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Year: 1877

One of the great evils of the time is this
"hushingup'' things. If a man commits a
piece Of rascality, his friends join in con-
certed attempt to hush the matter up.
When the criminal has money or influence,
the attempt generally succeeds; it is only
those that cannot buy indemnity who have
to bear the consequence of their acts. The
damage done to public morals by such
policy cannot be computed. 1t is better to
ignore stealing altogether than to call it a
crime, pass laws defining punishment for
it-and let thieves go scot free. The
prevalence Of this evil is almost universal.
When a politician is detected in wrong
doing, his associates cry, " Hush it up, it
will hurt the party to punish him." When
an official of a corporation is discovered to
have stolen large amounts, the stockhold-
ers cry: Hush it up, it will send the
stock down to make it known" When a
member Of a christian church commits
some fragrant wrong, there are always
many who are ready to cry, ooh, hush it
up, it will hurt the reputation of the
church to have this thing generally
known" And the wrongs are hushed up,
and the wrong,doers go "unwhipped of
juctice." No good ever came of this hush
ing-up policy. The truth nearly always
| leaks out, and then it does more damage
to the party or the corporation or to the
church than fearlesss probing of the evil
to the bottom could possibly have done.
A crime concealed in this way is like a
badly healed wound, ready to break out
afresh at any moment. And when il
breaks out again, healing may be out Of the
question. The church is particularly
blameworthy when it consents to this
hushing up of things. If the church be
not the conservator of whatever things are
true, just, pure, lovely, and of good report
she is false to her divine mission. If she
do not exhibit a stalwart and flexible
morality, what hope is there for the world


Sometimes innocent men are tempted t.
try the hushingup policy. 1t is difficult
nay, impossible, for men to prove their in
nocence of some charges. But even il
such cases the hushing-up policy is tn,
worst possible one. No man was ever lee


into it by love of his good name, or


desire for "peace," or what not, but tha


bitterly repented his weakness before h.


was done. No. Better thousand time


that he had boldly faced his accusers. Hi


past life would not have gone for nothing


and his unsupported word would have gon


far towards convincing just men of his innc


cence. But ifhe once begins to hush it up


after that he may protest his innocence til


doomsday and few men will believe him. Th
"hushing-up' policy, then, is a failure
Wrong.doing can't be hushed up in tn
universe of a just God. "Murder wi
out" says an old proverb, pithily Stain
the conviction of all men on this poin
But the policy is worse than failure, it
q crime against society. No man can len


himself to it and preserve either his sci
respect or his good name.-.New Yor
Examiner and Chronicle.
Year: 1877

A little yellow buttercup
Stood laughing in the sum-
The grass all green around it,
The summer just begun;
Its saucy little head abrim
With happiness and fun.
Near by-grown old, and gone to seed,
A dandelion grew;
To right and left with every breeze
His snowy tresses flew.
He shook his hoary head and said:
I've some advice for you.
Z" Don't think, because you're yellow now,
That golden days will last;
l was as gay as you are once,
But now my youth is past.
This day will be my last to bloom;
The hours are going fast.
Perhaps your fun may last week,
But then you'll have to die
The dandelion ceased to speak,
\ breeze that capered by
Snatched all the white hairs from his head.
And waited them on high.
His yellow neighbor first looked sad,
Then cheering up, he said:
eff ones to live in fear of death,
One might as well be dead"
The little buttercup laughed on,
And waved his golden head.


st. Nicholas Jor September
Year: 1877

The London NccS, grumbling at the eX-
pense of society entertainments, admits us
to the vulgar facts of party given by "a
hostess of high rank" to 400 guests.
Kitchen 9l50, fruit 940, wine 927-lO
settler 94-l0, beer 10 and "carpenters"
99l4. This does not seem to be very
dear for a swell party by duke to 400
people; it is under So apiece. But the
Ne1oS thus discourses with excellent sense


Now it is dawning on the minds of
people who gave parties that all this is
very absurd The real purpose of parties,
to put it bluntly, is to enable people to say
they have been there. Society is a kind of
game OF brag-this kind of society-in which
everyone tries to make q certain score of
houses at which he or she is visitor. Of
course there are thousands of people who
are not playing at the game. Some are of
positions so secure by reason of rank,
wealth, or other distinctions that thev
have nothing to gain or lose Others only
enjoy the society of people they like, but
both sorts, of course, appear at the sport by
accident and as lookers-on. Still, there re-
mains the great mass Of people who aim at
social distinction, who have steps to gain or
lose, who have ambitions to be satisfied or
baked. Now peaches, and wine, and
flowers add nothing to the essence of their
! pleasure. If it were the fashion to have
roll-calls in bare room they would be
quite content to answer to their names in
company with desirable people, and then
to go to bed, or to billiards, to book
even, or to the play. AS the custom O
giving parties began in genuine hospitality
some traces OF that state of things still
survive. People still crowd together il
rooms which are far too full, and still ca


and drink. Then a competition in lavish


ness, very worthless sort of lavishness


begins, and a party at which coffee anC
ices made the whole material entertain


ment would seem shabby to persons o


mean minds, and purse proud character


There must be elaborate suppers and ex


pensive singers, even if no one wants t,


eat, and every one is bored by music. l


the world would only be resigned, either t.


have names pricked off, as runs ar


notched at cricket, as a sign of success, o


to meet in numbers that permit converse
ton, the cost of hospitality would be re
duced to an incalculable extent. Blu
people like both to enjoy display and t
; save money, fashion compelling them OF
one side, and a well,known law of huma
nature on the other. The position
really tragic.
Year: 1877

PEACH MARMALADE.-Peel,s stone and cut
up ripe peaches into small bits. Take
three-fourths pound of sugar for each
pound of fruit, and one teacup of water to
each pound of sugar. Set it over the fire,
and when it bols skim it clear Then put
in the peaches; let them boil quite fast,
stir and mash them till the whole is thick
jellied mass; then put into glass jars or
tumblers.
Year: 1877

TO MAKE ToUGH BEEF TENDER.-To those
who have worn down their teeth mastica.
ting poor, old, tough COW beef, we will say
that carbonate of soda will be found a
remedy for the evil. Cut your steaks the
day before using into slices about two
inches thick, rub them over with a small
quantity of soda, wash off next morning,
cut into suitable thicknesses, and cook to
notion. The same process will answer for
fowls, legs of mutton, etc. Try it, all who
love delicious, tender dishes of meat
Year: 1877

FAMINE IN IND1A.-The New York Herald
says, Notwithstanding the fact of the
famine, the importation of Indian wheat
into England has reached the enormous
quantity of over one hundred thousand
tons since the famine has attained its
present terrible phase. Is it possible that
the Indian government can permit this ex-
port of food from starving India? Surely
famine prices at home might satisfy the
Indian spectators in grain. As cannibal-
ism has commenced in the famine districts
the statisticians already quote children as
worth rupee or about fifty cents each.
At this rate hungry mother can have one
days ration of rice by selling her baby.
Still we are told by the telegraph that four
millions of people will perish Of hunger.
Year: 1877

Jessie, what was Joe's arm doing
round your waist when you were at the
front gate last nightg asked precious
boy Of his sister. "H is arm wasn't round
my waist won belt from him, and he
was taking my measure" replied the in
dignant young lady.
Year: 1877

A German lost his wife, and the next
week married again, and his new wifo
asked him to take her out riding He
felt indignant that she should have no
more respect than that for his deceased
wife, and said: You dinks l ride oud
init another woman so soon after the death
Of mine frou."
Year: 1877

might be written in the gradual processes of
Improvement wrought out in articles of food
Every progressive step is a public blessing
To no one article is more due than to DooLEY's


YEAST POWDER. This, with proper care insures


cults pastry etc
Year: 1877

OF arms and statue sings Mr.. Meredith
Read, American Charge d. Affares at Athens
in despatch to the State Department. at Wash
ington. We have already mentioned the find
ing of one arm belonging to the Venus of Milo;
and further particulars furnished by Mr. Read
not only confirm the story, but report the dis
covery of both the missing members, giving at
the same time the intrinsic and rcumstantial
evidence in support of the genuineness of the
artistic fragments Of course the critical
skeptics will shrug their shoulders and sneer-
ingly ask whether marble fields may not be
salted as well as diamond fields, and whether
there are no bulls of the statue market as well
as among other mining stocks. Mr.. Read, how
ever says that the skeptical are silenced-that
is, the skepctial at Athens-by the fact that
the arms were found within thirty feet of the
place where the statue was found, and by the
peculiar excellence of their modelling and
workmanship. When they are brought into
juxtaposition with the statue ard subjected to
the severe examination of experts, the ques-
ton will very soon be put beyond doubt one
way or the other.


The lost arms of the Venus of Milo have been
subject of almost as lively and regretful dis
cussion as the missing Pleiad or the lost books
of Livy. To replace them has been the despair
of artists. To find them has been the dream of
enthusiasts. When it has been desired to speak
in superative praise of a statuesque beauty of
the stage it has been said with graceful force
that she has found these lost arms and appro-
priated them to her own personal use and be-
hoof. Writers upon the torso in the Louvret
who have regarded no words as too
strong to measure its excellence, mus
stapd speechless before the complete
work-if the fragments really have been found.
If this matchless marble could have been sud
denly endowed with speech when, fifty seven
years ago, it was brought into the light of day
out of the darkness where it had long lain
hidden from mems admiring eyes, we may
without violence imagine Venus Victrix ex.
claiming, Come to my arms, my restorer, my
eivererP'-only there were no arms for him
to come to. That imperfection, it is to be
hoped, no longer exists; and the statue, though
silent, will call about it greater numbers than
ever before to look upon its perfected beauties
Year: 1877

THE Southern theory is that the North
made money out of the war which desolated
and impoverished the South, and that a re.
distribution is equitably demanded. And the
South, which has control of the Democratic
party, means to use it for its own advantage
to build the Southern Pacific Railroad and
improve the harbors and rivers of the South
The Mobile Register lays down the platform
in part as follows: We do not care whether
the Speaker is Northern, Southern, West
ern or Eastern man, provided he is against
protective tariff and openly in favor of aid
ng the Southern Pacific Railroad, and fav Or
able to giving the South proportionate
share OF appropriations for harbors aud riv-
ers."
Year: 1877

THE fiftieth anniversary of Plus the Ninth's
elevation to the episcopacy, will be celebrated,
on Sunday, June 8. The Pope has issued a
brief granting to all of the faithful who attend
mass and partake of Communion on that
day "a plenary indulgence with the remission
of all their sins, which can be applied by way
of suffrage to the souls of the faithful in
Christ who have departed this life in union
of charity with God'.
Year: 1877

THERE is fresh talk in Europe of dropping
the sword and taking up the pen for the set
tlement of the Eastern question. The rumors
OF late that fighting would wait the resuls ol
diplomatic negotiations seem confirmed by
special dispatches from London. There is
no delay in preparation for the worst, but
the hope again brightens that bloody war
may be averte1,
Year: 1877

we 40 nob read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


Wecannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications shat are not used.
Year: 1877

The Lives Insured by the Society are carefully
selected in different parts of North America and
Europe, furnishing, by this broad field of opera
tone, an additional and exceptional safety to the
Polcy-bolders. The assurances are made only on
the Mutual Principle. The surplus Premiums are
returned annually TO the Iasured.I
Year: 1877

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pensc Undergone ~ those reserved to !hs


last was worse than death. The whole
scene was awful, It defes description.
IT vas siekening When the dogs for the
Three days had been killed, the dog.killera


procured knives and stuck each CARCASS
gust above the right shoulder,


One Irish setter, an inteligent.lookine
animal, which was knocked in the first
pen, only lay -stsS after receiving five
blows on the head. The skull was surely


broken. As the butcher plunged his


knife to the heart Of the poor thing, she
seemed to be restored to vitality. She


gave bound through the open door of
the pen, and running with the unsteady
step of drunken man, ran down the hall
to It's limit. She reeled from side TO side
and Their fell exhausted. But she showed
her teeth, and none there dared come hear
her. Ste sat painting and growing tor a
rev minutes. Then she struggled to her
feet, ran few fett and fell to the floor
dead. The carcasses of the slain were put
into wheelbarrows and taken to the wagon
OF The rendering company, which stood
in waiting. There were 1913 of them.
Year: 1877

A person who was recently called
into court for the purpose of proving
the correctness of surgeons bill,
was asked by the lawyer whether
"the doctor did not make several vis-
its after the patient was out Of dam
ger" aNo," replied the witness, II
consider the patient in danger SO
long as the doCter continued his vis-
its.n
Year: 1877

Some one has prettily said; "If we
die to-day the sun will shine as
brightly and the birds win sing as
sweetly tomorrow" 1t is nice to
know that, because itisthe assurance
of a pleasant day for the funeral.
Year: 1877

A brief mention was made in yester-
days GAZETTE that a woman had been
killed at Concord crossing on Wednesday
evening.


The Chester Ne'os states that she was
known as Aunt Hannah Guy, colored,
and had left the Union Church, and at
the time she was on her way home some
where in the South ward. .I


George Freeney, the engineer, stated
before the coroner that he saw the wo-
man running toward the engine as though
she wanted to reach the crossing first.
She was struck by the outside bumper
and thrown into the ditch. .-.....


The jury rendered verdict in accord
ance with the facts.
Year: 1877

A THRILLING SCENE.-The following
incident occurred during a general re-
view of the Austrian cavalry q few
months ago. Not far from 80, 600 cavalry
were in line. A little child-a girl-Of
not more than four years, standing in
the front row of spectators, from some
cause rushed out into the open field just
as a squadron of hussars came sweeping
around from the main body. They
made the detour for the purpose of sa
luting the Empress, whose carriage was
drawn up in that part of the parade
ground. Down came the flying squadron
charging at q mad gallop-down direct
ly upon the child. The mother was
paralyzed, as were others, for there could
be no rescue from the line of spectators.
The Empress uttered cry of horror, for
the child's destruction seemed inevitable
and such a terrible destruction-the
trampling to death by thousand iron
hoofs. Directly under the feet of the
horse was the little eOne-another instant
must seal its doom-when a stalwart
hussar, who was in the front line, with
out slackening his speed or losing his
hold, threw himself over by the side of
his horses neck, seized and lifted the
child, and placed it in safety upon his
saddle bow; and this he did without
changing his pace or breaking the cor
rect alignment of the squadron. Ten
thousand voices hailed with rapturous
applause the gallant deed, and other
thousands applauded when they knew.
Two women were there who could only
sob forth their gratitude in broken ac-
cents-the mother and the Empress.
And proud and happy moment it must
have been for the hussar, when his EN-
peror, taking from his own breast the
richly enameled Cross of the Order of
Maria Theresa, hung it upon the breast
of his brave and gallant trooper.
Year: 1877

LIGHT.


BY WILLIAM PITT PALMER.


Pronounced by the most eminent critics in
Europe to be one of the finest productions of
the same length in our language.]
From the quick ned womb of the primal gloom
The sun rolled bleak and bare,
Till wove for him q vest for his Ethiop bl east
or the threads of my golden hair;
And when the broad tent of the armament
Arose on its airy bars,
penciled the hue of the matchless blue
And spangled it round the stars.
painted the flowers Of Eden's bowers,
And their leaves OF living green.
And mine were the dyes on the sinless eyes
OF Eder1's virgin queen:
And when the fiend's art on the trustful heart
Had fastened its mortal spell.
In the silvery sphere of the first-born tear
To the trembling earth I tell.
When the waves that burst DER a world ac-


cursed


Their work of wrath had sped,
And the ark's lone few, the tried and true,


Came forth amongst the dead,
With the wondrous CLEANS Of my bridal beams
bade their terrors cease,
As wrote on the roll of the storms dark scroll
Gods covenant of Peace.
Like pail at rest on a senseless breast,


Nights funeral shadow slept
When Shepherd swains on Bethlehem's plains
Their lowly vigih kept
Then flashed on their sight the heraldfs bright
OF Heavens redeeming plan,
AS they chanted the morn of Saviour born
low fOy To the outcagt mani
Equal favor show to the lofty and low,


On the just and unjust descend;
Fen the blind, whose vain spheres roll in dark


ness and tears,


Feel my smile. the blest smile of a friend;
Nay, the flower Of the waste by my love is en-


braced


As the rose in the garden of kings,
At the crysalis bier of the worm appear,


And 10! the gay butterfly wings.
The desolate morn. like mourner forlorn,
Conceals all the pride Of her charms.
Till l bid the bright hours chase the night from
her bowers
And lead the young day to her arms!
| And when the gay rover seeks Eve for his lover


And sinks to her balmy repose,
wrap the soft rest by the zephyr famed
West,
| In curtains of amber and rose!
From my sentinel sleep by the night-dreaded
deep
gaze with unslumbering eye,
When the cynosure star of the mariner
Is blotted from out the skyl
And guided by me through the merciless sea-
Though sped by the hurricanes wings,
His compassless. dark, lone. weltering bark
To the haven home safely he brings.
waken the flowers in their dew-spangled
bowers
The birds in their chambers of green,
And mountain and plain glow with beauty
again,
AS they bask in the matfnal sheen.
o, if such the glad worth of my presence on
earth,
Though fretful and fleeting the while,
What glories must rest on the home of the blest,
Ever bright with the Deity ,s-smile! -~,
Year: 1877

GooD YEAsT.-Take twelve large DO
tatoes. wash them well, and put them on
in a gallon of water, with a handful OF
hops when the potatoes are nearly done.
Let all boil together until the potatoes
are cooked. Take them up, peel, and
mash them well then strain the water
upon them, and add one teacupful OF
sugar (white preferred) and one of salt.
Two cupfuls of sweet yeast to start
fermentation. Set it near the fire until
it begins to work, and then put it into
bottles. Cork, and set them in q cool
place. You should put water enough
when done boiling to make q gallon OF
yeast. Do not use particle of flour in
making this yeast. 1t will not bubble
and ferment as much as common yeast


but is lively nevertheless. You must
remember to use less salt than usual in
making up the bread.
Year: 1877

An old minister once said to a Young
preacher who was complaining of q
small congregation: "It's as large a
congregation, perhaps, as you will want
to account for at the day of judgment.n
Year: 1877

LAST CHANCE TO WIN HousR.-our read
ers sho aid bear in mind that in q few days, on
the ssh, We think, the grand Tombolo for the
benefit of st. Johns Church will be drawn.
The principal prizs is house which cost
$500 few yesrs ago, and which, being ex
eellently located in quiet neighborhood, con-
venieut to Church, sohOo'S, and market, will
make a most comfortable residence for the for
tana:e holder of the winning ticket. The con-
sideration of "a chance to win this house by
Investing dollar y is that which win have most
weight with some people, but with the masses
the higher motive of assisting to free q grand
church buiidirg from deb: will be the great
and principal reason for buying few tickets
in the Tombola. To them the Tombola will
afford bnt the occasion for givir g, that through
the aggregation of the donations of many
the mortgage note falling due this month may
be paid, and Father Kenny thereby enabled ii
future to devo.e oil his time and energies Il
the spiritual and educational interests of hii
flee parish.
Year: 1877

When Sir James Anderson, of the Great
Eastern, frat went 20 sea, his mother made
him promise to cay his prayers on ship
board, no matter what opposition or ridi-
dule he might meet with. One sailor boxed
the boys ears and affected to regard him
as q hypocrite, whereon another, one of
pioned the boy, invited the bully on deck
and gave him q tremendous thrashing,
adding = grim warning that he wonld
serve any one else in the same way who
presumed to prevent the boy from saying
hia prayers. Next night the gentle hearted
boy, to avoid strife, undertook to say his
prayers in his hammock, Wbereon his pro-
tector lugged him out by the back of the
neck and gave him plainly to understand
that he was not to shirk his duty that
when his champion did the fighting his
protege would have to do the praying, and
he kept him duly TO his task.