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Year: 1879



 A writer m the Boston IT. anscriao says: My mother was, indeed, in many particulars, an example for her sex an example too valuable to be altogether lost. I will sketch for study one or two of the agreeable features in her char acter. When I was living alone with her used occasionally to go out to din- ner in the neighborhood, and afterward to walk home late, sometimes very late. By the way, will remark that have never felt my mind so vigorous as fre- uuently whea walking home in the cuun- try after dinner party. The excite ment of company and good cheer, height ened by exercise in the refreshing cool of the night, produces an effect on the spirits, according to my experience, un- equaled at any other time; and it seems to be something the same with horses, which never go with such alacrlty as when returning home after good feed and in company at night. But to re- sume-at whatever hour l arrived l always found my mother sitting up for me alone. Not a word of reproach, not 8 question. If it happened to be cold or damp was greeted with cheerful fire, by which she had been sitting, reading or netting, as her eyes would permit, and with a color on her check at seventy-which would have done no discredit to a girl at eighteen. She had always the supper tray ready, but not brought in, so as neither to tempt me If I did not want anything nor to disappoint me if I did. When man throws him. self into 8 chair, after the fatigues of the day, he generally feels for a period a strong propensity to silence, any inter- ruption of which has rather tendency to irritate. I observed that my mother had always great tact in discovering the first symptoms of revival, till which she would quietly go on with her own occu- patton, and then inquire if I had had an agreeable party, and put such questions as showed a gratifying interest, equally removed from worrying curiosity and disheartening indifference. I recom- mend the same course generally to female consideration and adoption. If, from any engagement, I wished to breakfast earlier than usual-however early, she was always ready, and without taking any credit for her readiness. If l was down before the hour was almost sure to find her seated at table t; or, if the morning was fine, walking composedly before the windows, with breakfast pre- pared.

 If desired to have 8 particular din ner, it was served up just as l asked to1 it, no alteration, no additional dish, witt the very unphilosophical remark, Yol have no occasion to eat it unless yoU like" She seemed to be aware tha needless variety causes a distraction destructive of perfect contentment and that temptation resisted, as we'll a temptation yielded to, produces, thougl in an inferior degree, digestive derange ment. I will mention only one othe trait, and that is, that though she wa unremitting in her care and attentlo when any of her family were ill, yet he own indispositions she always conceale as long as she could, for it seemed give her pain to be the cause of tn least Interruption to the pleasure those she loved.
Year: 1879

A baby crept to his fathers knee,

 And was lifted up and lulled to rest Till his blue eyes closed, so tired was he; And his little head fell peacefully At ease on the ready shoulder there, While the baby hand so soft and fair

 Lay like shield on his fathers breast. Of old twas said when men drew near

 To fierce temptation of deadly strife, And lost their way in maze of fear, Or periled their souls for worldly gear, By an unknown way an angel hand Would lead them out of the dangerous lanc Into the light of a nobler life. The story is true for the world to-day;

 We sec no white-robed angel mild; But out of the dark and perilous way, Where men and women forget to pray, Into the peace of a purer m nd They arc led by a gentle, shielding mana,

 The hand of little helpless child.
Year: 1879

The Punch and Judy idea is over 2, 900 years old. The Celestial Emperor Kao Tsu (B. c. 206) was shut up in the City of Pen-teug by an army of barbarous Huns. With his Majesty was states man; Chen Ping, who, happening to know that the wife of the besieging chiefthin was very jealous woman, de- vised a scheme. He caused the portrait of very beautiful girl to be forwarded to her, with message that if her hus. band would permit the Emperor to go forth unharmed, the young lady should become his property. The chieftain's wife never mentioned the portrait to her husband, but at once began to persuade him to raise the siege, which, in fact, he would have done forthwith had he not been privately informed of the picaure and warned at the same time that the whole affair was simply ruse. There upon he sent to say that it would be necessary for him first of all to have 8 glimpse of this beauty in the flesh :; and later on he repaired by agreement to the foot of the city wall, where he beheld the young lady moving about and sur

 rounded hy number of attend ants His suspicious being thus allayed, he gave orders to open 8 passage through his lines to the Emperor Kao Tsu and suite, who promptly made the best of their way out. At the same time the Hun chieftain entered the city and pro- ceeded to the spot on the wall where the young lady was awaiting him, still sur rounded by her handmaids; but on ar irving there he found that the beauty and her attendants were simply 8 set of wooden puppets which had been dressed up for the occasion and were worked by a concealed arrangement of springs.
Year: 1879

All alone in my room at last!

 wonder how far they have travelled now; They'll be very far when the night is past, And SO would Tiff I knew but how. How calm she was with her saint-like face! Her eyes are violet, mine are blue How careless am with my mothers lace! Her hands are whiter and softer, too. They have gone to the city beyond the hill; They must never come back to this place

 again.

 I'm almost afraid to sit here so still. If it would but thunder, and tighten, and

 rain.

 Oh, no! for some one may not be at rest Some one, perhaps, is travelling tonight. hope that the moon may shine instead, And heaven be starry and earth all bright. It is only one summer that she's been here It has been my home for seventeen years! And seventeen summers of happy bloom Fall dead tonight in a rain of tears. It dark, all dark in the midnight shades. Father in heaven, may have rest, One hour of rest for this aching head, For this throbbing heart in my weary breast loved him more than she understands. For him prayed for my soul in truth For him I am kneeling with lifted hands, To lay at his feet my shattered youth. I loved, and love, I love him still; More than father. mother, or life. My hope of hopes was to bear bis name, My heaven of heavens to be his wife! His wife the name that angels breathe, The words shall not crimson my cheek with

 shame,

 Twoul1 have been my glory the name to

 wreath

 In the princely heart from winch it came. And the kiss gave to the bride tonight His bride till life and light grow dim God only knows how pressed her lips, That the kiss to her might be given to him
Year: 1879

The Cincinnati Gazette has interviewed
number of the representative business
men Of that city with reference to the out
look for the Spring. 1t finds universal
cheertulness and large increase of bust
ness over that of last year.


The Boston Post prints bright picture
as follows; ''The factories are generally
resuming or making ready to resume work
and if the foreign market could be still
more rapidly extended by intelligent leg
islation, their prospects would improve at
a much more speedy pace. But it is all
certain to come right in time. Even real
estate, which is the last to rally, feels the
effect of the reviving trade impulses and
proves its figures and pretensions together.
We have reached stage, in fact, at which
further movement is possible in but one
direction. Everything must now go for
ward. The country is evidently about to
enter on a career of prosperity whose
splendors have hardly yet been imagined -


Salem, Mass, sends encouraging news
in regard to the shoe trade. The Post Of
that city, says; The Spring trade has
everywhere the fullest indications of beng
better than it has been for years. and all
there is wanted now is for the people to
fully realize the situation and the wheels
of business will Just hum"
Year: 1879

RI believe it to be all wrong aud even
wicked for clergymen or other public men
to be led into giving testimonials to quack
doctors or vile stuffs called medicines, but
when really meritorious article is made
up of common valuable remedies known to
all, aud that all physicians use aud trust in
daily, we should freely commend it.
therefore cheerfully and heartily commend
Hop Bitters for the good they have done
me and my friends, firmly believing they
nave no equal for family use. | will not
be without them"


Rev. Washington, D. G.
Year: 1879

Agricultural 1t is exceedingly bad
husbandry" to harrow up the feelings
Of your wife.


BY the use of the microphone you
can hear the rope walk the butter hy,
the gum drop, or the fall of the year.


Chicago doctors consider the house
furnace as their best friend. II gives
them more cases Of lung trouble than all
other influences.
Year: 1879

undersigned this his thanks
the people Of Yankton particularly and to his
friends throughout Dakota and for the
DUDLEY HAWLEY through the many years in which
that firm has carried business in this CITY, and he
desires call the attention Of these friends and that Of
people generally to the enlarged facilities eten
assortment and commodous rooms which the
firm had provided and which the Dudley
& Hawley now possesses.


Of the Hardware trade manufacture
Tin Copper and Sheet Iron Ware he claims
equal in all respeotsto anything
tent.


In the faure by constant application business he hopes
the Hardware trade of the region which naturally
utar to this point centered here spare
make it for the interest Of the people within this REGION
chase their Hardware Tnware, Copper and
Stoves. and all other articles in this line from


Yours gratefully and respectfully,


GEO. e. hAWlEY,


Union Block, Third St.
Year: 1879

Almost every story of shipwreck is
characterized by the display Of true he
roism on the part Of some one of its
victims. And this last terrible disaster
in the British Channel is no exception
to the rule. Young Clymer, the son of
Mrs. w. B. Clymero of Philadelphia, soon
after the crash made by the bow of the
bark against'the side of the Pomerania,
found his sisters, Miss Mary Clymer
and Rose, on the deck of the steamship,
whittier they had hurried from their
stateroom. He placed his oldest sister
in lifeboat, and Rose was thrown in
by sailor. The boat was full, and the
cowardly sailors were endeavoring to
get in it. Clymer thought his mother
and the remaining sister were in the
boat. He did not hesitate. To save
the lives of his sisters he cut the ropes
which held the lifeboat to the steamship
and turned it adrift, standing himself
on the deck of the doomed vessel He
said good-by to his sisters, realizing
that he would never see them again.


The fact that he first placed the young
girls of his family in safety before think
ing of himself is not so remarkable as
the nerve and courage, the quick pres
ence of mind and ready grasp of the
situation shown by this young man of
20 years. Many men would have dallied
with fate and have hesitated to cut the
ropes in the hope of saving themselves
also. But one moment of hesitation
then would have cost the lives of all in
the lifeboat, for it would have been
swamped by the maddened sailors. 1t
was the noble choice made by Clymer to
give up his young life, full of hope and
promise, rather than to risk the lives Of
his sisters by an effort to save himself,
that marks his conduct as heroic.
| YOrb Sun.
Year: 1879

1t only takes popular song three
weeks to get 20 years old in this coun-
try.-Haockeye.


The test of greatness is to leave a
disputed will and set of bones liable to
be stolen.-N O.. P5cayune,


If Love is blind, as they say he is,
how is it that they always turn the light
down so confounded low?-La Crosse
Sun.


Flies must have good eyesight, or
they wouldn't be leaving their specs
wherever they GO Whitehall Times.


-"Ah," sighed a hungry tramp, "I
wish l was a hoss. He most always has
bit in his mouth, while l haven't had
a bit in mine for two days. ."-POrtlarad
Gazette.


We've noticed that the men who
are always trying to borrow chew of
tobacco are the men who have bank ac-
counts, and who eventually crawl up to
the top round of the ladder.-N. Y. ET-
press.


Seat Senator from the country on
a bent pin and he Immediately rises to a
point of order, leaving the chair to de-
eide whether or not the point is well
taken.-N. 0, Picay1gne.


A woman usually carries her purse
in her hand in order to be sure she will
not lose it. And, somehow, she never
remembers, until after she has had the
whole police force looking for the purse
and an advertisement in the paper Of
fering a reward for its return and no
questions asked, that she laid it down
on the counter of a dry-goods store
while she stepped to the shawl depart
ment to see if another woman's new
dress was really new or an old one fix
ed over. .-Ke0kMk Constitution.
Year: 1879

Three more vessels Of the whaiing
fleet arrived from the Arrtic yesterday
afternoon. viz. the barks Abraham
Barker, Captain Smith, and Hunter,
Captain Homan, aud the brig Hidalgo,
Captain Williams Captain George 4.
smith, OF the Abraham Barker, reports
that in all his Arctic experience he
never encountered such severe weather
As they had in that ocean the present
season lie saw nothing OF the Jean
nette, although he spoke the Sea Breesz
after that vessel saw her, and was told
by Captain Barnes that the steamer had
gone north among the loose and pack
ice. Captain Smith is OF the opinion
that a great error has been committed
in sending such an expedition out in a
vessel like the Jeannette, with not
power enough 10 work off a lee shore
in a gale of wind. II was certainly
to be hoped that her expedition
would be successful. They encoun-
tered a great deal of ice in the Straits
as they came out-something unusual
and the voyage down the coast was an
extremely tempestous one. Sunday
morning the wind, which had been
blowing from the southwark and east
ward, got around into the northwest,
and blew a gale. Captain Homan, Of
the Hunter, said that he was within 40
miles of Wrangel Land early in October.
He saw no sign of the Jeanette. IL
she was in the situation described by
Captain Barnes when he last saw her,
he thought she might have got into the
pack, and if so, it was highly prob
lematical when she succeeds in getting
out. Captain Homan thought it would
have been to the ultimate advantage of
Captain De Long if he had spoken
to the Sea Breeze and availed himself
Of the experience Of her commander and
other whaling captains in the fleet.
Captain Homan is the captain who, a
few years since, struck and captured
large bow head in the Arctic, in which
was found harpoon belonging to slip
that had been whaling off the coast of
Greenland four years previous. In fact
he had on his vessel boat steerer who
was on the ship Ansell Gibbs at the
time the whale was struck, and
recollected the circumstance Of his es-
cape after the boat was fastened.-a fact
which shows that making the Northeast
passage is no new thing with the whale
family. Captain Williams reports Sc
we're season in the Arctic, and a very
rough passage down from Fox Island.
Nov. 9Th and 9th he had severe gale of
wind, which blew from nearly every point
of the compass within twelve hours,
during which the Hidalgo lost her lower
foretopsail, and fore and mainsails, the
wind blowing them clean out of the bolt
ropes.-S. f. Call.
Year: 1879

Not. even the cow should receive gentler
handling than the sheep. Kindness is al
ways well repaid by any OF our domestic an
imals, but the sheep being SO shy an ami
NAL, it requires special exhibition of kind
moss. Ttshould be 80 handled and treated
as it will never become frightened at the
approach of person. Their treatment
shoald be such as that they will actually
learn to entertain an affection for their
keeper, aud if they do they will naturally
be tame and docile. A flock of wild sheep
is about the most improbable investment a
farmer can make. They are continually
getting themselves into some trouble, and
causing great annoyance, if not loss, to
their owner.


We have seen some hockmen jump into a
flock and pull and haul the sheep by the
wool until the animals were not only half
frightened to death, but suffered great in
jury otherwise. A sheep should never be
caught or lifted by the wool. Some one
has said that if any one doubts the impro-
priety of lifting a sheep by the wool, just
let him permit himself to be lifted by the
hair, and it is a good suggestion. When
sheep are thus caught or lifted, the skin in
some instances IS actually torn from the
flesh, and il the injury is not to that extent
it cannot but affect the flesh to some de-
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A sheep should be lifted by placing the
arms around the body and near the forelegs.
This is the easiest way to do, especially
with large sheep. To catch the animal the
hands should be thrown about tho neck, or
else be caught by the hind leg immedi-
ately above the hook. The latter may be
done with the hand or the crook, and when
this is adopted the utmost gentleness should
be observed, and the sheep gently drawn
back until the other hand can reach the
neck. It is scarcely necessary to remind
the keeper that when the crook is used upon
the sheep which is closely surrounded by
other sheep, that great care must be exer-
cised lest the oshels jump against the one
caught or against the crook, in which case
severe damage may be do:.e.
Year: 1879

Let no poet, great or small,


Say that he will siEg song;
For Song cometh, if at all,


Not because we WOO it long.
But because it suits its will,
Tired at last of being still.
Every song that has been sang
Was before it took voice
Waiting since the world was young,
For the poet of its choice.
oh, if any waiting be,
May they come to-day to me!
am ready to repeat


Whatsoever they impart;
Sorrows sent by them are sweet
They know how to heal the heart;
Ay, and in the lightest strain
Something serious doth remain
What are my white hairs, forsooth,
And the wrinkles on my brow?
have still the soul of youth
Try me, merry muses., now.
can still with numbers fleet
Fill the world with dancing feet.
No, am no longer youLg;
Old am this many year;
But my songs will yet be sung,
Though shall not live to hear.
o my son, that Is to be,
Sing my songs, and think of me!


R. H. iSt0dddf d.
Year: 1879

Out far on the deep there are billows
That never shall break on the beach,
And have heard songs in the silence
That meyer shall float into speech,
And have had dreams in the Valley
Too lofty for language to reach.
And have seen thoughts in the Valley
All, mel how my spirit was stirred
They wear holy wells on their faces,
Their footsteps can scarcely be heard
They pass down the Valley like virgins
Too pure for the touch of word.
Do you ask me the place of this Valley,
To hearts that are narrowed with caref
1t lieth afar between mountains,
Ana God and His angels are there:
And one is the dark mount of Sorrow,
And one the bright mountain of Prayer.


Father Ryan.
Year: 1879

THE AVERAGE LEGIsLAToR.-But even
in those cases that are sufficiently under
stood to make knowledge valuable for the
law w-maker's guidance, it is difficult to gat
the actuaFbenstit of it. Our Legislative
wisdom is too apt to be swampsd in leg
isiativs. folly. There are prevalent super
stitions about the dignity and grand offices
and mysterious potencies of government
which lead people enormously to exagger-
ate what can really be got out of it. Strip
ped Of this glamour, what is popular gov
ernment at any time but the offiee-holding
politicians that have been got together to
represent and embody it? Constitutions
and laws derive their value and virtue from
the competency and character of the men
chosen to interpret and apply them. If
these are low, legislation will be degraded.
What government IS and does is determin-
ed by the quality of those who carry it on.
The American Congress is invested with
power to abolish past legislation and sub
stitute new legislation; but who viii pre-





comprehending even the rudimental inter-
actions Of social forces, much less the far
reaching consequences of experimental leg
islation? A large number of them are Hit
crate blockheads, who never seriously stud
led anything-men who have made money
and used it to get Office. Msny Congress
men ale mere praeticed political bullies and
intriguers. Many are shrewd lawyers, who
known the technicalitiss of their profession
and but little else. Others are educated
men, but in whose education no science of
any sort ever entered. And there are
few Congressman Of able minds, who have
critically studied the facts and principles
relating to human society which should
underlie sound legislation. But they are
precious few; their chances of getting
into Congress are slender, and of remaining
there next to impossible-eyen if their self
respect would permit them to wish it,
Popular Science Monthly.
Year: 1879

Dalton (Ga.) Headlight.]


Now we have a real live prodigy in
our town, which can't be beat, and it's
no use for our exchanges to hatch up
any more lies. There is lady in this
city who can make shoes, repair sew
ing machines, clocks, boots and shoes,
make picture frames, house keys and
nearly every article that she needs
about the house, in fact, she is a won
derful mechanical genius. Not long
ago she made her own last and finished
up a nice pair of high heeled shoes for
herself She also halfsolcs and repairs
her husbands boots, and can finish up
ladies' shoes as we'll as anybody. While
out in the garden recently she lost one
of her keys, and being an intelligent
woman and one believing in homo
manufactures, she procured file and
an old piece of iron and made key
which answered very well. She says
that if she had the tools she could
make good key. If she wants pic
ture frame or any like article, she don't
have to buy it. When her own or her
neighbours clock gets out of order she
sets it to working again, free of charge.
1t is something unusual for woman
to develop talent of this kind, which
is both a useful and worthy accom-
plishment, and one of which she may
well be proud. Her husband, too,
should be proud of possessing such a
wife. No one man in ten thousand
can boast of having such a treasure.
Year: 1879

A recent letter from Washington to
the Boston Herald contains this inter-
esting item A West Virginia man
named Moore, who spent years over q
type-setting machine, and gave it up,
has invented very remarkable set OF
machinery as substitute for type-set-
ting, which is attracting attention here.
This machinery is in successful use by
leading stenographer in town, who uses
it for printing briefs and reports Of tes-
timony taken in shorthand. The words
are spelled out by keyboard, and a
rapidly.revolving cylinder, turned by
machinery, prints them upon an endless
band of paper. This band OF paper is
taken to another machine by second
operator and "justi6ed into the form
desired. From this page lithographic
copies are then taken. The stenograph-
or dictates from his notes, and the irst
operator spells out the report at the rate
of fifty or sixty words a minute. The
mechanism by which this is accom-
plished is remarkable invention. The
inventor believes that he can impress
the words upon soft paper matrix in
stead of printing them, that the matrix
can then be justified into forms, and that
a stereotype plate can then be made o.
the whole. He is now building set OF
machinery to accomplish this. It seems
wholly impossible that matri1 for a
page of q newspaper can be made up
from one.line slips, but the inventor is
very confident. That the strips OF
matrix can be struck off at the rate of
fifty or sixty words minute is certain.