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Year: 1878

Through the weary day on his couch he lay,
Whh the life-tide ebbing slowly away
And the dew on his cold brow gathering fast,
While the pendulum numbered moments
passed.


And heard low voice whispering say:
"When the tide goes ont he will pass away.
Pray for souls serene release,
That weary soul may rest I'm peace


When the tide goes out"
When the tide goes out from the ses-girt land,
It bears strange freight from the cleaning sand.
The white-winged ships that silent wait
For favOring wave and a wind that's hate,
The treasures east on rocky shore
From the stranded ships that shall sail no more,
And hopes that follow the shining seas
Oh the ocean wide shall win all these


when the tide goes out"
But, of all that dria from the shore to the sea,
Is the human soul TO eternity
Saddest, most solemn Of ALA soul
Passing where unknown waters roll,
Floating away from the silent shore,
Like fated ship TO return no more;
Where shall the surging currents tend,
Slowly dividing friend from friend,


When the tide goes out ?"
For one parting spirit pray, oh pray,
While the tide of life Is ebbing away,
That the soul may pass over summer seas
That clasped of old the Hespendest
In q baruue whose sails, by angel handSt
Shall be furled on a strand OF golden SANDS;
And the friends that stand on silent shore.
Shall wish US Joy OF voyage fair,
With calm sweet skies and favOrfng ar,


-- N Y O6seruer.
Year: 1878

BRAIN AND MUsCLE.-On the mill
tary lists of the German empire 1885,
900 men are inscribed. Of these as
many as 398.OOO have their names set
down in a black list as having failed
to observe the law of compulsory
military service, and 100000 of these
have gone out of the way of it by emf
grating One in eight able-bOdied Ger
mans has resolved to quit his Father
land rather than stop at home and share
the prevailing poverty and enforced mill
tary service which his nation has to en-
dure. In this manner Germany loses
much of the muscle and brain of her
young men. In this manner however,
the United States gains annually many
good citizens. Heretofore the great
prairie States of the West have been
more especially benefited by this migra-
ton, but in the new order of things the
South may reasonably hope to see IN the
next few years many thrifty and frugal
Rhinelanders added to her population.
Cities grow up and States become pow
erful wherever the German has made his
Observation-Disclosures and Merchant.
Year: 1878

The farmers who Gifted" the mort
cages from their land during the flush
times caused by the war, were the for
tunate ones; while those who went into
debt have generally failed. In view of
the prosperity of the farming class during
the past year, it is well to remember this
experience. A combination of causes
has produced fair prices in conjunction
with an immense crop. But, the Rural


World reminds the farmers that "the
European war will not last always that
next year perhaps there will be larger
crop in Great Britain than has been
produced in fifty years; that but very
small portion of our crops may be wanted
abroad, and that in consequence the very
lowest price may prevail for all our farm
crops" To be forwarned is to be for
armed. Farmers, therefore, who take in
money for their crops this year, had bet
ter pay their debts. Instead of mourning
new debts, pay off the old ones. Get in
an independent condition. The farm
will always make the industrious farmer
a good living. Resolve to owe no man
a cent. Pay as you go, and peace OF
mind will be yours that the debtor can
not enjoy.
Year: 1878

SOURCES OF BAD MANNERs.-Vanity,
i'll nature, want of sympathy, want of
sense-these are the chief sources from
which bad manners spring. Nor can We
imagine an incident in which man could
be at loss as to what to say or do in
company if he were always cOnsiderate
for the feelings Of others, did not forget
himself, and did not lose his head or
leave his common sense at home. Such
a one may not have studied etiquette, yet
he will speak and act like gentleman.
On the other hand, very pedant in form
and bigOt in ceremonies may be nothing
less than " the mildest manneredman that
ever cut throat" As we can be wise
without learning, so it is quite possible to
be well hammered with little or no knOwl-
edge of those rules and forms which are,
at best, only a substitute for common
sense, and which cannot be considered
essential to good manners, inasmuch as
they vary in every country, and even IN
the same country change about with the
Weathercock Of fashion.
Year: 1878

SHoPPING.-There is a practice IN
dulged in among women, which we shall
characterize as both frivolous and selfish,
of entering store not for the purpose OF
purchasing articles, but of looking over
every material of goods displayed therein;
They have from time immemorial claimed
it as privilege to critieise, abuse, OF
or nroise whatever is set before them in
the stores. The patience of the clerks
become exhausted, and feeling of silent
contempt is INDUCED in by them for these
shoppers which cannot find vent in words
for they dare not offend. 1t is a disgrace
ful custom, and we trust in time it viii
be done away with.
Year: 1878

DIPHTHERIA.-An eminent physician
saws that the clothes, handkerchiets, and
napkins used about the sick with TINS
disease ease should be saturated with simple
disinfeotants. A person will get diph-
iberia by kissing a child with it Some
time AGO physician of Baltimore caught
the disease in a singular manner. He
was treating young lady for diphtheria,
She sneezed, and he felt a particle enter
his nostrils. In two days aferward
symptoms of the disease appeared, and
in an incredible short time the physician
died, in spite of every effort Of his skilled
associates to save his life.
Year: 1878

1t is better to live in hearts than houses.
A change of circumstances may turn one
out of house to which he is strongly
attached. Removing from place to place
is with many an unavoidable incident of
life. But one cannot be expelled from
true and loving heart, save by his own
fault. Go where he will, his home re-
mains in hearts which have learned to
love him; the roots Of affection are not
torn out and destroyed by such removals,
but they remain fixed deep in the heart.
When one re-visits the home of his child
hood, pleasant as it is to survey each
familiar spOt-the house, the garden, the
trees planted by himself, or by kindred
now sleeping in the dust, there is in the
warm grasp of the hand, in the kind salu-
tatiOn, delight that no mere local object
can bestoW. To be remembered and
loved, to live in hearts, is a sOlace amid
earthly changes, joy above all pleasures
of scene and place. We love this union
of hearts which death cannot destroy, for
if there be heart purity as well as heart
affection, it points to an unchanging and
imperishable abode in a celestial sphere.


Church Union.
Year: 1878

The Neso England Farmer gives this
advice. Let every young farmer who
hopes to make living by farming, de-
termine at the outset to have a library of
the best books concerning his chosen bust
ness to the extent of at least S25 and
then when any new thing comes up which
tempts him to spend a few dollars for
trees, oats or the like, let him Join with
his farmers club, or with some dozen of
his neighbors, in testing the new thing,
in a small way, for the benefit of all and
at the expense of all. We have seen a
travelling agent for new kind of wonder
full but worthless seed corn, sell twenty
five or ifty-eent package at almost every
house in town; and where all the agrieul-
tural books on the route, including the
"0ld Farmers Almanac" would not
equal the value Of the sales of this one
sWindler.
Year: 1878

A MACHINE TO RESTORE REsPIRA-
TIoN.-This invention consists ola sheet
iron cylinder large enough to receive the
body of an adult person. 1t is closed at
one end, and the body of the person IS
inserted, feet foremost, at the open end,
up to the neck, round which a dia-
phraghm is placed in such manner as
to prevent air from entering. The cylinder
is partially exhausted, when the outer air
enters through the mouth and nOstrilsi
by reversing the pump, air is allowed to
enter the cylinder and respiration is
thereby initiated. By repeating the
operations a number of times asphyxi-
ated persons, and particularly those who
have been in danger of death by drown
ing, have been completely restored.
Year: 1878

Every one should try to better his con-
dition if he can. The poor man should
Ey to increase his means; the sick man
to improve his health; the ignorant man
TO acquire knowledge; and the foolish mai
to get understanding. In such matters
the great question is whether the desired
improvement is within our reach. To
long for what we cannot attain, or to
grieve because il is unattainable, IS sim
ply to play the part of the child that
cries for the moon. Let US know our
selves and our position. Let us know
what we have and what we want; and
then, let US next inquire whether what
we want can be got by striving for it.
If it cannot be got, let US think of it no
more, or endeaYOr to compensate for the
want in some other way. A short man
may wish to be tall but he cannot add an
inch, any more than a cubit to his stature.
He may, however, be very worthy and
respectable man, for all that, if he con-
ducts himself with prOpriety and simpic-
ity, and does not, as short men some
times dc, render his diminutive size more
conspicuous by conceit and afectatiOn.
Year: 1878

TRUE STRENGTH.-We must meas
ure a mans strength by the power of
the feelings he subdues, 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 a man in anguish, stand
as if carved out of solid rock, as if mas
tering himself? Or one bearing a hope
less daily trial remain silent and never
tell the world what cankered his home
peace? That is strength. We too
often mistake strong feelings for strong
character. A man who bears all before
him, before whose frown dOmesties trem-
bic, and whose bursts of fury make the
children of the household quake, because
he has his way in all things, we call him
a strong man. The truth IS, that he IS a
weak man; it is his passions that are
strong-he, mastered by them, is weak,
Year: 1878

THE FEVER SPREADING AGAIN.
MANY OF THE PEOPLE ATTACKED WHO HAVE BEEN


DRIVEN HOME FROM THE SUMMER RESORTS


GREAT SUFFERING IN MANY PLACES.


The record for yesterday shows that there
were 75 deaths from yellow fever in New
Orleans AZ in Memphis 10 in Holly Springs
10 in Canton, and many more III small
places. The weather is warm, and in spite OF
the favorable outlook two or three days
ago. the fever is now on the increase. The
suffering in some of the all'c'eu
communities is very great. Every
body in Holly Springs is supported by the
Relief Committee. In New-0rleans there are
$4,000 people dependent on charity, in CON
sequence of the fever
Year: 1878

TRnrNE OFFICE. Oct 3, n. m.-rhe barometer was
almost stationary during tho greater part Of yesterday
but fell slightly early the afternoon. The weather
WAS warm aud partly cloudy. with light rain at mid
night The average temperature 50 higher than on
Tuesday Tho amount OF moisture In tho air Is still



Cooler aud partly cloudy clear weather mas be ex-
pcctrd in this city aud vicinity to-day.
Year: 1878

Yesterday Coroner Rose went to New
Castle for the purpose of taking charge
ot the body of a man who was found on
Thursday on the rlve- bank, opposite to
Pennsvile. The body had been brought
to New Castle, where the Coroner sum
lnoned ury for the purpose of holding
an inquest.


The body was supposed to be that OF
Captain Fountain who was lost off the
Estetle Bright during the recent storm
and under that supposiuon word wa
telegraplcd to a son Of the late Captain
residing in this city, who went TO New
Castle, and identi fled the body as that o
his father, from the clothing the feature
being unrecogn Fable.


The boly was brought 10 this city b!
undertaken Fox, ana during the after
noon was Inferred in the Riverview
Cemetery. The Jury returned verde
in accordance wi ia the facts.


For ladies' coatS oo ia I[punarlis
Year: 1878

The Senate Committee on Territories
have decided to report fsyorsbly on the
bill for the creation of the Territory of
Lincoln, to be formed out of the Terri
tories OF Dakota and Wyoming, so as 10
include all of the Black Hill country.
Year: 1878

JOINT REPRESENTATIVE. - Hon.
Albert Snyder, of Port Blakelv, the
Republican nominee for Joint Rep


resentative from Jefferson and Kit
sap Counties, is not extensively
known in this county, and hence a
brie: reference to him will not at
this juncture be ill.timed. Mr.. Sny-
der is a educated, intelligent
and worthy gentleman, and is uni.
versally respected where he is known.
His qualifications for filling the Of
fee of Representative in the Ter
ritorial Legislature are such that no
one can doubt the wisdom of choos
ing him to occupy that responsible
position. The cry has been raised
by some that he is radical temper
ance man, and no doubt there are
some who will oppose his election on
this ground. He assured us chat
while his life and habits were such
as to give coloring to such state.
ment, and while he favored restric.
tive legislation, he was in favor of
wholesome license laws as long as
majority of the people expressed a
wish to that effect. We honor the
man for the position which he has
taken regarding Temperance, and if
he is opposed on that ground only,
his election is certain. The time
has gone by when men who were
outspoken in favor Of temperance
and morality dare not become candi.
dates for positions of public trust
and expect to be elected. We say
this with pride and confidence in the
judgment of the voters of Jefferson
and Kitsap Counties, and believe
that Mr.. Snyder's position will be
sanctioned by majority Of those to
whom is left the responsibility Of de-
Gliding the matter.
Year: 1878

the question of taxing their property
was up before the Democratic Ter
rltorial Convention and was VOTED
DOWN by the representatives of the
Democratic party, there assembled.
lie wanted to hear Mr.. Cation deliver
his speech before the assembled
magnates Of the n. p. r. II. Co.,
and note the effect. The speaker
then wound up with a telling argu-
ment on the unscrupulous policy Of
this company, its hold upon the peo-
pie, and the complete revolution of
sentiment among the people Of the
Territory regarding it; adding that
although he had not been a candi-
date for reelection, yet when the
time came for holding the Vancou


yer convention, he would have been
proud to go before the people on his
record and would have felt sure of
thorough vindication; he hoped
his successor would continue his
policy, &c. He was frequently in
terrupted with applause, and when
he closed, the most general good
feeling prevailed in the meeting, the
verdict being Jacobs is a trump"
Year: 1878

No people are such thorough nuisances
as those who are always on the alert for
anything suspicious-always ready to
believe the worst Of everybody. What
is it to you If your neighbor does bring
home brown paper package and COW
cred basket? You will live Just as long
if you never know what they contain, 1t
is none of your business. And il your
flighty neighbor, Mrs. Lightfoot, INDUCES
herself in new bonnet, while her de-
voted husband wears patched boots, you
need not fret about it-he is the only
sufferer, not you. No need OF making a
hue and a cry over her supposed extrav.
agance. The money did not come out OF
your pocket, and consequently it Is none
of your business. What II the minister
does call on Ann Smith twice week
Why exercise your brain about it Sup
pose she has an awful temper-and pow
ders her face, as she says she does--her
temper will not trouble you. Mind your
own concerns. What difference does il
make to you if bold Maria "cuts OUT
modest Mary?


"You need not torture Mary by long
stories of what you have heard concern
ing the natter 81 thought would
tell you, my dear. lspeak for your good,
Somebody should put you on your guard
against that treacherous girl" As a
natural consequence, modest Mary, her
womanly pride aroused, shrinks into the
background. leaving the field open to
her victorious rival. So you crush a
good girls heart because you will not
mind your own business. What if they
have three dozen pairs of stockings at
Squire Hills. Haven't they got right
to-? AS long as you do not do the wash.
ing it need not trouble you at all. What
right have you to watch their clothes
line? Employ your time better, 1t
may be perfectly true that dashing Mrs,
Gray signals to young DR.. Wilde from
her back windows. But who gave you
the privilege of watching a lady in her
own house, where, il in any place, her
privacy should be sacred? Her disgrace
is nothing to you; it is none of your
business. If we had our way, meddlers
should be punished like any other Offend
ers against the rights of Others
Year: 1878

The bill introduced in the senate by
Mr. Blaine is, in full text, as follows:


A bill to authorize the coinage OF silver
dollars for circulation, and make the
same legal tender, and for other pur-
poses:


BE it enacted, ETC., That silver bullion
may be deposited at any coinage mint or
at the assay office in the city of New
York for returns in silver dollars of -
grains of standard silver at such rate or
price per standard ounce of bullion as
may from time to time be fixed by the
director of the mint, with the approval,
IN writing, of the secretary OF the treas
urv, and which rate shall correspond as
exactly as possible with the market rate,
and the bullion thus placed shall, in
addition to the other required coinage
authorized by existing law, be coined
without delay to the full capacity of the
mints.


Sec. 2. That any gain or profit arising
from the coinage OF silver dollars shall,
after the payment of Lawful wastage, be
covered into the treasury of the United
States at the close of each fiscal year.
Sec. 3. The silver dollar herein author.
lied to be coined shall be a legal tender
as by existing law in common with gold
for all sums up to and including IS, and
for all sums exceeding So the debtor shall
have the right to tender in full payment
and the creditor the right to demand
one-half the amount in gold coin and
one half in silver dollars.


Sec. 4. Fine or standard gold and sill
YER bars bearing the stamp of any coinage
mint, or the assay Office at New York
shall be received by the assistant treasu
rer of the United States at New York iol
their stamped value, which shall b'
their coinage rate respectively, and coir
certificates shall be issued therefor by the
assistant treasurer in the same manner a.
coin certificates are now issued for gold
coin, and the certificates SO issued shall
be redeemed by the secretary ot the
treasury on demsnd, at the office OF the
assistant treasurer at New York, in coin
or stamped bars OF bullion deposited at
his option.
Year: 1878

One way to manage dog that boulces
at YOU by daylight, is to look sharp at
him and tell bim to take care Ten to
one he's coward, or so well trained as
10 mind mastery order. Another way,
that a friend was telling me just now,
was the practical idea OF one OF our
hound sprang at her. She punched her
steel parasol down the dogs throat and
LET him run off with it. The plan has
one obection--it costs parasol every
time. Another way for a person with
some nerve. is 10 seize the dog that means
to hurt you by the under jaw, with
stiff thumb under his tongue. He'll call
for his pen and ink then, says my in
iormant, and you may pound the breath
out of bim at your leisure, for there no
chance of his biting. II dog jumps at
your throat with open mouth; receive
him by jamming your elbow with all the
force YOU can master between his jaws,
bringing the blow upon the ,ower one 1t
is easily dislocated. Commit these things
to memory, for we are keeping go1d
many impudent dogs now to drown the
noise of our neighbOr's pups.
Year: 1878

We have heard great deal about re-
pudiation being disease confined to
southern and western mercantile life, and
manv severe lectures have been read to
those sections about the villainy cloaked
in the reconciliation scheme as being
latent reputation. Let US test this
theory by the facts. In Dun Bsrlow's
statement the following table il given :;
Year: 1878

The business distress of the country
has grown, in recent years, with the con-
tractisn of the currency. AS business
misfortune is itself cause OF business
misfortune, the disasters in business have
increased even more rapidly than the
contraction of the machinery with which
business is done. The contraction OF the
Year: 1878

The coinage of the trade dollar is to
he resumed in Philadelphia by order of
the president. 1t seems as ii this reck-
less business ought to stop. We are told
that reconciliation of the old dollar of
4121 graifs would "drive all the gold
out of the country" and as the trade
dollar contains 42O grains, it of course
will do that dreadful deed in much
shorter time than the cheaper dollar
would. DO the president and the i'm.
mortal fifty.six in congress want gold
driven out and this country left a bar
rem, bowling wilderness? If not, why,
oh why, do they persist in coming such
great Jumps of this iniquitous silver?
-[Graphic
Year: 1878

THIS thing of Matchmaking the Mis-
sissippi," as they term it, is making very
promising progress. That is, people are
beginning to understand that river
which has eighteen out Of the thirty-nine
states in the union on its banks or on
the banks of its two great tributaries, is
naturally national institution. The
standing committee on the Mississippi
river seem likely to he fixture in the
future, and will always hereafter signify
to ignorant congressman from the east,
who do not know the geography of the
country, that there is no other stream in
the werld which can be put in the same
catalogue with that which has not been
miscalled the father of rivers st. Louis
Republican.


The magnitude of the famine in China
is appalling. People of all ages are dying
of actual starvation by hundreds OF
thousands. The ravages Of the famine
extend through four provinces Of north
China, which include over five thousand
villages. Nine millions of people are
reported destitute. Most of the pool
young women have been solo, and children
are offered in the market daily in ex'
change for feod, and the living are said tC
be eating the corpses Of their fellow being
whs have died of starvation, The United
States vice consul at Shanghai telegraph
to MIR. A. A. Low, of New York, tha'
the foreign relief committee appeals tt
America and England for assistance, ant
requests him to form ar American com
mittee to collect funds and deposit then
with the agent Of the Hong Kong bank
This appeal will undoubtedly attrac
Year: 1878

| Mempuls aNalancHe.


One of the thousand and one


tragic incidents of the great plague
happened at Holly Springs a few
daysSinCc A beautiful young lady
OF New Orleans was forced by her
father to marry an old man she
could not love. Preferring death
to slavery, the young lady ran
away and gave ,her services as n
nurse to the fever stricken at Hol.
~ Springs. After few days of
devoted attention to the sick she
was herself stricken.


There was male nurse for her.
There was no female hand to soothe
with its gentle touch the teyered
brow. But the noble Ridley was
there TO perform the last sad Offices
to the dying girl. Toward the last
she said to him: " Kiss me-" As
Ridley kissed her OH the cheek she
exclaimed: kiss my lips" which
he did. She then said: "You are
the ouly man L ever kissed kiss
me again" While Ridley was in
the act Of kissing her she threw
her arms tightly around his neck,
and instantly expired. God bless
the brave hearts.