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Words Of Wisdom.

1t is hard work to teach people who can
learn nothing without being taught.
Take away from mankind their vanity and
their ambition, and there woald be but few
claiming to be heroes or patriots.
There is nothing so easy as to I've wise for
others; a species OF prodigalty, by-the-by-
for such wisdom Is wholly wasted.
Most thoughtful men have probably some
dark fountains Ill their souls, by the side OF
which if there were time, and it were decor
Gus, they could let their thoughts sit down
and wall indefinitely.
Every morning We enter upon new day,
carrying still an unknown future on its bo-
som. Thoughts may be borne to-day, which
may never be extinguished. Hopes may be
excited to-day which may never expire
Acts may be performed to-day, the conse-
fuence OF which may not be realized till
eternity.
An instant decides the life of man and his
whole fate for after heightened thought the
resolve is only the act of moment; it is the
man of sense that seiZes on the right thing
to lie done; it is ever dangerous to linger III
yonr selection of this and that, and SO by
your hesitation get confused.
The race of mankind would perish did
they cease to aid each other. From the time
that the mother binds the child 3 head till
the moment some assistant wipes the death
damp from the brow of the dying, We cannot
exist without mutual help All, therefore,
that need aid have right to ask it of their
felloW-mortals No one, who holds the power
of granting it, can refuse without guilt.
The education of the human mind COM
mences in the cradle, and the impressions
received there frequently exert their intiu-
ence through the whole of life. Principles
which take the deepest root are those i'm
planted during the seasons of infancy, child
hood and youth. The young pupil takes
early lessons from everything around him I;
his character and habits are fornsng before
he has any conscious Of his reasoning powers.
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GENTLE NORDS.

The sun may warm the grass of life,
The dew the dropping flower,
And eyes now bri ght and watch the light
OF Autumn's opening hour
But words that breathe of tenderness,
And smiles We know are true,
Are wsrmer than the Summer time,
And brighter than the dew.
1t is not much the world can give,
With all its subtle art,
And gold and gems are not the things
To satisfy the heart;
But oh! if those who cluster round
The altar and the hearth,
Have gentle words and loving smiles,
How beautiful is earth.
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2astieal SslsetieHs~
MY MOTHER.


Back through the lapse of lonely wears,
OF light and shade and bitter tears,
| seem to hear,
My mothers voice soft, sweet and low
My mothers voice, all well know
Its cadence dear.
Of sitting, when the night bird wings
His homeward flight and softly sings,
A plaintive song;
Then memory waves her magic wand
And summons from the silent land
Dear ones long gone.
Again, l stand by mothers knee,
AGAIN her sainted lace see
As In dream
Then ask my heart, with voice of tears,
For her; also the sad, sad years
Life dark between.
Oh mother. from that sphere divine,
On wings of light cleave realm of time,
Come thou to me.
Ii for only little space,
That | may look on thy dear face
One moment see,
AS once L saw, thy tender eyes,
That know not tears in Paradise,
Grieved 10 more.
watch for the, oh mother dear;
| listen and seem to hear
Thy songs float DER,
That lonely river deep and wide
Which darkly rolls its Stygian tide
From shore to shore;
Silent ahd deep and through lonely years
Swollen with bitter farewell tears
Forever more.
Trusting, Eli wait while life lasts here,
Til III that grand, Immortal sphere,
Where sorrows cease,
We meet, and on thy loving breast
My weary head shall be at rest
In perfect peace.
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How Women MAY PLEAsE-The frs

how WOMEN MAY TLEasE--IHe Ii
requisite In woman toward pleasing
others is that she should lie pleased with
herself. Iu no other way can she attain
that seIf-poise, that satisfaction which
leaves her at liberty to devote herself sue
cessfully TO others. Let women, if they
would remain charming, by all means keep
their hold on love, their faith in ROMANCE.
Tie power Of feeling gives vitality and
interest TO faces long after their first flush
has passed. Speaking as matter OF fact
this is the case, for emotion has livelier
power than the sun has over the blood,
aad the miracle of love in making PLAN
girl pretty is explained by stimulating ct.
fects OF happiness on the circulation. If
you would preserve inspiration In your
looks, beware how you repress emotion.
Cultivate not the signs of it, but emotion
itself; for the two things are very distinct.
Laugh, weep, rejoice or suffer as life pro-
vides. Onlyfeel sOmethingnatural, worthy
and vivid enough not to leave your face
blank
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SALE OF FINE SHEEP-Mr. L. B. Geer,
from near Walla Walla, who has been visit
ing friends in this county recently, has con-
cluded the purchase of seventy head of fine
merino sheep from I. L. Davidson's band.
He viii ship them for Waila Walla next
Monday. They are a fine lot of sheep and
viii make valuable addition to his band, as
Mr.. Davidson's merinos are recognized as be-
ing among tie finest ID the state. Mercury
, 1877-09-22

Coy. WILLIAMS, OF Indianna, attending
the Wayne county Old Settlers Reunion a
few days ago, clad in his historic blue jeans
He told OF the days of his boyhood, when
thew used deer-skin sleeves, ground corn by
hand and ploughed with hickory poles Now
adays, he said the farmers were prey 70
potsto-bugs and humbugs, the latter the
pore ~ rayenous. Ii farming paid them, ies
t" ~ st;ck 70 the farm, for the only bank
which always honOred draft is a bank mi .a Of
18th The governor was succeeded BY an
"a IA -,a,+Ie,nzn who told OF the days when
the Hcn,ier Adonises wore p2ntaioons SO
.;abt 40, that they had to push down their shirts
With small paddles made of shingles.
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THE ORIGIN OF POSTAGE STAS:Ps.-The
origin of the postage stamp had tlnge OF
romance in it, 1t was thirty-scvcn years
ago that Rowland Hill, while crossing a
district in the north of England, arrived
at the door Of an inn where a postman
had stopped to deliver a letter. 4 young
girl came out to receive 1T; she turned II
over and over in her hand and asked the
price of postage. This was large sum
and evidently the girl WAS poor, for the
postman demanded shilling. She sighed
sadly, and said the letter was from her
brother, but that she had no money; and
so she returned the letter To the postman-
Touched with pity, Mr.. Hill paid the post
age and gave the letter to the glrl, who
seemed very much embarrassed
Scarcely had the pOstman turned his
back when the young innkeepers daught-
er confessed that it was trick between
her and her brother Some signs marked
on the envelope told her all she wanted to
know, but the letter contained no writing.
owe are both so poor" she added, "that
We invented this mode OF corresponding
without paying for our letters. The
traveller, continuing his road, asked HIM
self if a system givnypl to such frauds
was net vicious one Before sunset Row
land had planed to organize the postal SER
vice upon a new basis-with what success
is known to the world
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nrin.er in Montgomery county, aged
nineteen years, wheeled a man weighing
I40 hounds four miles and three quarters
in an hour and half Three miles OF the
road trayersed is up grade. The feat w;is
dome or a fifteen dollar wager.
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"My son." said an old man, "beware
of prejudices; they are Ike rats, and
mems minds are like traps; prejudiees
creep in easily, but it is doubtful if they
ever get out.
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A little girl, the other day, while watch
ing the rain, turned to her mother and
said " Ma, / guess the weather's so
warm it's melting the clouds "
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UNDERTAKES
DRS. KELLOGG s. NICHOLS,
HOMEOPATHIC

PhySioiNnS * Surgeons
;.rFiCE FIRST DOOR FROM kIMBALL'S' "a
y Corner Main and Third strests. Waia "aiA.
F. S. KELLOGG ofhee hours, 10 70 l. A. "''
T. B. NICHOLS. to4P. NJ, 70 = NJ
DIR. NICHOLS, with an experit nee OF over ,t,rI.
wears practice having had charge OF the staIs j
tu:ions of Minnesota for the Deaf Dumb anu nile,
during the past sixteen years, offers ms
services 10 the public for short time longer hA'ns
nnier tIrestInent some very important cases Ut.
Nichols will make Chrome and supposed INC AZ
cases speciality.
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As these crops have been produced mostly
by negro labor they are satisfactory testi
mony to the industry of the freedmen IN
their new condition.-N. y. HralH.
, 1877-09-22

Discretion and hardy valor are the twins
of honor, and, nursed together, make
conoueror divided, but talker.
, 1877-09-22

It Is supposed that Kosciusko fell ON
Freedom, or else why did freedom shrek
when Kosciusko fell
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BLANK MORTGAGES at this office.
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II z r E!!
SOO POUNDS OF OLD TYPE FOE oALs - -
0UU lots to suit purchasers. This TYPE y an hr
eellent substitute f0r Babtit -Prono1ncsu "
those Who have used it better-snd can DC soia a'
haa. s.a t9s price, Afp'' i STATESMAN OFFICE.
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ToRrURINe CHILDREN.

There is a school of phiIanthropists (?) in
the country forever declaiming against the
law of kindness in the treatment of human
beings. They seem to be always anxious to
whip somebody. Their idea is to elevate
humanity with the lash, and to do this
effectually they advocate whipping children
in the public schools, and starting the little
fellows up the hill of science and literature
smarting under the infiiction of blows too
severe to be administered 10 decent dog.
Professional educators (?) chime in with
those who advocate corporal punishment in
schools, and the work of educational torture
goes forward. 1t is claimed for the system
that il establishes discipline; no doubt of it.
Terrorism generally does that for its vic
Tins. It is practiced withs success in
penitentiaries where the most hardened and
desperate criminals are locked up for the
protection OF society. If it is so effectual in
subjecting convicted felons why noe equally
so when applied 70 little children? A little
boy with blisrered hand or bloody back
is likely. to remain quiet, but just how
much his education is advanced by the in
human torture has never been accurately
defined. II Massachusetts,, where civiliza-
ton started out with special reference to
the we'll being of witches, Quakers and
Baptists, considerable progress has been
made in the trimming OF children and the
elevation of juvenile human nature. Mas
sachusetts has what is known as a reform
school, a state institution. under the control
of the legislature. This reform school
is sort of penitentIary, the
design being to take boys guilty
of petty offenses and place them
under such moral restraints and influences
a wall result in their reformation and give
them back to society qualified to perform
the duties of good citizens. The managers
# The institution commence the reformatory
process by ''hreaking the spirit" of the
youthful culpris. AS the matter is of gem
eral interest and good Sunday reading We
give some details from exchange. 1t
sIys: fai fA is sqsl rsH
arTortures are resorted to instead of methods
upright box, called the sweat b x,' located
In dark attic, barely large enough TO receive
the body of the victim, open only in
low the entrance of air. when the
| boy is pla ed In this the NOV
| able slides are driven in with wedges until he
II \ lueezed neariv To suffDcaticn. The testi-
mony ncited by the commission proved that
| the nachiue could b. So compressed as to
| break boys bones. Some lines victims have
bern tortured ii this macnipe rem or twelve
| hours, and then taken out dripping with per-
| sp ration ard unable TO stand Others are
places In straight jacket. bound and gagged,
unable to move, speak AXE any sign
| whatever, except when the gag II removed
| and the victim l. led on bread am water.
| A. a mild corrective cod water IL played on
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astray. Therefore, when he has been lost
sight of for awhile, we hear of him writing
to "a friend" or dispatch mysteriously
turns up from somewhere to somebody
that Morton is ''all right" He is always
just about where he is expected. The other
day, when some one thought he was taking
a little rest at Centreville. he turns M with
Hayes in New York. That was to be sort
of test reception. He knew Hayes would be
looking out for his friends on that occasion.
So Morton turns up along with the New
York custom house clerks, Wall street Jay
Gould set, newsboys and bootblacks. Nor
ton would make a good Blueskin to our
Jack Sheppard president.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23

OLD Zach Chandler is moving back to De-
troit, in order TO commence the campaign
for the next senatorship of Michigan. Hayes
seems to have gone back on the old bucca
neer. We do not hear of his receiving even
an invitation TO 'flunch" with the presiden-
tial pretender, and even Jim Blaine is occa-
sionally heard from in that connection. Per
haps old Zach don't wear the red ribbon. In
fact we are very sure he don't. Red ribbon
lunches are cheaper than expensive wine
dinners TO Russian dukes ta
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23

READ We. Here is what the Philadelphia
Times says about Grant: "Even beyond the
boundaries of civilization, where the bar
'barian frets at the surges OF progress which
+ 'break upon him in the songs of the sea and
come from the pale faces which startle him
in the jungle and the desert, the great cap
tain of the republic will find himself not
unknown to the capricioas worshippers of
schieftains'' How's that for high2 II rolls
out as beautifully as News editorial on
having the streets cleaned by private con-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23

CHANBERLAIS has been feeling very sore
and sad over his South Carolina treatment,
and by way of plastering up his wounds and
bruises he was offered recently the position
of solicitor of the treasury at the express
desire of Hayes. Chamberlain very sensibly
declined. He did not probably want any
thing more 20 do with the present admins
tration, who had proved treacherous to him.
He will practice law in New York city.
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novellsts

= THE. word is that Morton. will support
Hayes and his policy. Morton always sup
ports the presldent-tbat is, ifheis radical.
He likes to give out the post Offices and the
pension agencies He has the disposal of
some other good things In the way Of govern.
mental patronage. He had an abundance of
opportunity to oppose Grant. but somehow
or other Grant "cuffed'' all the radical lead
ers except Charles Sumner, and few others
who were driven TO the support of Greeley.
Morton never takes high moral ground He
is always on the side of the loaves and fishes.
lie scents the flesh pots of Egypt from afar,
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is generally used in the winter. Flogging
Is the most common punishment in this
model institution, and though one of the over
boys with his fists, yet the wagon trace and
harness strap were. often employed. About
TO il,hicf corporssi M nssh mani ar viii and
one of these administered sixty-nine foggings
including 100 blows, in eight MONTHS The
begins and the bruises received remain on
their bodies for months. 9bree different
teachers logged one boy, one after another
taking hand, until the victim tainted.
To talk of civilization, of Christianity, of
morals, or of anything else but savagery
while such internal tortures are tolerated
only brings the depravity OF the country
into holder prominence
The fortunes to which children in the pub
lie schools of the country are subjected,
while not so cruel as those inflicted upon the
juvenile eulprits in the Massachusetts, re-
form institution, are an outrage upon civil
ization and a terrible commentary upon the
inefficiency of professional educators
In the city of New York, where the rod as
a means of mental advancement was aban-
doned come time since, an effort is being
made to resume it. The Herald, comment
NPOA SooJSSti hito bhC nan
on the head when it says that
IF nine-tenths of the public school teach
.'ers really favor corporal punishmentit is an
evidence that they ought to be put to some
other business If person can not control
"a school boy by other means than brute
force he is unfit to be Entrusted with the
duty of education. Nothing could be bet
ter calculated or more certain to destroy the
popularity and efficiency of our school sys-
ITEM than to license such teachers as may be
'brutes by nature to indulge in their brutal
ity at the expense of the scholars. Besides
the present condition of the schools, as COM
pared with their condition when corporal
punishment was permitted, is conclusive
against a return to the barbarous system"
We are confident that the time is not dis.
tant when the rod and other instruments Of
torture will be banished from the public
schools, and the employment of competent
teachers will demonstrate the fact that the
barbarous practice of whipping children for
educational purposes was too long continued.
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9 FrS4Y clerks are to be discharged. from the

9 Fury clerks are to be discharged from the
New York custom house. The time selected
for their discharge is opportune. During
Hayes's recent visit to New York it was i'm
portant to have repeated and long-contin-
'ued applause on frequent occasions, and
these so pairs of custom house lungs could
"'holler" much louder before than after they
had received their "walking papers" In
little things the present administration is
great and overpOwering, or, as the Yankees
saw osmarf
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23
RUSSIAN MERCHANTS.
what They Do After Making a Fortune.

When a Russian merchant becomes rich,
he builds for himself fine house, or buys
and thoroughly repairs the house of some
ruined noble and spends money freely on
inlaid floors, gigantic mirrors, malachite
tables, grand pianos by the best makers and
other articles of furniture made of the most
costly materials. casionally-especially
on the occasion of marriage or a death in
the family-he will give magnificent ban
quets, and expend enormous sums on gigan-
tic sterlets, choice surgeons. foreign fruits,
champagne and all manner of costly delica-
cies. But all this lavish, ostentatious
expenditure does not affect the ordinary
current of his daily life As you enter
those guadily furnished rooms you can per-
ceive at glance that they are not for ordin-
airy use. You notice rigid symmetry and
an indescribable baroness which inevitably
suggest that the original arrangements of the
upholsterer have never been modified or
supplemented. The truth is that by far the
greater part of the house is used only on
state occasions The host and his family
live down stairs in small dirty rooms, fur
nished in a very different and for them more
comfortable style. AT ordinary times the
fine rooms are closed, and the fine furniture
carefully covered. If you make riSite
de p0liteSse after an ent rlainment at which
you have been present, you will prob
ably have some difficulty in gaining admis
SION Dy IDe 'front.' OOOf. When you nave
knocked or rung several times some one
will, probably, come round from the back
regions, and ask you what you want. Then
follows another long pause, and at last foot
steps are heard approaching from within.
The bolts are drawn, the door is opened, and
you are led up to spacious drawing room
At the wall opposite the windows there is
sure to be Sofa and before it an oval table.
At each end of the table. and at right angles
to the sofa, there will be row OF three arm
chairs. The other chairs Will be symmetri-
cally arranged around the room. In few
minutes the host will appear, in his long,
double-breasted black coat and well polished
long boots. HIS hair is parted in the mid
die. and his beard shows no trace of scissors
or razor After the customary greetings
have been exchanged, glasses of tea with
slices of lemon and preserves, or perhaps
bottle of champagne, are brought in by way
OF refreshment The female members OF the
family you must not expect 10 see, unless
YOU are an intimate friend, for the mer-
chants still retain something OF that female
seclusion which was in vogue among the up
per classes before the time OF Peter the
Great The host himself will probably be
an Intelligent but totally uneducated and
decidedly taciturn man. About the weather
and the crops he may talk fuently enough,
but he will not show much inclination to go
beyond these topics.-From Russia by ID.
Mackenzie Wallace. H. 5 ri'i as
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23

Speaking OF age, we. see that the great ac-
tors lived to more. than average age, one
reason being that to be great actor requires
unusual strength and ability. John Philip
Kemble reached 66 years while his brother
Charles was 80 years old; Mrs Siddons died
at So; Junius Brutus Booth, nOtwithstand-
ing his drunkenness, passed his 55th year;
Charles Kean lived 10 years longer. and
Macready lasted till 80 years old; Charlotte
Cushman died at 60 years OF age, and Edwin
Forrest at s.; Tom Hamblin reached nearly
the same age. Going a little further back
we find that Garrick lived 10 SO and Better
ton to 70 years of age. Barton Booth, OF
Pope's day, was the shortest lived of any
actor OF note, next to Kean. He was 50 at
the time of his death. As a general thing
play actors have seldom come under the
criminal list. No actor of note has ever
reached the death penalty, except Wilkes
Booth, who stands In solitary jnfamy.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23

THE secretary of state and attorney-at-law,
who practices for the presidential fraud
when his clients do not require his services
in some of the New York courts, has private
ly informed the commander of the Russian
fleet that he must get away from New York.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23

A SPECIAL to the Chicago Times says that
the administration has made up its mind to
give Governor Chamberlain, of South Caro-
lima, a place if he will take it. He has been
offered the position of solicitor of the treas
ury. and his radical friends are very much
excited for fear he will accept it. Governor
Chamberlain is here Judge Carter, of the
district supreme court, is urging Chamber
lain to take the place
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23

Mr. WHIPS, who killed John w. Stockton
in Louisville last January, has been acquit-
ted. The Commercial, in abiding to the
verdict, expresses the opinion that it will
still further depreciate the value of human
life in Kentucky. and that, too, at time
when everybody desires to see an advance.
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SOME of the radical organs are euIogizing

SOME Of the radical organs are eulogizing
Hayes's speeches in the same way that they
frequently alluded to Grants little meaning
less talks that were jolted out of him from
the platforms of palace cars on his junketing
trips. According TO these admirers there is
a world of wisdom created everytime Hayes
opens his mouth They never particularize.
It is always very general They leave room
for ones Imagination and ingenuity to have
full play, as they say about certain poets and
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Uhe Semtimel.
WEDNESDAY, MAY %.

THE st. Louis Times went for $4,000, and
Hon. Shlson Hutchins did not go with it
which the Republican and GlObe-Democrat
will doubtless approve.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23

THERE was dispatch came west last week
that the Russian feet, which has been lying
in the port of New York for several weeks,
had been ordered off by our government.
1t is now denied that any such an order was
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23

THERE are several thousand radical boz
gardus kickers in Ohio who will do their
level best to elevate the presidential fraud
at the next election in that state.