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Year: 1877

MOOdy'S Advice 90 the Unemployed.


Mr.. Moody, in the progress of a
discourse at Chicago few evenings
ago, delivered the following advice
to unemployed men:


And now a word about work.
Earn the bread you eat. would
rather earn five cents than some ons
give me five dollars. There is no
hope Of a mans reformation who
does not 60 to work. LazineSs be-
longs to the old creation. don't
know what to do, and | don't see
what God can do, with a lazy man.
If you can get only twenty-five
cents day, 20 to work for that.
Some one once tried to abuse a SEN
ator by saying that he used to black
boots. "Didn't | black them well?"
he answered. Work is honorable.
Any honest work is better than
idleness. Black boots, or carry a
q
hod, or carry in coal, and if you
can only earn five cents a day, live
on five cents a day. Don't go in
debt.


Some of you think it is hard
that there is no work to be found
that people are SO suspicious of you
Well, they haYe reason for it; you
are only just out of the rum-shop,
you are just getting up to the first
round of the ladder; but if they
find You are really a true man, then
there will be people to trust you
and give you employment. 1t j:
because there are so many hypo.
critics in the world that people are
afraid to put confidence in you, ant
predict that you will not hold out
Don't think you are STOPPING be.
cause you have to work for less thar
you got before. Do your rougl
work well, and you will find better
work to do.


Another thing. Some of you are
in the habit of lying. | have heard
of one who processes to be re.
formed man who has ben lying
and what disgrace that is to q
| good cause. Now. let me say to
you, be truthful. If you have to
tell the worst about yourself, don't
lie. Own up to the truth, for it is
better and safer that the worst
should be known. Here is a man
lust out of the penitentiary who
gets a place of trust, and one of his
old pals comes in and threatens to
blow on him unless he puts up SIS.
But if he can answer, "My master
knows all about me-" he is a free
man, in spite Of his past disgrace.


| want you to take this advice
kindly give it from my heart. If
you don't get on as well as you wish,
don't go back into sin. One of the
young converts was tempted to 60
to selling liquor again; but let your
motto be, "Trustin God," and you
can resist temptation, and come off
victorious over the world, the flesh
and the devil
Year: 1877

London Buildsr.l


The bursts of rain in the Car
natic are tremendous. As much
as five inches Of rainfall in a single
night is not unfrequent, and Sir A.
Cotton has known as much as nine
teen inches of rain to fall in that
time. The smallest rill that is al
lowed to trickle over the edge OF
an earthen bank wears itself a pas
sage and becomes q destructive
torrent with extreme rapidity. On
one occasion the water in the Ve-
'rauum tank is said to have over
flowed the whole twelve miles OF
the bund, and to have preached it
in thirteen places. On another oc-
casion the engineer in charge of a
bund, finding the water rising with
more rapidity than he was able to
meet by the supply Of earth, made
a wall of the bodies of his laborers,
causing them to lie down close to
one another on the top of the
threatened part of the dam, and
thus keeping back the two inches
or three inches of water, which,
if unchecked, would soon have
wrecked the whole bund and ruined
a wide district, until their places
could be supplied with baSketsful
of earth. 1t was an original expe-
dient, but it saved the district.
What the laborers said about it we
have not heard.
Year: 1877

I.-That upon our Annual Carnival visit
all political strife shall cease, and geLtle har-
mony prevail among our subjects


Il.-That We will enter and take possession
Of our good city of Memphis, at high noon on
Year: 1877

EASY CIVIL SERVICE REFORM M-Presi-
dent Hayes has an opportunity to begin
an important reform in the civil service
without the help of rules and commission.
ers and without any serious emblrrass-
ment to himself, Entering Office as Il
republican, he finds the whole personal
of the Government in sympathy with his
Administration, and whatever individual
pressure for place may be put upon him it
cannot be pretended that the interests of
the party will require any sweeping
changes. There can be no political object
in making changes therefore, except to aid
the miserable little factions which attach
themselves TO one or another leading
statcsman," and keep the republican Or
ganzation in perpetual difficulty and tur-
moil. Whenever the Federal Admins
tratou cuts loose from them it will be Il
boon to the party. President Hayes
ought to lay it down rs Il rule that there
shall be no removals except for good
cause. If he finds officers who are dis
honest, incompetent, inefficient, let him
tnrn them out and put in others, but let
those who are faithful feel that their
places are secure, That will be TO teach
in practice what II republican ndministra-
ton once upon time made u rather COM
ical prctense of teaching in theory, that
honesty and capacity, instead of political
activity, constitute the best title to Office,
When that lesson is enforced, we already
have civil service reform.


And if President Hayes is ut II loss
| WI hor tp hnuiO n,ll hiy aft t,
the New York post-oilice. We have here
II model postmaster. If the sentiment Of
the community could be tested we be-


lieve the voice in favor Of the retention o


Postmaster James would be unanimous


We have never had Il postmaster who has
done his duty with SO much zeal, so mucl


thoroughness, and so much ability. lie


has almost rcvoutionized the postal ser


vice of the metropolis, and he is fast max


ing it marvel of efficiency and credi
to the nation. The brilliant success o


Mr.. James Is owing in part to his rare
na,uralc capacilyin part to his conscientious
ness, and in part to u singular correct ap
preciation of his functions. He is n phe


nomenal postmaster, who believes that h
was appointed to look after the mails, anC
not to run primaries, Or attend to any
body's political prospects.


2 Such man ought to be kept. Tht
public needs him. The administration


needs him. President Hayes can do n,
more popular action in this city, can Civ,
S no clearer proof of his devotion to rea
S unpretentious civil service reform, thai


by retaining an official who has givel


such signal proofs of capacity and honesty


If model postmaster is to be removed il
n order that Il politician may be rewarded


not only will the business of the depart


ment suffer, but the whole civil servic
$ will be demoralizod. We do not believ
d President Hayes will begin his admins
l. tration by any such grave mistako,-N ]
q Tribune.
Year: 1877

WORKING AND WArrING.-You are
tender hearted, and yon want to be true,
and are trying to be--lcarn these two
things: Never to be discouraged because
good things get on so slowly here; and
never to fail daily to do that good which
lies next to your hand. Do not be in Il
hurry, but be diligent. Enter into the
sublime patience of the Lord Be charita-
BILE in view of it. God can afford to wait;
why cannot we, since we have Him to fall
back uponP Let patience have her perfect
work, and bring forth ber celestial fruits.
Trust to God to weave your little thread
into the great web, though the pattern
shows it not yet. When Gods people are
able and willing thus to labor and wait, re-
member tnat one day is with the Lord as
thousand years, and thousand years as
one day; the grand harvest of the ages
shall come to its reaping, and the day
shall broaden itself to a thousand years,
and the thousand years shall show them
selves as perfect and finished day.
Macdonald.
Year: 1877

LIVING ToGErHER,-We have seen, on
a printed slip, set of pithy maXims on
the Art of Living Together" We do
not know who wrote them, but they are
full of good sense, and might well be laid
to heart by every one who lives in con-
slant companionship with another, wheth-
er as husband and wife, college chums, or
partners in business.


avoid having stock subjects of dispu-
tation. Do not hold too much to logic,
and suppose that everything is to be set
tied by sufficient reason.


If you would be loved as a companion,
avoid criticism of those with whom you
live.


Let not familiarity swallow up all
courtesy"
Year: 1877

o rosebud garland of girls!


If the whole glad year wsre May;
If winds sang low in the clustering leaves,


And roses bloomed Away;
If youth were all there is of life;
If the years brought nothing of caro- and strife
Not even a cloud to the ether blue.-
1t were easy to sing song for you.
Yet, o my garland Of girls!


Is there nothing better than May
The golden glow of harvest time,


The rest of the Autumn day?
This thought give you all to keep:
Who soweth good seed shall surely rehp,
The year grows rich as it groweth old,
And life's Latest sands are its sands of gold.
Year: 1877

Of remarkable severity soon followed. In
January, 1876, the velocity of the wind
again came up to 1872 miles per hour,
with 10 serious damage while in Feb
ruary it reached the velocity of 16S miles,
and the plank walk between the station
and the hotel WIS torn up, and blown
away, as though The large planks loaded
with ice were but straws hurled hther and
thther in the storm.


The other buildings had thus far stood
the pressure brought upon them, but on
the 10th of March came storm of wind
with snow that wrenched the depot from
Year: 1877

WE understand that the damage OF the
Constitution through her recent disaster is
so great as to make IL Improbable to fit
her up again as steamship, aud her hull
which Is still staunch will perhaps be sold
by the company to some one who will
make u sailing vessel Of her.
Year: 1877

The stock market in New York is


in very uncertain state, and at any
moment may collapse in panic. A
bold California speculator, in combl-
nation with a railroad capitalist and
some other speculators, month since
entered the stock market of that city
with several millions of their own and
borrowed capital. They bought up
an immense amount of securities at
the then low prices and began bulling
the market. They pushed quotations
up to high figures, and to their sur
prise found willing offerers for all the
stock they were disposed to buy.
Finding themselves loaded down
with mountain of inflated values,
they desire to get trid of their burden.
They find it is easier to buy than to
sell. Every attempt to ease them
selves of the crushing load they are
carrying causes a tremor on 'Change
and sends stocks down three or four
per cent. To steady the sinking
market they are obliged to retake
what they have parted with. In
view of.the fact that the speculative
capital is the largest ever ventured
in the New York stock market, it
will be surprising if, before long,
there is not a sudden fall in fancy
values in that city that will wreck
the fortunes of certain nominal mill
linnaires.
Year: 1877

This is a true story. The happy
circumstances occurred on last Sun
day evening. He escorted her toand
from church, and upon arriving at
her home, their discussion of the ser
mon and the extreme heat suggested
an invitation, readily accepted by
Charles, that they step intothe house
and partake of a cooling glass Of
lemonade. She took him to the din
ing room, and there found naughty
Ben about to squeeze the last lemon
in the house for his own individual
benefit. Calling him aside she in
duced Ben, by means of suadry
threats and promises, to dissect that
lemon and make Charlie and herself
u glass. A self.sacriticing thought
struck her. mo, Ben," she said,
put the juice of the whole lemon
into Charles glass and bring me n
glass of water. He won't notice it.
there is no light in the parlorl" Ben
was making one good strong lemon
ade as directed, when Charlie quietly
slipped out and Remarked: ~ say
Ben, put the juice Of the entire lem
on in your sisters glass and bring
me some ice water-there is no light
in the parlor, aud she won't notice"
Ben's forte was in obeying ORDERS
With a merry twinkle in his eye he
drank the lemonade, then carried
them each a glass of water, which
they drank with much apparent rel
ish, asking each other between sips,
"if II was sweet cnough2' And
naughty brother Ben, with the taste
of that lemonade in his mouth, stood
out in the hall and laughed until his
sides ached, to hear them assure each
other TINT it was "just right" so pal
atable and refreshing.
Year: 1877

Remember that all questions have
two sides; ono is the right side,
the other the wrong side; one
is the side Of justice tho other
injustice. If you take the right
side, the just side, ultimately men,
however much they may oppose and
revilc you, will come to your sup
port. Earth, with all its powers,
will work with you and for you, and
heaven is pledged to conduct you to-
complete success. If you take the
other side, there is no poweron earth
or heaven that can lead you through
successfully, because it is appointed
in the counsels Of heaven that justice
and truth, Gun alone prevail.
Year: 1877

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of
your love and tenderness sealed up
until your friends are dead. Fill
their lives with sweetness. Speak
approving, cheering words while
their ears can hear them, and while
their hearts can be thrilled by them.
The things you mean to say when
they are gone, say before they go.
The flowers you mean to send for
their collins, send to brighten and
sweeten their homes before they
leave them. Ifmy friends have ala
baster boxes laid away, full of per-
fumes of sympathy and affection,
which they intend to break over my
dead body, l would ratherthey would
bring them out in my weary hours,
and oped them, that | may be re-
freshed and cheered by them while
/ need them. | would rather have n
bare coffin without a flower, and a
funeral without an eulogy, than
life without the sweetness Of love
and sympathy, Let us learn to an-
noint our friends before hand Tor
their burial. Post'mortem kindness
os do not cheer the burdcned spirit.
Flowers on the coffin cast no fra
grance backward over the weary
days.
Year: 1877

The Tue ARcrIC.-Another unsuccessful
attempt was made on yesterday morning at
low tide TO pump out the sunken tug-boat
Arctic. Two OF the city fre-engines-B
and ,C-together with two pcnderous
pumps, were, put to work, and although it
is estim ;,ed that the four streams together
were 6 'harging about twelve hundred
gallons per minute, it soon became evident
that they were not gaining on the water in
the vessel, and there was apparently some
hole that the diver had failed TO discover
and stop. This plan OF raising the Arctic
was then abandoned. Captain Letter left
for Norfolk yesterday afternoon to make an
arrangement with the Baker Wrecking
Company to raise the tug. This was the
second effort the city steamers made to
raise the Arctic.
Year: 1877

DIRECT .INPoRTATI0N.-W. d. BLAIR co
have received another lot OF that really 1ne TAB LIE
SHERRY, which they offer at $40 per gallon. The
quality OF this wine for the PRICE Is unsurpassed.
Year: 1877

FATAL ACCIDENTAL colored train-hand
named John Crump, while employed in un-
coupling cars on the Chesapeake and Ohio
road near the wharf, was on yesterday after
noon run over and frightfully mangled.
He was taken to the almshouse in the city
ambulance and died in three or four hours
Year: 1877

A FIRE-COMMESDABLE CONDUCT on THE
PART OF FIREMEN.-On Saturday infor-
nation was lodged at Company F's engine
house to the effect that Il building near
the corner Of Twenty-ninth and Broad
streets was on fire. Without giving an
alarm, the hose-carriage and truck was sent
around and the fire promptly put out, with
a damage OF about S25. OF late it has been
particularly noticeable that the members OF
the Department have taken an Individual
interest in putting out fires without giving
alarms. They seem to feel, each one OF
them, that it deyolves upon them to dis.
charge their duty to the city in this way
with more promptness; and such interest
and efforts are deserving Of the highest
commendation. In this connection it may
be stated that so far the loss this year from
fires has been only about $4,000.
Year: 1877

Mr.. Wong Ching Foo, the Buddhist
objects to the co lclusion reached by
one of our preachers in a recent and
elaborate paper, namely that the heath
ems are necessarily and inevitably to
be damned. Even to a Christian mind
the thought of such wholesale dampa-
tIon is appalling, for the major por-
tion OF the inhabitants of the world
are either heathens or of religions that
are not Christian, and have been 90
ever since Christ's day. If we accept
the gloomy conclusion of this preach,
er how populous hell must be! To a
heathen. however, the thought that
eternal misery awaits him must be
painful to the last degree,


Mr.. Wong Ching Foo derides the
idea that he and his fellow Buddhists
are going to be damned, simply be-
cause they are not Christians. He asks
with much reason how the Christian
preacher can reconcile with Divine
Justice such treatment of people who
know nothing of the religion taught
In Galllee, and he makes the bold as
sertion that good heathens acquire as
sound title to heavenly mansions as
good Christians, and that bad Chris
tians are as sure to bring up in the
place of torment as bad heathens.
Year: 1877

concise and pointed style. he does not
stop at q general charge IF fraud and
corruption on the part of the Returning
Boards OF the South, but he goes into de-
tails and specifically points out the
wrongs that have been done. The con.
stant aad active interference of the Fed
eral government IN the affairs of the
States Is scsthingly rsbuked. But we
think that the bubble of Intimidation
as a justification for the action
of the Returning Boards is thoroughly
pricEed and exploded by the Governor
when he says: "Isintimidstion has been
used, the proper thingto do Is to punish
the parties guilty of it, but not to deprive
the voter of his legal right by rejecting
his vote because of the misconduct OF
others" Every good citizen and honest
msn must concur in the opinion that to
overawe voter and deprive him of his
freedom of choice is wrong, but TO deny
him his freedom of choice By rejecting
bis vote is q greater and more eIasper-
perating wrong.


This is the last annual message Of
Governor JACOB, his term of Office ex.
piriug on the 4th OF March next, having
filled the executive chair for six consecu-
tive years. Some portions of Governor
JACOBS administration have been
stormy, he having in some instances
differed widely in his views upon mat
ters of public policy with the majority
OF the Democratic party, yet while many
thought that he erred In Judgment, none
have ever doubted his honesty. He has
been dillgent and attentive in the dis
charge of his duties, and looking to what
he believed to be the best interests of the
State. He will retire from the position
to which he has been elevated by his fel.
low citizens, carrying with him the es-
teem and confidence Of the people of the
entire State.
Year: 1877

Pittsburg Post: "Had the Force
Bill passed Grant would have set
tied the South" and there would
have been no trouble about car
pet-bag Senator's, is,the cheerful
view of the Gazette. But you see
the Force Bill didn't pass, and
Mr.. Hayes is doing more for the
South than Tilden could probably
have done. And the carpet.bag-
gers are turning on you. And
how do you like your chickens
coming home to roost, any how.
Year: 1877

The old, old story. A man
went into a store on West Hill
last night and picked up a gun.
OF course, be didn't know it was
loaded. 1t went off. So did the
man. And the man who owns,
or rather owned the gun, would
give $40 to know where they
went.
Year: 1877

1t is not in vain that he has trod
This lonely and toilsome way,
1t is nc t in vain that he has wrought


In the vineyard all the day;
For the soul that gives is the soul that lives


And bearing another's load
Doth tighten your own, and shorten the way,


And brighten the homeward road.
Year: 1877

Last night, the Institute H all was crowded
to it's utmost capacity, to hear free lecture
by Prof. Burner, upon the skin, and the
hygenic importance Of dress. The lecture
was trite, and learned, showing that the
Professor was thorough master of his SUBJ
ipct, and was full of obstruction to his
audience. His lecture, this evening, also
tree-will be upon the eye and ear, illustra-
ted with large models.
Year: 1877

The Rev. Joseph Cook, in speaking of
Jonathan Edwards suffering for conscience
sake, says: al know where in Massachu-
sets can put my hand on little irregular
scraps of brown paper, stitched together as
note books, and closely covered all over with
Jonathan Edwards handwriting. Why
did he use such coarse material in his
studies Why was he within sight of star
vation2 Because he had opposed the half
way covenant. Why did that man need to
accept from Scotland funds with which to
maintain his family? Because he opposed
the halfway covenant. Why did his wife
and daughters make fans and sell them TO
buy bread Because he opposed the half
way covenant. Because he defended with
vigor, as Whitefeld did, the idea that man
should not be minister unless converted
nor a church member unless converted, and
and so set himself against the whole trend
of this huge, turbid, hungry, naughty wave
OF secuarization that had been rising sinc'
1851 OF course, he was abandoned by th'
fashionable. OF course, his life was il
some sense martyrdom. His notebook
were made from the refuse OF brown pape
left from the fans. There is nothing Mass
achusetts so likes to be famed with as thos
fans Jonathan Edwards wife and daughter
made and sold for bread"
Year: 1877

seat in his gig or sulky in which he drove TO
town. John Quincy Adams, who was adj
dicted to the same vice Of Incorporate early
rising, with similar consequences, once ac-
companied him TO the Harvard law school,
to hear Judge Story lecture. Now, Judge
Story" continues the biographer, "did not
accept the philosophy of his two friends in
this particular, and would insist that It was
more excellent way to take ones allowance
of sleep in bed, and be wide awake out of it
which he himself most assuredly always
was The Judge received the two Presidents
gladly, and placed them in seat of honor
on the dais by his side, fronting the class
and proceeded with his lecture. II was not
long before, glancing his eye aside to see
how his guests were impressed by his doc
trine, he saw that they were both of them
sound asleep, and he saw that the class saw
it too. Pausing for moment in his swift
career of speech, he pointed to the two
sleeping figures, and uttered these words of
warning Gentlemen, you see before you
a melancholy example Of the evil effects of
early rising The shout of laughter, with
which this judicial obier dictum was received,
effectually aroused the sleepers, and it is to
be hoped that they heard and profited by
the remainder of the discourse. ."-Ma,heDs'
Hours wM Men and Books.
Year: 1877

II is marked feature of social life in
England, and certainly one of its especial
charms, that mothers and daughters are so
uniformly seen together at their own homes.
Not only is the mother the first lady to whom
you are introduced at the house where you
visit, but mistress of ceremonies throughout.
Not only does she preside at the dinner-table,
but in the evening party she sits as queen.
Whatever may be your first impression OF
such an arrangement-if it happens that
your sympathies are with the younger la
dies-you will very soon learn to think that
the mothers absence would be very sincerely
regretted by the daughters. As picture all
must admit the arrangement to be perfect
The portly form and matronly dignity of the
mother are an exquisite foil to the useful
beauty and maiden coyness of the daughters.
And you will find nothing to mar, but every
thing to enhance, the interest of the picture.
The mothers presence never seems to op-
crate as an unwelcome restraint. Between
her and the daughters you will mark the
most joyful, playful, loving freedom with
out the sacrifices of little parental dignity
and authority on the one hand, or of sweet,
graceful, filial duty on the other 1t may be
said of English families generally, that these
two things are eminently characteristic, to
wit; uniform parental authority and the
most charming freedom of intercourse be


tween parents and their children.-Selected