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Year: 1879

The French Revolution produced authors
who saw liberty only in religion. 1t was in
the field of the Cross that the Able de
Lamennais manifested his tender sympathy
with human nature, for the working people,
for the poor and suffering wandering like
our Saviour in the by-ways, beholdng the
few worshipers, the little gatherings at the
feet of Christ and under such inspiration,
he wrote the following: at was a win.
ter's night; the wind howled outside, and
the snow whitened the roofs of the houses


Under one of these roofs, in small chamber,
were seated woman with white hair and
young girl, toiling at their sewing. From
time to time the old woman warmed her
shriveled hands at little pan of live Goals


A clay lamp frightened this poor abode,
and ray of its light had just vanished on a
picture of the Virgin hanging on the walls.
Then the young girl raised her eyes and
gazed in silence on her companion, and
said, Mamma, you have not always been in
this want p while in her voice was an mex
pressible sweetness. MY child, God is the
Master, and what he does is well done
Having said these words the mother was
silent moment, and then went on. When
l lost your father, thought it grief with
out any consolation. Although you re-
h"ihcu W uic, ooulu OnIy unlnk Oh MIN /;
since then have thought that had he lived
and seen us in this poverty, his heart would
have been wounded, and knew that God
was good to take him. The young girl did
not reply, but she bent her head to conceal
the tears which fell on her work. The
mother continued, God has been good tow
ard him, and toward us, for our wants are
nothing compared to those who are in need
OF everything it is true we have but little
to live on, aud gain that little by our labor /;
yet that sufiices, and have not all been con-
demned from the beginning to live by labor
God has given us bread each day, and how
many have it not a shelter, and how many
there be who have none. He has given you
to me, my child, and why should | com
plain 2 At these last words tho ye.as
girl, entirely overcome, fell at her mothers
knee, took her hands, kissed them, then
threw herself on her bosom, sobbing. And
the mother with some effort cleared her
voice, saying, Happiness does not consist in
having many things, but in hoping and loving
much. Our hope and love is here and be
yond. After God, you are my world, but
this world vanishes as dream, and that il
why my love rises with you to the Other
world. When bore you in my bosom, ont
day | prayed most fervently, and in my
night sleep an angel appeared to me, anc
with celestial smile presented me with
babe, aud | took the babe, and the ange
crowned her with roses after you wer,
born the vision was ever before my eyes.


Not long after, the angels saw two form


gliding toward heaven, and troop Of angel


surrounded these two, and the air tremblet


with their songs of joy.'-Ihe Watchman
Year: 1879

What is there in every human life that
oes not need something more 7 What
lought is there that does not need com.
pteness What affection is there that does
n,oueed publication I What conception is
.ne' that does not need growth aud glorfica-
.on What relationship is there that we do
not ~ is miserably incompetent to our idea
iiow rge a number of the human race
nnd inhis life almost nothing but care and


drudge' Is there nothing more for theu.2


How may Of the human race never stand


straight reason of burdens which men


will not ~ by SO much as their little finger


Iiow manAwho strive to do right or TO be
righ., ma very cup that is put to their lips
u pi'eer Cpl How many noble women
Year: 1879

1t is not merely the preachers business to
attract all he can legitimately to the house
of God it is the business of every Chris
tian in his congregation as well. 1t is right,
therefore, to extend hearty invitation to
all we meet to come to the house of PRAYER.
II the invitation is ACCEPTED, we ought to be
on the lookout for them, and give cordial
welcome, and introduce hem to others in
the congregation. This siould be followed
up by call at their homes. Very often an
unconverted person will strdl into a house
of worship, either for curiosity or from
secret uneasiness of heart tina, prompts him
to seek word of comfort. Heither case,
he deserves prompt recognition. He ought
to be noticed, and with cordia> greeting.
1t may be the turning point in Rs history.
Year: 1879

VINO shall say that prayer has no grounds
Of reason because science cannot find any
avenue for it 7? Who shall forbid this in
stinct that cleaves every cloud straight up To
God, because visibly he does not reach down
his hand Y-Chapin.
Year: 1879

A MOTHER, noticing her little daughter
wipe her mouth with her dress sleeve, asked
her what her handkerchief was for. Said
the little one :" Ii is TO shake at the ladies
in the street. That is what papa does
with his."
Year: 1879

deacon Wilder, want you to tell
me how you kept yourself and family
90 we'll the past season, when all the
rest of us have been sick so much, and
have had the doctors running to us SO
long"


BRO. Taylor, the answer is very easy.
| used Hop Bitters in time and kept my
family we'll and saved large doctor bills.
Three dollars worth of it kept US all well
and able to work all the time, and I will
warrant it has cost you and most of the
neighbors one to two hundred dollars
apiece to keep sick the same time. l
guess you'll take my medicine hereaf
rer." See other column.
Year: 1879

JOHN SWINToN, q New York editor
and communist, said, the other day.
that three-fourths of New York's popu-
lation are sunk in squalor; that wretch
es squander the wealth seized from the
grimy masses; that industry and busi-
ness are in chronic agony; that religion
is the mask of wrong, and that there
are signs of the approach of some
dreadful catastrophe.
Year: 1879

THE physicians of North Adams
Mass, attribute the sudden death of
Miss Leonard, who dropped dead in
that town few days since, TO the dry
ing up Of her blood from the habit of
eating large quantities of cloves every
Year: 1879

The London Pail Mall Gazette of March
q, said: ''It would be useless to remain
silent longer respecting the uneasy feel
ing that exists in the city. To those
who are accustomed to feel the pulse of
Lombard street and viciuity, the aspect
presented during the last week has been
such as to remind one of occasions with
which we are far from instituting a
comparison. Names of institutions of
high standing have been made free
with in a manner to alarm those who
easily lose their heads, and rumors,
arising out of very little perhaps, have
become more and more serious by repe-
tition. We do not mean to deny that
there may be grounds for some uneasi-
ness. Trade generally is notOriously ly
depressed. The eastern trade, in par
ticular, has been in collapse for years.
BAD business, losses, and the lookup of
capital were, therefore, to be expected
and prepared for. But we would re-
mind those who may be discomposed
by the rumors, now too general to be
any longer disregarded, with what facil-
ity, in the present temper of the public
mind, scare can be got up. Only two
months ago a few people stopping to
talk at the door of one of the greatest
of the London joint stock banks actual
ly caused a run upon it. Another point
that should be borne in mind, is that
disasters that do happen are scarcely
ever forsecn. How many persons heard
anything to the detriment of the City of
Glasgow bank before it closed its
doOrs?'
Year: 1879

PLATED silver is obtained by rolling
together plate of copper of the first
quality and one of silver; these are
either welded or simply united by plac-
ing their hot and clean surfaces to-
gether, wetted with a concentrated So
luton of nitrate of silver. The two
metals are reduced and drawn out
about equally by the pressure of rolls,
and long sheets or bands Of silvered
metal are thus obtained.
Year: 1879

The Messrs. Crosby & Hill, enterpris,
ing dry goods dealers Of this city, have
been 50 much encouraged in business
since they came to Wilmington, that
they have opened large branch dry
goods store in our neighboriDg city OF
Chester, and at their opening which
took place on last Friday evening the
store was throngsd with the Chester
people who are always wide awake and
ready to encourage new enterprises.
The Chester branch is under the
supervision of Mr.. D. NJ. Ross who has
been with the firm since they first open
ed out in Wilmington. The patronage
at the opening was SO encouraging as
to give them reason to hope that their
new enterprise will be we'll supported.
The fact that the Messrs. Crosby K Hill
puroh ased the ground and erected their
own store upon it shows that the en-
terprise is to be permanent fixture,
and from what we know of them we
can tell our Chester neighbors that
they are highly favored by having such
an enterprising firm in their midst.
Year: 1879

The attempt Of the Democratic news-
papers to hold the Republican party
responsible for any ill-feeling that ex'
lists between the North and the South,
or for the absence of prosperity in the
South, is ridiculous. A few years ago
the depression Of every business inter
est in that region was attributed to the
carpet -baggsrs and to their misrule.
But for more than two years the whole
region had been held tight and fast by
the native Democrats and there has
been no advance worth noting during
that time. The want of prosperity is
due to two things: to the repudiation
which scares off capital and to the po-
litical persecution which paralyzes Ia
Dor, and for these two things the Demo
Gratis are wholly responsible. AS fol
ill-feeling, the loyal people Of the
North will never be satisfied with the
South until truly Democratic princi-
pies prevail there and until the South
srn Congressman represent the majority
and no. a small faction.
Year: 1879

BUGGY RIDING.
Suppose" he said. in accents soft,
A felloe just like me
Should axle little girl to wed,
What would the answer be !"
The maiden drops her liquid eyes
Her SMILES with bushes mingle-
Why seek the bride haltar when
You may live on sur, single7"
And then he spoke" Oh, be my bride
l ask you once again;
You are the empress of my soul,
And there shall ever reign.
III never tire of kindly deeds
To win your gentle heart;
And saddle be the shaft that rends
Our happy lives apart"
Upon her cheek the maiden felt
The mantling bluehes glow
She took him for her faithful hub,
To share his wheel or whoa.
Year: 1879

The people are being much improved in
the pocket.


Rev. NJ. Lewis is still crowding the debts
off his church.


Rev. Mcfarland is carrying on s large
protracted meeting. Many are coming into
the fold.


Labor and wages are both in reach and
oil have gone to work, and tramps are no
longer seen on our streets.
The statement that we have but one
colored man employed by the Republican
party, etc., is not true.


Theodore Tilton will lecture to us on
the 4th inst, subject: Hearts Ease,
said to be his finest and best effort upon
the stage.


We are blessed with fine course of lee
lures in our city. The ministers ant
teachers are giving course of free lee
lures to crowded houses, with good effect


The Ohio is booming, and the larp
steamers are now plying upon its waters
Year: 1879

Another attempt on the life of the
Car of Russia was made the other
day by placing explosive materials on
the railroad over which he was to
pass on his visit to Moscow" 'Fortu-
nately for the Gar, however, his
train passed over the mfhe in safety
half an hour earl;er than was antici-
pated. The mine was exploded un-
der the Imperial baggage train, pro


ducing a total wreck, but no lives
were lost The despotic government


of Russia is bearing legitimate fruit
Year: 1879

from opposing the immigration to
this State of colored people from the
South? The brutal policy of the
Democratic party in the South to-
ward colored people has made the
exodus not only possible but a neces-
sity. The liberty loving voters of
Indiana should not allow.themselves
to be deceived by the hue-and-cry of
Democratic papers and politicians
about colonization. The Democratic
party of this country, headed by the
old pro-slavery rebel element of the
South, is making desperate effort
to get control of the government-to
retrieve by stratagem, fraud and vio-
lence what they lost in open conflict.
They have virtually annulled the con-
stitutional amendments in the South
by practically disfranchising the COL
ored people, and at the same time re-
tanning the increased representation
in congress, which their enumeration
gives. With free, fair election, the
Republicans could carry at least eight
Southern states; but these eight states,
, a majority of whose voters are to-


day Republicans, are made solidly


Democratic by methods and instru.


mentalities that would bring their
perpetrators to the gallows in any


land but ours. Having obtained con-


troll of the South by these infamous
prosecutions and outrages, the Demo


Gratis now seek to make political capi-


tai out Of the fact that the victims of


their brutality are seeking liberty


and homes in the free North. No


intelligent voter can for one moment


be deceived by their absurd whin-


ings about Republican colonization,


and the poor eolored people being


enticed from their homes by North


ern emmisaries This movement is the


spontaneous protest of the colored


people of the South against the devil


ish brutality to which they are sub


jected, and it would be necessary to


picket the Southern frontier with an


army with loaded muskets and fixed


bayonets, to prevent these people


from leaving the cursed land Of their


birth, from which they have never


received anything but stripes and


scars and brutality.


The Democrats are disbarred from
complaining about the exodus. II
> never would have been thought o.
! but for their stupid and iendish per-
sistence in inaugurating and keeping


up reign of terror throughout the
South. They seek to divert atten
: ton from the real question at issue
by attempting to prejudice the whit
!. voters of the North against the peo
: pie they have forced to abandon thei
s homes The real questions at issu
}. are whether the vote of one Rebel
e democrat of South Carolina or Mis-
Mississippi shall balance tn
:, votes of FIVE loyal men-wbeth
d er the results of the war sha
J. be made null and void-in shor
i whether the savage Southern brute
Q who starved our noble soldier boys q
Year: 1879

In the ladies gallery the most
noticeable person was Mrs. Senator
Bruce; who was handsomely dressed
and who was continually pointed
out to the curious as the wife of the
only colored man who is now mem.
ber of the United States Congress.
Mrs. Bruce is SO light in complexion
that many we're incredulous as to her
identity Commercial.
Year: 1879

A Kentucky Democrat attempted
to have a rebel claim allowed in the
House on the very second day of the
session A proposition to assume
the Confederate debt is next in Or
der. Do your worst, boys; for the
solid North has made up its mind that
"the brigadiers must go" and don't
you forget it,
Year: 1879

Next Tuesday will he the grand
gala day in the history of lndianap-
oils. General Grant will be received
with the most distinguished honors
ever accorded to any citizen. Every
BODY come.
Year: 1879

Bees have begun to kill off their drones
for the winter. If the human species could
thin out their ranks in this way, every fall,
fewer candidates for the Legislature would
show up in the spring.
Year: 1879

In one of the late wars of Italy call
was made for more men. 1t was not an ap-
peal to the patriotism of nation in the first
pride OF bravery and anticipated victory,
but an imperative command that all should
be ready, as occasion required, to uphold
the feeble hands of an exhausted and al
most despairing band. There was no lib
erty of choice, Every one upon whom the
lot fell was Immediately to respond, or fur
nish another to go in his stead. Among the
rest, the fatal lot came to poor young man
who was the only support of his aged par
ents. 1t was in vain for him to plead that
he could not leave them to perish of hunger
and neglect. There could be no exemp-
tions When he carried the news TO them
they said, "hly son, we cannot give you up I;
we will sell the little all we have and pur-
chase substitute" Accordingly they gath
cred about them the few household relics of
other days, and sold them, but alas there
could be no one found TO take his place.
And so the sorrowful day came round, and
there was no alternative for him but TO go.
When he took farewell of those stricken
ones, they pressed upon him the little bag
of gold, in the hope that he might yet find
some one who, in those times of poverty and
distress, might be willing TO risk his life for
that meagre treasure. The poor boy had
not gone far before he met his cousin from
a distant part of the country. They grasped
hands, but the other, perceiving his sad
Year: 1879




The Novoja Vremia tells the following
touching story about most extraordinary
letter which recently was delivered or about
to be delivered into the st. Petersburg mail
An imperial officer, at the lower end of the
ladder, died suddenly and left his wife and
three children entirely unprovided for. After
the lapse of couple of months, all the
furniture and clothes of the family had
gone to the pawnbroker's shop, and nothing
was left but cold, starvation and an unpaid
rent bill. In this misery, the eldest child,
boy of six years, sat down and wrote in
secrecy the following letter.


MY SWEET LORD: Mother and my two little
sisters have nothing to eat and are very hungry
Won't you please send me kopeks that may
buy bread to them and shall pay back the mo-
ney when grow bigger. Yours truly. 50


With this letter, which was addressed to
God in the High Heavens" the boy ran to
the nearest station, but being unable to
reach the box and slip down the letter, he
asked a gentleman who stood beside him to
help him. The gentleman, who happened
to be the minister of the parish, caught
sight of the address and opened the letter
and read it. He then accompanied the boy
home, provided for the immediate needs of
the family, and next Sunday, having told
the story in the church, he made hand
some collection of fifteen hundred rubles
among the congregation for the widow and
her children.-Nep York Times.
Year: 1879

The best teacher in the world is mother !;
the next best is father. Father and mother
give force by their example and efforts to
the teachings of the secular school and of
the Sunday-school Inspiration and energy
in study depend very largely upon the tone
Of the family. 1t is pleasant thing for a
boy to associate with all his studies the
voice and help of father and mother This
is especially true in connection with Biblical
teaching. We remember very well the old
book Of fine steel engravings, illustrat-
ing in chronological order salient Biblical
events, from the creation to the days of St.
John. 1t was our Sunday-afternoon book,
and mother was the teacher. We touch the
book to-day reverently. 1t is twenty-six
years since the hands that held it before our
eager eyes were made numb in death. With
the pictures, as we look at them now, we
associate the tones of her voice, and the
sweet, practical, valuable counsels which she
gave. Surely there is no school like home


and there is no teacher like mother.-Sun


ddy-schoOl Journal.
Year: 1879

Perhaps even now, within the circle of
your acquaintance, you may be able to re-
member some on whose brow sadness ever
sits enshrouded; some in whose sky not one
star is ever seen to shine. and in whose
bighted heart no blessed hope of better days
is dawning. They were born to trouble and
to nothing else. Beneath the cloud they 90
always, and are never once seen beyond the
valley of the shadow of death. When the
morning comes they say, "Would God it
were even," and at even they say, "Would
God It were morning" All time is time of
trouble. and it hangs heavily upon them.
1t can hardly be said that they have any
days; because the rising of the sun is like
the going down Of the same, and it is night
all the time where they sojourn. And they
have their songs in the night; but these are
all sorrowful, and are set to some mournfnl
tune, and sound like the signing of the
stormy wind, or the moaning of the melan-
choly sea Passing through the valley of
Baca, they can dig no wells for their re.
freshment You never see them smiling
and happy; but on the contrary they are as
solemn and as gloomy as the grave. And
why are they so sorrowful Why, just be-
cause there is to them such total failure of
all their temporal blessings. In their pain
ful experience the ig-tree does not blossom,
and there is no fruit on the vines the labor
of the olive fails, and the fields yield no
meat; the flock is cut off from the fold, and
there is no herd in the stalls. Every hope
is blasted. Every comfort is clean gone;
every shadowing gourd is withered; and
every well-spring of pleasure is dried up. In
their personal history they find ample proof
of the proverb that one sorrow seldom comes
alone, and when it does it is sometimes the
forerunner of troop. That which the
palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten
and that which the locust hath left hath the
cankerworin eaten, and that which the can
kerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
Without controversy such was the case of
the upright man of the land of Uz.





When such SORROWS are sent upon us, we
should rejoice, because they come at the
command of God. Seasons of famine are
just as much from him as fruitful seasons /;
the black horses of adversity are sent
out by him as well as the white horses " of
prosperity. We must look above and be-
yond the second and apparent causes to God
the first, the last and only efficient cause
the cause of causes.--Aierander Dickson.
Year: 1879

4


Love me, only love me,
Was the burden of song,


1 kept hearing all day long.


Whence it came could not tell,


But it brought a strange, sweet spell,
That soothed my every waking sense,
Into drowsy Incidence.


And every little light-winged bird,
Caught up the song which had heard,
And trilled it through the summer air,
Until it echoed everywhere,
Through the earth and heavens above me
Love me, only love me
At first 1 listened all intent,
To tell, if could be, what it meant
That new sweet magic lay,
That thrilled me in the strangest way,
Until my heart took up the song,
And sung it softly all day long
Sung it DER till every beat
Brought with 1t assurance sweet,
And each flower at close of day
With it's red lips seemed to say
While the sky beamed soft above me,
Love me, only love me
And my heart keeps beating on,
Tho that strange sweet song is gone,
Every note has died away,
still the throbbing pulse of day.
Now the quiet moonlight lies
Where the last red sunbeam dies.
Glimmers strange the faint pale light
OF the stars that, pale and white,
Look down thro' the mists of heaven
As fpower to them were given,
My every inmost thought to know
All that darlxly lies below.
Did they watch me late tonight,
With their eyes of tender light,
When bade my love good-by,
Did they hear me softly sigh?
All, my heart was crying still,
With mighty, vigorous will,
While the sky watched still above me,
Love ME, only love me


-Peeppy lie Brue.