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Year: 1878

Some where down the stream Of
Time on which we are floating is a
beautiful island called the "By and
By" 1t may be just before us, be-
yond the next turn of the river or
we may not find it until the stream
disembogues into-the stream of etern-
ity. But we all look for it, from in
fancy to old age, and dream that all
evil will. be banished when we arrive
at that beautiful standby and By.


All day we float down the turbu-
lent stream; the blue color of heaven
burns above us; the mysteries of God
and immortality stream in upon US
with awful splendors, and truths
that have confounded the loftiest in
tellects-truths that in all ages have
reused up the soul from its founda-
tions, baptized 1t with love-environ
us withintensity, ,and all the thoughts
of the island are banished from the
mind But when the solemn gray of
twilight falls around our bark, in
fancy we see our magical shores,
green with the trees of beauty, fit
ting before us like stars over the
broad shadows of years and our long
ings all turned TO wander on its fairy
banks, and listen to the silver voices
of its inhabitants. And rs tho rosy
flush of the day fades in the west, and
the waiting stars open one after an
other their holy eyes, we go to rest
in the happy belief that the morning
sunrise willgild this immortal island
full in our vision-this cline we
have sought,sought so long and vain
ly, and whatever have fled all the
Summer of our youth, that we be-
sought with tears to stay.


A land of promise is that By and
By. In it we all have possession, the
anticipated enjoyment of which
alone renders life tolcrable. The
past has proven weary way; the
present full of thorns and besct with
danger; but in the golden By and BY
there is recomponso for all. There
the broken heart shall be healedan
the weary spirit find rest.


Who shall sell his birthright in
this land? Though poverty, gloom
and desolation environ us here, we
have wealthy and loving friends in
that fair cline.


How eagerly We look for that is
landl Ifit were laid down on our
chart, no matter how distant, so that
we knew it should surely come, we
should be satisfied in the prospect
But no Ariadhe comes to reveal its
labyrinthian secrets and we must be
content in its anticipation, and pos
sess it only in our drentns.
Year: 1878

LIES ODJEcr.-Mon know how
the thunder and lightning come from
the clouds in summer, and they want
to thunder and tighten sometimes
themselves; but it is better that the
contents of the clouds should drop
down rains, and make something
grow, than that there should be flash
ing and rosounding in tho heavens,
and that the oak should be crushed
to pieces, which has been growing for
several years; and it is BETTER not
that We should produce n great rack
ct in the world, and work destruction
round about them, but that they
should create happiness among their
fellow men,
Year: 1878

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The first battle tells the courage of
the soldier. Many think before the
battle that nothingcanfrighten them
Whcnit begins they are panic-strick'
en- and disgrace themselves by COW;
ardice. Col. Chester, of Connecticut
who commanded company of his
townsmen at Bunker Hill, used to
tell good story of two ofhissoldiers
in that battle. A large and power
full man, standing by the side of u
pale.faced youth of slender fgurei
said to his comrade:


"Man, you had better retire before
the fight begins, you will faint away
when the bullets begin to whiz
around your head"


81 don't know but I shall, as | Inev-
er heard one but 1 will stay and
Sec"


lie did stay, and was seen by Cof
Chester during the battle, calm and
loading and firing with great cool
ness. But the burly giant by his
side was missing, and at the retreat
was found alive and uuharmed, Sec
reted under haycock. Boastful
words and moral courage to face any
danger rarely go together


A lady stopped the milkman, as he
was passing the house, and inquired
the price of milk by tho quart, put
ting up her ear,trumpet to catch the
reply. The milkman drew q quart
of milk and emptied it into the
trumpet, and the result has been that
he has to go out of his way to keep
out of sight of the lady.


Step up to citizen and tell him
that his father and grandfather were
lunatics, and see how quickly he'll
crook his elbow. Yet, let that citi-
zen shoot somebody, and he'll bless
you if you'll help him to prove that
all his ancestors were not only crazy,
but the biggest fools in the noighbor-
hood.
Year: 1878




Lord Beaconsfeld's diplomatic triumph
snowy and illus0ry as we must still regard
twill undoubtedly carry him TO the highest
level of the peerage. The Queen whom he
has himself made an Empress will graclousy
return the favor by making him Duke. 1t
will be a proud distinction for him who was
born plain Benjamin Disraeli for Ill the
course of two centuries only one English
man has entered the lower House as
an untitled commoner and been raised
to the highest rank of nobility. But
the title matters little. With more
truth than irony the Liberal journals
have given him the name of Car Benjamin
SO long as his majority in the lower House
holds and his sovereign smiles, he is virtually
the autocrat of the British Empire


This direct tendency toward personal gov
ernment is the most significant and, as we
hold. the most dangerous element of a foreign
policy that has eliminated in the occupation
of Cyprus and the ProtectOrate of Asiatic
Turkey. Engliyhmen have boasted that their
ancient monarchy was in reality crowned
republic, With It's acting President. its
Cabinet and its Congress-the authority
of the sovereign being a symbol rather
tllan ldCI DuJ JhlOuSHOuU INV hN5"
tiatons of the past six months the weakness
of the nation has been manifest. The Premier
and the Cabinet so far as he has taken pains
to enlghten It, have kept their own counsel
and worked ont their own plans. Neither
House of Parliament has been taken into their
confidence. The nation has had no means of
finding out what was going on and what the Gov
ernment was aiming to do. The fleet was sent
TO Constantinople, the Sepoys were dispatched
to the Mediterranean, bargains were made
with victor and vanquished Cyprus was an
nexed and the enormous responsibility of
protectorate of Asiatic Turkey was incurred;
and in each instance Parliament has learned
the purposes of the Cabinet when 1t was too
late to interfere or even to discuss the meas
urcs with dignity. This ProtectOratc scheme,
which is yelled under the guise of dcfen-
sive alliance with the Porte, may be ffom
its political consequences the most momen-
tons act of the century ana yet the Premier
locked the secret in his breast, and only al
lowed his associates to mention the matter in
Parliament when the nation had been dragged
INTO a position from which it could not draw
back with self-rcspcct.


This is something more than personal gov
ernment it is autocratic Prince Bismarck,
who has generally had his own way on the
Continent, has never found Germany 80 manag-
able as England is TO-DAY under the leadership
of her crratic Premier. Lord BeacOnsiieId has
determined in secret the destiny of his COun-
try in Asia A Gar cannot do more than
that.
Year: 1878




Mr.. Butler has delighted two parties and
somewhat astonished and confused a third.
During the time he was in the air there was
q ceI tain awe of expectancy in the public
mind as to where he would eventually alight.
The two great parties held their breath and
watched his singular gyratiOns in fear and
trembling, lest he should tumble down among
theln and the third the conglOmerate Of all sorts
of discontents, huddlcd together their small
beginnings and hoped they had not enough
prospect of success to tempt his cupidity or
his ambition. The Republicans viewed his
departure from their ranks with uncOncealed
satisfaction but they had so often seen
him set out to leave them, only to re-
turn and stir up new mischief, that they
restrained their JOY until he should
fairly shut the door behind him. The
Democratic party having had experience of
him, shuddered as he cooked his eye in their
direction, and tmidly deprecated his approach ;
for though they accepted with alacrty the
service he volunteered, they dreaded his
nearer coming, lest he should demand to be
counted in when there should be a division Of
the party's plumber. And the Nationals, or
Labor RefOrmers, or Greenbackers or Com
munists, or Adullamites, or whatever they
call themselves, had just sense enough to
know that if he should happen to drop in on
them he would bring more mouths to their
small table than provisions to their larder
And after all he has descended among them
They are not, as a rule, particularly glad to
see him. Instead of haiing him as a bene-
factor or deliverer or leader, or anything of
that sort, they are surly and suspicious, and
grufly ask him what he wants


And the jolly old sOul-for say what you
will of him he is always Jolly tell him to his
face, as the Rev. James Freeman Clarke did.
that you don't think he is honest, or that he
is a lowdy, as General Boynton did a few
weeks ago, and it doesn't rufile or disturb
mm-the jolly old-soul makes straightforward
answer: ooh nothing in particular. Here's the
GOvernOrship of Massachusetts lying around
"loOse; don't care much about it, but if you
"felows are in downright earnest and want to
"see some reforms started in this State that
"will make things hum, | suppose | am about
"the man to do it. | know where the trouble
"is better probably than any other living man,
"and you can trust me to get after it and fix
"it up. Then as to the Presidency-wcll. of
"cOurse, you will do pretty much as you please
"about that. Only | have invariably noticed
"that the man who is elected President is
cone who has not allowed himself TO look
"for 1t or think of it; and i want to
"say to you right here that | will not permit
myself to think of being a candidate for
" President" SO he tries to reassure them,
Year: 1878

The Eight Hour Law agitatOrS who an
nounced recently that Attorney General
Devens would decide in favor of ten hours
pay for eight hours work, said more than
they knew. The text of the Attorney-Gen-
erals opinion, given in the Washington dis
patches, shows that, on the contrary, he sus-
taIns the only view of the act which Is at
once just and business-like, sound in law and
sensible IN practice General Devens finds the
Navy Department circular, which proposed to
pay men who worked ten hours more than
those who worked but eight, III "perfect har-
"mOny" with the Supreme Courts exposition
of the law. The Court held that the law did
not specify the price of days labor nor of
eight hours labor nor of more than eight
hours; that it did not prohibit special, pri-
vate agreements as to the length of a work
ing day; that it fixed the time simply when
10 special agreement had been made. The
Navy Departments provision of increased pay
for the ten-hOur men, the Attorney General
decides, therefore. to be entirely consistent with
the law, and plainly hints that the agitatOrs
view of the matter can only obtain after
further and explicit Legislation by Congress.
That legislation, it is to be hoped, may never
be had. The Eight Hour Law was a calamity,
and would be at any period, but there could
be no time more unfortunate than the present
for a legal enactment expressly declaring that,
while thousands of wOrkmen were unable to
obtain work on any terms, one class should be
fraudulenty Overpaid.
Year: 1878

country who are looking for odd job in the duh
season. may not, after ALL be able TO find immediate
employment in Washington. The committee may
content themselves for the present with sunmOning
the old lot to swear that they lied when they testi
fed before the recess.
Year: 1878

There is probably oniy one region in this
county where the persecution of whole
town for religions sake is possible, and there
is little need of naming the stronghold of in
tolerance in which the prescription described
elsewhere by correspondent is practlced'
Mormonism hardly appears in darker colors in
the history of the Danites than i'll this
persecution of the men who had dared 10
found a Gentle city IN the heart of Utah.
The Prophets curse upon the inhabitants OF
COrinne, which the Prophets followers called
"Hell," was executed with heathen cunning
by highly civlliz( methods. Though the town
was the best paying station or the Utah
Northern Road, the track was torn up and
all its rail connections were severed.
Even the steamboat that carried on its lake
traffic is lying idle in Mormon hands, Nor
mon capital being willing to lose interest
rather than see Gentiles earn 1t. But Corinne
is pucky, and proposes to live. 1t will be
strange if it does not live, and outlye Its
arch enemy.
Year: 1878

Another is to be added to the seaside homes,
of which there cannot be too many, for poor
mothers and children. The cornerstone was
laid Yesterday, at Asbury Park, of a building
which is designed TO accommodate fifty of these
unfortunates, and is to be erected by the efforts
of the Protestant order of the Sisters of the
Good Shepherd. In no form of charity can
so much be done so speedily and with so lit
tie money as in this, and probably there is
none where imposition is so nearly impOssi-
BILE. The House of the Good Shepherd. and
all others like it, should prosper.


With Secretary Sherman for a commentator,
it will be simply mule -Obstinacy if the Butler
Committee doesn't get a clear idea of its own
character. The Committees refusal to allow
witnesses to be called who will prove intimi-
dation in Louisiana while hearing witnesses who
try to disprove it, is a commonplace sample
of Democratic consistency; but the license
which was granted to Webber, the great
American liar, to testify as to common rumor
sand to his inferences based upon common
"rumOr," is a more serious matter. The
Butler Committee ought to maintain at
least a show of respect for the forms
of law and the requirements Of decency, and
such violation of both reflects no credit
upon the men who permit it. 1t really does
seem as if Mr.. Potter must want his name
taken off the sign.


The correspondent who describes Niagara as
it is gives new view Of the old controversy
as to the moral accountability of the people
who live around the Falls, and off of
them, too. The account of the way in which
the average visitor fights shy of the hotel
keepers for fear of being swindled, and rushes
right into the arms Of the cannibal hackmen,
has stlOng touch of nature in it. There is
Year: 1878

Yankee in n Hoosier Land" out in
Indiana, in the course of very kind letter
1T hand this week, has word to say to
employers. suggested by Ciuseur's advice
to young men who want to get ahead.
| lie says:


Give boy credit for what he does
right. and he will work for your interests
Wnen left school | went into store, and
one of my employers, who hal learned the
business in the same store before me, was
right after the boys if they did wrong; but
| never did anything right without getting
credit for ii, and his words of commenda-
ton inspired me to do more and better
My health being poor, left the store for
an outside business, and there | tried to do
my best; bat for years it seemed rs if
could do nothing right, and | was contin-
ually found fault with. Consequently,
lost my interest and did not do half that |
might. Since | have had men under me
my own experience keeps coming to my
mind, and | have tried to have all pa
tience possible with them and to say a
word of encouragement when they do
right. find it works well, and believe
my men like to work for me.n


No doubt of it. The fact is, while it is
the right and duty of an employer to com
plain when he is not well served, it is
equally his duty to acknowledge faithful
service. and the man who fails in this is
not only unjust, but impolite. The aver
age boy is manly, and wants to be treated
man-fashion. He only asks justice, and he
knows when he fails to get it. Indeed, no
one has n keener appreciation of justice,
or smats more keenly under injustice
than boy, The employer who treats his
boys fairly and honorably will be repaid
tenfold in faithful service. If boy prove
trustworthy, trust him, not grudgingly,
but openly and heartily. More than one
boy that Couseur could name has gone to
the bad because, when he was honestly
trying to do his best, he was constantly
watched and doubted. Per contra, he re-
members one in particular who refused to
leave his employer, even when superior
pecuniary inducements were held out,
giving rs his reason that he had been
trusted TO do his work without being
watched, and that he hfd faith to believe
that the time would come when Mr.. -
would be in Il position to do better by him.
And it did. If that boy " were to draw
his check for $4,000 to-day, any bank in
Boston would honor it at sight. -Trans-
Cript.
Year: 1878

A collision between steamship and
gigantic fish, which took place the other
day in the vicinity of the Tong Tong
Islands, is reported by the Times of India.
Tie Messageries Maritimes steamer Ana-
dyr. on its voyage to Shanghai, was sud-
denly brought to stop by II violent shock.
The cause of the collision was found to be
an enormous ray, or flat fish, estimated by
those on board to weigh from eight to ten
thousand pounds. The monster was lying
asleep on the top of the water when its
repose was rudely disturbed by a " dig in
the ribs from the stem of the steamer.
After the first alarm had subsided, efforts
were made to haul the creature on board,
but, owing to its unwieldiness, all attempts
in this direction proved frutless, and the
fish, doubtless even more " shaken than
the passengers on the boat, was reluctantly
allowed to move off and seek such remedies
for the injury it had sustained as are to be
procured in the mysterious deep.-Pdti
| MdE Gazette,
Year: 1878

BRtEFLErs.- Idleness is many-gathered
miseries in II single name.


Life is pendulum swinging between II
smile and u tear.


Ideness is hunger's mother, and of theft
its full brother.


No man can lie provident as TO time who
is not careful as to company.


One bell serves parish, and one helpful
hand serves many n cause.


knowledge and timber should not be
much used until they are seasoned.


In this theatre of mans life it is 70
served only for God and angels to be
lockers on.
Year: 1878

The Scientific american says that good
cement for fork and knife handles may be
made of one pound OF rosin and one-half
pound of powdered sulphur melted togeth-
er. anl about twelve ounces Of fine sand
mixed in Use while warm. knife and
fork handles should never be put into hot
! water.
Year: 1878

THE cattle stood up to their knees in
Il the creek, and every bird in the
woods sat silent or whirred about in
languid, discouraged way, it was such
boiling summer weather. The men
were afraid of sunstroke, and would not
go back to their threshing before two
o'clock, in spite of Job Asher's exhorta-
tions. Both great doors of the barn
were open, and some lounged on the
floor in a pleasant breeze, while others
fingered on the east porch of the house,
or even explored the prim, dark parlor.
Thirteen strong, voracious threshers
were quartered for the day, and perhaps
for several days--the length of their
stay depending on the amount of grain
to be threshed and the durability of the
machine-at Job Asher's. They had
eaten huge dinner, and there was only
one woman to wait on them all. She
was not standing in the cool creek along
with the happier cattle, at that time of
day, warrant you, not resting herself
in such air as might be stirring, after
the mornings labor of cooking for her
army. While the men lounged and Job
Asher fretted, his sallow, sad wife went
STOPPING around the kitchen, washing
the dishes, and preparing things for
supper. Really, it seemed her vitality
must be exhausted at the next step, but
she knew she should keep on walking
and working like a machine until all
which was required of her was finished.
She had long survived that period when
she could find any pleasure in accom-
plishing tasks or the thrift TO which
her husband exhorted her. Poor Mrs.
Asher was broken spring-a stretched
out bit of elastic. She wished julie were
there. If Julia had gotten home in
time for the threshing, she shouldn't
have had it so hard. Julia sort of rested
her, just by being in the house. She
really smiled slowly, and with wan
glistening of the face, as she thought of
her bounding, ruddy seventeen year old
girl. Julia meant to get home, but
school was not out until that very day.
and her father did not want her to
miss any of the advantages which cost
him so much cash.


Mrs. Asher recollected, as she rubbed
the dishes of, how long she and the dear
Year: 1878

from the effects Of the warm weather and are de-
bilitated, are advised by physicians to take mod
crate amounts OF whisky two or three times during
the day. In q little while those who adopt this
advice frequently increase the number OF drinks"
and in time become confirmed inebriates. bev-
erage which will not create thirst for intoxicating
liquors, and which is intended especially for the
benefit of eebilitated persons, whether at home or
abroad, is DIR. Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic. Con-
tanning the juices of many medicinal herbs, this
preparation does not create an appetite for the
intoxicating cup. The nourishing and life sup
porting properties of many valuable natural pro-
ductions contained in it and well knowuto medical
men have most strengthing influence. A single
bottle Of the Tonic will demonstrate its valuable
qualities For debility arising from sickness, over
exertIon or from any cause whatever, a wineglass-
full OF Sea Weed Tonic taken after meals will


strengthen the stomach and create an appetite for


wholesome food. To all who are about leaving


their homes we desire to say that the excellent ef
fects OF DR.. Schenck's seasonable remedies, Sea
Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills, are particularly
evident when taken by those who are injuriously
affected by q change Of water and diet No person
should leave home without taking supply Of these


safeguards along. For sale by all druggists.
Year: 1878

IMPORTANT TO PERSONS VISITING New
YoRK.-One of the best kept and most
convenient Hotels for Merchants and others
to stop at when in New York is the Grand
Union Hotel. nearly opposite the Grand
Central Depot, kept on the European plan
you therefore only pay for what you get.
Everything is first class, and prices mod
crate. adapted to the stringency of the
times You save the expense of carriage
hire, and By leaving your baggage check
on the counter of the Hotel, your baggage
will be delivered in your rooms, fifteen
minutes after the arrival Of the cars, free
of expense. We advise you to give the
Grand Union trial.
Year: 1878

can, and in every way aid in the work of organ
ization.


The executive committee of the Republican
Cavll Service Reform Club is anxious to secure
the names OF as many citizens of prominence
as feel an interest in this matter as possible,
that it may communicate with them when the
time for action arrives. Will you not, there
fore, send to the address given below, at your
earliest convenience, as many such names as
occur to you?


For the Civil Service Reform Club.


j. F. DORSEY, Secretary,


Post Office Box 517O,


Boston, Mass.
P.S.-If there are persons to whom you
think it would be well to have copy Of this
letter sent, please send their names and ad-
dresses at once.
Year: 1878

Beautiful, beautiful silken hair"
Philip murmured fondly, toying lovingly
with one Of her Aut-brown tresses, "soft
as the piamage oman angels wing light
as the thistle down that dances on the
summer air; the simmer of sunset,
the glitter of yellow gold, the Iich red
brown Of autumnal forests blend in
enhancing beauty in its" And just
then it came off In bis hands, and he
forgot just what to say next. There
was a moment OF profound silence, and
then Aurelia took it from him and went
on: of the room with it. When she
came back be was gone. They meet
now, but they meet as strangers, and
the eyes that we're wont to beam upon
each other with the awakened love light
now giafe as though life were sn eternal
wash-day.
Year: 1878

GEORGIA boasts of citizen who bss
never taken a drink OF liquor ner had a
spell of sickness, never smoked q
cigar nor taken a chew of tobacco,
never ate any animal that could climb
a tree, nor anything that could live in
water or burrow ia the ground