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Year: 1878

Rock of Ages. cleft fer me-


Thoughtlessly the maiden sung
Fell the words unconscious
From her girlish tongue,
Sang as little children sing;


Sang as sing the herds Of June:
Fell the words like bright leaves


down


On the current of the tune.
Rock Of Ages. cleft for me,


Let me hide myself in thee
Let me hide myself in thee
Felt her soul no need to hide;
Sweet the song as song could be,
And she bad no thought beside,
All the words unheedin2ly


Fell from lips untouched by care,
Dreaming not that they might be
On some other lips q prayer.
Rock of Ages, cleft for me-


Twas woman sang them low
Sung them slow and YEARLY
Wan hand oD her aching brow.
Rose the song as storm tossed bird
Beats with weary wing the air,
Every note with sorrow stirred,
Every syllable prayer


Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee
Rock of Ages, cleft tor me-
Life grown aged sang the hymn
Trustingly and tenderly;


Voice grown weak aud eyes grown


dim,


Let me hide myself in Thee
Trembling though the voice aud


low,


Ran the sweet strain peacefully,
Like river in its flow.
Sung as only they can sing


Who Life's thorny paths have


pressed;


Sung as only they can sing


Who behold the promised rest.
Rock of ages, cleft for me-


Sung above coffin. lid;
Underneath. all restfully


All life's joys and sorrows hid.
Nevermore. oh, storm. tossed soul I!
Nevermore from wind or tide,
Nevermore from pillows roll
Wilt thou need to hide.
Gould the sightless sunken eyes,
Closed beneath the soft grey hair,
Could the mute and stiffened lips
Move again in prayer,
Still, aye still the words would be,
Let me hide myself in Thee
Year: 1878

IL having come to the attention Of
some OF the workingmen in boiler shop
on Larned street that an old vagrant was
in the habit Of sleeping In an old boiler
in the yard. three or four OF them came
down at an early morning hour. cut OF
his retreat by pushing barrel into the
orihcs. and then. armed with sledges
and hammers. they made such a din as
only boilermakers can. When they be-
came tired they pulled away the barrel
and looked in. The vag. was rubbing
his eyes. and as they called to him he
replied;


"Hey' What dye .oy' Was that
q FIRE alarm ?"


They were by no means satisfied, and
next morning they turned on the water
used to test boilers and thrust the hose
into the boiler. by and by the old chap
came crawling out, wet as n rat. and as
he landed ON the aroand he inquired


"Boys, have you got any soap around
here 2"


They gave him a piece used at the
wash.basin. and as he craNled back into
the boiler with 1t he remarked


"It's four weeks since this shirt was
washed. and 10 you gents will let that
water run for about fifteen minutes
more. you'll be doing me u great favor.
I'm sorry to bother you, but III try not
waste any Of the precious huid De
troll Free Press.
Year: 1878

HOUSEHOLD HINTs.-Housekeepers
may be glad to know that a tablespoonful
of ammonia in one gallon of warm water
will restore the colors of carpets


Vinegar and fruit stains upon knives,
can be taken off by rubbing the blades with
raw potato, and then polishing on the knife
board in the usual manner.


A stick of black sealing wax and one o..
red dissolved in two ounces of spirits of
wine makes an excellent color for wicker
baskets or other small articles of the kind.
Lay it on with small brush.


When the gilt frames of pictures or
looking-glasses or the mouldings of rooms
have specks of dirt upon them from flies
or other causes, they may be cleaned with
white of eggs gently rubbed on with q
camels hair pencil.


To do up shirt bosoms in the most per-
feet way one must have polishing iron p
small iron rounded over and highly pol
ished on the ends and sides. Spread the
bosOms ON a hard and very smooth board.
with only one thickness of cotton cloth
sewed tightly across 1t.


Tins may be cleaned by the followingp pro-
cess First rub your tins with a damp
cloth, then take dry -four and rub it on with
your hands, and afterward take an old
newspaper and rub the -four off, and the
tins will shine as we'll as if half an hour
had been spent in rubbing them with brick
dust or powder, which spoils the hands.
Year: 1878

"You know my opinion of female So
ciety," said John Randolph. "Without
it We should degenerate into brutes.
This observation applies with tenfold force
to young men aud those who are in the
prime of manhood. For, after a certain
time of life, the literary man may make
shift Ga poor one I grant, to do without
the society of ladies. To a young man
nothing is so important as a spirit of de-
votion, next to his Creator, to some amia-
bic woman, whose image may occupy his
heart and guard it from pollution, which
besets it on all sides A man ought to
choose his wife, as Mrs. Primrose did her
wedding gown, for qualities that swear
well" One thing at least is true, that if
matrimony has its cares, celibacy has no
pleasures. A Newton or mere scholar
may find employment in study; man Of
literary taste can receive in books a pow
erful auxiliary; but man must have
bosom friend and children around him to
cherish and support the dreariness of old
age.
Year: 1878

We think that the power of money is
on the whole, Overestimated The great
est things which were done for the world
have not been accomplished BY rich men,
or by subscription lists, but BY men gem
orally of small pecuniary means. The
greatest thinkers, discoverers, inventors
and artists, have been men Of moderate
wealth, many of them little raised above
the condition o. manual laborers in point
of worldly circumstances. And it will
always be so. Riches are oftener an i'm
pediment than stimulus of action; and
in many cases they are quite. as much a
misfortune as blessing. The youth who
inherits wealth is apt to have life made
too easy for him, and so grows sated
with it because he has nothing left
to desire. Having no special object to
struggle for, he finds time too heavy ON
his hands; remains mentally and morally
asleep; and his position in society is often
no higher than that of polypus over
which the tide floats.
Year: 1878

Loaf bread, once said an experienced
housekeeper to US, ''interferes with the
salvation of more housekeepers than any
one thing in the world" This was pro-


baby an cxtravagant statement, yet to the
country housewife who cannot turn to
convenient bakery, the duty of breadmak-
ing is too often heavy cross-a sort of
hit or miss experiment. Heavy, sour
bread, is far more general than the oppo-
site, and this is trying to both the diges-
tions and to the tempers of the family who
cat 1t. Yet there is no reason for this;
there is philosophy of breadmaking as of
everything else, and certain causes accom-
plish certain results. Therefore we are
glad to be able to give recipe from a
practical housekeeper, whose bread nerer
fails To make two quarts of bread or
rolls take four or FIVE nice, large Irish DO
tatoes, peel and cut them up, and put them
to boil in just enough water to cover them.
When done mash smooth in the same
water, and when cool, not cold, add half
teacupful of yeast, or if you use compress
ed yeast the sixth part of cake dissolved
in tepid water, dessertspoonful Of sugar,
little salt, tablespoonful of lard, and a
pint of -four. Mix together lightly. This
should be very soft and quite sticky. Set
by in covered vessel in warm place to
rise. In two or three hours it will be
risen, and should look almost like yeast.
full of bukbl& Now work in the rest of
your two qrafss of -four, and, if necessary.
add little cold water. The dough should
be rather soft and need not be kneaded
more than half an hour Set to rise in
moderately warm place for four hours or
thereabouts. 1t can be baked now If
wanted at once, but if not, take spoon
and push the dough down from the top and
sides of the vessel containing it and let it
rise again. The oftener the bread rises
the lighter it viii be-three times is, how
ever, sufficient. After it rises the last
time take it out of the vessel and knead it
with your hands until it is smooth. IF
too soft add little more -four. For rolls.
roll out and cut as if for biscuit. IF YOU
prefer doubled rolls give each touch with
the rollingpin to make it oblong and then
double it over. The baking-pan must be
creased and the rolls must not touch each
other Set down to rise-this will take
half or three-quarters of an hour Then
put in the oven and bake as you would
biscuit. Unless the oven is hot the rolls
will spread and the crust be hard
Year: 1878

PoLITENEss.-Politeness is to a man
what beauty is to woman. 1t creates an
instantaneous impression in his behalf,
while the opposite quality exercises as
quick prejudice against him. Polished
manners have made hundreds successful,
while the best Of men by their hardness and
coolness have done themselves an incalcu-
liable injury, the shell being so rough that
the world could not believe that there was
a precious kernel within it. Had Raleigh
never flung down his cloak in the mud for
the proud Elizabeth to walk on, his career
through life would scarcely have been
worth recording. Droves of men have been
successful in life by pleasing manners
alone. 1t isa trait of character we'll worth
cultivating. Never forget the value Of
true ciyility.
Year: 1878

Recently whilst Mr.. Speece was quarry
ing stone on the farm of Samuel Worst. In
Lancaster county, Pa, he uncovered the
entrance Of what proved to be a remarka-
bic cave. The entrance was only large
enough for man to crawl in, but after
proceeding a distance of twenty feet it
becomes large enough for a man to walk
erect, and a short distance further on rises
to a height of thirty-one feet, and varies
from eleven to eighteen feet in width. and
is four hundred yards long The roof and
sides of the cave are covered with stalac.
tltes, some of which are three feet long.
A narrow passage leads from this chamber
to another which is about six times as
large and has an icy-cold stream of water
running through it. In it is also a beau
tiful lake, about one hundred and fifty
yards long and about two-thirds as wide.
A small stream runs from the lake and
emptics into the large one. In the lake
several small fish were seen, which, on
being caught, we're thought to be s;ghtless.
The cave has not yet been fully explored.
and more curious features may be dis
covered.
Year: 1878

To PREVENT THE HAIR FROM FALL
ING.-Pour wine -glassful of dry table
salt upon sheet of paper. While the
hair is dry, dip metallic hair-brush, or a
stiff bristle-brush into the salt, rubbing it
into the roots of the hair. Apply every
day until the hrir ceases to fall; then dis
continue Alum will check the fall of
hair that has become saturated and drown
ed with the use of oils, acting as an as
tringent. A strong decoction of the herb
'boneset" is good tonic for the hair.
Year: 1878

BY the use of sterocopic photographs
and the photograph combined with the
kinesigraph n writer in Nature says a
talking picture can be taken, which will
reeite any speech the sitter may deliver.
BY this process life-sized photograph can
be made to move and gesticulate precisely
as the orator did when making the speech,
the words, tone and gesture corresponding
as in real life. These wonderful pictures
are taken in quarter or half seconds, the
exposure of the plate not occupying more
than an eighth of second. After fixing
the prints from these plates are taken one
below another on long strip of ribbon or
paper. The strip is wound from one cyl
inder to another so as to cause the several
photographs TO pass before the eye success
siyely at the same intervals of time as those
at which they were taken. Each picture
as it passes the eye is instantaneously
lighted up by an electric spark. Thus the
picture is made to appear stationary while
the people or things in it appear to move
as in nature.
Year: 1878

RUSSIA SHEET IRoN.-There is a sue
cessful establishment in Western Penn
sylvania making that kind of iron in all
respects equal to the Russian article.
When it was started, not long ago, the
cost of the article was seventeen cents, but
it is already reduced to ten. 1t is an in-
teresting fact that some of this superior
American "Russia sheet is actually going
out to Russia on the Baldwin locomotives
now being shipped for that country.
Year: 1878

Snow SPONGE CAKE.-Whites of ten
eggs; one cup and half of pulverized su-
gar; one cup of -four; one teaspoonful of
extract of almond, or rose water; one of
yeastpowder; whip the eggs to a stiff froth;
add sugar and extract; beat until very
light; stir in the -four and yeastpowder;
bake in jelly pans and spread with currant
jelly. The yolks can be used in gold cake;
and pretty ribbon cake be made by put
ting alternately layer of gold and one of
snow cake with the red jelly between.
Year: 1878

The effects of tobacco smoking, as de-
scribed by the Scientific american, are
discoloring of the teeth by carbon, excite
meut of the salivary glands by the ammo
MIA, headache and lassitude from the car
bonie acid, disease of the heart from the
carbonic oxide, nausea from the bitter
extract, and tainting of the breath by
the volatile empyreumatic substance. The
system may become used to these things,
yet is made liable to consumption, nervous
exhaustion, paralysis and ailments. To
sum up the evils, effects on individuals
likewise affects communities, these in turn
influence the nation. No person that
smokes can be in perfect health, and an
imperfect organism cannot reproduce a
perfect one. Therefore it is logical to
conclude that, we're smoking the practice
of every individual of a nation, then that
people would degenerate into physically
inferior race" Let smokers think Of these
things.
Year: 1878

How TO WASH FLANNELs.-I can tell
you how | wash fannels, aud if l could
show you little skirts / have that have been
worn year after year and are as soft as
when new, you would not doubt the effica-
cy of my way. The secret is to rinse in
water of the same temperature as the wash
water. Sometimes use cold water, soap
and cold water, and my fannels look just
as we'll as if / wash in the sudsing water.
Some say never rub soap on fannels, but
/ do on the soiled spots, and have never
suffered a shrinkage from it. / usually
have a rinsing water slightly blued, about
as warm as my suds, and wiring the fan
nels into it. Rinse, wiring, stretch well
and hang up directly. When they are
dry do not sprinkle, but lay within the
folds of other garments, quite damp, and
rolled up hard. l believe sprinkling fan
nels help to shrink them. Iron well, and
with only moderately heated iron.
Year: 1878

The theory finds advocates that meteor
ic stones, which occasionally strike the
earth's surface, were thrown off from the
earth during its volcanic period. After
the lapse of ages they are coming back.
Like some human wanderers going off in
hot haste, they return at their cool leisure;
flush at the start they come back spent.
Year: 1878

Snow PUDDING.-Pour one pint of
boiling water on half box of gelatine, add
the juice of one lemon and two cups of
sugar When cool strain, add the whites
of three eggs beaten to stiff froth, then
beat the whole well together and pour into
glass dish. Make custard of the three
yolks and one whole egg, one pint of milk
four table spOonfuls Of sugar; flavor with
vanilla and pour it over the jellied part.
Year: 1878

A TRICK.-On returning home recently
gentleman was surprised to receive the
congratulations of his family for his happy
escape from drowning. He thOughtsome-
body had been playing a joke on them
and laughed heartily until he found that
his best suit of clothes had been given to
man who brought the news, and who
said that he was sent for some dry clothes.
Year: 1878

A curious candle used in Alaska is a
fish 8 inches long, almost transparent, and
very fat, the fat being pure white and very
sweet. The Indians dry this fish, then
light it at the tail, and it burns with a
clear, sparkling fame, which the wind win
not extinguish.
Year: 1878

A burning chimney, when the SCOT has
been lighted by fire in the fireplace, can
be extinguished by shutting all the doors
in the room SO as to prevent any current
of air up the chimney, then, BY throwing
a few handfuls of common fine salt upon
the FIRE in the crate or on the hearth, the
fire in the chimney will be Immediately
extinguished. The philosophy of this is
that in process of burning the salt muriatic
acid is evolved, which is a prompt extin-
guisher Of fires.
Year: 1878

FoR INvALIDs.-Crust coffee is an ex-
cellent substitute for tea and coffee; brown
the crusts in the oven, pour hot water on
and let it stand for an hour on the back
of the range; use milk same as for other
coffee.
Year: 1878

The Madison (Wis.) State Journal Of the
9TH instant says: ''Clarence Stone. OF this
city, was the hero OF little romance 1T South
Prairie depot yesterday morning. The train
going east stopped at. the Prairie for few
minutes, and Stone got out on the platform
to see the place. Just as the train was
starting up again beautiful young lady
from the rural districts attempted to jump
on the platform Of the forward coach. She
missed her hold and fell between the cars,
but saved herself from instant death by still
clinging to the rail. Stone took in the situa-
ton at a glance, and in an instant rushed
forward and plucked the charming damsel
from her dangerous as well as embarrassing
position. In another moment she might
have let 60 and been ground to death by the
moving train. The fair maiden naturally
tainted in his arms-all pretty young ladies
faint on such occasions when dashing and
heroic young men pluck them from the
laws Of death. The train was stopped, the
maiden brought toand carried on board,
and the brakes again loosened, and the train
went rolling out OF the depot. having with
in the forward car the Sun Prairie beauty
and her young Madisonian preserver."
Year: 1878

A diplomatist from his native mountains
bought ticket for sleeping-coach at Vi
emma and set out for Berlin. The cosy quar-
ters delighted him, and he soon laid himself
down to rest on the white sheets, exactly as
he had been accustomed to do in his own
rilage-that is to say, dressed, booted, and
spurred. The servant who had charge of
the carriages reused the sleeper, and told
him politely that cit WASH OF allowed" The
dipomatist sprang to his feet with the de-
mand, :: Do you know who am? l am
Bozo Petroyics, president OF the Senate OF
Montenegro, and I am on my way to the
congress at Berlin" The steward was
struck dumb for 4 moment by this revelation
Of the dignity OF the man who went to bed
without undressing himself. However, he
soon remarked, 81 hope your Excellency
will pardon the liberty, but am compelled
by my Office to inform you that it is the Law
in Prussia that no gentleman shall go to bed
ir his boots. AS your EXcellency is aware,
the laws are executed with great severity
in thatmonarchy, and as we shall soon ar
rive atthe Prussian frontier, you and Twill
be detained.n IL that is the case said
the mountaineer dfplomatist, we will soon
set all right. Pull OFF my boots, Tor must
SO to the congress. y
Year: 1878

DIDN'T DROWN HERsEL esterday
morning 4 colored woman was seen rum
ming down Twenty-frst street towards the
dock with uplited hands and in very
excited manner. She declared she had lost
her mother, and meant to drown herself.
Upon reaching the dock she gathered up her
skirts aud quietly jumped into small boat
lying alongside the schooner Claremont; but
before she could get into the water-even if
she intended to do so-tWo men induced
her to at least postpone her taking of, if not
give uD the idea altogether.
Year: 1878

TIE BUSINESS Hours AT THE CAPIToL.-
Very few people seem to be aware that the
Capitol Offices are now kept open from to
) o'clock, and the consequence is that not
many 20 there to transact business utter 3
O'Clock. This gives two uninterrupted
hours to the clerks to write up the business
OF the day and to get up back-Work.
Year: 1878

If YOU have bad taste in your mouth, sailowness
or yellow color OF skin, feel stupid and drowsY ap-
petite unsteady, frequent headache or dizziness you
are bilious and nothing will arouse your liver TO
action and strengthen up your system equal 10 DR..
p1ERcE's GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY. 1t Is
cold by druggists.
Year: 1878

intend making this closing sale success. and
determined by their mode Of conducting ii to show
that they are in earnest. Remember that you get
TEN CENTS OFF ON EVERY DOLLARS WORTH


YOU PURCHASE OF


LEVY BHoTHERS


SO make yonr purchases OF them.
Year: 1878

The Jury in the Anderson trial re-
commended that malefactor "to the
mercy Of the Court" Judge Nhita-
ker will, We trust, hearken to this ap-
peal to tile extent Of about three
days less time than the utmost limit
Of the law. Felons of tile Anderson
stripe deserve, and should receive no
mercy.
Year: 1878

NJ sane man IN Louisiana can de-
ny the fact, that the present outlook
is exceedingly alarming. At no hour,
in our opinion, during the past ten
years have we been, as people, in
such a precarious situation. Hereto
fore, and during that time the battle
was fought against the monster Radi-
calism itself the effort is to
destroy the evils which it incnlcated,
and which, ifnot rooted out, will des-
troy US.


We ask in all candor, with a sensi.
bilitt of the danger which surrounds
ns, and FROM which we must speedi-
ly be de]ivered--witb the roar Of the
breakers of obstruction in front, to
the right and left, and below us;
with snarling demagogues and idiots
in the Chart Room-wHo HAS THE
HEINZ


Is the gallant old Democratic party
of Lonisiann-=frejgbted with every
interest our liberty, property and
civilization hold dear-scarred with
its thousand wounds in the peoples
battles; is that party to 60 to the
wall because no man can be found
with courage and genius enough !;
with virtue above sel6shness; with
craftsmanship comprehensive be.
yond the miserable quibbles of Black
stone and Kent, to take the wheel and
pilot her out of the danger which
threatens, and tie disaster which
seems immanent for her Obstruction.


1t seems so. We look in vain for
Nichols in this hour of our crisis
He is wrapt in the sombre mantle of
his dream. No word of encourage
ment has passed his lips since We, as
a people have honored him with the
post of PILOT. We looked in vain
in his Message for one word that
would cheer the patriots heart. 1t
was one dreary sea Of platitudes; ;
reciting all the ills, that the merest
tyro knows is sapping our political
and social system as surely as death,
unrelieved by single manly sagges-
ton of relief. What does this mean :?
Has this man no heart for the peo-
pie, or is the peril too great, or the
position beyond his mental force?


We speak feelingly and impera
lively, because the situation demands
it. 1t is the duty of a Governor, to
not only carry out the will of the
people of his State, bnt it is also his
duty to hearken to their wants and
demands, and to carry their sugges
tions to those who have the power,
if properly applied, to give them
relief.


The people have found no response
from their present Executive. No
word Of encouragement has been
voucbsafed them in this, the hour of
their agony. 1t is time he should do
something! He must do it, else bis
motives for silence and inaction must
be explained. If he feels unequal to
the present emergency, lie owes it as
duty to the people to say so, and
not remain as he has, supinely silent
without effort or suggestion-and
allow them to drift back into the
awful jaws. Of Radical-negro rule.
There are, shank God, few men in
Louisiana, who have not only the
ability, but the will to save the Dem
ocratic party and thereby protect the
people, their interest, and civiliza-
tion from the ruin and degradation
which now threatens them.


We ask again who is at the helm 7