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Year: 1878

We must measure mans strength
by the power of the feelings he sub
dues, not by the power of those
which subdue him. And hence,
composure is often the highest
result of strength. Did we ever see
a man receive "a fragrant injury, and
then reply calmly? That is a man
spiritually strong, Or, did we ever
see man in anguish, stand as If
carved out of solid rock, as if master
ing himself? Or one bearing hope
less daily trial remain silent and
never tell the world what cankered
his home peace? That is strength,
We too often mistake strong feel
ings for strong character. A man
who bears all before him, before
whose frown domestics tremble, and
whose bursts of fury make the child
rem of the household quake, because,
he has his own way in all things, we
call him strong man; it is his pas
sons that are strong-he, mastered by
them, is weak.
Year: 1878

A COMPLETE TRIUMPH AT THE
CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION! The
Weber Pianos received the highest award
ut the Centennial Exposition. Beware of
other manufacturers claiming Centennial
award, as it is false. The Weber Piano
has also the best references of any piano
in the world. Send for catalogue con-
tanning account of factory prices, and the
judges report at the Centennial, &c.
Year: 1878

THE CHAMPION HORSE RAKE.
Self-dumping or misunderstanding 1t is
the very best that is made. Cannot be
beat. Very low prices. Guaranteed. If
any machine does not work well we do
not ask you to keep it.
Year: 1878

In view of the possibility of war with
Russia, John Bull is actively taking
stock of his military resources, and his
comfortable conclusion is that the nation
was never better able to fight than now.
To be sure the English standing army
is hardly more than a corporal's guard
compared with that of any of the first
class continental powers, and, with all
the reserves and volunteers added, it
would still be outnumbered by the hOrdes
of conscripts which the vast Russian
Empire could pour forth. But it is not
numbers alone that tell, and England
vaunts herself upon the superior quality
and equipment of the men she could
send into the field; put, most of all, her
reliance is placed in the Kingdoms I'M
limited material resources and credit.
England can borrow untold millions at
about per cent, while Russia must pay
over 6, and the Lord is quite as much
on the side of the long purse in modern
warfare as that of the heavy artillery.


1t has been somewhat the fashion
among frst-class European powers to
regard England as OF steadily lessening
military cOnsequeence-as an old and
toothless lion, too studiouS OF its COM
fort and general welfare to be readily
provoked into combat, or of cOmpara-
lively small account if, by chance, it
should roar and enter the lists. And
the country's persistent neutrality dur
ing all the turbulent vicissitudes of Eu-
ropean map-making for generation
back has lent some color to this belief !;
yet, after all, these years in which the
nation has lain fallow are but another
Year: 1878

In the last century a merchant vessel


came into London docks with yellow


fever, and the captain was suffering
severely from it, and no one would 90
near the sufferers. DIR. Fothergill, how
ever, went on board partly out OF COM


passion and partly from his desire to
study disease which was new to him
and he took the captain to his own house
and finally succeeded in getting him
through the fever. When the captain
recovered he inquired from the doctor
what he was in mis- debt, but Fothergill
refused to receive any payment. The
captain then wished to know how he
could compensate him for such kindness,
upon which the doctor replied that there
was one thing he could do for him If he
were making a voyage to the east, and
would pass through the straits OF Macas-
sar, by Borneo, he should be glad II he
would bring him back two barrels full OF
the earth of Borneo, which the captain
promised TO do. However, when he
reached the spot on his voyage out, he
thought of the ridicule he must ex'
perience from his crew in 80 strange an
undertaking and his heart smote him,
and he sailed through the straits without
fulfilling his intention. On his return
by the same route the same thing
happened again through his fear of the
SCOTS of his crew. However, after he
mad left the straits two hundred ol
possibly three hundred miles behind him


his conscience smote him at the non


fulfllment of his promise, and he put
the ships head about, returned to thu
spot and filled the barrels with the earth
On his return he sent it to DIR. Fother
gill, who had the surface of piece o
ground thoroughly burned, and he thel
sprinkled the Borneo earth on it, whel
il is a known fact that there came up al
kinds of new and curious plants, said u
be one hundred different sorts, som


geraniums and new flowers, which hav


subsequently spread throughout tn


gardens of England.-Pittsburg Dispatch
Year: 1878

To person OF sentiment, no gift con-
fers the pleasure or touches the feeling
that does he gift of ring In England
the plain gold ring is universally reserved
for the wedding ring, and whenever an
Englshman sees such an one on a
woman's left hand, he of course supposes
her to be married.


1t is pity we do not observe the same
custom. Marriage is such a high and
holy and awfully solemn relation, that it
might well have its own peculiar badge
all to itself But with us, young girls
constantly wear plain gold rings, and
that even on the wedding" or third
finger of the left hand.


The diamond ring, too, is almost by
common consent the engagement "
ring, and in the solitaire" form GER
tainly it ought to be sacred to this Office.
At least unmarried women under 35
ought not to wear the solitaire diamond
ring, nor should they ever have the bad
taste to purchase themselves one. If
they inherit such a ring from their
mother let them wear il, il they choose,
when they consider themselves hope
lessly welded to the single estate But
in general this most beautiful of all
rings should be reserved as the gift of
happy love. There are varieties enough
of splendid gems to choose from, and
diamonds may surround. or be set them
selves in rows or in clusters. Let, then,
the young girl beware how she assumes
the solitaire diamond ring, lest, having
placed one on her finger herself, she will
find no future lover who will place a
second there On the other hand, a true
lover will not be satisfied with giving
her whom he has chosen before all the
world any symbol less precious than this
of the truth aud purity of the faith he
has pledged her.
Year: 1878

he found extremely useful in the conduct
of the operations of war. In many
instances, however, 1t will still be de.
rable that the messages sent should be
written by the instrument employed
AMI therefore the German military
authorities are now endeavoring to ar
range an apparatus which shall be able
to be used at pleasure either as a tele'
phone or as Morse's printing instru
ment, and which at the same time shall
be compact, portable and not easily liable
to derangement.-PaN Nail Gazette.
Year: 1878

OF eats, with garden ground, conld be
easily managed we'll with four men.


In the southwest, and In the west fur
ther north, where produce Is, say, one
third lower than in the eastern states, il
will not pay TO farm land which has
been plowed and cropped till it will only
grow little over half yields. To enable
the proprietor to make as good an income
as the eastern landowner, the soil must
grow more than thirty per cent. over the
crops in the east. Any one purchasing a
farm in any OF the sO-called improved
districts, will find all the virgin fertility
gone, and planters who have been rent
ing out their farms can never succeed on
them again. 1t is folly to expect any
good pastures again, after the plow has
upset the genuine blue grass sward
While there 10 at least three -fourths Of
the old undistrubed grass land on farm,
the owner is safe; through OF course, II
the other fourth has been renovated, and
the fertility replaced after crops have
been taken of, it would be safer and
better.


On good grazing estate, in such
q climate as will permit OF wintenDg
the stock chiefly on the pastures, very
little labor is required, and an owner
would be wiser to do away with the
old custom st boarding any OF the help.


lie should keep them Gear OF the house
and the grounds surrounding IL, and let
them lave payment in cash, 40 they can
eat whatever they please by buying it..
There is no reas, n why farmhouse
should not be as private and free from
the nuisance of farm hands tramping
about the kitchen an merchants house
in city is free from all mixing up OF
clerks and kitchen.


BY raising calves on skim milk, and
putting an end to the ridiculous and
stupid custom Of allowing the calf To
suck the csw partially, a much better
quantity OF milk can be had than from
cows in the north, because of the beauti.
full green grass which fourisbes at all


times. There Is also better chance II


raise poultry and TO profit by their eggs


on account of the mild winters; and Il
geese and ducks were allowed TO veal


their feathen as Almighty God intended
they should, and the cruel brutes who
pick them alive could be sent to Jail fol


a year or two for every such barbarou'
oifense, there would be ten times as many


raised, and ten Zines the profit made.
Year: 1878

II IL almost impossible for q careless
farmer 10 be prosperous. How often 40
We hear Of some unexpected failure in
the commercial worldf We look for the
cause Of this disaster, and We Rnd that
the merchant was engaged In unprofit.
able trade, or perhaps some faithless
clerk has robbed his master. The failure
is due to any one OF a dozen causes
which proper overnight might have
corrected. When the merchant has real
lied the ambitious dreams of his earlier
mercantile career, he neglects those
habits OF business which insured his
success, and failure Is the result. And it
u the same in any business or occupation.
But with an unsuccessful farmer, lack OF
success is still more directly traceable to
carelensness of the man himself. Care.
lessnew in farming Is manifested in many
different ways, each seemingly unimpor
tant.


The careless farmer il careless OF his
own personal appearance, Indifferent to
the wants of his family, and negligent
Of his stock. Personally he Is deficient
in spirit and enterprise. Az TO his lam
lily, 1t satisfies him II his wife does all
his hard drudgery, and asks few favors.
His children must not care for education,
tor society, to leave the farm, or for any
thing except to wait upon his pleasur re.
His crops are planted, cultivated, and
harvested in slipshod sort of manner
that leaves only small margin
for profit. His stock il inferior, and he
loses few head from disease every
spring. His tools (if he has improved
tools) soon decay from exposure to the
elements and negligent use. He ha,
le.s stock, lighter crops and more debt.
than li, more careful neighbor. Such q
farmer, however, does not continue con.
tracting debts and liabilities until he
can 90 no farther and there is an exten.
sive failure involving hundreds of other
business men, but he buys something
that he does not need (perhaps a top
buggy, or machine) or he hires some
one TO do work he could do himself. He
has not the money to pay down and gives
his note, which is good as cash.
However, when the note il due. his
creditor must walt few days, and this is
repeated % frequently and always by
asking more days OF grace, 80 that at last
TO secure his debts and obtain credit he
must mortgage his stock, and a chattel
mortgage is followed by a mortgage on
his farm. There are very many other
reasons why . farmer should fail. He
may have been unfortunate, perhaps he
has lost soms stock from accident or
disease. His crops may have been light
and growing lighter. He may have
occasionally sold his stock or crops in an
un'avorabIe market. These are all
apparent reasons for his failure, but back
OF all this is the man himself.
Year: 1878

A LIFE SAVED FOR THIRIY-FIvE
CENrs.-A lady in Boston had diptheria and
was almost dead from strangulation. She was
instantly relieved and finally cured by John
sons Anodyne Lniment. Every family
should have a bottle ready for instant use.
Year: 1878

Paris Corresponding Cleveland Hersid.I


The French abuse horses with more
inhumanity than Southern negro treats
q mule. They will take off their hats
70 you with grace that has never been
imported To- our shores, and pass the
compliments Of the day in Language and
style that is the very poetry Of
polite intercourse; but they will allow a
woman TO faint before they will offer her
a seat in street car, or in the slightest
degree inCOmmodc themselves. As an
instance Of their want of gallantry, saw
a lady drop her parasol from q cab
while driving on the Boulevard, between
the Madelainc and the Champ Elysee.
The Boulevard was crowded and muddy
from recent rains Not a Frenchman
pretended TO pick 10 mp for her; she did
not seem to expect IL. She might have
held the reins OF the two quiet horses
while the driver would recover the
parasOl, but she was "a French woman
and knew that the driver was not paid
FOR that. She took i'm the situation at a
glance was equal to the emergency and
the civilization she got down in tho
mud and helped herself
Year: 1878

lBreakfast Table


He was benign, fatherlv-lookiny
man, with a silken white beard tlowinS
about his breast. There was gentle
dignity in his manner and msiestic
something about his walk that attracted
the second look from all who met him
Age had sat lightly upon his shoulders.
and care had dimmed not the brightness
OF an eye that could enchain, yet hold
at arms length. He carried his head
erect, slightly thrown back, and walked
with slow, steady tread, planting his
feet firmly. He was a clo,e, keen OBJ
server, and frequently paused TO examine
IN detail objects of more than passing
interest He halted suddenly i'm front
OF "A showy placard in the window of "A
cheap restaurant. 1t read thus:
Year: 1878

new orleans Picayuue.1


I've just been down in the parlor to
mamma. She's in a long box, with flow
ers on her. ! wish she'd come and
battle my head-it aches 20. Nobodv
ever makes it feel good but mamma.
She knew how it hurt me, and she used
TO read 20 me out Of a little book how
my head would get well and not ache
any more some day. Nobody likes me
but mamma. That's cause I've got a
sick head. Mamma used To take me i'm
her aims and cry. When / asked her
what the matter she would say. "pm
only tired, darling" I guess Aunt
Agnes made her tired for when she came
and stayed all day mamma would take
me up Ia heevening on her lap and crv
awful hard ] amt had any dinner to-
day. Mamma always gave me my din
ner and q little teenty pudding with
" ID, for Danny" on the top. like
little puddings with Us on TOP. like
70 sit in my little chair by the fire and
eat 'em. ] wish mamma wouldn't stay
In the long box. ! guess Aunt Agnes
put her there, cause she put all the
flower trimmings on and shows her to
everybody. There amt any fire in the
CRATE, but guess III sit by Il and make
believe there is. Pll get my little dish
and spoon and play I've got a pudding
with - Tor Danny on it. But anyway
want mamma - bad.
Year: 1878

The very intelligent correspond
ent of the Charleston News and
Courier, who went out to Liberia
with the negro emigrants and the
ship AzOre, has written several let
ters to his paper on the condition
and prospects of the negro in the
African republic, from which we
learn that a great and overhanging
curse to the people is the desire for
office. This part of their inheritance
is from this country. AS is the case
with hundreds of white as well as
colored men here, many of the Ii
berians bank upon their political
expectancy and pass their lives in
idleness, becoming at last shiftless
pariahs, weight, clog and hind
rance to the better disposed and more
thrifty members of the community.
The offices do not pay very high
salaries, but they are none the less
eagerly sought for. The correspond
ent concludes that the question as
to the negro's ability to govern him
self is not decided, as the govern
the result of which cannot be de-
termined. Those in Liberia have
borrowed from the United States
form and system of government de-
signed for an intelligent, virtuous
and progressive people, which they
are applying to a people with as
little virtue and far less intelligence
and apparently utterly lacking in
the prOgressiveness of the Ameri-
can.
Year: 1878

The following article is from the


HopkinsvilIe (Ky.) New Era, and
is not only sensible talk but is
strictly true:


The man who deserts the ranks
of the Democracy when his party is
swiftly marching triumphantly to
power and will soon have control of
every branch of the National gov
ernment, in order to join helpless
band whose sole purpose is to under
take the work of financial reform
that was inaugurated and is being
successfully prosecuted by the DEM
ocratic party, is personally commit
ting political suicide. There is no
probability that the National Green
back party will, even under the
most favorable auspices, acquire
sufficient strength within the next
ten years to effect the legislation of
the country, and as the Democratic
party has aVOWed and reiterated its
devotion to the greenback cause, the
success of that cause can only be ac-
cOmplished through the instrument
taiity of the Democratic Organiza-
ton. Unreasoning men may not
choose to see, and conform their ac-
tions to the logic of the facts, but it
will nevertheless be sustained by the
result of future political contests.
Year: 1878

BATON ROUGE, August 6.-The
Democratic State Convention to-
day adopted platform. 1t recon-
mends the levee system calls for
aid to the Patific Railroad and Bra
lillian Steamship Line; indorses the
Nichols government; indOrseS the
State funding law, and approves
the fraud investigation by either
House. The resolutions favor the
next Legislature calling Constitu
tiOnal Convention asserts that the
interest of the industrial, wealth.
producing classes is of paramount
interest to the people of the United
States. Those whose labor and en-
terprise produce wealth should be
secured in its enjoyment. They eX-
press sympathy for the laboring
classes, who have been thrown out
of employment by the ruinOus finan-
cial policy and unjust legislation of
the Republican party, and pledges
the Democratic party to reform
these wrongs upon its ascendency
to power.


Resolved, That the Louisiana
Democracy demands that the ma
tional banking system should be
abolished, and national bank notes
retired, and in lieu thereof that the
government of the United States
should issue an equal amount of
treasury notes, commonly known
as greenbacks, and we also demand
the unconditional repeal of the laws
imposing a tax on State banks. We
demand also the immediate and un-
conditional repeal of the resumption
act, and are unalterably opposed to
the ruinOus policy pursued by the
Republican party, whereby the vol
ume of currency has been contracted
far below the business requirements
Of the country, and failures, depres-
sion, scarcity of labor and pauper
wages have been entailed.


Resolved, That it is the sense of
this Convention that all bonds and
obligations of the National govern
ment should be paid in legal tender
greenback notes of the United
States, except when it is otherwise
provided in the original law under
which they were issued. We fur
ther demand the repeal of all laws
passed subsequent to the original
law creating the public debt, by
which the obligation of contract
have been made more OnerOus.
Year: 1878

Gen. Myers had very kindly adj
Vised our party where, and how, to
look for the coming shadow, and
we had taken our station on the
northern edge of the summit several
minutes before the period of total
observation of thesun's disk. With
out the aid of a glass the eye could
at this time distinctly note the
shimmering of the bright sunlight
on the mountains, more than one
hundred miles to the northward.
Suddenly we observed them disap-
pear, and a great wall of darkness,
stretching out on either side as far
as the eye could reach, concealed
them from us. With incOnceivable
rapidity the shadow swept toward
us, its front clear black line, bord-
cred with fringe of yellow. 1t hid
from sight range after range of the
more distant mountains, and quick
ly covered with a CHASTITY pail the
peaks and foothills and plains close
beneath us.


When the shadow reached and
enveloped US, the eye could dimly
outline the nearer mountains and
could single out with strange dis
tinctneSs the houses and farms in
the valley below. The sky over
head seemed heavy and laden, and
every visible object was pallid and
ghastly. The very shadow seemed
tangible and to weigh upon us, but
the horizon all around us was
brightly illumined by flashing rays
of red and yellow lights like those
of the Aurora. While we on the
peak were still enveloped in the
depth of the shadow, its upper line
passed over the far-otf range to the
nOrthward, and the clear sunlight
struck the mountains, and away
beyond and through the darkness,
they burst suddenly into view. In
an instant other and nearer noun
tains appeared, and then the dimly-
shaded parks and the wooded Di-
vide were bathed in sunlight, and
the shadow rushed past us.


During the period of darkness, the
view around us was weird and ter
rible; but the sudden burst of sun
light which appeared upon the dis
tant mountains, as they seemed to
spring up inStantaneOusly from the
bosom of the earth, was one of the
most sublime and joyous visions
that it is ever given to mortal eyes
to witness. 1t brought a sense of
relief AMI delight, and no one who
saw it can forget it.


There was one peculiar phen0me-
non of color connected with the ap-
proach and disappearance of tie
shadow of total observation which
may perhaps have some scientific
value, and be worthy of note. 1t
was observed that along both lines
of The shadow, and especially along
its departing edge perhaps more dis
tinctly than its advance line, there
was well-defined strip of yellow
color, shading off into orange and
light red. This appearance was
well defined and bordered the dark
lines like a fringe. These lines of
color were noted by three or four
persons, who all agree as to their
appearance. viii sQma scientist
tell US why they were there and
what they indicate?
Year: 1878

One or our eXcnanges mas tne IOl-


lowing:


"This complaint is the result Of


eating too much and exercising too
little. Nine times In ten the cause


Is in the fact that the stomach was


not able TO digest the food last in


trOduced into il, either from its hav-


ing been unsuitable, or excessive In


quantity. A diet of bread and but


ter, with ripe fruits or berries, with


moderate continuous exercise in
the open air, sufficient TO keep up a
gentle perspiratiOn would cure al
most every case in a short time.
Two teaspOonfuls of powdered char
coal i'm half glass Of water and
drank, generally gives instant re-
lief" We are inclined 10 think
that the above remedy may do In
some but not i'm all cases. A sover-
eign remedy for this distressing dis
ease is not easily found. A cores
pondent in Connecticut contributes
the following on this subject "Sick
headache is periodical, comes on at
regular intervals, and is the signal
of distress which the stomach puts
up to inform us that there il an over
alkaline condition Of its fluids; that
il needs a natural acid to restore the
battery to its normal working con-
dition. When the first symptoms
of headache appear, take a table
spoonful of lemOnjuice clear fifteen
minutes before each meal, and the
same dose at bedtime follow this
up until all symptoms are passed,
taking no other remedies, and you
will soon be able to go free from
this unwelcOme nuisance. Many
will object to this, because the REM
edy is 50 simple; but have made
many cures in this way"