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Year: 1878

Twenty Thousand People
old and young, every week. It is just 10 say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class of
community.


We desire our business men to make 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-
tisins; for many good people seeing an ad-
vortisement in a paper. especially their
church paper, take it as guarantee Of re-
spOnsibility. Such confidence should not to
abused when it can bo helped. We want,
therefore,


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


oar Terms shall be in Harmon


with the Business OUTLOOK.


Send in Your FavOrs.
Year: 1878

A HORSES SENSE OF SMELL.-An
African pony, unlike Jobs war
horse, "smelleth" not "the battle
afar off," but he will smell a
poisonous snake at a sufficient dis
tance to avoid him. An English
gentleman was leading his pony
one day in South Africa, when he
saw bis Kaffr servant suddenly
jump on one side. Knowing that
it was a snake that had alarmed
him, the gentleman dropped the
reins and went forward to kill it.
1t was puff-adder, the reptile
which it is thought, Cleopatra
used to commit suicide. Killing
it with a stone, he examined its
glands and found them filed with
poison. On returning to the pony
and advancing his hand to take
the reins, the horse SHE'D back in
great alarm. For several minutes
be would not allow bis master to
approach. Some of the odor OF
the adder had attached itself to
the gentleman's hands, and the
cautious animal, being warned by
his sense of smell, was afraid that
there was danger even in bis
masters touch. The horses nose
is, as every boy who has trained
2 colt knows, one Of his means OF
gaining knowledge. aa horse is
| afraid Of an object, the best way to
remove his fear is to let him smell
! of it.
Year: 1878

been a trying one), the Republic
has come out with honor. Here and
there some wandering tourist may
have been defrauded of few francs
by his landlord, or some lady in
her purchases of laces and shawls,
on which she never intended to pay
duty, may have been swindled
by a shop keeper,-but the Expo
sition leaves behind it permanent
benefits and pleasant memories,
which will be lasting benefits and
to the world. These gathering have
brought the different nations Of the
earth into closer family communion
awakening the hope that ere many
years shall have passed away,the uni
versal fatherhood and the universal
brotherhood shall be acknowledged
by all the children of men.


And so ends my task, commenc-
ing nearly seven months ago, and
followed unremittingly, with the
exception OF the short respite which
I allowed myself during the sum-
mer. I trust I have fulfilled my
task to the satisfaction of my
readers. I ask no other reward,
and, trusting soon to renew my
correspondence from the other side
of the Atlantic, 7 respectfully bid
them farewell.


Yours truly,
Year: 1878

When man is hanging by his toes from
the cornice of a high building, and expects
momentarily to drop, nothing so complete
ly treasures him and so thoroughly satisfies
him as the sudden discovery that he is
safely at home in bed.
Year: 1878

The volumes Of the Magazine begin with
the Numbers for June and December Of each
year When no ime is specified, it will be
understood that the subscriber wishes TO be-
gin with the current Number
Year: 1878

Our stock of Ladies', Misses & Children's
Shoes is so full and varied that it we're i'm
possible 10 convey TO the public anything
like an adequate idea of them by naming
prices in an advertisement, and we can only
invite visit of inspection, feeling sure that
we can suit the taste and purse of every one
Year: 1878

Below will be found partial list Of candi-
dates for the Legislature nominated by the
Democratic party In different parishes Of the
State. 1t will be added to as other parishes are
heard from:
Year: 1878

What parent who has ever been called to lay
a cherished child in the "dark and narrow
house" can read the following without the
tenderest emotion2 1t was suggested to the
writer by hearing the remark of one who,
passing graveyard, was arrested for mo-
ment by funeral "'Tis only child" said
he, and passed on Oh had you ever been
a mother-had you nightly pillowed that
little velvet head upon your breast-had you
waited for the first intelligent glance from
those blue eyes--had you watched its slum-
bers, traced the features of him who stole
your girlish heart away-had you wept a
widows tears over its unconscious head
had your desolate, timid heart gained cour-
age from that little piping voice to wrestle
with the jostling crowd for daily bread
had its loving smiles and prattling words
been sweet recompense for such sad expos
ure--had the lonely future been frightened
by the hope of that young arm to lean upon,
that bright eye for your guiding star-had
you never framed pain, or known hope
or fear, of which that child was not part
if there was naught else on earth left fol
you TO love-if disease came, and its eye
grew dim; and food, and rest, and sleeI
were forgotten in your anxious fears-if you
paced the floor hour by hour with that frag
lie burden, when your very touch seemed tc
give comfort and healing to that little, quiy
ering frame-had the star of hope set a


last-then, had you hung over its dying pill
low, when the strong breast you should hav'
wept on was in the grave, where your chile
was hastening-had you caught alone it


last faint cry for the help you could not Civ
had its last futtering sigh breathed ou
on your breast-ohl could you have said


"'Tis only a child 2"
Year: 1878

A man of uneasy conscience, sitting in
church during faithful sermon, is quite
apt to hear something which exactly hits
his case. Ministers have in many cases
been accused of being in collusion with
some one to learn particular hearers pri-
vate affairs, so exactly have they described
that hearers circumstances and state of
mind.


Perhaps the most remarkable example of
this close talking occurred in Mr.. Spur
geon's experience while preaching at Surrey
Gardens In the course of sermon he
said "There's man here who is shoe
maker. He keeps his shop open on Sunday;
and last Sunday he sold goods that came to
the value of ninepence, and there was four
pence profit out Of it,"


Directly in front of the preacher there was
shoemaker who had done that very thing.
The Sunday before he had sold a pair of
child's shoes for ninepence, and fourpence
was Just the profit. The man had come
out of curiosity, to hear " that queer fellow
Spurgeon," and he sat amazed to hear his
case pictured so perfectly. But instead of
getting angry, and declaring that somebody
had been telling Mr.. Spurgeon about him,
he went home after service confounded and
frightened. The impression wore away
during the week partly; but next Sunday
he found he could not stay away from Sur
rey Gardens. lie left his daughter to open
the shop, went to the great hall, and hid
himself in the corner of the upper gallery,
where he sat unseen, but hearing every
word. What was his astonishment when
presently the preacher called out: I" All, sim
ner, SHINING by proxy is just as bad as sim
ming yourself. It's of no use any of you
coming here yourselves, and at the same
time leaving your daughter to keep shop"
| The terrified shoemaker was now certain
that Gods voice had spoken to him. The
Almighty was following him, and would not
let him escape. That second warning led
him to confess and forsake his SINS
In both these instances where the preach
er's words proved SO aptly descriptive, the
aptness was entirely accidental. Mr.. Spur
geon knew nothing of the shoemaker, and had
no idea he was making so personal an applica-
ton but his vivid and direct way of putting
things made it seem so, and in preaching
against common sin, naturally enough out
of thousand facts and examples there hap
pened to be one which his language literally
fitted.


A city missionary in the west of London
heard the above story from the shoemaker
himself, and told it toMr. Spurgeon. The oc-
casion and circumstances Of his conviction
and conversion seemed miraculous to the
humble workman ; and as for Mr. Spurgeon,
he makes no doubt that the singular accu-
racy of the hit he made was by direction OF
the Holy Spirit pointing his words. 1t is
hardly to the purpose to quote the bow
drawn at venture" Or


"Full many a shaft at random sent


Finds mark the archer little meant"


The Holy Spirit does not promise much
aid to random preachers, and every intelli'
gent minister, while not intending to be per
sonal, means to hit the sinners conscience
if he can.--7he Wdtchmdn.
Year: 1878

The President and family receive infor-
mally in the evening, sometimes in the Red
Room and sometimes in the Library. These
visits, however are only made by intimate
personal friends, or by those warranted
through their acquaintance to call in a
social manner The evenings in the Ii
brary are very charming. Brilliant and
cultivated men and women gather in little
knots in different parts OF the spacious and
cheerful apartment, and wit sparkles and
anecdote enlivens conversation. The Presi-
dent frequently disappears he has a pri-
vate library, where he retires when any gen
tleman present wishes to speak with him on
matters Of policy or politics but he soon
returns, to all appearances as unrufiled as If
the great sea of public opinion had settled
into perfect calm. Mrs. Hayes entertains
her visitors in an easy, courteous, cordial
manner, moving among them with stately
grace, and scattering pleasant words. Great
gentleness and sweetness pervade the whole
domestic life of the Presidents family.
Little Fanny, the only daughter, a bright
child of nine years, the pet and favorite Of
all who know her, is never visible at dinner
or to evening visitors. 81 am obliged to
compromise with my little lady," remarked
Mrs. Hayes with smile, as found her
growing old too fast for her years; we serve
her dinner in her room, which she esteems a
high compliment" The private dining
room of the Presidents family is the only
one of their private apartments which is on
the great main floor of the White House.
The meals are breakfast, lunch and dinner,
instead of breakfast, dinner and tea, as in
the time of Madison. No unusual forms
and ceremonies are observed in the service
further than those at any gentlewoman' S
table, The hospitalities of either lunch or
dinner are frankly rendered to any familiar
guest who may chance to be calling at the
specified hour, and not infrequently ac-
cepted.- -Harper'S for March.
Year: 1878

A number of women in San Francisco
have made an appeal to the charitably dis
posed people of that city, for aid to an or
ganization for the employment of deserving
women and girls. 1t is proposed to estab-
lish factories or workshops, in which to
make all descriptions of cheap undercloth-
ing for men, women and children, such as at
present are made almost exclusively by Chi
namen. For making these articles the pro
moters say they will pay the women and
girls the highest possible wages, dividing
among them all the profits of their industry
They will also furnish each employed q
good substantial dinner without charge
For the convenience of those who have
young children dependent on them, suita
BILE room with attendance will be provided
in which the children will be cared for dur
ing working hours.-SeIected.
Year: 1878

Girls, as well as boys, should have their
outdoor pleasures. 1t is to be expected that
girls will be less rough in their play, but
they will obey the instincts of their differ
ent natures, and breathe the same air as theil
less gentle brothers. don't care how often
your daughter may be called hoydenish, oil
how often she may deserve the appellation
of " Tomboy;" she is developing health and
strength and general fitness for the duties
of mature life. If few idiots, who either
cannot understand the needs of childhood ol
are envious of young blood, choose to cal
names, they will not make her any less {
lady. The day when skeleton with pallic
cheek and feeble step was considered gen
teel is past. There are too many younl
graves filled by that Juggernaut of fashion
to make the style permanent.
Year: 1878

TO RESTORE YELvET.-When velvet gets
crushed from pressure, hold the parts over a
basin of hot water, with the lining Of the
dress next the water The pile will soon
rise and assume its original beauty.
Year: 1878

IF all the colorcd population of South
Carolina should remove from the State it
would be entitled to only two Members OF
CoDgress. So long as they remain in the
State, however and are counted in the ratio
Of representation, although they are not
permitted to vote any more than they would
be if they were citizens of some other COM
uonwealth, the Democrats will retain con-
troll OF the five members allotted under the
present apponionmcnt-unless something
happens.
Year: 1878

A CORRESPONDENT seeks to know through
The REPUBLICAN if the same leave of alb
sence cannot be obtained for those engaged
in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
from the Secretary that is granted the EN-.
ployees in the Treasury proper. We can
only answer: We don't know; ask the
Secretary. He undoubtedly knows and all
the reasons relating thereto. In the abund-
ance of our wisdom we are ignorant on that
point.
Year: 1878

POSTMASTER JAMES, of New York city
hrs labored with some success to convince
the House Committee on Appropriations of
the great wrong aud injury that would oc-
under an abandonment of the postal-car
sryice and return to the old system of
piaking up the mails. The defeat Of such
measure of retrogression will be a great
victory for common sense, for which Mr.
JAMES will he entitled TO due credit.
Year: 1878

THERE was good deal said about cipher
dispatches in the House on Tuesday, but II
Is all ignored by the Posi-crior To suppress
news because it hurts the party is one way
to publish newspaper. But then Demo
Gratis are intensely sensitive about ciphcrs
Their mention touches the sorest of sore
spots
Year: 1878

The conclusion Of the Jackson Hunt case was
reached yesterday before Judge J. L. DAILY in the
Court of Common Pleas. The action, will be re-
membered was brought to recover some $4,000
which the plaintiff as alleged gave to the defendant
under a promise of marriage. The case has
occupied several weeks and has been hotly
contested. Yesterday the defendant was examined
in surrebuttal and denied that she ever told Emma
Campbell that she had promised to marry the plain
tiff but didn't mean to do She then cross
examined at great length about mortgage which she
raised, with view to showing that she was not so
afiuent at the time in question she represented
herself 10 be. Other witnesses examined, but
their testimony unlmportant. The counsel will
submit their briefs next week.
Year: 1878

FARMERS who have plenty of apples
of first class quality this year are out of
sorts because they cannot get any price
for them, while last year when "apples
were apples" they had none to sell, and
there is some discussion of the means of
making trees bear in the old years. One
proposition is to pick all the fruit from
trees as soon as the blossoms set. This
will, it is said, throw the trees into bear.
ing n.xt year, and it will then continue
to bear in the odd years. The work of
plucking the fruit from a young tree is
not great.
Year: 1878

Jesse Pomeroy, the child murderer, is more


inquired after than any other convict in the
Massachusetts State prison. He is located out of
sight and sound of everybody and everything
save the whistle of the passing railroad trains.
Three times day is this solitude broken by the
appearance of a keeper with his meals, but then
not word passes between them. II should be
added, however, that the captain visits him
occasionally, and also that his mother and brother
are allowed interviews with him every three
months. This is in accordance with the general
rules OF the prison, all of which are applicable to
PomeIoY, with the terrible exception that his con-
inement is to be solitary during his natural life
During the regular working hours he is employed


n making shoe brushes, but in this respect he
was not the most profitable convict in the prison.
lie seems to have taken 20 Literature rather than
to the mechanic arts, and spends most of his time
in the acquisition of knowledge. So far as the
English branches 90 he is already master, and
has now attacked Latin, French and German, and
is making astonishing progress all three OF them.
He writes u letter to his mother, for whom he has
great affection, every week; aud his mother. who
Is devoted to him. answers every week and this
is the only connection with the visible world.
Year: 1878

Ii is remarkable how many creatures
live wild and free. though secret, in the
woods, and still sustain themselves in the
neighborhood OF towns. suspected by
hunters only. How retired the otter man
ages to live here! lie grows to be four
feet long, as big as small boy, perhaps
without any human being getting
glimpse of him. | formerly saw the rae
coon in the woods behind where nv house
is built, and probably still heard their
whinnering at night. Commonly rested
an hour or two in the shade at noon, af-
ter planting. and ate my lunch, and read
little by spring which was the source
Of a swamp and of a brook, oozing from
under Brister's Hill. half mile from nv
field. The approach to this was through
succession of descending grassy holows
full OF young pitch pines into a larger
wood about the swamp. Here, in Sc
cluded and shady spot, under a spreading
e-pine, there was yet a clean, firm
sward to sit on. had dug out the spring
and made a well of clear gray water,
where could dip up paitul without
soiling it. and thither went for this pur-
pose almost every day in midsummer,
when the pond was warmest. Thither,
too, the wood-cock led her brood, to probe
the mud for worms. flying but foot
above them down the bank. while they
ran in troop beneath; but at last, spy
ing me, she would leave her young and
circle round and round me, nearer and
nearer till within four or five feet, pre-
tending broken wings and legs. to attract
my attention, and get off her young. who
would already have taken up their march.
with faint. wiry peep. single file through
the swamp, as she directed Or | heard
the young when could not see the par
ent bird. There, too, the turtle-dove sat
over the spring, or i1uttered from bough
to bough of the soft white pines over my
head or the red squirrel, coursing down
the nearest bough, was particularly famil-
lar and inquisitive. You only need sit
still long enough in some attractive spot
in the woods that all its inhabitants may
exhibit themselves to you by turns
Thoreau.
Year: 1878

BUNDLE BEES. 1t is one of the most
important late discoveries that the yield
of red clover-seed depends upon the bum
ble-bees. These insects fertllize the bios.
SONS. conveying the pollen from one
blossom to another by means of their long
proboscis. and no other is known to do
this necessary work. Without the bum
Bile bee we can have no clover-seed. The
natural enemy of the humble bee is the
farmers boy, who, when he stumbes over
a nest and gets stung, never forgives or
tOrgets it. but becomes a lifelong enemy
to the busy bee. Give these insects a wide
berth, aud let them live to increase the
yield and to reduce the price of clover
seed, which is getting higher every year.
american Agrtcuhurist.
Year: 1878

Be careful to call for COLLINS VoLTAIc PLASTER es
you get some worthless imitation. Sold by all whole
sale and retail druggists throughout the United States
Boston. Mass '0f''S'O'' .
Year: 1878

The ceremonies at the monument being
concluded, the line was reformed and the
procession returned to St. Adams Hall;
and thus ended one Of the most interesting
occasions that will probably ever mark the
history Of the Masonic fraternity in Vir-
oinia,
Year: 1878

In the face OF this continued deficiency,
we have thought it important to ascertain
what compensating improvement has been
made in the value Of the property. We
have therefore made special inquiry as to
the work done on the road during the past
year to ascertain what amount OF expenses
represented permanent betterment, and we
Year: 1878

The suggestion of the Wchr Zeitung is
that a race ofdOgs should be attached to
armies in their campaigns, or at least to
the corps of ambulance service attend
ing upon them, and that after every bat
tie the dogsin question should be sent
forth to range over the field of battle in
search of those wretched wounded col
diers who have not been killed outright,
but who have hidden themselves in
some refuge, and after figuring in the
list of missing" men too often perish
miserably before any relief can fnd
them out. It seems that the idea of
employing dogs in this way is by no
means q new one, but was brought for
ward two years ago at Dresden, where
some dogs qualified for this purpose were
shown in an exhibition. Since that time
experiments have been made by means
OF crossing the st. Bernard with other
races with a view to obtaining the most
suitsble breed, and q very satisfactory
result is said to have been arrived at by
the German fanciers. The precise mode
of employing the animals en- their BEN
efcent mission is described in the vi
epna paper, which explains that the dog
"a furnished with q leather cellar and
plate, having marked upon it his num-
Der and the division of the army TO
which ne is attached, and the Geneva
Gross To this collar is suspended .
small lesthern bag, containing pencil
and slip of paper, and even q little Ian
tern in case of bis being sent out at
night. The wounded man, on being
Iound, opens the bag and writes hii
name if be can upon the paper, together


with the nAture of bis injuries, and on
the return of the animal 70 the ambu'
lance assistance Is sent under his guid
anee to the spot where the sufferer L
concealed. Land and Water
Year: 1878

superintendent of the Cable company says
Ii works perfectly and has doubled the ca
Pacity of the cable.


A German inventor has found a new
use for asbestos, in the shape Of leaves for
banknOte album These albums are said
to protect bank notes or other valuable doe
uments to such an extent, that If they are
laid between the leaves and the album is
closed firmly they even remain legible after
being burnt to eiRders.


The German telegraph Cffice is rapidly
tions are already provided with this instru-
ment, torty-one others will have it IN few
weeks, and one hundred and eleven more
before the end of the year; thus there will
be then total of two hundred and twenty
telephone stations in Germany.
Year: 1878

eral protection against special
privileges Of every kind. There
would be no conflict between
capital and labor but fer the
special privileges conceded to
aggregated wealth. Where the
laws are partial conflict is inevi-
table. When the government
gives the special privilege to a
few to control the sources OF the
labor of thousands, and pocket
the. profits of their labor, the
unnatural circulation is certain
to result in plethora on one
hand and famine on the other,
when the starving thousands are
rallied to the cry of "bread or
blood" The government which
conceded tho epvclal privileges
! TO wealth, is powerless to feed
the starved workingmen whose
earnings have been monopolized
by the privileged class.


On personal or party grounds
we have no objection to Mr..
Andrews, nor do we know that
the position Of either of the
other candidates would suit our
views any better than his, as he
is the only one who has made
any public declaration of his
policy. All that we desire is,
free discussion and full under
standing by the people Of the
principles upon which the pro-
posed constitution is 10 be based.
Year: 1878

EXCUSE Us.-The transcript
claims that all the papers upon
the Sound except the Courier,
support Judge Dennison. We
had rather not be placed in the
category Of supporting a man
for high official position whose
habits Of life are in utter con-
tempt of social decency. The
DISPATCH has no sympathy with
the advanced philosophy OF
Victoria. Woodruff, as represent
ed by Judge Dennison or his
predecessor Judge Darwin.