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Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12
Wintcrburn, Clearfiold Co, Pa.
NEARER, MY GOD, TO THEE"
From the Boston Musical Herald.l

From the Boston Musical Herald
This language was the hcart-utter-
ance Of Mrs. Sarah Flower Adams,
who was born in Cambridge, England,
in February, 1905, and whose history
has been but very slightly known to
the great public, who have cherished
her hymn as one OF their most sacred
treasures for nearly half a century.
Her father was the editor Of q weekly
Cambridge paper. Her mother was a
woman of fine gifts and culture, and
she herself was the youngest child.
She was noted in early life for the
taste she manifested in literature, and
in maturer years for great zeal and
earnestness in her religious lie. She
contributed prose and verse to the
periodicals Of the day, and her art
criticisms were valued. Married at an
early age, and OF irail Constitution, she
still, amid many bodily sufferings,
kept her pen busy, her thoughts and
writings always tending upwards. At
what time and amid what circum.
stances she caught the inspiration from
which was evolved that wonderful
hymn which has ever since echoed
round and round tho globe is not yet
known but il was probably during
some period OF peculiar trial when her
spirit was uplifted through sorrow al.
most above its earthly body. She lit
tie dreamed that her hymn, like those
of Toplady, Charlotte Elliott and Ray
Palmer, would be heard through the
ages.
1t was first published in lS4l, in a
volume of sacred lyrics issued by Mr..
Fox, Of England, Just eight years be.
fore the death of the gifted authoress,
who only lived to tho age of A, and
thus never knew the fame which was
TO attach to her hymn and her name.
The hymn soon began TO appear in
various collections, and was every.
where received with delight 1t was
given the tune Bethany which
became very popular in this country.
Everybody who has grown up in a
Christian land knows IL by heart and
in many countries which do not foat
the banner of Christ il isalmost equally
familiar,
"Last year" says DR., Cuyler, in his
"lIeart Life, ,""Profs. Smith, Hitchcock
and Park, as they wound their way
down the foothills of Mount Lebanon,
cane in sight of group of fifty.syrian
students, standing 10 line, singing in
chorus. They were the students Of
the new College OF Beirut at Abieh,
and they were singing in Arabic to the
tune Of Bethany. Az the procession
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12
RELIC or A GREAT NAME

John c. Calhoun, a grandson OF the
great South Carolina Senator and an
inmate OF the Insane Asylum at Stock.
ton, California, was drowned on the
LIST inst, in the vicinity of San Francisco.
His history is chiefly remarkable as
showing how man bearing an illus
trious name and closely related to one
who first made it so may lead vul.
gar and obscure lie, foreign to any as
pirations which would at all bespeak q
superior strain of blood. In February
last Calhoun was discovered by q
Western reporter in liquor saloon in
st. Louis, where he was serving as a
bar.keeper. He was young man, af.
fable in manners and an easy conver.
sationalist He said that be disliked
his occupation and was civil engi.
noer by profession. 81 was born on
my grandfather's plantation in 1853.
left home after the war and drifted
away from my relatives and friends to
make my bread among strangers. My
grand uncle, james Edward Calhoun,
and my brothers, Benjamin Alexander
Putnam Calhoun, and VIM. Lowndes
Calhoun, are still in tho South and
they are the only relatives | have with
whom | keep up correspondence
The old gentleman lives at Millwood,
his plantation, twonty.onc miles from
| Abboville IL on tho Savannah rive,.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12
CLEARFIELD, Pa, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY IL, K

etic man of about forty five years,
and he was for some years a resident
OF New York, and one of the firm OF
Dennistown, Wood 4 Co., bankers,
He was never previously married,
His tastes are literary and his infor.
nation extensive, and, although he
was about fifteen years the junior OF
bis bride, long acquaintance satisfied
him that in no one could he find a more
congenial companion. Mr., Cross had
been an intimate friend of Lewos, had
charge of his money affairs and after
wards had conducted George Eliot's
business, He lived close by the Lew.
eses' country place, and came in and
out like an attached relation. He ad.
mired Mrs, Lewes profoundly, and al
ways said he would do anything in the
world for her. He was not an intel
lectual companion, like Mr.. Lewes, but
strong, solid, reliable man, whog gave
at once O sense OF confidence, a thor.
oughly reliable, kind, upright, stead.
fast mana thorough support such a
man as any woman would be thankful
to have near her as a constant and de.
voted friend Nothing was more wise
and more happy than that such an
invaluable friend should be allowed TO
supply the daily care and affectionate
companionship which his admiration
and his affection both made him long
to give. And Mrs. Lewes was not the
woman, with her tender yielding ma
ture $50 unconsciously skotched in
"Maggie Tulliver" and "Dorothean). }.
to resist the soothing supper of such
a devoted affection.
The remains of Mrs. Cross George
Elliott were buried at HIgbgate Gene
terry, London, December 29th, during
a pouring rain, A large number of
the friends Of the novelist were present.
The mourners included the husbad OF
deceased and Professors Tyndall, Bes
10y, and Calvin.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12
PAY THE PRINTER.

When the cold storm howls round the door.
And you by the light Of taper,
Sit closely by the evening Gre,
Enjoying the last paper,
Just think Of him whose work thus helps
To wear away the Winter,
And put this query to yourself--
Have l paid the printerl
From east aud west, from north aud south,
From lands beyond tho water,
He weekly brings you lots Of news,
From every nook and quarter
No slave on earth tolls more than he,
Through Summers heat and Winter
How can you, for a moment, then,
Neglect to pay the printeri
Your other bills you promptly pay,
Wherever yoa do go, sir
The butcher for his meat is paid,
For sundries is tho grocer
The tailor and the shoemaker.
The batter and the winter,
All get their pay--then why neglect
To settle with the prinler7
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12
PUNCTUALITY.


IL is astonishing how many people
there are who neglect punctuality, and
thousands have failed in life from this
cause alone il is not only seriou.
vice in itself, but it Is the fruitful par.
ent of many other vices, so that be
who becomes the victim OF it gets in.
volved in tolls from which II is imposs,
ible to escape. 1t makes the merchant
wasteiul Of time it saps the business
reputation Of lawyers, and Injuries the
prospects of the mechanic, who might
otherwise rise to fortune in a word
there is not a profession, not station
in life, which is not liable to the can.
ker of the destructive habit. 1t is a
fact not always remembered, that Ma.
poleon's great victories were won by
infusing into his subordinates the ne.
cessity of punctuality to the minute.
1t was bis plan to maneuver over large
spaces of country, so as to render the
enemy uncertain where he was about
TO strike a blow and then suddenly
concentrate his forces and fall with
irresistible power on some weak point
Of the extended lines of the foe. The
execution of this system demanded
that each division of the army should
arrive at the specified time punotually
for, If any part failed to come up the
battle was lost. 1t was by initiating
this plan that the allies finally succeeded
in overthrowing the emperor. The
whole Waterloo campaign turned in
those tactics At Mt st, Jean, Blucher
was punctual, while Grouchy was not /;
and the result was that Napoleon fell
and Wellington triumphed
In mercantile affairs punctuatity is
as important as in military Many are
the instances in which the neglect to
renew an insurance punctually has led
to serious loss. With sound policy do
the banks insist, under the penalty of
a protest, on the punctual payment Of
notes, for were they to do otherwise
commercial transactions would fall into
ineXtricable confusion. Many and
many time has the failure OF one
man to meet his obligations brought
on the ruin Of a score of others, Just as
the toppling down in a line of bricks of
the master brick, causes the fall OF the
rest. Thousands remain poor all their
lives, who, If they were more faithful
in their word, would secure a large run
of custom, and so make their fortunes.
BE punctual if YOU would succeed.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12

By the report on the adulteraton OF
TODD Just issued by the Commission OF
Inland Revenue in the Dominion Of
Canada IL appears that Of l26 samples
of food analysed at st. John, New
Brunswick, nearly 80 per cent. were
adulteratcd, while throughout the
country at large the proportion is
about 30 per cent. Taking the Do.
minion as a whole, the articles in
which adulteration ischiefy practiced /:
Cinnamon, l6 samples adulterated out
of 22 examined coffee, 35 out of Gl ;
ginger, s in II cloves, 10 in 22 pep.
per- Is in AZ allspice, G in 81 butter,
so in 25l milk, 72 in 2jl cocoa, IL
in 40 chocolate, s in Al ! tea, G in G3 /;
sweets, 4 in 81, etc. Of the l6 samples
OF mustard Analysed not one was gen.
uine; while, on the other hand, the 55
samples OF sugar were oil free from
adultcratOn.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12

SrARTISd ron TExAs.--Nearly one
million OF dollars have been raised in
ST. Louis TO aid in the construction OF
the st. Louis and Texas Narrow Guage
Railroad. The road is being construct.
cd from Texarkana to Waco, Texas,
and il is intended 10 extend il thence to
Caro-, Illinois, where II will connect
with the narrow gauge road TO St.
Louis. II is further contemplated to
build the road from Waco TO the Rio
Grande TO connect with the Palmer.
Sullivan system to the City Of Mexico
and, ultimately, TO build a narrow
gauge road from ST. Louis or Cairo
10 New York.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12

Give undivided attention TO the class,
and insist upon lis undivided attention.
DO not allow any interruption. DO
not leave pupil reciIing and go off to
another part Of the room to attend to
some other pupil Your business is
The class
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12

If the people in general more thor.
oughly understood the teachers work
and the difficulties under which be Ia.
bors, there would be more mutual in.
tcrest between parents and instructors,
and less carping about the laziness Of
teachers and the leisure they enjoy.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12

The teacher should create an inter.
est in study, ineite curiosity, promote
inquiry, prompt investigation, inspire
seli.confdonce, give hints, make sug.
gestions, and tempt pupils to try their
strength and test their skill.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12

Be honest in all things; keep all
promises; be habitually correct; be
neat in personal appearance; be en-
thusiastic and energetic; lot your ex-
ample be contagious and absolutely
safe TO follow.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12

Study the lesson in advance. Never
be confined TO your book. Never be
caught in an error IL is the teach.
or's business to snoi0 he is right Know
in advance just hoic you are TO teach
the lesson.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12

There was fight imminent between
two boys on Elm street, Monday even.
ing. One Of them darkly hinted that
he was bigger than the other. The
smaller, who is the son Of q deacon,
defantly retortcd, II don't carcifyoure
as big as church debt you can't
scare me. Ddnbury Neics
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12

Avoid, as lar as possible, antagonism
with both pupils and parents. It takes
a little more timo TO do II, but when
il is done, aud friction Is avoided, the
pupil, and tho school, is wonderfully
hclpful.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12

Read and study methods. II ia not
enough that you have mastered the
several studies. You should know
how to present them so that others
shall be able TO comprehend them /.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12

"0h dear !" exclaimed young lady,
entering a public hall the other even.
ing, "what u dreadful odor of carburct.
cd hydrogen r. "Mum 7" said the jani.
tor, with puzzled countenance. "Tbe
smell Of the carburetted hydrogen" /"
she explained. "That no kind o. gin,
num-" replied tho jauitor, "that's
garss the pipes is leaky, mum"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12

It takes an old woman well vcrsed
IN herbs TO give sage advice
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12
drew near they caught the sublime

drew near they caught the sublime
words -
"'Nearer, my God, 10 Thee
Nearer to Thee
Fen though II be a cross
That raiseth me,
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee.
"I am not so much given TO the
weeping mood, said Prof Hitchcock,
when describing the thrilling scene
"but, when we rode through the ranks
of those Syrian youths, confess that
my eyes were little damp,
" "lfit be permitted to the departed
people Of God, continues DR.. Cuyler
"to witness the transactions OF earth,
we may imagine with whatrapture the
glorifed spirit of Sarah Flower Adams
heard her heart-son thus chanted in the
land OF sacred story"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12

A building for 100 more boys is
soon 10 be added TO Girard College.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12

Teachers, be polite to your pupil.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12

"As the twig is bent" the boy is in.
clined TO shoot out at the door
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12

V'nE undsrigued hss opened up Drug Store,
Il with a fall supply Of perfectly pure and
fresh DruRs, Medicines, Chemicals and Toilet
Articles These Drugs have been selseied with
great care and are Euarantecd TO BE- perfectly
pure and reliable. will give my personal a,ten-
tion 70 this depAtmot. snd will ebeerfaiiy give
any advice sod iniotmsiion 10 regard 10 medieinss
Zee Of ehstge. DIR. 7. J. BOYER.
clearheid, Pa, Dec. !, isSo-u
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-05

THE MoREY LETTER. Mn. KENwARD
PHILIP CALLS ON THE PRESIDENT
Among the callers at the White House
on Friday was Kenward Philip, who is
well known to the country through the
association of his name with the forged
Morey letter. He was accompanied by
MIR. VIM. Halliday, who has Immediate
charge of MI. Philips affairs relating TO
that letter. When asked by the Star re-
porter about his object in calling on the
President, Mr.. Philip said, laughingly,
that as President Garfield and himself
were the only two people who were in
jured by the forged letter, he wanted to
ask the President to divide his salary
with him. Seriously, he said the Dis
trict Attorney at New York had notified
his counsel, Judge Veeder and G. w.
Brooks, that it was the intention to drop
the prosecution of him. The District
Attorney would go into open court and
make a statement, unqualified and EN-
phatic, that the theory of the prosecu-
ton concerning Philip was false from the
start. Immediately thereafter, Mr.. Philip
says, he will commence suit for false
Imprisonment against the District Attor-
ney and for malicious prosecution
against Geo. Fl. Bliss. = Washington Star.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-05
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WANTED.-A plant
Of co THG 'AcOs5C0 o 1nd isSa .soeiA a.
Ovsrseer. AS SS4rn, ssc wants ! e
" News os !
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-05

The people of Syracuse are excited
over an outrage that was recently com
mitted upon one Ezra Triple, one of the
freshmen in the Syracuse university.
Four sophomores of that institution kid
mapped Triple in the night time, bound
him hand and foot, threw him into a
close carriage, drove off into the coun
try several miles, and dashed him to a
tree in the woods, where he was left by
these young scoundrels. By desperate
efforts, he succeeded in christening him
self, and after wandering about in the
darkness for several hours he was fortu-
nate enough to find his way back. The
President of the university thereupon
swore out warrants against the young
men suspected of completely in this
practical joke, and had them brought
before the Police Court, where they
were bound over in the sum of $500 each
to appear for trial. The collegians ex-
press much indignation at this attempt
Of the faculty 70 interfere with their
time-honored custom of ''hazing" inof-
fensive and unprotected fellow students.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-05
President Garfield and the COlOred

A delegation consisting Of Isaac Myers,
r. 81. Gillette, Joseph Briscoe, and
about eight others from Baltimore, were
at the White House on Saturday. They
were a committee appointed by the con-
vention of colored citizens of Maryland,
held in Baltimore. They presented to
the President a resolution adopted by
the convention. The resolution thanked
him for his kindly expressions towards
the colored race contained in his inaugu.
raj. They also stated that in the Fed
eral appointments in Maryland the col
ored race had not been properly recog-
nized, and asked the President not to
name for the principal offices in the
State any man who would not pledge
himself to properly recognize the col
ored voters in organizing his Office. The
President received the delegation and
the resolution, and stated that he would
consider the wish as expressed by the
convention when he made changes in the
Maryland Federal offices. He would
make no distinction in appointments.
He did not consider that a man was en-
titled to an Office because he was white.
Neither did he consider a man entitled
to Office because he was colored. The
question of race would not enter into
the considerations of any appointment.
He would endeavor to see that the col
ored people of Maryland were properly
recognized. Isaac Myers acted as spokes-
man for the committee.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-05

The initial article, Marine Forms
Applicable to Decoration" by James c,
Beard, is particularly interesting and
new, and the illustrations are abundant
aud well executed. The artists of this
number are fewer in old familiar names.
but the artistic work is excellent. The
Scri5ner prizes for the best engraving by
new men is bringing out a creditable
display of young talent; the
work of the winner Of the first
prize, From Shifting Shade tc
Sunshine Pass" being especially good.
Mr.. Earnest Ingersol furnishes an inter
esting article on John G. Calhoun's
Summer Home" with a picture Of the
house at Fort Hill and of Calhoun's
office. "a Georgia Plantation" indi
Gates the difference before and after the
war in the relations existing between
master and workmen, and describes how
the old plantations are being now cut
up into small farms and let to colored
men on shares. "a Fair Barbarian" is
concluded, and Mrs. Burnett has made
of her story a better novelette, than her
ing paper ON Elementary Instructions
in the Mechanic Arts" a subject which
is becoming every day more discussed in
reference to our public schools. A
description of the 'Greatest Active
Volcano" in Hawaii is by a sister OF
Gordon Cumming.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-05

PAYMENT FOR OvERwoRK.-It is IN
derstood that sooner or later Congress
will be called upon to pay the claims of
government workmen at navy yards and
elsewhere, on account of excess. of work
v e eight hours, which, by law of Con
gress, has been declared a legal days
work. The new President has already
had applications on behalf of the work
men, requesting an enforcement of this
law, which it is alleged was never re.
quired during the Hayes administration,
but that ten hours labor was exacted al
all the navy yards. The amount Of
claims on this account is said now tc
aggregate at least 81. 600, 900.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-05

Hester Howard, a colored girl living
in st. Louis, apparently died from con
sumption, but portions of her body re-
NAMED warm even after she had been
laid out. The doctors made a careful
examination, and pronounced the girl
dead, and she was taken to a cemetery
for interment, but on the way the coffin
was noticed to move as if there was a
convulsive movement inside. When the
lid was taken off the girl family raised
herself On her elbows and her terrified
colored friends uttered a shrek, and
there was not a fence in ten miles around
which was too high for them to climb.
The cemetery was entirely too small to
hold the crowd, and they wished to get
outside where they would have more
room. A few courageous colored men,
however, stood their ground, and wrap
ping the girl in o%vercoats carried her to
her home, but the shock was so great
that she sank into a comatose state which
1t is feared will end in death.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-05

Hon. Fl. H. Sibley, the old "war
horse" of the Minnesota Democracy,
says with convincing force: Il am in
favor of making the next Presidential
canvass on the issue Of a tariff for
revenue only with the additional issue
of a sweeping change in the navigation
laws, which will encourage III citizens
to compete with foreign nations for the
carrying trade of the world on equal
terms. l am strongly in favor of main
tanning the Democratic name and organi-
zation intact. The results of the two
last Presidential elections have demon
strated concIusively that there is more
Democratic voters than Republican in
the Union, and that if in the future the
old and time honored Democratic party
will confine itself to living issues, and
not cucumber its platform with tradi-
tions of the dead past, there is no reason
to doubt, under competent leadership,
that it will triumph in 1894"