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Year: 1878

At the Hawarden Flower-Show, Mr..
Gladstone, in the course of his remarks,
said:


I would advise that the people of this
country should give more attention than
they do to raising hand labor of all kinds
TO the excellence of which it is suscepti-
bic. They are too fond of getting out OF
hand-lahOr and gettiug into what they
call head d-labor,-that is to saw getting
sufficiently acquainted with reading and
writing, and casting up accounts, perhaps
to get into the lower class of clerks. I
believe there is not more distressed class
in the country than that class, and be-
lieve that great number of young peo-
pie would do infinitely better for them
selves and for society if they were con-
tent to keep much more than they do to
the use of their hands, and would try to
raise the. character of the labor which
they perform with their hands, because,
pray remember this, that great deal of
the very highest labor is labor performed
with the hands. Look at the labor of the
painter, of the sculptor, and, not only so,
but look at great many intermediate
kinds of labor.-hard labor which is
strictly dependent on an excellent hand.
Now, there is a great deficiency of that
kind of labor in this country. Go into
the study of a sculptor in London and
you will find that the sculptor, probably
an Englishman, is obliged to have great
many assistants, because working at the
marble requires very much to be done
before the stage of finishing comes, and
these assistants are well paid; but if you
come to talk to them you will find that in
the large majority of cases they are not
Englishmen at all, but Italians and
Frenchmen,-yery commonly Italians.
What l want you to do is this,-not to be
in such a hurry to get into so low class
Of head labor as copying clerks or some
thing of that kind People should recol-
lect that handicraft itself is capable of
being raised TO very igh description G;
art and of yielding very high standard
of remuneration. | cannot tell you how
anxious l am to impress that upon the
mind of young people, and how certain
feel that the lesson is one of great i'm
portanoe TO the people of this country.
Let them perform their work in the spirit
of an artist; let them try to give it excel
lence snd make it thing, that not only
will sell, but as good as they can make it,
as useful, as we'll proportioned, as pleas
ing to tie eye, as full of beauty as they
can make i and the more they try to do


- fNH they will be able to do it,"
Year: 1878

swelling like sinuous bars, when the old
gentleman in the corner woke and came
to my assistance. heard low whirr of
some weapon in its descent, and my first
assailant reeled from me stunned. Then
the old gentleman, with strength and
rapldity wonderful to see in person of
his age, seized the scoundrel, lifted him
away and dashed him down on seat.


There was brief struggle, and then
heard a sharp click-scoundrel the sec
ond had pair of handouts on his wrists.


"'They were more prompt than had
expected said the old gentleman, remov-
ing his woolen comforter, with which he
fastened my first assailants hands behind
him. and It railway carriage does not af-
ford much scope for struggle


THE pocket-book was safe. The ruff
ans were securely bound, and the old gen.
tleman-who, without his spectacles and
mufflers. stood ont in bold and nlessant
relief as the detective-kept guard over
them.


''At the station they were handed over
into the custody of the police. I was all
right by that time. Vixen rode with me
as far as the hotel nearest here, and to-
morrow he will call to see if am any the
worse for my ride by express.


The contents of the pocket-book were
Mary's bridal dowry.


Tie detective speaks of the senior part
ner of the firm of Brand & Lake as the
most h0spitable and generous man he ever
met in the course of his professional ca
reer.


Lake was quite cured of his love for
billiard playing. He had too narrow an
escape, and he did not forget the lesson.
Year: 1878

A young woman during the first week
OF her married life, entertains vague sus.
piciOns that the statements of other wives,
that the way to a mans heart is through
his mouth, are true, says the Philadelphia
Bulletin. Her Charles, who is almost, if
not quite, exempt from human failings,
| has already manifested profound admi-
ration for veal pies, and has openly ex-
pressed his detestation to overdone NUT
ton. She accordingly builds up within
| her fortress of resolutions, in which to
guard that sacred treasure of husbands
affection. In her girlhood this young wo-
man had spent much time in cultivating
her musical taste, IN reading Emerson and
Carlyle; she had been fond of pretty land
scapes and could use her pencil with eff
feet, and she had been heard to declare
with pride that when she married she
would give up none Of these things.


Let us visit her now at the end of ten
years of matrimony, and we will find that
she has broken her vow and thrown it to
the winds. We find a tiresome sort of
person whose whole intellect is absorbed
in attending to the cares of housekeeping,
and in getting stylish dresses for her
children. Her conversation rises seldom
above the level of infant gossip and ser
wants, and the only ideas developed by
time and experience are expressed in her
conviction that men are the most unrea-
sonable and selfish of creatures and wo-
incu tire most abused snd sAIf-sacrifi~inp


There is a great evil somewhere, but
what is it2 The husband acknowledges
to himself that he is disappointed in the
wife lie has chosen, and yet he finds diff
Guilty in pointing out his mistake, and
hardly finds cause to blame her, for is she
not faithful wife, a devoted mother, and
a most frugal manager! The mistake is
national characteristic. So passionate and
intense is the American mind in pursuit
Of its temporary interests, the men will
suffer the chains of business to bind them
down and throttle them, while their wives
bend beneath similar yoke of duty at
home.


What is lacking is the power to rise
above the petty annoyances of daily life;
we need to learn to distinguish trifies from
affairs of moment, to know that every
mola hill is not mountain. We need
not torsake the upper strata OF sentiment,
thought and ideaity-the atmosphere of
the S1ul-DeCduSe we huOW THAT tutle Is d
lower enc of routine and small vexations
in which our feet are told to tread. To
breathe in the one is to receive strength
and refreshment for exertion in the other.
1t is very good plan to pick up needles
and pins from the floor, but picking pins
ought not to be made the chief object of
existence, for if we move along with our
heads constantly downward we most as
,uredly will see nothing better than pins
and needles to the end Of our days.
Year: 1878

Once there was a mule. He had pair
of timber legs with heels at the end of
them. Mule thought his master did not
give him enough corn to eat. So, one
day, as the boss was passing behind HIM,
he lifted up his heels and boosted him to
the other side of the barn. This is what
Mr.. mule called strike. He thought he
could get all the corn he wanted now.


Presently he wanted water. He didn't
get it, though. He wanted more corn.
He didn't get that. He went to bed that
night without his supper. Next day he
didn't have to work; he didn't have to
eat, either. He didn't have any company.
All he had to do was to stand still and
think. He couldn't think why that mas
ter of his didn't come and feed him. The
next day was the same, and the next.


Before that mule got anything to eat
again he had grown so gaunt and gentle
that he was willing to keep his heels ON
the ground. The strike was ended.
Year: 1878

From the Oil City Derrick


"Where are you going with the pups
pies, my little man?" asked a gentle
man of small boy yesterday, whom
he met with three pups in basket.
"Goin' to drown them," was the
reply.


81 want pup for my little boy to
play with; what do you say to letting
me take one of them?'


Il will sell you one, spoke up the
boy with true American enterprise.
4 will sell you this yellow one for hall
dollar, the spotted one for IS cents,
and the spotted one is worth a dol
lar


4 think my boy would like the spot
ted one best, but you ask too much for
it. You had intended drowning all OF
them; but l will give You 25 cents and
save you the trouble of drowning the
spotted one.'


Twenty-Five cents for that spotted
pupp exclaimed the boy, 4 can't stand
it; taxes is high; rent is high; groceries
is high; oil Is down and going lower
oh, no, l can't take less than one dol
lar


'But you intend to drown


take the black one for IS cents


My little boy wouldn't like the
black one


Take the yaller one at half a dollar,
and he is dog cheap


Il don't like his COLOR
well, then, you had better tell
your little boy to play with his toes
And he continued on his way to the
river, remarking that mo party can
dead beat his way on me these times.
Year: 1878

Baltimore Gazette.


Mr.. Jefferson Davis has outlived all of
his sons, and when he dies the family
name will become extinct.


His Oldest son, Jefferson Davis, Jr.,
who died near Memphis the other day
of yellow fever,had scarcely passed his
twenty first birthday, and though he
did not inherit the intellectual ability
of his father, he was young man OF
considerable promise. Early in the
and before the fever broke out,
young Davis went North with his sis
ter and her husband. The latter re-
turned for some purpose and was
stricken down with the fever. When
his wife heard OF it she insisted upon
going to him, and young jeff accom-
panied his sister. Before the husband
was convaescent his wife was
a,tacted. Young Davis nursed his
sister through her illness, and in a few
days she became the nurse and he
the patient. -Four days later he died.
In 1854, while Mr.. Davis was president
OF the Confederacy, he returned to his
residence from short visit TO the cap.
itol, and found, lying in one of the
halls, the dead body Of his second son,
whom he had left but an hour or two
before the picture of health. The child
was but five years Of age, and during
the absence of the family fell from a
rear balcony to paved yard beneath
and crushed his skull. He lived but a
short while. This boy, Joseph, was
the most intelligent of the family and
q special favorite with all the great
Year: 1878




The following crop items are taken
from the Plaquemine Lay Observer
OF the 26lh of October, which is Ger
tainly an encouraging outlook for the
planters of our sister State:


"No season was ever more propi-
5lous tdan The present for rice. The
river supplied an abundance of water
at all times and the heavy rains that
fell during the summer did their full
share in filling and perfecting the
grain.


The weather for harvest was not
unfavorable, and the supply Of labor
was ample; hence the entire crop was
secured in excellent order, and we
hear no complaints OF stack-burned or
damaged rice.


The crop is undoubtedly the largest
ever raised in this parish, and beyond
all comparison tide finest in quality.


The whistle OF the steam thresher is
heard in every direction; every boat
goes up loaded with rice, and all our
mills are running day and night pre-
pairing the golden grain for market
Our rice planters were never in more
prosperous condition the sale OF their
splendid crops will enable them TO
meet all their obligations, make all
necessary improvements on their plan
tations and largely extend the erea Of
their lands cultivated in rice.


The cultivation of rice is extending
on every side, and Louisiana is already
the second State in the Union in the
production Of the great staple. and
will be at no very remote period the
first.


Accounts from all portions of the
State represent she cane crop as being
splendid almost beyond all precedent,
and should The weather continue ia
vorable during the grinding season,
which has already commenced, the
crop will, according to acreage, be
equal if not superior to any heretofore
made IN this State.


Plaquemines seems to be no excep-
tion to the rule, for cane here presents
a more magnificent appearance than it
has done at any time since 1861 the
most prolific year on record, when the
crop reached 459,4lo hogsheads.


On nearly all the plantations in this
parish The stand is even and regular,
the cane unusually large, perfect and
full OF juice, and is at least two weeks
in advance of that OF any season since
the war;hence grinding has commenced
al Belair and several other great plan-
lations. The yield so far is exceedingly
good and will doubtless be largely in
creased as the cane becomes more ma
ture and the juice more concentrated.


On the whole the promise of full
crop is brilliant in the extreme, should
no untoward weather come TO mar the
hattering prospect that now gladden.
the hearts of our enterprlslng planters.
Year: 1878

A notorious thief preached to a
North Carolina Baptist congregation
six months before he was found out.
His conduct during that half year was
excellent, his sermons eloquent, and
he says he intended TO turn over q
new leaf.
Year: 1878

A new publication is about to be placed in
the hands Of the printers which will prove
of inestimable value to this section of the
country. It is to be entitled "The Coming
Empire" and will emanate from the pen OF
81. N. Mcguire, author of the Lakeside edi-
ton of "Black Hills and American Wonder
land" Mr.. Mcguire has spent large por.
tion of the past two years in the Black Hills
and his proposed work will comprise
complete history Of that region, profusely IL
lustrated and accom- panied BY an elaborate
and accurate map of the Black Hills coun-
try drawn on scale Of ten miles to the
inch. This map and book are to be largely
devoted to the interests of the southern
Hills, Rapid City and the two Missouri riv.
er routes-from Pierre and Bismarck. Mr..
Mcguire takes the ground that there is 70
question about the superior natural advan-
tages Of the Pierre route but that its favora.
BILE features have been kept in the back.
ground by the advertisements with which
the country is flooded regarding rival routes
A statement of the exact facts regarding this
Pierre route will form conspicuous portion
Of his book and to widely circulate these
facts is all that ia necessary to bring the
travel and transportation this way. The
Coming Empire will prove the means o
circulating much valuable information re-
garding this route and that portion of ,h.
Hills in which We are most interested. Mr.
Mcguire is now in town and will see oul
business men on the subject Of advertising
His book will contain about one hundred
and fifty pages of valuable reading matter
will be bound in two different styles-papcr
and cloth and will sell at popular prices
The Western News Company Of Chicago
will take hold of the enterprise and aid il
the circulation and sale of the books.
Year: 1878

EREEM ANY PERSON WHO WILL I make and forward me n list of the names Of reliable persons Of their ac- quaintance who wish tO procure an instru- ment, either Piano or Organ, l will use my best endeavOrs to sell them one. and for every Piano I succeed Tn selling tO their list within one year, I will credit them with Sle. and for every Organ S5, iO he applied on payment of either Piano or organ; and when it amounts tO a sum sufficient to pay for any instrument, seiec- ted at inc lowest wholesale price, l will immediately ship the instrument, free, or after any amount Is credited the balance may be paid me in cash and will then ship them the instrument. They need not be known in the matter, and will be doing their friends a real service. aS l shall make special offers to them, selling a superior instrument for from One-half to twO-thiIGs what Is ordinarily asked by agents. Please send me a list al once, and afier you have made inquiry, you can add to it. Address.

 DANIEL F. BEATTY.

 Washington, W. J.
Year: 1878

IT is with sincere regret that we an nounce the demise of the Las Cruces Eco. We are informed that at no period of its existence was the Eco a paying c0rcern. We are confident that Mir Lapoint has labored hard and faith fully to make the Eco a good paper and place it upon a sound financial basis, hls failure is to be attributed to causes over which he had no control. The presses and material will be taken to Globe City, Arizona, and used for the publication of new paper 10 be called the Pinal Mesilla h. dependent.
Year: 1878

The Pittsburg PENN Comme, ciai
says An accident occurred on Saturday
at the Valley Paper Mill, at Verona, on
the Allegheny Valley railroad. A
Young woman named Mary Ann Collins,
who had been employed in the mill
three or four years, had been assigned
to a new position in the second story, in
which there is large trap-dOor i'm
mediately over a vat ON the ground floor.
Miss Collins had been called from
another part of the room to assist in
dumping box of rags. She started to
answer the call, and walked into the
hatchway, which was obscured by steam
arising from the vat of boiling water and
vitrol. She was precipitated directly
into the vat, and must have died very
speedily. In three minutes after she
fell her body was taken out scalded
white, She was sixteen years of age.
Year: 1878

An exceedingly clever stalk of tiger
was made some time back by a native
hunter of India. The shikari saw the
beast asleep under the shade of large
tree on the side of tank, and found no
prospect of getting a shot from the land
side. SO he had recourse to the follow
ing expedient He waded from the OPP
posite bank, gun in hand above the
water, which was breast high, with a
long cord fastened to his waist, the other
end of which remained in the hands of a
confederate on the bank confronting the
tiger. When he had got noiselessly
within twenty PAGES of the sleeping
beast, he delivered his shot, and was i'm
mediately jerked violently back under
water by his partner. 1t turned out
that there was no need of this excessive
caution, for one bullet had done the
business.
Year: 1878

1t may he going too far to say that man
may Judge the character of his fellow
man by the manner in which he "shakes
hands" But there is certainly n signiti-
cance in those busy members of the body
which "he who runs may read. The
creator of Uriah Heep has taught us not
to trust the owners of limp, moist hands
which close cordially on nothing save
their own possessions. Says commen-
tator on this subject: cit is the touch
of n hand at q greeting which warns or
chills my heart, and makes me know to a
certainty how much or how little shall
like the person before me. If the fingers
close about my own with short, quick.
conVulsive grasp, / know that he viii
snap, snarl, and finally quarrel, and tbss
the least that | have to do with the
owner of those willy diglts, the better of
[ shall be. If nervous, cold hand
glides into my own, and seems disposed
to lie there, without life, L know that my
happiness would be nothing in that
awful palm. But if the hand grasps
yours and holds il firmly, in strong,
warm fingers, you are safe in cultiyatlng
the friendship of the owner. These
human hands From the beginning OF
life they play an important part.


All the greatness Of earth has laid III
the hollow of the hand. The books, the
music, the pictures, the wonders OF
architecture, the inhicacies OF mechan-
ism, the mysteries of science and the
government of the countries, with all
their godlike beauties of color, sound,
symmetry, usefulness, progression and
wisdom, have lain within a human hand.
The highest aspirations and realizations
of the brain are brought to light through
the hand and the tenderest love and
charity of the heart make the hand their
dispensator. They can be tender minis
tiers of comfort and peace, yet rs cruel
and full of venom as the bite of an asp.


And with all their power. with all
their charities, their tender touches,
their mischiefAthey are folded at last,
and those who speak of us tell OF the
closing of the eye and the folding OF
hands as part of our going away
North american.
Year: 1878

SO inscrutable may the human face
become, that frequently it is but a
mask which conceals the real character.
The men and women most famous for
heartless cruelty have often been
celebrated for their handsome faces
writers off fiction have not been uif-
mindful OF the fact, and Faust is repre-
sented as being handsome man while
the German fishermen sing of the sirens
who drag mems souls down to perdi-
ton with their fatal dover of beauty
Some faces are unreadable, and tell
nothing of the owners character. The
merriest men now and then have solemn
faces, and the most serious frequently
have cheerful ones. Frequently the
most heartless cOquette has all the shy
graces of girl of sixteen, while the
heart of some woman who looks you
through with cold, steady eyes, may be
filled with love and tenderness that you
are too blind to discover. So we all go
on, wearing guises of different device,
never quite concealing, never revealing,
the life within.
Year: 1878

There is a department which suits the
figure and talents of each person. 1t IS
always lost when we quit it to assume
that of another.


He who has not known adversely is
but half acquainted with others or him.
self. Constant success shows us but
one side of the world.


We all dread bodily paralysis and
make use of every cOntrivance TO avoid
it. but none OF MS are troubled about a
paralysis Of the soul


There is a gift that is almost blow,
and there is kind word that is muni-
hcence so much is there in the way OF
doing things.


A heart-memory is better that a mere
head-memory. II is better to carry
away little of the life of God in our
souls than TO be able to repeat every
word of every sermon we have heard.


He that waits for repentance waits for
that which cannot be had as long as it is
waited for. 1t is absurd for a man to
wait for that which he himself has to do.


Preserve your conscience always soft
aud sensitive. If but one SIN force ltsell
into that tender part of the soul and
dwell there, the road is paved for a
thousand iniquities.


Do not be discouraged under any
circumstances. Go steadily forward ;
rather consult your own conscience than
the opinions of men, though the last are
not TO be disregarded. BE industrious,
be frugal, be honest deal in perfect
kindness with all who come in your way,
exercising a neighborly and obligiug
spirit in your own intercourse.
Year: 1878

1t cannot be too often repeated that
luxuries, not necessities, bring ruin.
We are ruined, not by what we really
want, but what we think we want there
fore, never go abreast in search of your
wants-if they be real ones. they will
come hSme in search of you for he who
does not want, will soon want what he
cannot buy.
Year: 1878

tenn and abandon NE most brilliant and
beautiful theories of science merely to save
the life of some person who happened to be
under their professional care. But the most
remarkable thing advanced by the homo-
opathsts at this session was that in
point Of fact homeopathy is an abandoned
practice. In a company of sixty only three
claimed TO be "pure homeopathists, and
one bold iconoclast declared that he had
used on his patients emetics, cathartics,
morphine and quinine Gin enormous doses"
Dr. Lilienthal "did not believe there were
more than one or two homeopathic practi-
TONERS in this city and one or two in Phila-
delphia who understood the materia medica
thoroughly" If all this be true the adop-
tion by the society OF q resolution formally
putting '.sinsilia si,nliJus curant,r" on
the shelf was rather tardy piece Of honesty
but as a piece of honesty, though late, the
world should welcome it. There is point
on which practical people quite ignorant
in medicine and those most deeply learned
in that useful science are in complete agree
ment, and that is that schools, theories.
dogmas and factions in medicine are mere
chaff, while the fact of consequence is the
instructed, capable, pcrceptive, efficient
physician who can and does cure his
patients, no matter how. The smatterers,
drivellers and monomaniacs who believe
that their conception Of what is true in SCI
ence is to be saved, though at the expense Of
life, when to save life should be the sum and
purpose Of all their sciences, stand between
these extremes, and may we'll and proftably
be neglected by both.