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Year: 1877

On the margin of your paper indi-
Gates that your time is out, or will ex-
pire with the next paper. Remember
our rule-CAsH ALWAYS IN ADVANCE.
If not renewed, we take it for granted
you do not want the paper any longer,
and your name will be dropped from
our list. We intend to publish the
best paper in West Tennessee, and
the more subscribers We get, the bet
ter we can make the paper. Let eve
ry one relew ard bring another with
MIN.
Year: 1877

The Milan Hotel had narrow es-
cape lastSunday night. Astove pipe
got out of joint in a room over the
Office and set fire to the ceiling, burn
ing a considerable hole before being
discovered. BY prompt exertion it
was soon extinguished. Keep insured
in the Equitable of Nashville.
Year: 1877

In Ohio, few days ago / saw a girl
in a span-clean checked apron that
went around her waist with a string;
the old fashioned sort, made of number
less and undivided checker boards, with
the little blue and white squares alter
mating with mathematical precision.
The sight of that apron would have
taken you back to an older wearer of
similar garment, who brought apples
from the orchard in it, and white maple
chips from the wood pile, and picked
peas in it upon pinch, and gathered
eggs in it from the hay NOV, and spread
it smoothly and decoreusly over her lap
when she sat, and her knitting work
repOsed in it, and sometimes a cat,
marked like her best Sunday comb,
would assay slumber upon its check
cred existence, and be whisked off in a
second. You have seen that apron
flung over its owners head like ''the
knitted cloud" of modern times, when
she went to the next neighbOr's. That
apron has wiped away the tears of your
childish sorrow, when they ran down
your face, and your clamOrOus tongue
ran out at each corner of your mouth
between the syllables of lamentation,
and licked them in You saw where
she laid it when its work was done.
You saw where they laid her when her
work was done. There is a whole sys-
TEN of mnemonics in those blue and
white checks.-B. r. TAYLOR, in Eram-
iner and Chronicle.
Year: 1877

There is no doubt that the public
gains by the comparative silence of the
shop-girls, for silly sentimentalists are
far less likely now than formerly to be
led into foOlishly denOuncing an imag
mary wrong. Why should not shop
girls be forbidden to sit dOwnP They
are neither fashionable young ladies
nor the daughters of leading citizens,
and hence they are of no possible con-
sequence. Moreover, if they grew thin
and pale so that their weary faces hurt
and haunt the occasional and weak
minded husband who accompanies his
wife when ''shopping," they ought to
be ashamed of themselves. Have they
no respect for themselves, that they are
willing to be pitied by male sentiment
alists ? and have they no regard for the
interest of strOng-minded women, that
they thus publicly confess themselves
physically weaker than men7 AS for
their specious pretense that girl ex
hausted by long standing is less likely
to pay all possible attention to a GUS
toner than is girl who has frequent,
though brief, opportunities to rest, it
should receive no attention, since it is
put forth by the girls in their own ia
terest, and not by unprejudiced and i'm
partial persons. That what the shop
girls consider wrong is really great
blessing to them may be readily per-
ceived when we reflect that whenever
a shOp-girl loses her health, and retires
to the hospital or the country, her for


mer situation is open to a new seeker
for employment. In fact, the more girls
any given shop-keeper can wear out,
the more new girls can he furnish with
employment. Thus the shop-girls of
to-day owe their places to the very law
which they denounce, but which Great
ed, and is constantly creating, vacant
situations. That these ungrateful girls
should have the hardihoOd to complain
that they are cruelty treated, and the
indelicacy to hint that they have legs
which are not made of cast iron, gives
lis very melancholy view of human
nature. If they are really dissatisfied,
why do they not shake off the dust of
the shop from their feet? The world
is all before them where to starve, and
the midnight street is as free to an ex-
shop-girl as to a ruined milliner's ap-
prentice.-N. 7. Times.
Year: 1877

1t sometimes occurs to us that the
babies get more than their share of pet
ting-nOt that anybody can help it..


The dear little dimpled things, with
their sweet ways and their helpless de-
pendence, and the charm of some new
revelation every day, invite our caress-
es and our whole store of compliment
ary- adjectives. Darling aud treasure,


and the common stock of nouns of en-
dearment and appreciation, come easily
to our lips when we talk to the little
ones. How often we drop these pretty
forms of speech as they grow older.
They leave the cunning age behind,
and graduate into the awkward one.
Girls and boys alike pass through pc
riod when they are shy, sensitive, NOR
bid and self-conscious, yet perhaps
withal arrogant, conceited and opinion
ated. With what matchless confidence
sixteen and eighteen adopt and parade
notions on subjects which have puzzled
prophets and sages! Then their fathers
and mothers too often feel impatient
and disappointed. They do not remem-
ber that this queer husk will fall away,
and from it emerge flower by -and-by.
So gradually and insensibly do mothers
lose the habit of caressing their Older
children, and the latter would look very
much surprised at kiss bestowed out
Year: 1877

WARM WEATHER DRINKS.
drinkers make mistake if they keep
up the strength of their favorite bever-
age. Have lesser quantity made, of
full strength, and use half, or even a
quarter of a cup, filed up with warm
milk. Iced tea is a delicious drink !;
only don't make the mistake of suppos-
ing that this means "cold tea" Pour
it fresh and hot into goblet filled with
ice, and season to your taste, replenish-
ing the ice as it melts, and you will
have a most grateful beverage. The
man who invented it deserves the
thanks of all who appreciate the diff
ference in their dining between Decem-
Der and May, Fourth of July and
Thanksgiving Golden Rule.
Year: 1877

A correspondent in writing to the Mid
dletown Press offers the following sea-
sonable suggestions to mothers of at
fiicted children:


A flannel cloth, wet in hot brandy, or
better, camphor and brandy mixed aud
heated, will relieve the pain of the
bowels, if frequently laid over the stom-
ach and bowels.


Bits of scraped ice are better on the
tongue than drinks of water.


For stings and poisons, a strong solu-
ton of saleratus and water Immediately
and then frequently applied, gives re-
lief and sure cure.


For burns, an immediate application
of flour covering the burn and wrapped
so as to exclude the air; then burn
lard till it is quite brown and apply,
and relief and cure will soon come. Do
not wash off the flour if it clings, but
put the lard over it.


At night, in extreme weather, lemon
squeezed in tepid water, to sponge off
the tired out little body, will give rest
to both the mother and child. SaIera-
tus is good, but the lemon is best.
Even washing off the little feet, neck,
and palms of the hands in tepid, never
very cold water, will induce healthful
sleep.
Year: 1877

of the regular way. The habit of a
morning and evening salute is kept in
families where it is merely mechanical
and perfunctory. Yet that is better
than no kiss at all. The magnetism of
mother-love, shown to the boy or girl,
however unamiable their transitory
mood may be, is strong enough to save
them from much unhappiness, or from
the attack of temptation. Do net slight
so strong power. Even though you
feel diff1dent in taking up what should
never have been laid aside, begin again
and pet your big sons and daughters.
Year: 1877

R Something is rotten in the laws
which allows such thing as the follow
ing: A hin-faced, ragged, one-legged
boy on crutches, was the plaintiff in the
recent suit of John Day against the
Brooklyn City Railroad Company, in
the circuit court in Brooklyn, for SI0,-
600 damages, for the loss of the leg in
1874 The lad was at the pump at
Canton street and Myrtle avenue, get


ting water. The driver of GreenpOint
car in passing, asked for drink, and
the lad jumped on the platform while
the car was in motion. When the
driver finished drinking he ordered the
boy off. The boy asked him to stop
Year: 1877

A Little "Reminiscences of the Days


OF the war-Bart. Jenkins Flag


Of fTruoe.
Louisville News.l


The making of active prepara-
tons for the proper reception Of
President Hayes has begun and will
be pushed forward until the date of
his arrival in the city. 1t is too
early to state what the order of the
reception will be, but it will be such
as will be creditable to the city and
State. There will probably be a
semi. military force under arms in
compliment to the days when the
chief magistrate was a soldier. If
this is done Captain Bart. Jenkins
ought to be a member of it. Dur
ing the war he bore, in Virginia, a
flag of truce from the Confederate
to the Federal lines, and the officer
who met the flag was Brigadier
General R. B. Hayes, of Ohio.


The flag remained for some time
in the Federal lines, and the Off
GERS bearing it became familiar with
their enemies, transformed for the
nonce into the most hospitabIe of
hosts. Captain jenkins wrote a
letter to friends in Kentucky, which
was forwarded by the courtesy of
General Hayes. The party separa-
ted and the officers went back to
their places and to fight each other.
The whirligig of time kept moving
along-a way it has of doing--the
war was ended, the unknown Ohio
general became three times gov
ernor and at last a President, while
Barton has just been beaten out of
his boots in race for the legisla-
ture. Byall means should he meet
his old but generous enemy, and il
there are any flags in the procession
Captain Jenkins ought to carry one
of them.
Year: 1877

The Suburban News tells of a young
man in Jamaica Plain who woke up The
othec night and saw a ghost in his room
Selling his Sixshooter he approached it
and found it was his collar, which was
standing on the floor. He calls it C lse
OF collar in phantom.
Year: 1877

Tha 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 ba In Harmony


win the business OUTLOOK.


Send In Your Favors.
Year: 1877

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


We desire our business men to make 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 adver-
tlsing for many goOd people seeing an ad-
vertiseme0t in a paper. especially their
church paper. take it as a guarantee of re
sponsibility. Such confidence should not be
abused when it can bo helped. We want,
therefore,
Year: 1877

to prattle of the night when her dear
mamma came home, comprehending
not, in her child-lik simplicity, the
reason of her mothers 'long journey" !"
or the circumstances that marked the
change in the heart of Sile Chase, and
caused the little girl of the ringlets of
gold to exclaim again and again:


Grandpa, Pm so happy since mann
ma has come, and it is just as splendid
as seeing the circus all the while"
Year: 1877




Thus viii that business steadily the
obtained each higher other Ware
csd Warehouses tie
fl Of
fourth Of the realized for the Our
Lndd which higher than that Of other
above the and keeping with the reputation
earned by FARMERS WAREHOUSE
Year: 1877

Were young man to come to you, mod
crate drinking Christian and say, " | am
nov starting out in life and would like ad-
vice from those older than myself. What
had better do, join the teetotallers, or join
in the fashionable circles that tip the social
glass ?" You would probably tell him one
OF three things "To live while he lives, i"
and enjoy the convivialities OF life to join
the total abstinence party, or to do as he
pleased. The first would certainly involve
the possibility of his being drunkard, the
probability OF his being fashionable tippler,
getting only little tight now and then,
and the certainty of his spending good deal
of his money, toorSe than MrOwn array, and
his setting bad example TO others. The
second would surely direct his feet in path
OF safety from drunkenness, the prolific
cause OF crime, and be more likely To throw
him into good society. The third would
show such an indifference on your part for
the young mans welfare, that you could
not have the face to profess the Christian
religion, should you give it, Then it would
come to this; be teetotaller, or a moderate
drinker
Year: 1877

A Scotch minister, in his frequent jour
neys, always sought to say some words of
Kindness and Christian love in all places at
which he called One night he arrived late
at a small country inn, where he was to rest.
As was his custom, he asked the landlord if
he would call his family together for united
prayer before they went to bed. The land
lord did not object, and when all were as
sembled the room was quite full.


" Are all here ?" asked the minister.


"All," said the inn-keeper, "except our
little ktchen-maid, and she is too dirty and
too ignorant to be with us


Before he went to bed the minister said &:
" | should like to say word to that poor
girl. if you will allow me-"


The landlord thought he had rather
strange visitor in his house, but not wishing
to resist any further, he led the way into
back shed where the girl was busy washing
up dishes.


The gentleman found that she was indeed
ignorant and dirty. Before he left her he
said 81 wish to teach you very short
prayer; if you will learn it and promise to
use it every morning, | will make you nice
present when | come again" The girls
eyes beamed brightly at this, and she gave
promise.


ii want you to kneel down and say to
God every day, Lord, show me myself "
The girl said this short prayer over and over
again till she had learned it, and then gave
the promise that she would use it every
morning.


Some months passed and he was once
more at the same place. lie asked the
landlord what had become of the little
kitchen-maid. "Why, sir, she has been in
quite a poor way since you were here, and is
now very ill., The minister asked to see
her, and found her in nook under the
stairs. When he spoke to her, she told him
how she had kept her promise. 81 have
asked God to show me myself, but do feel
| am SO wicked; oh, what will become OF
me Z" The good man tried TO comfort her,
aud spoke about Jesus, the Friend of sin.
ners, who had come TO seek such as she felt
herself to be- 81 have now another short
prayer to teach you" said he, (which you
must also use every day, and it is this Lord
show me thyselt. After brief visit
they parted.


Several years passed, when one day a
| young woman, neatly dressed, called upon
| him, and said " You do not know me, sir p


"No; | do not. Have ever seen you
before Z"


10 you not remember, she replied
teaching two short prayers to poor kitch
en-maid at country inn p


"Oh, yes, | do remember; can you tel
me anything about her Z"


"Sir," said the young woman, | am thai
maid. | was in great trouble about my sin,
when last saw you, but the Lord has hearC
my prayer, Teach me thyself.' He ha'
also blessed me in my place and work, aud
praise his holy name. have now a frenC
in Jesus. have wished to find you ou
that might thank you, and tell you how
much owe you for your kindness"
Year: 1877

Yonder thunders Niagara. In the dis
tance CLEAN the great lakes, not five of them
only, but twelve, a chain of lakes extending
from the Arctic Sea to the mouth of the st.
Lawrence, the Great Bear, the Great Slave,
and Athabasca, and Winnebago being the
upper end of the silver and golden ribbon
stretching across the colossal breast twice
washed in the blood of our beloved America.
Now, suppose should lose my guide-book
to North America, would the map of North
America change? What if the book we
call the Bible were to be discredited, as it is
in no danger of being? What if the theory
of inspiration, which hold in high and
severe form, were to be given up, would
religion evaporate in human affairs | carry
a guide-book to Niagara and the great lakes,
and it may he shall lose it, but have not
the slightest fear that the plan of North
America will change when my guide-book is
lost. Revelation is only the sun rising upon
the landscape of the nature of things, and
the sun reveals, but does not create, the
landscape. Religion will stand on the ma
ture of things as long as it is known that law
is universal, that the soul is made on plan,
and that therefore we do know by strict in
duction that the fractioness action of the
human faculties is the only natural action,
for it is the only action in harmony with
our environment. We must not allow our
selves to be thrown into tremor by fear that
the inspiration of the Bible is a truth that
will be given up. To-day the Bible is read
in two hundred languages of the globe.
To-day more money is spent for it than in
any previous age of the world | do not
know single infdel book over hundred
years old that has not been put upon the
Boston infidel book worth reading. One or
two of Theodore Parkers books went into
second edition, but in this country there
never appeared a second edition of the col
lected works of Theodore Parker. That one
fact is sufficient proof that they are not
man is a sopher.-Joseph Cook.
Year: 1877

Men are apt to take too narrow a view of
the influence of Gods word in the world.
Neither the Bible nor all its preachers give
full expression to what is technically called
the ministry of the word" Any broad
conception must include all those enlighten-
ing, convincing and conyicting influences
which flow from the history and revelation
OF Gods dealings with man. The Bible is
indeed the source and head of the Christian
ministry and Christian influence, but it does
not give full expression to that ministry and
influence, any more than the spring in the
mountain gives full expression to the river,
OF which IT is the beginning and first cause


Consider how many books the Bible has
given birth to, and what vast influence
Year: 1877

Dr. Parkes, in some experiments on Il
soldier TO establish the use OF alcohol as food,
gave strong, healthy man only water for
three days, and kept him digging in earth rs
hard as he could. The mean number of
beats per minute was sixty-six. The sol
dier then worked three days with the addi.
tion, daily, Of twelve ounces of brandy. Dur
ing the period the pulse beat seventy-one
times minute. The amount of work done
was about the same in each instance, and
the excretions did not differ much To find
out whether the man worked on brandy
with more ease than on water, he was asked
to nUte his own feelings. lie commenced
with the belief that he could work better
with the brandy, and ended with AN entirely
opposite conviction. During the first two
days, he said, the brandy, he thought, gave
him spirit to think he could do more; but,
when he came TO do it, he was less capable
than he thought. On the third day he was
hot aud thirsty, had palpitaton, was obliged
TO stop frequently becau'e his breathing
was not good" lie could hardly refrain
from throwing down his spade and stopping
work
Year: 1877

including Mare eight years old who trois easily In
We have also full stock Of HARNESSES Of every de
sorptiOn aie Ouf stock In every department very
extensive, and we invite the inspection of ALL


Our Carriage Repository In Montpelier Is In
Year: 1877

my horse gave out, and became so cold
and weary that found it necessary to ask
a farmer not far from here to give me a
nights lodging, which he kindly did. |
was much nearer my jounrney's end than
l supposed"


This explanation was satisfactory to all
parties, and in due time the congregation
dispersed, and the Presiding Elder went
home with Brother and Sister w. One
thing is certain, however, the story never
got out for some years after the worthy
brother and sister had passed from their
ilabors, and it was then related by Mr.. N.
himself, who was rather eccentric in his
character, and, like numbers of his minis
terlai brethren, fond of joke, and given
to relating stories.
Year: 1877

Why should you dread tomorrow,
And thus spoil your to-day?
For when you borrow trouble


You always have to pay.
1t is 4 good old maxim,


That should often be preached
Don't cross the bridge before you
Until the bridge ia reached.
1ou might be spared much signing
IfyOu would keep in mind
The thought that good and evil
Are always here combined.
There must be something wanting.
And though you roll in wealth,
You may miss from your casllct
That precious jewel-Lealth!
And tho you're strong and sturdy,
You may have an empty purse;
(And earth has many trials


Which 1 consider worse;
But whether joy or sorrow


Fill up your mortal span,
Twill make your pathway brighter
To smile whene'cr you can.
Year: 1877

o thou Eternal One whose presence bright


All space must occupy-all motion guide;
Unchanged through times all devastating flight,
Thou only God There is no God beside,
Being above all beings, mighty one


Whom none can comprehend and none explore
Who filrst existence with Thyself alone


Embracing all, supporting, ruling DER!


Being whom We call God, and know no more!
Thy chains the unmCasured universe surround,
Upheld by Thee, by Thee inspired with breath,
Thou the beginning with the end was bound,


And beautifully mingled life and death
As sparks mount upward from the fiery blaze,
So suns born, and worlds spring forth from Thee
And as the spanglcs in the sunny rays


Shine around the silvery snow, the pageantry
Of Heavens bright army glittcrs i'll Thy praise.
million torches lighted by Thy hand,


Wander unweared through the blue abyss;
They own Thy power, accomplish Thy command,
All gay with life, all eloquent with bliss.
What shall We call them? Piles of crystal light?
glorious company of golden streams?
Lamps celestial ether burning bright?


Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams?
But Thou to them art as the moon to night.
Yes, us the drops of water TO the sea,


All this magnifcence in Thee is lost
What are ten thousand worlds compared to Thee!
And what am then? Heavens unnumbercd host.
Though multiplied by myriads, and arrayed
In all the glory of sublmest thought,
Is but an atom in the balance weighed


Against Thy greatness-is a cipher brought
Against infnty What am l? Naught
Nothing but the cflluencc of Thy light divine
Pervading worlds, hath reached my bosom too;
Yes, in my spirit doth Thy spirit shine,


As shines the sunbeam in drop of dew
Naught!-but live, and on hopes pinions fly,
Eager, toward Thy presence; for in Thee
live and breathe, and dwell, aspiring high;
Zen to the throne of Thy divinity,


am, 0 God, and surely Thou must be
Thou art directing guiding ALL Thou art
Direct my understanding, then, to Thee;
Control my spirit guide my wandering heart,
Though but an atom midst immensity
Still am something, fashioned by Thy hand!
hold middle rank, 'twixt heaven and earth
On the last verge of mortal being stand,


Close to the realms whore angels have their birth
Just off the boundaries of the spirit land!
Year: 1877

My son, would you suppose the Lords
Prayer could be engraved in q space no
larger than the area of nickel cent ?"
" Well, yes, father, if cent is as big in
everybody's eye as it is in yours, think
there would be no difficulty in putting it
on about four times"
Year: 1877

An Irish clergyman once broke off the
thread of his discourse, and thus addressed
the congregation: "My dear brethren,
let me tell you that am Just half through
my sermon; but as perceive your impa-
tience, will say that the remaining half is
not more than a quarter as long as that
you have heard"
Year: 1877

A would,b be modest lady pulled the sleeve
of her under garment over her wrist, when
physician was about feeling her pulse.
The doctor took the corner of his coat and
laid it upon his patients arm, saying: "a
linen pulse should have woolen.physi-
cian."
Year: 1877

A Massachusetts COW came home the
other day carrying on her horn the follow.
ing note; Inclosed find six cents for one
quart of milk taken this forenoon" And
the six cents were there.