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Year: 1878

Spiritual-mindednes means the very sat
uration, so to speak, of the whole nature
with the life of the divine Spirit, the trans
figuration of the whole life. For one gori-
Gus hour on the mountain top, the divinity
of our Lord shows through his garments of
flesh, irradiating them, and putting lustrous
splendor all about him. When Stephen
stood before the council the rulers saw his
face as it had been the face of an angel,
glowing with celestial brightness. When
Moses came down from the mount, his face
shone with the lingering radiance of the
divine glory still flashing there. These were
supernatural manifestations. But do human
faces never shine now ? Do we never see
beauty that seems transfgured, as if there
were an inner splendor that was almost
bursting through ? Do we never see faces
that look at times like porcelain with a
glowing light behind it ? Do you never see
men and women whose very bodies seem
transparent, whose countenances shine as
with the very lustre of the divinity indwell
lngf Such faces may be very rare in this
world of dull earthliness. And yet even the
few demonstrate the possibility of a spirit
ual culture that shall lift every child of God
up, even in this mundane sphere, into trans
figured beauty. 1t can only come through
the ndwellng of the Holy Spirit, cleansing
the whole interior life, and possessing every
chamber of the soul. 1t can only come
after years of closest living in the Spirit A
piece of cold iron thrust into furnace of
glowing Goals, is in the fire; leave it there a
little while and the fire is in The iron. So
one may move in the atmosphere of the
Spirit, and yet not have the Spirit in him.
But when one abides long in the Spirit. the
divine life peuetrates his soul and fills his
whole being with the spiritual fire. And
that is the ideal of Christian life at which
every one should aim. That is the mean
ing of spiritual-mindedness in its higher
sense; a life thoroughly imbued with the
life of God; soul almost transparent,
radiant with divine beauty, celestial in its
aspect, glowing with supernatural brightness
in this dark and wintry world. And this
| sublime, this heavenly spiritual character can
be attained. 1t lies within the reach of every
lowly believer. Its attainment may be
easier for some than for others, but the path
is blocked for none, and yet it is not easy
for any. 1t requires self-denial suffering
patience, long persistence to reach it. 1t is
an education, and all education is slow. 1t


is culture, and all culture requires toll and
| time, the quiet, unconscious absorption, day
after day, year after year, of the graces ano
beauties and refnements of other lives into
our own. In like manner spirtual-minded


ness cannot be put on as one puts on new
coat. 1t must come into our lives by slow
degrees, as we imbibe the life of God intC
our souls, as we feed upon the fruits o.


heaven, as we hold converse with God anC


with spiritual things.-Evangelist.
Year: 1878

Lake Michigan has it's Grace Darling,
and her father and brothers are as brave
and heroic as she is herself. Sanford
W. Morgan is keeper of the life saving
station at Grand Point au Sable, Michi-
gan, and after the close of navigation he
allows the crew to go away for the win
ter, but remains on the ground with his
daughter and his sons. At daylight,
during one of the most violent gales of
the season, with the sea so boisterous
that it was covered with foam, q fishing
boat was discovered about three miles
off shore, in distress, by Miss Edith.
Quickly giving the alarm to her father
and two brothers, she urged them to go,
volunteering to take an oar herself to
assist the crew. 1t seemed as though O
boat could not possibly live in the
mighty waves, but one was launched,
and after pull of two hours, with seas
breaking over the small boat and threat
ening its destruction and the loss of
those on board, they succeeded in reach
ing the wreck, to find that one of the
crew who had been clinging to the side
of the vessel had become exhausted, and
letting go his hold had been drowned.
Another sailor, however, was rescued as
he was about to give up, and was taken
ashore. Nor was this the first time that
the brave young girl had ventured out
on an errand to save.
Year: 1878

We take the following from a recently
published work descriptive of Southern
Africa, entitled "The Great Thirst
Land" The sufferings endured ON ac-
count of the drought were at times al
most terrific. The throats of the oxen
were SO parched that they could not
low. The dogs suffered even more than
the cattle. Nor are the wild animals
exempt from the plague of the land.


When water becomes scarce in these
thirsty plains, the whole of the wild
animals that inhabit them congregate
round any pool that may be left, for
with very few exceptions all have to
drink once in twenty-four hours. The
lions, which follow the game, thus are
led to their drinking places not only to
assn"se their thirst, but to satisfy their
hunger.


To watch one of these pools at night,
as 1 did in the northern Mascara coun-
try, is grand sight, and one never to
be forgotten. The naturalist and the
sportsman can here see sights that will
astonish them, and cause them to Won
der at the wonderful instincts possessed
by the animal kingdom.


At such watering places the small
antelopes invariably drink first, the
larger later on, and with them the zebras
and buffaloes. After these come the
giraffes, closely followed by the rhinoc-
eros, and next the elephant, who never
attempts to hide his approach-conscious
of his strength-but trumpets forth a
warning to all whom it may concern that
he is about to satisfy his thirst. The
only animal that does not give place to
the elephants is the rhinoceros; obstinate,
headstrong and piglike, he may not
court danger, but assuredly he does not
avoid it. The elephant may drink by
his side, but must not interfere with
him, for he is quick to resent an insult,
and am assured that when one OF these
battles takes place the rhinoceros Is in
variably the victor. The elephant is
large, of gigantic power, but the other
is far more active, while the formidable
horn that terminates his nose is dread
full weapon when used with the force
that he has the power to apply to it. l
have been told on trustworthy authority
that q rhinoceros in one of those blind
fits of fury to which they are so subject,
attacked large wagon, inserted his
horn between the spokes of the wheel
and instantly overturned it, scattering
the contents far and wide, and after
wards injuring the vehicle to such an ex-
tent as to render it useless.


The lion is not tied to time in drink
ing. After it feeds it comes to water,
but it never would dare to interfere
with the rhinoceros or the elephant.
Where the buffalo exists in numbers it
is the principal prey of the lion; in
other localities antelope and chiefly the
zebra are its food.
Year: 1878

Self-denial is grand virtue.


Every high aim lifts you above your
self.


Selfshness has variety of disguises,
but under the velvet you can always
find the claw.


If it be important to know whether
man will cheat you if he can, sound him
as to his willingness to help you cheat
somebody else.


With time and patience the mulberry
leaf becomes satin. What difficulty is
there at which man should quail, when
worm can accomplish SO much from a
leaf.


A man who covers himself with costly
apparel and neglects his mind, is like
one who Eliminates the outside of his
house and sits within in the dark.


Ignorance and deceit are two of the
worst qualities to combat. 1t is vastly
easier to dispute with statesman than
blockhead.


If we would have powerful minds, we
must think; if we would have faithful
hearts, we must love; if we would have
strong muscle, we must labor. These
include all that is valuable in life,
Year: 1878

Some time, tired heart of mine.
You shall have long, long rest;
AMI the quiet evening sun,
Sloping outward to the west,
Creeping in the easement wide,
Shall look on quiet breast.
Though the birds shall COO and call
As the deeper shadows fall.


You may rest.
Some time, patient eyes of mine,
You may take long, long sleep;
Though the early morning sun
All along the wall shall creep,
Waxen eyelids will not lift
From the watching which they keep;
Though a sunbeam, overbold,
Seek to part your curtains fold,


You may sleep.
Some time, striving hands Of mine,
There will be long, long peace;
Loosened from the tasks you hold
Into new and sweet release,
Other hands must place you close
In dumb amen for grace.
Even loves touch, soft and warm,
Dare not break such prayerful form


OF your peace.
Some time, restless feet of mine,
There will come long, long day
When you need not cross the sill
From the flushing till the gray.
Other steps must bear you forth
To the place where clay is clay.
Though l led you out at light
They will bring you home when night


Ends our day.
Year: 1878

A Vienna mechanician has succeeded
in constructing an apparatus for working
sewing machines. Electricity, steam, or
water power are, an the score of cost,
domestically inapplicable, so the inven-
tor OF the new machine was restricted to
gravitation or elasticity, and he, prefer
ring the latter force, has contrived to
make springs strong enough to keep an
ordinary sized machine in motion, it is
said for hours. A system of cog-wheels
is arranged underneath the surface of
the table upon which the machine is fix
ed, and by handle at the side the spring
is wound up with facility. The velocity
at which the machine works is entirely
at the option of the person using it, and
can be easily regulated,
Year: 1878

To the reflective mind the egg consti-
tutes one of the greatest marvels of ma
ture. At first view it would seem that
it is an especial characteristic of birds;
but when we observe that fishes, so diff
ferent from birds in their organization
and their mode of life, have also eggs,
we see that it must be the same in one
sense with all kinds of animals. A pull
let's egg is very small germ, posses
sing at first only the most essential Or
gans for the actual sustenance of its ex-
istence, and the gradual development of
its other parts inclosed in box, with its
provisions for the time it must actually
remain in seclusion. The animal is the
little whitish circle remarked in the
membrane which envelops the mass of
the yolk. The house destined to protect
the young animal until it has acquired
all of its own organs, and all the neces-
sary strength, and yet allow the air and
heat to penetrate, is the shell. Hence
the size of the eggs of animals is, not
necessarily proportioned to the size of
the animals to which they belong. ALI
animals, whatever they may be-from
the elephant to the humming -bird-are
at the moment when they begin to feel
the principle of life nearly of the same
size. That which varies is the provision
of nourishment they require. The cro-
codile, destined to attain colossal dimen.
sions, can take care of himself very well
in the river where he was born when he
has attained the size of lizard; so ma
ture places in the box where he is con-
fined food sufficient to enable him to
reach that size. The same with fishes;
there are some enormous ones which
have only very small eggs, because, how
ever diminutive they may be on leaving
their envelope, they can already obtain
their own living in the bosom of the
river or ocean.
Year: 1878

McGilvra are making it very
warm for the railroad specula-
tors, who, during the life Of their
grant, regarded tho people Of
this section as having, no rights
which they were bound to re-
spect, and thought they were
too far from the ken of the Gov
ernment to have their acts bro't
up in Judgment against them.
There is probably not q citizen
of Washington Territory who
would put a single obstacle in
the way Of the construction OF
the Northern Pacific over any
route which has been or may be
suggested. The question Of route
is secondary; the main matter to
be considered is security for an
honest administration of the
trust. By resisting this, the
company contribute to thadefeat
Of the measure. SOD
Year: 1878

ixen of Washington Territory
prior to lis appointment. We
have never heard a complaint
from any quarter of the manner
in which he has discharged the
duties of his Office.


The q. s. District Judges are
all serving under commissions
conferred upon them as citizens
Of Washington Territory, and
are probably serving as accepta-
bly, to the people generally as
the Judges of any other Terrific
ry. Their position places them
above our praise or censure but
in exceptional cases of manifest
right or wrong which demand q
popular verdict.


Now where are your carpet
baggers in Federal office? No
Territory of the Union was ever
more free from them than is
Washington Territory at the
present time; and We believe no
other Territory was ever sup
piled with Federal officers with
whose administration of public
affairs there has been SO little
fault finding.


We as earnestly desired the
election of Mr.. Tilden as did any
of his supporters who had 10
greater personal stake in t


issue. 1t was not for a party
triumph merely, but for the vast
ly more important consideration,
the success of civil service re-
form, which would subordinate
party to the public interests; a
policy to which Mr.. Tilden was
pledged, and which, from our
personal knowledge of the man,
we had no doubt he would faith
fully carry cut. While the can
vass was pending, we were fire.
quently charged by politicians
with having the appointment OF
Governor in view. We said then
as we say now, that we would
never consent to accept an office
of any kind secured by the re-
moval of the incumbent on party
grounds. We as cordially sup.
port that policy under the Ad-
ministration of Mr.. Hayes as we
would have done under that 0i
Mr.. Tilden; and outside of the
Post Office Department, we see
nothing in the management Of
the Federal Offices in this Terri
tory demanding the intervention
of civil service reform.
Year: 1878

DlscLAIMER.-Mr. Merry, one
of the editors of the IntelRqencer,
assures one of the editors of the
DIspATcH, that he has not, since
he left this paper, written an ar
ticle tor any paper rejecting up
on any man connected with this
Office. We are pleased to note
this evidence of his sensibility to
the degradation of those with
whom he is associated.
Year: 1878

Farmers are, perhaps, more negli-
gent of their poultry in winter than
Of any other department of their farm.
This should not he 50. If properly
cared for the profits arising from this
source are quite as great, in proper
ton to expense, as that from any 9th
er department. First a warm house
should be provided, which can be- put
up at very small expense. Fowls
often suffer for want of good water in
winter. In the absence of water they
eat snow, but this is injurious. 1t is
useless to complain that your hens
lay no eggs, when they are allowed to
suffer want of comfortable quarters,
and from thirst. You will not only
get no eggs, but your fowls will be
subject to that scourge of the poulte-
rer, tho cholera. Care and clean quar-
ters are the best remedy for this
| plague. Keep the chicken house clean
and we'll ventilated, the fowls well
fed and watered, aud you will be am
ply repaid for their feed and extra
care in the supply of eggs you will
have in winter, the season when most
valuable.


In regard to chicken cholera the
Poultry World gives the following
good advice:


"When you see chicken a 1ittl'
droopy and its comb getting dark, re
move it at once and doctor it for th'
cholera. Its discharges are green, ant
tif allowed to run loose it would sprea'
the disease. As a preventive, use ,
handful of salt twice week in a was
basin full Of bran, mixed with d littl
meal, and three times a week Civ
corn at night, on which put a. littl
coal-oil, just enough to cover ever
grain and no more. Clean out you
chicken lonse, whitewash them an
scatter carbolic acid around"
Year: 1878

Sweet April, when you try, with your sun
shine and your sky,
Your wind Breathing low and your birds


that sing together,
Your misty blue that fills the hollows of
the hills,


You can make day of most enchanting
weather.
But on this lovely morning you have for
your adornlng
The presence of my only love, my darl-
ing dear
So you have no need to try, with your sun
slime and your sky,
To make this the day of all the year
Yet, April do your best, with soft wind
from the west;
With sunlight on the springing grass,
and tender blue above
Let your singing birds sing loudly, and
your flowers look up proudly
So may you serve the lady of my love |!
O month of changing mien-your days
may be serene
Or your sobbing east'wind play be bring,
ing rainy weather.
Each is welcome day, for it takes me


nearer May,
When my only love and shall be to-
gether
Year: 1878

Every Description Of Real Estate.
In section Of country unsurpassed
for health, scenery and fertility. 1t
is remarkably free from all malario us
and pulmonary diseases. It's pure
bracing air, fine springs of fresh cool
water, short mild winters and long
seasonable summers, its gentle noun
tain slopes and rich valleys, its forests
and fields, its flowers Of spring and
varied hues Of autumn-all combine
to place this region of country in the
front rank Of superiority and beauty
to the colonist and home seeker.


We continue this week our list OF
the very attractive properties for sale
by this agency, in both the farfamed
Piedmont and Valley regions Of Vir-
ginia.
Year: 1878

w Z lelI DaltllnOFC on lne lWeIIIH Vi
February amid storm Of sleet, with
a sharp wind blowing from the north
east. The last dray load Of freight
shad been delivered and hastily stow
ed between decks, the passengers had
been shown their state-rooms, the
whistle sounded the bell rang, and at
the last moment the captain came on
board. The gang planks were re-
moved and at half past three p. IN,
The George Appold" swung her head
slowly into the stream and drifted
down the harbor amid forest of
masts and spars from which were dis
played the flags of all nations. We
were soon opposite the frowning ram
parts Of Fort McHenry and as it faded
from our vision we thought Of the i'm
mortal Key whose name Will ever be
associated with it. In quiet corner
Of the Frederick cemetery his remains
lie buried. But his grand national
anthem composed upon that night
of fear and uncertainty, amid the
shrieking Of shells and the booming
Of cannons, has lived after him and
will continue to live as long as the
American heart thrills to the soul stir
rig air Of "The Star Spangled Ban
ner.'


Our list Of passengers was not
lengthy. There was a consumtive
young man, q native Floridan, Oh his
return to Fernandina, few in the
fruit trade going to Key West to pur-
chase oranges and bananas, two OF
three ladies, residents Of Savannah a
theological student who wanted to see
a storm off Hatteras, few Cotton bro
kers, and a nondescript something be-
tween u boy and 4 man who wanted
to know everything about the shiE
and bored the sailors with all sorts Of
Of foolish questions.


We passed the capes at six a. m
and soon the long swell Of the ocean
caught us in its arms an bore US out
to sea. ] arose at eight but had some
difficulty i'll making my toilet as the
floor Of my state-rCom had a provoking
tendency Of flying up and hitting me
in the face at uncertain intervals
There were several Of the passonerI
quite sick, especially the ladies. The
theological student who wanted tt
see a storm was among the first vic.
tins who retired precipitately tc
their stale-room8 and not until Of
ChaIlestown bar, upon smoother sea.
and under brighter skies, did he reap
pear. He looked as if there was moi
a poetical or sublime idea left in him


We passed that bugbear Cape Hat
teras, in safety and on the night of tht
18th we anchored at the mouth OF the
Savannah river, there 10 await higl
tide which occurred at seven in the
morning. The sun arose bright ant
clear the air was balmy as May day
and there was every prospect Of reach
ing our destination at an early hour
The sailors We're rejoicing in the pros
pect of holiday on shore the ladie
were looking forward with pleasure u
the meeting of friends who were un
doubtedly awaiting their arrival, ant
even the theological student "smol


a ghastly smile" at the bare possibili
ty Of again setting his feet on.te,vafr
ma. Suddenly the whole aspect 0
affairs changed. Far off on the wes
tern horizon could be seen what ap
peared to be a small white cloud, no
larger than a mans hand. We notice,
the sailors watching it intently ant
Year: 1878

JAPANESE CARkIAGEs.-The only
sort of carriage used in Japan is
small affair, like an overgrown badly
carriage. This seats one person and
is drawn by man. The men who
make livelihood by drawing them
are posed of wonderful endurance,
They will run at a top speed q dis
tance of ten or fifteen miles without
howing fatigue. INK
Year: 1878

To the Honorable the Common Council of the


City of st. Paul:


GENTLEMEN:-Your committee to whom was
referred the request of M. ]. O'Connor ESQ.,,
city clerk for an investigation of the matters
charged against him by the report of the last
Of certain names upon the poll lists of the
elections of 1876, on file in his office; having
fully investigated the entire matter, and the
conduct and connection of the city clerk there
with do respectfully report as follows:


That the judges Of election are required by
tor the duplicate poll lists of each election,
that such lists when so filed are public records
open to the inspection and examination of all
persons, that this was done after the election of
1876, and that the list so filed with the city
clerk were by him kept in his Office in the
usual and proper manner, that in the care and
custody of those lists the city clerk has in all
things performed his entire duty we'll. faith
fully and honestly, and that his conduct as to
them is entirely above suspicion, and not in
any way liable to the slightest censure, and
that the report Of the grand jury SO far
seems to your committee to be very grave err
ror and an entire Misrepresentation Of the law,
and insomuch as great injustice has been clear
ly done to a faithful and efficient officer by
that report, couched in the language that it is,
your committee felt it their duty to point out
IL,
which the grand jury seem to have proceeded
when the adopted it.


The basis of they report referred to is, that
the entry of improper check-marks upon the
poll lists necessarily gave opportunities for
great frauds in election matters, that is, that
the names SO checked would necessarily be car
ried on the next poll List and being upon the
list on the day Of election that the vote of no
person giving that name could be rejected.
hence each fraudulent check-mark would form
basis and represent fraudulent vote. If this
statement were correct it would indeed give
grounds for grave apprehension and would
fully justify the grandiloquent and sounding
phrases in which the report of the grand jury
is framed, but it is matter Of congratulation
for all citizens that the statement above re-
ferred to is one entire mistake, both in law, in
fact and in the deplorable results attributed; !;
indeed % the converse Of the entire proposition Is
true, that is, that the placing Of improper check


marks upon the poll lists after their fling does


not necessarily cause the name SO checked to be


carried forward on to the new list, that If the


name so checked should be carried forward. ii


does not at all allow Of facilitate the casting