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Year: 1877

While walking in thesouthwestern part
of the city, many years since, l noticed
the driver of a coal cart who was about
delivering his load The man, who had
but one arm, was cheerful, strong, and
active, and seemed but little impeded in
his work by the loss of his limb. On
being asked whether he did not find the
loss of his hand and arm a very serious
Inconvenience, he answered "no." and
said that he was still able to haul seven
tons Of coal daily, which was as much as
most men cared TO do. He then showed
me how he made the stump of the ampu-
tated arm useful, by resting the end of
the shovel against it, while he grasped
the handle and lifted the coal with bis
remaining hand and arm. Here was
striking instance Of energy, courage and
the manly determination which enables
persons to overcome difficulties; but
when he also told me that he had never
once regretted the loss of a limb so i'm
portant to the working man, it seemed
strange and surprising.


Here was something that needed ex-
PLANTATION; and in answer to inquiries, ]
learned that the arm bad been sacrificed
in order to save the life of another person.
Years previous to my interview, he had
been employed with others at mill in
the country, and on a certain occasion he
saw that large, heavy door, which had
been leosened from its iastenings in one
of the upper stories of the mill, was about
falling from great height, and that a
fellow-workman, unconscious of the acci-
dent, was STOPPING with his back bent
directly on the spot where the door must
strike the ground, and that from his po-
sition the man must almost certainly be
killed if the door struck him. There
was no time for reflection or hesitation,
but my informant Immediately extended
an arm, received the first shock of the
falling door, and thus warded it off his
companion, so that he was little if any
hurt The arm, of course, was go shat
tered that it had to be promptly re-
moved.


It has often occurred to me that this
was an instance of true Christian hero
ism, such as we have few examples of.
He doubtless had the comfort of an APP
proving conscience, and therefore felt no
sorrow or regret for the part he had
taken. We have good reason to suppose
that he who seeth not as man seeth be-
hold many who are of small account in
the eyes of the world, who are yet OBJ
iects of his favor and regard. The subject
of the preceding anecdote must have had
a portion of that unselfish love and spirit
of self.sacrifce of which the life and suf-
ferings of our divine Redeemer has given
us the great example.-The Friend.
Year: 1877

The Russian metho1 of acquiring
foreign languages is nore methodical
than that of any other nation. In the
first place a foreign muse, usually Eng
lish, is secured for the baby. The Rus
slams are very careful in choosing this
parsonage, because, as she is not on any
account to breathe into the infants ears
an accent Of plebeian Russ, her speech
must he free from these colloquialisms
in which ladies ike Sairey Camp are apt
to indulge. When The child is about
nine years old foreign playmates are
sought for it. During the summer
months the children of the English and
French residents in Russia are at
premium. 1t is a regular practice for
them to spend their holidays on the
estates of Russian nobility Besides the
pleasure which the trip into the interior
affords them, they mostly return home
laden with presents, and if a boy is sharp
enough to be able to add little gram
matical instruction to his practice as
"conversatiOnalist," he may pick up
enough pocket-money to last him the
remainder of the twelve months. Lastly,
a tutor or governess is engaged for the
child until it can converse in foreign
language as freely and faultlessly as a
native. LANGUAGE masters make fine
living in Russia. In spite of their num-
bers-English teachers may be counted
by the hundreds-they charge high
price for their instruction, and are held
in great esteem by the Russians, who
often retain their services for years.
Year: 1877

1t is the grand endeavor of the gospel


o communicate God 10 men. They


ave undertaken TO live without Him,
and do not see that they are starving


n the bitterness of their experiment.
1t is not, as with bodily hunger, where
them to seek their food, but they go after
the husks, and would fain be filled with
these, not even so much as eonceiving
what is their real want, or how it comes.
For it is remarkable fact that so few
men, living in the flesh. have any con
ception shat God is the necessary supply.
and nutriment of their spiritual ma
ture, without which they famish and die.
1t has an extravagant sound when they
hear it. They do not believe it. How
can it be that they have any such high
relations to the eternal God, or He TO
them 1t is as if the tree were to say,
"what can | a mere trunk OF wood, all
dark and solid within, standing fast in my
rod of grOund-what can / have to do
with the free, moving air, and the bound
less sea of lieht that fills the world 2'
And yet it is as nature made to feed on
these, taking them into its body to osupply.
and vitalize and color, every fiber of its
substance. just so it is that every finite
spirit is inherently related to the infinite,
in Him TO live, and move, and have its
being. 1t wants the knewledgeo of God, the
eternal manifestation Of God, the appro-
baton of God, consciousness lighted
up by His presence, to receive His
fullness, to be strong in His might, to
rest in His love, and be centered ever
lastingly in His glory. Apart from
Him, it is an incomplete creature, a
poor, blank fragment of existence, hun
CRY, dry and cold. And still, alas. it
cannot think so. Therefore, Christ
comes into the world to incarnate the
divine nature, otherwise unrecognized,
before; so to reveal God to its knowl-
edge, enter with Him into its faith and
feeling, make Him its living bread, the
food of its eternity. Therefore of His
fullness we are called to feed, receiving
of Him freely grace for grace. When
He is received He restores the conscious
ness of God, fills the soul with the di-
vine light, and sets it in that connection
with God, which is life-eternal life
Dr. BtshHelpS Sermons on Ae1r Liie.
Year: 1877

There is a movement on foot against
Mexico. The objective point is Sonora,
and the purpose, from what can be gath
cred here, seems to be to annex this
province to the domain of the Texas and
Pacific railroad, and incidentally to
Uncle Sam. The movement is said TO
have wide ramifcations. The deposed
President Lerdo, who is living here in
seclusion, is a silent partner in it. The
headquarters are naturally in Philadel-
phis. New Orleans is the basis of active
operations. The interested parties here
are trying to see how much liberation
they can count on from the national
government when they begin active oper-
atoms next autumn. They propose, it
is understood, to colonize the state of
tonora with some thousands of Ameri-
cans, and to set up an independent gov
ernment there. Then they will play the
role of Texas over again, and endeavor
IN secure admission to the union as a
federal state. The Texas Pacific rail-
road at one point will run along the
southerd borders of Arizona, and almost
touch the territory of Mexico. The an
archy that prevails in Mexico opens the
way for this new colonization scheme.
There is said be a great deal of money
available to carry out the enterprise. If
a new government should be established
in Sonora, Lerdo will undoubtedly be the
nominal head of it. The means for es-
tabIishing it will be furnished from this
side of the border.


The capture of Sonora would inevitably
carry with it the control of Lower Cali
fornia and the addition of the territory
70 the American union, and will extend
opr territory two degrees south on the
Pacific coast. 1t is highly attractive
scbeme. Sonora is the state in which the
MEXICAN national authority is naturally
the weakest. The defenders OF the
scheme say that the Mexican authority
i Of an end, and that there can be no
government there unless 1T IS sustained
from this side of the line, and that the
time has come to make another huge ad-
dit;on to our territory on the southwest.
You will be likely to hear good deal
obout this matter before the summer is
ont Chicago Times.
Year: 1877

Ceremoniousness and politeness, though
often mistaken and substituted one for
the other, are by no means the same
thing. Ceremony, being the outward
form by which certain ordinary acts of
civility are expressed by the common
agreement of the refined, is generally
more or less practiced by the polite.
These, if yersed in the conversational
usages of society, become thus to a GER
tain degree ceremonious. They accord,
ingly are seen to make use of those ordi-
nary formulas of manner and behavior
set by fashion or established by custom.
They will cut their dress, move their
limbs, mold their manners and direct
external habits of life to a great extent
in conformity with social regulation. As
the desire to please, which is the impell-
ing motive to politeness, makes them 50
far compliant as to be careful not to Of
fend the fastidieusness of formal pro-
priety by transgression of its obvious
rules, they also refuse to insult the COM
nonsense of mankind by an exhibition
of extreme Difference TO the arbitrary
authority of convention. The genuinely
polite, while conforming to, are never de-
votees of fashion, iu its exclusive rights
and ceremonial observances. Their sym
pathies are too broad to be kept within
the narrow limits of such an intolerant
worship.


While ceremony is accepted with
amiable compliance by the polite, polite
ness is often refused by the ceremonious.
The great stickler for ceremony is ordi-
narily, in fact, entirely destitute of po-
liteness. He, however, is apparently so
| unconscious of the want that he gener-
ally prides himself on the possession of
it. He is apt to be entirely ignorant of
its very nature, and thus his frequent
error in supposing he has what he has
not. By him politeness is thought to
consist of those very ceremonious observ-
ances of which he has so many at his
command, and so profusely bestows.
Like some people who seem to believe
that all the duties of religion may be
fulfilled by diligent practice OF its
| formalities, as the muttering of pre-
scribed prayers and making of genufiec,


tions, the ceremonious are apparently oi
| the opinion that human courtesy requires
no more than the giving of formal bows
The Americans, who are ordinarily
great scorners of ceremony, are remarka-
| BILE for their civility as people. What
ever may be the lowliness of their posi-
ton, they have all more or less of that
| self-respect essential to due regard for
the feelings and innate dignity of their


fellows. They may keep their hats tight
| upon their heads, and hands sunk deep
| into their pockets, apparently incapable
of word of reverence or gesture of obei
sance, and yet they will seldom utter a
syllable to offend the most delicate feel
Ping or commit an act Indicative of inten-
| tional rudeness. Their readiness to eblige
is proverhial, and every stranger will OBJ
serve with what eager civility they meet
his approaches. The demands of curios
Year: 1877

the woodlands arm; let me be made your
king; he will respect and reverence my
age" The Yew was made king, but
still the weodman's axe resounded
through the forest.


The next king was the Cypress, who
contended that, though dignity, strength
and age had been despised, his solemnity
would awe the woodman and dispose
him to obey. The woodman regarded
not the Cypress, and the trees fell as be-
fore.


'You are wrong" said the Birch, in
thenext council that was held. " Though
the woodman cannot be opposed by
strength, nor awed by age nor sOlemnity
yet may be won by beauty. My silyery
bark and slender boughs would gently
incline him to obedience. Let me wear
the crown" With universal applause
the Birch was crowned but in vain.
Tree after tree still fell beneath the
sturdy stroke of the woodman.


How long will We follow bad advice
and neglect wise counsel ?' said the Fig
tree. "Know We not that the woodman
is guided by his interest? Ye should
have made me your king. My fruit
would have allured him. 1t would be his
interest TO obey me-" With one accord
the trees chose the Fig to rule over them
but the forest still grew thinner and
thinner.


Hear me" said the Aspen, in a
whispering voice, and despise not the
counsel that give. Let me be crowned,
for when the woodman sees me CULVER
ing in the blast, he will pity me, and
grant for my sake. what he has hitherto
refused" The crown was placed on the
Aspen, but the trees that fell were no
fewer than before.


Driven to despair, another council was
assembled, when the prickly Bramble
contended that different course should
be taken. We make me your king"
said he, " will defy the woodman l
viii resist him in every quarter. He
shall find me armed for your defense,
and he will retire" The courage of the
Bramble was highly applauded, and he
was crowned, but the woodman's course
was not arrested.


When it was found that the strength
of the Oak, the age of the Yew, and the
solemuity of the Cypress prevailed not /;
when the beauty of the Birch, the
abundance of the Fig, and the timidity
of the Aspen, had proved to be vain !;
having tried from the towering Cedar to
the lowly Bramble, it was decided that
they should no more oppose the progress
of the woodman, but grow in strength
and beauty; bloom and blossom, and
bear fruit according to their several
natures, and 50 seek to be prepared to
| bow down without a murmur when the
axe Of the woodman approached them.


Be We high or low, rich or poor, old or
young, wise or simple, learn ye lesson
from the council Of the trees. 1t is bet
ter 10 improve your time by making
! your lives useful, than TO waste it in the
vain attempt to increase the number of
your days for, as the trees of the forest
fall before the AK of the woodman, so must
We fall before the scythe of death.


Dear young reader, you may be felled
next. Do you know three S's-Sin, so
as to hate, forsake, and loathe it--the
Saviour, 80 as to seek salvation, and,
finding it, give God all praise for it
and Service under the easy yoke of
Jesus.--OH Humphrey az The Lite
Gleaner.
Year: 1877

The ear and the eye are the minds re-
ceivers; but the tongue is only busted
in expending the treasure received. If,
therefore, the revenues of tie mind be
uttered as fast or faster than they are re-
ceived, it cannot but be that the mind
must needs be bare, and can never lay up
for purchase. But, if the receivers take
in still, with no utterance, the mind may
soon grow burden 10 itself, and unprof-
liable to others. l will not lay up too
much and utter nothing, lest l be covet-
GUS: nor spend much and store up little,
lest 1 be prodigal and poor.-Bishop


Hall
Year: 1877

THE selectmen OF Boston, one hundred
wears ago, leased the public lands and
buildings at auction. The ordinanc"
provided: +" The premises H. be so leased
shall be set up at public auction or sale,
by an inch of candle, and that at the in
slant in which the candle shall expire
the person last bidding tie highest or
the greatest annual rent for the same
hall be declared the lessee ofthe same
Year: 1877

If argument Is needed to prove the
immutability of the Word Of God, it
viii surely be sufficient to appeal to the
testimony of the past. Through sixty
centuries which have borne perpetual
testimony to the changeabIeness of every
thing human, which have altered even
the emblazoned record of the starry
heavens, and changed the dumb but elo-
quent utterances of the stratihed rocks
beneath our feet, the Word Of God has
not changed in the least particular; not
enc jot or little of it mas failed It's
prophecy has either proven itself a sure
word" in the actual verifcation of it
or it stands awaiting fulfllment at the
pleasure of Him, with whom ca thou
sand years are as one day


There is not one prophetic utterance
in the sacred canon yet unfulflled, of
which human reason can say without
blushing for its perverseness, that it is
not likely to be fulfilled. The testimony
of history to the truth of Divine Prpho-
ecy would put such cavils to instant
shame. The moral history of our race
is grand volume of proof Of tie fixed
ness of the Divine world The curse
pronounced against sin, and the blessing
declared as the fruit Of righteousness,
have had fulfllments innumerable in
national, social and individual experience,
until we should sooner expect the sea-
sons to change places, than the curse
and the blessing to be inverted or to
cease. What has been for so long a
period as six thousand years, we may
well conclude, by the deductions of
human logic aud irrespectively of divine
affirmation, will be while time endures.
From the past we may read the future
in respect of Gods eternal government.
The preservation of the literal Word OF
God, amid the successive wrecks of
human literature, and its advancing
power over the minds and iptellects OF
men, are inferential and impressive testi-
monies to the indestructibility and inn
mutability of it's truth.-,Standard
(Chicago)
Year: 1877

CHICAGO, April 3.-No Change to-day
on account of election, May wheat sold,
on the street at higher prices, $l.32


The day is warm and sunny, but,so far as
returns up to o'clock indicate, the vote
for city officers will be light There is a
general impression that the Republicans
will elect most of their ticket,-even Dem
ocrats coucede this. The contest
on mayor is expected to be very
close but so far as known Heath is still
ahead There is much scratching and re.
liable returns cannot be obtained until late
at night.


The food in the southern and western
portions of the city is subsiding at the rate
of about half an inch per hour. 1t is
stated, but not confirmed. that severa
Easements in the business portion of the
city are inundated.
Year: 1877

RTThirteen tramps yesterday and six
this morning. o, for stone pilel


n9Just think of the defeated candi-
dates for collector tonight.


B~Baseballists come out to Timm s
Hall tonight and assist in the organization
of club.


BSRed pepper is good thing in its
proper place, but when distributed over q
school room floor it generally fails to give
unalloyed pleasure, however much the
boys may enjoy the sport of seeing visitors
and others wipe their eyes and sneeze. a
young man named Elmer King had his
fun the last day of the winter term o.
school and now he is in receipt of an in
vitation from the school board to staJ
away from school.
Year: 1877

ST. LOUIS, April 3.-The election is
progressing very quietly and pretty full
vote is being polled. Both parties are
working energetically and both are san
guine of success.


Owing to the great increase of polling
places caused by recent large additions Q
the city limits and more than doubling of the
number of wards, the result will not be
known till late hour to night or to-mor
rOW
Year: 1877

When you see a family always charact-
erized by the most light and delicious
bread and pastry, you needn't ask if they
use Dooley's Yeast Powder or not. As
sume it to be the truth and you'll always
hit the mark. Another prime advantage
of this splendid article is that it cuts down
the grocer's bills.
Year: 1877

Liver Disease and Indigestion
prevail to a greater extent than
probably any other malady ,snd
relief is always anxiously
sought after. II the Liver is
Regulated IN its action, health


health Is almost invariably Sc
Year: 1877

the business in hand, although she was very ill and weak. The will was execu- ted and attested in due form.

 "The story of her remaining days is soon told. She failed rapidly. On Feb. 26. 1877, Dr. lngersoll was called. He found her in m imbeciie condition. On March 10th her mind was entirely gone. She was then weak and sick, helpless and senseless. in which condition she fingered until the 9th of April and then the end. During the lifetime of Fisher, at least for some time, tMrs. Fisherl had been addicted to drink, which caused restlessness, loss of sleep, and frequent walking at night. After his death she drank more, and during the past year or two of her life she drank on an average a gallon of whiskey week.

 Several months before her death she crayed constantly for liquor. Her phy-

 clans warned her that death would en- sue unless she would cease the use of al. cohol, but without effect. The demi- john had to be hid from her, and the liz uor dealt out to her in smaller quantities She would have it, and tumbler' of il was placed on her table on retiring for night use. She was 63 years old, he 46 she wealthy, he impecunious; she weak in mind and failing in health, he strong and vigorous; he knowing she could live only short time, that she was drink. ing herself to death: that thoughts of love or associations were absurd !; he took her for her money"

 Under this decision the husband will take one half the property, provided his marriage is sustained, and the other half will go the daughter If the marriage should eventually be declared null, all the property will go to the daughter. The estate is valued at about $70,000.
Year: 1877

which go to tine Mediterranean are us. ually exported in bulk.

 Large quantities of dried codhsh are shipped to Brazil, and there is shardly an inhabited corner of that vast empire where the Newfoundland cod is not to be found, being carried on the backs of mules from the sea-coast into the most distant provinces of the interior. The negroes of the West Indies welcome 1t as grateful addition to their vegetable diet. To all parts of the Mediterranean it finds it's way, Italians, Greeks and sicilians equally relishing the produce of the sea harvest. The Spaniards and Portuguese arc our best customers, and all over the sunny peninsula the'bucalo' is standing dish. In the warmer re- gions of the earth the people seem to have special liking for the dried and salted cod, and to them it is an almost indispensable article of food.