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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-01

We know chat the costly tyIoa of mr.
cl;tacturc Is not within the means of tho
Great mas. Of our farmers, but almost
every one has il iu his power, by the exc
ercise Of his hands and -kliltuI taste
to contribute largely to the beauty OF ms
surroundings.
to beautify ou. homes, as TO how 10 d.
used. Now, if we should take the COM
mon plants and shrubs and tram them
with skill and care, they VIII give aa
much pleasure to the cyo as the more
co-tly adoruments. Little things of
rustic nature often please most one or
two common English hOucysuckies,
wood-biuc or q ciematIs, planted near %
/ doorway and trained over uu mrh with
! few p6ts Of bright flowers underneath
will give pleasing face TO the most hume
Now. we believe that q home ON tho
/ farm is capable of being made not only
/ epdurable. but attractive 60 the young
and il +. 10 the interest of all parties that
tbis thing be done, for our children arc
growing up and viii soon De beyond our
/ influence then, how much more PIeass--
ant will their memories NJ home ne' ~
we make our bones and surroundings
more beautiful
There +. am air Of rustic sweetness even
IN those small wire vase. filled with iresi
Green moss and placed about the grounds
fbe.e are cheap and simple ornaments
besides many other devices that VIII suB-
gest themselves TO persons OF TASTE. hul
some will say that these are itue Things,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-01
IT,. worlkmcn Of Moline,

NoI,EF. Ill. July pa mass meetlns
of 501 workmen. tonight, appointed com g III
nmssfed that the old wages be restored ana
no further reductions made Tor one 50'i'
Considerable excitement preVal's'
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-01
,En,ns Pacific R. II.

GALVESTON. July PA special to the
News from Dallas and Marshall reports a
- rike on the Texas Pacific Railroad. The
men demand three months back pay and
withdrawal of the late order for 10 per cent.
reduction of wages. No freight trains have
passed over the road since the strike no
violence is apprehended.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-01
EET'Ie.

ems LAKE SHORE REFUSES TO CARRY THE
MAILS.
ERIE. July 2I.--The following message
ERIE, PA, July n.
-r, President II. B. Hayes, Washington
10. C.:
,ra. lake Shore road has refused TO let the
rr-iraF states mails 90 east of here. We
.,aarI be pleased ii you would III some way
..rrct them to proceed with the man aHo
also passengers.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-01

Iftbe South could go to Pennsylvania
"a tata q look at the hundreds OF thleV-
ish and murderous tramps VINO are no ~
overrunning that State, no" many u
them do you suppose she would fecos
n;.e as carpet-baggers who formerly over
80, bar Courier Journal.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-01

With the disappearance of the carpet,
h.n a ,o in the South, the United
States Sta troops have nearly DISAPPEARED da
t thars heinz only about twelve hundred
there there at present. Packard, Cham berl am
md nd Ames could never have managed
' without as many thousands.-N. L
Herald,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-01

\ N0N SEQUrUE.-Ihe non 8'7"IVf--
j. Tim. feeliugly displayed in the postal
card letter Of a wife to her absent hus-
band:
tor,. care. and James and the other chill
dren have the measles. All the women are
wearing back combs. and don't forget to-
write often. We all send love, and our
bouse almost got on fire last night -
lane. in Editors Drawer in Harper g
Magazine for August.
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Won,cn KILLED.

wAsmxGroN. July 24-The soldiers at
Reading. Pa. fired on the cluZehS mus
criminately, killing ive' monNu I'D TWO wo-
FIVE, including five policemen an" WV
men.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-01
Ohio.
GOyERNORs PRGCLAMATION.
ExECUTIvE DEPARTMENT :
COLUMBUS, July, %, 1871
To the People OF Ohio +:

COLUMBUS, JuIy1 ., Io'''N
To the People OF Ohio:
Owing to the trouble existing between
the railroad com panies and their employees
great excitement exists through the state
and OF this unfortunate state OF affairs law
less and disreputable persons are taking ad-
vantage and endangeaing lie and property
The civil authorities, State county ana mu :
nicipaI. a. well as the military, must aud
will every wt ere exert all their power 10
enforce the law in every respect. me goo,i
name of our people demands that this shall
be dom. and in no other way can the
order which is absolutely necessaryto pub
lie aud private safety be maintained.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-01

"Why," said lover to his mistress,
...re von ike that hinge?" Cant even
on a. Because you are something to
: door fadore)." She cut his acqualnt-
ance Immediately, which, we surmise'
considerably unhinged him.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-01
The Pacific.

4 dispatch from Virginia City, Nevaaa'
saws thlt the miners there are III lui, - -
[.r mad, no demonstrations, nor are an
expected
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-01

The highest point yet a attained l.. by h ang
reached on the summit Of Latsfa fh bv the
the Sangre de Christie Mou tilo ne3vey and
S Sou Grande Railroad The altitude OF the
snmmit is 934O feet.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-01

81 don't know what you mean by not
hoing an Irishman," said gentleman
wb Mo was about hiring a boy, but you
we're born in Ireland. "Och, your
honor. II that's all, said the boy, email
blame to that Suppose your cat was %
have kittens in the oven, would they ba
loaves of bread"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-01

An ;mnostor who was trying to pass
ho-.elf oF as DIR. Mary Walker out West
recently was detected while trying to ,G nut
her pantaloons on over her head ID. f Inc
doctress always gets into hers feet lore
most,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-01

A Young man who was heavily fined. mn
a San Francisco court for kissing. bis be-
troth against her will, dldn e ofe"h = 'ne e
engagement and dehlanu '"' -
-, 80 .,Dear Lydia: Youu have to
wait now till can Doiro" e"'U5'' - P'4
the minister
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-01

little boy entered fish market tho
other day, and seeing for the first time a
pile Of Holsters lying on the counter
looked intently at them for some liinea
when he exclaimed "by gracious
them's the biggest grasshopPers I've even
seen !"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-01

Reside one deed of guilt how blest is
guilIess woe.-Bulwer Lytton'
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-01

What is a woman's surest guardian
angel? Indifference. Madame uelu1y'
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-01
s Yours afectionately,


As our Paris contemporary observes
this is certainly a very bright and mater
nal letter from an artist who Is Well on
towards her threscore years.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-01
INDUCED TO JOIN THE STRIKE,
E'OFR6O.

And hundreds of idle men are awaiting
they know not what.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-01

[Gen. a. L Long in Philadelphia Weekly
Times.l
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-07-16
8Eli0ions department.
THE RICH MANS SON.

In the city Of Glasgow once lived
worthy merchant whose children l
knew. AS God had blessed him in his
buying and selling. he became a rich
man. And having great love for
country life, he took his riches and
bought some fields on which he had
played and gathered flowers when
child, and also the mansion in which
the old laird Of the place was won't to
live. There was just one thing he for
got TO do: he forgot to make his will,
and say to whom the mansion and the
fields should 60 when he died. So by
and-by, when he died, no will could be
found. Now he left behind him his
wife, four daughters, and an only son.
But as no will had been made, the man.
sion. and the fields, and great part of
all his riches, came to this only son. He
was in London when the news came that
his father had died, and that he was
now q rich man. Just at that moment
money would have been very useful to
him, for he was young merchant be-
ginning life, and no one would have
blamed him if he had said, "The money
is welcome, and with it 1 shall push my
new business on" But God had given
him gentle heart He left London as
soon after he got the news as he could
get train. And, although it was late
in the day when he arrived at his ma
tive city, the first thing he did was to
60 to the house of friend who draws
out deeds. And that friend, at his re.
quest, made out deed by which the
mansion and the fields were made over
to his mother all her days-and all the
rest, both land and money, which his
father had left, was divided share-and-
share Mike between her, his sisters, and
himself And when that was all fixed,
he went to his home and buried his
father. Somebody said to him after
wards. "But why did you go that very
night and have your deed made out?
He said, IL that night saw that it was
my duty to do it. If l had left it till
next day, my duty might not have
seemed SO clear. "-Sanday Magazine.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-07-16
VISITING THE AFFLICTED.

Our Master blessed the poor his faith
led him among the lowly of the earth.
He did not undertake to do his work by
proxy, but he came himself and asso-
ciated with men in their low estate !;
visited them and talked with them, COM
forted them, fed them when hungry,
healed them when sick, and thus not
only ministered blessings to those who
were in temporal need, but also bore
our sicknesses, carried our SORROWS, and
made perfect through suffering" and
now touched with the feeling of our
in6rmities," he knows how to sympa-
thize with those that are in trouble and
distress. And he sends his disciples to
be his representatives in works of mercy
on the earth, and teaches them that it is
more blessed to give than to receive. AS
he was, so are we in this world; and to
those who sit in sadness. solitary and
distressed; to the poor, and to them
that have no helpers; to those who say
in their despairiug hours, "There is no
God and no helper" he would have us
60. and with the warmth of Christian
friendship, and the sympathy that is
born from above, prove to them that
God still lives, that Christ still loves,
that there is blessing and mercy in store
for the lost, that there are hearts that
feel for their sorrows and eyes that
weep for their woes, and that they have
but to enter into the fellowship of the
of God to find welcome and blessing
more than we can tell, which shall
crown their earthly lives with abiding
joy an fit them for the eternal bliss Of
the world that is to come.-7He Chris
tidn.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-07-16
ITEMS FOR MOTHERS TO READ.

A correspondent in writing to the
Middletown Press offers the following
seasonable suggestions to mothers of
afflicted children:
A flannel cloth wet in hot brandy, or
better. camphor and brandy mixed and
heated. will relieve the pain of the bow
els, if frequently laid over the stomach
and bowels.
Bits of scraped ice are better on the
tongue than drinks of water.
For stings and poisons, a strong solu-
ton of saleratus and water Immediately
and then frequently applied, gives relief
and sure cure.
For burns, an immediate application
of -four covering the burn and wrapped
so as to exclude the air; then burn lard
till it is quite brown and apply. and
relief and cure will soon come. Do not
wash off the -four if it clings, but put
the lard over it.
At night, in extreme weather, lemon
squeezed in tepid water, to sponge of
the tired out little body, will give rest
to both mother and child. Saleratus il
good, but lemon is best. Even washing
off the little feet. neck, and palms o.
the hands in tepid water, will induce g
healthful sleep.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-07-16

Potato BUGs.-Some of our garden
ers are beginning to congratulate them
selves on the disappearance of the striped
beetle from among their potato vines,
and fancy their troubles are now over.
But in most cases they have just COM
menced. The striped beetle eats but
little comparatively, and were its depre-
dations confined to its ability to devour,
it would be comparatively harmless.
What the gardener has most to fear is
the devastation of its progeny, the slugs,
which will soon make their appearance
wherever the beetle has been. Before
resting at ease in the matter, make a
thorough inspection of the under side of
the potato vines, and you will probably
find one or more leaves in each hill
thickly dotted with yellow eggs, which
must be destroyed at once, and if this
be done without waiting for them to
hatch, much future labor will be saved.
AS soon as they are Matched the mis-
chief begins, and sometimes in a few
hours the vine will be stripped to the
stalk.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-07-16
Agrifmltnral department.
In BEHALF OF BOYS.

If commerce and manufacturers make
loud calls for your boys, make louder
calls yourself. Give the boys chance
at home, encourage them, stimulate
them; give them piece Of ground to
cultivate as their own, give them cattle
to rear; surround them with such books
and papers as your means afford ; per-
NIT them to make inexpensive expert
ments; treat them as equals, as young
men of brains, of perceptive faculties;
give them little authority, little pow
err; talk matters over with them, con-
suit with them, try their capacity, put
confidence in them.
Encourage the village lyceum, the
farmers club; take the boys along; let
them try little new seed, little poul-
try let them raise few early lambs
introduce any culture, the success of
which depends on their personal atten-
ton to detail make the boys interested,
thoughtful, anxious to excel. Don't kill
them with drudgery brains are worth
more than stone walls, knowledge is
more powerful than iron bars, study is
more potent than physical force. Make
home pleasant to them, encouraged so.
cial gatherings of young folks, promote
sociability, company, amusements, va
riety of occupation. These are among
the city's attractions, and the cause of
the migration is apparent. Adopt the
remedy, keep the boys on the farm if
more business is wanted supply it in in
creased and improved culture.
The tide is turning, the golden prizes
Of the great cities are slowly melting
into iron links of bondage to ill-paid Ia
Dor and toll [; the great lotteries of trade
have increased the number of blanks !;
sudden fortunes are changing into beg
CARED want and misery. The hope of
the country to-day is in the farm and in
the farmer. The prodigal son longs to
return to the home of his father; well
come him with outstretched arms, show
him there is work enough for all, food
and comfort for all who work Let all
join in lifting the profession, in making
production honorable, farming desirable,
country homes a blessings.-Americaa
CuLtiUatOr.
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GIVE THE BOYS A CHANCE.

AS the busy season advances, farmers
are apt to put the boys through" with
out regard to the nature of the young
chaps. To see the way some fathers
manage, one would suppose they ''be-
gan life" when they were thirty years
old, and never had any bOyhood. What
with planting and hoeing, milking and
chOring, catching potato bugs and act
ing as tenders to the men, the boys have
no time for sport or recreation of any
sort. And when this goes on until the
boy is old enough to strike out for him.
self, and he starts for the village or city
as soon as he has his liberty, the farmer
sits down and writes to his agricultural
paper to ask, "Why don't boys stay on
the farm ?" The only way to put an
end to the old conundrum is to make
them p0ant to stay; and so long as boys
are boys, and not steers nor farming
tools, they can't be made to love work
that has no let-up, nor pleasure, nor
practical rewards in it. 1t is a power
full sweetener to boys toll to have
day now then to follow the winding
trout-brook, whose ripples and pools he
knows so well that he sees them in his
dreams,-or to shoulder his gun and
whistle his dog a-feld after the game
birds. 1t helps brake up the tread-mill
activities of the farm wonderfully to
hitch up the double wagon and take the
whole family off to clam-bake or boat
ing excursion. If some of the farmers
girls will write for US what they need,
and can have, to tighten and relieve
their duties, we will nudge the old gen.
tlemen about it But boys We know and
understand, because we hope always to
be one of 'em in feeling: and we know
that the man who can put himself in his
boys place is the best father, and the
most successful overseer of work.-GOL.
den Rule.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-07-16

If you are sick, you leave it to your
physician to order your case. If your
affairs are perplexed, and you have
plea at law, you leave it to your lawyer.
And when you have process at the
court of heaven, will you not leave it to
your God? You are little competent
judges of what glory God can have by such
such and management God can raise
glory for Himself where you can see
nothing but dishonor to Him, and He
will have the glory "fOr of Him, and
through Him, and to Him are all things !;
to whom be glory forever" believe that
and leave the way of raising 1t to Him.
SELF The seed of glory to God in Jobs
trial, Neither he nor his friends gener-
ally saw. but out of his bereavement, a
kind Providence raised his, and his last
days we're filed with prosperity and JOY.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-07-16

The chef value of sermon is its
power to make an audience think. 1t
should serve as kind of mental spur to
quicken the tagging faculties, and start
the dormant affections. A good many
discourses are nothing but sort of holy
lullaby; and all the good they do is to
soOthe the mind by their mclli6uous
sounds into q state of delicious spiritual
somnOlence. They please q certain
misty, sentimental cast of minds, who
think there is something exceedingly
beautiful in pictures of heaven, and mar
ratiOns of dying-scenes, and stories of
piOus little boys and young ladies who
die Just as they are about to embark for
some distant mission. But men who are
in sloughs and currents, struggling for
life, care nothing for such pious plati-
tudes.-Murray.
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gadies' Column.
WOMAN'S WORK.

Woman's work is represented in the
Bible as intimately connected with all
the relations of life. AS children, in
volving all those duties that grow out of
the relation children sustain to parents,
and commanding the performance of
everything that would honor this connec-
ton, both towards parents and towards
God. AS sisters, involving the peculiar
excellence of that tie that should bind
in the noblest harmony brother and sis
ter together. AS mothers, that higher
duty which comprehends all that mothers
should do for their offspring, with a wise
end to the glory of God.
Then society outside the family circle
comes in for its duties, and all the d.
versifed calls of benevolence towards the
suffering, sympathy for the erring and
ignorant. and that wide field, looming
up more and more, of imperious calls for
help from the victims of vice and mis-
fortune. Certainly there can be no
doubt as to what the bible does teach in
relation to woman's work, when it i'm
poses rules for right living in every
condition of life.
A Sarah, Rebecca, a Rachel, a Deb
orah, Ruth, an Abigail and an Esther.
in old Testament times, and others so
we'll known in the Christian dispensation,
have made their memories sacred for the
good they have performed.
What, then, is the measure by which
woman's work can be valued? 1t is a
rule to 60 by, as plain and reasonable
as that which is imposed upon man.
This rule is embodied In the words,
"She hath done what she could" This
comes up to the full measure of that re-
sponsibility resting upon every woman.
One thing is clear-nothing more is
demanded, and however imperfect may
be the character of the duties, the honest
intent to use the talents possessed to the
best advantage, to look to God for help
in the hour of need, to be guided by His
sacred truth, and to follow the sugges-
tions of His holy spirit. can secure no
other fruit than the welcome, "Well
done, good and faithful servant"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-07-16

Cultivators are finding out. all over
the country, that the most rapid way to
kill weeds is not to let them grow.
Break the white and brittle sprouts from
the seeds before they are fairly above
ground. The oftener you do it. the
better for the crop. 1t is ever so much
easier and better than pulling up pig
weeds by hand, or cutting them off with
hoe In the garden the most expedi-
tious way is to run over the mellow
ground with steel rake, which, going
down an inch, snaps the sprouts of every
weed, If the ground is hard, skim the
surface with a light, thin hoe, ground
sharp and then use the harrow or Guilt
vator often enough to keep perfectly
clean surface all the time. Such good
treatment will often double the growth
of the crop by the constant stirring of
the soil, independently of keeping the
weeds from sucking their nOurishment.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-07-16
SINGLE BLESSEDNESS.

If it is true that, for the greater
number of US, married life is the perfect
life, it is equally true that, for others of
US, the single life is the perfect life. In
the case of men it is superfuous either
to illustrate it by instances, or to support
it by argument; especially when we re-
member that the solution of the question
rests usually with themselves. AS for
unmarried women, what dreary wilder
ness this Garth would be without them
In thousands os homes the maiden sister
or aunt is the very angel of the family,
the children's idol, the secret wonder and
delight even of those who too scruplously
use her; by sick-beds and death-beds a
divine CONSIDER; the depository of the
sweet secrets of blushing hearts, the
tender friend of the old, and the poor,
and the lonely. Old maids, indeed
Why, with certain obvious exceptions,
they are the very salt of the earth. the
calm and sweet life of the household
that is so blessed as to own them; their
distinction, to be wanted by everybody ;
their reward, to be useful to everybody f;
their home, the suggest, warmest place
in the hearts that can love. And if they
have niche to fill on earth, as none can
fill like them, many of them shall have
a crown of surprising brightness in
heaven. Men and women, too, sometimes
keep single, not so much because no one
cares for them, but because they them
selves care for Christ, first and most
The chosen solitariness of an unmarried
life is occasionally the sacrifice of self
secretly, but deliberately, laid at thu
feet of him who pleased not himself
and it has, and shall have, its great rec
ompense. 1.-THE unmarried woman car
eth for the things of the Lord, that sh'
may be holy both in body and spirit.
Presently she will find out, and others
also, that the Lord has cared for her,
Sunday Magazine.