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Year: 1878

The Hartford Post records an incident
which is a timely warning to the owners Of
telephones. 1t says -. .' ..,, 8"


On Sunday morning, when the sudden
fash of ligh' ming was seen, and was followed
by a SHARE peal Of thunder, DR.. John A


Stevens was using the telephone extending
from his home on High street to the drug
store In tho Hotel Capitol. The clerk at
the drug store had his ear at the tube listen
Ing for communication from the doctor,
when, simultaneously with the peal OF
thunder, he received severe shock In the
ear, the report sounding like the discharge
of a gun. His power of hearing was more
or less affected all day, DR.. Stevens saw a
flash of electricity play about his end OF the
instrument. and on examination 1t wiz,
found that the delicate insulated wire had
been entirely destroyed by the lightning.
Had the Doctor been speaking atthe tube st
the time Of the flash, he would probably
have been dangerously injured. aii
Year: 1878


have in memory a little story,


That few indeed would rhyme about but me;
lis not of love, nor fame, nor yet Of glory


Although little colored with the three
In very truth, think As much, perchsnce,
As most tales disembodicd from romance.
Joe lived about the village, and was neighbor


10 every one who had hard work to do;
Ii he possessed genius, twas for labor


Most people thought, but there were one or two,
Who some etimes said, when he arose to 70:
Come in again and see us, Uncle Joe
The "Uncle" was courtesy they gave


And felt they could afford to give to him
just Is the master makes of some good slave


An Aunt Jemima, or an Uncle jim;
Aud OF this dubious kindness 10 was glad
Por fellow, 1t WAS all he ever had! A3E
A mile or so away he had q brother y


rich, proud mau that people didn't hire;
But 10 had neither sister, wife, nor mother,


And baked his corncake at his cabin fire
Alter the days work, hard for you or me,
But be was never tired-how could he be
They called him dull but be had eyes of auieknes,
For everybody that he could beirend; =
Said one and ali "how kind he Is in sickness."
But there of course, his goodness had Al end.
Another praise there was might have been given,
For one or more days out of every severn
With his old pickaxe swung across his shoulder,
And dowacast eyes, and slow and sober tread
nc sought tne place Oh graves, and each beholder
Wondered and asked some other who Was dead;
But when he dgged all day, nobody thought
That he had done whit more than he oagnt.
At length one winter when the sunbeans sIanted
Family and cold across the churchyard snow,
The bell toled out--alas q grave was wanted,
And all looked anxiousy for Uncle Jee;
His spade stood their against his own roof tree,
There was his pickaxe too, bat where was he
They called and called again, but not replying;
Smooth at the window, and about The door
The snow in cold and heavy drifts was lyiax--


lie didn't need the daylight any more.
One shook him roughly, and another said:
AS true as preaching, Uncle j 0e is dead -
And when they wrapped him in the linen, fsirer
And finer, too, than he had worn till then
They found picture-haply Of the shsrer


VI sunny hope sometime; where or when,
They did not care to know, but closed his eyes
And placed it in the coffin where he lies.
None wrote his epaph, nor saw the beauty


Of the pure love that reached into the grave,
Nor how in unobtrusive ways Of duty
lie kept, despite the dark; but men less brave
Have lett great names, while not willow bends
Above his dust-poor Joe, he had no friends
Year: 1878

PorrER's committee is still pecking away
at the mine of investigation without any
nuggets of value to reward The effort The
body is damaged by any startling revcla-
tions Of fraud, though there has been some
extraordinary tall lying introduced for that
purpose. 1t is o cold scent and no game
will be reached.
Year: 1878

THE EXPOSED condition of our harbor
and the difficulty Of approaching the
mouth Of the Christiana, and the prox-
unity Of Wilmington. the Delaware
river, renders some measures to put the
one in better condition and protect the
other from attacks, necessary at some
early day and the sooner the better. No
intelligent man will dare say there is
any work between this city and the At
lantic ocean that is....anything like ade-
quate to the protection.. of the residents
on the banks Of the Delaware river from
hostile fleet Of iron-clads. The Eng
lish, Spanish, French or Italian IRON
clads could run past any fort in the
Delaware, and if all is true that is said
of it Fort Delaware could be battered
down upon the heads of its inmates in a
night by one of our own ''cheese-box'
monitors, small as they are. The fort in
its present condition is mere humbup.
1t is useless for us to talk of protecting
our nag as we did protect it quarter of
a century ago, when money was not
thrown away by the million on usele IS
hulks and sham forts. No man in the
Presidential chair would now dare talk
10 the French President as President
jackson did to Louis Philippe, the
King OF the French, or even as Mr..
POLK did to the British Ministry with
reference to our Northwestern boundary
and The difference growing out of the
Clayton-Bulwer or Ashburton treaty. as
TO the Mosquito Coast and European
colonizations on this Continent as ayerse
10 the Monroe doctrine. But we do not
want to refer to hese matters. We f. el
the need of some protection at the month
OF the Christiana and we believe that the
Government ought to build some sub
stantlal work of protection there and
make proper road to it. The Govern.
meht Keeps its light station there and
ought to have more solid, permanent
way OF reaching the station. Pbiladel.
ph'a is deeply interested in this matter
forl Mlliiin is the best work on the Della
ware, but it would be better that a for
should encounter opposi ion here A
single vessel, with guns well served
couiu cat Off our railway communica
tioh with that city. Wilmington is
point al which number of railroad
converge, and more troops could by raj
be concentrated here IN a given tim,
than at any other point within fifty mill,
south OF us and these railroads meme
trate The interior of several great State
where foundries exist that cast inmens
guns, so that ordnance could readily h
supplied and shipped from our wbarves
The hills adjaceut would afford fin
heids Tor extensive military camps. w
have made these suggestions. If ou
people deem them unwise we shall hon
10 be excused but we believe hat th
government is in duty bound to tax
such steps, and as Democratic Cor
gress VIII shortly be looked to for mea,
ures IN all the States, we thought it on
duty to be in time with our demands fo
TINS necessary protection What we pa
the general government in a year or tw
VIII bu Id all the works that are needle
Tor our safety. We hope never to Sc
another war But no one can tell wha
may happen.
Year: 1878

vestment for persons who desired TO in
vest small sums that could be had, and
answer, in purchasing, all the needs of
currency. As we would be able to pay
about 100000 of our debt off every year
they might be issued in such amounts as
that they should be so redeemed the first
one hundred thousand on or before a
certain date in 1880 the next one hum
dred thousand on or before the same date
in 1881, and so on until the whole
were taken up and cancelled. These small
bonds would be far more convenient than
U. s. bonds and would be preferable.
II this be done we have no doubt our
whole State debt could be paid in six or
seven years. The bonds could be re-
deemed and cancelled by the State Trea-
surer at such times as he found the means
in his hands TO do so. BY this process
the interest would be well kept down and
nothing lost by the accumulation of
money in the State Treasury, as is the
cae now. The State of Georgia has
taken a step in this direction and has the
assurance of brokers and bankers that the
whole of her loan of nine millions will
be taken in small bonds. She has Or
dered half million of per cent. issue
to take up an eight per cent. bond and
In July will nrda, auntbar hale ,n;Il;,,,


We believe that three per cent. Della
ware bond would sell quite as readily as
4 per cent. Georgia bond. Our readers
will remember that the interest bearing
demand notes were the most popular
notes of all that were issued by the gov
ernment, and the State bonds we believe
would become just as popular, and we
do not see why they would not circulate
just as freely as currency in the purchase
of property or be received by our State
banks on deposit just as readily as bank
notes. or course these bonds would not
be taxable and we think they might
be made receivable for taxes. Philadel-
phia runs line of city certificates equal
ling, We are told, some ten or twelve
millions, and thus manages her enormous
floating debt without funding it; and we
feel quite sure our State could float her
small amount Of debt in the shape of
small bonds if her people were disposed
to make All effort to get themselves out
of debt. Her present Executive has al
ways been favorable to the most econom-
cal measul es, and his successor is none the
less disposed to follow an example in
this direction. The former has so far


done all his people expected of him the


latter, we believe, will do all they hope


for from him, as he las always lived and


managed his own large business affairs


in the most safe and prudent way. Now


let the Legislature when it convenes tr,


whether it cannot accomplish something


in the direction of reduction OF Stat,


interest that other States are doing.
Year: 1878

New York, Aug. 22.-After recess
William Il. Dodge, iron merchant, ap-
peared in bis official capacity as president
of the National Temperance Society, and
claimed that the use Of Intoxicating liquors
was one of the causes of the present con-
ditiou Of the laboring classes. This dis
tress in labor might be relieved to some
extent by modification of the tariff and
action of the government in the matter Of
resumption He never knew capital to be
as abundant as now, but there was great


difficulty in using it in business. Another


factor 10 alleviating this distress would be
legislation In the matter of the liquor
traffic. Other officers of the Nationa
Temperance Society appeared and the
committee adjourned until to morrow.
Year: 1878

Fellow citizens of Pittsburg and Of
Allegheny county-perhaps l should
say of Pennsylvania: During the last
three weeks I have had most agreea-
BILE tour through the northwest, on a
tour of instruction and information and
yet 1 can truly say to the people Of
Pittsburg, no part of that period was
more agreeable. and as think more
profitably spent, than the few hours I
have been permitted to remain in the
city Of Pittsburg. (Cheers.)


Necessarily, I have seen but q very
small part Of what you have to exhibit.
You are one Of the great manufacture
ing cities, one Of the great workshops
Of the world. Now my friends, dis
cover here that coal, iron, glass, steel
and petroleum are the great interests Of
this city as they are great and import
ant interests of the whole country.
Tho superfiuous wealth, the accumu-
lated wealth of manufacturing city is,
l think, not 80 evenly distributed as in
an agricultural community. When
men are thrown out Of employment by
hard times that follow financial panic,
almost Immediately the same suffering
begins. The lack of comforts that are
earned by the daily labor is felt by
large portions Of the community, and
the wealthy men Of manufacturing
communities, what is their condition.
They have the immense properties
upon their hands, no longer profitable.
They are losing not merely the interest
Of the Investment, but their property


itself is going to decay, unless large
sums are expended in keeping the works
running at loss. So that say sup
pose it to be true that manufacturing
communities suffer more than. either
commercial or agricultural communi.
ties in q time like this. When hard
times come to the farmers who have
branched out, perhaps too much, and
have become indebted in any way, they
at first begin to retrench and reorgan-
ize. They suffer but little. They stiIl
Year: 1878

A practice so common that it may be
safely said that there is scarcely a nor


mal-shaped foot to be found among
civilized beings. Although this COM
preston is not in Europe and America
carried to the extent OF stopping all


growth Of the feet Mt very tender age,


as among some classes of the Chinese,


yet the natural growth is so much i'm


peded by the idiotic fancy of most parents
to incase their children's feet in snug
boots, that generally before n child is
six years old the toes are more or less
deformed. Usually the growth of the
little toes is entirely suspended as early
as twelve or thirteen years of age, while
all are pressed together and overlapped,
and the great toe, instead of continuing
on a. line with the side of the foot, turns
to the center at an angle of from thirty
to thirty five degrees. To whatever ex-
tent the compression is carried, Just to
that degree is the circulation interfered
with, causing the blood TO flow less free
ly, and in decreasing quantity, causing
not only discomfort from cold feet, but
a strong tendency to consumption is in.
duced. The interference with the capil-
larry circulation of the feet is also one of
the most common causes of catMrh-a
fact not generally known. Golden Rule.
Year: 1878

Into each life some rain must fall,
Into all eyes some tesr-drops start,
Whether they fall as gentle shower


Or drop, like fire, from an aching heart,
Into sll hearts some sorrow must creep,


Into ell souls some doubtiDgs come,
Lashing the wavos Of lfe's great deep


From dimpling waters to seething foam
Over all pathways some clouds must lower,
Under all feet some sharp thorns spring,
Tearing the flesh to bleeding wounds,


Or entering the heart with their bitter sting.
Upon all brows rough winds must blow,


Over all shoulders cross must be lain,
BoTing the form in its lofty height


Down to the dust in bitter pain.
Into all hands is some duty thrust.


Unto all arms some duty given,
Crushing the heart it's dreary weight,


Or lifting the soul from earth to heaven.
Into all hearts and homes ami lives


Gods dear sunshine comes streaming down,
Gliding the ruins of LIES great plain


Weaving for all the golden crown.
Year: 1878

We want our readers to stop just one
moment and look at this matter. These
nurses who have gone out of the pure
air of their homes to the plague-stricken
towns, to handle and tenderly care for
dead and dying men who are utter
strangers to them, need higher cOuF-
age than any soldier marching into the
thick Of battle. They gain nothing,
neither pay nor glory. Their victories
are not watched by proud country, for
whose honor they gave their lives. If
they die no weeping nation will, year by
year, hang laurels on their graves. The
nurse is only mentioned in the news
papers as Zone of twenty-five " arfiV-
ing on such date, or Zone of twenty 4"
who are dead. His name nobody knows.
If he falls, his friends only learn of it
because he fails TO return. There is no
battle-cry or martial music to cheer his
soul in its last struggle with death /;
in the future there is TO be no roll-call
OF a victorious army, with the proud
answer to his name: "Died upon the
field Of honor" He gives his life for
some poor plague-stricken wretch,
probably of less value TO the world than
himself, in the poisoned air of a solitary
chamber, where there is none bat God
to know, He is buried hastily in a
nameless grave, with shuddering and
fear, and quicklime is thrown upon the
body. The sacrifice he makes out OF
pure love to God and humanity, and
this sacrifice is now making, not by one
man, but every one of the hundreds oi
nurses sent out by the Howard Associa,
ton. Every one of them carries his life
in his hand az he goea.--NetO YorI
! Tribune.
Year: 1878

Yon hillside with its shafts Of cleaning white
Bathed in the glory Of the setting sun,
Holds many grave where, hidden from our


sight,


Some loved one sleeps life's toll and labor


done.


Bnt there are graves over whose slumbering
mold


No polished marble rears lts stately head,
And whore no fragrant flowers above unfold
To wakon pity for the quiet dead.
These are the graves deep down within our


hearts


Where lie the hopes and dreams of early
years.


Buried from sight, but signaled by such marks
Az only can be made by blood and tears
Some early love that crowned us in our youth.
And made life glorious for a short, sweet


hour


Some cherished promise, robbed Of strength
and truth


Crushed in the morning OF It's neuIhauuu
power.


Here is the spot where memory has engraved
The form and face OF one we calleda friend.
Ole for whose welfare we would cen have
braved


Censure and heartache to the bitter end.
But twas not wisely done, and 30 we draw
Before he treachery OF the sinking eyes
hesvy veil. Tho cold world, il 1t saw,
Would profTer pity in thousand lies.
30 life goes on. We 10y the forms away
OF things we loved not wisely but too well,
And In the lapse OF years we learn to stay
The fretful chanting Of their funeral knell.
We learn to smile, before the smiling throng,
Although The adder's fangs be deeply set
And join, perhaps, our voices In the song,
To sUothe the pain we never can forget
Aud thus We learn TO envy the calm rest
OF those who sleep beneath the sod
Bou ID with life's CALLING chain, We know 'tis
best


To bend our heads aud pass beneath the rod.
And when we zee soma mourners heavy clad
In robes OF black, haggard with tear -dimmed
eye,


We know their lives would be more bright and
Could they but reason-it is but life TO die,
Year: 1878

Miss Beth Hurst listened to the soft!
ceaseless babble Of polished table-talk
quite as silently as was possible.


She had been in the house only fort
night, during which time she had been
AS reclGse as she could be VI out seem
ing old or rude, until to-nignt she had
bllssfnlly believed herself to be per
son of no sort of interest at all to her
score or more OF fellow-boarders.


Bat this evening, sitting among the
voluble diners, she felt queerly aensi-
tive and unpleasantly self conscious,
and vaguely imagined that the old plati-
tudes hurled from mouth to mouth
with such new and surprising vivacity,
were Intended to discom6t her in some
politely subtle way.


"One would never be scaudalized if
he did no wrong" asserted one "there
are more faults and follies and sins hid
den than will ever be revealed. But,
unfortunately, the transgressors are
never grateful to those that love them
most and would reform and protect them
If they could from further offenses
against social requirements. Do you
not think the same, Miss Hurst ?"


Somehow the young lady felt that the
appeal was made ungenerously to test
or to confuse her, and her cheeks flushed
up painfully, although she answered
composedly enough:


4" am not wise enough to decide so
dreadfully weighty a question" She
smiled, at the same time rising leisurely
from her chair "you will excuse me,
please"


She left her place gracefully, with an
apologetic bow, and crossed the large
dinipg-room toward the door of the
broad, lighted hall, wholly assured that
the company she was leaving would
make her tho choice subject OF gossip
after her withdrawal.


At the door the insinuative voice OF
the mistress of the house stopped her.


" You will not stop in the parlor with
us for awhilep Mop You will find a
card there for you. The gentleman
called while you were out"


The young lady entered the parlor
with a nervous step. She quickly
guessed whose name she would read
upon the card that had been left for her.


Mine enemy has found me out, u
she murmured, with blanching lips.
Hiram Wells has been here, and
heaven only Knows what mlschleVouf
story he has told to my landlady, nor
how she has exaggerated it to the board
ers. can understand now the innuen-
does that disturbed me- 80 distressfully
while was dining"


She went up to her room and locked
herself in with the movement of one who
was thus shutting out the world and iti
torments forever.


1t was a pretty room, and from one
lofty window she could see a wilderness
of roofs, a tangle of streets, and the
CLEAN of the river not far away.


shall have more trouble to-mor
row." she mused very coolly and philo
sophically; "and shall need all ny
strength to meet it bravely. So, Just fol
tonight, ] shall imagine 1 am the hap
piest woman in the whole wide world
and 80 sleep sweetly."


Had Miss Beth Hurst been less famil
lar with sorrow, she would have beei
perhaps less philosophical. But
seemed as if the waters of grief hat
gone over her until the allotted foo,
must surely be drawn almost dry an,
Year: 1878

The emperor OF Brazil has invited
eminent doctors from Europe to Rio
Janeiro to study on the spot the true
character of yellow fever, and discover
remedy for It. Several have accepted
the call.
Year: 1878

SENATOR LAMAR has made his position on
the money question clear. He is opposed to
the Matthews resolution and the Bland silver
bill. His speech in the Senate Thursday was
a strong argument against both. Although
bi-metalist he condemns the ninety-cent
swindle.
Year: 1878

we DO not read anonymous etters and communi
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
muncations that are not used,
Year: 1878

The Wolf at the Door is the ominons title of
the latest volume of the No Name Series
tBoston: Roberts Brothers; Portland: Lorng,
Short s. Harmonl 1t bears family resem-
blance to most OF its companion volumes
which, with the exception of the fine poem
Deirdre, and Will Denbigh, nobleman, have a
decided SAVIOR of Eastern Massachusetts about
them, with many of the excellencies and fail
ings of that literary region, enough to give
them their local habitation, though No Name.
The Wolf at the Door is an effective though not
especially apt or pleasing title for an agreeable
story for which the reader might easily choose
one mora fitting. There is not very much at
tempt at construction of plot, indeed the events
ara rather clumsily and uncertainty handled;
and the interest of the book depends on its
lively and natural sketches of Boston society
life. The men are generally we'll drawn, the
genial head of the family in especial, while the
hero is neither foolish or stilted and languid,
philosophical young man who thus affects to
conceal his sunny and sound nature, is though
a subordinate figure, very we'll drawn. The
ladies rather less successfully sketched; they
are well-meaning and agreeable as culture will
allow-always excepting the conventional vii
lainess who spreads her elaborate snsres in the
shadow of the Great Organ itself. The i'm
preston which this story leaves upon the
readers mind is of a fragment of everyday
society life with its stupidities and brightness
as they cling to it, taken up as one takes up
clump of MOSES and ferns, with whatever
rootlets, buds and earthworms may happen to
adhere to it. and transplants it for the adorn-
ment of the parlor. There it is-Jome fibres
untimely snapped off from continuity, others
hanging about in aimless length but on the
whole pleasant and actual sample of the life
of the place from which it came.
Year: 1878

Twenty Thousand People
old and young. every week. It Is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best GLASS Of
community.


We desire our business men to make a note
Of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adyer-
Using; for many good people seeing an ad-
vsrtisoment in paper. especially their
church paper, take 1t as q guarantee of re-
'DOnsihiHty. Such confidence should not te
abused when it can be helped. We want.
therefore.


The Advertising Patronage
Of such business nsn and firms as We can
recommend to our friends and the public
without compromising the character of the
paper.


ear Terms shall be in Harmon


with the business Outlook.


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