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Year: 1869

Some one has gone from this strange world of


ours.


No more to gather its thorns with its flowers:
No longer TO linger where Sunbeans must fade,
Where on all beauty, deaths fingers are laid;
Weary with parting and never TO meet
Some one has gore TO the bright golden shore
Ring the bell softly. there's Grape the door!
Ring the bell softly, there's Grape ON the door!
Some one is resting from sorrow and sin.
Happy where earth;s conflict enters not iu;
joyous as birds, when the morning is bright.
When the sweet suEbeams have brought us their


light


Weary with sowing, and never to reap
Weary with labor and welcoming sleep
Some ones departed for Heavens bright shore,
Ring the bell softly. there's Grape on the doori
Ring the bell scfHy there's Grape on the door!
Angels We're anXiously longing to meet
One who walks with them in Heavens bright
street:


Loved ones have whispered that some ore is


blcSt:


Free fIOn earth's trials and taking sweet rest,
\ es. there is more in angelic bliss
One less to cherish, and one less to kiss;
One more departed for Heavens bright shore,
Ring the bell softly, there's Grape on the door!
Ring the bell sctf1g. there's Grape on the door!
Year: 1869

Once when his teacher was praying,
a pupil, who was an inveterate rhym-
ster, saw rat upon the stairs and
laughed aloud. After the teacher had
concluded her prayer, she called the
boy forward and asked him what he
laughed for? The urchin said:


81 saw a rat upon the stairs


Coming up to hear your prayers


She threatened to fog him if he did
not Immediately make another rhyme,
upon which he quickly replied:


'Here stand before Miss Blodgctt


She's going to strike, and shall dodge it,
and Immediately took his seat amid
the laughter of the school.


This is reminder of DR.. Watts, to
whom, when a boy, it was so natural
to speak in rhyme that he could not
avoid it even when he wished to-
His father, in order to break up the
habit, threatened to whip him if he
did not leave off making rhymes. One
day when he was about to fulfill his
promise the future rhyme writer
burst into tears and on his knees ex-
claimed: s..i..
Pray, father do some pity take,
And will no more verses make"


How he violated this promise the
world knows.
Year: 1869

Bad company is like nail driven
into post, which after the first or
or second blow, may be drawn out
with little difficulty but being once
driven in up to the head, the pinchers
cannot take hold to draw it out, which
can only be done by the destruction
of the wood.
Year: 1869

THE other evening in st. Louis
man went to grocery, drank several
times, and played several games of
pigeon hole" after which he went
home, and in attempting to get drink
at his well, which was sixty feet deep;
played his last game of pigeon hole
by pocketing himself.
Year: 1869

The Republican high tariff is not
upon the value of goods Cheap ar
ticles consumed blythe poor are taxed
the same, as the dear ones consumed
by the rich. Thus the duty on tea is
thirty cents a pound. The cheap tea
worth sixty-five1 cents a pound, pays
an equal amount of taxes with the
o-dollar-and-a-half article. THUS
the poor man, upon the value of his
goods, is obliged to pay three and
four times as much as the rich! j2H-.t
Year: 1869

a Boston correspondent tells the
following =


Here is a touching little romance.
Half a century ago two young peo-
ple-youth and maiden in a country
village-loved each other. tnkind
fate prosecuted and denied the legiti-
mate reward of mutual affection.
Both married and lived in widely
separated towns. Children grew up
about each, and the cares oflife came
upon them, but the spark of that
early love burned in both bosoms.
Once in a great while they eXchang-
ell letters. At lat his wife died !;
his children grew up and went to
the bad, and ne was left lonely Old
man, poor and comfortless. This
summer her husband died. Soon as
the blessed defunct was put comfort
ably under the sod, the widow pack
ed up and started for the home of her
first love. She arrived one afternoon
and was directed to his house, but its
master was absent. Nothing daunt-
ed. she went in, and sit alone I'LL he
returned. Imagine the meeting OF
the tender old creatures of seventy,
W ho had been faithful to each other
through fifty years. She remained
in his house a few days, then they
were married, and the neighbOrS say
that never did humanity afford such
similitudc OF two very sentimental
turtle doves a. in the wedding bliss
of these absurd old people They
are liviAg now, stepped ln happiness,
it would seem, and no doubt, fully
believing in the maxim, Better late
than never"
Year: 1869

a WANT a paper that has long
stories in it,n said young lady +;
and she added, II don't want a paper
for anything else Poor girl much
to be pitied; and pitiful appear
ance she will make through life, at
the present rate. She wants moth
ing serious, no acquaintance with
the history of her times, nothing in
tellectual; nothing but newspaper
novels


Empty heads they mast be that
can find room every week for some
ten columns of a sham story. Yet
these are the heads for which the
weekly press tolls and grOans, throw
ing Off by the ten thousands its
sheets of shallow, insipid, and dis
gusting fiction; and for this an
amount of money is paid which a
sound literature utterly fails to com
manu- Fathers and mothers buy
this vile trash for their sons and
daughters, and so ministers to their
ignorance and destitution of all good
taste and fitness for life's duties.


Doubtless the periodical press does
more than any other one instrument
tality to decide the opinions, habits
of thought, and general character o1
the age. y family will very soon
begin to show u sympathy with its
weekly paper, and parent and chill
dren will soon begin assimilating tC
it in sentiment and feeling; and al
families are, so is the community aI
large. Blind and stupid, therefore
yea, worse, are those who tolerate
in their houses q class of papers which
are made up of the writings of silly
ignorant scribolers, who would II
''at the footn in the town school o
good morals. Such are teachers o
half of the present generation.
Year: 1869

THERE should be this in every family,
and where it is not, poor indeed must be
the table comforts from which so much
enjoyment is to be expected. Where
there is some intelligence and common
sense in family, we will almost iHvaria-
bly, find two very important objects, s,-tidi-
ness and good plain cooking. And wher-
ever these exist, we will likewise find
economy and substantial comfort. In my
own experience in house keeping, and my
knowledge of others, have been frequent
ly panied at the utter Ignorance shown IN
the way of general cooking, No
matter how good the material for
dinner may be, It is somehow con
triyed 10 be ruined. And when you come
TO bread, pies, tea, and coffee, etc, it is
still worse. A good article is never seen
upon the table of these poor cooks.


A good PLAN cook viii prepare COM
forta 5le meal from about one-half the ma
terials that poor one will AS nothing is
ever ruined by an attempt at cooking,
hence there Is nothing TO throw away
Mothers eannot be too particular in bring
ing up their daughters to a knowledge
how good cooking ought TO be donei and
If they are not proficient themselves. they
should enlist the services OF those who
are Germdntoloa Telegraph.
Year: 1869




see.


From tho Buffalo Express


The editor of the Memphis Araldnehe
swoops thus mildly down upon corre-
spondent who posted him as q Radical: :
"While he was writing the first word,
the middle word, dotting his is, crossing
his is, and punching his period, be
knew be was concocting sentence that
was saturated with infsmy and reeking
with falsehood. -Erchsnge.


/ was told by the physician that a
Southern climate would improve my
health. and go / went down to Tennessee
and got q berth on the Morning Glory
and johnson County Var Whcop, as
associate editor. When l went on duty l
found the chief editor sitting tilted back
in a three legged chair with his feet on
nine table. There was another pine Ia
bic in the room, and another tfh icted
chair. aud both we're half buried under
newspapers and scraps and sheets oi
manuscript There was wooden box OF
sand, sprinkled with cigar stubs and old
soldiers" and q. stove with the door
hanging BY its upper hinge. The chief
editor had q lone-iailed black cloth froek
coat on. and white linen pants. His
boots were small and neatly blaeked- de
wore a ru fled shirt, q large seal ring,
standiug collar Of obsolete pattern and q
checkered handkerchief with the ends
hanging down. Date OF costume, about
Is4s. BE was smoking q cigar aud Try
ing TO think Of word. And IN trying
Year: 1869

,rP A bet was recently made by
some gentlemen on the ability and en-
durance of two women who lived In n
certain pcighborhood-which could out
talk the other. The two principals, al
ter being informed OF the bet, agreed
TO be locked up in room together for
one night, where they were to talk till
the morn grew bright. A fter being
securely locked in the room they were
left to their enjoyment. On opening
the door next morning, one OF The wo-
men was found lying dead on the floor
and her antagonist leaning over her
and whispering in her ear!


An awful death to be talkedto death.
Year: 1869

God did not take up the there He
brews ont of the furnace of fire. but he
come down and walked with them.
He did not remove Daniel from the
den of lions; he sent his angel to close
the mouths of the beast. He did nor,
IN answer to the prayer OF Paul, re-
move the thorn in the flesh, but ne
gave him q sufficiency OF grace to sus-
tain him.
Year: 1869

,P When the Breton mariner puts
To sea. his prayer is. Keep me my
G cd my boat is so small and Thy
ocean so wide y Does not this beautl-
iul prayer trulyexpress the condition of
each one oil us?
Year: 1869

An effort, headed by Mrs Susan Il. Anthony
and others, is being made in New York city to
teach women the art Of type-sct,ing. There
are thousands Of young girls in that as well rs
other cities who are thrown upon their own re
sources and are anxious TO learn the art, re-
garding it as more respectable than most
of the other branches OF industry now open to
females, and far more lucrative Since the war
many ladies Of atlucncc in the South WHO
were reduced in circumstances thereby have
resorted to printing as livelihood. The n.
\. Tribune, in commenting on the subject says: :


We like Miss AnthOny's suggestion. One
trouble about the Woman Question Is the
few methods by which dependent woman
may earn her living There are many forms
of labor denied to the sex by their severity or
unsuitaLleneas. 1t would be impossible lOc a
woman to become bricklaycr, or a sailor, or
laborer upon the highway; and there are
many other departments which men have alb
sOrbed to their disadvantage and the injury Of
the other SEX This is so much the case that
when woman is thrown upon the world, She
finds herself compelled either to teach school
or to sew. If very fortunate, she becomes an
attendant in dry goods store. In New York,
however, the prcpondtrancc OF male clerks
over female clerks in the delicate millinery and
dry goods business is overwhelming. Woman
is virtually excluded from the stores Of the
the city.


There is no occupation which seems so recu-
liarly adapted to woman as setting type. 1t Is
in many respects mental labor. 1t requires
little bodily effort 1t is peculiarly sclentary,
aud needs no more eXcrton than the sewing
machine or the piano. The mcu who set type,
| n ri a q /.
| telligencc. We presume that more men nave
risen to distinction from the printing office than
| from any single occupation; and If nne-tCnthS
of the printers in New York were thrown up IN
their own resources, and sent out from this
great city into the new countries which yearn
! for their industry and ability, it would be bet
ter for them and better for the Republic
! They are in many cases fitted to be the leaders
of men, to rise in the professions, to perform
the highest duties Of society. Nothing but the
natural dislike toward taking what seems to be
risk keeps so many men in this dense and
thankless city till they waste their years over
the printing case, aud become prcmaturely old
and poor.


We should like to see type setting generally
abandoned to woman. 1t is her work, and i'll
this work she has succeeded Women are
naturally as quick and Intelligent as men, AM
will make quite as good printers. We trust
that Miss Anthony will persist in this new et
fort, and that she will receive encouragement
from those who hire printers labor. There ar(
some departments i'll printing in which, per
haps, it would not be well for woman to assist


In morning newspapers, where the wurl, l.
thrown mainly into the middle hours of The
night, and is accompanied by the unpleasant
necessity of being away from home at unwcl
come hours, we do not think it would be az
advantage for women to be employed. Still
it might be done. We trust to see thorough
trial made.
Year: 1869

There is many a rest in the road of life,
If we only would stop and take it;
And many tone from the better land,
il the queruOus heart would make it!
To the sunny soul that is full of hope,
And whose beautiful trust ne'er faieth,
The grass is green and the flowers are bright,
Though the Wintry storm preYaileth.
Better to hope, though the clouds hang low,
And to keep the eyes still lifted;
For the sweet blue sky will soon peep through,
When the omnous clouds rifted
There never night without day,
Or an evening without u morning;
And the darkest hour tie proverb goes,
Is the hour before the dawnng.
There is many gem in the path of life,
Which we pass in our idle pleasure,
That is richer far than the jeweled crown,
Or the miser's boarded treasure;
1t may be the love of a little child,
Or a mothers prayers to heaven,
Or only beggar's grateful thanks,
For cup of water given.
Better to weave in the web of life
bright and golden filling,
And to do Gods will with ready heart,
And hands that swift and willing,
Than to snap the delicate, minute threads
Of our curious lives asunder,
And then blame Heaven for the tangled ends,
And sit and gricye and wonder.


From Temple Bar
Year: 1869

SERMON by Rev. DR.. Gardiner.


There was very fair attendance ut nIgn mass III
st. James Cathedral, Jay street Brooklyn, yester-
day morning. Mass was celebrated by Rev. Father
McShcrry The choir never acquitted itself In finer
style than upon this occasion the singing at the Of
fertory being particularly noticeable. The text
chosen by the Rev. DIR. Gardiner, who preached the
sermon, was taken from the gospel OF the day &C
cording TO st. John. After briefly dwelling
upon its lessons the reverend speaker called
attention to the fact that the Church celebrated to-
day the feast Of the patronage Of ST. Joseph the los
ter father the infant Jesus and the husband Of the
Blessed Moiher The life Of ST. Joseph was one which
dinered materially from the glowing examples Of
sanctty presented in the lives OF other SAINTS. His
was one Of toll for his family, care and soicitude
imbued with all the high sentiments OF love- respect
and admiration OF the sacred charge committed 10
him. In this bright example Of the everyday life OF
father As a carpenter he earned his bread "by the
sweat OF his BROW, and thereby maintained his
family Our divine LORD too nsa we are hen ed While s
his foster father, thus adding dignity TO
and sanctifying labor. There were times, doubtless,
then, as now, when the fluctuations Of capital and
labor were such to deprive ST. Joseph Of employ
ment at his trade.times when that blessed family
were subjected to the vicsstudes with which we SO
frequently meet in the course Of our own career.
When suffering under fatigue toward the close OF
long and arduous days labor IN the efforts to earn
livelihood for those whom God has committed to
your care then, my dear brethren, bear In mind too
that this saint was often equally, If not more,
VIII ind true consolation The holy family is IN
deed, the true model OF domestic happiness
for the Christian family and the correct
pattern of virtues relationship. In conclusion the
reverend gentleman took occasion to call attention
to the laxity OF fathers in their manner OF setting
good example to their families and teaching them
the truths OF the Catholic faith. For this neglect
indifference they Will assuredly have TO answer be-
fore the tribunal Of their God. The examples OF
the result OF parental indifference to the manner
Of instructng children in their faith were too nu-
merous around them TO require recital. II was not
necessary to go outside the boundaries Of that parish
70 nnd nundreds Oh people young men more espe-
cially who have no faith whatsoever yet whose
grandparents were Catholics. This falling
OF from the graces received in the waters oil
baptism was due to the bad example or indif-
ference OF parents, whether OF the present or
tme FOR fathers and mothers to avoid these evils
by bringing up their young children In the light and
truths OF the Catholic faith-n0w, while the mind
was susceptible TO the mould OF good example be-
fore Il became hardened or Indifferent to that which
Is essential 10 eternal salvation.
Year: 1869




The services held BY the Methodist congregation
Of Hoboken, a. .Ss Marina Institute yesiefday,
We're very interesting. The sermon In the forenoon
Was preached by the pastor, Rev. Mr.. ELL
son, who took his text from Proverbs, xiv, 10.
'If thou faint In the day Of adversity thy
strength is weak" The preacher. having discoursed
on the fall Of man from his primeval character de.
veloped the subject into many practical lessons
since man fell life is q probation, and there is no
probation without trial. II every man at his en-
trance into business were certain that he would
reach the goal OF success what would be the result
Why, the great ordinance OF Providence that
evil shall be large admixture I'm our nature would
be defeated. The great men OF the world, the sue
cessful merchants for example are those who have
the least ideas OF their accountability To God Hence
adversely is part OF the great plan OF Divine Prov
dencc In shaping the destinies Of His creatures when
o man arises on the beautiful Sabbath morning aud
gazes on the joyous face OF nature instead OF asking
himself what are the needs at the present hour. he
looks forward to the troubles which NAV arise next
week, next month or next year, and these heavy
burdens ne must bear while fortified by the grace Of
to-day. Inc disproportion Is 80 great that he muss
faint Taketh case OF an army when on the approach
OF an enemy each man loses courage and finally, be.
fore blow IL struck complete decentralization takes
courageous In the beginning; but there was this
difference IN their acton-the one stood while the
other fed 30 II is In every day liie. Look at the
Spaniartis In Cuba, brave men, with strong hearts,
but whose poucity OF numbers forbids them to hope
for that success which large numbers would bring
Yet they do not despair for they feel that god is
win them end the cause which God aids has . tre-
Year: 1869

Sermon by Rev. DR.. Sawyer.


In consequence Of the continued illness of Rev.
Dr. Chaplin, Rev. Dr. Sawyer, one Of the Oldest


lights Of Universalism in this country took his place
and preached from the sixth chapter Of the Gospel
according to st. John, twenty ty-eighth and twenty
ninth verses :-"They said unto Him, What shall we
do that we might work the works Of Godr Jesus
answered and said unto them, This is the work Of God
that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent" The
preacher said that Christ the day before he uttered
these words, had wrought miracle by feeding five
thousand with five loaves and TWO small nshes
@ take Him BY force Il necessary, ana make Aim king
Our Saviour, perceiving their design, withdrew,
and secreted himself from them. Now tAe question
thus put to the Saviour was question which every
Christian should put to himself and herself To all
such questions, come whence they might our
work Of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath
sent" Without faith we could do nothing; with 1t
s0ua o 30 c Knew s
and there were those who smiled at the notion Of
merely to believe. They would reverse the Christian
point point Of fla fact the ndei himself was obliged to live
by faith OF some kind. we were always tending
am man se Who would not w
SImSmlsh. pass himself OS foI phiOs9pher, but @ ls
very widely in this-that the Christians faith
had q larger scope and embraced the whole
range OF his being and life than the be-
Lief OF those not Christians gave credit
for II IL was true-as the language
OF the text clearly implies--that to be Christian
was the Indispensable copditlon Of our highest vel.
fare; " 1t was true that the Gospel Of Jesus Christ
true that the nane of Christ was the only name in
heaven by which we could be saved, 1t then became
important to know what the meaning Of Christian
ity was aud 1t was all the more important now be-
cause 80 many took such low grounds and made so
very little OF faith In Christ The preacher then
christianity, and closed his discourse by dwelling
elaboratey on the necessity Of firm faith In the
Saviour as the only means Of salvation.
Year: 1869

cal" II this were oil the result would
not be bad. but religion and even the soem-
mites OF death become subjects OF sport among
these MISGUIDED people. Idleness, stih another
habit is every mans bane. Habits OF usefulness
industry and steady toll should be formed In youth.
The drones are the vutnres Of society," 1t was hard
and irksome work that built empires IN the old ana
founded republic In the wilderness OF tne New
World; Industry that made the wondrous painting,
the great and enduring shaft. the Incompatible
statue and the sweet music OF heroic verse, ana II ID
only by continuing to employ our hands ana Drains
that we can ful1l the mission OF life.
Year: 1869

GIVE Your CHILD A LOCAL PAPER. =
There is so much truth in the folio wing,
which we fud in the Fond du Lac Report
er that We copy it entipG:


"A child beginning to read becomes de-
lighted with a newspaper, because he reads
the names of persons and things which are
familiar, and will make progress according,
ly. A newspaper In one year is worth a
quarters schooling to child and every
father must consider that substantial infor
nation is corrected with advancement
The mother OF a family, being one of the
/ head and having more immediate charge
of children, should herself be instructed
a mind occupied becomes fortified against
any ills of life and is braced against any
emergenged. Children amused by reading
or studying, are of course more considerate
aud more easily governed How many
parents who have not spent twenty dollars
tor books for their families would have Civ
en- hundreds to reclaim son or daug hter
who has ignorantly or thoughtlessly fallen
into tGmptOtlop.
Year: 1869

ssa- 1t cost ten cents per mile in gold,
to travel on the Pacific railroad. and the
charge on ton of freight fron, Sacramento
to Promontory Point about one third the
length of the road, Is one hundred and fire
dollars. Considering that the read was
built most entirely with funds derived from
lands given for that purpose by the Gov
ernment, this is an outrageous state of af-
fairs. The only remedy, however, is to
build three or four more rosds.
Year: 1869

EFFECT OF TIE HARD TIMEs.-The
Chicago Journal says:


During the past seven days we have
found recorded in the telegraph despatches
and in the local columns OF our exchanges,
no less than twenty two cases of suicide in
various parts of the United States The
most remarkable feature of these cases Is.
that the majority OF them are rhe result of
financial troubles, or the failure of poor
men to find employment. La nearly al
cases the suicides are males. aa}
Year: 1869

to- Po stmaster and newspaper publish
erS throughout the country will do well to
heed the following, which we copy from an
exchange:


Some OF our newspaper friends who
stIli continue the practice of folding So
ca He'd supplements into their paper. which
pass through the mails, contrary to the law,
may get into trouble. Under Instructions
from he Postmaster General, every post.
master is a detectiye, and must watch for
violations of The law. 1t is not very
pleasant for subscribers TO pay letter post
age on such papers, neither wOnld it be
agreeable for publishers to pay fine.