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Year: 1874

We old fellows have all been there,
and we can remember all about it.
We loved her-guess We did!-and
we knew that she loved in return.
But one day she gave Sam Tompkins
a smile, or she let Tom Watkins walk
home with her under an umbrella, or
she did some other simple thing, and
we got huffy. We loved her all the
time, but we sat down and wrote her
a letter, dating it at midnight, saying
that we wanted all those letters and
that ring and that photograph back.
We hoped she wouldn' t return them,
bat we felt a malicious pleasure In
furnishing her. The letter Was sent
or handed to her personally, and we
met her with cold "good morning
as she came to school, but bestowed
our best smile on LaVins Wedge, the
homllest girl In the town.


Our heart ached when we looked
across the desk and saw her slyly
reading the letter and trying to keep
DaCk the tc6fsS Uub VIC WOue O'Oi W
the third girl behind to borrow q
geography, and to the second girl in
front to borrow a grammar, aud we
we're entirely unconscious Of the pre-
sence of the girl we loved. We stood
beside her in the class as straight ss
q pole, never letting on that we saw
her, and the mutual agreement that
il one missed the other should do
the same, in order TO keep together,
was broken. We tried to feel mali.
ciously glad when we went to the
head and left her near the foot, bet
we couldn't do it.


1t went on In this way for three or
four days. Once in while We caught
her looking at as with q sad, sweet
smile, as il she were some poor or.
phsn With no friend 10 the world; and
her note said that she couldn't part
with the letters and the keepsakss.
We held out bravely until it began
to hurt us the most, and then We got
ready 70 "make np" II couldn't be
done suddenly, that would be sc.
knowledging our wrong We waited
until noontlme, and then as she sat
Year: 1874

those of twenty Eve years ago. is


not the comparison very favorable
one for the present generations and


yet Notwithstanding all these ad


vantages. how many thousands oi
our noblest hearted men, those pos
sessing the brightest intellects, are
being drawn INTO the snases that
are 80 thick in our midst, rendered
objects Of pity, and sink down into
the very depths of degradation. be
fore they are conscious Of the fact
that they have cultivated an appetite
for strong drink. over which they
have no control, find themselves the
bound slaves TO a master that knows
nc, mercy, that is a hard and pitt
less ono Now blessed be God,
there are hosts to testify at such
fearful crisis, it was by tho en-
eonragement, advice and prayers of
some good christian; By the help of
some faithful laborer in the great
cause of Temperance, was the means
by which they were enabled to break
asunder the chains. that bound
them. stand free and he men again.


Now in conclusion. let me say, if
to accomplish such great and
grand work as this requires woman
to get ont of her sphere. | care not
how far get ont of my sphere, and
these are but the sentiments of
every woman that ia laboring in the
glorious temperance reform, and
when we get just as far as 1t is pos
sible for Us TO get. we will not be
alone, but we will he surrounded by
the bravest, nOblesu and purest wO.
men of the land.
Year: 1874

%T There are times when life
seems Of little valne. and one of
those seasons came to John last Sun
day. He went to church with new
beaver and a young woman. He
was happy. He seated the dsmsel al
his right hand and placed the hst
upon the left. They rose to sing,
but during the singing one or two
strangers were ushered into the seat,
and this necessitsted change OF po-
sition. The hymn over, John pre-
pared to seat himself, but forgetful Of
the change, sat down deliberately and
decidedly upon the crown Of his
new hat. There was a report like
that of young cannon, the near
audience snickered, and John, with
one look at his young lady, took the
remnants of that hat in his hand aud
skunk out of church.
Year: 1874

To THE PoISr An exchange says:
Compare the publisher OF news
paper, who has to go all around the
country to collect his pay. to q farm
er who sells his wheat on credit. aud
not more than bushel to any per-
son. II any farmer will try the ex-
pertinent of distributing the proceeds
of his labor over two or three conn
ties, with an additional one TO two
or three distant States, for one year.
We will guarantee that he will never,
after that years experisRce. ask q
publisher to supply him with q pa
per year or two without the pay
for it.
Year: 1874

the communication of life, and saw death on
every side impending over him. In these
circumstances of what avail was it to US that
the distant and exalted Word contained in
himself the fulnesg of life? But when this
fountain of life began to share our nature he
lay no longer hidden and at distance from
US but openly and close at hand exhibited
himself for our participation of his life. He
then and thus made his very flesh to be vivi-
flying to us. 81 am, (he says the bread of
life The bread which l will give is my
flesh" In Christ's humanity, then, full
ness of life resides of which all partake who
communicate in his flesh and blood. The
case may thus be illustrated. A reservoir
of water may be continually drawn from if
continually replenished from some perennial
source now the flesh of Christ is such an
inexhaustible reservoir of life filled from the
God-head itself. Christ is the Church's
head, and We are members of his body, Of
his flesh, and of his bones. 1t is the Spirit
who thus by faith unites US to him. And
the sacred communion of his flesh emu blood
by which Christ transfuses, through the
Spirit, his life into US is both signifed and
sealed to us in the supper. 1t is no empty
symbol. In the mystery of the supper
Christ, his body and blood, are truly exhib-
tied to US. His presence in the sacrament
is real presence not to our senses, however,
but to our faith-it is real presence, but
spiritual and not carnal presence.


DR.. Thornwell saw here nothing more un-
ineligible or absurd than what our Confes-
sion teaches on this subject-nothing more
incomprehensibe or incredible than the doc
trine of the Incarnation or of the mystical
union betwixt the Church and the Church's
members with her and their adorable Head.


Southern Presbyterian.
Year: 1874

The second feature which we think ought
possibly to have been made even more promi-
nent in the biography than it is, is DR.. Gun
ningham's what, for want Of better word,
we may call, twofoldness of character. They
who knew him on the platform knew one
man; they who knew him at home knew an
other. On the platform he was lion-at
home lamb. They who did not know him
at home did not know him at all and they
who only knew him at home we're as igno-
rant. The sea in calm, and the sea in a
storm, is one and the same sea. On the
platform he reminded you of one of Nasmith's
steam hammers in full work. What pom
derous strength it was what clear, dis
tnct, loud, ringing voice it was You felt as
if the adversary were in the grasp of a giant,
was being pounded to atoms. What mere
flesh and blood could resist blows like these ?
And when, once and again, the heavy hand
came down like thunder-clap, woe betide
the unfortunate wight who had to Withstand
the blow. But see the ponderous giant at
home-in his study, say. The curly locks,
then, are not Simpsons after all, but witch.
ing aud soft as a child's. The voice is not
thunderous at all, but really low and sweet
And that smile; the smile of welcome to an
old friend; best of all to an old student: oh,
it was genial and winning and winsome and
beautiful Only he who could say and do
such dreadful things at one time ever could
smile so winningly at another.
Year: 1874

Some OF our readers object 10 the


Order OF the Patrons OF Husbandry be-
cause they are secret organizations.
This objection is a weak one. O@e


might as well object to family because
ats members are known as q" close
mouthed," and do not 90 through the
neighborhood gratifying their gossip
ping neighbors by retailing all the de-
tails Of family life, or Of their own busi-
ness and relations TO etbers. Every
man or woman has his or her secret


1t is right he or she should. This
order, like the church or any other
social organization. is 10 bejudged by its
fruits. We do not speak as Patron,
but ss one who is quite willing to CONS
mend whatever good is done to society
NO matter whether it is done secretly or
openly. We shall deal only with the
acts OF the Patrons-not with their
methods. We do not care what kind
oil q tool a man uses to keep his corn
clean, provided it is kept clean. We
Judge OF his good sense and thrift as q
corn grower by the condition OF his corn
while growing and by the product at
harvest, aud not BY the tool he uses OF
the fatness or leanness or value of the
animal that draws his cultivator, shove


or bull-topgued plow. Let's away with
these quibbles about methods, snc
watch the fruit the Order bears. Er
Year: 1874

How TO TELL A HoRsE's AeE.-Some
wiseacre gives the following plan ior
testing q horses age: after a horse is
nine years old a wrinkle comes over the
eyelid, at the upper corner Of the lower
eyel,d, and every year thereafter he has
one uell-defned wrinkle for each year
of his age over nine. If, for instance,
horse has three wrinkles he is twelve
ye.rs old. Add the number OF wrinkle:
to nine, and you will always obtain HE
exact age"
Year: 1874

To PREVENT HORSE CHEWING HIS
BRlDLE.-Take sott soap and cayenne
pepper and mix them together; pu.
enough of the pepper in to make it
very strsng, and apply it to the bride.
Wrap the rein with q thin cloth, DO
that the application will not drop on. l
will insure that the horse will quit al
ter two or three applications. W.
Year: 1874

THE Congress has been engaged dur
the past two or three days in con-
sideration OF the bankruptcy bill. II
some easy means could be devised for
the payment of personal debts from the
national treasury,yhat grand thing it
would be The political party that
made such a measure successful would
not fail to carry the next Presidential
election and might look for a very long
lease Of power. The bankruptcy tinkers
are doing their best to wipe out debts,
but, strange as it may seem, their eff
forts in that line are not as warmly ap.
proved by those to whom debts are owing
ss by tbose from ,chom they are due.
Year: 1874

The PETERSBURG CHARTER BILL was partly
read in the House Of Delegates yesterday. Sew
eral amendments were offered and rejected,
anda good deal of parliamentary vancouver
ing INDUCED in by the Republicans to delay
the bill. Mr. Van Auken (Republican)
said the majority evidently meant to rush
the bin through without allowing any dis
cussion upon It's merits or constitutionalty,
and if so he would give notice that he meant
to obstruct action upon it rs far rs tilibus-
tering could do it. But he said if Mr.. Cog
bill and Judge Ould would say to the House
that in their opinion it was not in violation
Of The Constitution of the State he would
withdraw bis opposition. Both Mr. Coghill
and Mr.. Ould said they were of opinion that
the bill is not unconstitutional in any re-
spect. Dir. Van Auken said nothing more.
and tue reading of the bill was proceeded
with until the House adjourned. To-day
the cour,y-court bill will have precedence OF
the charter bill, but it will probably be again
postponed until the charter bill is disposed
of
Year: 1874

"Great spoons, what are you doing
here ?" exclaimed his honor, as Tho mas
Dougherty, man of seventy-fve, was
handed out. His gray locks waved on
the morning breeze, and his trembling
limbs could hardly sustain his body.


"They said was drunk" answered
the old man, sadly.


"Well, I don't care if you were,"
continued his honor, canaan of seventy
five has special rights and privileges
which I, for one, shall respect. You
can go, old man. Do you suppose that
I'd send an old man like you up there
to tackle corn-beef and mushP No,
sir if you've got any home, go there I;
if you haven't, come up and stay all
night with me. Send you up Why,
old man, some day this summer as you
sit in your armchair on the shady
porch, your pipe will die out and ia !
from your aged hand. You will sleep.
The sound of faint, sweet music will
reach your ear, and in your dream you
will see the faces of wife, sons, an
daughters-those laid away years ago,
before the frosts of time whitened your
hair. Some one will come to wake you.
They will see your smile and wonder if
the dreams of the old man are thus
blissful. They will touch you and
start back. The old man will have
gone to his rest. Go, now, old man
may the world be kind to you"
Year: 1874

Multitudes of men and women have
made their eyes weak for life by the
too free use of eyesight, reading small
print and doing fine sewing. In view
of these things, it is well to observe
the following rules in the use of the
eyes -


Avoid all sudden changes between
light and darkness.


Never read by twilight, or on very
cloudy day.


Never sleep so that on waking the
eyes shall open on the light of the win
dow.


Do not use eyesight by light so scant
that it requires an effort to discrlmi-
nate.


Never read or sew directly in front of
the light of the window. 1t is best to
have the light from above, or obliquely
or over the left shoulder.


Too much light creates glare, and
pains and confuses the sight. The mo
ment you are sensible of an effort to
distinguish, that moment stop and talk,
walk or ride.


AS the sky is blue, and the earth
green, it would seem that the ceiling
should be a blush tinge, the carpet
green, and the walls of some mellow
tint.


The moment you are instinctively in
clined to rub the eyes, that moment
cease to use them.


If the eyelids are glued together on
waking, do not forcibly open them, but
apply saliva with the finger, and then
wash your eyes and face with warm
water,
Year: 1874

Colonel Forney writes from Paris ::
" France is putting herself in military
order after the Prussian model. The
catastrophe of 1870 was great educa-
tor. There is fine lad of seventeen in
my pension who has been helping
me with my correspondence. He talks
English, and the other day he said, Il
must now go to my professor. your
professor, Armand; how is that p
Why, you see, when I am nineteen I
go into the French army under the law
passed after the war, by which all of
our young men must serve five years,
unless they show themselves qualified
in certain branches of education, as
history, geography, arithmetic. If they
are up in these, they need only serve
one year. have my teacher an hour
every day, and I feel sure of good
number, and an early and honorable
discharge for superiority in history,
geography, algebra, and the natural
sciences. If prove proficient in these
branches serve only one year so am
working to get the other four years to
myself. 1t is unnecessary to discuss
the advantages of such a system in q
military power. The government Sc
cures good soldiers and intelligent citi-
zens at the same time"
Year: 1874

Azalea. I shall never forget when
the name first caught my eyes. It was
late at night, and I was sitting up wait
ing for fathers coming home. Our
room, over Lambeth way, was hot and
stntfy, and there was a restlessness on
me as sat in the dark, and looked out
into the street that was full of moon
light. Harry, my brother, who had
been hot and fe-erish and drowsy all
day, had tumbled to sleep on the
hearthrug, and there was only his hard
breathing to break the silence. I
listened 10 it till its monotony drove
me wild. walked to and fro till I felt
etided, and at last I thought, "I will
steal down and get mouthful of air.
Tic streets SO quiet. I shall hear
fathers step long before he comes. And
he may be glad if meet him."


So 1 crept out of the house. I was
glad to breathe the fresh air, and it and
the moonlight seemed all one, and
sootbed and quieted me. I wandered
down the street towards the river, and
stood at the corner waiting and reveling
in the GOODNESS. AS | did 80 I noticed
that the light fell strong upon board.
ing, covered with huge posters, round
building they were running up, and
it was SO light that 1 could read these
quite plainly. There were many fine
and smart, but none 80 big and snowy
as one with great letters that seemed
tumbling forwards, and those letters
made the word "Azalea."


"They are taller than 1 am, surely, u
I thought; "I will go and measure.
They won't tumble on me for all they
look so terrible"


And I ran over the road-forgetful ot
all else in the moment-and marched
up and down in front of the letters,
which lowered far above as if I had
been in an arcade. For I was little
more than child, and so small and
light that 1 looked even younger than
was. Though Harry was younger, we
looked much of an age, and were in.
deed singularly alike, especially as to
our bearing and way of carrying our
selves; but this was not surprising, fol
Harry as an acrobat's son had beer
well trained, and I, out of mere daring
and love of the thing, could do all thai
he could do-some of the feats, father
said, even better. But perhaps he only
said this to spur Harry on, for he was
not much given to praising us. He
was hard, stern man, with an eye like
an eagles, black and scorching under
his bushy brows, that used to look ut
into obedience without his saying eve,
q word. Still he was kind to us in his
way, and would have been more so,
think, but the acrobats is trying life
and the drink he took made him irri
table.


marched up and down before til,
letters, as have said, and fell to won
dering what they meant and as die
so, all at once a rough hand was twisted
into my curls-they hung right to m,
waIst-and a rough voice demanded
fiercely what I did there at that hour
1t was father-the worse for liquor,
could see, for his eyes were like ho
GOALS, and at first he was disposed to b,
angry ; but as he looked up from nv
terrified face to the big letters, hi


stern face relaxed, and he loosened hi
Y grie of my hair.
Year: 1874

Rev. G. E. Babb, tells of what


an old shepherd told him about


the way in which they train the


famous shepherd dogs in South


ern California. He says you may


go over the plains and hills there


for miles and see thousands of


sheep, but net a man to watch
them. Around each flock or band
of, FAY, a thousand sheep, are half
a dozen dogs, of peculiar breed;


dogs whose progenltors were inn


ported from the sheep pastures OF
the Old World. These dogs take
the entire care Of the sheep, drive


them out to pasture in the morn


ing, keep them from straying dur
ing the day, and bring them home
at night. These dogs have in


herited a talent for keeping sheep,


but the shepherds do not depend


wholly on that. They cultivate
! it III this way, so, ut least the old
shephe' as say: "When la b is
born it is taken away from the
mother sheep before she has seen
it, and a puppy pat liz its pla C.


The sheep suckles the puppy and


learns to love it, When the pup
Ipy grows old enough to eat meat
it is fed III the morning and sent
out with the sheep. 1t stays with
them because it is accustomed TO
be with its mother, but it cannot
feed with them. AS they get full


the dog gets hungry. At length,
impatient to return where it hopes
to get another piece Of meat, it be-
gins to tease and worry its mother,
and finally start her towards home,
the other sheep follow, and thus
the whole flock is brought in
If the dog brings the sheep home
too soon; or comes home without
them, he gets no supper, or is pun
lished III some way. Hence be
soon learns when TO come, aud to
see to it that nope of his charge is
left behind.
Year: 1874

The New York Post, speaking
of the womans' war on intemper-
ance in Chicago, says:


When the women of a commu-
nifty rise up in arms against a Pc
culiar kind of business, it is to in.
fer that there is some monstrous
evil to be removed. Women how
ever radical in opinions, are al.
ways conservative in action, and
they do not pray out of doors on
the ice for any trivial reason
For such a revival Of sound moral
sentiment, however irregular Its
manifestation. there can be no
other feeling than that Of respect.
But sentiment rarely finds au-
thority in law to do whatever
those under its influence want to
do. A crowd of praying women
have no more right to enter a room
against the wish of the owner,
or the person who hires it, than a
crowd of burglars.
Year: 1874

The question whether a man
can talk or not alter his tongue
has been cut out, has been recent
" decided in the Affirmative
The Lancet describes r case to
the point, occurring in the Royal
Free Hospital in Londor. In or
der to remove an ulcer, the pa
tents tongue was wholly cut out,
leaving the floor of the mouth en-
tire. Within a week he was
heard to say distinctly. "l should
like some more beef tea.
Year: 1874

The cat, it appears, is after all
an amiable animal. A story of it's
benevolence comes to Us from Stow,
Mass, and, what is more, it is
greatly to the discredit of an un-
natural hen, who, having a fine
trood of chickens, took an intense
dislike to black one. driving it
away and pecking and chasing it.
The good and gentle cat noticed
this, and taking compassion on the
poor hstle outcast, eoaxed it part
ly and partly drove it into the
house, and then Eursed, tended
and warmed it all day. At night
it was put under her mother sun.
beknown" to her, only to be driv-
en- off again in the morning. when
the cat would take it in charge;
and now the chicken is a young
hen and able to take care of her
self.
Year: 1874

The following remarks from the London
Lancet, with reference to English cookery,
are equally pertinent to our own country. 1t
thus discourses:


There is no more important branch of
preventive medicine" than cooking. Bad
cooking may cause a dwindling of the race,
ruin OF the temper, and deteriorations of the
morals. Good cooking, on the other hand
is accompanied by national prosperity and
domestic bliss. So say the promoters of the
National Training School of Cookery, who
are undoubtedly right in the main, and are
deserving of all imaginable success. Now,
cooking is both an art and science. For its
progress as an art we are not greatly concern
ed, although our profession would undoubt-
edly suffer in pocket should fine art cookery
go out of fashion. Elegant dishes are gen.
orally whited sepulchres, and the forerunners
of blue pills and other disagreeable correct
ives. We hope that the school will busy
itself mainly in imparting a know ledge of the
scientific principles of cooking, and will teach
their cooks that the quality par excellence
which all food should have, is wholesome
ness. The bulk of the Englishpeople live in
big cities, aud if we were asked to name the
most predominating characteristic of our
urban population, we should say "dyspep-
sia." Those who spend their DAYS in dark
offices, chambers or consulting rooms, and
keep their noses everlastingly upon their re-
spective grindstones, seldom know that good
digestion which should wait on appetite.
Hitherto their dinners have not been so skill
fully prepared as to demand the feast possible
effort from a jaded stomach; but let us hope
that the national disgrace of indigestibility
will no longer dim the brightness OF our hos
pitality, and the number of patent medi-
cines which are sold so largely in this coun-
try as aids to digestion, will undergo rapid
diminution.
Year: 1874

self and no one need ask such silly que5
ton. If Mr.. Prout fails he will pay the
piper; but he believed he had not only bal
anced accounts with his conscience, but
also had a good BALANCE at his bankers.


Mr.. Prout said he had as much confidence
in his system as ever he had, and he believed
it wovld prove to be equally beneficial to the
landlord and tenant-farmer. They were all
interested in the proper cultivation of the
soil, and toey could not do without artificial
manure on heavy land. He had tried farm
ing here for twelve years, had kept stock
first and got manure for the land, but he
couldn't get one tenth part of what he
wanted; therefore he was obliged to use
artificial manures to great extent.


MIR. Housden had come to the conclusion
that Mr.. Prout had better crops this year
than ever before. Mr.. Prout had been
asked how many years he could keep on
without keeping stock, and he said LAS long
as live, and my son after me-"