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Year: 1878

Touch not the bowl! touch not the bowl!
Twill bring destruction to your soul,
Its contents though it sparkles bright
Will poison worse than serpents bite.


CHORUS.
Then dash the liquor from thy sight,
What ever kind it be,
Resist the Devil with thy might
And be from thee will flee.
The ruby wine! the ruby wine!
Though bright and lovely it may shine,
There turks beneath its snrface red
The ghosts of thousands it has sped.
The whiskey straight /! the whiskey


straight!


Its very name we all should hate,
Though in the crystal bowl it beads
'Iis straight to ruin whiskey leads.
The sweetened dram the sweetened


dram


Though sweet to taste thou art sham;
Thy sweetness will to bitter turn
When then with thirst doth make us


burn.


The julep green the julep green!
o do not to the julep lean!
Though its aroma be so sweet
Twill prove snare unto your feet.
The Lager Beer! the Lager Beer {!
| Though innocent thou doth appear,
Thou art Supplying drink,
Which doth be h mind and body sink.
Year: 1878

Twenty Thousand People
old and young. every week. It 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 advsr-
tisinsi for many good people seeing an ad-
vertisement in paper. especially their
church paper, take 1t as guarantee Of re.
Sponsibillty. Such confidence should not to
abused when 1t can bo helped. We want,
therefore,
Year: 1878

WE ACCORD TO the Methodist preach
ers the privilege to hold meetings and
discuss-subjects of interest to their church
without the presence, if they please, Of
the reporters of the press, in accordance
with the resolution of the Rev. W. j.
Stevenson. We believe that the good of
the church and the welfare of society war
not instructed to report the last meeting
of the Preachers. We feel confident that
no good will result to the church or to
morality from such discussions ~ we are
led to believe has taken place at these
meetings. There have been exhibitions
of passion that were far from anything re-
corded as having been shown by the Mas
ter or as having occurred in his presence.
And we very much fear that more. harm
will result to true piety from meetings
and the violence of temper witnessed
than could have resulted from the pres
ence of such of the clergy at Barnum's
show, as felt that they committed no
sin by witnessing the performance. If
we thought it sin to 60 to Barnums
show we should not go; nor would we
sanction the presence of any one whom
we could influence to be absent. The re-
straint in the discipline is well, perhaps.
But it is not well to enforce 1t too harsh
ly. So too does the discipline require
plainness in attire and the avoidance of
jewelry and fashionable bonnets, &c,
but our good little women are this spring
found wearing boquets reaching from the
head quite down as far as our fathers wore
their cues.


But the preachers are silent and even
admire the roses, as well as the lavish
rings, and the bracelets and even the geor-
geous golden cross, displayed as it were
almost in violence of true piety, and
as if for mere adornment Surely
the cross as the emblem of the suffering
and death of the Master, should be ap-
preciated differently, and not worn as
foible of fashion. Do our leaders in re-
hglon in this great and most influential
of all denominations think of this? The
Methodist church is agrand organization
the purest and most pious of all
professionalism, as we believe-and we
should do anything to help its ministers.
And will not say their weekly discussions
result III harm; but we do say that there
is great danger of those who participate
IN these discussions, destroying their in
huence for piety. So much dangeris there
OF this that we feel convinced that Mr.
Stevenson's resolution to exclude report
ers was one that should not be wholly
disregarded.
Year: 1878

In the west Of England fuschias attain
to the height OF eight and ten feet, noble
pyramids Of leaves and flowers. This is
not owing to any speciality as regards eli
mate or position. They grow best in a
shady place. In England they are left
out all winter, carefully covered with coal
ashes and thus they attain to great Wig


or and furnish thrifty slips for pot plants.
Year: 1878

the second murderer was within view,
and saw that he was not, Barre disap-
peared in the group of attendants at
the spot Of execution distant from my
standpoint perhaps twelve yards, and
in the twinkling OF an eye | heard the
craunching hiss of the knife as it Glove
through the thick neck Of the murder.
er. shall not forget that noise. 1t
was distinctly the rough cutting Of
tough meat. Barre shrank from the
deadly knife, but was, of course, help.
less. Still he gave his cxecutoner
some trouble. His body did not roll
into the box prepared for ii according
to calculation and an immense jet OF
blood spread brilliant red over the
rust colorcd frame, and deluged the
first assistant, whose duty il is to
stand on the further side of the knife
and steady the head by holding the ears
until il drops into the basket. The
sight of the fountain of blood caused
q low cry Of horror-a sort of hoarse
sob-and turning my glance again to
the prison ! saw Lebiez advancing.
He was in little better form than his
predecessor, but did not seem TO me
heroic. The French papers dwell up
on his firmness, and contrast IL with
the hideous colapses OF his partner, but
my observation was simply that he
was only less abject than the other. 1t
is said that some one cried "bravo"
and that he answered "adieu," but |
did not hear either word. ! only wit
messed with amazement the celerity
with which he vanished under the
knife, and heard the click of the
spring-catch holding up the deadly
blade, when, the cord loossening, it
was jerked, and the rasping thud of
the steel as it severed the stout neck,
placed the final stroke. The specta.
tors murmured for moment in a shv-
ering way, and looked into each 9th
er's faces finding new horrors, and as
they turned away, the heads and
trunks of the executed were already
in the black vans, and the guillotine was
being snatched to pieces. There was
no need Of police and soldiers to die
persc the people, who were in such
haste that they seemed to be in flight


The execution by guillotne is Ger
tainly more impressive than hanging,
and if it is the purpose Of the authori-
ties to make the spectacle of the death
OF a felon awful, the French succeed,
and ! am told that one executioner


Roch (Monseigneur dc Paris and his
assistants serve the whole country.
The complete apparatus is arranged
for transportation by rail or along the
roads or streets. The salary of the
headsman is 5000 francs year, with
small sum for machinery, and 100
francs extra for each head cut off.
Year: 1878

When, some sixty. years ago, Koenig
constructed the first cylinder press and
enabled the London Times to announce to
the world the first grand step in rapid
printing, the transition from two hundred
an hour on the old hand presses toa thou
sand an hour by steam, was heralded forth
as the greatest achievement of that time.
Thirty years later Hoe constructed the
"Planitarium, with its many cylinders
and hundreds of our readers can readily
recall the furore it created 10 the printing
community when this press was perfected
SO as to produce from five to ten thousand
sheets printed on one side per hour. The
The demand for still faster presses for the
increasing editions of the great daily pa
pers, brought out in rapid succession the
Bullock, Walter, and others, with capacity
for turning of six to eight thousand per-
teeted sheets per hour, and yet the Til
Dunes, Heratds, Sans, ETC., need presses
still more convenient and rapid. IL has
remained, then, for the Centennial year to
supply this want. Andrew Campbell has
invented what must be conceded the fastest
rotary printing and folding machine in the
world. This press is capable of printing
twenty thousand eight page or forty thou
sand four page papers per hour, delivering
them either fiat or folded, at the will of
the operator. This is at the rate of six
hundred and sixty a minute, or eleven
papers, every second Itwould appear as
if this was the limit of fast printing on
cylinders, and that hereafter if anything
faster Is produced it must be by some
method as vet unknown.
Year: 1878

SLIGHTLY MIXED.-Oh, it was terri
bic runaway You see, an umbrella was
carrying a man AID it frightened the bug
gy and it started to run off with the horses
and they ran over on the lamp-post and
knocked the sidewalk down and upset a
little baby who was carrying his mother
in her arms and struck some apples and
knocked all the apple woman out of the
peanut stand and then they went down
the lightning like a street and knocked
three spokes out of one of the horses hind
legs and took the hide off the wheel and
fell out and run mud-puddle into my
head clear up to my shoulders and the
mud got full Of my mouth and ears and
eyes and I'll never got over it and it.:
dictd.
Year: 1878

japanese ware of the genuine product is
not likely to glut the market if the repre-
sentations of a recent traveller be true,
Being pleased with a pattern cup and
saucer, he ordered two sets, and intimated
that if one was completed before he left
the province he might be induced to order
more. But the potter would not promise
to complete the two sets in less time than
two years. Nor could the potter be per-
suaded to take on more bands to expedite
matters. Many potteries in Japan have
only one man, or an old man and his son
for their entire working force Western
improvements viii soon remedy this dila
toriness. But Japan ware will then cease
to be Japanese.
Year: 1878

AMBERGRIs.-The origin and compost
ton Of this substance was long a puzzle TO
be learned. 1t is now well known to be
a concretion of the indigestible portions of
the cuttle-fsh; which form the food of the
sperm whale. The nucleus of the mass is
generally the horny beaks Of these crea
lures, and the substance itself is found in
the intestines of the sperm whale, or on
the shores of the seas frequented by this
species. 1t was formerly believed that
the origin of ambergris was in some way
connected with the sea, and when il was
afterwards found in whales, the fact was
simply attributed 70 their having swallow
ed it,
Year: 1878

How TO PLEASE YoUR BoY.-If YOU
want to keep your boy home, make it
pleasanter for him than the street,.


Certainly. Chalk hopscotch in the
hall, put hogshead of moIasses on tap in
the kitchen, have a dog fight in the back
yard, make "bully slide" on the cellar
door, have hand organ and monkey in
the reception room, and German band
on the stairs. Hire a "Geevus" to be
chaffed Let the boy chalk callers backs
on the 1st of April, throw his baseball
through the windows, ring the bells, and
rus away and 'plug" the cook with fish
balls Sunday morning; but even then you
will have to engage a circus or "great
moral show to drive through the premises
two or three times in the season to "make
it pleasanter than the Boston
Commercial Bulletin,
Year: 1878

ting into growth. The reason is obvious.
The roots ot plants extend no deeper than
there is available plant food. To a certain
exten. this Is no deeper than land is plowed.
OF course there is plant food much deeper
than land isplowed, but it is not available.
This is an Important reason why soil should
be perfectly mellow as deep as it is plcwed.
land that is plowed in fall is scarcely more
mellow in spring than it it had not been
plowed at all, and tits matter of difficulty
for the roots to penetrate deeper than the
land is cultivated at the time of sowing. The
only proper method of preparing ground for
grain is either to plow in spring, or, when
this is not convenient, to ploWin fall and
cultivate as nearly as possible to the depth
to which the land was plowed. If two
horses are unable to DRAW the cultiVator as
deep as it is necessary to go, use three. 1t
is the most profitable work that can be done
in preparing land for seed.-Corr. Co,sstry
Gentleman .
Year: 1878

1t is not figure of speech but plain fact
that man Is educated by his daily calling.
Indirectly, labor ministers to the wise man
intellectual, moral and spiritual instruction,
just as it gives him directly his daily food.
Under its legitimate influence his frame ac-
quires it's due proportion and proper shape.
To speak more particularly, the work OF
farmer, tor example, is a school Of mental
discipline. He must watch the elements,
understand the nature of the soil he tills, the
character and habits of the plants he rears,
the character and disposition of'each animal
that serves as living Instrument. Each
day makes large claims on him for knowl-
edge and sound Judgment. He is to apply
good SENSE to the soil. Now these demands
tend to foster the habits of observing and
judging justly; to Increase thought and ele-
yate man. The education men derive from
their trade is so striking that craftsmen can
express almost any truth, be it ever so deep
and high, in technical terms OF their calling.
The humblest btfsiness may develop the
noblest powers of thinking. So Il trade may
be to Il man what the school and college are
to q scholar.


The wise man learns more from his corn
and cattle than the stupid pedant from all
the folios of the Vatican. The habit OF
thinking thus acquired is of more value than
the greatest number OF thoughts learned by
rote and labeled for use.-Er.
Year: 1878

John Mechi says in the Gardeners Month";.
W: Poultry is evidently dear food to the
consumer; but does it cost more food to
produce pound of poultry than pound of
meat, live weight? [ answer decidedly not,
but the reverse. For my cattle and sheep
don't eat worms and insects, whereas fowls
consume them abundantly, and economic
and apply every scattered seed Or kernel
which would be otherwise wasted. In an
otler point of view, is the cost of attendance
and shelter greater with poultry than with
cattle? Ireply, no. AS to the production
of eggs. that depends upon the quality OF
food administered, and the accompaniments
of proper warmth and shelter. There is no
fear of overstocking the market either with
eggs or poultry; we consume daily 1000, 600
of foreign eggsr generally keep from 500
to 400 fowls. They have free access to ev-
cry field during@the whole OF the year, and
although they help themselves in harvest
time when the corn is in sheaf, | always get
my best crops of corn on fields adjoining the
hen house. l have this year two fields Of
wheat drilled, and only one bnshel Of seed
per acre. They come within ten to twenty
yards of the fowl house,. and are perfect
plant, although the poultry have been
scratching and cultiyatfhg the field ever
since they were drilled. We are apt to for
get that fowls, like sheep, manure where
they grow. Imust sayI used at one time
to feel nervous and angry when saw them
hard at work on the newly-sown corn, but |
soon learned to feel confident that insects
were their principal game, and that my we'll
and deeply deposited corn escaped"
Year: 1878

AS the growing young stock is coming to
maturity for the season OF 1878, we should
givethem special attention. At no time, as
we have frequently hinted, can we do our
growing chickens so much good as we can
while they are progressing fromsthe ages Of
two or three months toSsix or seven months
old, through systematic care and judicious
feeding.


If they have good roomy range in field
or pasture,' they will now obtain a great
variety Of insect provender among the grass
and herbage adjacent@to the runs and pens.
If we are obliged to keep them penned up,
or confnedsto lesser space, then these things
must be supplied to them as abundantly as
possible, artificially.


They must have plenty of green food, or
they will not thrive satisfactorily: This can
be furnished in the shape OF sods thrown to
them daily, or the lawn trimmings may
similarly be given them to advantage. Fresh
cut grass, turnip tops, fpussley,'' surplus
green corn, chopped turnips and onions-all
are excellent in their way, and one or the
l.othenof these win be in season, in spring,
Year: 1878

When land is plowed, no matter how well
it>tnay be done, the process OF fitting it tor
seed is not halt accomplished. On"account
of the hurry and'press of other work, farm
ers here do large portion of their ploWing
in the fall. From the time crops are har-
vested until winter sets in; farmers have but
little to do except to clean rough land, at
tend to understanding, add ploW lend for
the next springs sowing.A This is very
proper precaution with farmers who like to
keep up with their work. But the evil that
results from this practice is hard to be coun-
teracted. Stubble land no matter how mel
low itmay be ordinarily, when plowed in
the fall is apt to become settled and hard
beyond the power of an ordinary harrow to
pulyerize- sufficiently for seed. Green'sward
also, even when turned in spring, is apt to
require considerable cultivating. A clay
soil. plowed even in spring, is difficult to
prepare properly for seed. And so with a
June grass sod of long standing, which re-
ouires much more labor to prepare proper
seed bed than is necessary for clover or
timothy sod.


There tire probably not over fifty percent
of our farmers who have suitable cultiyators,
and take sufficient pains to prepare their
land for sowing seed--at least that is the
case in this section, andI think we average
as good farmers as ary4 other part OF the
State. But too many of our farmers have
| unfortunately fallen into the habit OF think
ing that if seed is covered it is enough.
Perhaps another reason why good cnltlvat-
ors are not as common as inferior harroWs,
is the extra costsof keeping two implements
for one parpose..: A cultiyator will not I'LL


the place of a harrow, any more than mar


row can be used as a cultiyator. The idea


that land as it is plowedsand often not more


than half plowetl, can be fitted for sowing
any kind Of seed by the use OF harrow On


", and often very inferior instrument, is


incorrect. OF course it is possible to cover


the seed, and it will germinate, but It IS DIM


cult to get it we'll started, and it becomes
stunted and turns yellow, and is latesln get
Year: 1878

y The bullion sheets are bounk to
misrepresent the position of the Cur.
recy refOrmers. They now say that
the ''silver men have been very fond
ofappealing to the example of Franc e,
and insisting that the excellent credit
and revived prosperity of that coun-
try are due to her double standard. >
This is false. 1t is the Greenbac X
men who have cited France as an ex.
ample worthy to be followed. That
country's prosperity is due to the
maintenance of a paper money system
of the character the Greenback men
propose for this country. The paper
money is full legal tender, under
government control, and is practically
at par with gold. The volume Of cur
rency in France to-day is twice az
large as the volume in this country,
although we have Il larger population
and need more per capita because OF
the extent of our domain. But
France is better able to maintain q
single standard than any other nation
because she is the gold mart of the
world. Her statesmen, however, are
too sensible to abandon the paper
money policy.
Year: 1878

Of all the qualities that combine to
form good character, there is not one
more important than reliability. Most
emphatically is this true of the charac-
ter of good business man. The world
itself embraces both truth and honesty,
and the reliable man must necessarily
be truthful and honest. We see so much
all around us that exhibits the absence
of this crowning quality that We are
tempted in our bilious moods to deny its
very existence. But there are, never
theless, reliable men, men to be depend
ed upon, to be trusted, in whom you
may repose confidence, whose word is as
good as their bond, and whose promise
is performance. If any one of you know
such man make him your friend. You
can only do so, however, by assimilating
his character.


The reliable man is a man of good
judgment. He does not jump at conclu-
sions. He is not frivolous man. He
is thoughtful. He turns over subject
in his mind and looks at it all around.
He is not a partial or one-sided man. He
sees through thing. He is apt to be
very reticent man. He does not have
to talk great deal. He is moderate
man, not only in habits of body, but al
so of mind. He is not a passionate man ;
if so by nature, he has overcome it by
grace. He is sincere man, not plot
ter or schemer. What he says may be
relied on. He is a trustworthy man
You feel safe with your property or the
administration of affairs in his hands.
He is brave man, for his conclusions
are logically deduced from the sure ba-
sis of truth, and he does not fear te
maintain them. He is good man, fol
no one can be thoroughly honest anc
truthful without being good. Is such a
quality attainable? Most assuredly SO
1t is not born, it is made. Charactel
may be formed, of course then its com
ponent parts may be nodded to that for
nation.
Year: 1878

This complaint is the result of eating
too much and exercising too little. Nine
times in ten the cause is in the fact that
the stomach was not able to digest the
food last introduced into it, either from
its having been unsuitable, or excessive
in quantity. A diet of bread and but
ter with ripe fruits or berries, with mod
crate continuous exercise in the open
air, sufficient to keep up gentle perspi-
ration would cure almost every case in
a short time. Two teaspoonfuls OF pow
dered charcoal in a half glass Of water
and drank, generally gives instant re-
lief.


We are inclined to think that the
above remedies may do in some, but not
in all cases. A sovereign remedy for
this distressing disease is not easily
found. A new correspondent from Con-
necticut contributes the following on
this subject: Sick headache is periodi-
cal, comes on at regular intervals, and
is the signal of distress which the stom-
ach puts up to inform US that there is
an over alkaline condition of its fluids
that it needs natural acid to restore
the battery to its normal working condi-
tion. When the first symptoms of head
ache appear take tablespoonful of lem
on juice clear, fifteen minutes before
each meal, and the same dose at bed
time; follow this up until all symptoms
are passed, taking no other remedies
and you will soon be able to go fret
from this unwelcome nuisance. Many
will object to this because the remedy
is too simple but I have made many
cures In this Way.
Year: 1878

The man who doesn't read is always
prating about how things ''used to was"
He is a knowing fellow. full of worn-out
truisms. He is rich and inexhausti-
BILE mine for every sharper who travels
on his wits, selling poor cloths at high
prices, or an expired patent right. The
man who doesn't read has very large
disgust for ''new-fangled things" and
believes in his children getting along as
he did, and boasts that he never went to
school but two quarters. We like this
sort of men /; there ought to be one in
every community, just for the benefit
they are as an example for the parents
who do believe they owe something more
to their families themselves, than to be
mere dull, brutal machines. The man
who doesn't read usually has mission
1t is to grow corn and pork, and pay
taxes, or work through the week at his
bench or forge as machine. His home
is place to eat and sleep, his life a
round of drudgery, struggle only for
bread and butter.


The man who does not read falls be-
hind the age in which he lives; drops
into the narrow groove of his personal
observation, aud declares the progress
around him to be departures from the
virtues and goodness of bygone times.
Every day has superstitious sign, ev-
cry change of the moon, every sudden
variation in the weather, fills him with
prophecy which BODIES everybody i'll luck.
The man who does not read misjudges
the common natural laws of matter, the
easily explained changes of vegetable
and animal life are subjects for super
stitious dread and trouble. The great
progress of the world in literature, sci
ence and art, the news of the day a.
home and abroad, are blanks to the mar
who does not read.