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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1882-07-05
Being True and Beautiful.

Dr. Arnold of Rugby, gives in one
OF his letters an account of a sanity sis
ter For twenty years, through some
disease, she was confined to a kind OF
crib; never once could she change her
posture for all that time. "And vet, 80
says Dr.. Arnold, and think his words
ale very beautiful, Il never saw a more
perfect instance of the spirit of power
and love and of a sound mind. Intense
love, almost to the aunihilation of self
ishness; daily martyrdOm for twenty
years, during which she adhered to her
early-tormed resolution Of never talking
about herself; thoughtful about the very
pins and ribbons of my wife's dress;
about the making of u dolls cap for a
child; but of herself-save as regarded
her Improvement in all goodness
wholly thoughtless; enjoying everything
lovely, graceful, beautiful high-minded.
whether in God works or mans. with
the kecnest relish; inheriting the
earth to the very fullness of the
promise; and preserved through the
very valley Of the shadow OF death
from all fear or impatience, or
from every cloud of impaired reason
'A4NA+ AAAi f@AL MAJ VIC DGhNlN OL Alllhk 3
glorious work May God grant that /
might come but within one hundred de-
grees Of her place in gloryr' Such q life
was true and beautiful But the radi-
ance Of such n life never cheered this
world by chance. A sunny patience, q
bright hearted self forgetfulness, a
sweet and winning interest in the
little things of family intercourse,
the divine luster Of Christian
peace, are not forluitious weeds care
lessly Towering ont of the life-garden.
1t is the internal which makes the ex-
ternaL Il is the force residing in the
atoms which shapes the pyramid. 1t is
the beautiful soul within which forms
the crystal Of the beautiful lie without.
There are exquisite shells within the
seattle she'll of the nautiluB, many
chambered, softly-curyed pearl-adOrn-
ed, glowing with Imprisoned rainbows.
There are ugly shells within the sea-
rude, dirt-cOlored unsightly clam
shells But the shells are as the fishes
within. So life win be what we make
it, -nautilus-shells or clam-shells. II
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1882-07-05
Mhnt VI Costs.

True religion, the religion of the BIZ
bic although it is offered freely with
out money and without price, " costs us
good deal if we accept it in spirit and
in truth.
One of the reasons why 50 many peo-
pie fail in their efforts to form a salts
factory Christian character may be at
tributed to their want of knowledge as
to the cost. They try to learn the new
songs with q lingering love for the old
ones rendered dear to them by associa-
tions, and if they fail to meet the re-
Cuirements readily it need not be a mat.
ter of surprise.
Some, when seeking the better way,
are favored with n sudden change OF in
clinations, a distaste for all of the old
life, but with the majority the Christian
life is a growth, gradual work, great,
er heights and deeper depths being re-
veaIed all the way along, and new
strength being given day by day.
Except a man deny himself, and
take up his cross dailV and follow Me
he cannot be My disciple This is the
price we pay. IF we bring our gifts
to the altar and there remember that {
brother hath aught against us duty
requires that we leave our gifts and gt
and be reconciled to our brother, ever
though it wounds our pride, we cannd
wait for him to come TO MS.
For rapture of love is linked with the pair
or fear of loss.
And the hand that takes the crown must aoh
with many cross;
Yet he who hath never a conflict tn never
victOr's palm,
And only the tuiers know the sweetness &
rest and calm
A religious life is a battle ground; con-
fiicts with foes without and foes within
mark all the way; but the compensa.
tions are abundant even here If we
have attained to perfect Christian trust
we have a cloud by day and a pillar Of
fire by night, leading US safely onward
toward that city (which hath founda.
tious, whose maker and builder is God. "
Golden Rule
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Decision.

Decision of character is of the greatest
importance when taken i'm connection
with the subject of religion. If a man
cannot get along comfortably in the af.
fairs of this world without it., he Ger.
tainly cannot in what pertains to an.
other In the first place, no person can
become q Christian without it TO some
extent. Religion consists in renOunciug
the world, and taking consistent, de-
cided stand for God and the truth. How
can person do this without decision of
character? There are often more OBJ
stacles in the way of becoming a Chris
tian, than in doing anything else what
ever There is not unfrequently OPP
position to stem, ridicule to encounter,
reproach to endure, temptation toresst;
and unless a person has a good degree
OF independence and decision, these diff
ticulties viii never be overcome, but
viii forever separate between him and
Heaven.
Without decision of character o per-
son can never grow in grace after he
becomes a Christian. The difficulties
which he has to encounter when he
commences the Christian course, will,
some of them, Mt least, attend him
through life. The battle is not fought
when person first enlists in the Lord s
army. There is usually a little skirm.
ishing to begin with; but generally the
heat of the contest is not till some time
afterward. To be good soldiers of the
Lord Jesus, my friends, you must b,
decided, resolute and persevering
There is to be nowavering, no timidity
no shrinking back; but you must marci
right up to the enemy, face to face, ant
let him understand that YOU are pre-
pared to die rather than desert you
post, or yield him one inch of ground
Instead of yielding, you must be de-
termined to 90 forward. You are tG
set your faces as a flint against every
temptation to wrong, and 60 onward in
the divine life, and become more holy
every day, growing in grace and in the
/ knowledge of our Lord and Saviour,
Jesus Christ. One great reason why
Christians do not grow in grace more
than they do is, they have not sufficient
decision Of character to say no, and to
stick to it, whenever tempted to sin
Rov. O. c. BaLdWin.
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lifts easily 200 tons and can readily swing
in the air four American locomotives;
and the famous trip-hammer, weighing
forty tons, and said to be the largest in
the world, yet which can be so gently
managed rs to force a watCh-crystal into
its place without breaking it. How ex-
ccllent are both the material and work
manship turned out by these splendid
machines at Woolwich, is proved by ac-
cident as well as by design. In a small
building is shown an eighty-ton gun
which vas tested intentionally until it
burst BY its side lies the big gun Of the
Thunderer irou-clad, which was burst by
accidental double loading a few years
ago. with the deadly result which many
will recall. In both these great pieces
the fractures are almost perfectly sym
metmual, forming cubes forward of the
breech. and proving alike how hawless
was the material and how evenly distrib-
uted was the strength Of the gun.
don Cor. " y Post.
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The President Of the Lime kiln Club on
Only Sons and Daughters,

s'If had an only SON. began the old
man as the lights were turned up and
Biblical disputes suddenly ceased--'if /
had an only son, and he growed up as
only sons am pretty sartin to do, an he
went off on a Sunday skulc picnic an
got drowned, 1 should feel a leetle. sorry
an a heap thankful If Ihad an only
dhrter, an she growed up as only dar-
lers allus grow, an She run away wild a
lightnin' rod man an was LETT in de POI
house I should be a leetle sorry, but not
bit surprised, De family wild an only
son or an only darter needs no odder
trouble When you meet man who
carries his cigars i'm his hind pocket an
goes of behind de BAN to take chew Of
tarbacker, sot him down fur an only son.
When you meet a man who flusters an
brags an seeks to lord it ober Odder peO-
pie, you have foun' nonlv SON When
you meet a man who thinks de world
was made fur him alone, YOU have met
an only son. De only son am de man
who takes up two seats in de kyars-
who crowds de chilDen ut a festival
who eats hisself sick when he pays two
shillins fur all he kin eat. / doan' say
dat he am TO blame, but l do say dat de
world feels relieved when he goes to his
grave. Once in lifetime YOU may
har of an only son who hasn' turned de
family out of douhs nor had all de nay
burs fur a mile aroun' shoot at him an
offer to buy him a tombstone, but be
keerful how you believe IT,
"When you meet a woman who puts
you in mind of selishness out fur an
airin' sOt her down rs an only darter.
WhenyOu fin a woman who expects de
kyar to stop in the middle Of a block
when you meet a woman whose husband
am allus ready to dodge. sot her down
fur an only darter. De only darter grows
up 10 whine an complain an tyrannize
an make de world mo- wretched fur
people wretched 'nuff befO'. De odder
day was called upon to 90 over to a
naybur's an box de years of an only
darter whose poo ole mudder lay upon q
bed of sickness, an l mus say that I
kinder enjoyed it, Dat same evenin' ]
was called upon to visit aneder navbur
whose only son wanted to sell de family
cook stove to buy him yaller dog an a
7ingle-barreled shotgun. l had short
struggle wild de young man, an he won t
be out Of bed fur a week to come.
"My eXper ence is dat a family which
de Lawd has forsaken arter sendin' one
chile has woe an sorrow in der house
hold. Selishness takes root dar' an
grows amazin fast Wickedness creeps
in dar' an nebber lets 60 De small
poX kin be stamped Out-de WALLER fever
mus give way to frost-de cholra only
settles down heah an dar, but de only
chile am allus wild us. He or she meets
us cherry day-wal5s wild us frew life
brings upon us de larger sheer of our
miseries. Pity de fadder wild an only
sOn-thrice pity de mudder wild an only
darter. Wild desc few confggerashuns,
frOwn out in a speerit of astonishment
an intensity meant to accomplish no de
STABILITY in pertickler, wewill now close
de winders, put a leettle mo- wood in de
stove an purceed to asphyXiate de trans
eendent order of de inviduous pro-
gramme. Detroit Free Press.
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sunday.schooI Lessons.
Two Views Of a sermon.

There are two WAYS of regarding q
sermon, either rs a human composition,
II g divine message. Ii we look upon
t entirely as the first and require
our clergymen to finish it with their ut
most care and learning, for our better
delight, whether of ear or intellect. we
shall necessarily be led to expect much
formaiity and statelness in its delivery.
and to think that all is not well if the
pulpit have not a golden fringe round
it, and a goodly cushion in front of it,
and if the sermon be not fairly written
in a black book. to be smoothed upon
the cushion in a majestic manner
before beginning all this we
shall duly come to expect, but we shall
at the same time consider the treatise
thus prepared as something to which it
is our duty to listen without restlessness
for half an hour or three-quarters, but
which, when that duty has been de-
corOusly performed. we may dismiss
from our minds in happy confidence of
being provided with another when next
it shall be necessary. But if once we
begin to regard the preacher Whatever
his faults, as a man sent with q message
to us, which is q matter OF life or death
whether we hear or refuse; if we look
upon him as set in charge over many
spirits in danger of falling, and having
allowed to him but an hour or two in
the seven days 10 speak to them; if we
make some endeaYOr to conceive how
precious these hours ought TO be TO him.
a small vantage on the side of God after
his flock had been exposed for six days
together to the full weight of the world S
temptation, and he has been forced to
watch the thorn and the thistle spring
ing in their hearts, and to see what
wheat had been scattered there snatched
from the wayside by this wild bird and
the other, and at last when breathlcss
and weary with the week labor. they
give him this interval of imperfect and
languid hearing, he has but thirty min
utes to get at the separate hearts of a
thousand men to convince them OF all
their weaknesses, to shame them for all
their dangers, to try by this way and
that to stir the hard fastenings of those
doors where the Master Himself has
stood and knocked and vet none opened
and to call at the openings Of those dark
streets where Wisdom herself has
stretched forth her hands and no man
regarded-thirty minutes to raise the
dead Inlet us but once understandand
feel this, and we shall look with changed
eyes upon that fripperv OF gay furniture
about the place from which the message
Of Judgment must be delivered, which
either breathes upon the dry bones that
they may live, or, if Intellectual, remains
recorded in condemnation, perhaps
against the Utterer and listener alike,
but assuredly against one of them. We
shall not so easily bear with silk and
gold upon the seat of Judgment, nor
with the ornament of oratoTy in the
mouth of the messenger; we shall wish
that his words may be simple, even
when they are sweetest, and the place
from which he speaks like a marble
rock in the desert, about which the peo-
pie have gathered in their thirst John
RHSLjH
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1882-07-05
Learning to Swim.

The bathing-I might say the drown
ing-season is about to begin, and many
lives will unhappily be lost As the
human frame, bulk for bulk, is lighter
than water, all that is needful to save
life is to permit the body to sink until it
shall displace as much water as equals
the body's weight. Then paddle gently
as the lower animals do, with hands and
feet, the head being held erect, wherever
it is desired to 90. This direction being
carried out is absolutely all that is need
ful under ordinary conditions TO preserve
life These few directions ought to be
stuck up in every bathing place-every
bathing and skating place-in the three
kingdoms.
Children in every instance ought to be
made to tread water, from their earliest
age, say in shallow slate baths with blood
warm water, or when convenient and
suitable, in some river, pond, or in the
open sea. A leather belt with ring, and
a stout rod with line and hook are EN-.
ployed by Portuguese mothers to instruct
their children The mother, rod in hand,
stands on the brink. The child learns in
the ewater In Paris swimming schools
the same procedure is resorted TO. The
business cannot be begun too soon.
saw mere infants sustaining themselves
perfectly in the tepid waters of Africa.
Treading water is far safer than SWIM
ming in broken sea. Every adult, man
or woman, who has not practiced it,
should begin Once the conviction in
sdlled that the body lighter than water,
the risk Of drowning is reduced to zero.
The process involves no uncertainty, no
delay. Very different from swimming,
it can be acquired at once.-NatUTe,
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8eFgious.
d NEW BEGINNLNG.

Every day Is q fresh beginning,
Every morn Us the world made new.
You who are weary of sorrow and shining,
Here is q beautiful hope for you;
A hope for me and q hope for you.
All the past things are past and over;
The tasks are done and the tears are shed.
Yesterday errors let yesterday cover;
Yesterdays wounds, which smarted and
bled.
Arc healed with the healing which night has
she'd
Yesterday now Is q part Of forever;
Bound up i'm q sheaf. which God holds tight,
With glud days, and sad days, and bad days
which never
Shall visit US more with their bloom and
tn cir blight
Their fullness of sunshine or sorowful
night.
Let them so. since we cannot re-live them,
Cannot undo and cannot atone;
God i'm liis mercy receive forgive them;
Only tha now days are our own.
To-day is ours, and to-day alone.
Here are the skies all Furnished brightly,
Here is the spent earth all reborn,
Here are the tircd limbs springing lightly
10 face the sun aNd to share with the morn
In the Chrism ot dew and the cool of dawn.
Every day is q fresh beginning;
Listen. my soul, t1 the 81 ti refrain,
And spite of old sorrow and older SHINING.
And puzzles torecusted and possible pain,
Take heart with the day. and begin again.
susan Coolidge, Ui CHRISTIAN Union.
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Birds and Electric Lights.

Denver is largely lighted by electrici-
ty. Out towards the suburbs are sever.
al lofty towers, upon the tops of which
arc powerful electric lights They are
visible twenty or thirty miles distant,
and for a circuit of half a mile or more
in every direction they give a light al.
most like day These towers are an
open framework of squared timbers and
iron rods, built like an oil-well derrick.
but rising to a height of two hundred
feet About ten days ago one of the
evening papers stated that a great mum.
ber Of birds were being killed about one
Of these towers, speaking of the destruc.
tion as hundreds and demanding
that the electric lights be abolished Is
they had to be maintained at the eX-
pense of bird life. The Electric Light
Company claimed that it was uniustly
attacked. 1 have since investigated
the facts to some eXtont, and am Of
opinion that the very bright light was
the cause Of destruction. The slaughter
occurred mainly on one night, to some
extent the succeeding night, and none is
reported since. 1t is stated by persons
living in the vicinity, that on the night
in question the light was excessively
bright Birds were fitting about twit-
tering and singing all night They
heW against windows that were lighted.
In the morning dead ones We're found
in the, neighborhOod of the tower to the
estimated number of three hundred.
Others were crippled with broken wings
or otherwise disabled. The dead were
bruised and lacerated, with many bones
broken A wild duck was found TO have
its breast mashed to pulp. In some the
breast was lain open as though split by
a knife. - DenUer Cor Forest and
Stream.
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Sensations Of a Blind Man.

An interesting account has been lately
furnished by VI. Plateau, the eminent
Belgian physicist (whO has been blind
nearly forty years. Of the sensations he
experiences in his eyes He has no sense
of objective light even when directing
his eyes toward the sun. But his visual
field is always divided into spaces, some
of which are pretty bright, and others
sOmbre or nearly dark, and which merge
into each other. Their general tint al
ternstes, i'm time between gray and red
dish. The relative arrangement of those
different spaces is always the same, but
the intensity of their tints varies The
central space seems now rather bright,
now very dark; above and below, and on
the left to the limits of the field, there is
sometimes brightness, sometimes dark
n8ss, but on the right there is generally
a vertical band, nearly black and be-
yOnd this a space which is nearly always
bright and reddish. These appearances
follow all the movements of the eyes,
which probably do not participate in the
same way in the tints, but M. Plateau
cannot distinguish what belongs to one
from what belongs to the other No
connection Of the general tint with the
work Of digestion is observed. The au-
thor states that he became blind through
looking iiXedly at the sun for some time,
with view to observing his after-sensa-
tons; it was not till about fourteen years
after this thatinlammation Of the choroid
set in, destroying vision. but during tho
interval he often saw cOlOred and per,
sistent halos round flames, ETC., and no
advises those who have such vision to
consult an experienced oculist -Lond0n
Nature.
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we would have our lives true and beau
tiful then we must Be true and beauti-
full There is no other secret How
can we be thus? There is a Scripture
that answers the question; Behold, I
stand at the door and knock; if any
man hear My voice, and open The door,
I win come in to him, and will sup with
him and he with Me-.
"Be what thou seemest; like thy creed;
Hold mp to earth the torch divine;
BE what thou prpyest to be made;
Let the great Masters steps be thine.
"sow love, and taste its fruitage pure;
Sow p caCe. and reap its harvest bright
Sow sunh cams ON the rock and moor
And find harvesthome Of light
-ETCi1llJg.
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Female FerOelty.


Female ferocity gave thrilling exhibi-
ton ofitselfat the contest between Jane
Mcclellan and Frances McNair, Lumber
ton. NC. Both had fallen madlyin love
with the same man and to see which
should possess him, they agreed to fight
Jane was the larger and more muscular
butwhile Frances was spare she was 1.-the
and quick of motion. They fought each
other like tigers, and finally Jane sue
ceeded in throwing her small but plucky
opponent and with her heavy knee
pressed in the stomach OF the PROSTATE
woman, grasped her BY the throat with
the fury Of a tigress and well nigh ohOked
the life from her. Finally, by a last
terrible effort Frances, who had been
Wrigglng upon the ground like a serpent
IN agony, gave q sudden twist of tho
body, forcing her antagonist to lose her
seat and fan sideways to the ground.
Before she could recover herself Frances
got ON her feet, drew O hoWie-knife and
plunged il into the heart of Jane McKellar
who died with one gasp. Then, on
sight OF the gaping wound. the victor in
the fight fell in swoon across the dead
body, where she was found. A party
had followed them but too late to pre-
vent the terrible tragedy.
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Very light and delicious rusks are
made by following these directions; In
one large colfee-cup Of warm milk dis
solve one cake of compressed yeast; to
this add three well beaten eggs and one
small cup of sugar; beat these together,
use flour enough to make smooth light
dough, let it stand until very light, then
knead il in the form of biscuits or rolls;
put these in buttered tins, and let them
rise till they are almost up to the edge
of the tin; pierce the top of each one,
and bake in a quick oven. If you wish
them to brown handsomely on the top,
rub them over when ready for the oven
with little milk in which a little sugar is
dissolved-fOr instance one teaspOonful
Of sugar in two of milky T. Post.
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A poor sewing girl who went to the
late DR.. John +. Gray for advice, was
given a vial Of medicine and told to 90
home and 20 to bed. Il can't do that,
doctor" the girl replied, "for / am de-
pendent on what / earn every day foI
my living" '1f that is so, said DR..
Gray "rll change the medicine a lit
tie. Give me back the VIAL He
then wrapped around it a $40 BILL and
returning it to her, reiterated his order:
" Go home and go to bed adding,
"Iake the medicine, cover and ALL -
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-Workmen employed in nail manu-.
factories are liable TO contract a disease
known as nailers' consumption, caused
BY the deposit Of iron particles in the
cells Of the lungs.
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circumstances, have granted a dispensa'
ton for such an alliance. Mobile Regis
Ter
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Sand and dirt may accidentally get
mixed with cotton 70 increase rs weight,
but beans and peas don hop into coffee
sacks without help.