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Louisville Female Seminary.

TwESTY-NINTH ANNUAL SESSION begins
first Monday in September, 1873 New Local
tion-i25 and III ith Avenue. Reduced rates
for boarding pupils. Course ofstudy thorough
and comprehensive. Fine opportunity for
Calisthenies, Music, Painting, etc. For par
uculars, address, MRS. W. Ii. Mold,
Sl-u Louisville, Ky.
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wanted 10 Buy corn.

We will pay the highest market price
for shelled corn, delivered at the Hart
ford Water Mills.
32:tf join II. & WIN. PIIPPS.
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Farm For sale.

/ desire to sell my farm near No Creek
church two miles from Hartford, con-
tanning l4S acres of land-1OO acres
under cultivation, good dwelling house
with four rooms, 2 barns, stables, crib,
and out houses. All in good condition.
The place is well watered. For further
particulars apply to the editor of this
paper, or call ON or address the UNDER
signed, III. ID. BENNETT,
27-tf p. O. Hartford.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.

y. ]. Harris, of Greenville. is a cam
didate for Sergeant-at-.Arms of the next
Senate of Kentucky.
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The Best and Cheapest PIow I'm the
World

divers Chilled Pillow, Manufactured
at South Bend, Indiana, is the best and
cheapest pillow in the world. Edwards *
Foster, Hartford, KY, are agents for
Ohio county. No necessity of going to
the shop to have plows laid or sharpened.
An extra point is furnished with each
pillow sold. Perfect satisfaction guaran-
teed or the money refunded. We have
all sizes, from one to three-horse plows.
Call at once and see this wonderful pillow.
Foster 4 Hill,
Hartford, Ky. n33tf
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$1,000 J; ! 1: !. 8
~ n - to $1,000 II year, So to
HIH It'll SO n day in your own
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men. Many IN Ike
morethan the amount
stated above. No one
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fast. Any one can do the work. You can
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1t costs nothing to try the business. Nothing
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Reader, IL you want to know all about the
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us your address and we will send you full
particulars and private terms free; samples
worth S. also free you can then make up
your mind for yourself Address, GEORGE
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A splendid Safe for sale at a good bar
gain. Call at once on John =. Barrett.
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70 per cent. UeUuctIOn IOr StflcIIN prOInpI
payment.
One-hd( ofthe tuition WiU be due at the middle Of
the Session, and the other hdifdt the close.
No deduction for absence except in case of
protracted sickness. Students will be feceiv-
ed at any time and charged from time OF
entering. Special attention paid to fitting
boys for College. Board can be obtained ut
from - % to 81 80 per week.
The Town OF HARTFORD, where the SEMI
nary Is located, is situated on Rough Creek,
four and n half miles north of the Il. 4 +. r.
r., with which il is connected by daily stage
meeting the trains bound either way. The
town il well watered, and Is considered one
of the most healthful in the Green River
country, and the Inhabitants are sociable,
moral and cultivated. 8-2m
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To all whom 1t May Concern.
Hoop Poles wanted

want 10000 hoOp-poles, hoghsheads
and barrel poles delivered on the bank
of Rough Creek, for which | will pay
cash. For terms, &C., call on or address
me, +. w. PIRTLE,
31-4t p. o. Hartford, Ky.
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McHenry Coal Co. want
to buy 100 head of GOOD beef cattle.
Far further particulars, apply to
L. JAIN or
w. G.. DUNCAN.
McHENRY, Ky. Slit.
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Remember.
Fresh Meats

We have arranged to keep a supply
of fresh meats on hand, such as beef,
pork ETC., and will be thankful for pat
rOnage. Respectfully,
eff. FOSTER K HILL
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Great Sale Of Land.

will offer at
PUBLIC 9 ALE
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20 per cent. deduction for strictly prompt
payment.
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OHIO CIRCUIT COURT.
John p. Traey's Admir-, Plaintiff.

j. d. Rogers Heirs, DEFENDANTS
All persons having claims against the
estate of Joseph b. Roger, deceased, are
hereby notified to produce the same,
properly proven, to the undersigned,
Master Commissioner of said Court, at
his office, in Hartford, Ohio county,
Kentucky, on or before the LIST day Of
October next, or they will be forever
barred.
This % day of July, 1879.
f. II. MURREII, NJ. G.
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OHIO CIRCUIT COURT.
Hips Admir- Plaintiff.

All persons having claims against the
estate of Mrs. Elizabeth Midkiff, de
ceased, are hereby notified to produce
the same, properly proven, to the un-
designed, Master Commissioner of said
Court, at his Office i'm Hartford, Ohio
county, Kentucky, on or before the LIST
day of October next, or they will be
forever barred.
This % day of July, 1879.
f. r. MURREI.I, NJ. G..
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-08-13
Love and Loyalty.

II is no hard statute of law book, no
commandment craven in stone, that we are
to obey, but love and loyalty tracing the
footsteps of Jesus, and saying with Mr..
Steadfast in Pilgrims Progress" " Where
ever have found the print of his shoe there
have desired to set my foot also" If we
rightly understand all this we shall not be
troubled with the charges of legalsm and
asceticism which men sometimes throw out
against the gospel. They say, d" You preach
that we must abstain from this amusement
and that apusement--from play-going and
dancing and cards, and thus you seek to put
yoke on men, and bind heavy burdens on
u.s." We don't preach such things. Chris
tianity has nothing to do with prohibiting
the pleasures and employments of worldly
men. 1t did not come into the world to
make laws for the worldly-minded. What
it does say is this. 1t shows you Christ de-
nying all sin and unrighteousness, living a
life of abstinence from all hurtful or ques-
tionable employments, choosing poverty and
loneliness and self-denial, that he might
make many ricb and it says to you " Now
If you would like to follow such life, ac-
cept it. But you are free You will not be
compelled, like Simon, the Cyrene, to bear
Christs cross unwilingly. You choose To
be sure, he says that you cannot be his dis
ciple unless you bear his cross. But you
can decline to be his disciple, if you wish.
The gospel does not impose Christs yoke
on any unwilling neck.-Dr. A. j. Gordon.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-08-13
An Example,.

When Vidal, one of the most distinguished
sculptors of France, became suddenly blind
he refused TO credit the assertion of his ply.
sician that the terrible aifliction must be a
permanent one. For awhile he fought the
disease and the doubt with the most heroic
determination and when at last he was
obliged to accept the medical diagnosis as
correct, he gave in like brave man. You
will find, said the doctor, that your other
senses will become more acute, especially
the sense of feeling. If you persist in your
art with half the courage and resolution
that you have shown in fighting me, you
will become as famous without your eyes as
you would have been with them" So Vidal
gratitied and soothed, went to work, and
kept at work. The education of the sense
OF feeling, even quickened as it was by the
destruction OF the optic nerve, was a most
difficult undertaking, and to a man of less
patience aud courage would have been i'm
possible, When after considerable patience
he found that he could see little with his
fingers" his delight was unbounded. " Per-
haps," he said, "the good God is to give
me ten eyes instead of two, and if this is
so, what will not do to deserve them 2"
Time that tries all things, and settles all
things, proved that this hope was not un-
founded, and it came to pass that Vidal
could not only do better work than he ever
did, but was a more competent critic of his
neighbor's work than when he could use his
eyes. "Keep still, now," the artists say,
4" Vidal is about to feel OF my statue r. and
this means to them everything that is cor
rect in art Judgment. vidal's favorite sub
jects are animals, aud since his blindness
he has received more than one medal from
the Salon for his wonderful power and skill
in modelling. Vidal's labors and experience
should be comfort to his brothers and sis.
ters all over the world. Like him, they
should say, thankfully, Perhaps the good
God will give me ten eyes instead of two."-
Zion's Herald.
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The work was experimental with the
sculptor, but what labor of thought, and
care and enthusiasm, what trembling ex-
citement, that forgot time and did not think
IL labor, while he sought TO give form to the
ideal that was in vision before him. So I
think that 1t was with those young parents
as they wrought upon the exquisite and
Immortal material which God had put in
their hands to form into grace and beauty.
Yes, 1t was experimental but what prayer
ful and even fearful work it was, what a
world OF thought and care, what earnest
| ness and absorbing devotion was given TO il
Ah, there was the genius of parental love,
all vitalized and made divinely skilfu TO
produce result which should be a ioy to
them forever
They had, think, an ideal child before
them, born of their study of Gods Word,
perhaps dimly seen in the form and features
of the child Jesus, aud, perhaps, all uncon.
sciously to themselves, they were seeking 10
embody il in the child which Law nesting in
their arms. At all events, am sure that
their child-training had design in it. It was
not random and thoughtless work. II
might seem, and one might speak of it, as
an experiment, but it was steady and care
ful reaching after fondly cherished form.
Some parents who read this will under
stand what mean, and will perhaps see an
intense meaning in the life of their first.
born, and meaning in the work which they
did in those inexperienced days. Some, pos
sibly will not understand it. They have
never had any real design in their child
training, have had no ideal from which they
have sought to make real. But they have
never known what God has given them to
do.- Christidn Union.
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Passing Over.

After this" says John Bunyan, " it was
noised abroad that MIR. Valiant-for-truth was
taken with summons by the same Post as
the other, and had this for toker that the
summons was true That the pitcher was
broken at the fountain When he under
stood it he called for his friends and told
them of it. Then said he Il am going TO
my father and, though with great difficulty
l have got hither, yet now | do not repent
me of all the trouble have been at TO ar
rive where ! am. My sword | give to him
that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage,
aud my courage aud skill TO him that can
get it. My marks and scars | carry with
me, to be witness for me that have fought
his battles who win now be my rewarder
When the day that he must go hence was
come, many accompanied him to the river
side; into which, as he went he said I:
Death, where is thy sting?' And as he
went down deeper he said Grave, where
is thy victoryT So he passed over, and all
the trumpets sounded for him on the other
side"
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"If Ye Faint NOt,1

"ln due season We shall reap if We faint
not" Uye faint noil All, it is so easy to
give up and "faint, langud and
discouraged and disheartened, if our pray
ers are not answered just when and how we
expect, if our efforts are not Immediately
crowned with success If we could only
see things run in Just the gioove we had
marked out, and the encouraging end fol
low the means we had so hopefully used,
oh then we could work happily we could
go on so joyfully in our Christian course |
we would never doubt, never tire we would
ride to heaven gloriously in triumphant
chariot; and by-and-by how we would re-
joice in the work we had done, and glorify
our Master, perhaps but ourselves surely -!
All, we should so soon forget to give God
the glory-forget it was we who had done
it all with our efficient hands, by our master
minds Is not this great Babylon which
have buildedW God knows why our best
meant plans do not always succeed. He
has good reason for all he does, and his own
" season" is always best. Aud further
more, he is not pleased when we faint and
grow weary in well-doing. Oh, how many
times we have lost the blessing because we
did not hold out just lite longerl We
have "fainted instead of "waiting" on
the Lord. "They that pai on the Lord
shall renew their strength h.'-Seiected.
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This have | done for thee;
What hast thou done for me p
The Sermon on the Mount.

The most careless reader has probably
been struck with the contrast between the
delivery OF this sermon and the delivery of
the law on Sinai. We think of that as a
"fiery law" whose PRONUNCIATION is sur
rounded by the imagery of thunders and
lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet
sounding long and waxing louder and
louder. We think of this as flowing forth
in divinest music amid all the calm and
loveliness Of the clear and quiet dawn. That
came dreadfully TO the startled conscience
from an unseen presence shrouded by
wreathng clouds, and destroying fire, and
eddying smoke; this was uttered by sweet
human voice, that moved the heart most
gently in words of peace. That was deliv-
cred by the desolate and storm-rent hill,
which seems with its red granite crags to
threaten the scorching wilderness this on
the fowery grass of the green hillside which
slopes down TO the silver lake. That shook
the heart with terror and agitation this
soothed 1t with peace and love. Aud vet
the new commandments of the Mount of
Beatitudes were not meant to abrogate but
rather TO complete the law which was spoken
from Sinai TO them of old. The law was
founded on the eternal distinction strong
and irremovable as the granite bases of the
world. Easier would it be to sweep away
the heaven and the earth than to destroy
the least letter, one jOi-or the least point OF
letter, one projecting horn--of that code
which contains the very principles of all
moral life. Jesus warned them that he
came, not to abolish that law, but to obey
and fulfill; while at the same time he
taught that this obedience had nothing to do
with the Lsvitical scrupulosity of super
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-08-13
Only Christians.

John Wesley once was troubled in regard
to the disposition of the various sects, and
the chances OF each in reference to future
happiness or punishment. A dream one
night transported him in its uncertain wan
deriDgs to the gates of hell. "Are there
any Roman Catholics here Z" asked thought.
ful Wesley. "Yes," was the reply. "Any
Presbyterians p yes" was again the
answer. "Any Congregationalists 7" "Yes."
" Any Methodists," by way of clincher,
asked the pious Wesley. ayes" was answered
to his great indignation. In the mystic
way OF dreams, a sudden transition, aud he
stood at the gates OF heaven. Improving
his opportunity, he again inquired Are
there any Roman Catholics here p "No,"
was replied. "Any Presbyterians :" "No."
Any Congregationalists 2" "No." "Any
Methodists = "No." "Well, then," he
asked, lost in wonder, "who are they in
side z" Christians I" was the jubilant
answer.
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Experiments in ChiId-Training.

ave oldest children OF the family have
been in an unfortunate position. All the
experiments were tried on us. The Younger
children reaped the benefit Of any possible
mistakes, because they were not repeated on
them" So said one of my neighbors, the
other day, TO me. Father and mother were
capital workmen as we are willing to &C.
knowledge, and as you can see," he added,
with a mock gravity and complacency.
You have only to look on these finished
and beautiful pieces of work which you be-
hold in my sister and myself to understand
their skill. But, ah, you do not know what
we suffered in the process II has often re-
minded me of that celebrated oculist who,
on being complimented on very delicate
operation which he had skillfully performed,
replied; Yes, it was done nicely, and, as
you see, easily but do not show the hatful
Of eyes that | spoiled while learning how
to do it,"
The young joker did not mean all that
his words implied but he felt, and knew,
that there was a substratum of truth in
what he said. Young parents are, by the
nature of the case entirely unskilled-at
least, entirely inexperienced In the matter OF
child.training, and, OF course, to a certain
degree, the work must be somewhat expert
mental. They have qualities, it may be, as
young parents, which specially fit them for
the task which is given them to do, but
they enter upon it as untried workmen
What marvel, then, it is that they often do
the work so well
My young nephew and his sister, the old.
est Of their family, are indeed sweet aud
beautiful specimens of work, and there was
as much truth in his jestingly made refer
ence TO themselves, as In the remark which
he made about the experiment made upon
them.
1t reminded me of an incident of few
evenings since. ] stood by the side of one
OF the most eminent sculptors of our country,
and he was showing me the first work which
had come from his hand. II was an ex-
quiste figure of baby boy. lie said that
it had faults, but could see none. The
face was angelically human, the dimpled
shoulders, the sofuy-rounded muscles OF in
fancy were there, aud could almost see the
warm blood tinting the white marble, all
instinct with life. 1t was dream of beauty,
and | marveled as he told me II was his
first work, He showed me other forms that
will live forever in my memory, but none
that will abide more sweetly there than that
first production OF his genius. So think
these elder children OF my brother aud sister
stand among the group which, with an
uncle's partiality, | admire and love 80 well.
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The Sultan and Satan,

There is an Eastern story of sultan
who oversight himself, so as not to awaken
at the hour of prayer. So the Devil came
and walked him, and told him to get up and
pray. "Who are you :" said the sultan
"Oh, no matter" replied the other. "My
act is good, is it not :? No matter who does
the good action, so long as it is good"
Yes" replied the sultan, "but | think
you are Satan. know your face you have
some bad motive" But" says the other,
=" | am not so bad as am painted You see
| have left off my horns and tail. am
pretty good fellow, after all. was an an
gel once, and still keep some of nv orig
inal goodness" THAT'S all very WE'LL" re-
piled the sagacious and prudent caliph,
but you are tempter; that's your bust
ness; and wish to know why you want
me to get up and pray" "Weil," said the
Devil, with flirt of impatence, "if you
must know, will tell you. If you had
slept and forgotten your prayers, you would
have been sorry for it afterward, and peni-
tent but If you go on, as now, and do not
neglect single prayer for ten years, you
will be so satisfied with yourself that it will
be worse for you than if you had missed
one sometimes and repented of it. God
loves your fault mixed with penitence more
than your virtue seasoned with pride''
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Count Them.

Count what ? Why, count the mercies
which have been quietly falling in your
path through every period of your history.
Down they come every morning and even
ing, angel messengers from the Father of
lights, to tell of your best friend in heaven.
Have you lived these years wasting mercies,
treading them beneath your feet, and con-
Stunning them every day, and never yet real
lied whence they came -? If you have,
heaven pity you You have murmured un-
der your atiliction but who has heard you
rejoice over your blessings? Do you ask
what are these mercies Ask the sunbeam,
the rain-drop, the star, or the queen of
night. What is life but mercy What is
the propriety of stopping to play with a
thorn bush when you may just as well pluck
sweet flowers and eat pleasant fruits
Happy is he who looks at the bright side of
life, of providence, of revelation; who avoids
thorns and sloughs until his Christian
growth is such that, if he cannot improve
them, he may pass them without injury.
Count mercies before you complain of afilic-
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THE SHEPHERD AND THE LAMBS.

PARABLE.
Unto the margin of the flowing river
The Eastern shepherd leads his timld sheep;
lie calls them on but they stand still and shiver;
To them the stream seems Wide and swift and deep
He calls them on but they In fear are standing;
He calls them on, but on they dare NOT go;
They heed not now the voice of his commanding
They only heed the rivers fearful flow.
Then from the side Of one protecting mother
lamb the shepherd takes unto hls breast;
And then he gently bends and takes another.
And In his arms the two lambs lie at rest.
They lie al rest and, as he close enfolds them,
He bears them safely DER the river wide;
The little lambs know well the that holds them
They nestle warmly and are satisfied.
Then the fond mothers with maternal longing
Look on beyond that rivers fearful flow;
They can but follow, and ,behnd them thronging.
Their feecy comrades are in haste to go.
Drawn by love stronger than any shrinking,
Their lambs they follow DER the flowing tide;
They heed not now the swimming or the sinking,
They brave the stream and reach the further side.
And while their tender shepherd kindly feeds them
They think no longer upon what hath been;
lie gives them back their lambs and then he leads them
BY the still waters, through the pastures green.
So shall 1t be with you. weeping mother.
Whose lamb the Lord has taken from your sight;
It's he hath done Il, he and not another;
Your lamb lies In his arms clasped close and tight.
Across the stream your little one Is taken
That you may tear no more the quick, dark flow;
But that, with steadfest heart and faith unshaken.
Yon may be ready after 1t to- go.
This is the tender Shepherds loving pleasure.
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" Cheer HIM.

At a fire in large city, while the upper
stories of a lofty dwelling were wrapped in
smoke, and the lower stories all aglow with
flame, piercing shrek told the startled fire
men that there was some one still in the
building in peril. ladder was quickly
reared and driven through the flames and
smoke until it touched the heated walls,
when brave young fireman rushed up the
rounds on his errand of mercy. Stihed by
the smoke, he stopped and seemed about to
descend The crowd was in agony, as
life seemed lost, for every moment OF hesta-
tion appeared an age While this shivering
fear seized every beholder voice from the
crowd pealed out. "Cneer him cheer him |"
and wild "hurrah burst from the excited
spectators. AS the cheer reached the fire.
man he started upward through the curling
smoke, and in a few moments was seen
coming down the ladder with woman in
his arms. The cheer did the work