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Year: 1874

We heard a story told the other day
that made our eyes moisten. We have de.
termined to tell it just as we heard it, to
our home circle.


A company Of poor children, who had
been gathered out Of the alleys and garrots
Of the city, were preparing for their dc.
parture to new and distant homes in the
West. Just before the time for starting Of
the cars, one Of the boys was noticed aside
from the others, and apparently very busy
with a cast-of garment. The superintend.
ent stepped up to him, and found that he
was cutting a small piece out of the patched
Innings. It proved to be his old jacket,
which, having been replaced by new one,
had been thrown away There was no time
to be lost;


Come, John, come" said the superin.
tendent, "wbat are you going to do with
that old piece Of calico ?"


Please, sir, said John, " am cutting
it to take with me. My dead mother put
the lining into this old jacket for me. This
was piece Of her dress, and it is all ! shall
have to remember her by"


And as the poor boy thought Of that
dear mothers love, and Of the sad death
scene 10 the old garret where she died, he
covered his face with his hands, and sobbed
as il bis hoart would break. But the train
was about leaving, and John tburst the
little piece Of calico into his bosom to re-
member his mother by, hurried into the car
and was soou far away from the place where
he had seen so much sorrow. We know
many an eye will moisten as the story is
told and re-told throughout the country
aud many a prayer will go to God for the
fatherless and mo,beress in all great cities
and in all places Young readers, are your
mothers still spared TO you2 Will you not
show your love by obedience2 That little
boy who loved so well, we are sure obeyed.
Bear this in mind, that if you should one
day have to look upon the face Of dead
mother, no thought would be so bitter as
to remember that you had given her pain
by your willfulness or disobedience.
Year: 1874

Great was the astonishment Of the master
of ceremonies at the marriage festivities in
Cana of Galilee, when the best wine was
brought for his inspection at the close of
the feast. The questioned bridegroom and
the invited guests were alike ignorant with
the bewildered governor, whence had come
the abundant supply of new wine with its
exquisite flavor They could only surmise
and wonder; but, as the Scripture narra-
tive tells us, +" the servants that drew the
water knew. The humble tolers at the
we'll, bending their backs to the task of
filling the water-pots, had seen the miracle
wrought that to the guests within was an
unexplained mystery. The lesson taught
is briefly this Work in obedience to the
Masters bidding will be followed by the
sure evidence of his divine power and life.
Intellectual force often fails to unbar the
gates of light and truth. The closet may
have no window looking into heaven the
iders and consumers in the vineyard can
not know the mystery Of the kingdom but
to those who are willing to toll and do
needed service there is granted an insight
and knowledge that are able to Withstand
every assault, because it is personal and
present. The servants that drew the water
never were troubled with doubts regarding
the miracle at Cana of Galilee. Nothing
satisfies like the logic Of personal expert
ence founded on knowledge of those whose
lives reveal the miracle Of grace.
Year: 1874

Mr. Layard, the Eastern explorer, once
requested Mohammedan official to give
him some statistics of the city in which he
lived. lie received in reply letter, Of
which the following is an extract; "My
illustrous Friend aud Joy of my Liver
The thing you ask Of me is both difficult
and useless Although | have passed all
my days in this place, | have neither counted
the houses nor have | inquired into the
number of inhabitants; and as to what one
person loads on his mules, aud the other
slows away 10 the bottom of his ship, this
is no business of mine. But above all, as
to the previous history of this city, God
only knows the amount Of dirt and confu-
sion that the inddels may have eaten before
the coming of the sword of Isem. 1t were
Improbable for us to inquire into it. Oh
my soul oh, my lamb seek not after the
things which concern thee not. Thou com
est unto US and we welcome thee. Go ia
peace"
Year: 1874

BE ever gentle with the children God has
given you watch them constantly, reproye
them earnestly, but not in anger 10 the
forcibe language of Scripture, " BE not
bitter against them" Yes, they are good
boys, we once heard kind father say. |
talk to them pretty much, but | do not like
to beat my children--the world will beat
them. 1t was beautiful thought, though
not elegantly expressed. Yes, there is not
one child in the circle round the table


healthy and happy as they look now, on
whose head, if long spared, the storm will
not beat. Adversely may wither them


sickness fade, a cold world frown on them,
but, amid all, let memory call them back
to home where law Of kindness reigned


where the mothers reproving eye was
moistened with tear, and their father
frowned "more in sorrow than in anger"
Year: 1874

THE GATE or TuE TEMPLE.
rng AUTHOR or" rnE scnoSnERo-corrA FAMILY



l.
Little familiar gate
Gate Of the home by the way
Hour for which daily 70 walt,
Hour at the close OF the day.
Hand In hand close pressed,
Arm never trusted in vain
Hearts In each other at rest
Home, all home again


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Gate through which all must pass,
Gate at the end Of the way
Men call IL Gate Of Brass
prison gate, they say
They think II can only divide,
Pitless heavy and strong
But we, who have looked inside
Know they have named II wrong
Know It's not strong, but weak,
Its bars all shattered and slight
Mere bars VI shadow that streak
Aud prove the inner light,
Gate where all bonds shall break,
Al severed hearts unite.


ui
Terrible, Beautiful Gate
Gate of the Temple of God
Well through the day We may walt
TIL II open for Us our abode.
Hands In hands close prest
Hearts past All parting and pain,
In God and each other Al rest
Home, all Home again
eautlful Gate Of Life
Gate at the end Of the Way
We'll worth Days toll and strife,
For that hour At the close Of the day
Year: 1874

IF you are wise man you will treat
the world as the moon does; show it only one
side of yourself, seldom show yourself too
much at once, and let what you show be
calm, cool, and polished
Year: 1874

at is fact" says the Grafton Sentinel,
mot generally known, that Taylor coun-
ly Is possessed Of first class iron works.
The Lancaster Iron Works, located at
IrOntown, this county, about eight miles
from Grafton, is now in successful and
extensive operation. We arc informed
by those entirely competent 10 Judge that
the iron produced by this company is OF
very superior qualily-the foundry iron
being regarded by those who have used
both as Of much better quality than the
Scotch Pick"
Year: 1874

OF all the intellectual gifts bestowed
on man the most Intoxicating is readi-
ness-the power of calling all the re-
sources Of the mind into simultaneous
action at a moments notice. Nothing
strikes the unready as so marvellous as
this promptitude In others; nothing i'm
presses him with so dull and envious
sense of contrast in his own person. To
want readiness is to be laid on the sh. If,
to creep where others fly, to fall into
permanent encouragement. To be
ready Is to have the minds intellectual
property put out at 80 or 100 per cent.
to be unready at the moment of trial is
to be dimly conscious of faculties tied
up somewhere In a napkin. What an
engine-we are speaking of "the COM
merce of mankind"-is a memory ready
with its stores at the first question,
words that come at your call, thoughts
that follow in unbrOken sequence, rea-
son QUICK at retort The thoughts we
may feel not above our level; the words
we could arrange In as harmonious or
der; the memory, only to give time,
does not fail us the repartee is all the
occasion called for, if only it had not
suggested itself too late, thus changing
its nature from triumph to a regret.
It is such compositions, the painful re-
collection of panic and disaster, the
speech that would not be spoken, the
reply that dissolved into incoherence,
the action that belied our intention, or,
it may be, experience in a humble field,
that gives to readiness such q charm and
value. The ready man does seem such
g clever fellow The poets readiness
does not avail him for such practical
ov,l 1nau not nnTNkVfhFTfn fn hTe
fame or success at all in the same de-
gree. It is the result-the thought, the
wit, the sense not the speed of per
fOrmance, which determines the worth
of his efforts. But we delight III an ex-
tempore effusion because of the prestige
OF readiness called into play IN busy
life; at least this adds to the pleasure.
The poets best verses are the greatest,
least imitable wonder about him but
we are apt to be most surprised when
he shows his powers under immediate
command; and good lines, struck off at
a heat, do give us a vivid insight into
the yivacity and energy of the poetical
temperament, prompt in it's action, ready
of a call, and gaily willing to display its
mechanical facilities. There is a speci-
men of Dryden's f1uency In extempore
verse, communicated and authenticated
by Malone, which shows that foresight
and composite action which astrong gimag-
ination seem to possess, uttering what it
has prepared, and composing what is to
follow, at one and the same time-a
habit or faculty observed in Sir Walter
Scott by his amanuense. This double
action must belong to all rapid complex
expression but the difficulty is en-
HANGED and the feat magnified In pro-
portion when rhythm and rhyme are ad-
ded to the other requirements Black
2DOO6
Year: 1874

NJ. Durnof and his wife, who recently
made the perilous ascent from Calais,
have been rescued in the North sea.
AS one Of the attractive features of a
public fete given at Calais that day, it
was announced that the adventurous
aeronaut and his wife would go up In
their balloon, the Tricolor, and if the
wind was favorable, they proposed to
make an aerial voyage over the channel
and land In England. The wind was
squally, and, moreover, blew IN the
wrong direction. With a south-easterly
current, the attempt would have been
made, but it blew variously south and
south west, and the only prospect before
the voyagers was a descent in the Ger
man ocean, unless they could reach the
distant shores of Denmark or Norway.
The authorities forbade the ascent, but
part of the crowd, disappointed of the
sensational episode of the days amuse-
ment, tainted Durnof with cowardice,
and, stung by their taunts, he and his
wife made the desperate effort to carry
out their engagement, and LIE TricolOr
was seen rising IN the clouds Just as night
was closing In, and drifting over the
Straits of Dover toward the open sea.


So it continued to drift for ten hours,
when the gas being partly exhausted, 1t
fell into the North sea.


Then they saw and were seen by q
Grimsby fishing smack the crew hast
ened to their rescue, pursued the car,
which dipped and rose out of the water
like a flying fish, and finally, after a
chase of two hours, saved the half
drowned ae1onaut and his wife in the
middle of the North sea, some 10
miles from the Spur lighthouse.


According to these data it would seem
that the balloon had travelled abOut
three hundred miles in a direct line,
its rate being between twenty-five and
thirty miles an hour, or about twice
the average horizontal motion Of the
- Toz76o,1 Ts TsLe0TdJ1h
Year: 1874

Incidents of the fire are narrated,
some of them being of the most
heartrending description. During the
height of the excitement q little girl,
scarcely in her teens, appeared at one
of the upper windows gazing upon the
horror-stricken people below. All eyes
were directed to her, in the expectation
of seeing her follow the example of
others who had jumped from the WIZ
dows at the risk of life and limb. Those
who were holding beds beneath the
windows grasped them more firmly to
receive her, while scorces of voices
shouted to her to Jump. The Light
shone full upon her face, which was
Wreathed with q beautiful smile, as
though she had caught a glimpse of the
other world already I; as the people
gazed she slowly turned around and
disappeared forever from mortal view.
Whether she became insensible from
the smoke or whether the terror of the
moment had deprived the poor child of
reason, will never be known until the
desd give up their secrets. Another
incident that has been narrated as an
actual fact, but which / have been una
BILE As yet to substantiate, is almost in
credible, though not beyond the range
of possibility. It is said that little
fellow, scarcely dozen years old, jump
ed from one of the upper windows TO
the ground, and when the spectators
rushed forward to pick up the mangled
body, they were astonished to see him
spring to his feet, apparently uninlured,
and start on a run for his home. Burst
ing into the house IN breathless haste,
he shouted to his mother, "The mill is
all on fire l'' and then he suddenly drop
ped to the floor lifeless, the fearful
sixty-foot Jump having resulted In fatal
internal injuries which the excitement
of the moment prevented his feeling.
It appears that many of the deaths and
severe injuries were caused by the peo-
pie striking upon the ladders which
were run up TO the third and fourth
stories. One littleigirl struck between
two rounds in such q manner that her
back was instantly broken, and her
head hung down swaying back and
forth, and while the body reolined IN
that position a man and a woman in turn
struck against it, bounding off again 70
the ground. All the persons who at
tempted to escape from the attic did not
make a clean jump to the ground. A
rope was thrown out OF the window by
somebody, which reached good part
of the way to the ground, and quite
number slid down this rope as far as
possible, and then dropped the rest OF
the way, thus escaping instant death;
though oil were more or less injured.
Two of the girls-Alice Stafford and
Nancy Mullen, who we're among those
who used the rope-had their hands
badly burned by the friction, and the
former had her back injured and both
ankles dislocated by the fall. The per-
SONS who availed themselves of this
rope would have escaped serious injury
had not the rope caught fire by the
flames bursting out of the windows and
burned off some forty feet from the
ground.-N. Y. HeraZd's FGU RiUeT
S37ecial,
Year: 1874

Many a person is half persuaded that
a Cabinet Organ would be a capital
thing for his family worth much more
than its cost. Yet they are not sure
that it would be permanently valued,
but fear that after few months use the
family would tire Of It, and 50 it would
prove a poor investment. The Mason &
HamIin Organ Co. now offer their ia
nous Cabinet Organs on terms which
will satisfy all such They viii rent an
organ with privilege of purchase. The
party hiring may try it as long as be
pleases, paying only the rent for it while
so doing. If he concludes to purchase
within a year, all the rent he has paid
Is allowed and deducted from the price
Of the organ.
Year: 1874

WHEN one is IN the act Of tipping his
hat to lady, whom he supposes to be
an acquaintance, is requires some tact
20 make believe he is only scratching
his head, as he discovers the lady 10 be
a stranger,
Year: 1874

I see IN paragraph going around
telling of girl who fell out of q window
while listening TO e serensde. This re-
minds me of Peter Lambs adventure
down our way year or two ago. He
was serenading one of the Metcalf girls.
and she was leaning out of the window,
with shutters bowed so that he could
not see her. Lambs little tune con
tanned one high note, and be struck it
suddenly, and with such terrible force
that it made her jump. She lost her
foothold, fell out, and described half q
somersault, one foot hitting Mr.. Lamb
squarely IN the face, and the other
smashing in the top of his guitar. Sim
ply calculating "Gosh - he leaped up
from the gutter and fed, under the i'm
preston that old MetcaIf had thrown a
bedstead at him, while Lucretia picked
the cat-gut and bass-wood from her toes,
twisted up her back hair and went into
the house. Lamb stopped visiting her,
and last year he married the widow
Jones, who has four children and a cow
lick.-Mdr AdeJer.
Year: 1874

tion, it will certainly be caught by the
Democratic or anti-monopoly and sent
spinning back through the air in some
other direction on some other course
OF course they don't calculate the ano-
mated ball will have any thing to say
to this treatment but will quietly take
the battering as in times past. Shuttle
cock is the game.


How would it do if farmers should
call their own convention and leave these
old gamesters all out in the cold p
Wouldn't there be some loud howling
that the country was going to ruin from
the disappointed crew. They would all
swear they were wronged out of their
patural rights.
Year: 1874

This is a pretty game for children,
with suitable bats and feathered ball
their skill is shown by keeping the ball
bounding through the air. The ball
might say, as the frogs do in the fable,
Kit is fun for you but death to me-
This child's game aptly illustrates the
condition Of political parties in this State.
In every direction men are already armed
with bats and waiting for the game to
open, and when it does, farmers heads
are to dance around lively. These old
seeds are skillfal players. IF Repub-
lican bstman sends the ball in one direc-
Year: 1874

We think the GRANGE ADVANCE is
justified in boasting trife. We have
captured the Pioneer and brought about
its conversion. For weeks, as our read
ers will have noticed, we have reasoned
with it, and showed up the folly Of try
ing to cling to the shadow of old party
names. We pointed out the fact that
a new power was growing up rapidly in
the State, formed by combination Of
every industrial element, which ere long
would sweep into obscurity all the old
tricky political demagogues.


That the Pioneer fully recognized
and appreciated these truths is evident
from the fact that it has voluntarily
thrown off the shackles of both of the
old parties anu. fallen gracefully into
the path marked out for it by the
GRANGE ADVANCE.


It is pleasant to send sentiments like
the following from the Pioneer, and feel
a consciousness that this beautiful con-
version was brought about by the hap
py influence Of the GRANGE ADVANCE.


But while the Pioneer accepts the edict of
the Democratic press, which thus summa-
rily reads it out of the party, its editors
with equal alacrity reads himself out Of
the Republican party, with which he has
heretofore been accustomed to affiliate.
He will hold himself alooff from its counsels;
its conventions, and its caucuses. He will
have no interest in the success or defeat of
any of its leaders, beyond the interest
which is involved in the good of the State,
which it is the duty of every public journ-
alist to conserve.-Pioneer
Year: 1874

The GRANGE ADVANCE is furnished in
clubs Of ten for 81. per year, and will
be furnished for the next 80 days to single
subscribers for three months, and to clubs
of ten or more for four months at so cents
each on trial We want FIVE thousand new
subscribers in the next thirty days, and
can have them if every one Of our friends
will 90 to work in earnest.
Year: 1874

We have no hesitancy in replying to
enquiries why The GRANGE ADVANCE
has avoided mentioning the name of Mr..
NJ. H. Dunnell, member Of Congress
from the 1st District. It has kept silent
on the principle not to speak unnecessar-
lily evil of any one, when nothing good
can be said. An ugly blemish sets upon
Mr.. Dunnell which it is not agreeable to
speak of: When he conspired with 9TH
ers to plunder the public treasury, by
taking out money for his personal benefit
under the pretense Of back-pay, he knew
he was consuming the hard earnings of
his own constituents. He ought to have
sufficient intelligence to know that be-
fore money is found in the treasury,
some one must put it there and that
not a single dollar does get there except
what is produced by the laboring and in
dustrial class.


Besides it is charged that the part
which he played in this nefarious scheme
was peculiarly mean and cowardly.-
That when the vote on the back-pay
grab was being taken, he withdrew into
a cloak room within hearing of the
speaker, and there kept tally to deter
mine whether his vote was necessary to
secure the prize. The majority being
good without his vote he was recorded
as not voting. But not satisfied with
lodging, and to have good record for
the latitude of Minnesota, in the middle
of the night he went to the Office where
the Ct Proceedings " were being printed
and prevailed on the printer to enter his
name as voting "no:" This is the light
in which the matter now stands, and the
subject is sufficiently blank without any
comments of ours. But should Mr..
Dunnell present himself again before the
people for denomination it will then be
the duty of The GRANGE ADVANCE to
demand from him explicit replies to these
ignoble charges
Year: 1874

Gov. Taylor is after the Wisconsin
railroad men with sharp prod. His
plan is to harrass them with suits from
one end Of the State to the other where
ever the law is violated, and as this is
done every day all over the State, there
will be lively times in the courts. A
man offers freight under the new freight
bill the road refuses to forward it; off
goes the shipper to the district attorney,
who brings suit in the name Of the State.
If this goes on few weeks the railroad
men will be scratching in thousand
places at the same moment A bull in
hornets nest would have a peaceful time
Of it in comparison.
Year: 1874

Preparations are making by the ring
in this country as we'll as in the State to
drive political wedge into the Grange
Order and burst it wide open. We have
an idea that tougher, knottier log will
be found than the wedge drivers imagine.
Indiana Granger
Year: 1874

FARMERS TO THE REAR.-A beauti-
full rule peculiar to American politics is,
when fighting is to be done there is not
farmer in the country but is quickly
brought to the front when Offices are
to be distributed they are as quickly or
dered to fall in the rear.
Year: 1874

The Baxter liquor law of In
diana provides that no person shall
be licensed to sell liquor unless he
first obtains the signatures to his
petition of a majority of the vo-
ters of his county. 1t is said that
no dealer in the cities and large
towns has the least difficulty in
securing the requisite number of
signers 10 his petition. In the
country towns the law is effect al
for Temperance, tn press and vo-
ters being against rum.
Year: 1874

The "deportment" professor of
a Connecticut female seminary in
sists that the public shall not be
allowed to intrude while the
young dies indulge in their
harmless game of leap frog.
Year: 1874

"Mr. Speaker" exclaimed a
member OF Georgia legislature,
my opponent in this discussion
tries to make us think be is wise
by looking grave; but, sir, DIS
gravity is no more evidence OF
wisdom than his linen collar IS
evidence of clean shirt"
Year: 1874

The world judges man pretty much
by his succose in life. Therefore, what
ever You undertake, give your whole
engergies 10 it. There is plenty Of
room upstairs for men. Men Of priu-
ciple-men of firmness and moral cour-
age will always succeed, while those
who pander TO prejudice or opinion Of
will seldom rise above. II
they ever reach level. In all YOU un-
dertakc let true principles govern, and
you will find through life that he sue.
ceeds best who shows himself IN every
sense a man
Year: 1874

The following comes from Washing
ion, and is worth about as much as most
of the gossip from that direction:


The statement that the Presidents $
views on the financial questions have
been modified since last spring is direct
on the highest authority. Not only has
the President changed his opinion, but
he has freely aud repeatedly expressed
TO all persons who have seen rrorcr TO
srproach him on the subject, tie same
views contained in his veto message.
It's equally certain that the Secretary
Of the Treasury has not expressed any
views anlagonistic TO the opinion Of the
President, and his friends coniidenlially
assert that his forthcoming report will
urge strongly upon Congress return
TO specie payment at The earliest prac-
ticable period.