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Year: 1877

Fifty or sixty years ago it was the
custom for gentlemen wishing SER
wants to visit emigrant ships as soon
as they arrived in port. Selecting
the man or woman who pleased
them, they would pay his or her
passage money, about seventy or
eighty dollars, to the captain, agree
ing to give the servant clothing and
board, and at the end of three
years service, twenty or thirty dol
lars.


One daY a gentleman, a man of
fortune, residing in Philadelphia,
went on board the emigrant ship to
hire girl or purchase her time" "
as it was then called. He selected
one, and was shown her father. The
old man was anxious to go with his
daughter, and after some persua-
sions the gentleman purchased his
time. swell, now" said the old
man, "there'S my old wife, take
her also." There was something
so attractive in the old woman that
the gentleman bought her time.


Going together to the registers
Office to complete the bargain, the
gentleman was surprised to find
that the name which the emigrants
gave was spelled and pronounced
like his own. Inquiries ended in
discovering that he had bought the
time of his father and mother.


When six years old, a son Of the
old folks had been taken to Amer.
lea by gentleman, and they had
lost all knowledge of him; indeed
they had almost forgotten they had
a son in America. They recollected
however, that their boy had a fig.
ure of cucumber on one of his
shoulders. The newly.found son
was stripped in the Office and to the
delight Of the aged couple, there
was the birth mark.
Year: 1877

J


Professor Swing commends the
Southern Methodist Conference
which has had the courage to sug-
gest that pulpit orators should
avoid a "frequent drinking of water
during sermons" and "should not
finger the leaves of the bible, nor
pound the desk while preaching"
and that the congregation should


"wear coats to church, and walk
in softly-not like mules on a
bridge" The incident reminded
him that in an Ohio circuit there
hourished once, like green bay
tree, a Methodist preacher by the
name of Burdsell, who always
showed his earnestness over a theme
by the amount of clothing he re-
moved during the discussion of the
text. When the Sunday was rather
warm and the text was q pretty
good one, such as elbow can ye
escape if ye neglect so great saliva
Year: 1877

Twenty Thousand People
old and young. every week. 1t is Just to SAY
that tho patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class Of
community.


We desire our business mon to make a note
of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free Of all irregular and irresponsible adyer-
tising for many Good people seeing an ad-
vsrtisoment in paper. especially their
church paper. take it as guarantee Of re-
sDOnsibility. Such confidence should not be
abused when it can be helped. We want,
therefore,


The Advertising Patronage
Of such business men and firms as We can
recommend to our friends and the public
without compromising the character of the
paper.


Our Terms shall be in Harmon


With the Business outlook.


Send in YOur FavOrs.
Year: 1877

SCHOOL LANTERN, FAMILY LANTERN,


PEOPLES LANTERN.
Each styla being the best OF Its class in tho market
Catalogues sf Lanterns and Slides, with direo-
tions for using. sent on application.


Any enterprising man can make money with q
Magic Lantern.


RB- Visitors to the Centennial Exposition will do
wisely to defer purchasing goods In our line until
they come to our stores in New York. where they
will ind greater variety and more moderate prices
and can select more at their leisure. But We have
concession 70 sell some styles Of goods in IN
building of the Department OF Public Comfort, and
those not coming to New York invited to call on
our representation there.


R8- fun stock Of Views OF the Exposition Build
ing and their contents.


June %, '76-m6.
Year: 1877

CANDLEMAs DAY.-Next Friday February
2nd) Is Candlemas day The festival Of
Ctndlemas Tor publication of the Virgin
Nary is Of very ancient date, and is cele.
brated as holyday by the Church of Rome
On this day, the ground hog is supposed to
leave his Winter quarters as regularly as
though he consulted the almanac. Ii he
should see his shadow in the sunlight, he
goes back to his hole for six more weeks if
he does not see his shadow, he stays out
and six weeks of fine Spring weather is
sure to follow.
Year: 1877

A boy borrowed a tOOi from a carpen-
ter, promising to return it at night Be
fore evening he was sent away on an
errand, and did not return until late.
Before going he was told that his brother
should see that the article was returned.
After he had come home he inquired and
found that the tool had not been sent to
its owner. He was much distressed to
think his promise had not been kept.
but was persuaded to 60 to sleep and
rise early and carry it home the next
morning. By daylight he was up, and
nowhere was the tool to be found. After
a long fruitless search he set Of for his
neighbor's in great distress to acknowI-
edge his fault. But how great was his
surprise to find the tool on his neigh
boris deorstone. And then it appeared.
from the prints of his little bare feet in
the mud, that the lad had got up in his
sleep and carried the tool home. and
gone to bed again without knowing it..
OF course boy who was prompt in his
sleep was prompt when awake. Re
spected while he lived, he had the con-
fidence of his neighbOrs, and was placed
in many offices OF trust and profit. If
all grewn persons felt as this bOv did
there would be q good many tracks OF
bare feet found some of these bright
mornings, and what piles of books and
tools would be found 1t their owners
doors
Year: 1877

3ty Of the men in his army to the seamen
of his fleet = point OF discipline and con
ditiOn Count NOTGbzOsE replied that
what the army wanted was more food
and less drill. Hundreds of thousands
of human beings have been sacrificed in
the last fiftf years to the stupid pride of
exhibiting IL the world the shows and
pageants of a great tililit&ry establish
ment. What renders this state Of things
still mere lamentable and extraordinary
is that the Russians are not warlike or
corn bative people. Even IN their drink
ing bouts they do not fight. They are
entirely ignorant of all that goes on
abroad and entirely Indifferent TO glory.
Nor can any conceivable benefit accrue
to the people of Russia by threatening and
mOlesting their neighbOrs, or by the ac-
QUESTION of territory, of which they have
already more than enough. If their
country were attacked they would de-
tend 1t with undaunted courage, but as a
race Of men there is no people in the
world less disposed to slaughter their
neighbOrs. Military service is with them
the result of absolute, blind, unqUestion-
ing obedience. They submit to it as
they submit to a law of nature, because
they are dOcile and brave. Set surely
military service, as it is understood in
Russia, is the most detestable form of
slavery; for a peaceful peasant Is con-
vefted by it, without the least will OF his
own, into bloodhound, a destroyer or a
victim. And this bBrden is now hung
with redoubled weight UPON the back of
every peasant in the empire. fhc whole
community is crushed by it. Military
service is the primary obligation of life,
and must effect every other relation of
sOciety.-Edin5urqh Rcpiew.
Year: 1877

A French engineer has proposed to
establish tramways with granite tracks
in lieu of rails in Finisterre. He is of
opinion that this system is far preferable
10 the ordinary railways. There already
exists a vast network of what are in
truth tramways with granite rails,
worked by horse traction in northern
Italy. In the streets of the principal
towns and sometimes on the roads tracks
of granite are laid in the highways.
The surface of these tracks being fat
and perfectly smooth, the wheels Of the
vehicles glide over them with the least
possible friction. The conductor of each
vehicle takes care so TO guide it that the
wheels always remain on the granite.
The author of the project maintains that
there Is nothing to prevent the granite
lines from being nsed by carriages driven
by steam power, in like manner as
though drawn by horses. At the same
time, is is not proposed to adopt the
train system on granite tracks; each
carnage will be provided with its own
steam power, will move by itself and be
guided by means of mechanism speci-
ally devised ror the Pail IfaH
Gazette
Year: 1877

new rule was established yesterday in the Fifty
seventh Street Court which took the reporters
by surprise Mr. John Lindon, who rs the clerk OF
Justice Murray, now sitting in the court Informed
HERALD reporter that hereafter no papers would bo
shown TO the members OF the press who the present
Justice was on tho bench unless they FIRST went
Justice and asked permission TO see the papers No
reason was gwen for the making OF the ruie. II
10 tno lrst time In the history OF the Fifty seventh
street Court that nero paper was made so hard ~
porters unnecessary trouble, as the clerks nrc old
enough to tako tho responsibility OF allowing papers
TO he seen on their own shoulders The rule does hot
include lawyers aud others, but makes Q marked ex-
ceptlon IN the case Of the press.
Year: 1877

There recently appeared in the HERALD account
OF Tho commencement OF u suit IN the Marine Court
oy William Weber, u stevedore, to recover damages
from James Stewart, Patrick Reed and another. for
injuries received through the perperaon OF alleged
cruel joke on their part Webber stated IN his coin.
piaint that he was induced TO liquor store "
stewart by tho other parties and there was induced
by oil three TO try his pulling strength a machine
to which was attached electric battery; that while
innoccnty engaged In the experiment the parties
turned on powerful current, which gathered HIM up
IN heap and kept him hanging by cord OF lightning
for the space OF three minutes An order OF clya
arrest issued against all three defendants and they
were compelled TO give bail the sum OF $500 each.
Now appears tho other side or the story ln The
answer or the defendants, served by Nr. John
A. O'Brien. In this II is alleged that the
Job was originally ''pu up' by Webber himself for
The purpose OF getting the laugh Reed and that IA


taxing hold OF the machine to illustrate To the latter
how he was TO perform some of tho party turned the
tables on him by suddenly turning current Tor bs
bencut. This no doubt astonished Wcbbcr In proper.


ton us II gave cause Tor merrmcnt to all the others
SO much so that they unintentonaiy gave him more
than tho ordinary ightnng probation before they
thought oil turning of the current Under these cir
cumstances iney claim that no harm meant, that
Webbcr was fully aware OF the effects Of the nachin
and that even II he was slightly injured, which they
dcny no was only the victim of his trep, aud does
not come into court with clean hands
Year: 1877

A short time ago, poor Irish woman,
whose husband had been killed in the
war, called on General B. F. Butler, in
Boston, to ask for his influence in get
ting employment for her son as a labOrer
in the navy yard. She told her pitiful
story-of cold nights and days in their
miserable lodging, of the weary walks
of her son, seeking day IS labor to stop
the slow starvation-and every word
she said was proved by the wretched
shawl, and white face, and wasted fig
ure. He heard the story as if he was
used to it, and was taking out his wallet
to give her dollar and let her go, when
be asked, in his gruf way, "Where's
your husband, ma'am?"


"He was killed in the war, sir-in
New Orleans-under you," said the
widow, and she broke down so6bing as
if her heart would burst, and covering
her face with her opron.


Old Ben put his wallet in his pocket
and stood up, with a strange glitter in
his eye for moment, looking at the
woman's misery and grief. Then he
told her to be quiet, asked her husbands
name and regiment, and called one of
his clerks. After looking through a
large book, and making notes, he told
LhO POOL "OLldu " Cdll Oh ulul III u
fortnight when he returned from Wash
ington; and he also promised he would
give her the letter for her son. With a
grateful heart the widow went away.
Three days afterward General Butler
| was in Washington, and he made it his
business to see about the widows case
at the War Department. He found that
pension was due to her of 81, 175, and
the money was transferred to his care
for her use, after proper formalities.
| When the two weeks had expired, the
widow called on him in Boston for the
letter for her son.


! "Here it is" said the General; "this
will get him work, and his wages will
be enough to support you and him in
comfort. And here" he added, pulling
out an envelope, sis another letter con.
tanning S1,175 for yourself, due to you
by the United States. Lodge this in the
bank in your own name, and if evel
you want to invest it in any other way
come to me and I'll tell you how"


Then he sat down and enjoyed hel
emotion. When the first flood of JOY
and surprise was over, the gratefu
widow pulled out hundred dollar note
from the money and handed it to The
General.


mo, no." said Butler. "I never ye
took dollar from q widow, and Pm too
old to begin by taking it from the widow
of ier."-BoStOB Pilot.
Year: 1877

Faith is one of the best friends of love,
as jealousy Is its worst enemy. 1t has
been said, and with some truth, that no
one loves who finds it impossible to be
jealous. Yet it is also true thatoue does
not love well without feeling an almost
perfect faith in the object OF his love.
While love is in its earliest stages,
while their is no fixed assurance of af-
feetion, look, word, a whisper, will
fire the anxious heart with the most
jealous fame; "trifles light as air" will
be as "prOofs of holy writ" and he is
always ready to say, "She is flirting
with me;" and she is only apt to be-
lieve, "that, after all, he does not love
me-" But when once two people under
stand each other, when they have ex-
changed the vows of betrothal, or are
actually married, faith should fold her
wings in their hearts, and neither
should dare to doubt the other lightly.
1t is rarely that man does doubt a
woman. Our lives are spent under the
protecting shadow of home. Only a
few of the many maids and matrons
whom we know have any secrets in their
lives. In respectable society women are
almost always good, and men know it.
But men go out into their world, leav-





Rumor accredits them with "ways that
are dark and tricks that are vain," and
women tell each other dreadful tales
about them, as children tell each other
ghost stories in the twilight. So, if a
wOman's love be light thing-a COM
pound of admiration and tickled vanity,
as it sometimes is-let a whisper be
breathed, a shadow cross her path, and
away goes faith, and jealousy sits vel
low-eyed upon the threshold of her heart
and drives out love. But if she loves
| well-if it is the man himself whom she
holds dear, and not his outward SEEM
ing-if she knows that he loves her as
we'll, and there is more between them
than flattery and kisses-why, then
woman is more strong of heart than
man, and she needs only the assurance
of his lips to believe him true, though
the whole world whispered slanderous
falsehoods to her, and host of jealous
women strove to poison her happiness.
Faith is nurse to love; without her she
starves to death; and the moment one
really doubts another, it is only a MEM
ory of affection that lingers-not the af-
lection itself. That is banished; and
only when doubt departs will it return
again. The world is full of SANDER
mongers, and there are many who hate
to see others happy. Only with the
shield of perfect faith upon her bosom
can the wife guard herself from those
enemies who would drive love from her
home, and think that if true love has
bound her to her husband, she will find
it there without seeking for it, and will
wear it all her life.-Ne1U York Mercury.
Year: 1877

A lady of religious turn of mind, re-
siding in the country, was anxious to
present her nephew, who was going to
sea, with some slight testimony of her
affection, and decided, if she could Oh
tain it, to give him piOus work, known
as "The Companion to the Altar" But
the nearest town was nine miles off, sc
she walked over to the neighbOring viii
Iage aud inquired for the work at the
general shop, which combined groceries
haber-dashery, and the post office, with
a little book selling. The proprietor re.
piled that he thought he possessed the
book, but after running his finger along
his shelf he turned round and said, "a
am sorry to say that have not got it
madam; but here is work of the same
class, the Guide to Courtship anC
Marriage if that will suit you"
Year: 1877

Either the mails, or the author, or
both, are remiss in duty, and again we
are compelled to go to press without
further enlightenment concerning the
adventures of "Edna and john" If
this luckless couple could have fore
seen not only their own vexations but
ours in attempting to get theirs before
the public, we are sure that there would
have been one less elopement to chroni-
Gle, and baby "Idaho' and her baby
brother would have been orphans-in
advance.
Year: 1877

The Cheyenne Sun "points a moral


aud adorns a tale" as follows: "The


habit of kissing will probably never be-
come extinct so long as there are pretty
girls to kiss and bold young lads to kiss
them-or old men, either; but it was a
huge joke on that Seventeenth street
married man late last night who found,
when he kissed the servant girl when
she let him in, that she was as black as
coal This circumstance was brought
about by his wife having changed cooks
during the day without his knowledge n
Year: 1877

There are host of people who seem
to have little else to do but to consider
metaphysical condition and administer
doses for its improvement; people who
are positively dissipated and intemper-
ate in their use of medicines, and appear
to think this world not so much a vale
of tears as of drugs; people to whom
new prescription affords delight only
equaled by that which a savant would
derive from the possession of bone of
the extinct megatherium.


If they are In the least under the
weather, it never occurs to them to
allow Nature to work out her own SAL
walton, but they take their affairs into
their own hands, and having small ac-
quaintance with her processes, the re-
suit resembles that of a novice attempt
ing the tasks of a superior. and making
them the more difficult for that superior
to accomplish. One of the peculiar
pleasures of such persons consists in
persuading others to try their method
of cure. The most delicate compliment
you can pay them is TO swallow some
nauseating mixture upon their recon-
mendation, which all the while bears
strong family likeness to that of those
who, with bad compilations, assure you
that soap is wholesome for the skin, or
bald people who extol the virtue of GER
tain washes which they have employed.
This art of dosing does not interfere,
however with the usefulness of the
family physician, but rather supplies
him with practice by laying the foun-
dations for positive disease. The stOm-
ach which has been unrighteously cor
tected rebels at length; the nerves that
have been too often artificially sOothed
finally refuse to acknowledge the power
of the eharmer; the strength engen-
dered by stimulants proves but broken
reed; appetites fortified by frequent
tOnics surrender one day without re-
serve.


If the science of medicine itself is as
yet only experimental, must not anna
teur dosing, beyond question, belong to
the most Objectionable class of empiri-
cisms .-HdrJerS' BdzQr.
Year: 1877

The infinite variety of purposes to
which paper is applied in the Empire
of Japan has astonished all Europeans
who have visited that country. They
have literally found paper, paper every
where, and in all shapes and forms.
The Japanese, however, with all their
ingenuity in this direction, would never
have dreamt of making paper wheels
for railway carriages. This, neverthe-
less, Is being done at Sheffield at this
moment, and we have seen sample of
the work. The paper wheels have steel
tires, made with an inside flange and
east iron boss. On each side of the
boss are tires to whichsteel plates p
of an inch thick are bolted, and the
space between the plates is filled with
compressed paper. The paper is COM
posed of what are known as "straw
boards" and these are made TO adhere
to each other by means of rye PASTE
The combined layers of paper are next
subjected to hydraulic pressure to the
extent of 1000 tons for the space of four
or five hours, and then dried in heated
air-bath. The final thickness of the
prepared paper is about q inches, and,
as may be imagined, the quantity of
straw-board packed in this concentrated
space by the giant force of the hydraul-
ic ram is something enormous. Still a
certain amount of the elasticity remains
to the substance, and this-in unism
with its homogeneity and singular
smoothness of grain and texture-con-
stitutes one of its highest qualifications
for the duty it will presently have to
perform. Lathes, slide-rests and sharp
tools are made to shape the compressed
paper into disks of the proper size, and
under a pressure of four hundred tons
these are then forced into the tires. The
steel protecting plates are subsequently
bolted to the inner and outer peripher-
les OF the wheels, and after finish
ing touch to the latter they are ready to
be keyed on their axle and placed under
the railway carriage. 1t is understood
that experiments both in America and
in this country have gone to prove the
superiority of paper railway wheels
over those of steel or wrought iron, and
that the brake, however suddenly and
sharply applied, does not injure them
in the least.
Year: 1877

A barrister recently received a letter
from a school board election agent to
this effect-"Sir: i am deeply interes-
ted in procuring the return of Mr.
for the board, and, knowing your views
upon educational matters, have
taken the liberty of placing your name
upon his committee. | have further
veutured to put down your name as a
subscriber of five guineas toward his
expenses, and unless you notify to me
on or before the-th that you do not
concur in these arrangements. | shall
take the further liberty of assuming
that you acquiesce in them, and that
may look TO you for the subscription
recorded to your name"


The barrister promptly replied: "Sir:
| regret that rannot accept the offers
made by you to me in your letter of
yesterday. may, however, mention
that am deeply interested in raising a
fund to provide for the necessities of a
destitute and deserving widow lady.
Knowing your charitable disposition,
have taken the liberty of putting down
your name as subscriber for ten gum
cas-, and since bis dat qui cito, shall,
unless | hear to the contrary from you
by midday to morrow, venture to as
sumo that you accept my offices on your
behalf, and that I-may look to you for
that amount of subscription


Early next morning came a messen-
ger, in haste in cab, bearing letter
from the agent. $50 sorry. but the
pressing calls upon his purse forbade
him to accept Mis- kind offices.'
London Examiner.
Year: 1877

1t has been somewhat of a surprise
to archeologists and antiquaries that in
the excavations of the New Avenue de
POpera so few buried historical records
of the past should have been brought to
light. Here and there few louis dor
of recent date have been found, but
positively no treasure of any absolute
value or interest has been discovered.
On the Champs de Mars and the Troca-
dero, Notwithstanding the primitive
condition Of the ground, no remains
whatever of early human work have
been brought to light. But to make up
for this loss the engineers have come
across most valuable quarries of build
ing stone and gravel sufficient alone to
supply the enormous requirements of
the building.


The other day, however, in excava-
ting the new carriageway which passes
before the facade of the Tuileries, the
workmen came upon some remains of
the kilns in which for centuries had
been MANUFACTURED the tiles for which
Paris had so long been famous. If any
doubt can remain as to how the palace
Of the Tuileries obtained its name it is