they had previously passed over be-
cause embodied in commonplace outside.
It is impossible to lay down any precise
rules upon such questions everybody has
to learn for himself what is the discipline
which best suits his own case, and the
wisest general maxims are of very little
service.
Yet, without referring to individual ca
ses, there are some marks suffi GENTLY char
a cteristic of the school which fosters the
morbid tendency. Art, which is too much
divorced from reference to the actual world
shows its sickness by unmistakable symp-
toms. 1t suffers from the blight of senti-
mentalism or sensatiOnalism. When peo-
pie begin to pet and cocker their fine feel
ings, and to take delight in weeping for
the sake of weeping, we may be pretty sure
that they are losing "a proper hold upon
world in which there is always sufficient
cause for melancholy without creating ar
tificial misery. When they delight in de-
scriptions of the horrible Or the nauseous,
it is plain enough that suc;l dram-drinking
implies deprayed appetite, or, in other
words. hardening Of the natural emo
lions. When such tendencies are strongly
marked, as is generally the case with de-
Ginning schools, we cannot doubt that the
pleasure is of an en- eryating tendency.
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MRS H. SCHERER.

MRS H. SCHERER,
LADIES' FAHTONARLE HAIR DRESSING,
III. q. FrLTZ'S OLD STAND,
NEW STREET,
STANTON, VIRGINIA.
MRS. SCH ERER informs the Ladies of Stauu-
ton that she is prepared to carry on HAIR
DRESSING in all its branches; will make over
old Hair into NEW AND FASHION Bile
STYLES, DRESS AND SHAMPOO HEADS.
and guarantee perfect satisfaction. COMBINES
made up into BEAUTIFUL CURLS, BRAIDS,
CHIGNONS, &c.
n Always on hand large assor tment
BRAiDS from So up
N. ordsls promptly executed. oe22.<t
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Poetry.
LOOKING BACK.

LOOKING BAOk.
l said, Ii might go back az ain
To the very hour and place of my birth;
Might have my life whatever chose,
And live it III any part of the earth
Put perfect sunshine into my sky;
Banlsh the shadow OF sorrow and doubts
Have all my happiness multiplied,
And all my suffering stricken out
If could have known, in the years now gone.
The best that woman comes to know;
Could have had whatever will make her blessed,
Or whatever she thinks will make her So
Have found the highest and purest bliss
That the brilal wreath an ring enclose;
And gained the one out of all the wo Id
That my heart as well as my reason hose;
And if this had been, and stood tonight,
By my Gil ildren, lying asleep in their beds.
And count i'll my prayers, for a rOs ry,
The shining rows of their golden heads
Yes, l said, if a miracle such as this
Could be wrought for me, at my bidding, still
IIyould choose to have my Past as 1t Is,
nd let my Future come as it will.
1wo,7ld not make the path have trod
More pleasant, or even more straight or wide;
Nor change my course the breadth Of an hair
This way or that way, to either side.
Ny Past is mine! and take it all
It's we akness-it's folly, if you please:
Nay! eve my sins, if you come to that,
May have been my helps, not hi. drances!
II saved ny body from the flames,
Because hat once had burned my hand.
Or kept mys elf from a greater sin,
BY doing Iess-you will understand
1t was better suffered a little pain;
Better sinned for little line,
II the smartinG warned me back from death,
And the ling OF sin Withheld from crime.
Who knows its strength by trial will know
What strength must be set ag ainst a sin;
And how temptation is overcome,
He has learned, who has felt it S power within.
And who knows how a life at the last may show?
Why, look at the moon from where we stand!
Opaque, uneven, you say; yet it shines,
luminous sphere, complete and grand!
So let my past stand just as it stands.
And let me know as may grow old;
Il am what am, an my life for me
Is the best-or it had not been, hold.
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LET us honor the great empire of silence
once more,-the boundless treasury which
we do not jingle in our pockets, OF count
up, and present before men. 1t is, per-
haps, of all things, usefulest for each Of us
to do in these loud times.-Thomas Car
I'LL
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-01-07

To know how to keep tidy house and
well-aired appointments; to know how to
select the best kinds of food; to know how
to prepare them in the best manner-tlese
are first things, and every daughter should
learn them before marriage.-W ". Hall.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-01-07

There is a lady in New York who will
not permit her children to eat an ything of
which Indian meal constitutes an ingre-
dent, for fear that it will make them saw
ages
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SYNODICAL "REMINISCENCES. THE
"Young Virginian," in its &C count OF the
late meeting of the SYNOD of Virginia, in
otauntOn, says:
Messrs. Witherspoon. VIM. Dinwiddie,
Leyburn, Dabney, Bullock, Alexander and
Murkland were listened to with great in
terest. In speaking Of ministers in gen
eral terms, some one has cl IS ,ified them as
follows: Those who preach self; those who
preach self an Christ; those who preach
Christ and self; anl those WHO preach
Christ alone. 1t has been int: mated also
that the same persoa may, in tn, course Of
his ministerial experience illustrate all
these phases of preaching service. If there
were any of the first and second class of
preachers in our Synod, we failed to dis
cover them. We venture the )inion the
most we heard might be assigned to the
third class, but it will not he long ere they
shall emerge into the fourth class by the
grace of God, jud .ing from their excellent
spirit. The minister who expoun led the
scene at Jacobs Well came so near Show
ing himself fourth class preacher that he
nay b. justly regarded as such. Fourth
class preachers rarely or never make apo.
logies, or tone things dowa by polishing
III a few words about the dignity and
'anctity of fathers and brethren. They
81 nply preach the preaching they are COM
handed, in lowness of mind and humility
Il spirit that make themselves appare mt.
There is room for an artist to improve
when he finds it needful to label the flower
ie paints. So we think when person has
o pause and tell US that he is very humble
md very deferential, it leaves room for a
suspicion that he is a third class preacher.
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1T Is very well to blush when you are
detected in mean act; but you had a
great deal better blush when you think of
committing it.
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IF the best mans faults were written on
his forehead, he would draw his hat over
his eyes. Gray.
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"WHosoEvER quarrels with his fate
does not understand it, says Bettine; and.
among all her inspired sayings, she spoke
none wiser.
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"Nettie.' whispered the voice, ''Nettie.
want you.''
Then this girl-this Nancy Smitf--start-
ed. trembling, to her feet, and knelt beside
| him. Her face was close to his eyes, now
opened, and he looked at her.
"Nettie," he said again-"Nettie," then
burst into feeble, quivering laugh, and
clasped her about the neck. "My darling y
| he said.
And she cried out:
sob, Charlie, do you know me, and love
me ~ And she took his head upon her
breast.
ssI've been very sick, haven't II" he
said.
Eyes, very" said she.
ssI've had a dream, or been crazy" he
said. (which is it? thought you were
dead. Oh, Nettie, it was horrible! l
thought was at sea. I-why can it be a
dream? No, it was no dream. Pm crazy
now. Yet this is Nettie." He passed his
hand over her head.
s'Nettie, your hair is CUT" he said.
"Your-your pretty little face has marks
on it, it never had before. Nettie, what
does 1t mean"
She turned the light high and lifted it
and held it to her face.
"You see plainly?'' she said.
sOf course,'' said he. "Why, my dear
little girl, haven't dreamed that part of
the letter. You've had the small pox, only
you didn't die. What does it all meanY
Am entirely crazy? Have l been?"
''And you love me?,' she persisted. "You
love me?'
"My precious little wife. how can help
it? It's part of me to love you," he said.
"Then it means that have been crazy,
not you,' said she. sob! Charlie, you
know you said you could not love me if
was ugly. So, when found 1 should be ST.
terribly marked, and lose all my hair,
just wrote to you that was dead. I went
away l was a servant here when you
were brought in, and [ didn't think that
you'd know me.''
"Then have lived that year Of misery,
said Charlie. sob! Nettie, Nettie!''
Then he cried out, almost angrily:
sWhat fool I was. l made no in.
quiries-I did not even see the doctor, OF
discover where they had, as l supposed,
buried you! l should have fathomed your
scheme at once if had--though we were
strangers in the city. How could you
Nettie?"
All Nettie answered was: "You said YOU
wouldn't love me if 1 was ugly, and !
couldn't bear it,"
Mrs. Boston just then entering unexpect.
eddy explanations became highly necessary.
Aud the doctor said the excitement should
have killed 50 very sick a man. But it did
not.
The reunited couple were soon able tt
return to their deserted home, and have
another honeymoon. And it is a fact.
that though all the rest Of the world knows
very we'll that Nettie's face is not so pretty
as it used to he, Charles does not, for tn.
beauty that love sees comes from the rosy
light of the glasses that it wears, and s,
endures.
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HEis bold man who dares lash the
vices of his own friends.
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In France, they have saying that "to-
bacco is the tomb of love;'' and, if it is
not true, it ought to be.
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NEW DRUG STORE.
have just commenced the
DRUG BUSINESS!

And with my knowledge of seven or eight
Jears experience in the practice of medicine,
and with he assistance of Mr.. FRANK H.
LIN z, an experienced Druggist, feel assured
'ha's / can give satisfaction.
~ l respectfully ask trial, and hope
m A. prove worthy of your patronage and con-
dence
UNDER CLINEDINST'S PHOTOGRAPH
GALLERY,
MAIN STREET, STANTON, Va.
jas If G s. WALKER.