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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-15

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-18
Eternity Always Present.

The lines of our life stretch farther
than we think. We lay our plans for
the future, and they prove to be tracks
that never end. All our paths 90 out
into the unseen world. AS you look
across the street, the line of your WIS.,
ion is terminated by some building.
You can see nothing beyond. If that
building were away, you could see
other buildings and streets; and if
these, too. were gone, the line of your
vision would shoot off beyond the
stars till it had reached the utmost
verge of the great universe. So the
hopes of this earthly life-its plans,
and schemes, and busy contrivings-
are all endless lines that reach into an
endless eternity. Within the little cir
Gle of yourself, the plans you make for
tomorrow, the wishes and hopes you
entertain for the coming months and
years, you may not see or realize how
far your favorite purposes stretch of
into the distance. Do you ever think
how they touch on the margin of an
endless futureP Do you never see how
all earthly things are embosomed in
an always-present eternityP We walk
every day in the embrace of eternity.
The issue of every purpose is there; the
end of every plan is there; the result of
every deed is there; no path will end
this side. gregationdList.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-18
Wise Savings.

ONE of the greatest blessings you can
enjoy, is tender, honest. enlightened
conscience.
A GOOD Christian is not grave to
bury Gods mercies. but temple to
sing His praises. Thomas Watson,
1867.
He that hath tasted the bitterness OF
sin will fear to commit it; and he that
hath felt the sweetness of mercy will
fear to offend Gbar71ock.
GIVE the man such a heart as the
Son of God describes in the beatitudes.
and the whole universe of sorrow cannot
rob him of his blessedness.
LET us take care how we speak to
those who have fallen on life's field.
Help them up, not heap scorn upon
them. We did not see the conflict. We
do not know the scars.
THE true Christian, amidst all the
diversities of opinion, searches for the
holy in desire, for the good in council,
for the just in works; and he loves the
good, under whatever temple, at what
ever altar, he may find him.-Sid'aey
Smith.
TILL religion becomes the desire of
our hearts, it will not become the bust
ness of our lives. Most of the beati-
tudes which Infinite Compassion pro-
nounced have the sorrows of earth for
their subject, but the joys of Heaven for
their completion. Hannah More.
l HAVE not always floate on the
calm sea of content, but have often met
with cross " inds and storms, and with
many troubles of mind and temptations
to evil; and yet, though 1 have been.
and am, man comprised about with
frailties, Almighty God hath by His
grace prevented me from making ship
wreck of faith and a good conscience,
the thought of which is now the Joy of
my heart, and 1 most humbly praise
Him for it.-George Herbert
THERE are times when the tide of
Christianity seems to be turned back
ward, and the world seems to be wax
ing worse and worse. When our eye
runs along the line of great river, we
come to points where the current is OBJ
structed, and the surface is broken into
eddies, till the whole stream seems to
be turned backward. That is only the
surface view. The deep water of the
mighty river is all the while rolling on
ward, and hasting to pour its ever-in-
creasing volume into the boundless
ocean below. So, also, notwithstand-
ing those discouraging surface views
that sometimes distract our faith and
appall our hearts, the deep undercur-
rent OF Christianity is really moving
onward; and the fact shall be demon
strated to our sight by and by when, in
the clear light of brighter revelation.
we comprehend more of the design and
work of Cod Bishop d. w. Clark.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-18
The Children's Hour.

THE holiday season has become the
Children's Kingdom. For them is the
clear winter air made fragrant with the
spicy breath of Christmas trees. For
them love labors for precedent weeks
and months at manifold creations. For
them the music swells, the tapers glance,
the mummers play, fairy-land is made
visible. To them all the delight which
unsated childhood can know is offered in
the name of a child.
Best of all is the new atmosphere of
love which they feel. In some house.
holds the expression of affection is neg
lected, the little observances of tender
ness fall into disuse. In others, alas!
the tenderness itself is absent. The
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children might reach its humane hand
into very handsome houses, and rescue
from very decorous parents the wounded
spirit and starving heart of many little
one.
There is multitude of fathers to
whom the children are an amusement
for leisure hour, a source of pride and
pleasure when they are pretty and well
dressed and happy. But ii the paternal
humor changes, or the filial temper
clouds, then they are bores, pests, dis
turbers of the peace, to be kept until re-
pentance in some prison-house up stairs.
There are mothers too many whose ma
ternal instinct is a conscience, not a de-
light; who hold that their duty is done
if the child wants for nothing, land has the
proper guardian in nurse or governess.
But they are not interested in the little
individual soul that is daily facing some
new mystery of life. 1t is not on their
level. 1t wearies and disturbs them.
Yet on Christmas morning and on
New-Year Day even these fathers and
mothers feel new delight in their chill
dren from having tried to delight them.
The conventional greeting is warm and
sincere. There are kisses and sweet
words, and the little ones feel that never
was day so fair or lot so happy as theirs.
In their hearts, and sometimes with
their lips, they wonder why every day
might not be like these enchanted
mornings. And at this blessed Christ.
mas-tide may they not be answered
with the cheerful prophecy that it shall
be?
For every day is as much the opening
'oI new year 10 US Ill Tvs Une rduldnJ les
tival which we crown with honor, and
that Joy in childhood and reverence fol
it which Christmas teaches us should bt
a perennial mood. The child's native
air is love and sympathy, constant
'cherishing, unquestioned, as the light
without which there can be no healthy
growth. Gentleness breeds gentleness
If the love of children be not strong
instinct within us, it will grow as vir
tue by careful cultivation.
And perhaps no virtue is so essential
ly its own reward. To look deep dow
into the sweet translucent soul of |
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-18
A Word in Season.

A FRIEND of mine, says writer in
the Interior, was one day in earnest
business conversation with gentle
mana wholesale marble dealer. First
they went to the quarries, where nature
had stored up her exhaustless supplies,
and then through long lines of huge
blocks in the rough; and thence to the
ready-prepared material; with row
after row of choicely-fnished bases.
dies and columns; all in great variety
OF styles and pattern. Now here was a
group OF Columbian, so much admired
for its dark shading of blue and slate,
with veins of black, and over there, the
American variegated, with its lovely
cloud-tints of pearl and amber and sea
green. And beyond huge monuments
OF Nova Scotia granite, so closely re-
sembling the famous Aberdeen. Selec-
ton were made, and orders given for
the usual amount. The owner was So
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-18
How to Have a Good Conscience.

To SECURE the intelligent and there
fore right action of conscience, it must
have moral law to guide it. 1t must
sail by chart. That law is two-fold.
1t is the written law of the Bible, and it
is the inner law written upon the heart.
The Bible is not universally known. In
order to accountability through con-
science there must, therefore, be law
within us. Thus Paul argues in the
second of Romans. Those who have
no external law have one in their con-
sciences. AS matter of fact this uni
versal law is everywhere discoverable.
81 am and l ought, are twins born at
the same time"
The cases of heather who with good
conscience do wrong are sometimes
quoted to show that there is no univer-
sal standard that can be regarded as
authoritative. But heather is only
"the germ of humanity" In him we
should expect, therefore, to find only
the germ of conscience. That its de-
cisions are sometimes wrong proves
only that conscience like the body, or
the mind, or a flower, should be judged
only at its maturity. And even the bad
conscience of heather argues the uni
versal moral law and the intuitive moral
Judgment, for the conscience, however
perverted and mistaken in its action,
springs from commendable motive.
1t follows, then, that to have a good
conscience we must use it intelligently.
We must avail ourselves of the best
moral standard we can reach, and we
must cultivate the habit of applying ev-
cry action of life to that standard. And
here comes in the supreme value of BIZ
BILE study as practical measurement of
lie. Ii we are measuring people by
siX-foot rule, many cases will throw us
into doubt, they so nearly or so exactly
come to the standard. But if we meas
ure people by Bunker Hill monument
we will never be in doubt. Christians
often get into trouble by submitting
their conduct to low standards. They
measure by policy, or expediency, or
the religious fashion. They do doubt
full things because other people do them.
They have Bibleless consciences. If we
use the rule of the lowest possible ad-
Missile Christian life, we will often be
in doubt where we might have the dog
matte certainty of good conscience if
we only measured by a higher rule, and
saw that all conduct not Christ-like
must be condemned.
Let us have more ethical preaching
that insists not only on the importance
OF conscience, but that admits for
Chistrian conscience no standard lower
than the Bible. Every other leads to
Il =
that to have Biblically enlightened
conscience and to live loyal to its orders
is the lowest demand of Christianity.
A conscientious Christian is the very
prince of titles. A man may think
right and have bad conscience. He
may feel right at times with bad or
stupid conscience. But good con-
science is the consent of mans entire
moral nature to the course of his con-
science. - Chicago Interior.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-18
Religious.
THE HIDDEN MUSIC.

WE asked where the magic came from,
That made her so wondrous fair,
As she stood with the sunlight touching
Her gloss of golden hair,
And her blue eyes looked toward heaven
AS though they could see God there.
"Hushl said the child, "cant you hear it,
The music that's everywhere?"
God help us! we could not hear it;
Our hearts were heavy with pain
We heard men toillng and wrangling,
We heard the whole world complain;
And the sound OF hooking laughter
We heard again and again;
But we lost all faith in the music:
We had listened so long in vain.
"Can't you hear it?" the young child whis
pered,
And sadly we answered, "No.
We might have fancied we heard it,
In the days of long ago;
But the music is all delusion,
Our reason has told us so,
And you will forget that you heard it
When you know the sound of woe"
Then one spake out from among us,
Who had nothing left to fear;
Who had given his life for others,
And been repaid with sneer.
And his face was lit with glory,
And his voice was calm and clear
AS he said, II can hear the music
Which the little children hear"
F. II. OlUell, in Good Words.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-18

child, to put ones self in relation with
its fresh, eager intelligence, to win its
undivided, generous trust, is to know,
perhaps, the purest felicity which these
mortal limitations permit. Stupid and
troublesome and veXation have we
dared to call them? Oh, we of little
thought! Where do we go in society
that the stupid and troublesome and the
vexatious do not gibe our hearts? How
do we not conceal our WEAKNESS, and
smile, and answer, and pretend that we
like the things we loathep
And we do this that we may not give
the pain which an honest yawn, frank
objurgation, genuine snub, would in
fiict. If, then, we can tolerate the IMAM
tiles, the crudities, the sillinesses, of peo-
pie who are nothing to US, shall we
not be patient with the sweet Emporium
tiles of our children? A rebuff, snub,
is as cruel to them as q blow; crueler,
ganism than the body.
If the children's noise abstracts us,
let us smile and escape, or, still suffer-
ing, skillfully subdue, remembering
piano-forte recitals or vocal exhibitions
not less distracting, for which we smiled,
and said "Thank you," and which we
could neither escape nor subdue. If
their frank, endless questions, spring
ing from an Unsuitable capacity for
knowledge, bore us, let US answer ten
derby, carefully, clearly, recalling the
vapid inquiries of the gossiping and the
curious among our elder acquaintance,
which we satisfy with unvarying civil
ity.
Children are honest, fearless, original.
Can that high praise be given to all our
calling listP Is it not worth while to
cultivate the possessors of these de-
lghtful qualities? More than all, they
are responsive. What we SOW in their
quick natures we shall surely reap. Ii
it be the seed of Impotence, of inatten-
ton, of incivility, of careless misunder-
standing, there shall grow a bitter crop
of alienation, of stubbornness, of mis-.
trust.
On the threshold of the new year, and
within hearing of the Christmas bells,
may all fathers and mothers see to ii
that their holiday gift to the children
the gift that shall not wear out, nor
grow shabby, nor cease to please-be a
limitless patience and sweetness! The
little ones love love. That will content
them, though the stocking be but lean,
and the tapers on the Christmas tree but
few QrDer'S Bazaar
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-18
Incomes of Factory Operatives in
Massachusetts.

A TRUANT officer who visited some
thirty factories in and about Boston re-
ports that he found in every one of them
children kept at work in open violation
of the law. Systematic investigation has
shown that of the $4,000 children en-
'ployed in various factories throughout
the State in 1878 only 1876 received the
legal amount of schooling; and that
among the 1924 children in Massa-
chusetts between the ages of five aud fif-
teen there are no less than $4,000 chill
dren who never have been present in
either our public or private schools.
An overseer in one of the print works
in the State says: "There seems to be a
growing disposition on the part of par
ents to put their children to work before
they are of the legal age, and to avoid
sending them to school the length of
time required by law. Scarcely day
passes but mothers come to the mills
and beg us to use our influence in pro-
curing employment for their children. ="
My friend left the Office in brown
study. Scan it be a normal state of
things" she said, to certain political
economist, "when children of eleven
years are reckoned among the bread
winners of Statep''
"Something must be wrong" he an
swered, "when an organic law Of pro-
duction is violated, as is the case in
Massachusetts, where children between
the ages of ten and fifteen constitute
forty-four per cent. of the whole num-
Der of working people, and yet produce
but twenty-four per cent. of the in
GOMEZ"
"But is it not possible for a strong,
able-bodied man, if he is temperate and
provident, to earn enough to support
his family and keep his children in
school till they are fifteenp''
cit certainly ought to be, but with the
present relation of wages to cost of iv-
ing in Massachusetts, it seems that a
laboring man with family can not keep
out of debt with a yearly income of less
than 5000. Now, the fact is that the
majority of workingmen earn consid-
cradle less than 5000 year. 1 know of
one Irish family where both the father
and eldest son, a child about twelve,
work in the mills. Their combined
earnings amount to $564-an income
which falls, you notice, below the mini
mann sum. The family numbers six,
and one of the four children the parents
have kept in school. They dress shah.
billy, occupy tenement of four rooms
in one of the most unhealthy localities
in the city, and are in wretched con-
dition generally. Knowing that the
family were constantly running in debt,
l inquired into their items of expense,
and found the yearly amount to be as
folloxuc.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-18

cial. genial man, and entertained his
customer by showing him all the i'm
provements of his extensive business;
the perfect saving and polishing
brought out by the unlimited power of
steam, thus giving the rapid and con-
slant supply of his increasing demand
for the spring and fall sales. My friend
was truly interested in all this, but
deeply panied (for he was religious
and God-fearing many by hearing the
continuous repetition of oaths in the
most profane manner. As he went to
the Office and their business was about
finished, he said: CHOW my friend,
skip the hard words, skip the hard
words" and again before leaving,
"Skip the hard words. Don't forget
it." How little he then realized the re-
suit of this kindly warning. 1t was the
arrow of conviction to this mans heart.
At the usual time, six months later, my
friend again called for a new supply
and found his friend intent in his line of
business, but changed man, and
changed, indeed, for the better. The
marble merchant thought my friend
noticed difference and frankly said to
him, "Doyou remember what you said
to me last fall when you were here.
Skip the hard wordsP'"
"Oyes, but had almost forgotten
it."
"Well did not 1 thought it over
that day after you left, and said to my
self: Here l have been using these
words many years, it must be about time
to make a change, and with this thought
came purpose, and with this purpose
came a resolve, and with Gods help I
have kept it and will continue to keep
it."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-18
Nevada Electricity.

A GENTLEMAN of this city saws that
about one o'clock yesterday morning
the whole earth in this region was very
highly charged with electricity. He
first discovered the fact by accidentally
placing his hand upon an iron lamp
post, when he felt quite sharp shock.
de then tried the post with his door KEY
and quite large spark was the result.
With the key he succeeded in extract
ing sparks from iron door frames and
from The tops of hydrants. On looking
at the iron flagstaff ON the summit Of
Mount Davidson he found that about
the top of it was visible quite a large
and brilliant corona of light. In two or
three places on the steel-wire guys by
which the flagstaff is stayed were seen
small, but bright, balls of light. These
appeared to glide up and down, and
occasionally disappeared for some sec
onds, but that at the top of the staff re-
manned constantly in view, though it
was observed to contract and expand.
1t seemed to expand when the balls of
light on the guys slid up the staff and
disappeared, and to contract when thew
:, '"OA appear dHC6. Ou
brushing the sleeve of his coat with his
hand thei gentleman observed that
sparks were produced similar to those
seen in stroking the back of cat. The
heavens were perfectly clear and the air
very sharp. A moderate breeze was
blowing from the northwest, and to the
northward, over the crest of Cedar Hill,
were seen vibrating faint spires of an
aurora borealis. On arriving at his
room, while moving articles about in
search of matches, the gentleman no
ticed that sparks were produced when
some OF the things were showed togeth-
err In short, he says there appeared to
be regular electric "showern that per-
Vaded and strongly charged everything.
Virginia Enterprise.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-18

This total of $3.50 is a larger expendi-
ture than is warranted by the income of
1854. Subtract from this income the
child's wages, which amount to $132,
and you find the fathers income to be
only 1882. What would be the financial
condition of this family without the
child's laborp can not tell how provi-
dent they are, but it is difficult to see
where their expenses could be lessened,
when, according to the statistics of la
Dor, the yearly average expenditure for
the food of a family is reckoned at
$422.16, which is nearly the amount of
the fathers earnings" = atlantic
Monthly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-18

D. G. IvEsoN, of Connellsville, Pa,
went to Scotland to look after an estate
which he thought he might have inherit
ed; arrived there just in time to listen
to positive testimony that he was dead /;
got 100000 in cash as his inheritance;
saw the perjurers sentenced to prison
for twelve years, and returned home
with the money.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-18

Gen. Grant has rented the residence
of ex-United States Senator Chaffee, on
Fifty-second Street, New York, and will
hereafter make his home there. Mr..
and Mrs. U. S. Grant, Jr., will also re.
side at the same place.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-18

"A service was recently announced
at st. Matthew's Sydenham, London,
:" for children of the upper classes. y
Whereupon the following amendment
to the well-known saying was promptly
offered by newspaper commentator:
"Suffer little children of the upper
classes to come unto Me-"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-18
Sunday-SchOOl Lessons.
FOURTH QUARTER

FOURTH QUARTER.
Dec. 12-The Last Days of Joseph. Gen. 50:14-26
Dec 10-Review of the Lessons.
Dec. &-Lesson Selected by the School.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-18

PROF. TAMAsIA attributes the imme.
date cause of death by hanging to the
closing of the respiratory organs. That
sounds reasonable.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-18

"HoNEY bought in exchange for cof-
fins d" is the cheerful sign on country
road near Montreal.