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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-02-28
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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02
penn MOnthly.)

One of Wellington's chief sources Of
success was his thorough mastery of de-
tails. While in Spain he gave precise
directions how the soldiers should prepare
their food in India the miles per day the
bullocks should be driven that were pro-
vided for the army. The equipments of
his troops were cared for in all their min
utia. The same exactness he introduced
into his administration of civil affairs.
From his earliest school days, in every
transaction, this trait of thoroughness APP
pears. The confidence and unfaltering
devotion he thus inspired unquestionably
secured him his many and decisive victo-
ries.
No great commander leaves anything
to chance, but seeks to anticipate every
emergency and to provide for it. Gray
spent seven years in perfecting his "Ele.
gy," which YOU can readily read in seven
minutes. Into it he generously poured
the very ripest scholarship, an intimate
acquaintance with the rules of rhythm
and an exhaustive study Of the varied ex-
cellences of English and Latin classics.
Every syllable was submitted to closest
scrutiny, the cadence of the verse
was suited to the character Of the
thought, every tint toned, every picture
perfect, before he suffered his poem to
pass into print. This palace Of thought
was no single nights work Of slave genii
obeying the behest of one holding some
magical lamp of Aladdin, but was built
up like coral reef, particle by particle.
And this complete mastery Of detail was
secured only by the most protracted
concentration of effort, BY resolutely
claiming his thought to his theme, com
pletely surrendering himself to its guild
ance, the memorable laws of suggestion
irresistibly led him back through the
past's, faded and forgotten scenes in the
/ humble lives of the sleeping cottagers
until the scenery and personages of every
picture at last frightened and breatbec
before his mental vision with all the
shapely outlined vividness of real life.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02
A Romantic story.

From Port Jervis, New York, we have
a romantic story, which, but for the relig-
ious aspect of it, would be a comedy plot.
About four years ago the daughter Of
pious parents in that village, on learning
that her lover was skeptic, broke off her
engagement in tear stained letter, after
vainly attempting to convert him, He
was deeply grieved, but could not give up
his convictions. The lady mourned and
tried in vain to see some other way out
of her trouble. Last winter, however,
her lover, who had gone to live in a dis
tant city, was induced TO attend revival,
was converted and united with the church.
He subsequently asked permission to cali
on his former lady love, which was grant
ed, and she received him with many
marks Of favor, expressing her regret at
having treated him so harshly TO her
great surprise he defended her against
herself, said she was in the right, and
that he had come to look at these things
in the same light she did. Her heart
sank. She told him that his former argu-
ments had had great weight with her;
that she had studied and reviewed the
whole subject, and had al last discarded
the Bible and revealed religion. 1t was
his turn to be shocked. He argued and
pleaded with her, but all in vain, and
feeling that he could not marry an un.
believer, reluctantly gave her up.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02
Suffering.
(The Voice.)

The conditions favorable to suffering
may be hereditary, and may manifest
themselves when the child begins to talk.
Some Sufferers have never known free
speech. Suffering may be caused also
by fright and by imitation. Suffering
sustains itself That is, the original cause
may be removed and yet there is no end
or diminution of the impediment which,
on the contrary. increases. If child re-
cover from nervous or muscular weakness
the first cause.-the suffering may seize
hold of the chest and by deranging respi-
ration make conditions which of them
selves would bring on the malady. Or if
defective respiration be the first cause, and
it be remedied, the suffering may find
nouriShment in diSordered nerves or un-
healthy brain.
Thus, as already said, causes and effects
pass the one into the other, so that they
are constantly changing not only them
selves but also the character Of the slut
tering, whose outward manifestations, at
intervals of eight or ten years, would ap-
pear entirely different to an observer. In
nothing is the addage, "An ounce of pre-
vention is worth pound of cure" more
applicable than in suffering, Indeed in
this instance, an ounce of the one is more
effective than a hundred weight of the
other
Children with suffering tendencies
should be specially we'll nourished; they
should take great deal Of physical and
outdoor exercise; care should be taken
that their lungs are fully developed, and
their nerves not irritated. Late hours
and highly v-seasoned food, and everything
tending to derange, weaken or unduly ex
cite, mentally or physically, should be
avoided The child should not be allowed
to talk too rapidly or when out of breath,
| If he has trouble with word, he should
be asked to repeat the whole sentence, and
not merely the offending word. Often
times serious mistake is made here. The
child is drilled upon his most difficult
| words, and he comes to fear them; and, as
result, his ability to articulate them is
continually lessened. He should not be
permitted to associate with another slut
terng child; indeed, no child should. In
veterate suffering may be caused by
mimicking others. Throughout, the child
should be subjected to kind but firm
treatment.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02
Squandering Time.


In this place, as in most other places,
boys have great fondness for lettering
about the streets and stores. Go through
the town any evening and you will be
surprised, if you have never given the
matter any thought at the large number
of boys and young men who make a
practice Of squandering their evenings, to
say nothing about the days spent in the
same manner.
Squandering time is the sin of the age.
As rule, the idle, indolent boy goes to
the bad. He may have all the elements
necessary to make a frst-class business
or professional man; but if he is not in
structed and encouraged to form habits
of industry, he will be failure, almost
inevitably. There is one way this great
evil of squandering time can be remedied
if not altogether obviated. Parents must
take the matter in hand-nust themselves
set the example Of industry and frugality,
and must see that their children initiate
the example. Make the home pleasant
and attractive If the boys love the
street or the loafng place better than the
home, you may rest assured that the
home is wanting in some important par
ticular. Provide the boys with interest,
ing reading matter, and encourage them
to earn it. Permit them 10 employ their
time in any harmless way that will keep
them from idleness and prohigacy. When
you see boy or a young man willing to
tride away day, month, or year in
doing the work of disgusting street
loafer, you may set it down that it would
not take much to persuade that boy Oh
that young man to become full fedged
scoundrel.
Teach the boys that no success comes
from squandering time, and that the bet
ter class Of people have about as high :
regard for real industrious thief as fol
an ignorant idle loafer. 1t is in the pow
er Of parents to regulate this matter, ane
we hope to see our army Of ufing, loaf
ing young men and boys diminished.
Make the home what it should be ant
you have no need To fear the future oi
our boys. ~
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02
Americas Fifteen Inventions.
New York SUM-

An English journal frankly gives credh
to the American genius for at least fifteen
inventions and discoveries which, it says,
have been adopted all over the world.
These triumphs of American genius
are thus enumerated: First, t1le cotton
gin; second, the planting machine; third,
the grass mower and grain reaper; fourth,
the rotary printing press; fifth navigation
by steam; sixth, the hot air or caloric en-.
gine; seventh, the sewing machine eighth,
the India rubber industry; ninth, the n>l-
chine manufacture of horse shoes; tenth,
the sand blast for carving; eleventh, the
gauge lathe; twelfth, the grain elevator;
thirteenth, artificial ice manufacture on a
large scale; foui teenth, the electro-mag-
net and its practical application; fifteenth,
the composing machine for printers. L:
is not often that American achievements
in this direction receive due credit from
such q source.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02
New York City Sky Years Ago.
Editors Drawer in Uarpers)

Sixty years ago shrewd observer
landed here from England, and wrote the
inevitable description of the town. 1t
was but two generations ago, yet the
moderate proportions of the sea port had
then kindled no sense of rivalry. Indeed,
only few years before, little Newport, in
Rhode Island, was as commercially i'm
portant.
1t is pleasant, opuent and airy CITY,
says the good-natured observer, for which
nature has done every thing, and art
nothing. The only public building worth
noticing-hear it, urban wilderness of
architectural trillnphs lis the City Hall.
Poor old City Hall, with its rear of dark
stone, because, according to tradition, it
was supposed that the growth of the city
was not likely to bring the rear into much
observation! The simple economy as
sumed in this touching tradition casts a
fairy glamour over the municipal story.
II suggests public spirit, civic virtue,
political conscience, which would not
waste money even upon a public work.
1t is beautiful legend of fable The new
Court House is now Immediately behind
the City Hall-the Haunting monument
of enormous public thefts and unspeaka-
bic contempt for civic honesty. But as
the observer saw no splendor, she also
saw no poverty. Within cannon-shot of
the new Court rt-House, the mine Of our
vulgar Sardanapalus, are now dens of a
poverty and squalor and crime as wretch
ed and repulsive as those of any great
city; but our observer found only streets
of comfortable dwellings in that New
York Of the golden age-no dark alleys,
no hovels no dark and gloomy cellars,
with nosome atmosphere and suffering
population. Successful industry, she ex-
claims, has every where fixed its abode.
Before she died the observer had gained
much nooriety in the happy land and
town that she celebrated. For our OBJ
server was Miss Fanny Wright, 4 famil-
lar name in the angry social, political, and
religious contests of forty and fifty years
ago.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02
The Author Of Cheap Postage.
Chicago NeWs,)

Probably not one person in a thousand
in the United States is aware that the so
Justly celebrated Sir Rowland Hill, who
was the means Of the introduction Of the
penny postage system into Great Britain
and Ireland, is still living. But such is
the case. Though born near Birmingham
in 1906 and consequently an octogenarian
and four years better, he is still in good
health and in the full possession of his
faculties.
On the 9th inst, the court of common
council of London, having regard to the
vast benefits conferred upon the CONNER
cial community by those measures of pos,
tai reform with which his name will ever
be associated, paid him graceful compli-
ment by sending deputation to his
house at Hampstead to confer upon him
the freedom of the city Of London. The
veteran reformer replied at some length,
saying, among other things, that letter
could now be sent from Egypt to San
Francisco for smaller sum than in 1886
was charged on letter coming from the
city of London to Hampstead, distance
Of few miles,
1t was in 1897 that Sir Rowland pub
lished a pamphlet first developing his new
postal system, in 1898 it was recommend
ed by a parliamentary committee fol
adoption; and in 1870 penny postage wa'
carried into effect. In 1886 he received ;
testimonial from the public amounting tt
SOC, 500, and was subsequently made secre
tary Of the general post Office.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02
TRAMPS AS HUSBANDS.
Not Always the Most Reliable.
Westfield (Mass.) Letter.

"SSthS" NhkooS'J LOetCks
Within few months, and within a ra-
dius of nine miles from here, three or four
widows comfortably we'll off have mar
ried chaps that came tramping along.
One of these husbands is now in Jail for
threatening the lives of his wife and
mother-in-law. His favorite form of a.
musement was to place the women folks
in chairs side by side, and, after poking a
loaded gun into their faces, to fire it off at
target just above their heads. Five
weeks ago respectable and well-connect-
ed woman in this town, whose husband
died less than two years ago, leaving her
nice little home and $4,000 in cash, fell
in love with young tramp who came to
her door, and though twenty years his
senior she married him. Since then her
house has been rendezvous for nearly
all the tramps who come along, and appar-
emily the good news is being rapidly
spread among the fraternity. A few days
ago the woman appeared with a badly
bruised face and damaged eyes, and her
friends had her tramp husband arrested
for assault The trial was most ludi-
crous affair, for, while the wife admitted
that "Johnnie" not only was the cause of
her disfgurment, but had soundly thrashed
her at least twice week during their brief
honeymoon, she declared that she loved
him dearly, and that he only whipped her
when he was mad because she wouldn't
at first asking, give him money, or buy
him horse and carriage. The man said
that he didn't think that he thrashed his
wife above once week. and that he loved
her dearly. Upon this followed a very
dramatic scene, the woman rushing into
her husbands arms and mingled her tears
and kisses with his ditto, and both fell on
their knees before Judge Lewis to beg
his mercy Judge Lewis told them, 81
want no such nonsense here" and fined
the man $S.S5, which the woman paid,
and few minutes later they were seen
lovingly riding toward their peaceful
home.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02
An Old Mans Dream.
IT ayuipl

Toiing along with weary step in the
hot sun, an old man found shade and sat
down TO rest under tree which some
kind hand had planted long years before.
Some children watched him from across
the street, wondering if he had no one to
lean on and no home to 60 to.
The wind whispered so softly through
the branches over head, and the shade
was so cool and refreshing that the old
man slept. He dreamed that he had a
home again, and children played before
the door. He returned from his day S
work as of yore, and little faces were at
the gate to be kissed, and little voices
cried out in glee. Around his table were
vile and sons, and he sat with them on the
porch as the sur went down, and had a
heart big with thanksgiving. Then his
dream changed. He again sent his sons
to war, never to see them again, and he
once more stood beside the coffin Of his
wife and felt that earth had no more hap
piness for him, In his dream he saw
strangers in his home, strange children at
the gate, and he beheld himself old and
poor and forsaken. His tears fell, and
when he awoke he was crying out in the
bitterness of his heart:
81 had better be dead, for no one soul
on earth cares for mew
He looked down and there was food at
his feet, The ragged old hat which he
had laid aside had been replaced by a
better one, and inside it was a child's
handkerchief and three or four pennies.
Hidden behind the fence across the way
the children noted his amazement and
laughed softly, and he looked up and
down and failed to find them. He gath
cred up the things with glad smile, and
as he rose to 60 he said:
II know not who it was, but an ole
man gives them his blessing"
The children watched him as he moved
away with brighter step, as he wipee
away tear.
How little it was, yet how much nearer
Heaven he felt for it!
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02
Magnetic Power Of a Western Girl.
FOREST Reyiew)

We learn from a correspondent that
there resides in the vicinity Of Harrisburg
an out-ofthe-way place in Hancock coun-
ty, about three miles west of Mount
Blanchard, very remarkable child only
five years old, who seems to have the
power of charming birds at her will Her
mother first noticed this strange fascina-
ton that the child possesses about wear
ago. The little girl was out playing in
the dooryard, among a bevy of snow
birds, and when she would speak to them
they would come and light upon her,
twittering with the utmost glee. On
taking them in her hands and stroking
them, the birds, instead of trying to Get
away from their fair captive, seemed to be
highly pleased, and when let loose would
fly away a short distance and immediately
return to the child again. She then took
several of them into the house to show
her mother, who, thinking that she might
hurt them, took the birds and put them
outdoors, but no sooner was the door
opened than the birds flew into the room
and lit upon the girls head and began TO
chirp. The birds remained about the
premises all winter, flying to the little
girl whenever the door was opened. The
parents of this remarkable child became
alarmed, believing that this strange power
was an i'll omen, and that that much
dreaded visitor, death, was about to visit
| their home. But death did not come, and
during last summer the child has had
numerous pets from the birds. The child
handles the birds so gently that hum.
ming bird once in her hand does not fail
to return. This winter a bevy of birds
have kept her company, and she plays
with them for hours at time. Every
morning the birds fly to her window, and
leave only when the sun sinks in the west
There is nothing peculiar about the child's
personal appearance except her wonderful
magnetic eyes, which sparkle like dia.
monds. The parents of this little girl are
poor, superstitious people, and have beer
reticient about the matter until lately, fear
ing that some great calamity was about tc
befall them.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02
The Romance Of Old Age.

Generally the process of late bloom.
ing love partakes of many natures, and
is as much the outcome of circumstances
as it is the crown of full and ripe con.
sciousnesS of mans whole development
at its highest point of perfection Still
no matter how much alloy there may be
in the feeling which alone deserves the
name of love, its expression grows more
beautiful and more suggestive as the in,
dividuals under its influence grow older.
The sorrows it brings are more sacred
and more venerable when they assail
persons in advanced life. The intensity
of silent, dignified, unselfsh grief which
husband Of fifty feels at the loss of his
life companion has teutold the strength OF
the passionate sorrow of young bride
groom bereaved of his bride. The feel
inps of father losing his grown son are
tenderer and deeper than the agony Of a
Young mother losing her firstborn in its
infancy Time itself is an element of
grandeur when connected with grief or
love; the network of pathetic thoughts
and associations which it wcavcs around
the heart is ennobling and sanctifying.
OF all things that are beautiful in senti.
ment, full OF tender suggestiveness, and
alive with real poetry, none can compare
with common things. The -wreaths
on coffin are prosaic compared with the
forgotten thimblc and needle left in the
sewing on the little stand in the accuse
toned corner. The living will not weep
when they hear the service read over
their dead, but the sight of the last shoes
the dead have worn, the mark left in the
book last read together, the rattle the
child used, the broom the wife handled
anything, mean, tawdry, soiled it may be,
that has familiar association-will break
the heart Of the one left behind if he
chance to let his glance fall upon it.
The same magic that lends poetry to
such things digni6es and illumines other
details of homeiness, old age, awkward
manners, rooted customs and formalities,
ann such barriers to what is popularly
known as romance. l know nothing
more charming than real love in middle
age, with its timidities and delicacies
blooming like spring flowers on the face
of rock.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02
Hints for Keeping on Wrinkles.

There is no such thing as wiping out
wrinkles. In men they are often hon
prable evidence of hard mental labor, in
women they are usually the evidence of
coming age, although care and suffering
have much to do with them.
Sometimes fair foreheads are prema
Grely wrinkled from nervous habit of
raising the eyebrows, and from a too
great and too constant pressure of the
pillow on one or both sides of the head
while sleeping. And Just here comes a
fact worth remembering If the forehead
has escaped wrinkles, crows feet are pre-
maturely seen about the corners of the
eyes. We all see the crows feet in men
and women whose brows are smooth and
young looking. They are the result of
sleeping on the right and left sides. The
pressure upon the temple and cheeks
leaves wrinkles at the corners and under
meath the eyes which disappear in a few
hours, but finally become so fixed that
neither hours nor ablutions will abate
them. If girl children were compelled to
sleep on their backs and continue the
habit when they reach womanhood and
afterward, they would arrive at middle
life without crows feet gathering in the
neighborhood Of the eyes, and in mos
cases their foreheads would be free from
even shallow furrows