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Year: 1874

The GREAT Mantle man whom ac-
count great OF soul is he who has not only been
gifted with an eye to discern the right, but al
90 with heart to love it; . man who cannot
be content merely to discover truth. or to paint
it, or to sing of it. but who, feeling that hep pos
sesses it, feels also that he has mission to
proclaim it. A man who can be satisfied with
nothing less than that which il real and right
who is content to count all things loss for the
attainment of q spiritual aim, and to fight for It
against all enemies-who deems truth the bread
of life, and makes it's pursuit his daily labor
he il great man. A man who has noble
cause, and who sub0rdinates, and even sacri6-
ces himself to it-he is great man. A man
who does his duty in despite Of all outward
contradiction, and who reverences his con-
science 80 greatly as that to preserve it uu-
harmed he will face any difficulty and submit
to any penalty-he is great man. Perhaps
this kind of greatness can only be realized full
" in a man who is religious man The man
who shall stir immeasurable masses must de-
rive his strength, from an alliance with the Al
mighty. The man who shall move world
must have standing place in the invisible.
He can only lift it from some point without it;
and believe that only point is. faith in God
But at the very least, before man can be
great man. it is necessary to be emphatically
man; to have no littleness, no weaknesses
All human qualities must be fully developed in
him, while some of them must be extra0rdina-
riy 60. The FIRST elements then, in the cOmpo-
sition of the character of such man as have
been speaking to you of are to endure and dare
more than other men: but these are not enough
Of themselves to constitute great man To
dare anything and fear nothing; to endure
calmly and cheerfully, even to die; to look In
evitable evil in the face and not tremble. yea,
to seek danger and love it-this is indeed to be
man. but it is not necessarily to be great
man. For all this may be done BY the savage
Or selfish, by the foolhardy or tho unthinking.
Such qualities as these depend most upon what
is physical. not necessarily anything at all upon
what is spiritual; and the indispensable cond1.
tion Of such greatness as am speaking OF 49,
greatness of soul-sacrifice Of self. and dev".
tion to q cause. The truly noble thing is not
simply to endure or to dare, but to do thus fot
uns.6sh ends; and when to do otherwise were
easier-Frederic Myers.
Year: 1874




Cooking PoTATOEs. s.-Although much has
been written about how to cook potatoes much
also remains unsaid We cannot bear p',ta-
to boiled with the Jacket on and left in the


pot to get water soaked. There are numerous ne 4s


ways Of preparing this staple vegetable te


tempt the palate, the m"st common mode IN
hotrl-lite being tried potatoes The potatoes
IN a wire screen with handle. A pan OF


boiling lard is on the fire, and the cook takes
the screen and holds the slices in the lard tn
they turn to delicate brown, after which the


grease is allowed to drain off thin Potatoes
cooked in this manner are very deliclous; oat


we cannot help longing. occasionally, for plate


Of good, old fashioned mashed potatoes: suca
as grandmother used to set on the taoie, 1eaPeu


nm i;te = cone. smoothed oil round with but.


ter.naddle and a cavity made in the top, In


which stood miniature cake Of melted butter.
-Er .t
Year: 1874

HK,RT DIsEAsE.-In the course Of a lee
ture recently delivered in New York, DR..
LYMAN said Heart disease among both
ladies and gentlemen, is the one most in
vogue a present \ synonym Tor pseudo
heart disease i indigestion. False modes
of dress, by crowding the heart, cause it to
beat irregularly. Remedy the dress and the
heart viii healthfully perform its functions.
The heart is almost the last organ to become
diseased, because it has great work TO do.
Nature made it strong and supplied it with
as few nerves as possible. Women who
faint. a a rule, have too small cavities for
heart and lungs. Painting Is provision of
nature for the reinstatement of the body, by
allowing the heart brief respite. When
the stomach is unduly distended by food,
the heart is crowded and complains. Good
straight shoulders are highly essential to a
woman If she possesses an erect form, a
woman's heart has a better opportunity to
beat evenly and healthfnlly.


MANY mistake palpitating sensation Of
the muscular wall of that portion of the
stomach nearest the heart for an affection of
the heart Adipose or fatty accumulation
around the heart will often render its beat
ing labored or heavy. The heart is not,
however, diseased-it is only working under
difficulties. Prostratlon also affects the
beating of the heart, causing it to beat more
rapidly. Strength will remove this difficult
tv 1t is theory with some physicians
that in a natural life the heart beats only a
given number of times. If this De so, run
ming up and down stairs, intense excite
ment, hurry, by increasing the number of
heart-beats in a minute, diminish the length
of ones life. 1t is a well-known fact that a
race horse is not long lived, because, having
such demand made upon the action of its
heart, the heart muscles wear out sooner
than they otherwise would"
Year: 1874

VINO THEODORE PARSER WAS LIKE.-Mr.
rockingham is fond of comparing Parker
with Luther, although he does not think
him ike Luther in being the founder of a
new age. But Parker had little of Luther :
tremendous sense of the objective reality of
Christ and the church little of his disposi-
tion to lean upon secular dignities, and moth
ing of his slur at good works in comparison
with faith. He was more like George Fox,
and, in his trembling. glowing denunciation
of the hollowness of popular religion and his
urgency for practical righteousness. he was
the founder Of the new Quakerism which is
now becoming more powerful than the old
As our spirit-prophet he was George Fox
cone again in fiLe cloth and with many
books and with no objection to swords and
muskets As our nature-prophet he was onr
Puritan Rousseau, stronger, purer, less elo-
auent, less revolutionary, but very much IN
Boston what Rousseau was and is in Geneva
the champion of nature against etiquette :
of men and women above gentlemen and =
dies. and of the essential rights of man
against all tyranny-the enemy of the oil
superstition without being master of the
eternal truth and its exalted and catholic hui
manity Rer Samuel OsgOod.
Year: 1874

HOW COSNlCf MADE SO,OVU IN ONE YEAR


John Short, the Sing Sing convict who


ran whiskey still while in prison, tells how


he did it, and also few other facts in regard
to the doings inside the walls of that institu-
ton which indicate that rich field for in
vestigation might be found there by the
proper authorities The assistance of an Off
Ger of the prison was of course essential to a
high degree of success. But this Short found
no difficulty in securing. His first still he


worked with some small lamps, and had
been at it year when another convict to
whom he refused credit "peached." During


this time he had averaged $50 per day from
the profits of the still At the same time he
and his accomplice, the prison officer, made
large profits on smuggled groceries, tobacco,
and cigars, estimated at not less than 1000
per cent. The keeper who was with him
was able to build four-story house with his
share. Subsequently small copper still and
some worms were smuggled into the prison
and set up in an clubhouse, where gun-pow-
der and nitro-glycerine for blasting rocks are
stored, and though we'll watched, and once
locked up in dark cell on suspicion, Short
said he had S6,4i3 when he left the prison,
all made out of the whiskey trade, for his
stock of groceries was found and seized, and
eventually netted loss, the keeper and
other confederate having received still lar
ger sum. Short states that he could have
escaped any time, but didn't want to leave
while making 800 a week. He had no diff
fenlty in getting all the barley he wanted,
as large quantities are used in the soup, and
the steamboat brings snumerous bags full every
week. All he had to do was to rip a hole in
the bags and fill his pals. He used two
large wash-tubs belonging to the prison to
make his mash in Before he was discharged
he sold the business to another convict, who
is now making whiskey, and who ought to
make 500 ,000 before his time is up.
Year: 1874

A land agent in Colorado remarked To an
ipouiring emigrant that all that was needed
to make the place paradise was COM
Portable climate, water and good society.
g. That is all that is lacking in hell. was
the reply.
Year: 1874

A TES THOUSAND Dollar GIRL must
give You story lately told me, which goes
to show the value Of the girl Of the period.
On certain day on Pennsylvania railroad
belle OF thriving Pennsylvania town, the
daughter of a wealthy lumber merchant, was
travelling on the same ear with a shrewd old
citizen of her native town, and an agreeabls
Young gentleman from the West, who telle
the story. The latter had been talking To the
belle-(N. B-She is now one of the corps
of Washington correspondents and a noto-
rious belle-ringer when not a belle-hanger)
but as night drew on and the Young lady
grew drowsy, he gave up his seat to her and
placed himself beside the somewhat cynical
Pennsylvania. The latter began the CONVEX
sation by pointing To high mountain past
which they were whirling, and said


"Nou see that mountain. SIX or eight
wears ago it was covered with as fine a forest
as ever grew, and was worth $40 900 and
upwards Now, without tree, covered
with stulnrs. the land is scarcely worth
continental The net produce Of that noun
tain lies over there in that seat and he
pointed to the recumbent belle THAT * my
calculation 1t has just about absorbed all
that lumber which her father owned to raise
and educate that girl. pay for her clothes
and jewelry, bring her out into society, and
maintain her there. some Of you Young
men, perhaps. if were given your choice he
tween the mountain yonder a. it now stands
and the net produce on that seat, would
take the net produce, but a. for me, give me
the stumps'- y Gidphic.
Year: 1874

How many man to-day looks out upon
the blistering pavement, then up to the clear
blue sky, and inwardly pictures some cool,
quiet, rural scene, some shady grove, OF
brookside, where he might for the while, for
get care in the contemplation of Nature
beauties, through the bottom of sherry cob
bier glass.


Here are couple of conundrums which
we find in the Evansville Journal, and pass
along to our friends who are rusticating and
have plenty of time to guess them:


How many of us yearn to penetrate the in
scrutable, and repair to the open vasttudes
of the country to question the blue vaults
studded with golden drops, ,or to hold the ocean
ofspirit within us in communication with the
expanse without? what! Shall the man who
looks forward to his sumptuous repast detect
the impress of the Infinite in the aroma OF the
water or the gigantic sighings ofthe forest2
Year: 1874




NEW YORK, July 4.-Rey. Henry Ward
Beecher. at the prayer-meeting in Plymouth
Church last evening, gave 4 retrospect of
his life, closing as fellows: l have bad
many experiences, such as all men have
had, Cf SOrFOw and deI.at-tO my public
life not one too many, when looked at from
the other side. But Of one thing, my
dearly beloved, be fully assured: my greater
jOy shall be assured when l stand in the
presence Of the revealed God, and
YOU come up. II shall shake
hands in eternal blessed reunion.
| shall ever be by the side Of my loved
Saviour whose servant I have been. L am
conscious of devOting TO my ministry my
best energy and best mind. | have worked
with a single eye to the advancement Of
the knowledge Of Christ's grace among
men. and no man shall take from
me this honor. What is for the future,
L care not. 1t is in the hands Of our uni
versal pastor. can leave everything in
the bands Of the Lord, living or dying.
Let us take again the staff Of work and gird
up anew our loins, and the Saviour will
lead us forward until We meet in the king
dom Of the future.
Year: 1874

In our local columns will be found a
Aattering call on Col. Bolivar ID.
Cooke, of this city, to become a candi-
date for representative in the next
Legislature. The names of the sub
scribers indicate sufficiently the char
aeter of the call. Col. Cooke is a gen.
tleman Of unquestioned ability and in
tegrity, known as well and as favorably
in the country as in the city. The
people and all their varied interests
would be eminently safe in the hands
Of legislature of such sterling men.
Year: 1874

The Courier Journal will tomorrow
publish the official deposition of the Right
Rev. George d. Cummings, former assist
ant Bishop If the Diocese of Kentucky,
from his Office and the ministry of the
Church, by the Right Rev. b. b. Smith,
Senior Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of the United States.
Year: 1874

WE knew we would wake him. The
Representative Snob of the American
press runs half way down the second
column TO obscure obscurity and howl
''the Nashville Dervish." In Jest we
called him a jewel Of consistency. He
explains: IF it SO please us, We will be
as inconsistent as the winds, the skies,
the waves" How natural that Wat
terson, the son OF water, should thus
take TO the waves. The public ought,
IN kindness, laugh at his witless buff
fOoneries. The cap and bells are the
height of his aimless ambition. They
should remember that he is a sOulless
water-sprite, sporting, in the sunny
hours, between wind and wave-a sort
of immaculate Undine, who never un-
derwent that wonderful change induced
by genuine love for one solitary human
being.
Year: 1874

THE first formal meeting of the new
County Committee appointed by the
recent Convention is called for to-mor-
row. The question of providing for
the choice Of delegates to the State and
Congressional conventions may come
mp for discussion. We believe the old
committee. for the State campaign of
1872, are generally disposed to recog-
nize the new one as their proper sue
cessors in the work of November as
well as August. From conversations
with members Cf both committees, we
gather that a mutual understanding
viii be readily arrived at to-day, and
the new committee will be expected to
go on with the work before US, and not
consider their power exhausted with
the election Of The ticket put forth by
the convention that appointed them.
Year: 1874

A Cincinnati reporter says that
there is something grand in pair
OF runaway horses, but we believe
that a good deal depends on wheth~
er man is on fence or trying to
climb over the end board of the
wagon.
Year: 1874

A dear old Yankee lady being
asked if she had ever her ears
pierced by the vail Of distress, said
she couldn't just exactly rem ember,
but she believed it was done with a
shoemaker's awl.
Year: 1874

. What kind fsausages Is them"
aaked an old lady Of the young man
of literature and peanuts as he
passed through the train selling
bananas.


One Of our fashionable youths
donned his first silk hat and cigar
Saturday evening. He got along
we'll enough with the cigar, but he
had to give up the hiatt made
him sick at the stomach.
Year: 1874

Are the most beautiful in style and perfect in
tone ever made. The Concerto Stop is the best
ever placed in any Organ. 1t is produced by an
extra set of reeds peculiarly Voiced the effect of
which is most charming and soul-stirring, while
its imitation of the human voice is superb
Terms liberal.
Year: 1874

We hope our Democratic friends will not for
get the County Convention which meets at New
Castle to-day. free train will be run from
Wilmington, and it is expected that the meeting
will be large one. A general turnout of the
Democracy and big demonstration at this Con-
vention will doubtless have great effect on the
campaign.
Year: 1874

should be used. At least no debt
ought to be contracted without at
the same time levying a tax for the
annual payment Of the interest.


The speaker would not take a
gloomy view Of the case. If our
debts were large, we were able to
pay them; but the wisdom we need
is such wisdom as will secure us
against the contraction of more.
Our progress in population and
wealth is so rapid that the burden
which weighs heavily on us to-day
is light aS feather tomorrow. Ii
We can exercise the ordinary pru
dence Of self representation, our future
as a people will far surpaSs in pow
er and richness the most extrava-
CANT calculations based on our pro-
greSS in the past, wonderful as that
progress has been


The speaker closed by saying
that, with population so widely
extended, with bcal interests so
greatly diversified, and often in
seeming conflict, it is not to be ex-
pected that SO great a government
as ours can at all tines be admin
lstered with perfect satisfaction to
every section and every citizen.
But we daily grow to know more of
each other; and | am sure it will
be found of the East and of the
w est, Of the North and of the South
that the more intimately they be
come acquainted and related, the
better they will like each other, and
the less will appear the differences
that sometimes divide them
Tariff, currency, internal improve
ment and cheap transportation are
all susceptible Of fair settlement at
ter full discussion; and in final ar
bltranent of a wise craftsmanship
1t will be found i'll regard to these
questions, aud all others of like
magnitude, that the interest of one
section IS the interest of all, and
that the ''more perfect union -
which our torefath,rs sought to
establish, will be fully and finally
realized when each section is un-
willing to enjoy an undue advan-
tage over another, aud when all
sections are alike willing to be gov
crned IN what they ask and what
they give, in what they demand and
what they concede. by that spirit of
patriotism which always obeys the
authority Of principle and always
yields to the ''despotism of duty -


The address was heard with
tftSs-''t rra-,,,e---..te err,tvrr and iutDtcot /,
and no more instructive one has
been heard on any far ground in
the " WeSt.-.State Journul, hudson.
Year: 1874

ings than they can the composition
and casting of a Krupps gun.


The few who run this engine
know the stops and breaks, and
gauges, also the luuri"ators, while
the multitude is whirled along and
amused with the whistling aud blow
ing, the backing and filing, and
other unsearchabIe jugglery.


The caucus is manufactured OF
sizes from one to million, and may
be set up in a pot-house having the
scope of two county crossroads, OF
It's stupendousness shall reach to
the verge of the republic, and make
or unmake its presidents. In the
hands ofthe wicked it may dominate
ten thousand of good men and up
right, squander their substance, ruin
order and credit, and run riot gen
orally. If iIl-bent and directed by
knaves, enough Of fools will run
with the machine, with shouts and
cries so that no other clamor would
seem possible on the face of the
earth.


Demagogues as low and ignorant
rs unprincipIed, see the opportunity
and arttllIly beat their pans and
drums to attract n following, having
no other merit OF qualification than
noise, for any public trust.


Contound further the distinctions
Of right and wrong by cheating and
bribing and the usual means OF col
ruption with the wheedling and be
fuddlements Of the saloon, and YOU
have Il departure from the primitive
popular gathering as wide rs pande-
monium has from paradise.


I he caucus can be made to have
a better, face, and better sense,
and become Il harmless and useful
agency in the expression of the will
Of the governed.


Under the township system every
elector is member Of the constitu
ent assembly, a law-maker, and
gives tongue as TO who shall keep
the public accounts, write the pub
lie records, be the public adviser,
collect and pay out the public mon
ey, and act as the pubic factotums
generally.


The town is a little democracy
slX miles square, one person posses
sing precisely the weight and influ-
ence that another has of the same
intelligence and character, and no
more There is no such thing as
politics III these limits: there are
certain matters that concerns each
man n his own door, and have an
importance immediate and intimate
almost as the affairs of the family
household,


Every townsman may determine
what is for his best good in local
things, and bring himself to bear
directly upon its accomplishment.
Upon a candid comparison of views
enough viii harmonic in opinion to
give emphasis to the selection of
the best men for office, and the best
measures for administration.


Fitness, capability, industry, in
trgrity, economy are among the
agreed qualifications. Then out of
the way We small politicians, middle
men AMI meddlerS and let the whole
people in assembly say each of his
own head, without fear, favor, or
partiality, who shall be their do
mestic servants. Then let the cere-
mony Of election follow, the formal
ratification OF the popular choice.
Year: 1874

THE BAXTER CANAL BoATs. Al
ready there are seven of the new
pattern of steam canal beats running
between Buffalo and New York, six
more are being built. The round
trip, from Buffalo to New York
and return, occupies fourteen days
on an average. They bring from
100 to $50 tons of merchandise from
tidewater aud take down over 200
tons of grain. The bed of the canal
offers some obstacles to rapid travel
at present from the accumu alton OF
mud, bnt, even with this drawback
grain can be carried from Chicago
to New York in ten days. which time.
as the obstacles disappear is capable
Of being shortened two or three
days.
Year: 1874

Mr.. Moulton begins his statement by
an apology for its production, in which
he says he had hoped MIR. Beecher him
self would ere this have made a denial
of any intimation, insinuation or aver
ment in his statement that he (Moulton)
had acted in any way dishonorably to.
ward him. Failing in this hope, it
seemed to Moulton and his friends that
the question Of veracity made by Mr..
Beecher ought to be settled.


The statement, so far as it relates to
the Beecher-Tilton matter, is an argu.
ment based upon the alleged acts al
ready published, and a comparison of
his (Aoulton previous statement
with that made by Mr.. Beccher. In
the new documentary evidence is let
ter from Mrs. Morse to Mr.. Beecher,
reading as follows:


MY DEAR SoN:-You must pardon
me for the request I now make. Can
you help me in any way by the first of
November. I am still alone, with no
prospect of help from any ole, with a
rent of s. 500 and an income of 81 100.
The consequence is that with my other
expenses shall be by the first of the
month terribly behind hand, as l
agreed to pay in monthly installments.
l know full we'll that I have no claim
upon you in any way, sir, excepting
your sympathy for my lonely and iso-
lated condition. If l could be released
from the cause, I should gladly do so;
for I'm convinced it is too far off. All
who have been to see my rooms say so.
My darling spent most of yesterday
with me. She said all she had in the
way Of money was forty dollars week,
which was for food and all other house
hold expenses, aside from rent, and this
was given her by the hand of Annie
Tilton every Saturday. If you know
anything Of the amount it takes to find
food for eight people, you must know
there is little LETT for clothing. She
told me he (T.lton) did not take anv
meals at home, from the fact that
she could not get such
food as he liked to nourish his brain.
and so he took mis- meals at Moulton's S.
Just think Of that! I am almost crazy
with the thought. Do come and see
me. will promise that the secret of
her life. as she calls it. shall not be
mentioned. / know it is hard to bring
it up, as you must have suffered intense
", and we all will, I fear, till released
by death. Do you pray for me? If not,
pray. never felt more rebellious than
now; more in need Of Gods and human
help. Do you know 1 think it strange
you should ask me to call you Son.
when have told darling I felt if you
could. in safety to yourself and all con-
cerned, you would be to me all this en-