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Year: 1879

BIZ J. g. HOLLAND.
Heaven is not reached at a single bound,
But we build the ladder by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies,
And We mount to its summit round by round.
I count these things to be grandIy true,
That noble deed is a step iowa d God,
Lifting the soul flom the common sod,
To purer air and a nObIsr view.
We rise by the things that are under our feet,
By what we have mastered in greed and gain,
By the pride dePOsed, and the passion slain,
And the vanquished i'll we hourly meet.
We hope, we resolve, we aspire, We trust,
When the morning calls to life and light,
But our hearts grow weary, and, ere the night,
Our lives are trailing in sordid dust
Wings for the angels, but feet for the men;
We must borrow the wings to find the way,
We may hope, and resolve, and aspire, and pray,
But our feet must rise, or we fall again.
Only in dreams is the ladder thrown
From the weary earth to the sapphire wall,
But the dreams depart, and the visions fall,
Aud the sleeper wakes on pillow of stone.
Heaven il not reached IN single bound,
BIT We build the ladder by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies,
And we mount to the summit round BY round.
Year: 1879

The highest point to be aimed at
by the teacher, in the intellectual
training of his pupils, is the ready
and cogsnt expression Of ideas. Two
kinds of expression must be secured;
first, written; second, oral How to
make the second a matter of definite
training, is q difficult question. 1t
should be patiently attended to in
every recitation. Pupils should al
ways be encouraged to spontaneous
recitation and criticism and such
questioning and other practices
should be faithfully adopted by the
teacher, as to secure from the pupils
ready use Of language, which comes
Year: 1879

President Hayes is as "stalwart'
as anybody. Republicans vino have
been hostile TO his Southern policy
will perhaps be more willing now to
recognize that it was well for the
party and the country that It was
tried, because it has fully demonstrat.
ed the treachery of the Confederates-
fact which a large number of Re
publieans were not willing to credit
until it was DEMONSTRATED Day
ton Journal
Year: 1879

A bill has passed the Ohio Sen
ate, providing for the discontinuance
Of any school when the average at
tendance falls below eight. It is
now pending in the House.-It is a
question with us whether the mini
mum attendance should not have
been placed higher.
Year: 1879

from thoughts rather than from
memory. Here is the (so-called}
drudgery of teaching. Here is the
delight and juice (really) of teaching.


In addition TO the indirect efforts
in every class, direct training in oral
expression may be accomplished
with the advanced reading class, by
occasionally converting it into a de-
batting club, the exercises of which
are to be confined to the regular
recitation period, and the prepare
ton for which should be confined to
the regular time Of study, except
such additional time as may be found
for it outside of regular school
hours-that is, the debating eLer-
cises viii be substituted for the regu-
lar reading ezercises.-rNat. Nor.
Reunion.
Year: 1879

The celebrated George Whitefeld be- gan his courtship in singular fashion. His biographer pronounces him one of the oldest wooers that ever wooed. When Whitefeld was in America, and had under his charge the Orphan House in Savannah, "It was much impressed on his heart that he ought to marry in order to have helpmate in his arduous work" He had, also, fixed his mind on the young lady whom he intended to ask to become his wife. So he addressed a letter to her parents, and enclosed an other to herself. In his letter to her parents he stated that he wanted wife to help him in the management of his constantly increasing family, and then said "This letter comes like Abraham's servant to Rebekah's relations, to know whether your daughter, Miss E., isa proper person to engage in such an un- dertaking, and if so, whether you will be pleased to give me leave to propose marriage to her. You need not be afraid of sending me refusal for I bless God, If I know anything of my own heart, am free of that foolish passion which the world calls love-" He wrote in similar strain to the young lady, asking her, among many other ques- tions, if she could leave her home and trust in Him for support who feeds the young ravens, and bear the inclemen- cies of air both as to heat and cold in foreign climate whether, having hus- band, she could be as though she had none. He also told her that he thought the passionate expressions which ordi- nary courtiers use ought to be avoided by those who would marry in the Lord and that if she thought marriage woald in any way be prejudicial to her better part, to be so kind as to send him de- nial; that she need not be afraid to speak her mind, as he loved her only for God.

 The letters were not so successful as Abraham's servant. The parents were not very anxious to send their daughter on such an adventure, and Whitefeld continued for longer space in his bachelor condition. Some time after, he essayed another courtship, with widow in Wales, after the same style. The mode in which Rebekah was chosen for Isaac seems to have been Whitefeld's ideal of obtaining a wife. The week after he was married he went on one of his evangelistic tours, and left his newly welded wife to muse alone amid the Welsh hills in the second quarter of their honeymoon
Year: 1879

A Hartford man recently bought @ young horse for $2OO. Within 8 week or two the horse began to act badly, and finally developed such balky disposi- tion that the new owner could do nothing with him. Persuasion of every kind and finally severe beatings were resorted to, but still the horse remained stub- born. At last, in desperate mood, the horse was taken to the original owner, who bought him back for $25. The cause of the whole trouble was soon dis covered. The horse had been broken to wear names collar, and had never worn any other kind-his new owner had put breast collar on him after using him a little while, and no one " happened to think" that this change had produced the sudden obstinacy in the animal. Wearing the collar to which he had been accustomed, the horse is all right again, and the gentleman who has got him back at profit of $175 in six weeks, considers him worth fully S2OO again.
Year: 1879

ANY one wishing to make m oncy, and plenty of it, should take advantage of this golden opportunity at once. People are disgusted with Paris Green on account of its high price and poisonous character anu have long looked for, and will gladly buy anything that will take its place as 8 bug exterminator. The Blooming Vegetable Company, Blooming Val ley, Pa, make an article which is truly Ma ture's remedy for this terrible pest. It is com posed of a few simple herbs, which grow everywhere, is free from poison, and when applied to potatoes or other vegetables few times they remain entirely free from bugs dur ing the season. To any one sending Five Dol lars, the Company will give township license for life, with right to make and sell the remedy, and family rights. As any enc can make this article and as enough herbs can be gathered in few days to bring the agent hundreds of dollars, this, therefore, is the grandest oppor- tunity ever offered to those out of employment Any farmer can make more with it than he can with his farm, for everybody will buy it. and the sales are all profit. Select your terri tory before some one else gets it. Send money by registered letter, and the Go. will send you full particulars how to make this permanent paying business and grand success
Year: 1879

FRIED BREAD PUDDING. a.-Take a stale loaf of bakers bread cut it in slices ; beat up six eggs stir them into quart of milk; dip the slices into the milk and eggs; lay them upon dish, one upon another, and let them stand an hour 1; then fry them to light brown in little butter. Serve with pudding sauce or syrup. "

 KISS PUDDINa.-Scald one quart of milk and dissolve six tablespoonfuls of corn starch in cold milk; add the yellow of three eggs, and stir into the soalding milk /; put the whole into dish and let it stand and cool. Take the whites of the eggs, beat with one cup of sugar, put on top, and set in the oven. to brown.

 Eaas AND MASHED POTATOES. Chop fine some eight or ten cold boiled pota- toes the night before they arc needed. Next morning heat spider very hot and put in piece of butter the size of Q butternut, and add the potatoes salt it little and stir frequently; when we'll heated through, turn in four eggs we'll beaten and stir rapidly for five or six minutes. Serve on hot platter.

 POTATO PUFFs.-Take cold roast meat beef, mutton, or veal and ham together clean from gristle, cut small and sea son with pepper and salt also, cut pickles if liked boil and mash some potatoes, make them into paste with an egg, and roll out, dredging with flour 1; cut round with seucer; put some of the seasoned meat upon one half and fold the other like puff; pinch neatly, and fry light brown.

 HIoKoRY-NUT CAKE.-One pound of sugar, one.half pound of butter, four eggs, one cup of milk, one teaspoonful of soda and two of cream of tartar, the meats of two quarts of hickory nuts, flour to make as stiff as pound cake. Cocoa-nut cake is made in the same way, allowing one large or two small nuts to this amount of butter.

 MINUTE PUDDINa.-Put three pints of sweet skinned milk over the fire in a porcelain kettle, or something that will good deal more than hold it. Stir it, and the minute it boils stir in rapidly as much flour as it will moisten. Take it quickly from the fire and serve hot, with butter and sugar or syrup.

 PORK CAKE.--A pork cake is made as follows: One pound of fresh fat pork, chopped fine, one pint of boiling water, one pint molasses, two cups of brown sugar, one pound each of raisius and entrants, half @ pound of blanched almonds, chopped, one ounce of mixed spices, heaping teaspoonful of soda, one glass of cider and flour enough to make stiff
Year: 1879

Somebody thinks he has discovered that snow, when incorporated with dough, performs the same office as baking powder or yeast. "I have this morning for breakfast says writer in the English Mechanic, "partaken of Q snow-raised bread cake, made last even ing as follows: The cake when baked weighed about three-quarters of pound. A large tablespoonful of fine, dry, clean snow was intimately stirred with spoon into the dry flour, and to this was added 8 tablespoonful of caraways and little butter and salt. Then sufficient cold water was added to make the dough of the proper usual conscience (simpIy stirred with a spoon, not kneaded with the warm hands), and it was immedi- ately put into the oven and baked three quarters of an hour. It turned out both light and palatable. The reason," adds the writer, "appears to pc this the light mass of interlaced snow crystals hold together large quantity of con- denced atmospheric air, which when the snow is warmed by thawing very rapidly in the dough, expands enormously and acts the part of the carbonic acid gas in either baking powder or yeast. take the precise action to be, then, not due in any way to the snow itself, but simply to the expansion of the fixed air lodged between the interstices of the snow crystals by application of heat. This theory, if carefully followed out, may perhaps give clew to simple and per fectly innocuous method ofraising bread and pastly." And stop the discussion as to whether alum in baking powders is deleterious to health or otherwise.
Year: 1879

CERTAINLY one is not wise if he purchases any organ before obtaining the latest catalogue and circulars of the Mason d Hamlin Organ Co. See advertisement, and send postal card asking for them, and they will come free.
Year: 1879

Rev, Ii. w. Beecher preached Sunday
about the funeral of Prince Louis. lie
lie said many things not complimentary
of the Bonaparte family In closing he
spoke as follows of Eugene;


SIN this last sad scene at Chiselhllrs'
beyond all question the central figure
was not Victoria, Queen of Great Brit
ain and Empress of India. 1t was Eu-
genie. In her youth brought up ut a
brilliant court in Spain, and by an I'M
expected development Of events, she was
transferred to be empress Of the most
brilliant court in the world, and then
suddenly the scene shifts. From the
very top of the tower she Is hurled ref
gee, not a wanderer, but guest of Great
Britain, and now as widowed mother
she touches the highest state of all. In
all her glory she was not so great as she
Is to-duy IN her desolation. Not when
flashed from her brow Jewels of which
nation was robbed, not when armies ana
nayies were In her power, had she so
much glory; not when she was young
and beautiful did men so worship and
bow down TO her as now where she sits
In darkness. The whole world to-day
bows Its head In allegiance to her, not as
the empress, but as the mother. There
gather about her In Great Britain the
uoble Queen who has herself known sor-
row of heart, aud whose heart Is easily
moved In sympathy for others. There
are all her royal sons and her daughters.


For the sake of this poor uncrowned
woman they have made procession from
thrones and palaces TO the doors Of her
humble dwelling, and from there follow
ed her son to his grave. They have
made her grief their grief, aud there are
no pearls In the necklace Of the Queen,
no Jewels In all Great Britain that are of
such priceless value as are the tears shed
by her there at that grave. To the
mother with the dead child In her lap,
the dim-eyed mother that breaks her
heart over the cradle--to all the moth
ers of the world she Is related, and by
her, us by all the others, In the stroke of
death Is felt the hand Of God. God said
to the mourner, Enter into oblivion for
u little time; what am doing ye know
not;' but by and by the crown of expe-
rlcnce sits glorlously upon their hearts,
they will learn the mystery Of Proyi-
dence. Such Is the ennobllng faith of the
grave that while II brings nations down
II lifts all up. Before the month of the
grave there are no mobiles, nor kings.
nor princes, but simple suffering, weep
Ing men and woman. There Is imperial
democracy In the grave.
Year: 1879

The sub.C Committee of the House Ap.
preparation Committee have agreed upon
the West Point Academy appropriation
bill. The aggregate sum is understood to
be about s275,OOO. which is considerably
in excess OF last years appropriation
Provision Is made for new barracks, and
about half the sum asked for Is granted
with the understanding that the buildings
NAV ha rommencad
Year: 1879

A VIRGINIA paper tells a story OF n
young Bedford man who, crossing the
Blue Ridge on foot, lost his way and


wandered until night. Afraid to sleep on
the ground, he climbed large chestnut
tree which had been broken off by the
wind, and, seeing thst the hollow top WAS
filed with leaves, crawled into it. The
tree proved to be hollow to the roots, and
the young man went plump to the bottom,
a distance of about forty feet. The only
aperture through which he could breathe
was small hole not larger than his


hand. He at once began to enlarge it
with his fingers. Shortly before dark on
the following evening he dug his way out.
Year: 1879

Our OF THE RUINs.-A quarter OF a
century ago there was a memorable con-
fagration at Sacramento City, California,
by VIII ich the entire business portion ot
the city was laid in ashes. When the
great fire was at its maximum fury, a
wealthy merchsnt by the name Of Nc
Nulty, who owned some of the heaviest
business establishments IN the city, gaz-
ed for few moments upon the work of
destruction, and then, instead of folding
his hands and weeping over the disaster,
he went to the nearest livery stable. hir-
ed fleet-footed horse, rode like John
Gilpin during the remainder of the n light
and before day light the next morning
had pure hssed every foot Of lum Der and
every sawm i'll at Grass Valley and Ne
vada City. There is, possibly, no hui
man being on earth who would think Of
running off by the light of his burning
property in order to literally make his
fortune out of the disaster except al
American. McNulty did so, however,
and almost inmed lately realized out of
the sale of his lumber four-fold as much
money as he had lost by the great fire.
Grass Vdttey Union.
Year: 1879

JoKE ON THE BAR-KEEPER.-A we'll
appear ing gentleman walked into the
bar. room Of leading hetel the other day,
asked the bar tender if he could put his
umbrella up for drink. AS it was a
good silk one, the security Yves agreed
upon. The man swallowed his beverage,
and quietly raised his umbrella, walked
out. Jimmy did not call him back, but
took the joke as philosophically as posi-
ble'-Rochester Union.
Year: 1879

THE polite man Of the age has been
found at New Orleans. He dropped into
cigar store, bought two for quarter
and took seat. Before lighting his
cigar he turned to the gentleman behind
the counter saying: IF you do not object
to the smell of tobacco l will smoke one
of my cigars
Year: 1879

A NEAR SIGHTED Boston man was
lately riding in a street car, when lady
opposite bowed to him. He returned the
bow, raised his hat, and smiled sweetly,
and was just wandering who she was,
when she came over and whispered in
his ear. "Oh!Inl fix you for this, old
mani" Then he knew it WAS his wife.
Year: 1879

WHENEVER you send paper to a
young lady cut n small item out any
where This insues the Office the sale Of
another paper. She has got to see what
it is that her friend cut out. Thus it is
the printers business increases.
Year: 1879

The Proprietor would most respectfully an
nounce to his many old friends and also the
travelling public that he has leased this we'll
known brick hotel, and will at all times be
found ready to wait upon all those who may
favor him with the light of their countenances
The TABLE will be supplied with the best
the market affords The ROOMS are large,
well ventilated and furnished with new Spring
Beds throughout.


janl. WILLIAM P. MAYHEM.
Year: 1879

The Committee of Arrangements for the Teachers Institute, recently held in this place, desire to return thanks to the citizens of this town for thcir cordial cooperation and for their generous res ponce to all calls upon their time and resources in providing for the transport ation and entertainment of guests i'll the hall and at home. Especlally would they thank the ladies who so willingly per formed the necessary work and all who assisted them i'll any way. To Mr. Henry Sanford for the use of the hall, to the proprietors of the hotels for favors to guests, to the Committees of the clurches for the use ofChapel and Audience-room, and to the NEwTowN BEE for notices and printing our thanks are also due. That those who have done so much for the comfort and welfare of our guests may experience the blessedness of giving and may receive like kind and generous treat mont when among strangers is the wish of the COMMITTEE
Year: 1879

The Grand Opera House was filed last night and
hearty welcome extended to Mr.. Frank Mayo, who
appeared for the fifth time in New York in his cee-
brated character Of Davy Crockett The plot of play
is familiar to need any narration here. and it only
remains to speak OF the acting and mounting. The
play better mounted and the cast is quite
equal 10 any given. Miss Josephine Laurens
called twice before the curtain in company with Mr.
Mayo, aud Master Luke Little Bob Crockett was
roundly applaudei. The play will continue during
the week and until further notice.
Year: 1879

BosToN, Feb. 2s.-The investigation
regarding the body Of the young woman
found in the Saugus river at Lynn de-
monstrated beyond a doubt that death
was caused by abortion, probably within
IS hours. The nose had evidently been
cut off and it is thought for the purpose
of preventing identification.


The body was of a young woman 20 to
70 years of age, with hands unused to
labor and the face greatly emaciated. 1t
had been apparently in the water day
or two and had been floating up and
down the river with the tide and ice. A
few nights ago police officer saw an old
carryall driven furlously in the direction
Of the Saugus-river bridge. In the
vehicle were three or four men and a
lantern. Tue team probably came from
A distance and the horse bore evidence
of hald usage. 1t is conjectured that the
occupants OF the team were connected
with the murder.
Year: 1879




There was no work done to-day on the Stock Ex-
change worth q line of print. Business was made
to take back seat and tho customary wrangle over
prces was forced to give way to the prevalence OF
general harty Without entering into the ecclesias-
tica propriety of celebrating Christian festival by
pagan ceremonies. it is certain that 1t was done'
nevertheless, to the benefit of all concerned. The
festive broker in high feather to-day aud showed
tho possession OF a soul that rose above groveing
grasping eghths and quarters. Between the hours
of eleven and twelve o'clock there was m intermis-
sion of business and hour OF fun, heartily entered
into and enjoyed by everybody. To the casual
locker il hour of child's play, but to the
observer who sought in the uproar for deeper
meaning thero one to be developed. The
whole exhibition was simply an outburst.
I'm very natural way. of the thankful spirit which
possessed the heart OF every broker at the better
ment to his circumstances which has como to him
during tho current year. From 1873 to 1879 tne
broker had hard road to travel. For the last SIX
months the way been easier In all cases. pleasant
in many and profitable in most. The hilarious
demonstration in the Board room to-day was the
outward exhibition of deeper and heartfelt sense or
gratitude for benefits conferred. Generous, open
hearted, honest and honorable they are 1t would
be difhcult to find the peers Of Stock Exchange
members in any kindred association. ALI this Board





specuIaton. The best hour of the day was cut out.
and there remained nothing better than o dismem-
bered session. Nevertheless prices were strongly
held and when the chance offered they advanced.
Strength the rule and weakness the exception.
Better prices made for Erie. Lake Shore Kansas
and Texas and other prominent stocks II the less
prominent ones were dull and neglected they did
not suffer in the way of decline. Briefly. the mar
ket which was of the most costermongerng descrip-
ton and had anything better than retail look
about it, remained strong the day through, with an
inclination uf it had any inclination at ally toward
higher prices. From our despatch 1t docs not ap-
pear that the Philadelphia market was any more
sedate than our own in spite of the broadbr1mmed
influence which is supposed to frown down any in
decorous levity. Business myth and changes
In prices fractional. Pennsyvania Railroad tended
to weakness under apprehension that the next
monthly statement would show a decrease in earn
lngs.


Total sales at the Board IOS o63 shares against
2i4. 7O6 yesterday. Following is an eptome Of the