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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-28
FOR SUNDAY.
Cumbered About Much Serving.


Christ never asks of us such busy labor 1
AS leaves no time for resting at His feet:
The waiting attitude of expectation, rr
He oft times counts a service most complete.
He sometimes wants our ear-our rapt atten-
That He some sweet secret may impart; y
IT'S always in the time of deepest silence, m
That heart fnds deepest fellowship with
heart.
We sometimes wonder why our Lord doth
withis sphere so narrow, so obscure.
That nothing We call work can find an en-
There's only room to sUffer-to endure.
Wen. God loves patience! Souls that dwell in
stillntss,
Doing the little things, or resting quite,
May just as perfectly fulfill their mission,
Be just as useful in the Fathers sight.
AS they who grapple with some giant evil,
Clearing path that every eve may see!
Our saviour cares for cheerful acquiescence,
Rather than for busy ministry.
And yet, He does love service, where tits
By grateful love that clothes itself in deed;
But work that's done beneath the scourge of
Be sure sure to such He gives but little heed.
Then seek to please Him, whatso'er He bids
whether to do-to suffer-to lie stini
Twill matter little by what path he led us,
If in 1t we sought to do His Will
The Rev. Phillips Brooks, in one of his
Yale lectures on preaching" tells story
of a backwOodsman. who, after hearing an
extemporaneous sermon from Bishop Meade
protestant Episcopal, remarked: ''He is
the first of them petticoat fellers that have
ever seen that can shoot without rest"
Two things characterize every church that
is in the highest condition of spiritual
health. The one is that they all worship,
the other is that they all work. The first
appertains more directly to the heart; the
second apperIains as well to the head the
hands and purse. The fullest combination
of the two would almost reach the ideal of
church life in its highest form.-Theodore
Cuyler.
o Lord, if-lest should be proud and
should say in my prosperity shall never
be moved-it pleaseth Thee to tempt me,yet
forsake me not over-long that's, if Thou hast
forsaken, me and may know how weak am
without Thy help, yet forsake me not utter
~, lest perish know that of Thy good
will Thou hast given me strength; and if
Thou turnest away Thy face from me shall
forthwith be troubled. o. forsake me not,
that perish not-Augustine. ilr
When occasions of extraordinary interest
arise in the church, the very men who are
best fitted and readiest to take hold of the
enlarged work are the men who have never
lost their grip Of the work when it was lit
tie work. 1t is Gideon who looks after the
fleece when the fleece is dry, and it is Gideon
who wrings bowlfuls of heavenly dew out of
1t when God has wetted it. It was Peter
who preached to the hundred and twenty in
Jerusalem before Pentecost, and it is Peter
who evangelizes the thousands when the
day OF Pentecost is fully come.-Hanna.
What you need. dear friend, is courage.
You ought to be in fact what Mr.. Great
heart rightly named) is in Bunyan's "Pil-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-28
The wabash and Erie.

The Chicago Times has dispatch from
Wabash in this state saying that the follow
ing call has been issued for a meeting to
rejuvenate the Wabash and Erie canal:
1--WE ask a meeting of farmers, factory
men, millers, lumbermen, shippers, and all
others interested in the industry of Wabash
valley and cheap freights, to meet at Wabash
on Wednesday, Feb uary %, 1877, to confer
as to what is necessary to put the old canal
in and keep it in use. 1t is now plain that
the pretended sale last year was meant to
abandon the canal 1t is now going to
waste Though the canal is the property of
the people of Wabash valley, paid for by us
in buying our lands in the wilderness at
from So so to 81 per acre, when all other
lands in the state were sold for 81 %, the
state, which was the guardian for us to build
it, has agreed to sell it away from us to pay
her other old debts. The state, to-
day refuses to touch 1t. No private
parties can. The ten counties OF
Allen, Huntington, Wabash, Miami, Cass,
Carroll, Tippecanoe, Fountain, Parke and
Vigo. with population of half million,
taxable property in 1870 of $142, 933, $50, pro-
ducing grain annually to the amount of
16. 1872, $50 bushels besides an amount of
meat and cattle, hogs and sheep, are suf-
ficient in numbers wealth and industry to
be respectfully heard. By the act of con-
gress Of 1924, which granted the right OF way,
it is expressly provided that if the state does
not keep up the work of navigation all her
right shall be forfeited. We can now ask
congress to rescind this grant, take control
of the work in spite of everybody, and make
il what it was meant to be, a navigable high
way from Lake Erie to the navigable waters
of the Wabash, so that by means of 1t q
loaded barge of sugar, cotton and tobacco
from New Orleans and Memphis can be
landed without transferring at Toledo. ,.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-28
Our Nefghbor's Comment.
TPeru Times and SENTINEL

The indianapolis Sentinel comes to us inn
proved in all its departments, and as fam
lily paper. is unequalled by any in the state:
1t gives a full summary of national and
state news, and as a weekly paper, it has few
equals and no superiors in the west. 8, s|
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-28

A New York lecturer on health ridicules
the Grahamite system He recommends less
starch and more mastication, less tea anil
more milk. He said bran bread had killed
nearly all of his family, and rendered TWEEN
ty-five years of his own life miserable before
he discarded 1t.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-28

grim's Progress" You are entirely too
timid and responding. When you take a
bold step forward, lol ''there is a lion in the
way" and you stop and your cheek grows
pale. Go forward and you will find the lion
chained, and If not, why you can chain him
if you will. Never give way if you are in
the right path-neyer give wayl Forward,
not backward, lies in the path of usefulness
and honor, the path on which rests the light
of heaven Methodist
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-06-01
Singular Flight Of Birds.

Captain Bearse, of the steamer Glau-
Gus, relates curious incident of his
last trip from New York to Boston.
While passing through Long Island
Sound, on Tuesday night, the sky being
thick with smoke from the forest fires
to the southwark, it was observed, after
nine o'clock, that the air was full of
birds apparently bewildereda and in search
of a resting place. Attracted by the
glare of the ships lights they steered
their fight toward the vessel, and,
striking against the masts or the house,
fell dead upon the deck. A few of them
were found to be alive. About two
hundred in all were picked up on the
deck, representing thirteen different
kinds of forest birds. During five hours
they continued to drop on the vessel,
she going at the time full twelve knots
per hour, and multitudes of the poor
creatures must have perished in the
water. 1t is probable that the birds
were driven from Long Island by the
extensive forest fires, and were flying
over the Sound for shelter.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-06-01
Nothing is more easy than to gr

Nothing is more easy than to grow
rich. 1t is to trust nobody, to befriend
none, to get everything and save all you
get, to stint ourselves and everybody
belonging to us, to be the friend of no
man and to have no man for our friend,
to heap interest upon enterest, to be
mean, miserable and despised, for some
twenty or thirty years, and riches will
come as surely rs disease and disap-
pointment. And, when pretty near
enough wealth is collected by disre-
gard of all the charities of the human
heart, and at the expense of every en-
joyment, save that Of indulging in mis-
cradle meaness, death comes to finish
the work, and the body is buried in n
hole, the heirs rejoice over it, and the
spirit goes-whither.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-06-01
Learn the Value Of Money

A silver dollar represents days
work Of the laborer. 1t is given to q
boy; he has no idea OF what it has cost
or OF what it is worth. He would be as
likely to give dollar as dime for a
top or any other toy. But if the boy
has learned to earn the dimes and dol
lars by the sweat of his face he knows
the difference. Hard work is to him a
measure of values that can never be
rubbed out Of his mind. Let him learn
ny experience that hundred dollars re-
presents hundred weary days labor
and it seems great sum Of money; a
thousand dollars is q fortune and ten
thousand is almost inconceivable, for it
s s more than he ever expects to possess.
"hen he has earned dollar, he thinks
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-06-01
Webster and the Stage Driver.

On one occasion Webster was OH his
way to his duties at Washington. He
was compelled to proceed at night by
stage from Baltimore. He had no tray
elling companion, and the driver had a
sort of felon look which produced no
inconsiderable alarm in the Senator 81
endeavored to tranquilize myself said
Webster, "and had partially succeeded,
when we reached the dark woods be-
tween Bladensburg and Washington
a proper scene for murder or outrage
and here, 1 confess, my courage again
deserted me. Just then the driver
turned to me, and, with a gruff voice,
inquired my name. gave it to him.
Where are you goingP' said he. The
reply was, ITO Washington, am a
Senator Upon this the driver seized
me fevervently by the hand, and ex-
claimed, How glad am! have been
trembling in my seat for the last hour;
for when looked at you, took you to
be highwayman."
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-06-01
CHEYENNE PoSToFFIcE.
Office Hours-arrivaI and Departure Of MAJ


Until further notice the Postoffice will be
open for delivery and reception of mail mat
ter from O. m. to p. m. daily, except Sun
days, and OH Sundays from to 10 n. m, and
from to p. m. Omaha time is the time OF
the office.
Money order and register departments open
from q. m. to p. m. daily, except Sundays.
Western malls close daily at LILO p. m. Ar
rive at $3.50 p. m.
Eastern mails close daily at 3:l5 p. m. and
arrive ut l:3o p. IN.
ut p. m. and arrive at a. m.
Northern mails close daily for Pole Creek,
Upper Horse Creek, Chugwater, Bordeaux
Ranch, Chimney Rock, Fort Laramie, Fort
Fetterman, Red Cloud Agency, spotted Tail
Agency, Camp Robinson, Camp sheridan
Camp Reno, Hat Creek. Custer City, Dead
wood City and all other settlements in the
Black Hills, at p. m; arrive from those
points daily at n. IN.
Mail closes for Davis Ranch on Mondays
at a. m.; arrive Tuesdays at p. m.
Mails close for Old Red Cloud Agency, Lit
tie Moon, and Lower Horse Creek on Tues
days at q. m. arrive Fridays Mt o p. IN.
Mails close for Bristol, Fort Collins, Long
mont, and other settlements in Northwestern
Colorado, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur-
days at q. M; arrive on Mondays. Wednes-
days and Fridays at 8 p. m.
H. CLAICHE, Postmaster.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-06-01

There is in every house in China a
place dedicated to the honor and wor-
ship of ancestors. The invisible OBJ
jects of worship are ancestral tablets
and painted portraits Of the deceased.
The tablets are made Of wood, are about
foot high, and contains the name and
title of the deceased, with the precise
hour of their birth and death and the
names of their sons. They believe that
one Of the three spirits Of the deceased
resides in this tablet, and as they enter
the ancestral halls they prostrate
themselves, offer cooked food, burn in
cense, candles and paper money, and
sometimes they have theatrical plays. -
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-06-01

twice before he spends it. He wants to
invest it so as to get the full value of
days work for it. 1t is great wrong
to society and to a boy to bring him up
to mans estate without this knowledge.
A fortune at twenty-one without it is
almost inevitably thrown away. With
it and little capital to start on, he will
make his own fortune better than any
one can make it for him. Hunts Mer-
chants Magazine.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-03-02
Bits Of HumOr.

81 live by my pen," said poet,
wishing to impress young lady. "You
look as if you lived in it" was the re-
ply.
A correspondent thinks that the ring
ing of church bells ought to be abolish
ed in large cities. He seems to feel
quite bellicose about it.
A little boy came to his mother re-
Gently and said: 'Mamma, l should
think if | was made Of dust I would get
muddy Inside when / drink coffee"
What 3 silent old world it would be
if men talked only as much as they
think. A fellow would have to carry a
rattle around with him to make noise
with.
Bitter beer may be good for the di-
gestion. but if you want to write good,
snappy article, take off your boots and
put your feet on the back of Scotch
terrier.
Mr.. Beecher says million dollars is
a very poem. We desire to state that
this article of poem will be accepted If
we have to crowd out advertisements to
make room for it.
The Nevada Senate has passed bill
TO tax churches aud secret societies and
college properties, and exempting mort
cages. The complexion of the Assem-
bly, is favorable to it.
'They must have a very feeble con-
stItution in Congress, said Mrs Part
ington, ri they havn't got power enough
among EN- to count a few votes. Why.
Isaac would do it in five minutes by
simple admonition."
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-03-02
els my breakfast ready?" said an i'm

els my breakfast ready?" said an i'm
patient young man who was trying to
get his morning meal at beer saloon.
"Don't Know" said the waiter; "l'll
whistle up and see.'. Heavens no;
don't do that. / ordered sausage, and
if you whistle you'll have the whole
pack down"
Scene from the Sunday-school room.
-Teacher-"Now, who was the oldest
man mentioned in the Scriptures?'
Young scholar-."I dunno. Who was
the cover" Teacher-"Why Mathuse-
lab; he was over 900 years old"
Scholar-'Golly, what a lot of Centen-
NAL shows he must have seen.'
Jones had prepared himself for home
dinner to his liking. He sat down in
his dining-room at peace with all the
world, and said, "Now, Hannah, bring
the cold mutton. No hot meat for me
this weather." Hannah hesitated a
minute and said, "But | done give it
away, sir" "Give it away! Give my
dinner away?" eyes, sir. You said if
any tramps called l was to give them
the cold shoulder"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-03-02

PRIVATE KELLS.-The following
military order has been issued:
Private William Kells, Company +,
Twenty-frst Infantry, now at Fort
klamath, Oregon, will report without
delay at the Headquarters Of the regi-
ment (Fort Vancouver), with view to
his transfer to the regimental band.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-03-02

Delegate Jacobs writes us that he has
secured the establishment of mail
route between this point and New West
minister, and that service would be put
on the route as SOON as an appropria-
ton was made covering the case. This
is good news. The Judge gays he
holds himself in readiness to do every
thing in his power for the "good peo-
pie ofWhatcom County" Bellinghan,
Bay Mail.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-03-02
THE FOSSIL BONES.-TI

THE FOSSIL BoNEs.-The Dalles
Tribute has the following: ''Prof.
Condor says that the bones found by
the Coplen Brothers, in Washington
Territory, and of which we gave quite
a detailed account, are the remains of
elephants, and that belong not only 10
several different individuals varying in
size, age and sex, but also two or three
different species. One of these ele-
plants was between 40 and so years
old; and that they all came to their
death by miring in bog. He thinks
they 'roamed' over the coast two hum
dred thousand years ago."
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-03-02
IMPORTANT CAUTION.

None are genuine unless the signature Of j.
llAYpocK, as agent for the United States, sur
rounds each box of Pills and Ointment A
hansome reward will be given TO any one rem
dcring such Information may lead TO the de-
lection OF any party or parties countcrfeiting
the medicines or vending the same, knowing
them to be spurious.
*#*Solda at the mandatory OF Professor HoI-
LowAY n Co., New York. aud ~ all rcspccta-
bic druggists aud dealers in medicine through
ont the civilized world, in boxes ut 25 cents,
G2 cents and 81 each
~ There is considerable saving by taking
the larger sizes
\. B.-Directions for the guidance Of Patients
in every disorder are affixed to each box
Office, 112 Liberty Street, New York.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-03-02
Notes..

Plumbago has been found in guam
titles in the Talbot coal mine at Seat
tie.
We regret to learn that Mr.. n.
Bateman is seriously i'll. He is at st.
Joseph's Hospital.
The European world is agitated
over the domestic trouble of Patti the
Prima Donna. She has sued her hus-
band, the Marquis of Caux, for a di-
vorce.
Capt. Gray has rented the Kaiser
dwelling house down on Main Street
and has fitted it up nicely, and for
the present proposes to keep bachel-
or's hall.
Owing to expiration of term Of SER
vice number of soldiers have been
discharged lately. Mr.. II. Copley
was among the number who left on
the last steamer.
The steamer Ajdr, which sailed
Feb. 21st from Portland, bound for
San Francisco, was detained at As
toria week because of rough wealth
.er on the bar.
Capt. George Smith, of the steam
,er Shoe Fly, had the misfortune to
break his leg the other day. His
Vancouver friends are glad to hear
that he is improving.
The barbarous jangling of the bells
of St. Marks chimes in Philadelphia
has been enjoined as nuisance. The
1'music which hath charms to soothe
the savage breast" seems to be lost
on the average Brotherly Lover.
1t is rumored that coal mine has
been discovered ON the Columbia and
Snake rivers. It's location and eX-
tent has not yet been made public.
The Walla Walla Union remarks
that vein of coal near either of the
rivers would prove a fortune to the
discoverer.
Don Piatt, of the Washington Cap
itdl, referring to the action of the
Electoral Commission, says: ODE
prived of the ballot, there remains to
proud, free people only an appeal
to the bayonet." Poor Don! His hot
headed impetuosity would be the
death of him were it not that he is as
invisible in war as he is invincible il
peace.
The "beetle-browed blackguards'
who disturbed the concert of Camilla
Urso, last Saturday night in Portland
received a caustic notice in the Ore.
gonian last Monday, written by Lieut.
Wood, of Fort Vancouver. The re-
Duke was well merited; but it does
not speak very well for the police au-
thorities of that city when it becomes
necessary for an outsider to take up
the cudgel in self protection.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-03-02
For St0InM hs out of Order.

No medicine will so effectuallv improve the
tone oithe stomach as these Pills; they reinov c
AL acdity occasoned either by intcmperance
or improper diet, They reach the liver aud re-
ducc 1t toa healthy action. they are wonderful
ly cilicacious in cases of spasni-in fact they
never fail in curing all disorders OF the liver and
stomach
HOLLOWAY'S PlLLSare the best known In
the world for the following diseases: Aguc,
Asthma, Bilious complaints, Blotches OH the
skin, Bowels, Consumption, Debility, Drop.y,
Dysentery, Erysipelas, Female Irregularities,
Fcvers OF all kinds, Fits, Gout, Headache, In
digestion, inflammation, Jaundice, Liver rom-
plants, Lumbaso, Piles, Rheumatism. Rcten-
ton of urine, Scrofula or Kings Evil, Sore
lhroats, Stonc and Gravel. lie Douloureux.
lumors, Ulcers, Worms of all kinds, Weakness
from any cause. etc.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-03-02

The weather for the past week has
been warm and pleasant, with more
or less rain every day. The willow
trees are putting forth their leaves,
and some of the peach trees are in
blossom, and the music Of the festive
frog is heard the whole night long.
Our streets have been full of strangers,
and in fact everything indicates a
prosperous year.-AoAntaineer.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-03-02

The Railroad company is clearing
fifty acres in the vicinity of the Puy-
allup coal fields, as site for city,
which it is hoped in time will rival
Kalama and Tacoma.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-03-02

There is sweet little girl in town
wants to be adopted by some one who
has no children; she is eighteen.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-03-02
SIGN ED,

He further states that in no case has he re-
fused to register letters when requested TO do
so. Please read again:
This is to certify that l, Charles Geek, have
applied at the the Post Office kept by NJ. b.
Jones letter for registration and was refused
Signed, CHARLES ZEEk.
He further states, that when | come to the
Office always leave my pocket-book at home
In reply, will say that | think myself very
fortunate in doing SO, and would advise my
friends to do the same. He closes his SANDER
Gus card in the following hoodlum style:
That he on. B. Jones) can lick ID. S. Cameron
in the bargain This gives me no trouble
whatever. | have heard such threats before
ID. S. CAMERON.
Washougal W. T., Feb. 81, 1877.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-03-02

Copy of Telegram received by Sherman &
Hyde.
New York, Sept %, 1S16.-Received the
highest award for sympathetic, pure and rich
in the three styles-Grand Square and Up
right-which show intellincnce and soldity in
their construction, a plant and easy touch,
which at the same time answers promptly to
its requirements, together with excellence of
workmanship. A. WEBER.
~ These famous Pianos are sold by
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-03-02
H0LLOWAY'S Pills
invariably cure the following diseases:
Disorder of the KidneyS.

In all diseases affecting these organs, whether
they secrtte too much or too little water; or
whether they be afflicted with stone or gravel.
or with aches and pains settled in the loins
over the regions of the kidneys, these Pills
should he taken according to the printed direc-
tons, and the Ointment shonld be well rubbed
into the small of The back ut bed time This
treatment will give almost immediate relief
when all other means have failed
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-03-02
That Pafkersyiile Card.

EDITOR INDEPENDENT:
You will greatly oblige me by permitting
me TO answer card printed in your paper,
written by one NJ. B. Jones in his low and SLAM
derous manner. He objects to n letter written
by me and recently published in the INDEPEN-
DENT under the title "Washougal Nasty" in
which, it will be remembered, the name OF M.
B. Jones was not mentioned. Tie first states
that he always keeps good supply of stamps
at his Office. Please read the following:
This is to certify that we, the undersigned,
have applied III the Post Office of NJ. b. j ones
for postage stamps at different times, when nc
stated that he had none.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-03-02

A bright country paper heads its col.
ANN of copied items "Cliptomania."
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-05-31

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