The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-09-17

Ih1S campaign mas thus far Deen
notable for seemingly resistless de-
sire on the part of great many peo-
pie to tell great many other people
how to vote The fact is that voters
sometimes give more earnest attention
to recommending others how to vote
that they do to a careful considera-
ton Of their own political duty.
| What the voter wants to do first is to
get himself right, and this cannot be
done by blindly voting according to
custom. The situation must be care
fully considered relation Of par
ties to the prosperity of the country
fully weighed If this or that party
has proved faithless in the past,
that party should not be trusted in
the future. If either party has made
loud professions OF love for the poor
and needy, and has labored to make
them poorer and more needy still,
that party is unworthy of the support
of an honest voter. All these things
should be carefully and prayerfully
considered by the voter.
**
1t may seem like inconsistency ton
say that the world is travelling too
fast, yet the everyday experience of
business life would seem to justify
such conclusion. The world should
be progressive, it is true, but the
tendency Of the age is to avoid all
system and order in advancement,
and engage In grand, disorderly
scrambling for place and success.
"We must look out for ourselves" !"
therefore we have not time to fool
away with minor matters. We have
no spare moment to engage in pleas
ant conversation with the old man,
tottering on the verge of the grave, or
even speak word of cheerful respect;
we have not time to speak a word Of
kindly encouragement to the little
child, just entering upon the great
struggle Of life, and needing the value
of our greater experience; we have
no time to treat those with whom we
are thrown into business relations,
with all the respect and courtesy that
should exist among fellow-creatures.
The field Of human progress has come
to be a race-course, over which the
people are rushing in wild haste.
How much grander would be the re-
suit were careful attention given to
the world about us as we go along!
| With considerate regard for the
rights of our fellow-creatures, the
cultivation of a noble sentiment in
our dealings with one another, the
world would be benefited by every life,
and human character perfected.
There will perhaps be large at
tendance from this county at the Re
union at Portsmouth on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday of this week.
Extensive arrangements have been
made in the River City, a protected
seating capacity Of ten thousand ar
ranged on the grounds where the for
NAL exercises will be held, and ample
arrangements for water, meals, and
general accommodations. No soldier
who served in the brave old Army of
West Virginia should fail to attend
this Reunion, and every old soldier,
no matter what army he may have
served in, will find great pie asure in
the reviving Of old memories, and the
relating of old-time experiences.
Soldiers from the Armies of. the Ten
nesee and Cumberland will be there,
and the campfres Of memory will
burn brightly during those three days.
**
One would not, upon first impulse
recommend storms as means of miss
ionary work, yet the recent cyclone in
neighboring County threw large
number of persons on their knees who
never seemed to know what prayer
was before Sad as it may seem, some
Of these seemed to forget, after the
danger of the hour had passed, that
they had been in prayerful mood at
all, but while the storm was on, when
it was plainly evident that human
powers of protection were at an end
for the time, they prayed loudly and
earnestly. The fervent appeal for
mercy and protection went up to a
God who was treated with total indiff-
erence during seasons of sunshine and
peace. Deep down in the human
heart there is a recognition Of the
power Of the Creator of the Universe,
and, though it may require the vista
ton of great distress to wiring from
it the acknowledgement, yet man
feels his own helplessness in such an
emergency, and appeals to the power
that rules the storm. Now, in view
Of the fact that misfortune wrings
such appeals from the human heart,
why would it not be better to make
the attempt to liye in prayerful
spirit at all times? The God who can
protect us in moments Of extreme
danger, is certainly entitled to our SER
vice in moments Of safety.
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A Dime Novel Story for Little
Boys: On a certain day in the year
1885, in the ninth month Of the year,
a small boy named Emory Light