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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-01-31
Home, Sweet Home.

They have become household words
clothed in the sweetest melody that
singer ever sang. Yet to how many
are these words only a mockery, and
in how many hearts there are no re-
sponsiyc chords to their music.
The poet tells us that "some flow
ers Of Eden we still inherit; but the
trail Of the serpent is over them ALL
The flowers Of home are marked
TOO often by the serpent, Temper
This is the blight that robs ourhouge-
hold roses Of their perfume and their
bloom; this is the great dark shadow
that rests heavily upon its pleasant
places, and drives out the golden
sunshine; This it is that mars the
melody and produces only the discord;
this it is that makes place of tor
ture of what ought to be apure Eden
Of happiness and peace.
Could We only take a look into all
the houses of the earth, We wouldsc
how true this is. tmay be the faith
er'syiolent temper that produces the
discordant sounds that mar the mus
ic of home. 1t may 10 tho mothers
scolding tongue that drops gall when
it should drop only honey. 1t may
be the sons harsh iwords and rude
violence that send their angry clam
or through the house; or it may be
the passionate tones of the wilful
daughter, who forgets that ian excel
lent thing in women is low voice"
The misery caused by this domes-
tic demon, Temper, cannot be told
It breaks up homes, drives asunder
those God has joined, sends sons and
daughters on a weary pilgrimage
through the world, seeking peace
and finding. it not. Menand women
who have sworn before God to love
and stay with each other until death
parts them, are severed forever, un.
mindful Of their VOWS, by the serpent
Temper. Daughters and sons are
very often tempted to forsake their
duties to parents by this destroyorof
home and happiness.
Read the divorce records if you
wish to see the misery that Temper
has caused. Look all over the world
you will see the trail of the SER
pent, even to the very gallows where
thopoor culprit confesses that through
its promptings he committed the
deed that brought him there
Home can never be "sweet home
until peace prevails; and not. until
the demon Temper is rooted out of
its every nook and corner can we
truly call it "home, sweet home
God "settoth the solitary together in
families" not to make discOrd, but
to help and cheer; not to crush all
the flowers ofjoy, but to tcndand ex-
pand them into greater beauty, rich
er fragrance. Happier thatanyshin-
ing palace is that home over which
ncstles lovingly, with white wings
out-spread, the beautiful Angel Of
Peace; for beneath the shadow Of its
pinions only can home really be
"sweet, sweet home"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-01-31

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satire Of some sort, is more or less an
clement For example, when gon-
tlcman who is inclined to talk some.
what tcdiously upon subject which
ho has at heart, and on which his
hoarcrB are not much inclined to lis.
ten, Is told to "hirc a hall, he is gcn.
orally able to SEQ some satire and the
others some fun in the recommends.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-01-31
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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-02
Tom Corwin and the Darky.

Dr. Graham, in 1852, was the propri-
etor of the Harrodsburg (Ky) Epson
Springs, since bought by the Govern
ment as Soldiers Home. He had a
favorite negro named Pierson, who was
the leader of the cOlored band, and who,
when not in the ballroom or pavilion,
walked about in faultless broad-clOth
and kid GLOW, and, it was said, would
seldom speak to cOlored woman not
four-fifths white, and never to negro.
In the height of a season, when he looked
scorn on the donor of half a dollar, and
only smiled when the eagle shOne in
gold, he ran away. Being educated,
he had no difficulty to write his passes
and 90 to Ohio, as he had often been
there before.
He went to Columbus to amuse him
self with legislation, and there he
met the Hon. Tom Corwin. 1 do not
remember the date when he was Gov
ernor.
Tom said, ais Dr. Graham here,
Pierson?"
s. No, sab; I came alone,'' he said.
"Give my love to the family, and es-
pecially to Miss Ella, when you go back, -
said Tom.
81 am not going back, sab; ruined
away"
"Why, Pierson! Did the Doctor strike
you?''
"He never so forgot himself" said
Pierson.
"Did you get into any trouble?"
"I knows how to take care of myself, -
said Pierson, with dignity.
"Didn't you get enough to eat OF
wear?''
Pierson snapped dust mote from his
shining broadcloth, and consulted d gold
watch, but never deigned to reply.
Said the Hon. Tom COrwin solemnly
"Don't you know, you misguided man,
that thousands of white men would look
with envy at position not half SO easy
and safe as what you fled from? You
have no cares, you are fed and wei
clothed, and if the Doctor lost his for
tune you would be just as easy with an
other rich man, and make money always
with no need to spend"
Pierson replied gravely, MARS Tom
that starvation, wild all its advantages
are open to you if you like to go and fiji
it,
The by-standers roared, and Tom start
ed and suddenly remembered bushes;
in the State House. 1t was the only
time in his life that he had no reply tC
Mo,u Yo7.L.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-02
The AkhoOnd of Swat.

The most famous and one of the most
powerful of modern Mussulmans, Abdul
Ghafur, Akhoon of Swat, has just died
at the age of 80. Up to 1928, though he
had studied assiduously, he saw no OPP
portunity of attainments to exceptional
distinction as mollah, so in that year
he retired to the island of Beyka, created
by one action of the Indus to be des-
troyed by another, and there spent
twelve years in study, meditation and
austere penances, which soon won for
him fame all over the Punjaub-indeed
made the fanatics believe that he was
invested with semi-divine attributes.
When in 1885 Dost Mahomet struck to
regain the possessions of Ahmed Khan
and to drive the Sikh heretics out of the
Peshawer plain and beyond the Indus,
the Afhgan King invited Abdul Ghafur
to second him, SO great already was the
hermit's reputation among the orthodox
Abdul Ghafur accepted the invitation,
which gave him the notoriety desir-
ed, but the war failed, and after the
disastrous battle of Jamrud, in 1886, the
hermit set himself to carve out fresh
empire in the mountain north of the
Khyber, toward Cashmere, his natal
place, where he had been a shepherd
boy. His rule soon became absolute
among the Swatees and the people of
Bajour, and SO powerful did he become
that he could defy both Dost Mahomet
and the Sikhs. He was the oracle of
the hill men, and, by discouraging their
raids, placed England under great obi
cations to him, while, to certain ex-
tent, he naturalized the Afghan power.
His death will probably break up the
cohesion of the hill TRIBES, and let the
country, important from strategic
point of view, pass under Afghan rule.
In his age the Akhoond priest Magis-
trate) abandoned the ascetic practices
of his early manhood; indeed, at 80 he
took to himself wife of 18.-New York
World.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-02
Horace Greeley as a Borrower.

Much has been said of late concern
ing Greeley's folly in lending such
enormous sums to worthless applicants
who only repaid him with ingratitude.
This was a remarkable weakness, but it
may to a certain degree be explained.
Greeley was, during the first seven years
of his New York life, a poverty-stricken
adventurer, who failed in every effort.
He had many hopes of making the Ne0
YOrker a success, and, indeed, it was the
best weekly ever issued in this city, but
it was swamped by the hard times which
followed the panic of 1887. In 1910 he
found himself without a dollar, and was
glad to engage in the service of the
Wing party as editor of the Log Cabin.
The salary was $50 per week for six
months, which was considered very lib
eral pay. When the campaign was
over Greeley determined to start the
Tribune, but unfortunately he had no
capital. He tried every way possible to
obtain moneyed partner, but was I'M
successful. McElrath had few hun
dred dollars, and at last Greeley was
glad to accept him, especially as he was
a ready business man. When all other
applications had failed, the ambitious
editor remembered a noted resident of
Jersey City who had large resources, land
he determined to try another effort He
therefore made call on this mantle
late Dudley S. Gregory-and, having
mentioned his case, asked for the loan
of $1,000. Alternate. hopes and fears
moved his breast until he saw Gregory
fill up a check for the amount, and the
editor departed with a light heart. This
loan enabled him to start the Tribune,
which was the great success of his life,
and gratitude so wrought upon him that
he determined never to refuse any SINH
lar application. This rule not only
bound him permanently, but its power
so increased that at last he lost all abil-
ity to refuse. He paid Gregory with his
first earnings, and after that he lent in
Discriminatory to all who cared to bleed
him. Whenever loan was solicited he
always recalled the scene when he, too,
was borrower. He remembered how
he then felt the immense importance of
those little words yes and no. If Greg
DRY had uttered the latter the Tribune
might never hayebeen more than young
editors dream. That fatal word, how
ever, was not spoken, and Greeley ever
afterward followed Gregory's example,
though it cost him nearly one hundred
times the amount of the original loan
NeW York Tor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-02
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

SAGO PUDDING.-1 pint of milk,
tablespoonfuls of sage, l cup of butter,
cup of sugar, 4 eggs. Soak the sage
in the milk, let it come to a boil, add
the butter, sugar, and eggs. Flavor
with vanilla. Eat with cream.
ORANGE CAKE. ID cups sugar, / cup
of butter, the whites of eggs, 1 tea
spoonful of soda, ? spoonfuls cream-tar-
tar, the juice OF l orange, and the graf
ed rind of 3, cup of sweet milk; bake
this like jelly cake, making frosting
from eggs and the juice of l orange
and sugar till stiff.
SALLY LUNN.--3 teacupfuls of light
dough from hop-yeast, teaspoonfuls
OF melted butter, l cup of sugar, 3 well
beaten eggs, } teaspoonful of soda,
pinch of salt, and flour to make stiff
enough to knead well; set away to rise,
and when light make out by rolling in
cakes to fit your pans, inch thick;
place l in the pan, cover well with soft
butter, and lay another on top; when
light, bake and serve at once. For a
family of three one-third of the recipe is
sufficient.
Potato PIE.-Peel and boil good
sized potatoes; when quite soft drain
and mash through a colander; stir to a
cream ] pound of butter and I of sugar !;
add the potatoes and beaten yelks of 5
eggs; beat the mixture until very light :;
flavor with one grated nutmeg, wine
glassful of brandy, and one of wine !;
stir in the whites of the eggs, having
whipped them to stiff froth; line the
pie-pans with Il stiff pastry, and bake it
a very light brown; then fill them with
the mixture and bake until the tops are
lsquite brown; serve cold.
CORN PONE.-Havea pretty hot oven !;
put into bread-pan-a pan in which
you bake loaves of wheat bread-a lump
I of butter, about the size of large hen S
egg; put it on the stove-hearth, beside
an empty bread-pan, both of which are
intended for the pones; let it remain
there until you are ready for them then
/ turn the pan in which the melted butter
is so that it will be well CREASED with it /;
/ bilCh pOAL II l1lO IuO OIASI pan anu w
likewise; then pour it into the batter
which must be ready to go into the
/ pans. 1t takes about pints of milk to
make 2 pones, 2 well beaten eggs, a
/ heaping teaspoonful of soda, dissolved
! in cupful of sour milk or cream: Near
| ly one-half of the milk should be sour
buttermilk is nice st-the remainder,
sweet. Do not forget the salt
TURKEY HAsH.-Cut up the remains
of a turkey into small dice, with a very
little of the dressing; put the gravy you
I have left in a saucepan with the bones
! and pieces you do not use in the hash,
/ adding, if necessary, little boiling wa.
ter, together with sweet marjoram, nut,
meg, grated lemon peel, salt and pep
/ per, and mushroom catsup, to taste; lei
it stew slowly hour, then strain it, put
in the turkey, and let it simmer ! hour,
or just long enough for the turkey to gel
well heated through; serve on three
cornered bits of toast buttered just
around the edge of the dish, and if you
like you may sift bread-crumbs over the
| top and some small pieces of butter ano
| brown it in the oven or with heated
salamander.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-02
In AIsatia.

Here is a friend shall fight for thee,
Be thou good fellow and under ban.
Where have met thee?-let me SEQ
But, tush! what matter? a mans q man.
This is hand has handled sword,
So fill up thy can, and clink with me;
Out with thy troubles-thou hast my word
Here is a friend shall fight for thee.
Ihlrty years man. at arms was |;
Trailed pike in Flanders-rough work
there
stormed forts, sacked cities-pass that by,
Also the women dragged by the hair!
There must be soldiers, 1 suppose,
So long as kings and peoples be;
Marry, sir, tits world of blows,
But here is a friend shall fight for thee.
" Free lance, freebooter" runs the song,
Writ by some skulking clerk, wot
never do peaceful burghers wrong,
Nor kiss a woman, an she would not;
Never take purse but from the dead,
That are long past spending-unlike me,
Who seek not your gold, but good instead,
For here is the friend shall fight for thee.
What knaves be these? No friends of mine
I'll parley with them. What want ye
here?
The splash on my ruffie-pshaw is wine
VIII draw on ye, dogs, if you dare come
near. -
Have at ye, then, without a word
Man enough yet for two or three.
Old fellow, thou hast one friend-thy word,
For this is the friend that fights for thee
R Il. Stoddard IN Harper's for March.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-02
The Bloom of the Heart.

as saaz@
Under the blue of the mid May sky,
Under the shadows of beech and lime,
Watching cloud-shallops drifting idly by,
Free from the thraldomof fate and time
Lulled by the murmur OF breeze and stream,
Twitter of songster, f1utter of spray,
~ That sweetly blend with the waking dream,
F-s-s ! Andwhisper one magical word alway;
Held by the spell of an exquisite face,
voice that is dearers than all things dear,
All, but the world is fairy place
In the bloom of the heart the May of the
- - g yeart4 - - - -
Sitting alone in the waning light,
In the dead November's leaden dearth
Watching the mists rise ghOstly white.
EJk8&si And blend in the shadows and quench the
earth;
Musing for aye on the might have been
Sweet might have been that may not bel
The tender hopes and the fancies green
-tss's That faded and fiuttered fe's fair tree
Haunted Away by vanished face
A voice that -hushed midnight
drear,
= All, but the world is weary place
= IS In the goomof the heart, the gray of the
year!
80 81 n f|- -TSnSIey'S Mag0zine.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-02
How Much to Eat.

For the active, outdoor laborer and
artisan, an early breakfast before work,
a midday dinner, with an interval OF
rest, and supper after the days work is
over, have long been proved by exper-
fence to be the most conducive to health.
For the business man, a later breakfast,
mid day luncheon, and a late dinner
after the days work is over, is the best
arrangement. For literary men, who
write more in the evening than during
the day, an early dinner and light
supper will be found to be the most ad-
vantageous for steady work. Tdlers, to
enjoy life, if they possibly can, should
dine early if they intend to spend the
evening at the theaters and the like :,
but if they accept dinner invitations
freely, they should be very careful not
to eat too much at the midday meal
The breakfast hour should be deter
mined, in great measure, by the hour
of rising, but in any case food should
be partaken of before the material bust
ness of the day IS commenced. Those
who like to take ''constitutional'' be-
fore breakfast would find their appetite
whetted and their walk made all the
more enjoyable if they took little milk,
or cafe-Gw-lait, with bread or biscuit
before starting. Work done before
breakfast is always irksome and fatigu-
ing, and on that account is very likely
to be badly done The last meal should
be sufficiently late for the whole not to
be absorbed before retiring to rest. To
a person in health three meals day
ought to be quite sufficient, and the
practice of continually "taking some
-hing'' is sure to bring on Indigestion
DR.. Wilson.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-02
THE MARKETS.
ST. LOUIS, February ..

ST. LOUIS, February 25, 1878.
BEEvEs-Choice to Fancy, s4.7565.OO; Good
to Prime, S4.25 40; Native Cows, S2.4OG $50;
Texas steers, S2.4064O0
HoGS-Packing, $3.7503.eO.
SHEEP-Native, 5000 500.
FLoUR-Choice, $5.9O@61O; xxx, $3.50 so.
WHEAT-Red Winter, No. 2 $l24Z q l.25; No.
CoRN-No. Mixed, 430431Sc.
OATs-No. 2, 26Hg27c.
RYE-No. 2, 56d561ac.
TIMOTHY SEED-Prime, Sl.25G l.30
ToBACCo-Dark Lugs, SI.90g $50; Medium
Dark Leaf S5.OO96.Oo.
HAY-Choice Timothy, Sll.500l2.50.
BUTTER-Creamery, 3S9 40c.
EGGS-EreSh, l014 9 l0xc.
PoRK-Standard Ness, slO75G 1885.
WOoL-Tub- washed, Choice, 37@38c; I'm
washed Combing, 20631c.
CoTToN-Middling, l0Xc.
NEW YORK.
BEEvEs-Native Steers, $7.506l000; Texan
and Cherokee, None.
SHEEP-A.75a 6.37%.
HOGS-Live, S4.40d 4.50.
FLOUR-Good to Choice, $5.2066.O0
WHEAT7--No. Chicago. $l.24S 1.244[.
CoRN--Steam Mixed, 531S t6531<c.
OATs-Western Mixed, 35036c.
PoRK-Mess, SllO09 l1-20.
CoTToN-Middling, I0Tc.
CHICAGO.
BEEvEs-Common to Choice, S2.5065.0O
HoGs-Common to Choice, $3.6504.O5.
SHEEP-Common to Fair, S325G4.00.
FLoUR-Choice Winter, S.50@7.0O; Choice
WHEAT@spring, No 2. sLO7H al ok ;'spring
No. 3, SL051E6la5x.
CORS-NO. ,, AZ 42Hc.
OATs-No. 2, 24H 9M%c.
RYE-No. 2, 54154Tc.
PoRK-New Mess, SlO.l50l030.
KANSAS CITY.
BEEVEs-Native Steers, s.. 80 a Abs; Native
Cows, $500 a 800.
HoGS-S3 3503.45.
FLOUR-XX to Patent, per sack, 81. 756300.
CORN MEAL-Per cwt, 75DS0c
WHEAT-Ne. Winter, SI.1Os<6IIl.
CORN-No. Mixed. 81 16d3Ixc.
NEW ORLEANS.
FLOUR-Choice Family, $6.25u6.75.
CORN-White 47050c
OATs-St. Louis, 34G35c.
HAY@Choice, SI700n Il so.
PoRK-New Mess, $ll.25GIl.50.
E<BACON-546 exc.
COTTON-Middling IC%c.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-02
LOve-making by Telephone.

Mark Twain has telephone story in
the atlantic Monthly. A young man in
Maine falls in love with a girl in Cali
fornia, and they say sweet nothings and
finally quarrel through the telephone.
Then:
g Did Alonzo give her up? Not he.
He said to himself: She will sing that
sweet song when she is sad; l shall find
her. So he took his carpetsack and a
portable telephone and shook the snow
of his native city from his arctics, and
went forth into the world. He wander
ed far and wide and in many States
Time and again strangers were astound-
ed to see a wasted, pale and woe-worn
man laboriously climb a telegraph-pole
in wintry and lonely places, perch sadly
there an hour with his ear at little box,
then come signing down and wander
YEARLY away. Sometimes they shot at.
him, as peasants do at aeronauts, think
ing him mad and dangerous. Thus his
clothes were much shredded by bullets
and his person previously Iacerated.
But he bore it all patiently.
{" In the beginning of his pilgrimage
he used often to say; 'Ah, if l could
but hear the Sweet By-and-By!' But
toward the end of it he used to shed
tears of anguish and say: 'Ah, if 1 could
but hear something else!'''
At last, when confined in New York
lunatic asylum, he heard the beloved
tones. She is in Honolulu, but of course
they get married by telephone, and all
ends happily.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-02

Clifford's Febrifuge.-In the cure of
Fever and Ague this remedy displays eX
traordinary powers. Properly used, no case
can resist 1t, and other diseases of an inter-
mlttent character, including that most dis
been found TO yield, with equal certainty, to
its influence. 1t eradicatcs all malaria from
the system, gives tone and vigor TO the whole
body, and prevents disease from becoming
seated. Try CLIFFORD'S FFBBIFUGE; it is
sure, safe and speedy in its action You will
never regret buying the first bottle, and you
will have discovered a friend you can not af-
ford to lose. j. c. RICHARDSON, Prop'r,
For sale byall Druggists. st. Louis.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-02
The Rest ana nIost Economical.

Housekeepers are giving the cheap, adulter.
Ated baking powders 'wide BERTH" and whyl
Because experience has taught them that an
absolutely pure, full-strength, full-weight arti-
cle such as DooLEY's YEAST POWDER, which
never fails to produce light, wholesome and
nutritious biscuits, rolls, mullins, waffies and
griddle-cakes of all kinds, is by far the cheap
est and most economical.