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Year: 1877

Your wife was not made for you, ex-
cept as you were made for her God did
not bring Eve to Adam as the last and
highest gift TO his son and heir. You are
not to measure her as you measure stew
ard or cook by her ability to make things
go to suit tyOu. Doubtless she is your wife.
There is an ownership of love. But then
you ought to be her husband. The own
elship is as truly hers as yours. She is
not a mere satellite to revolve about you,
shine with your light, and glorify you by
her silent praise. God made man in his
own image; male and female created he
: them she as much as you in his image;
she as much as you for her own sake and
for his.


So she is not to be mere dependence
on you. The ''good old tines when a
wife was to be a mere echo, and family
repeat her husbands latest opinions, have
gone. If that is your notion of a wife
you ought to have lived in Corinth in the
first century; or you ought to live in
India now. And even i'll India you would
have to keep out of the way of trouble
some Miss Britain. Your wife is entitled
to her own individuality, to her own
opinions. They ought to clash sometimes
with yours; and you both ought to know





have no explosion. Because you are
Democrat is no reason why she should
not be Republican; because you are
Congregationalist is no reason why she
should not be an Episcopalian. Shame
on the notion that wife. is only cipher
to stand on the right side of her husband,
SO as to make a unit into ten. A dumb
wife is disgrace to her husband. An
Independent wife is his glory. If she
never differs from you it is because she is
a serf and you are despot.


She ought to be your best adviser She
ought to be your most confidential coun-
selor. The self-conceit of men amounts
to genius. There are many husbands
that would as soon think of taking advice
of their wives as of their children. But
it is only the fool who is too wise to seek
counsel. Was Mr.. Seward less a states
man because his wife was his prime min
lister? Women do not know ANYTHING
about business affairs? From the num-
Der of business failures, commercial dis
asters and dishonorable defalcations, we
should imagine that women might retort
that men know very little about business.
A woman's intuition is often wiser than a
mans judgment. She sees. he reasons.
We could point out several churches
whose prospects would be materially
frightened if the men would allresign and
elect women in the Board of Trustees.
Your wife is your partner. You have
earned the money; but she has saved, and
sacrificed, and pinched, and worried and
worked to help to accumulate it. She
has done her fair share toward making
your property what it is She has a right
to be consulted how it shall be used A
double right has she to have her judg.
ments weighed and measured in all ques-
tons relating to the disposition of the
family and ths training end culture of
the children,
Year: 1877

1t appears that in the seventeenth CEN
tury, when the city of New York was but
little more than a village, there was. for a
long time no system of lighting the
streets. On dark nights, each citizen who
ventured out-of- doors was expected to pro-
vide himself with lantern and at long
intervals one might see lighted lamp
hung In front Of the door of some wealthy
citizen. 20.


1t was not until 1897 that the Aldermen
were charged to enforce the duty, g that
every seventh householder, nd the dark
time of the moon, cause lantern and
candle to be hung out Of his window on
pole, the expense to be divided among the
seven families. j ..se


This was probably considered an excel
lent way of street-lighting at the time,
But what change would one of the AL
dermen of 1897 find. could he now follow
on some moonless night the double line
of gas lamps extending from the Battery
to Fordham, a distance of fifteen milesl
Who would not like to accompany him as
he silently passed over the well-paved
ways, once so wild and swampy. and to
see his astonished gaze as the long lines of
lighted lamps revealed tall fronts of state
ly marble stores and brown-stOne houses;
and on through the beautiful Central
Park, and-still further, over well-made
roads-out into the open country beyond
it, yet still within the city's limits? Do
you think that the ancient Alderman
would recognize in the great new city the
quiet village that he once knew and loved?
st. Nicholas for Fe5ruarg.
Year: 1877

Perhaps you have never guessed it, but
your wife is social and intellectual be


ing. Ii she is not it is your fault She
was so when you married her. If you
have been growing away from her, and
she has been standing still, the more
shame to you. To buy her dresses and
bonnets and give house and a good ia
BILE does not equip her. She wants intel
lectual food and stimulus; and YOU are
the one to provide it. While YOU are
among men discussing business, politics,
religion or what not, she is with the
housemaid discussing crockefy, or with
the cook discussing beefsteak, or with the
children playing the part of nurse-maid.
When you come home at night tired, do
you not suppose she is tired too? Bring
basket cannot contain. Bring the news
OF the day; bring the latest, freshest
thought. In buying your evening paper,
or subscribing TO volr, monthly magazine.
or renewing your religious weekly, Get
what suits her needs and meets her tastes.
There is more in that patient, quiet, silent
wife of yours than you think for I You
have frozen her up by your contempt for
womanhood; for treating your wife as a
toy to be pleased only with dresses and to
be fed only on gossip is the worst kind of
contempt. If she does not feel it SO, it is
only because she has degenerated that she
may fit the place you have prepared for
heI


Above all, bring her love- Your life is
IN many things: in your. store; your Gus
toners; your clients; your politics. Her
life is in her household Her homeis her
realm; her children are her subjects; her
husband is her king; her ambition is
satisfied with their love and their praise.
You are cruel if you deny it to her.
Grumble over the muddy coffee and the
burnt steak if you like she can bear that
if you will only commend the coffee when
it is clear and the steak when it is juicy.
" Her husband praiseth her." says Solo
mon, in his description of the excellent
woman; doubtful if she would have been
so excellent if he had not praised her.
Praise is comely. A little praise judi
ciously used is sunshine in darkened
home and oil on complaining machinery.
How often have you come home, and she
waiting for your coming has gone to
greet you, and you, absorbed in the bust
ness you ought to have left behind you,
have given her kiss with as much life
in it as there is in last summers rose.


Our subject is fruitful. 1t is well-nigh
inexhaustible. But our homily is already
SO long that we fear that "some husbands
will not read it through. 1t is all summed
up by Paul in one sentence: " Husbands,
love your wives" You are never tired of
quoting Paul's injunction, wives, sub
NIT yourselves to your husbands" Sup
pose you drop that text for year and go
on three verses, to Paul's Injunction to
yourself.-ChrSsti1n Union.
Year: 1877

The investigation into the conduct of
the late election in Mississippi was continued on
the Sd before the Senate Committee ON Privileges
and Elections. j. t. leicester. President of the
Hines County Board of Registers testified there
was conference of leading Democrats of Hines
County short time before the election, at which
it was proposed to furnish one OF the Democratic
Judges of EleCtioI at each polling-plaCe with
furnished about fl teen of these duplicate keys to
different men, all of whom were white men and


he thinks. Democrats; he slipped small parcel
into the vest pocket of one of the judges, re-
marking, as he did so, Here is something which
may be of use to you;'' dld not tell them what
use was to be made of them but thought
they were all smart enough 10 find out how
and for what 10 use them: in answer to
question from Senator Teller witness said:
Il suppose my idea was that if there
were too many Republican votes in ballot box
the key was 10 open the box that Republican
votes might be taken out and Democratic votes
substituted in their stead;'' duplicate keys to
the ballot boxes were furnished to of the
the county. Henry Outlaw, Of Aberdeen, Nun
roe County, testified that all meetings which col
ored Republicans attempted to hold in his county
during the late campaign were broken up by armed
Democrats; witness was at a meeting in Aber-
deem during September; at that meeting seven
teen colored men were shot, some of them killed
outright, and Others were seriously wounded
that thoy had einco uiodj Democrats had the
tice of riding through Munroe County at night,
taking C0lored men from their beds and whipping
them, and many of his race had slept out of doors
for several nights previous to the late election to
prevent being dragged from their homes and
WhiDDed
Year: 1877

Mr.. Archibald Higgins, of Ellis, Cal,
suffered an accident, the other day, under
peculiar circumstances. He had just re-
turned home from Bantas with his team,
and was standing by his wagon removing
some articles from it, at the same time
keeping hold of the horses reins, when
shotgun that had stood in the house,
leaning up in a corner, fell down and was
discharged. The charge was heavy one.
Passing through the side of the house, it
tore away three or four inches Of bench
on the outside, and hit the man. Three
shots entered the small of the back and
probably entered the pelvic cavity, as
probing did not discover them. Several
shot entered the mans legs and penetrat-
ed very deeply, SO that probing did not
find them. Two or three passed through
the flesh. One hit the heel and made an
ugly wound There was no one in the
house at the time the gun fell down, and
the cause of its fall is entirely unknown.
The man held on to the team and was
dragged some distance, when it was
stopped, and he got up and walked into
the house, where be tainted. a.
Year: 1877

Success appears to have attended, to
very encouraging degree, the use of the
electric light on board the French trans
Atlantic steamer Amerique, IN order to
prevent her collision with other vessels.
In this case, the lantern is placed on the
bow, at height of twenty-twofeet above
the forecastle, or ferty-two feet above the
water, and the current is produced by a
Gramme electric machine, revolving at
the rate of from nine hundred and fifty
to one thousand turns per minute, and
affording light equal to one hundred and
fifty carcel burners. An ingenious device
places the control of the light in the hands
of the officer of the watch, and by this
he can sextinguish. the illumination or
renew it at will, without stopping the
machine. It is stated that experiment has
recently proved that the most effective use
of the light, as a means of warning, is to
allow it to shine for ten seconds and then
extinguish, it for. the succeeding two
minutes-N 7 1Sals
Year: 1877

10 speaking of the striking rioters, fellow on
the street yesterday, expressed the wish that ev-
cry railroad in the country was destroyed. The
only excuse for the fellow is that he is an IDIOT
Year: 1877

A correspondent of the Wing seems to be let
ting daylight into the great gold excitement at
Oldtown. The contractor for building large
cstern for the town, in order to get most of the
excavation made for nothing, deposited in the lot
few pieces of real gold-bearing quartz, which he
procured from Ca slifornia miner. 1t was found !!
The news spread like wildfre The gold was ex-
amined and pronounced to be the genuine article.
A man. who was in the secret, offered $4,000 for
q small building lot near the land, but the owner
wouldn't sell it for $4,000. stock company
was organized and great excitement stirred up,
and in the midst of it all, the contractor got the
place for his cistern dug out. And then the hum
bug exploded.
Year: 1877

Let all loafers at railroad stations understand
that at the last session of the Legislature law
was passed upon that subject. under which arrests
have been made in several localities. Here is the
law;


No person or persons shall loier or remain,
without right, within any car, station house of
railroad corporation, upon the platforms OF
grounds adjoining such station, after being re-
quested to leave the same by any railroad officer.
Year: 1877

The Gazette is not a safe coun- selor for the people in the matter ot the Adams Redfeld Scaling Plan. Why? Because it is owned and con trolled by one of the parties who are interested in getting the plan through. Messrs. Adams & Redheld are the Middle-men who come in be- tween the State and the bond-hold- CTS in patching up this abominaoie trade. They will make rich thing of it, if it succeeds, and of course Maj. Adams paper, the Gazette, will do it's best to put the plan through We submit that in this affair the Ga zette is directly interested in the success of the scheme, and hence is not safe counselor for the people whose interests are to be sacrificed for the success of the scheme.
Year: 1877

We ought to think much more of walking in the right path than of reaching our end. We should de- sire virtue more than success. If by one wrong deed we could accomplish the liberation of millions, ard in no other way, we ought to feel that this good, for which perhaps we have prayed with an agony of desire, was denied us by God, was reserved for other times and other hands.

 Hon. Stewart L. Woodford is re- ported as saying in his recent speech at Oxford, Miss, that ''education should be as free as suffrage. . Much more free, good man, it should be extended owomeL and children.

 A bashful young man while out driving with tSthe dearest girl in the word'' the other day, had to get out and buckle the crupper, and hesitat- ingly explained that the "animaPs hustle had come loose3'

 There is an old German proverb to the effect ttat great war leaves the country with three armies-an army of cripples. an army of mourn CTS and an army of thieves.
Year: 1877

The Scalers are stalled. They see that the people will not stand any such outrage as the proposition of Adams and Redfield to issue $4, GOO, ,OOO of new bonds for the sur render of the old bonds which they propose to turn over to the State Their job is exposed and they are now engaged with mad desperation in attempting to get out some new figures on the subject, which will be less appalling to the tax payers Meantime the central organ still goes one eye on it, but looks around very circumspectly to see chance, or find loop hole where she may escape from the bad position she has taken in the matter.
Year: 1877

What is slur? "A remark made by one singer about another.

 What is rest: Going out of the choir during the sermon for refresh ments.

 What is a brace? Two singers steadying each other when they come back.

 What IS singing in time? Trying to see which will beat

 What is sympathetic music. Flirting with the soprano singer be- hind the organ.

 What is sta catch? Grimalkin in the organ during a voluntary.

 What is a crochet? A disease which the head singer always enjoys when the tune doesn't please her.

 What is swell? A musical pun dit who ..knows it ali'' and perhaps considerable more.

 What is the best stop to use in a voluntary? The full stop when the theme Is eXnauStcu.

 What is shake? Torture il- flicted upon the bellows.boy Slio doesn't pump fast enough. What is slave? The church treasurer who slaves singers bill for salary.

 What is . fiat? The singer who allows the shave. | What is a cord? The pile of music which tine violinist saws thro'. What is a tie? The difficulty be- tween the organist and the cherister, when one would and the other won t.

 What is discord? The choir taking sides in the dispute. What is harmony Dismissing either the leader or the organist What is the tonic? The drink taken after the trouble is all settled.
Year: 1877

The experience of those engaged in the agricultural pursuits of every day adduces new proofs that It is actually and literally true that Ar kansas is the best country under the sun for men who wish to live hy till ing the soil. Nowhere does labor bestowed on agriculture bring so bountiful and so sure reward to the industrious husbandman as it does here. Nowhere is the production of crops and the raising of stock possi- ble to be carried on so easily and at so slight expense as it is here. No where does nature, the seasons and the climate lend so much toward the work of securing rich reward from farm labor. We showed by the sta. tistics few weeks ago that Arkan- sas yielded more lint cotton per acre than any State Tn the union, despite the fact that she has perhaps .he poorest farmers in the world. Many of the cerials and root crops do as we'll here as they do anywhere in the world and YIELD TWO CROPS PER AN MUM. The following isem clipped from the Eldorado Eagle { Union county illustrates this point:

 Mir. Robert Goodwin planted his com on the 10th of March; it matur ed in July, was gathered. the ground broken up, and the new seed plant eb from which second crop he has just furnished us with as nice q mess of roasting ears as we care to eat. This is the first corn from the second crop, same seed on same ground, that we ever saw; and MT. Goodwin now says that he can, by thus raising two crops, make double the quantity of corn that could here tofore be produced on the same land. Mir. G. is one of our oldest and best farmers, and he speaks of attending the St. Louis Fair, we hope he will embrace the opportunity to tell the world what Arkansas, and Union County in particular, can bring forth under skillful management.

 With such soil, climate and sea sons as we have in Arkansas, the farmer, if he will only exercise in dustrious and prudent management, cannot help growing affiuent and prosperous. The only class of men who fail to prosper at farming in Arkansas are those who will not work, or those who will not take care of that which they make.
Year: 1877

Tho Gazette says because the repudiation papers have not propos- ed any plan for the settlement of our bonded indebtedness they should not oppose the plan proposed by Messrs. Adams and Rediield. A strong argument that. We see from a close examination of the A. & k. plan that it is going to cost the State an immense sum more than 1t ought to, to settle her bonded indebtedness under that plan; but we should mol oppose the plan, says the Gazette unless we have something better tt suggest. That does not accord witt our view of serving the people. Ou idea is that whenever we see scheme being matched out to oppres the people unjustly, to smash tn egg at once, whether or not we ar able to. supply the nest witl new eggs which will hatch out some thing bette-.
Year: 1877

The Gazette has not yet worked out the sum we gave it to show the people where the $S7,000 saving comes in under the Adams -Redfield plan. We now ask that paper if 1t is wiling to assert upon it's own rep utation for veraeity and fidelity to the people, that there is the saving claimed by Messrs. Adams and Red field? Will it give plaln answer?
Year: 1877

An. exchange says: They make near neighbors; they make good roads, they make plenty of schools and churches; more money is made in proportion to the labor, less labor IS wanted; everything is kept neat less wages have to be paid for help; less time is wasted; more is raised to the acre, besides, it is titled better; there is no watching of hired help; the mind is not in worry, stew. fret all the time.
Year: 1877

Owing te the increase of our circulation, we are compelled to is sue half sheet for many of oul exchanges. From our steady in crease in circulation, as well as the patronage of advertisers, we expect as soon as possible to print both sides at home. Batesvllle Guard.

 We accept your excuse Bro. Den ton, and are glad to hear of youl success.
Year: 1877

hE Il COME THE CONAAls IL has been our firm conviction eyer since we became acquainted with this section of Arkansas that the Arkansas River Valley from Lit tie Rock to Fort Smith would some day be the most populons prosper ous and desirable portion of this great State. Our geographical and typographical location, our mild and salubrious climate, our fertile, vigor ous soil, our vast supply of timber, coal and minerals has warranted us 1 in this belief. We have waited pa- tiently for realization of our hopes and belief The beginning of the realization is at hand. The good work which has been done in encour- aging immigration to our State, and in making known our many attrac- tive qualities has not been in vain. Every day brings us new corners to our State. Heretofore they have come along Tn few and struggling numbers, but now they begin to pour in by the hundreds in a groupe, as tho following from the State Gazette will testify:

 Several months ago we received a letter from Mir. Choinski, of Mil waukee, who stated that he was the agent for large colony of Poles, who desired to purchase body of land sufficient to make a settlement upon. This letter we published in the Gazette, and it attracted the attention of Col. Slack, Lsfnd Agent of the Fort Smith Railway. He opened correspondence with Mir. | Choinski, who came to Little Rock in company with other members of the colony, and the result was that they purchased 11,000 acres of land from the Fort Smith Railway, and a similar amount from the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Road. The land purchased from the Fort Smith Company lies around or near Warren Station, and that purchased from the other company lies adja- cent. For the past few weeks fami- lies of the colony have been arriving, bnt on yesterday morning l69 fami- lies, consisting of 330 persons, arriv- ed on one train, and were transfer red to Warren Station. where they found temporary quarters in the picnic pavilion, which IS to be boarded up and made comfortable for them until they can provide themselves with houses, work which they will at once set about accomplishing. The Fort Smith Railroad Company will send out wagons today, and the work of hauling lumber and building will be begun, and Tn short time the coun- try in the vicinity of Warren Station will be filled with working and l vigorous population. The members of the colony are fine looking people, of whom the State may we'll be proud. This is the biggest thing that has yet happened in the immi- grafton line in Arkansas, and the end is not yet, for we are informed that on Sunday 100 more families will leave Chicago to join the Ark ansas colony. We say to them thrice welcome.

 l We join with the Gazette in .ex- tending a hearty welcome to these new home seekers, and we trust they may all find homes to their liking. There are yet hundreds of thousands of acres of land up thIs valley wait ing for the advent of new pioneers who wish to hew themselves out nice little homes in one of the most high ly favored countries on the globe Let the tide of immigration still flow on up the Arkansas River valley, there are new homes and room fol all, and all will De welcomed.
Year: 1877

Agriculture, address by c. W. Har- key on second day.

 No entry can be made of any article or stock to be shown on the first day, after 12 o'clock m. of the first day. No article or stock to be shown on the second day can oe entered after 10 o'clock q. m. of the same day. Committee on stock will not be allow ed to award premiums to any stock they consider unsound.

 It must be understood that this Fair has been gotten up on the spur of the moment, and without money, and it's success will depend upon the liberal patronage each and every one will give it, either by taking part in the exlli-

 bition, or offering individual premiums. The Directors will take contributions to be given as premiums for few days yet. The premium list will appear in

 next weeks issue. All persons desir- ing to assist the enterprise by offering special premiums will please report the same to the Directors, or,
Year: 1877

Do httle helpful things and speak helpful words whenever you can. They are better than pearls or dla- monds to strew along the roadside of fife. They will yield far more valuable harvest as you will find after many days.