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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-12-20
The Memphis Relief Committees
Work.

Mr.. J. @. Maccabe. Commissary Of
the Citizens Relief Committee during
the late epidemic, has furnished the A.
alanchc copy Of his final report OF the
operations OF that department. The To-
tails are interesting. showing the mag
nitude Of the work performed under MIR
Maccabe's capable supervision. The
fever was declared epidemic the latter
portion Of August, and about this time
the labors Of the Commissary Depart
ment began. In August, 4i,5lS rations
were issued to 4,042 persons. In Sep
TENDER, 22,S7l persons drew rations,
the total issued being 212,021. From
the lst TO the 18th OF October, inclusive,
when the Commissary Department
closed, the issue of rations was 295, 100
to LOO persons. The grand totals
are as follows Number Of persons who
drew rations. 6S,0S2; number OF rations,
745, 135. OF bacon the total issue was
10000 pounds; shoulders, 2S,5E
pounds; crackers, 23, Pop pounds; hard
bread, l0,c4s pounds; hams, 27,sd2
pounds; sugar, ~, $40 pounds; ground
coffee, 1885, pounds; hay, 5S,SiO
pounds. These were the leading arti-
cies dispensed; and as the totals show.
Mai. Maccabe transacted an immense
business between the latter part Of Au-
gust and the 18th OF October. Memphis
Arnianche.
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thoss Of Dayy, Black and Cayendish,
when the foul fiend was thus always car
rying OF alchemists. We know not
how Il happened. II man goes into
chemical laboratory and takes up "A big
beaker and pours into IL the contents 81
the first two bottles that are ready ~ his
hand, the probabilities I at he will be
reduced 10 atoms on the spot are suf-
iiciently serious 10 call for his careful
consideration.
Apart from the sad fact that Young
man with bright and brilliant future
before him should be thus suddenly cut
off, the death Of Professor Fischer has
another moral. hemistry--whateve
Mr. Lowe may have 10 say in praise Of
civil engineering the science Of the
world and Of the future. The bridge
which takes the engineer years upon
years to construct, the chemist can, In
so many sixtieths OF second, reduce 70
atoms.
Chemistry has given us the balloon;
il has put In our hands gunpOwder, nj
tro-glycerine, dynamite, and above all,
illuminate Of gold-an explosive so ter
rible that II an ounce Of Il be left in o
stoppered bottle ms grains falling among
themselves BY their own weight viii
create n conynlsion sufficient % lay all
London in ruins. II has given US pois-
ons so subtle that, were we 10 employ
such means Of warfare, we could sail In
balloon over the camp Of the enemy
and drop upon il a shell, the bursting Of
which would kill every human being
within mile of its range.
Then, too, chemistry has given Us dis
infectants. To the chemist we owe car
bolic acid, chloride Of lime and perman-
ganate Of potash. Chemists have taught
Us to disinfect our sewers and drains, to
ventilate our houses, TO burn gas instead
Of oil and 70 light our streets with what
j more powerful than even gas itself
the electric light. 1t is to chemistry,
indeed. that we owe almost all the COM
forts of everyday life
But, on the other hand, the possibili-
ties OF chemistry are almost too terrible
to be contemplated. AS the science Mt
present stands any student can, if be have
access TO well-sfored laboratory, carry
away in pill-box matter sufficient 70
lay London In ruins, or 10 poison the
whole community Of its inhabitants.
The chemist can, a every ool-hoy
knows, convert water into ice in the
center OF red-hot crucible. He can
construct a she'll the size Of a cricket
ball which will explode the moment il
touches the water and overwhelm in
flames hostile fleet. Indeed, the
chemist reduces the world 70 its origi-
nal and primal elements. For him,
even more than for the engineer, moth
ing i impossible Aud vet his power,
vast As it l.. is limited. He can more
easily destroy than construct. He can
take life, but he can not give il. He can
level the city with the plain, but he can
not build il again. He can create
prussic acid, but he j. ignorant Of its
antidote. lie l. like the fisherman who
rashly opened the vessc! sealed with the
ring Of Suleiman Ben Daoud. The
forces AZ his control are beyond his
command; the powers he can evoke ne
can not lay. Il j. the old story Of Cor
nelius Agrippa those who tribe with
natures secrets DO 50 ut their peril.
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Tbe SIMMER reign Of flowers u past,
Vet earth had beauty "a the lass
~ Autnmn'r shortening days,
the pansy droops. the rose Il gone
Nut on the borders OF the lawn
The stately dahlias blaze
with what varied wealth Of bloom
reese fairest flowers Of Autumn comos
peep shades az countless flowers that blow.
The roses crimson. iiiy's snow
The sunfower's royal goid
rnev ylox n n A summer sun
~hone through the heart OF every one,
As II a summer breeze
We're blowing over all Nle land.
Yet Autumn'S breath, and Autumns manu.
Make bare the waving trees
Thev clad the fresh October morn,
A. Il with their bright lives were born
second Summcr.times
As II an beauty Of the yea
Mere gathered up and iayished mere,
50 perfect Is their prime'
They come 20 US nc summers close.
In beauty stately "a the rose
When fnll 0f richest bloom,
They wave with all the roses grace,
INT In their spiendor lies no trace
OF roses rare perfume
Our life hath gariands like the year
The love and trust of children dear
Are vinlets blue and white,
The love and trust 81 ripening days,
Youths passion strong. loves glad amaze,
seem ros.s of delight.
Fair lilies crown = stainless few.
And some wear roses. some wear rue,
But all have youths perfume,
To each there comes later day,
when summer blossoms drop away,
And then the dahiia- bloom'
The dahlias bloom. changeless type
Of task work finished. haryests ripe,
And so lifc's Autumn flowers
In their completeness still should hold
The Summer bloom. the summer gold
That filed our youthful hours
Ana II in life's late flowers we miss
The roses perfume. youths Wild bliss,
We calmly let them go,
And rather bless God as we gaze
Upon the dahlias' steadfast blaze.
For life's glad Autumn glow.
All the Tear Round.
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Rev. DIR. John r. Gulliver, now Of
Binghamton, N. ". but formerly OF
Boston, New York, Chicago, and other
places, has accepted the new chair Of
{" The Relationship Of Christianity and
Science, W in Andover Theological Sem
mary. The professorship was endowed
BY = gift Of $50, 900, and Is believed 10
be the first Of its kind in this country.
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-" | am tramp" pleaded he; and,
pointing TO his worn shoes, continued.
pathetically, this j. my sole oflense. =
The Judge, Clerk, and officer all faint
ing, the prisoner escaped.
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Nothing can exceed the intense a.
fiction which girl deals out 70 her
father for day or two before the time
when she's going to ask for new dress.
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Lizzie Ripley. aged 8, was fatally
burned At Columbus, o.. by her clothes
taking 70 from bonfire.
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One OF the presents to the Princes
Louise at her departure from Liverpool
was copy Of the DAILY Post, printed On
white silk.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-03-13
The Fresh Hour.

Every day should be commenced with
God. The busiest and the best man in Jer-
usalem was wont TO say, In the morning
will direct my prayer unto thee, and will
look up;' " | will sing aloud of thy mercy in
the morning" Daniel, too, saluted his God
with prayer and praise at early dawn. We
begin the day unwisely, and at great risk
to ourselves, if we leave our chamber with
out secret conference with our Almighty
Friend. Every Christian, when he puts on
his clothes, should also put on his spiritual
armor Before the days march begins he
should gather up portion of heavenly mama
to feed the inner man. As the Oriental
traveller sets out for the sultry journey over
burning sands by loading up his camel under
the palm-trees shade and fills his water
ilagons from the crystal fountain which
sparkles at its roots, so does Christ's pilgrim
draw his morning supplies from the exhaust
less spring. Morning is the golden hour for
prayer and praise. The mind is fresh the
mercies of the night and the new resurrec-
tion of the dawn both prompt devout soul
to thankfulness. The buoyant heart takes
its earliest fight, like the lark, toward the |
gates of heaven. One of the finest touches
in Bunyan's immortal allegory is his de-
scription of Christian in the chamber of
Peac', "who awoke and sang" while his
window looked out to the suns rising. If
even the stony statue of old heather Mem
non made music when the first rays of the
dawn kindled on its finty brow, surely no
Christian heart should be dumb when God
causes the outgoings of the morning to re-
joice.-T. /. Ct.yier, d. b..
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-03-13
Religion In Cities.

The churches have lesson to learn which
probably only consecrated hearts can teach.
The place to plant churches and keep them
is where the people live. A greater spirit of
Christ in the churches would somewhat re-
construct our church appointments. We
would not leave dense downtown popula-
tions because they cannot pay high pew
rents. Nor would we consgn the humber
portions of the city to mission accommoda-
tions which shame poverty itself. Avenue
churches-living in exclusive luxury and
and throwing crumbs into the alleys they
never enter, for the Lords poor to pick up
are disgrace to Christianity. Serving God
by dollar-proxy, instead Of warm, sympa-
thetic, loving contact, brings the church into
contempt among the poor and brings lean
ness TO the souls of the rich. We talk about
perils. Those perils can be
removed, but not by dingy mission buildings
and charitable offerings from the rich, but
by personal hand-to-hand and heart-to-heart
work, by churches bright with Christian
love aud by the cultivation of a spirit of
helpfulness and independence fostered by
mission system which condescends to fight
for Christ only at long range, with artillery
planted on the heights to subdue sin in the
slums. And with all this religious ministry
we need the enforcement of civil law to pro-
tect the tempted and degraded How few
laws are fully executed What
sensation has been created in New York by
the sudden enforcement of law which TO
the disgrace of the city has slumbered for
INTERIOR
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-03-13
Murphy on Backsliders.

Francis Murphy, in recent speech at
Pittsburg, in speaking of men who have
violated their pledge, urged them to renew
their covenant again in the following beauti-
full words. Hear him "A child that is
just learning to walk you treat so tenderly
if it falls you pick it up and kiss it, and
fonde it, and encourage it; and those kisses
are sweeter to it than if it hadn't fallen.
So should you do with these men who are
trying to do right Go to them-plead with
them. Tell them you are their friend. If
he is hungry, give him food A kind word,
a pleasant smile, will do more good than a
world of scorn and hate. The inebriate
will remember your words, and in time
perhaps "A very short time-he will study
over his downfall. Then he will think of
your interest in his welfare and again sign
the pledge. We should follow the example
OF him who came into the world to save it
through his love. lie was perfect man
his mission it was TO save all those who
would believe in him--no matter of what
class or condition-while some OF us would
prefer to let some 60 to IA country that is
spelled with few letters. You cannot
drive men; you cannot do it; the blessed
Saviour did not try to do it. 1t is love, il
is mercy, it is good WILL that will do it, and
the use of such means only"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-03-13
VI NNl' WI u
Only a Woman.

She was only woman-light-hearte and
gay as a child Everywhere the sun shone
brightly, and she laughed back to the winds
in the tree-tops, and sang with the singing
brooks. Life was all a Joy, and the earth
was very fair.
But there came day when the laughter
was hushed-when the voice was low and
tremulous, and the eyes were sad and ques-
tioning. The little pet--the one little treas.
ure that frightened everything-lay suffer
ing patiently, sweetly, as an angel and peo-
pie walked softly and spoke low. Who knew
but the Reaper might come ? Who would
dare the dread presence Who would
stand at bay?
Only woman The beseeching eyes
grew dark, and the pale lips were drawn in
tense, set lines no longer the low, strained
voice trembled; there was no longer any
falterng, but hour after hour and day after
day she stood and bade defiance to the mes
senger. Nor until you cross my dead body,
nor death nor any power in earth or heaven
can touch my treasure. You DARE NOT 1t
is mine %
Day followed night, and night succeeded
day; many tare and many bearded grain
had the reaper garnered should he turn
back vanquished now that he would gather
this one sweet flower He drew back the
keen, bright blade and struck She was
only a woman She leaned over the crib
and laid the little wasted form down; the
soft lashes fell over the child's pale cheeks
as in fitful slumber. The battle had lasted
long perhaps she heard the blow-perhaps
not; who will ever know? There was only
low moan as she sank back. The sickle
had reached the stalk of grain that stood
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-03-13
Domestic Life Of the Presidents.

Washington was married, but had no
children. Adams was married and had one
sou, whom he lived to see President. JEFF
ferson was a widower; his wife died twenty
years before his election. They had six
children, all daughters, of whom only two
survived infancy. Madison was married, but
had no children. His wife was the most
elegant woman that ever adorned the Presi-
Dental mansion. She survived him, and
was for many years the delight of Washing
ton society, having lived TO listen to Henry
Clay's farewell speech in the Senate. Mon
roe was married, and so was John Quincy
Adams. jackson was widower, and so
were Van Buren and Harrison. Tyler was
a wdower when he entered office, but soon
afterward married the heiress, Miss Gar
diner, of New York. He was the only
President who married during his term of
office. Polk was a married man, and his
wife survived him a number of years Cen
eral Taylor was a widower. Pierce was a
married man, but Buchanan was bachelor.
The social condition of such men as Lincoln,
johnson aud Grant needs no reference ex-
cept to add that Grant is the first President
who had daughter married while in office.
Christian Instructor.
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Testimony Worth Something.

A Chicago pastor, Rev. IL. Ii. Kellogg,
says that gospel temperance meetings, at
tended by hundred of persons, have been
held in Farewell Hall throughout the year
As to the permanence of Mr.. Moody's re-
Mr.. Kellogg gives the following " Dr. Glib
son of the Second Presbyterian church says
We received over one hundred, and | do
not know OF one who has dshonored his
Presbyterian church, says; I'VE received
appear quite as well as the average of any
other members DIR. Thompson of the Fifth
Presbyterian church says I'VE received one
hundred aud fifteen, and all walk worthily.
OF these, six were very hard cases of drunk
ards reformed, all of whom stand firm"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-03-13
Here and There a Gem.

NEVER despair; but if you do, work on
in despair.-Burke.
You cannot dream yourself into char
acter; you must hammer and forge yourself
one.-Froude.
As ten million circles will never form a
square, so the united voices of myriads of
men will never give the least reality TO that
which is Goldsmith.
Duty is the voice of God, and man is
neither worthy of good home, or a heaven,
that is not willing to be in peril for good
cause.-John Brown.
BE not ashamed before God of thy trade
every honest calling is acceptable in his eyes
but with thy trade be not ashamed of thy
God and thy Christianity.-Gerok.
IT is better that Joy should be spread over
all the day in the form of strength, than
that it should be concentrated into ecstasies,
full of danger, and followed by reactions,
Emerson.
WORKS of love are more acceptable than
lofty contemplation art thou engaged in de
voutest prayer, and God wills that thou g
out and carry broth to sick brother, thou
shoudst do it with ioy.-Iduler.
THE happiness of your life depends upon
the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard
accordingly, and take care that you entertain
no notions unsuitable TO virtue and reason
able TO nature.-MdrcuS Anionius.
Snow Inc the man you honor know by
that symptom, better than by any other
what kind of man you yourself are. Fol
you show me there what your ideal of man
hood is, what kind of man you long mex
pressibly to be.-Cdriyle.
Tue Bible tells us of the streams, that il
may allure us TO the fountain it tells us Of
the past acts of Gods faithful love, that We
may be led TO set our hope on God, and tc
feel assured that he who hath loved viii
love unto the end.-ThomaS ErSkine.
A LITTLE girl, gasping for her last breath
cried Father, take me-" Her father
who sat dissolved in tears by her bedside
lifted her into his lap. She smiled, thanked
him aud said 81 spoke to my Heavenly
Father," and passed away.-Christ'n at Work
FoR one, would not rid myself of the
hope that we shall sometimes-perhap'
on great anniversaries commemorative OF
earthly Enthusiastically sing, in heaven
the very psalms and hymns which are sc
often the gate of heaven" " TO us here. II
would be sadder parting with this world
than we hope it will be when our time
comes, II we must forget these ancient Tyr
les, or find our tongues dumb when we would
utter them Are they not a part OF oul
very beingf Take them away, with all the
experience of which they are the symbol
and what would there be left of US to carry
! into heaven Y-Professor A ustin Phelps.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-03-13
The Dangers Of Display.

-
The vanity of those who can afford splen-
did display provokes some into competition
that is ruinous to themselves and others.
Il inAicts-perhaps [ ought even to say. it
is intended to infiict-upon some who can
not initiate it, a sense of inferiority and dis
comfort. Thus it makes the strait gate
straiter, and the narrow way narrower and
sleeper and harder to many a woman who
might otherwise go in thereat. 1t valves
away from the church by the waiting of an
invisible hand. those whom the church
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-03-13
HumOrsOme Waits.


KANSAS teacher" Where does all grain
produce 90 to 2" Boy" It goes into the
hopper" Teacher" Hopper What hop
per p Boy (triumphantly) y" Grasshopper!"
ESQUIRE HoBsoN," said teacher, "why
are you going to take your sou from school p
:" don't like the way he's taught. "What
is the matter p "Oh, they said he must
spell 'taters with 'p.'"
An Indiana surgeon succeeded in engraft-
ing some new brains upon patient. That's
nothing. We know of a man who put a
head on another fellow, and he didn't know
much about physic either.-Boston Post
A STRANGER was strolling about Costello's
tannery, aud accosted Pat Daily, the bark
grinder: "ls there a man about here with
one eye by the name of Jerry McCarty 7"
"Fhats the name of his other eye" said Pat.
Az American, after dining in London
restaurant, paid his bill and was about leav-
ing, when the waiter suggested that the
amount did not include the waiter. "Ah"
said the man, " but didn't eat the waiter"
MIND your stops. A compositor, in setting
up the toast Noman-without her. man
would be a savage got the punctuation
in the wrong place, which made it read
Woman, without her man, would be a
savage"
uMs."-Schoolmistress, Gust be
ginning nice improving lesson upon min
erals to the juniors), Now, what are the
principal things We get out OF the earth 2
Youthful angler, aged four Confidently,
Worms
A E-looking country lad, to whose
lot fell the leading questions in catechism,
What is your name Z" replied, " Carrots y
-
Who gave you that name = All the
boys in the parish, sir, whiningly replied the
red-haired urchin.
MANY people Judge the value of newspa-
pers by their size. The larger the better it
is in their estimation; and, according to
their Judgment, copper cent is OF much
greater value than gold dollar, because 1t
is the largest.-Honkers Gazette
"SurrosE we pass law" said a severe
father to his daughters, that no girl eigh-
teen wears old who can't cook shall get mar
ried until she learns how to do it ~ Why,
then, we'll all get married at seventeen p
responded the girls in sweet chorus
ruppr-vrAp Aps.otn voungster saw
drnnken man :. tacking fbronSb tbe street
" Nother" said he. Sdid God make that
man ?" "Y Yes, nv child" The little boy
reelected n moment. and then exclaimed:
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MONTPELIER, VT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1878.

put on, and put on to stick, and so il did,
and you would know to the end of its DAYS
it was a red school-house. For more than
half century it stood browning the hilltop
When its sons and daughters returned to the
homes of their youth, there was the venerable
school house, though no more therein was
read the facetious history of John Gipin,
Gray's Elegy in a country church-yard
quotations from Milton, Dryden, Pope, and
the story of Uncle Toby's Lefevre. Within
this venerable building the first steps of
learning commenced, and the first sentence
lisped by infant lips was, " No man may put
off the law of God from Webster's old
speller-a sentence which has volume of
meaning within itself, and if its doctrine
was to-day more thoroughly taught and in
stilled in the heart there would be more
thoroughly honest men and fewer defaulting
cashiers and trust company treasurers.
Y !
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The Decline Of Reverence.

1t strikes us that in this world of advanced
enlightment we have been pulling down
great deal and building up but very little.
We are laboring strenuously for the crea-
ton of voids. We sap regulations in seek
ing for motives. From losing faith in
creeds we have withdrawn our trust from in
iividuals. 1t must be said-we cannot shirk
it-that the pages of Sparks, of Irving, OF
Everett, which cast golden halo over our
Pdier PdtriG which once warmed our fathers
hearts, are read to-day with Indifference
The purer lessons these books should teach
are lost A weak cynicism, a feeble cen
seriousness, IA petty disparagement, is ever
rife. We trifle with names that should be
hallowed. We festoon the grandest, the
simplest portraits of past times with the
silliest, the most fantastical of tags. Better
even that state of inflated bombast than the
benumbing period of speculative coldness.
If ever men craved for some human being
on whom they might pin their faith, or
hungered for hero that they might wor-
ship, it is our own American people. Be it
said to our shame that hearts to-day pulse
more rapidly in England, France, Germany,
Italy, even in Russia, when the name OF
Washington is uttered than in the very
country this hero gave freedom to- Mr..
Froude tells us that historical discrmina-
ton often become a hopeless task, because
neither the writer nor the reader can ever
thoroughly understand those peculiar sur
roundings which formerly influenced the
actions of men. Between the period of the
revolution and to-day the lapse of time has
certainly been too short to admit of any
historical doubts. Perhaps, as some grand
statue which requires distance to be i'm