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Year: 1879

thies were never deaf to the cries of SUI
feTing humanity, and, with supreme
pity. and gentleness, he un olded the
story he wished her to hear-a story OF
wrong-doing that had met it's Just
reward-then, when she could bear it,
took her to the room where the dying
friend lay.


[ found him alone, utterly alone, and
Ill, he said, in conclusion OF his nara
tive; there was no one near to care for
him, and I brought him here to my
home. He needs only you now and he
lett her alone in the death h-chamber.


She bent over the pillow Of the sick
man, over the face of the only man she
had loved, and his feeble arms, reaching
upward, clasped her trembling to his
bosom. He was true, true to her to the
last, and a throb of almost overwhelming
JOY thrilled through the clinging shroud
of despair numbing her heart st the
thought. She took her place by the
bedside to wait the coming of that other
visitant, whose cold hands were even
now stretched toward her idol. The
long night vigil was scarcely broken by
words. the sick man could not talk.
There was only a murmured prayer OF
forgiveness, which was answered by the
tendeTest, truest assurances of love
there were no reproaches, no unavailing
utteTauces of repentance, and the wife's
tears of anguish fell in silence.


Darling !" he whispered, when the
darkness was giving place to dawn.


She laid her white face on the pillow
beside his.


Darling, the moment is at hand.
You will be happier when l am gone.
did not know till it was too late to 90
back, that had left the one true love Oi
my life; but 1 was always unworthy Of
you, my darling, and God is merciful tC
you and me in letting me die. By and
by, when you forget, you will be hap
pier"


And quietly, with her hand in his, his
last breath on her lips, he died.
Year: 1879

No man can do a good job of work,
preach good sermon, try lawsuit we'll,
doctor a patient, or write good article
when he feels miserable and dull. with
sluggish brain and unsteady nerves, and
none should make the attempt in such a
condition when it can be SO easily and
cheaply removed by little Hop Bitters
See Truths and Proverbs" other
column. At
Year: 1879

How TO Buy A II asE.-An intending
purchaser should have the horse brought
out before him, and watch the animal as he
stands at rest IF the owner is continually
starting the horse into motion, and urging
nlm to 'show off" something may be sus-
2ected, because it is when the horse is at
perfect rest that his weak points are di-
vulged If the horse be sound, he will
stand square on his limbs, without moving
any o, them, the feet being placed fat upon
the ground, and all his legs plumb, and nat
urally poised. If one foot be thrown for
ward, and the toe pointing to the ground,
and the heel raised or if the foot be lifted
from the ground, and the weight taken off
1t, disease or tenderness may be suspected.
-RIroI Ne,o Yorker.
Year: 1879

HABIT OF SHIRKINa.-The habit of
sinking is great evil in ou land Sad
and bitter arc the experience o mutitudes
who have lost positions of emolument and
trust by sinking duties and respo sibilties
devolving upon them. They saw their mis-
take after it was too late. 1t is bad
sign to see young man contracting the
habit of Sinking. You may set it down ct
once that sooner or later he will be drone
in the great hive Of human industry, living
without any purpose in life and scorned by
all who have willing hands, and follow up
what they can find to do. Young man, #
you want to gain the confidence ald esteem
of your employer, never shlrk from duty.
If oNertasked, Icy in your complaints,
you will always get hearing. If you will
begin life shirk, you may set it down ss
a fixed fact that the hab will follow you
through life, ard as Success you will be
an utter failure"
Year: 1879

Gould you tell me, sir, which is the 9th
or side Of the street," On being told that
It was across the way, the tight one said,
That's what said but a fellow over there
sent me over here"
Year: 1879

To MEMO CRocK Env-To mend brok en-
crockery, use lime and the white Of ar egs.
1t is strong cement, easily applied, and
generally at hand. Mix only enough to
mend one article at time, as it soon hard
ems when it cannot be used. Powder a
small quantity Of the lime and mix to a
paste with the white. Apply quickly to
the edges, and place firmly toshther. 1t
will soon become set and s.ron3, SELDOM
breaking in the same place again.
Year: 1879

The debate continued at great length
Mr.. Blackburn, on the question of the ;lleg-
ed disloyalty of the Southern seminaries,
asked who had shed lustre on American
arms before the war broke out; who had
not been graduate of West Point and had
not then learned (from Rowle's Commenta-
ries on the Constitution every thing that
he ever knew of the limitations of the Con-
stitution That "hornbook of the nation"
was certaily the most advanced advocate of
the right of secession. He entered his
protest against the injustice done to the
South in imputing to it any responsibility
for these war claims. The South did not
ask for the pensioning of her soldiers
She had staked her all on her convictions
and had Nstsse She $had net iained,
and never in the future would complain
She bore her losses, and simply protested
that it was neither generous, nor kind, nor
manly, nor merciful to drag her into this
question, and TO make her tho football of
the passions of men who seemed to have at
heart the serving of partisan purposes rath-
er than the advancement of common good.
Applause on the Democratic side


Mr.. Reagan, of Texas, expressed the
wish that some means should be adopted
either to wholly exclude all such claims, or
refer them all to a tribunal where they
could be passed upon on their merits. He
regretted that his friends on the Democratic
side should have allowed themselves to be
placed in the attitude of favoring claims
for which they had no sympathy. With
out action on the bill the committee rose
and the House took recess till P. NJ.
Year: 1879

Cosman only was on deck, the other four
being below. Captain Hursey and Chief
Officer Foot and the cook came on deck as
she turned over. The survivors then sue
ceeded in getting on the side of the vessel,
the cook fell off exhausted after three hours.
The captain succumbed to the exposure
and fatigue after holding on until after
8 o'clock in the morning. The vessel finally,
by the action of the waves and being full
of water, righted herself. Foot aud Cosmau
managed, with great difficulty, to make
their way once more to the vessels deck
They laid planks on the windlass and water
barrels, which served as their bed and rest
ing place for three days, expecting every
moment that the vessel would sink beneath
them. Oh the fourth day barrel of ap-
Piles foated from the fore hold, which, they
succeeded in captuaing. The apples were
saturated with salt, and caused the poor
fellows most intense thirst. They also OBJ
tained box of salt mackerel, which they
greedily devoured. One day before they
were rescued barrel of -four foated out
from the hold, and they made dough of q
portion of its contents, but heavy sea
springins up, wave washed it away. o.:
January 10Th, while the wind was piercingiy
cold, and the sun was about going down,
the wreck and the unhappy men as they
were floating on were seen by the Spanish
brig Dorotea, which bore down upon them.
Soon they came alongside AMI rescued the
survivors, who were hoping for death to
come to their relief. When the Spaniards
took them off they had only seven apples
left. They were in such an emaciated
condition that they had to be lifted from
THE plank bel, to which they had tied
themselves to prevent being washed off.
Year: 1879

A short time ago in St. Petersburg phys- clan named Kadin, who had highly distin- guished himself during the recent Russo Turk ish war, was arrested on suspicion. He was at once imprisoned, and his sister, the prnci- pal of the Convent school, and, therefore, 8 nun was also arrested. Now the Convent School is under the immediate and special pat ronage of the Grand Duchess Catherina. Hear ing that the directress of her school had been arrested, this lady immediately proceeded to the bureau of the Third Section, in order to ascertain upon what grounds man had been imprisoned. On arriving at the police office the Grand Duchess despatched her private sec- retary, Michelow, to make the necessary in- quiries. This gentleman had no sooner stated the purpose of his errand than he was des- patched to prison. The Grand Duchess wait ed patiently for some time, and then sent her attendant to look for the secretary This mes- senger, for making inqurles about the sister of a suspected person, was sent off under arrest The Grand Duchess unable to comprehend what had happened, drove home and sent to the police notification of the inexplicable dis appearance of her private secretary and her attendant. The police made due inquiry, and found the secretary, Michalow, who was speed fly with his patreness. The attendant, how ever, could not be discovered. The police as- sured the Grand Duchess that the Nihilsts had most probably captured the attendant, and kept him in hiding. Only after three days had expired was the poor man recognized among the number imprisoned in the principal iail
Year: 1879

''I hearing get, who had but years;

 And sight. who had but eyes before;

 moments live who lived but years;

 And truth discern, who knew but learnng's lore."

 In these perfect days of early spring, the earth seems to overflow with vast divine hap piness. Any one that knows how to listen may catch something of that happiness, and have his own pulse beat with that wonderful, mystic life. Heaven lies about us; we have only to open our eyes and hearts, Let one, if he can, get out into the fields and woods; let him go where the shad- blows are white, where the blow is cutting black, cOol furrews, where from the swamp rings the catbird's song and the blackbird's whistle Or, fine cannot escape SO far into the haunts of Nature almost any bit of lawn or garden will admit him to the privacy of the goddess. Even in the quieter streets of isrural town she walks in her beau- ty. And, finding her, if one but fairly opens himself to what earth and air and sunshine are full off he can forget for the hour his own personal concerns the work he must return to the bills he must pay, the whoie~ network or interests snd hopes and regrets that is wont to constitute his little universe-he may feel steal ing upon him the charm of beauty large and fine as the real universe.

 In one respect, the secret of access to Nature and of access to human hearts is the same.

 The great requisite for both is the power and willingness to empty ones self for a time of one's personal concerns. It is our own little affairs, forever intruding that so fill up the the near foreground that we can see nothing else; shutting out from the eye the mountains and the stars, and even the face that is looking into our own; deadening the ear to earthly and heavenly music What one needs is the pow CT to make the mind and heart as sensitive to impressions as the photographers plate. We are sensitive enough to the things in which we are interested. We havefine and clear per. captions of what touches our own ease or pleas ure. -Spr5nQtSe6 Repu6lican.
Year: 1879

Egotism-that is what blinds and deafens us. For the most part we hardly even try to forget for an hour personalinterests. We wrap ourselves in them, hug them to us and measure earth and heaven and he'll by the de- gree in which they minister to our personal comfort or profit. And then we complain he, cause we are not happyl or, even, because we are dull! Happy? Happiness goes s,beggng meanwhile.
Year: 1879

A LONDON BROKER SUSPECTED OF BEING IN COLI


LUsIoN WITH THE MANHATTAN BANK BURG


LARS.


President Edward Schell. Of the Manhattan Bank.
accompanied by Counsellor Waldo Hutchins. called
on Superintendent Walling yesterday at Police
Headquarters, and remained closeted with him for
over an hour. During the interview Captains
Kealey and Byrnes and Detective Joseph Dorsey
were summoned to the superintendent's sanctum.
After the close OF tho session tho above mentioned
officials were spoken to, but declined to explain the
nature Of the business which had brought Mr.
Schell to the Central Oce From other how
over it was ascertaned that the meeting held for
the purpose Of answering important communica-
ton recently received from the London detectives.
1t will be remembered that some months ago .
number Of the stolen Manhattan Bank bonds were
mysteriously negotiated in England and have since
been returned this country. The matter OF tracing
A letter came to this city by the last
mail from England. 1t was addressed to SUPER
intendent Walling and contained the information
that the Scotland Yard detectives had succeeded in
of the sale OF some of the stolen Manhattan Bank
bonds to broker in that city. The broker has
heretofore been known a reputable business man.
but the detectives suspect him Of being in coli
They say that they watching him night
and day. and now require advice from
the police of this city as to how they
shall act. Since tho arrival of the communication
ceived by Chief Walling but their purport cannot
be obtained The result of tho conference between
the bank officials and the police yesterday was the
sending of message to the Scotland Yard detectives
and to apprise them instantly by telegraph Of any
new Developments in tho
Year: 1879

For nearly quarter of century the
chemical preparation known as Peruvian
Syrup has been steadily growing in pub
lie favor as means of imparting vigor
to the human system by vitalizing and
enriching the blood. At the present
time it is one of the most popular and
valuable of the established proprietary
medicines in the world, and not few of
the best druggists confidently advise
their families and friends to use it for the
large class of complaints which it re-
lieves. The value of iron as medical
agent has long been known to physicians,
but it has never before been presented in
a form so agreeable as in this prepara-
ton. This syrup prepares the system
for the debilitating effects of the hot
months, and has proved an antidote to
many chronic maladies. Sold by all
druggists.
Year: 1879

THE French savants are making air
out Of water, and gas out of old rags; and
they have discovered that the sun is
slowly burning up, and that the earth
will freeze to death in six billion years;
but the wisest of all those wise savans
hasn't thought to inquire why it is that,
when cabbages are only five cents a head
you have 70 pay 10 cents for cigar.
Year: 1879

JONAH wrote to his father soon after
the whale swallowed him, stating that he
thought he had discovered a good open
ing for young man going into the oil
business, but afterward wrote for money
to bring him home, stating that he had
been sucked in.
Year: 1879

T,ASHIONABLE TAILOR ALL GOODS
Il made by the subscriber are warranted to tit
the form Prices reasonable, and | am bound to
please those who give me their custom: shop
ON York Street, two doors West OF the Mlndlate
House.
Year: 1879

Denver Tribune: .i'He's struck bed
rock at last" Cow-puncher, mule Skim
er, and bull-whacker, each express hon
orable callings, while pot-slinger, hash
driver and grub-choker refer to the chefs
de cuisine in the moro retired parts of
the state. If you try to sell horse the
first question will be, ''Does he buck?'
A prospector starting out will "peck his
burro," I. G., load his provisions and
tools on small species of donkey.
Not tie least important thing is to fam
iliarize ones self with the dialects of the
State, which are getting to be widely
used. and a knowledge of which is essen-
tial to understand an editorial in Colo
rado newspaper. A friend accosted me
one day as follows: ST say, Tom, are you
going to the round up at Major B. s to
night2 Going to have way up time


The pretty Miss H viii be there; but
they say Jim D. has got her 'corrall-
ed.' !" If you wish to express the demise
of a friend you would say in South
Colorado that "Hed gone over the
range" it would be more elegant to say
that she'd passed in his chips"


A Docs REMARKABLE MEMORY
Some time ago a gentleman went to
Florence and took with him noble col
ley named Rover. On arriving at the city
poor Rover lost his master while being
led across the station by porter. No
sooner had he done SO than he adroitly
slipped his collar and went off to search.
He, too, was soon missed. He was
something more than great favorite-
is O valued friend, indeed, and his mas
ter was in dispair, for placards on the
walls stated that dogs found wandering
without collars would be killed. Up and
down the streets Rover's master trudged,
backwards and forwards, in and out of
the station, but nothing could be heard
of the truant. At last, after hours of
search, the gentleman went to an hotel
to dine, the hour for table dhote having
come; and in the hall, quietly laying
down, was Rover. What Rover tried to
say need not be recorded, but his master
asked the landlord how the dog came and
when, and was told that he ran in earlier
in the day, scampered up stairs straight,
and took possession of number A, where
he had been all the time till about an
hour since. His master had been at this
hotel rather more than two years before
(and had been since, it should be remem-
bered. in some hundreds of Others and
he asked the landlord to turn back and
see what room he had then occupied
Surely enough, it was a.. In spite of
all that ha had seen since, and of the
fact that he had only stayed in Florence
a few days, Rover remembered the place
and knew his way to his old quarters.
Year: 1879

Miss MULOCK's CAREER.-She was
obliged to write for her daily bread, and,
that she might forget how miserable she
was, she wrote a great deal. Of course,
with all this practice and with her vast
experience in sorrow--for her pen was
one actually dipped in tears-she wrote
better and better, till finally this retiring,
grief-strcken woman awoke to find herself
famous. Her first novel. " The Ogilvies, "
was very successful, and was published in
1910, when Miss Mulock was only twenty
three, but her great masterpiece, John
Halifax, Gentleman" did not appear till
1857. In 1864 pension of sixty pounds
a year was awarded Miss Mulock.


All this fame and unqualified success
doubtless assuaged her grief and helped to
make life endurable; but to one with such
loving heart and such quick sympathies.
bereft of a homo and without a relation,
her life was still very sad and lonely.
But in 1865 Capt. Geo. Lille Craik, IN
officer in the English army, who had been
in the Crimea, met Miss Mulock, and al
though some years her junior addressed
her and succeeded in winning her hand.
They have proved most congenial COM
panions, and their married life has been
all that they could wish. with but one ex-
ception. The woman whose love for chill
dren amounts almost to a passion, and
who wrote :" Philip, my King" has been
denied the happiness of feeling baby fin
gers upon her cheeks or of ever hearing
herself called mother. This is a severe
sorrow, but even this pain has been par
TALLY assuaged. Strangely enough, one
dark, rainy night, while she and her hus-
band were speaking of children and of the
Joy and brightness they bring to so many
dwellings, there came Il loud ring at the
bell and then a furious knocking. On
opening the door, lying upon the sill, they
found basket enclosed in many wrap
pings. When they were removed, they
discovered a lovely little baby only II few
hours old. The child was wrapped in one
roll after another of India muslin, and on
its breast was pinned a note begging Mrs.
Craik to be kind to the little waif thus
brought to her door, and assuring her that
no mean blood flowed in its veins. Ten
derly she lifted the little thing in her lov-
ing arms, and her heart opened as warmly
to take in the poor little deserted creature.
They called the child Dorothea, God
given, and she is now their legally adopt
ed daughter whom no one can take from
them, not even the parents who so cruelty
deserted her. The little girl is most ten
derly attached to the only mother and
father she has ever known. Mrs, Craik's
happy home is in the vicinity of Richmond
Let us hope that she has left her sorrows
all behind her, and that while she lives no
pain or grief shall ever again cross her
peaceful path. Christian Union.
Year: 1879

to give it trial; especially as no harm
could possibly come of it; for the child
while pursuing it, is learning the exercise
of reading. No other kind of reading for
two or three weeks, not even that about
" cock-robin." could be more profitable.


AS a new building cannot last long
without having attention paid to it in the
way of repairs, so every good institution
of man needs similar attention.


In the early days of our district schools
they were often visited, we may say su-
perintended, by educated clergymen, un-
der uniform system of religious training,
in which reading the Bible, repeating the
catechism and attendance on family wor-
ship were prevailing elements. Our win
ter schools were usually taught by men
who were able to assert authority, who did
assert it, and who were sustained (not
prosecuted at the law) in its assertion.
All of this is now greatly changed, and a
corresponding change in the inculcaton of
good behavior is rendered necessary.


The population of Vermont is not ma
terially greater than it was thirty or forty
years ago; and now we have a reform
school, while we had none then. Why is
this, unless family government, religious
training and good behavior are deterior-
ating! Are not efforts at prevention
wisely directed? What proportion of our
families now, compared with those Of half
century ago, know what good behavior
is? Would a good treatise op the subject
injure or benefit any household which it
might enter?


The system proposed has been advocated
for many years; and 1t would seem that
in the absence of any other system, the
community ought to give it a careful con-
sideration. 1t has been commended by
the highest educational authorities in the
country, the state of Vermont included.
BY merely shutting the eyes to the matter,
or meeting it with indifference, apathy or
timidity, or leaving it to the enterprise
and intelligence of other states, we effect
nothing worthy of our institutions or our
selves. The providential motive of letting
well alone. operates very ruinously to the
interests of the state if it goes to the extent
of letting bad alone.


After this system had been advocated
before the teachers meetings of the state
for several years,to their general approval,
l believe, it was then, some nine or ten
years ago, laid before the board of educa,
ton, who acted on it in their official Gu.
pacity, and highly commended it. The
question now, amidst the changes thai
have been going on, has at last been
brought to the attention of some two
hundred or more school superintendents
some of whom will approve it, some dis
approve it, and many, doubtless, will
think it safe to let things take theil
course" and do nothing at all in the case
in abandoning the farther pursuit o
the question, as we per force must need
do, we would respectfully beg permission
to leave it to the reflections of the peopl,
of the state.