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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1878-07-02
SURSUM CORDA!

Was Ssrlansf hu. tparum bansit bu,
'grmss, u~nrubppaes Ssrs?
Gel ,ufrisren, bsnu bisnieesn
ST. nur eitler 8ram uup S6msr3.
@iQt tu @aben ssrne haber,
lie fsin @urm np& 8pIt psr,ebrt?
Sag bic Grpe, pae Dir reree,
Was Ia unperednelit rdbrt.
@iaf ru lieten GUIDE eriib,n
Zen, Der lisbenswircis 1T;
GILES lsieg aass meies,
Sis su ibm aud abnli6 btit.
Rines, meiee, bis bic 8reubs
TieIsr Welt ppriiber III
S6au sur SGbs, bis bas Webe
Iieier 0slt psin Ser3 psreibt.
eer Stmsr3sr, bic i'm Ser;en
5reu' unb Iemutb enbli6 fsgt,
llne Der 5aubs frpmmsr 0laute
Sflis ibm sntssgen aisst!
Stias, title Strr, bsin @iae
Der gelbebe au9 aud an mir
@men, @men une estn Namen
Ssi ssprisisn bort I'm. bier!
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1878-07-02

Ole Ser. Staaten in Wertto
ais warnenbes Seifpiel
au sefelIt.
(slus Dem tasli&sn nasuarsisnts" psa pOlpt.
tcea in Msrifo.)
ygSir molen unierem lisben 8aterlanbs
cine auf bic sroBen prineipien unisrss nors
bii9sn Na9bara, Der Der. Staatsn, ses
s~riinoets Contribution unb &esisrunssform
SebenA 10 iaSt bic 9erbO : partei tn
Merito.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1878-03-20
Speak Kindly.

A young lady had gone out walking. She
forgot to take her purse with her and had no
money in her pocket Presently she met
little girl with basket on her arm.
"Please, miss, will you buy something
from my bssket?' said the little girl, show
ing variety of book marks, watch-cases,
needle books, etc.
"I'm sorry 1 cant buy any thing to day.
said the young lady. 81 haven't any money
with me. Your things look very pretty. -
She stopped moment and spoke few kind
words to the little girl; and then as she
passed she said again, "I'm sorry 1 can't
buy any thing from you today"
go miss said the little girl, "you've
done me just as much good as if you had
Most persons that meet cay, Get away
with you but you have spoken kindly and
gently to me, and 1 feel heap better"
That was considering the poor" How
little does it cost to do that Let US learn
to speak kindly and gently to the poor ard
the suffering. If we have nothing else to
give, let US at least give them our sympathy.
"Speak gently, kindly, to the poor;
Let no harsh word be heard
They have enough they must endure,
Without an unkind word
"Speak gently for It's ike the Lord,
Whose accents. meek and mild,
Bespoke him as the Son of God,
The gracious, holy Child"
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Notes on Orchard and Garden Work

There is no month of all the twelve, for
which it is more difficult to write these Notes,
than March. 1t is on the border between
winter and spring, and while in the northern
most localities winter still fingers, our read
ers in the Middle and Southern States are
fairly in the midst of their spring work. As
in other months our Notes are little in ad-
vance of the season, it is very easy for the
reader to look back, should he find what We
have indicated for March is with him practi.
cable only for April. Those who have neg
ected to order trees, plants, seeds, etc., until
now, should lose no time in procuring their
supplies. "Where shall buy?" is ques-
ton frequently asked by correspondents, es.
pecially by those who have had no experience
in purchasing. AS we do not, knowingly,
admit the advertisement of any one, from
whom we would not purchase ourselves. we
decline recommending one dealer in prefer
ence to another. The mail facilities allow
seeds and small plants to be sent to remote
localities. With regard to more bulky arti-
cles the matter of transportation is to be con-
sidered, and one will naturally purchase near
home, if he can be we'll served, but if there
is any doubt as to this, no consideration OF
saving of freight should prevent ordering
from a nurseryman of good reputation In
the hurry of spring work do not be tempted
to plant, pillow, or work the soil in any man
ner, until it is sufficiently dry, and will crum-
BILE as it is moved by the spade or pillow.
American A0riculturist
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Mr.. Gladstone offered Situation as Clerk

The London City Press gives the follow
ing auecdote: "A curious adventure once
occurred in the London offices of the late
Mr.. W. Lindsay, merchant, slipowner, and
NJ. P. There one day entered there
bruSque, but wealthy shipowDer of Sunder-
land, inquiring for Lindsay. AS Mr. Lind
say was out, the visitor was requested to wait
in an adjacent room, where he found a per.
son buSiIy engaged in copying some figures
The Sunderland Shipowner paced the room
several times aud took~. careful notice of the
writer's dongs, aud at lenQ b said to him,
Thou writes bonny hand, thou dost. +" 81
am glad you think so" was the reply. "Ah,
hou dOst; thou maChs thy figures weel /;
thou'rt just the chap l want" " Indeed,
said the L ,ndoner. Yer, indeed" said the
Sunderland man "I'm man of few words,
moo, if tbou'lt come over to canny auld Sun
ierland, thou Seest III gle thee hundred
and twenty pounds year, and that's plum
thou dost not meet with every day in thy
life, reckon. Moo, then" The Londoner
replied that he was much obliged for the Of
fer, and would wait till Mr.. Lindsay re
urned, whom be would consult upon the
'ubjeCt. Accordingly, on the return of the
alter, he ives informed of the shipowner'
.emptDg offer. every WE'LL" said Mr.
Lindsay =" | should be sorry to stand IL
your way; 912O is atpresent more than
au afford to pay you in the department in
Thch you are at present placed. You vii
find my friend good nd kind master, and
under the circumOts NE sooner yor
know each other the better. Allow me
therefore, Mr.. -, t. introduce to you TIT
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, of the Elk
chequer." Mr.. Gladstone had been engaged
in making note of some shipping returp
for his budget. The Sunderland shipowner
you may be sure, was a little taken aback a
first, but he soon recovered his self posses
sion, and enjoyed the joke quite as much a
Mr. Gladstone did. Leisure Hour.
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An Example Worthy of Imitation.

Iii said that the reason why Stanley went
around the African continent after passing
through it-wby instead of coming north
ward from the Congo toward civiliz atom and
toward home, he went southwark to the Cape
of Good Hope, and thence to Zanzibar, was
that he might keep his pledge to bis faithful
Africans to return them to their homes. He
had every kind of pressure, except that Of
plighted faith, to draw him to the cities aud
tbe courts of Europe and finally to his native
land. He knew well that honors awaited
him everywhere in all civilized Countries
No man in our time has been known to defer
or "save up" SO grand holiday festivity as
Stanley; and yet, if reports be true, which
we have no reason to doubt, he did postpone
for some months this great pleasure, in order
TO meet the claims of duty. Though ne bad
other errands at Zanzibar, this was promi-
nent. Let the world note this fact, and give
the need of praise as it is deserved. 1t is
one of the noblest of all Stanley's achieve
meuts. There is tonic in such an example
amid times and customs in which the claims
of the poor and uninAuential are so common
~ shuflsd eff on pitiful pretexts.-N Y.
Evangelist.
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STEAMBOAT.

There are no shops,in the streets of Siam
boul proper, for nearly everything except
food is sold in the bazaar, which is an enor-
nous square building consisting of laby-
rinth of long covered arcsdes in which the
dealers sit in their stalls with their wares
piled up round them. 1t is all locked up a.
senset. You may buy most things in it,
but the visitor is chiefly attracted by the
rugs and carpets from Persia, Anatolia, and
Kurdistan, the silks of Broussa, and the
stores of old armor (real and false) from
everywhere Purchasing is no easy matter,
for stranger is asked thrice the value o.
the goods, and unless he is content to be
cheated both by the dealer and his own cice-
rome interpreter, (who, of course, receives a
secret commission from the vendor,) he must
spend hours and hours in bargaining. Bust
ness is slack on Friday, (the MuSsulmau
Sabbath) and on Saturday (since mary Of
the dealers are Jews, as well as on Sunday.
1t is conducted under another difficulty, which
drives the visitor almost wild-that of mul
tiplicity of circulating mediums" There
is Turkish metallic currency, and paper
currency, greatly deprecated, besides all
sorts of coins of other nations constantly
turning up, among which the Indian rupee
is one of the commonest; and you have to
make bargain as to the value at which the
coins you happen to have in your pocket will
be taken. Hotel lodging, and indeed, al
most everything, is-Eery dear; for Western
books you pay half as much again as 10 Lon.
don or Paris. There is little sign of police
in the streets, and nothing done either to
pave or clean them. Few are pssseble for
carriages, and the Turks leave everything to
time and chance. The only scaVengers are
the vultures, which may sometimes be seen
lowering about in the clear sky, and the
dogs, of which there is vast multitude in
the city. Though you must have often heard
Of these dogs, the tradition which obliges
every one who talks about Constantinople to
mention them is too we'll established to be
disregarded. Nobody owns them or feeds
them, though each dog mostly inhabitS the
same quarter or street; and, in fact, is chased
away or slain if he ventures into the terri
tory of his neigbbors. They are i'll favored
brutes, mostly of brown or yellowish hue
and are very much in the way as one walks
about. At night they are serious difficulty
for the streets are not lighted, and you mol
only stumble over them, but are sometimes
when you fall into one of the holes in the
roadway tumbled head foremost into nest
of them, whereupon terrible swapping and
barking ensues. However, they don't modest
you unless you first attack them; and at
canine madness is unknown, or nearly sc
among them, nobody need fear hydrophobs
Macmsllan's Magazine
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Informal People.

Preserve US from unCeremonious people
those men and women who "never stand on
ceremony WHO are always perfectly at
home in other peoples houses Society has
many pests, but few so intolerable as they.
Free and easy" visitors are most thorough
ly disagreeable. They will iDfict themselves
upon you at any time, and expect to be al
ways cordially welcomed, because they are
so free and easy, and so 10th to put anybody
to trouble. They will come before breakfast,
or just as you are sitting at dinner, and draw
up their chairs quite like one Of the family
Early in the morning they delight to "run
in" and they will come right up to your
chamber to save you the trouble of coming
down, and there they will sit and watch you
make your toilet, and comment on bow gray
your hair is getting, and'wonder if you are
not great deal stouter, and redder in the
face than you used to be- They will hunt
over your writing desk for note-paper battle
their faces with your cologne water, and scent
their hsndkerchiefs with the contents of your
choicest perfumery bottle. They are always
ready for luncheon" You know I'm too
much at home in your house to go hungry,
my dear"-and any stray confectionery ly
ing about melts before them as dew before
the sun. They make no scruple of borrow
ing your latest magazines and novels; even
your wardrobe does not escape their en-
croachments; and all this insolence is cloak.
ed by some such empty remark as this :"
never stand on ceremony, but make myself
at home everywhere, 80 don't gut yourself
out to entertain mel Again, we pray, pre-
serve US from unceremonious people.
The Scotsman.
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MOTHERS, don't tell your little children
las we have heard mothers do) that they
won't mind, that you never saw such bad
children, or that it is useless to speak to
them. This is the certain way to make
them disobedient and reckless, as any one
can see. Once let little child understand
that you do not expect it to obey you, and
you may look for INSTRUMENTATION as mat
ter of course A little loving faith iu the
ohilds good impulses will be far more ef
feetual than aa announcement that you ex
pecs it to do wrong. The very Stubborn es:
and disobedience of child is oftentimef
caused by nervousness and excitement, as
much and more than by wickedness, and
should be treated accordingly.
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h fills place that many will appreciate who

it fills place that many will appreciate who
have felt the want of a good, early white
grape. When arranged upon the dessert ia
Die in connection with darker-hued clusters,
it forms pleasing contrast, that adds greatly
to the enjoyment of the eye as we'll as to
that of taste. The berries are quite large,
with their skin juicy and tender, and when
compared in quality with the Concord"
are thought to be even better.
Worden's Seeding aud Hartford Prolific
are two good, early black grapes of large
size, the latter is inclined, however, to drop
its fruit unless picked soon after ripeniug.
Brighton, Diana, and Catawba are good
red grapes, that are giving very general sat
isfaction, and that ripen in the order named,
forming very good assortment to prolong
the season with, as the two last, with little
care, may frequently be kept until the early
Spring months.
Eluua.and Martha are white varieties that
follow the Lady" in time of ripening, and
will help to fill up an assortment of red,
white, and black varieties for the months Of
September and October.
These varieties may be grown upon al
most all soils, and frequently to the best ad
vantage in the little city yards with which
city residents are provided. OF course wher
they are to be grown for profit, then there
are some soils or localities that are better
adapted to them than others; but for private
use, nearly any soil will answer, if naturally
or arti6cially drained. The month of April
or early in May, is the time usually selected
for planting; and if little care is giver
them for year or two, they will SOON make
ample returns for any attentions that they
may have received. r. III. HAINEs.
Saugeyties on Hudson, ~ Y.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1878-03-20

THE recent wedding of the Primers at
Berlin was accompanied with all the pomp
aud ceremony at the command of the Court.
TIE display was one of great magnifcence,
and yet was permeated by many of tae traits
of home life which the Germans never fail to
introduce. There were hearty exhibitions
of sympathy and affection, especially in the
warm congratulations offered to the brides
and bridegrooms. One apecial feature of the
supper was "two towering wedding cakes
ordered by the Crown Princes from England"
and much admired by the Teutonic grandees
who had never before seen or tasted anything
of the kind,
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The
Southern Presbyterian Review
A CARD.

THE present Editors of the SOUTHERN PREsBYTE-
RAN REVIEW having invited certain brethren in
Virginia to full and equal share with themselves
in the conduct of the same, and certain other breth
rem in various parts of the Church to become speca
pledged collaborators and these invitations having
been accepted aud these pledges made, it is now
hereby announced that the Association of Minis
ters responsible for the work will henceforth con-
sist Of
GEORGE Howe HENRY G. ALEXANDER,
JOHN B. ADGER, j. M. P. ATKINSON,
JAMES WOODROW, JNO. L. GIRARDEAU,
JOSEPH R. WILSON, CHARLES A. STILLMAN,
r. L.. DABNEY, b. Nj. PALMER,
b. M. SMITH, j. W. PRATT,
THOMAS E. PECK, s s. LAWS,
STUART ROBINSON.
The REVIEW will continue to be to certain ex
tent an open Journal favoring free discussion within
limits but 1t is the desire of all who have it in
charge to make it more than ever representative
of our whole Church, as its name imports, and @
faithful exponent Of the Calvinistic Theology and
the Presbyterian Polity
There will be no change in the terms of publica-
tion nor in the general principles OF the conduct Of
the work.
Communications may be addressed to the publish.
ers, James Woodrow, Columbia, s. c., or to Rob''
l.. Dabney, Hampden Sidney, Va, or to John B.
hdger, Pendleton s. G,
The friends of the enterprise are requested to
make some effort to increase the subscription lists
of the REVIEW. de6-tf
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TEA DRINKERS will be pleased to know
that the Commissioner of Agriculture is seek
ing to introduce the culture of the tea-plant
into this country. He is satisfied, from re.
cent experiments, that sufficient can be grown
for home consumption, equal in quality to
that of China. Already in the Southern
States tea-culture is attended with satiSfac-
tory results. It is also proved that sugar
sufficient for the demand can be produced ::
this would obviate the trouble and perplexity
which now prevails in regard to the sugar
tariff. Owing to the vast area of territory,
with its varied soil and climate, this country
may produce in the near future so many ne
cesSary staples as to cause US to be self-sus-
tanning, and entirely Independent of foreign
countries - Cor. Presbyterian.
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Central 4rcsbgttrlan,
FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD.
Published by Request

Published by Req1est.)
From all that's mortal, al that's vain,
And from this earthly clod,
Arise my soul, and strive to gain
Some fellowship with God.
Say, what is there be'ow the sky,
Or sll the paths thou st trOd,
Can suit thy wishes or thy joys,
Like fellowship with God?
Not life, nor all the toys Of art,
Nor pleasures Aowery road,
Can to my soul such bliss impart
As fellowship with God.
Not health nor friendship, here below,
Nor wealth, that golden load,
Can such delights and comforts show
AS fellowship with God.
When I in love an made to bear
AGliction's needful rod,
Light, sweet and kind the strokes appear,
Through fellowship with God.
In fierce temptations fiery bl So,
And dark desuuchon's road,
I'm happy, if can but taste
Some fellowship with God.
and when the icy arms of death
Shall chill my flowing blood,
With joy IN yield my latest breath,
In fellowship with God.
When I at last to heaven ascend,
And gain that blest abode,
There an eternity I'll spend
In fellowship with God.
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&c T o R Y
OF THE
Presbyterian Church in the United States.

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
The General Assembly will meet at Knoxville Tenn,
on the third Thursday of May, 1875, at IL A. NJ
CLERKS.
Rev. JOSEPH R. WILSON, ID. D., STATED CLxEK.
REV. WILLIAM BROWN, D. D., PERMANENT oIHar,
The Stated Clerk is the Treasurer of the
General Assembly.
TRUSTEES.
Hon JAMES HEMPHILL, President, Chester, S. g
REV. JOHN DOUGLAS, yIoE-PREsIDssr, Charlotte
Jesse H. LINDSAY, Esq, szOHErARr and TREASURER,
sUSTENTATION.
Rev. J. LEIGHTON WILSON, d. D., SECRETARY
REV RICHARD McILwAINE, Coordinate sSORs-
TARY and TREASURER, Box S3l, Baltimore Nd.
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
REV. J. LEIGHTON WILSON, D. D., SECRETARY,
Box $751; Baltimore, Nd
REV RICHARD MoILWAINE, Coordinate SEoRErA-
RI and TREAsURBR, Box $751; Baltimore, Md.
PUBLICATION.
REV JAMES K. HAZEN. SECRETARY, Rict mond,
q. GENNET, Esq, TREASURER, Richmond. Va.
EDUCATION
REV. JOHN N wADDEL, d. D., sEcRErAEr Mem
q. W. MACRAE, TREASURE, Memphis, Tenn.
EDUCATION OF COLORED MINISTRY
REV We A. ollLLuhN, u u, SECkETAkf IuskblOOs
sa, Alabama.
DR.. J. T. SEARCY, TREASURER, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Applications to the Executive Committee aid
to be referred to the appropriate Presbytera Exec
utive Committees for their approval and 10 be for
werded by them to the Assemby's Committees.
COLLECTIONS.
The General Assembly has appointd the fonowin-
lections be taken up annually in all the churcnes
For Sustentation On the first Sabbath In January.
For Publication; On the first Sabbath in March.
For Foreign Missions: On the first Sabbath in May.
For the Relief of Disabled Ministers and the Widows
and Orphans of Deceased Ministers On the first Sabbath
In July
For Evangelistic Work: On the first Sabbath in Sep
TENDER
| For Education: On the first Sabbath in November
For Education of Colored Ministry: On the first Sab
bath in December.
where IL is highly inconvenient 10 take coll
ections these days, they shall be taken
possible thereafter.
adopt the apostolic plan of taking weekly coectons
and that the amounts thus collected be appropriated TO
cts In such proportion the church session decide
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4pnsehuld &ntas.
WAIT AND SEE

When my boy with eager questions
Asking how, and where, and whea,
Taxes all my store Of wisdom
Asking Ger and Ger again
Questions Oft, to which the answers
Give to others still the key,
/ said, to teach him patience,
Wait, my little boy, and see.
And the words taught my darling
Taught to me a lesson sweet,
Once when all the world seemed darkened,
And the storm about me beat,
In the ehidren's room I heard hin
With the child's sweet mimicry,
To the baby brothers questions
Saying wisely wait and see
Like an angels tender Gliding
Came the darling words to me
Though my Fathers ways were hidden
Bidding me still wait and see.
What are we but restless children
Ever asking what shall BE- ?
And the Father in Bis wisdom
Gently bids us wait and see
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The Science of Apple Eating.

The boy is indeed the true apple eater,
and is not to be questioned how he came by
the fruit with which his pockets are filed
Il belongs to him. His own juicy flesh Graves
the juicy flesh Of the apple. Sap draws sap.
His fruit eating has little reference to the
state of appetite. Whether he be full of
meat or empty of meat, he wants the apple
Just the same. Before meal or after meal it
never comes amiss. The farm boy munches
apples all day long. He has nests of them
in the hsy-mow, mellowing, to which he
makes freq rent visits. Sometimes old Brindle,
having &C ess through the open door, smells
them out and makes short work of them.
The apple is, indeed, the fruit of youth.
As we grow old, we crave apples less. 1t is
an ouinous sign. When you are ashamed
to be seen eating them on the street; when
you carry them in your pocket, and your
hand not constantly find its way to them
when your neighbor has apples asd you have
none, and you make no nocturnal visits to his
orchard; when your lunch basket is without
them. and you can pass winters night by
the fire side With no thought of the fruit at
your elbow, then be assured you are no long
er boy, either in heart or years.
The genuine apple eater comforts himself
with an apple in their season as others with
a pipe or cigar. When he has nothing else
to do, or is bored, be eats an apple. While
he is waiting for the train he eats an apple,
sometimes several of them. When he takes
walk he arms himself with apples. He Of
fers an apple to his companion, and takes
one himself. They are his chief solace when
on the road. He sows their seed all along
the route. He losses the core from the car
window and from the top of the stage-coach
He would, in time, make the land one vast
orchard. He dispenses with knife. He
prefers that his teeth shall have the first
taste. Then be knows the best favor is i'm
mediately beneath the skn, and that in q
pared apple this is lost. If you will stew the
apple, he says, instead of baking it, by al
means leave the skin on. Il improves the
color, and vastly heigbtens the flavor of the
dish.-John Borough In Winter Sunshine