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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-24
Resisting the Tempter.
John B. Gough.1

With drink, on some temperaments,
ne glass will mount to the brain instant
v, weakening the power of will, affecting
ne self-control, and the man is not the
anne. The appetite being then reused
,akes hold of him and drags him down in
It's fearful embrace. The only safety for
such man is total abstinence; and to a
man who has been victim, bound by the
cords of this fierce desire, it will be a life
struggle, when at times the old appetite
comes over him like wave. Let him do
anything but drink, let him even run-it
is not cowardly to run.
know man who was strongly tempt
ed, and escaped. He was a printer, and
working near window opposite which
was the "Shades,' he saw persons coming
out wiping their lips, having taken their
''eleven o'clock" He began to want it,
and grew nervous; the desire increased
every fibre of his system seemed to cry
out for it, when he dropped his form of
type, and, in his vexation at the accident,
the intention of getting drunk; when as
he said, he thought of wife and children,
of former ruin and disgrace, and present
prosperity and reputation, he rushed out,
and ran hatless through the streets till he
reached home.
"Wife, shut me up! for mercy's sake,
shut me up and don't let me out. Ask no
questions but shut me up"
She was wise wife and locked him in
room, and there he remained for thir.
ty hours before he dare venture out to
his work again.
A lawyer who had been intenperate
told me -"I have been obliged to foregc
all light literature. l can hardly read 4
newspaper
"Whyl" replied
81 have not tasted drink for two years
but if only read of drinking l want it
have paced my Office with hands clench
ed and the sweat standing in beads on m,
forehead, as battled the horrible desire
to get drink, when l have read of mar
drinking glass of wine"
Another gentleman told me that he hat
not drank for twenty eight years; "but,
said he, II have some fifty men working
for me, and when take the breath Of
man who has been drinking, want it.
yes, sometimes want it so that have rid
den ten miles TO rid myself of the desir
that seemed to cry through my who'll
system, Give! give! when | have takel
the breath Of man who had been drink
ing."-[Ne York Advocate
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-24
sCISSORED sCINTILLATIONS.
A sad case--A coffin.-[Danbu Ne,

A sad case--A coffin Danbury News.
A striking tale-The whales Cincin.
natl Saturday Night
Clubs are to their members, meet and
drink Boston Post.
The wheelwright is of re- firing dispo-
sition.-l Yonkers Statesman.
One touch of humor makes the whole
world grin Yonkers Gazette.
A stick in time saves nine boys out of
ten,-[ Albany Evening Journal.
The thoroughly happy man-we have
not seen him. Danbury News. .
Out on a foul-taking a ride on an
ostrich.-[Albany Evening Journal.
A dying bequest is almost dead give
away Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald.
Unlike the flea, when you put your
finger on hornet, he is there.-[Syracuse
Times.
A great deal of singing is in chanting
and a great deal is not [Steubenville
Herald
1t amt so mutch what man kan lift,
as what he kan hang onto, that shows hiz
aktual strength.-Josh Billings.
Tally one for Darwin. Monkeys swim
as men do, with the side stroke, not "dog-
fashion, - Philadelphia Sunday Item.
The bootblack blithe shines while he works;
But the lazy man whlnes while he shirks
-[Hackensaek Republican.
The man who considers himself num-
Der one tells the truth unwittinglv, for he
is certainly next to nothing Hacken-
sack Republican.
The Yonkers Gazette has an article en-
titled, "What do we eatP That depends.
If you live in boarding house no human
being can tell New York Express.
Black is the best color for photograph
ing Detroit Free Press. People will
now apply burnt cork to their faces before
sitting for photographs.-L Boston Post.
AT the close of the sermsn the minister
became impressive, Raising his voice he
said: Judgment! Judgment" and a
small boy near the vestibule door, shouted
"Out on the first! r. Emira Gazette
ale who fights and runs away,
May live to fight another dav;
But he who runs away IN debt
Will meier come back again, you bet
-[Marathon Independent.
There are two little girls of the same
name in New London, CT. The other
night one Of them said her prayers, and
for fear they might be credited TO the 9TH
er child, she added after the Amen, mo.
10 Orange street"
Never fear brake will break
o thou railroad traveller!
For brake is made to brake
Break 1t won't, thou caviler
When brake doth brake it breaks not;
When 1t breaks it cannot brake:
Whether 1t doth brake or brakes not
Never, never doth it break.
New York Mail
Daniel Ordway, Of Proctorsville, VT, is
eighty-tour years old, and expects TO die
soon. His grave clothes and coffin have
been made, under his direction, and cer
gvman lately preached his funeral sermon
in accordance with his urgent request.
Now, if he could contest his own will, and
then steal his body and take it to a inedi
cal college, he would probably be happy
Oil City Derrick.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-24
Want of Courage.
ISidney Smith

A great deal of talent is lost to the
world Tor the want of little courage.
Every day sends to the grave number
Of obscure men, who have only remained
N obscurity because their timidity has
prevented them making the first effort,
and who, if they could have been induced
to begin, would, in all probability, have
gone great lengths in the career of fame.
The fact is, in order to do anything in
this world that is worth doing we must
not stand shivering on the brink, and
think of the cold and danger, but jump
in and scramble as we can. It will not
do to be perpetually calculating risks and
adjusting nice chances. 1t lid very well
before the flood, VIXEN man could con-
suit his friends upon publication for one
hundred and fifty years, and then live to
see its success for six or seven centuries
afterwards; but, at present. man waits,
and doubts, and hesitates, and consults
his brother, and his uncle, and particular
friends, till one day he finds that he is
sixty years of age; that he has no tune
left to follow their advice. There is such
little time for ovcrsqueamishnes at pres.
ent, the opportunity so easily slips away,
the very period of his life at which man
chooses to venture, if ever, is SO confined,
that it is no bad rule to preach up the
necessity, in such instances, of little vio-
lence done to feelings, and of efforts
made in defiance of strict and sober cal
culation.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-24
A Mighty Love.
Preachers S Cabinet.)

Dr. John Brown writes, that he never
can forget an incident during the cholera
in 1892: zone morning sailor came to
say l must go three miles down the river
to village where it had broken out with
great fury. Of set. We rowed in 81
lence down the dark river, passing the
hugh hulks, and hearing the restless con
victs turning in their beds in their chains.
The men rowed with all their might; they
had too many dying or dead at home to
have the heart to speak to me. We got
near the place. 1t was very dark, but |
saw a crowd of men and women on the
shore at the landing place, all shouting
for the doctor. We were near the shore,
when ! saw big, old man, his hat off
his hair gray, his head bald. He said
nothing, but turning them all off with
his arm, he plunged into the sea, and be-
fore knew where l was he had me in
his arms. l was helpless as an infant
He waded out with me, carrying me high
mp in his left arm, and with his right
leyeling every man or woman who stood
in his way. 1t was Big Joe carrying me
to see his grandson, Little Joe. He bore
me off to the poor, convulsed boy, and
aared me to leave him till he was better
He did get better, but Big Joe himself
was dead that night He had the disease
On him when he carried me from the boat
but his heart was set upon his boy. I car
never forget how terribly in earnest HI
was"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-24
"Positively Shocking"

There is beautiful pellucid lake in a
certain county in Tennessee which is noted
as much for leeches as for the beauty of
its clear water and surrounding scenery.
1t is an impromptu bathing pool for all
the boys in the neighborhood, except on
Sundays, when they went to church, lying
about on the grass and telling stories,
which were occasionally interrupted by
the loud tones of the preacher The sec
ond warm Sunday this spring four pretty
rompng girls staying together at farm
house near tine lake, and when everybody
started to church they allowed that they
would STAY at home and go bathing in the
lake, which they did to their entire salts
faction. They swan and giggled, ,splashed
like mermaids and nymphs, and then sat
on the bank like frogs, and then splashed
and swan and giggled some more, and
calculating their time SO as to get to the
house before the church-goers returned ;
they presently crawled out of the water
to dress; but what was their CONSERVATION
to discover some dozen or so black things
attached to the snowy forms of each one
Of the nymphs.
They yelled with 4o-girl power, and
tried to pull the leeches off, but the var
mints had too good taste, in more senses
than one, to be pulled off. They stuck on
faster the more the girls screamed. Their
fright got the better of naidenly modesty,
and the four fair damsels cut for home
just as they were, in Tennessee bathing
dresses, which means nothing at all. 1t
happened, however, that Brother Ebenezer
Crawford was sick that day, and the SER
vices were short, so that the four Eve-like
fugitives came out on main road and
met two-thirds Of the congregation. Their
relatives did not recognize them in that
slight attire Of leeches, and, naturally
thinking it was female lunatic asylum
broken loose took after them pel-mell
Away they went over bush and briar,
wood and bramble, the whole congrega-
ton, headed by the deacons, after the four
girls. At last they ran in some hay
stacks, and it was only then that the di
lemma was discovered. The chase re-
turned, and four old ladies went out ane
brought the girls in.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-24
Natures Forces TO Take the Place of
Mature Products.
Undiaua ,OliS Herald,)

Now they are making mill stones Of
glass, that grind more easily, run more
completely free from heat, keep the flour
cooler, and wear longer than buhr- stones
They make drier grist, leave it looser
and separate the husk more thoroughly
from the grain.
For some time past they have been
making car wheels and boats of paper,
and a first rate substitute for ivory of pa
per and camphor which thev call cellu.
loid. 1t makes the best of collars and cuffs
as we'll as billiard balls, buttons, knife
handles and everything that ivory will
make.
They are getting ready TO make light
without oil, and heat without fuel, power
without steam, and perfect communica.
ton by 'word of mouth" without the in
tervention even of writing apparatus,
May We not nationally look for the day,
and not far in the future, when the forces
of nature, its mysterious agencies, evading
all analyses that can disclose more than
their modes of operation, will take the
place Of its material products, the coal and
oil and force of water and propulsion of
wind-except in polities-which now light
and heat the world and do its work?
If electricity Can be made to replace ar
tificial light, II can certainly be made to
replace Atifcia heat, and very probably
can be made to replace all the forms OF
oower we now use. If it can, then we
NAV dismiss our fears Of ever eXhausting
any natural product that is necessary to
our comfort or industrial development.
For we shall need no more of them That
is, for the processes of manufacture. The
raw material of manufactures are differ
ent thing, though ever in this direction
invention and discovery promise to relieve
us in no small measure OF our dependence
on the materials now in use. The best of
lumber can be made of pressed straw, and
straw is material as ineXhaustible as the
capability of agriculture. AS long as we
can raise grain we can make lumber that
will free US from dependence on the fast
fading forests. Having lumber without
wood better material for many uses
than iron without smelling or mining, in
comparable light without oil or gas, per
lect heat without coal or wood, infinite
power without steam or water, depending
on the forces and not the materials Jt Ma
Mre tor all material use and develop
ments, we shall certainly have mace
long stride in advance not only o. All tina
has been done, but all that mas beei
dreamed, till very recently.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-24
A woman's idea Of George Eliot.
lSeaside interview in N. Y. Star.]

ISeaside interview in N. Y. Star.
She laughed. "We're all alone here
with the robins, and they have no stan
dard Of taste at this hour in the morning.
Let me tell you what / think of George
Eliot. She set out in literature with heart
and other necessary womanly appliances.
When she wrote "The Mill on the Floss"
and "Adam Bede" she was producing in
the normal and womanly way. These
were lusty and wholesome children. We
all liked them, for they had the bounce,
the warmth and the high color of genu-
inc and charming brats. Bat when she
met Lewis he convinced her that she
ought to go into convent and become a
literary virgin. The funniest thing about
it was that she-did."
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-24
How the Widow Worked It.

A rich widow, lacking only two years
Of half a century and dressing her hair
six times day, in Elizabethtown, KY,
fell in love with a youth Of nineteen who
had been working on her farm. Her two
step-sons ordered him to leave the town,
and threatened to use shot gun if he
should ever attempt to return. The wild
ow took the lad to town, purchased for
him new suit of clothes and charged
him to get license. The young man did
as he was told, and when they were mar.
ried she carried him home and asked heI
step-sens what theYy meant to do about it
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-24
The Kind of Craftsmanship Required.
indianapolis sentinel)

Craftsmanship in this country can have
no higher end nor aim than to keep labor
employed, for it is the essential factor OF
prosperity; indeed, without it there can
be no prosperity. 1t is necessary that
measures especially designed to give
laboring men employment should be
brought forward, but It is important that
laws shall not be enacted calculated to
depress labor and thereby reduce its
wealth. producing capacity.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-24
Wen Not DISPUTE 1t.

One who prides himself that 81 am
plain, blunt man, who always says what |
mean," and accordingly goes about saying
all things at all times, without regard to
courtesy, discretion or Christian kindness,
is not model of frankness, but rather a
social pest.-[S. S. Times.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-24
The Light for Rainy weather.

One beauty of an electric light is that 1t
burns as we'll in rain storm as in the
finest of weather. One Of the large hotels
at Saratoga has its grounds lit by electric
ty, and the effect Of the light on the rain
drops is described as singularly beautiful.
This is new plea in favor Of lighting by
electricity.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-24
Liver, Stomach, Heart,
and Kidneys.

A Positive Cure Wholly without
Medicine for the Following ALL
ments:
OF THE LIVER.
First and foremost, Malaria, whether in
form of Fever and Ague, Dumb Ague In.
termittent Fever, Chills, Blood Poisoning
or any Of its hydra shapes; Liver Complaints
of all kinds; Jaundice, Biliousness Pain In
the Side, Aching Bones, Liver Spot, etc.
OF THE STOMACH.
Dyspepsia, in all its phases; indigestion
Headaches Periodical Nausea, Nervous lr
ritability, Loss Of Appetite, Heart Burn,
and in short, all arrangements Of the
stomach.
OF THE HEART.
Palpitation, Strange Sensations, feeling
Of suffocation, Irregular Action, Sudden
Panes, and all indications Of impairment o.
This vital organ not positively organic.
OF THE KIDNEYS.
Bright's Disease (early stages( Dropsioal
Tendency, Inflammation Diabetes, Brick
Dust deposit, Incontinence and the Back
ache and pains which are the symptoms q
nearly all forms of Kidney Complaints.
We challenge the world to equal thsss
Combined Pad and Plasters either in solid
value convenience of application, or econI
amy. We sell either the Anti-malarial o.
I3ackache Pad and Plaster at 81 each
The Combined Pad and Plaster (both
kinds) is being rapidly introduced, and
| wherever IL has been tried it never failed to
give instant relief, and as aconsequence it,
! fame has rapidly spread, and now it is sold
by most dealers in drugs and medicines
throughout the United States and CanadaA
But should your druggist not have it on
hand, ask him to geti for you, or incloss
81 to the discoverers and proprietors and
they will forward the same to your address
ey return mail. Remember, this combine
ton is warranted to cure if used according
To directions. No other Pad is sold under
the same guarantee, and no other Plaster is
presented to the public under the ono
cure, No pay" principle. Remember this
and give it fair trial, is all we ask.
Address all orders to
KENNEDY Il COMPANY,
solo p "a N t Q g -,
PITrsBURG, PA,
or R.MACREADY & co.,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-24
THE DAILY STAR
THE ROOMS WIDTH.

think il should cross the room,
Far as fear,
Should stand beside you like thought,
Touch you, dearl
Like fancy. To your sad heart
Ii would seem
That my vision passed and prayed you,
Or my dream.
Then you would look with lonely eyes
Lift your head
and you would sti,, and sigh, and say
"She is dead"
saffled by death and love, lean
Through the gloom.
D Lord of life am forbid
To cross the room?
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps in Sunday Afternoon
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-02-19
SOME SIGNIFICANT CIPHERs.

'ris ciphers here and ciphers there,
And clphers still the papers cry for;
And all who have the time to spare
May read the writing everywhere
Ofugly frauds transparent cipher.
Two States were sold, as we'll we know
And what do politicians lie for?
Although few their votes coulc
"throw,"
'Tis clearly seen they did not go
By any Democratic cipher.
Returning Boards were sold and bought
And what they held themselves 81
high for
Is visible in what they got;
For everybody knows they brought
To posts OF profit many a cipher.
What fraud and force, in spite of law,
Intended desperately to try for,
And fill corruption's ravenous NAV,
is plain to all who ever saw
Zach. Chandler's mandatory cipher.
When Sherman hastened South to see
What price State he then could buy
for,
He made IL clear as clear can be
That rogues of high and low degree
Found his most seductive cipher.
When Grant brought out Hhe bayonet,
Produced his dru miner and his tlfer,
And soldiers round the Congress set,
We learned what we Will not forget
The lawloss military cipher.
There's many man who should to-day
In close confinement be "lifer,"
Instead Of drawing public pay,
Could Justice have its righteous way
With those who wrote Frauds ugly
cipher
-[New York Sun, Feb. Sth.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-02-19

STILL the jocund days go by and
the Constitutional Convention sits
and sits and sits, like hen OH a
batch of added eggs, which she is
determined to hatch at all hazards.
We have so often expressed our
opinion that the new instrument
should have been weeks ago in the
hands of the people that it is scarce
Iy necessary to reiterate it now.
Still If the ides of March shall see
the groaning legislative mountain
safely delivered the people will be
content, provided that there shall
be no demand for extra pay.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-02-19

spear through a man at distance
of fifty yards. The British, in ven-
turing outside Of their breast-works
without heavy cannon of long
range, did a very foolish thing.
The striking features of the late
British disasters is the conspicuous
gallantry displayed by the Zulus
against the modern arms of pre-
cislon. They were moved down
remorsolessly but didn't seem to
mind 1t whit.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-02-19

WH republlsh elsewhere an ad-
dress to the people of California by
the anti Kearney Workipgmen OF
9an Francisco. Every word of its
characterization of the rule of En-
peror Kearney is poised in the So
borest truth. What coarse and
nlght-mare like despotism this fell
low has endeavored to impose upon
the people OF this State? We thipk
he has had rope enough, and that hi;
power Is over. Asphyxla
and not power, is In the
near future for him. His
brief reign was that of a charlatan
and boor from the beginning. After
al, Americans are not going to be
blackguarded into forgetfulness OF
every respectable tradition of their
manhood. Many we'll meaning
Californian. during the past two
years, has clasped his fevered brow
and asked himself if the Kearney
nsurpation were dream or q wax
Ing reality. Would to God that 1t
were q dream For one we confess
that we can never regain our re-
spect for California manhood.
Pleased to the bottom of our heart
are we to know that our contempt
s for American manhood must per-
force stop at the line Of the Sierras.
TheKearney spawn was not hatched
in Nevada waters, and, when the
Mississippi valley and the trans
Mississippi country were reached
Kearney sank to his true level.
What a royal satisfaction to DEM
ocrats IL involved in the knowledge
Of the fact that, after Denis Kear-
ney had secured the defeat of Ben
Butler for Governor of Massachu-
setts, In plain, unequivocal
square stand.up fight, in the elec-
tion for Mayor of Boston, in which
the Democracy triumphed over the
Republicans. the element repre-
sented by Kearney only received 8
beggarly four hundred odd votes
The same experience will undoubt'
edly be recorded in California, in
time. The only question involved
10 a. to whether, before a portion O.
the Democracy comes to its senses,
the Republican party shall elect
the four Congressman from this
State, the Governor, all the State
of1cers and the local official rag
tag and bobtail. That is what
Kearney is struggling for and what
ct the present outlook, he may at
tain, in part. But there is many Q
slip betwixt the cup and the lip
and we have seen men on the poin
Of jumping into the abyss pause a
its edge. The fact is that the full
and uninterrupted view of th,
ssragged edge" is sometimes neces
sary to bring some true an,
thorough men to their senses ant
TO . realization OF the surrende
\ they were about to make of them
selves.