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Year: 1878

A gentleman in Sussex, Eng, had a
cat which showed the greatest affection
for young blackbird, which was given
to her by stable-boy for food day or
two after she had been deprived of her
kittens. She tended it with the greatest
care they became inseparable compan-
ions, and no mother could show great
er fondness for her offspring than she
did for the bird.


Lemmery shut up cat and several
mice together in a case. The mice in
time got to be very friendly, and pluck
ed and pibbled at their feline friend.
When any of them grew troublesome,
she would gently box their ears.


A German magazine tells OF MIR.
Hecart who placed tame sparrow under
the protection of a wildcat. Another
cat attacked the sparrow, which was at
the most critical moment rescued by its
protector. During the sparrow's subse-
Quent illness it's natural foe watched
over it with great tenderness. The
same authority gives an instance of
cat trained like watchdog to keep
guard over a yard containing hare and
some sparrows, blackbirds and part
ridges.


A pair of carriage horses taken to
water at stone trough, then standing
at one end of the Manchester exchange,
were followed by dog who was in the
habit of lying in the stall of one of
them. As he gambo]ed on in front the
creature was suddenly attacked by a
mastiff far too strong for his power OF
resistance, and it would have gone hard
with him but for the unlooked-for inter-
vention of his stable companion, which,
breaking loose from the man who was
leading it, made for the battling dogs,
and with one well-delivered kick sent
the mastif into a cooper's cellar, and
then quietly returned to the trough and
finished his drink. In very sensible fash
ion, too, did Mrs. Bland's half-Danish
dog, Traveller, show his affection for his
mistress pet pony. The latter had been
badly hurt, and when well enough to
be turned into field, was visited there
by its fair owner and regaled with car
rots and other delicacies Traveller, for
bis part, never failing to fetch one or
two windfall apples from the garden,
laying them on the grass before the
pony, and hailing its enjoyment of
them with the liveliest demonstrations
of delight.


That such relations should exist be.
tween the horse and the dog seems
natural enough. But that horse should
be hail-fellow with a hen appears too
absurd to be true yet we have Gilbert
Whites word for it that a horse, lacking
more suitable companions, struck up
friendship with hen, and displayed
immense qualification when she rubbed
againet his legs and clucked greeting,
while he moved with the greatest cau-
ton lest he might trample on his "lit-
tie, little friend.-Gana6er's.
Year: 1878

The true girl has to be sought for.
She does not parade herself as show
goods. She is not fashionable. Gen
orally, she is not rich. But, oh what
o heart she has when you find her so
large and pure and womanly. When
you see it you wonder if those SNOWY
things outside were women. If you
gain her love your two thousand are
millions. She'll not ask you for car
riage or frst-class house. She'll wear
simple dresses, and turn them when
necessary, with no vulgar magnificat to
frown upon her economy. She'll keep
everything neat and nice in your sky
parlor, and give you such welcome
when you come home that you'll think
your parlor higher than ever. She'll
entertain true friends on a dollar, and
astonish you with tho new thought how
little happiness depends on money.
She'll make you love home Cif you don't
you're brute), and teach you how to
pity, while you scorn poor, fashionable
society that thinks itself rich, and vainly
tries to think itself happy.-Ol Oliver Wen:
dell Holmes.
Year: 1878

Suitable dover for widow-A wild
over.


A pitcher with small hole in the side
will worry a woman more than will
sick relative.


In about three weeks all the amateur
sopranos in the country will be afflicted
with sore throats.


What is more ridiculous than to see
man carry an umbrella on fine day or
q cane on rainy day?


A man may boast that he can put up
with anything, but the chances are ne
will find fault, and kick considerably
when plate Of rare poultry is put be-
fore him.


The time of the year has come when
our future presidents, whose innocent
PARENTS don't know that they are out at
night, wrench gates off the hinges and
throw stewed pumpkin against front
doors.


An ashen sky o'erhangs the world,


The flowers lie in state;


And now it's getting rather cold


To linger at the gate;
So the sofa is once more called into
requisition.
When morn its golden sunbcams on the deWy


flower throws,
And belted bees serenely fly abou. from rose 10


rose, w ILL
And all the sky is draped with clouds, with


bosoms pale as curds,
All then we hear the symphonies OF happy


little birds,
Intermingled with the wild, unearthly screen


of the milk fend.
Year: 1878

Over the river on the hill
Iieth village white and still
All around it the forest trees
Shiver and whisper in the breeze;
Over it sailing shadows 60
or soaring hawk and screaming crow:
And mountain grasses, low and sweet,
Grow in the middle Of every street.
Over the river under the hill
Another village lieth still
There I see in the cloudy night
Twinkling stars Of household light;
Fires that glesm from the smithy's door
0lists that curl on the river shore;
And in the roads no grasses grow
For the wheels that hasten to and fro.
In that village on the hill
Never is sound of smithy or mill;
The houses are thatched with grass ant


flowers:


Never clock to toll tho hours:
The marble doors are always shut
You cannot enter IN hall or hut;
Ali the villagers lie asleep;
Never gram to SOW or reap;
Never in dreams to moan or sigh
Silent and idle, aud low, they lie.
In that village under the hill,
When the night is starry and still,
Many a weary sc:: ~ pra' er
Looks to the otaer village there,
And weeping and signing, longs to 80
Up to that home from this below
Longs to sleep in the forest wild,
Whittier have vanished wife and child,
And heareth, praying, this answer fall:
Patience that village shall hold ye


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Year: 1878

Alpheus has been having long spell
of fever, and it was necessary to have a
light burning all mig ht in his room. We
live out in the country, so no gas was
accessible. Candles fickered disagree:
ably and kerosene lamp when turned
low always had an annoying smell for an
invalid, so I bethought of light my
mother used to improvise when l was o
child, before kerosene, with its attend
ing dangers, was known. It was made
by taking saucer Of lard, and cutting a
piece of newspaper in circle about
three inches in diameter, then twisting
the center of this up to point, and
burying all but the tip in the lard. 1t
will burn all night-a shady dim light
and in our case proved o real comfort:


Some of these homely facts are well
worth remembering. - Prairie Farmer.
Year: 1878

An ancient dame who settled in Indi-
ana sixty years ago-she is now ninety
four years old-recently gave corres-
pondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer q
few "reminiscences of early life on the
frontier. She said: "We had no win
dow to our house, and the door was
made of blanket which was hung over
the doorway. We had large fireplace
made of sticks, in which fire was al
ways kept burning. My babe was then
three months old.


call we had to keep house with was
small provision chest, bell.metal
tea-kettle, a sugar-bowl, pewter plates,
and some cups and saucers.


"When we moved into our cabin we
had no beds, and as my son, then four
years old, had the whooping- cough, I
felt that it would be dangerous to place
him on the puncheon floor, so 1 had my
husband make hammock by suspend
ing a quilt from the rafters by bed
cord.


"We made table out of a walnut
slab, and then three stools, and our
housekeeping outfit was completed.


"Well, as I told you, my husband
started to mill and expected to be absent
week. I had 6 brother living at Vim
cennes who had sent us word that he
would pay us visit, and + was expect
ing him.


"The second night after my husband
left heard some hallooing down in the
bottoms, and I felt certain that it was
my brother who had lost his way in the
darkness. I Immediately answered the
CRY, and it was promptly responded to,
and continued to approach. I set a
candle>on o stump in the yard, and leav-
ing my little boy sitting in the door,
advancing toward the wood. calling to
the approaching person to come to the
light.


"You cannot imagine my fright at
hearing the yell between me and the
house, and Oh looking around discovered
large panther pass between the light
and my boy. gave a'scream and picked
up the candle, and dashed into the house
and lowered the quilt. I can't toll you
how long that night was, or the nights
which followed until the return of my
husband.


II had to bake my bread at neigh
boris, and usually went over at night,
but never dared to 60 unless I carried a
firebrand in my hand. Many a time I've
seen the flashing eyes of panther, but
they never dared attack me on account
of the fire.


"When the neighbors went visiting in
those days, they took their teams and
guns and stayed week, the men hunt
ing, and the women quilting and helping
each other at their domestic duties.


Chow did make butter? Oh, easy
enough I put the milk in q gallon
Jug and shook it until it was churned.
The trouble sometimes WAS in getting
the butter out of the Jug.


81 have frequently gone to mill alone
when had to swim the horses across
the river, the boat not being large
enough to carry them. I have often
seen the women walk five miles on a visit
and carry babe. They would set the
child straddle of one of their hips, and
putting the arm around it, could carry a
large child with ease. The men in
those days wore buckskin trousers and
went barefooted in summer, while the
children seldom had shoes at ALL"
Year: 1878

A Western editor has discovered that
two acres of sunfowers will supply
family with fuel through long winter,
the wood of the stalk and the oil of the
seed making roaring and cheerful fires.
But it is going to puzzle man who only
has q yard 20x30 feet to raise two acres
of sunfowers on it in one season, unless
he can suspend it in the air and plant
on all four sides,
Year: 1878

There is no prettier sight now than a
school girl picking her way abstractedly
along the streets, coming her philoso
ply lesson, and ever and anon stopping
to bury her little Grecian nose deep
into mammoth pickle she carries un-
der her apron. ST LOUIS Spirit.
Year: 1878

The emperor of Brazil has invited
eminent doctors from Europe to Rio
Janeiro to study on the spot the true
character of yellow fever, and discover
remedy for it, Several have accepted
the cali.
Year: 1878

In the matter of ciphers, here is one
which We find il the columns OF the
Boston Transcript. To decipher it
would certainly puzzle the most adrolt,
as it depends entirely on the use OF the
key-word, which can be changed as often
as may be desired. It is only necessary
for the person writing to have table
like the following and key-wora pre-
vions1v aoreed upon.
Year: 1878

Although the effect OF pouring oil upon
the troubled waters scarcely enters in
to the mind Of man beyond figurative
sentiment, there are few modern in.
stances OF its wonderful power at sea
in cases ofimpending shipwreck. Those
few cases however, which found faith
iul record ought to arrest moro deeply
the public attention; for if the effica-
cy OF oil is of tho nature which these
accounts would lead us to accept, 30
simple provision against the disasters
of the ocean can not be too extensively
known. With this view we lay before
our readers certain facts which will
bear examination, and 1t is hoped tend
to further inquiry.


As far back as l770 a Dutch East
Indiaman was saved from wreck In a
storm near the islands of Paul and Am.
sterdam by pouring on the sea jar Of
olive oil. The writer of IVdllerdehrt
states that Mr.. Richie, who accom-
panied Danish captain TO the island
of Porto Santo (being tutor TO his SOM
was standing on shore during u hurri
cane, when he saw the vessel in which
he arrived torn from her anchor anc
swallowed up. Suddenly in the mid
die Of the bay appeared boat driving
toward the shore. The waves, how
over, advanced with rcdoubled energy
but without breaking, and tossed th'
boat 80 high on the strand that thu
men were able TO jump cut and scram
bic up the beach. Tho rescue was du


TO tho captain, who, as the boat cntcr
cd the breakers, stove in the head OF


kcg Of oil, which, though unable u
Year: 1878

in 1854 and disappeared in 1855. In
1856 the Slavery question overshad-
owed all Others, and the struggle was
between the Democratic party and the
nascent Republican organization. Now
Andrew II. Dill was born in 1886. lie
was Is years old when Know Nothing
Lodges were beng established, and he
was 10 when Know Nothingism was
absorbed by the newly organized Re-
publican party. The case therefore is
too plain for argument. If Senator
Dill made any political speech in 1856
or 1857 it was upon the issues of the
time, and Know Nothingism was not
then one of them.


In answer TO the allegation Of the
Standard that the Democratic party
does not confer nominations and offices
upon the members of its church, let it
be SAID that the Democratic party docs
not inquire to what religious sect candi-
dates for its nominations adhere, or
whether they belong to any. 1t nomi-
mates candidates because of their sup.
posed fitness of the transaction of secu-
lar rather than spiritual affairs. Never
theless it has been the difficult, but
righteous, province Of that political
organization TO do battle single handed
and alone in defence of the rights of
conscience. II the editor of the Stand
drdis not wholly ignorant Of the history
of his own church he must know that
it was protected from Know Nothing
intolerance only by the gallant stand
taken in its defence by the Democratic
party. Nor was that stand taken by
the Democrats because it was the
Catholic church that was attacked, but
because the great principle of demo.
cratic liberty, freedom of Religious
Opinion, was assailcd in the attempt
to deny Catholics the right to worship
God in their own way. Had not the
Democratic party been the constant
defender Of the equal religious and
political rights Of ALL there would be
no such paper as the Catholic Standard
published today, nor would the pub
fishers of that paper, or the miserable
renegade who furnished them the pre-
tended proof" of Senator Dill's Know
Nothingism, be clothed with those
rights Of citizenship which enable them
to meddle in politics for the purpose OF
stabbing in the dark thepolitical organi-
cation that has defended and protected
them.


In conclusion We call upon the
Standard to publish the "proof" on
which it pretends 10 base its charge,
and hope that the Democratic State
Committee will at once take steps to
unmask the conspiracy which has cul-
minated in this foul but futile assault
upon the integrity of Senator Dil's
political character. In honor and in
justice, the editor of the Standard can
not and will not dare TO deny Senator
Dill and his friends the fullest oppor-
tunity TO refute the SANDER he has
uttered against him.
Year: 1878

Nothing party. The Democratic party
is the same party to day that it was
in ls54-55 when it grappled and over
came the Know Nothings in decisive
conflict. The Standard, in a grim
travesty Of the facts, seeks to exalt the
party OF intolerance and fanaticism at
the expense of the party which from
the days of Jefferson, however it may
have wandered in other respects, have
never deviated one hairs breadth from
its devotion to the principles of civil
and religious federation and liberty.


We advise Archbishop Wood to with
draw his certificate of endorsement OF
the Standard, or at least to see TO it
that he is not made responsible for the
utterance of writer ignorant Of the
political history of the country twenty
years ago.
Year: 1878

A slight mistake occurred in the
second and the twelfth Institute Dis.
tricts in this column last week. The
second is composed of Woodward, Ma
dera Independent and Houtzdale Dor.
ough, and the twelfth Of Brady and
Union instead of Brady and Bloom.
Burnside borough should have been
mentioned in connection with tho four.
tccnth district.
Year: 1878

A well arranged system of reviews
is the source of successful teaching. 1t
is the only way by which to impress a
subject on the mind. knowledge is
not what we learn but what we re.
member. / trust that when visit
your school | may find your review
method such as | can approve.
Year: 1878

AT the close Of your tern fill the
blanks attached. Send one to my ad-
dress at Clearfeld and file the other
with the Secretary ofthe School Board.
Give the following subjects especial at
tention during the term
Year: 1878

The growing impression among evangel.
lcal Christians seems to be that less reliance
must be placed upon any modern patent or
sensational measures to awaken general at
tention to religious subjects, and that a
deeper personal conservation must be secured
among Christian disciples. We must work
more earnestly and constantly the divinely-
established means of evangelzation, and
with devotion must seize our opportunities
for personal labor among our fellow-men.
We must have warm, holy, well-instructed
church home; we must have sound, i'm
pressive, Scriptural ministry and we must
work outward, in every direction, from this
church centre. Then our work, although
not attended with so great demonstration,
Will be all the more permanent. The masses
cannot be reached by simply building meet
ing houses among them, but they can be
approached by consistent, active and holy
Christian men and women. But the great
want of the hour is warm, loving working
and consecrated church centres, from which
shall constantly go out earnest and effective
influences. Work the varied church APP
piances up to their full power, then pure
church will confront gainsaying world, an
active church will constantly disciple, the
holy church will illustrate the peace and Joy
of the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world
/iOn'S Herald
Year: 1878

There can be no doubt that, as each per-
son now living has had a father and mother,
grandfathers and grandmothers, and so on,
everyone really comes of as old family as
everyone else. Moreover, every living eldest
son is the heir male of either the senior or
junior branch, not only of the family of the
man who first bore his name, but of progen-
itors hidden still deeper in the midst of an
tiquity. We so often hear of families either
dying out altogether or ending in females,
that we come TO think that such fate is
the eventful end of all families but this is
FAR from being the case. Every man liv-
ing could, if he only knew where to find the
data, count up from son to father, from
father to grandfather, from generation to
generation, until he came to Adam himself,
And this is the great difference between
good families and families of all other
kinds the members of n good family can
tell who their forefathers We're, where they
lived, and whom they married while those
who belong to no families in particular are
classed in a body as those who don't know
their own grandfathers, or who perhaps
never had any to know. The goodness of a
family depends much more on the number
OF its known generations than on any other
condition. Given two families in which the
numbers of recorded generations are equal,
doubtless the family whose members have
been the more illustrious would be reckoned
the better of the two; but family of only
two or three generations, however ilustrious
their members might have been, would GER
tainly not constitute what is known as a
good family, AS in the case of many popu-
lar ideas, there is some little substratum of
reason in this belief. If to be educated and
cultivated is an object of ambition, and if


there is anything in the doctrine of hered.
ity, it may be supposed that the members
of family who have been of Importance
enough to leave their names scattered on the
bank of the river of time have had better
chance of being, and of handing down their
good qualities to their posterity, than those
who were swept away 10y the tide without
leaving any mark.-Popuiar Science Monthly.
Year: 1878


Many years ago." says DIR. William NJ.
Taylor, while we were ministering to
church in Liverpool, it was our melancholy
duty to go to the widow of the first officer
Of the Royal Charter, aud tell her that her
husband was drowned. The vessel had gone
around the world in safety. Her arrival at
Queenstown had been telegraphed, and the
sailors wife was sitting in the parlor with
the table spread in eager expectation of her
husband when we entered to say that he
had been drowned with more than four hun
dred others in Mmfra Bay, only two or three
hours from the harbor. We never saw such
agony as that face depicted when, grasping
our hand in hers, she cried with a grief too
deep for tears, So near home and yet lost 7 -
But what eternal horror shall hang about
the doom of those who are not far from
the kingdom of God" but whose good de.
sres, and resolutions and determinations
shall only end in disappointment aud perdi-
ton at last Woe to the man who puts off
the day of salvation-the time will come
when perdtion cannot be put off Now is
the accepted time.


" Almost cannot avail,


Almost is but to fail


Sad, sad that bitter wall:


Amost-but lost p
Year: 1878

What touching thing it is to look at the
picture OF young beauty, aud then see its
original bent old woman-faded, withered
and wrinkled out of all likeness to it 1t
is sad reminder of times slow but certain
work, prophetic though voiceless sermon
to the young. Perhaps were this all, it
would be pity that it should be preached
for why should we be sad until we need be I
Blu! il also teaches another thing that all
are apt to forget. People speak of "That
old man." or That old woman" as though
those whom they indicate were born old.
The Oldest persons We're youthful, children,
infants once. 1t seems too much of truism
to be worth uttering, and would be were it
not that age seems very often to be looked
upon, even by people far upon the road
themselves, as particular state in which a
few individuals find themselves, aud for
which they are to be snubbed and neglected,
Year: 1878

CoMMENDABLE.-We are pleased
to note the spirit Of honest pride
with which the residents of Port
Ludlow are evincing their determi-
nation to keep up the reputation of
their town. If the communication
published in the ARGUS, did them
gross injustice we are certainly as
much gratifed to notice and ac-
knowledge their vindication as any
one else could be, and would have
published it as willingly as we did
the items which were sent to us.
Our desire is to do ample justice to
all, and then let blame rest where
ever it properly belongs. If neccs.
sary, we can and will publish our
authority for the obnoxious contri
button, provided "many citizens
will be little more explicit as to
their identity.
Year: 1878

TRUE AS GosPRL.-A recent writer
who doubtless got pretty clear idea
of the case, says that in our moral
teachings there is too much DON'T
and not enough DO; that we expend
our entreaties on others in pointing
out what must be left undone, while
we prescribe nothing but negative
remedy. We exhort young men to
avoid the cozy, tasteful and CHEEKY
saloons, but fail to find them a place
to go which is as attractive, or better
employment as a substitute. The
order of things is being re.
volutionized in Port Townsend, By
the introduction of open temper.
ance meetings, affording pleasant
place to spend an occasional evening.
We only hope they will lead to
something bettsr--say a place where
EVERY evening could be spent
pleasantly and pro6tably, instead of
only once a month.