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Year: 1877

The voice of reform is heard through
the land and speaks of the 'tgood time
coming So too the spirit of reform is
working in the nurseries of the land to
Danish those dangerous opium and NOR:
phia preparations and establish useful
Bulls Baby Syrup is acknowledged as
the very best for all the disorders OF
baby yhood and early childhood. Price %
cents bottle.
Year: 1877

From advance sheets of the Mission
airy Herald for October we copy the fol-
lowing letter from missionary lady,
dated ShOlapur, July II:


''The famine account is about the
same now as for the past few months.
We see men, women and children all
along the roads where grain carts pass,
picking up grain which has scattered,
kernel by kernel. Many eat it as they
pick il out of the dust, their hunger not
allowing them to wait for it to be
ground or cleaned. We are besieged
with beggars from morning till night
Every morning we feed between fifty
and seventy-five HUing skeletons. We
judge of cases by their appearance. The
Government officers here ALLOW us fifty
native lOaves of bread per day. Most
that we feed are little children. We
have bought buffalo aud so have milk
for the weak ones. AS | go among
them, cup and spoon in hand, the little
mouths open like those of little birds tC
receive the food. Some have prosper.
ed and are looking little better. If I
child does not grow better I insist OF
its being fed before me, as some of these
poor women have become so hardened
that they starve their children tina
they may excite sympathy. 1t is the
only way they can get support. Moth
ers come ore day with child and the
next day their arms will be empty.


The suffering is terrible, and it makes
ones heart ache to see the. little limo
cent ones suffering the most. feel, a
times, that the stroke which made on
hearts bleed, by taking our own littl,
one, was to prepare us to enter int,
these scenes and sympathize with tn,
broken hearted. We long for relief
and wonder if the cup of suffering an,
woe has not been filled to the brim
Many prophesy that there will be III
more rain this year. Yet we feel tina
all things are in the hands of Hin
whom we love, and do not borrov
trouble"
Year: 1877

The following anecdOte is vOuched for
by a Scottish clergyman, nephew of the
old lady who befriended poor Reynard {:


There is one anecdote of fox saving
his life by bold and happy stroke,
which we know to be perfectly au-
tbentic, and have much pleasure is now
putting on record. One day, during the
hunting season, lady was sitting in
the dining-room of an old mansion
house in the southwest of Scotland,
when she suddenly heard the sound of
hounds and horn, and perceived that
the chase was passing not far from her
door. In Il few minutes she was startled
by the crash of IL broken pane in a sec
ton of the bow window near which she
was sitting. Looking round she saw
that the damage had not been done by
any stone or ball that had struck the
glass but by the hunted fox, which had
thus made a desperate DASH for his safe
ty. Reynard was in the room, perfectly
worn out with fatigue, and seemed
piteously to implOre protection. The
lady of the mansion would not have
been a woman had she not sheltered the
poor animal who had flung himself upon
her mercy. She instantly opened a
wall-press in the room, and, as she
pointed to the bottom of it, the fox en-
tered and allowed himself to be secure
ly shut in. The shutter was closed up
on the broken pane, and a few hounds
that appeared in front of the house,
after running suspiciously about for a
little, were called off to join the pack.
The lady from her window had the sat
isfactiOn of seeing the huntsmen at some
distance digging away for half an hour
at covered drain in which they sus-
pected the fox had taken refuge, and
through which he had probably passed.
After their fruitless search ''the field''
went off disappointed, having had a
capital run, but lost their fox. Mean
while ''the villan," as some of the
spOrtsmen called him, lay safe in his
snug quarters. He was allowed to re-
main in the house all night, and in the
morning he was offered by his kind pro-
tector good breakfast of porridge and
milk, of which he heartily partook The
worthy Scotch lady, in telling the story,
used to conclude by saying that when
the fox had finished his breakfast, "he
waggit his tail and gaed his ways."-
| Leisure Hours
Year: 1877

A fearful encounter with mad dog
took place in Bridgewater, N. H., the
2Sth. A large mastiff entered the house
of Widow Huckins and sprang at the
throat of a young woman, daughter
of Mrs. Huckins. She threw up her arm
and the dog bit her in the right hand.
The mother, who was in another room,
hastened to her assistance, when the
dog sprang at her, biting her in the
same way. The dog then ran down the
road to the house of Gilman Fletcher.
Here small pet dog was tied in front
of the house. The mastiff sprang upon
him and killed him. Mr.. Fletcher, who
was the only one at home, raised win
dow to ascertain what the trouble was,
when the dog bit him in the left arm,
making an ugly wound. Mr.. Fletcher
then seized pair of large tongs and
stepped to the door, when the dog
sprang at his throat. A blow from the
tOngs knocked him back, but he in
stantly rallied and made another spring
with the same result. Thus the fight
continued for a long time, the dog be-
coming more infuriated at every blow,
when finally he succeeded in driving
his fangs into Fletcher's right arm,
tearing the flesh into shreds. 1t was
now fight for life, and by desperate
effort the dog was given blow that
partially stunned him. This was prompt
ly followed up and the dog soon dis
patched. Mr.. Fletcher is one of the
most prominent men of Bridgewater
and he has the sympathy of the whole
community.
Year: 1877

The STOLEN TURKEY.-When the
electoral commission bill was up III
Congress certain extreme radicals de-
nounced it as practically rattle for
the Presidency. As things now look
The rattle has very much the appear
ance OF the one wherein The man who
owned the turkey assented 10 the pro-
position of sharper who had nothing
10 put up against ito rattle TO deter
mine which should have the fowl. II
requires very little discernment TO
know 10 whom the turkey fell. The
astonishing thing 10 The victim, after
he lost II, was that lie could have
been so simple as 10 risk a sure thing
for an almost certain loss. The tur-
key was his. The sharper could not
have got it except he had stolen it-in
which event it would have been re-
stored TO the owner-ard yet, with
the bird actually in his hand, he had
been lured to lose it without the posi-
blhty OF having gained anything even
had he won the throw. To add to
his loss and modification, nobody
thereafter would trust a turkey TO
him, lest he might again be defrauded
or cajoled of it. When a r2ffie means
no turkey no dinner, the one who
holds the bird had better hang on 10
it. The moral of all this is not, how
ever, p very agreeable matter for dem
ecrats 10 contemplate just now. 1t
begins TO look too much as if our tur-
Key had been gobbIed by very arts
fal style of foul rattle.
Year: 1877

How 10 PROVIDE HEREAFTER -
There is 10 teacher so thorough as ad
versiiy, if the pupil be not Too badly
used np 10 Withstand the severe les
son, and il is now in order for the dem
eeraey to heed the painful yet saiutary
instruction. In future, IT viii be wise
if not vital--to send discreet and
resolute guardians TO take charge OF
our Senators and Representatives al
Washington, particularly for the ses,
sions which Immediately precede the
Inauguration of the President. should
there be any contest as TO the election,
in order that the unsophisticated INFO
cents shall not be tricked into selling
their party birthiight 10 the crafty
Jacobs of the radical persuasion by
any such dead.faIl artiiice. as where
seven are supposed TO out count eight
Until tie seven lose their whole
stake in trying it.
Year: 1877

SIMPLY JusTiCG.-Why should all
the infamy o: he iniquitOus conduct
of the majority Of the national return
inc board be put upon Justice Brad
lev ? He is merely one unit OF the
eigb,-a sort of end man to Morton.
The whole eight are in the same boat,
political buccaneers aud partisan
pirates together, at once principals
and accessories 70 the same anocions
crime-that of shipping as honest able
seaman on board the Ship of State,
and then, when they had got her out
to sea, under pretence of putting her
on her course, of throwing her honest
master overheard, naming in bis place
one OF their own kind, and steering
her for their pirate port. Bad as The
crew of eight are, it is not Bradley
who is The most culpable- Morton
and Garfield are the worst Of all, for
they forced themselves in the. positions
they occupy after they had positively
and deliberately declared that IT was
an unconstitutional service and an un
lawful cruise. While it does not pal
late Bradley's crimina!ity or lessen
in degree his crime, TO class him as
merely one of the forsworn eight, still
it is unjust 10 single him out for the
condemnation he so justly deserves
and 10 allow his equally, or more,
guilty accomplices 10 escape.
Year: 1877

THIS nation enters upon the second
centennial OF It's existence under au-
spices that no good citizen can con-
template with other than feelings of
distrust and alarm. The gigantic
frauds which have been sanctioned by
tie so called electoral commission,
while they may return to plague the
inventor, viii for the present be
standing reproaeh aud disgrace to cur
intelligence and civilization.
Year: 1877

a SrRAw.-A pumber Of seedy poll
ticiaus of the radical persuasion are
here from the Sound country, nonl-
nally on business connected with a
charitable association. This is wek
enough for the outside, Int the un-
charitable think tha. this visit has
something to do with dividing tae
spoils. Hayes and his friends have
stolen the Presidency, and now it is
in order to agree upon division of
the stolen goods.
Year: 1877

REsPoNsIBILITY.-Tbe responsibility
for the infinite wrong that has been
fastened upon the American people
will rest upon the heads of the eight
men who for the sake of party have
fixed an indelible blot upon the Amer
lean name and nation. They might
have defeated the conspiracy; they
have joined heart and hand with the
conSpirators and hlted up the first
usurpeT into the American Presidency.
They are guilty of crime for which
no apology can be offered, DO atone
ment made.
Year: 1877

and a portion of the Sacramento is ne, much
and south of the bav, are much better off,
and will in places raise fair crops and in
some localities full average. For my part,
when I want 10 farm OF raise stock. believe
would rather take little more rain OF
snow, and have plenty for my stock to eat.


Very truly, PHILIP RITz.
Year: 1877

The most usual method of hunting them
is by snares. These are set in the following
manner A lake or river is chosen where 1t
is known the swans are in the habit of rest.
ing for some time on their emigration south
ward-for this is the principal season of
swan catching. Some time before the birds
make their appearance, a number of wicker
hedges are constructed, running perpendicu-
larly out from the bank, and at the distance
of few yards from each other. In the
spaces between, as we'll as in openings left in
the fences themselves, snares are set. These
snares are the intestnes of the DEER twisted
into round shape, and looped. They are
placed so that several snares may embrace
the opening, and the swans cannot pass
through without being caught. The snare
is fastened to stake, driven into the mud
with sufficient frmness to hold the bird
when caught and struggling. That the snare
may not be blown out of its proper place by
the wind, or carried astray by the current, 1t
is attached to the wattles of the hedge by
some strands of grass. These, of course, are
easily broken, and give way the moment
bird presses against loop. The fences or
wattle-hedges are always constructed pro-
iecting out from the shore--for it is known
that the swans must keep close in to the land
whilst feeding. Whenever a lake or river
is sufficiently shallow to make it possible to
drive in stakes, the hedges are continued
across it from one side to the other. Swans
are also shared upon their nests. When
nest is found, the snare is set so as to catch
the bird upon her return to the eggs. These
birds, like many others, have the habit of
entering the nest on one side, and going out
by the other, and it is upon the entrance
side that the snare is set. The Indians have
a belief that if the hands of the person set
ting the snares be not clean, the bird will
not approach it, but rather desert her eggs,
even though she may Lave been Matching


them for some time. 1t is, indeed, true that


this is habit OF many birds, and may be so
of the wild swan. Certain it is that the


nest is always reconnoitered by the returning


bird with great caution, and any irregularity


appearing about it will make her extremely


shy of approaching it.
Year: 1877

What will become of the last man? Va
rious theories that have been seriously main
tanned by scientific men are described, and
we summarize them


/. The surface of the earth is steadily di-
minishing, elevated regions are being low
cred, and the seas are filling up. The land
will at last be all submerged, and the last
man will be starved or drowned.


2. The ice is gradually accumulating at
the north pole and melting away at the
south pole, the consequence of which will
be an awful catastrophe when the earth's
centre of gravity suddenly changes. The
last man will then be drowned by the rush
of waters.


8. The earth cannot always escape a COM
ct, and when the disaster comes there will
be mingling of the air and cometary gas
causing an explosion. If the last man is not
suhocated he will be blown up.


4. There is a retarding medium in space,
causing a gradual loss of velocity in the
planets, and the earth, obeying the law of
gravitation, will get closer and closer to the
sun. The last man will be sunstruck.


5. The amount of the water on the earth
is slowly diminishing, and simultaneously
the air is losing in quantity and quality.
Finally the earth will be an arid waste, like
the moon. The last man will be suffoca-
ted.


6. Other suns have disappeared, and ours
must, sooner or later, blaze up and then
disappear. The intense heat of the conha-
grafton will kill every living thing on earth.
The last man will be burned.


Z. The suns fire will gradually burn out,
and the temperature will cool. The earth's
glacial zones will enlarge, driving our race
toward the equator, until the habitable space
will lessen to nothing. The last man vii
be frozen to death.


s. A gradual cooling of the earth vii
| produce enormous assures, like those in the
| moon. The surface will become extremely
unstable, until the remnant of humanity
will take refuge in caves. The last man will
be crushed in his subterranean retreat.


8. The earth will at last separate into
small fragments, leaving the people withou
any fOothold. The last man will have
dreadful fall through space.


10. The tenth theory, proving that ther
will be no last man at all, is thus expressed
Evolution does not necessarily imply pro
gress, and possibly the race may have re
trograded until the human being possesse
the nature of the plant louise; such bein
the case, this single inhabitant will spon
taneously produce posterity of both sexes.
| l-Sctentifc american,
Year: 1877

Most persons who have any acquaintance
with the literature of chess have heard of
the games said to have been played in the
middle ages with living chess.men. Lord
Lytton recently revived this amusement in
India. During his visit to Mooltan, last
month, his lordship. after receiving and re.
plying to an address from the municipality
of the city, engaged We are told, sin novel
game of chess with Col, Millet. The chess
board, if such term may be allowed to
carpet of red and white calico with check
ers yard square, having been spread in
front of the hall, chess.men, men and boys
dressed in opposing red and white uniforms
appropriate to the various pieces, were
marched in and took their places. Then by
a word Of command each man moved to the
square indicated, and a very lively game
ensued, ending in an easy victory for the
viceroy." An emperor of Morocco who once
INDUCED in similar amusement is said to
have added terrible realism to the game
by causing all the pieces taken during its
progress to be behesdsd,
Year: 1877

A gold-headed cane will be raffled Oh
to morrow evening at POlsters hali W
the centennial Benevolent Society.


The Harugari M@nnerchor will give a
picnic next Sunday at Inwood PARK. Al
the same time their new banner Is to DO
dadicated
Year: 1877

National Associated Press to the Star.


BUFFALO, N. Y, May 11.-There is
great rejoicing here among the canal
men in consequence of the reduced tolls.
One hundred guns were fired at the dock
in honor OF the event this morning.
Year: 1877

In Texas there is a town
named LOngvicw. A white chap
by the name Frazier was tried in
that town at the District Court,
for marrying negresse, found
guilty and sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for four years. Judge Bon
ner held that the Statute making
the marriage of white with color.
ed was not in conflict with the
fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments to the Constitution of the
United States. The case goes up
the supreme court
Year: 1877

The editor of the Baton
Rouge Advocate was called to ac-
count for a little harmless jest
that could not, by any reason or
logic, be made to refer to any
one, and persuaded to go to a pri
vate house Of a man named Potts
in order to explain to lady ~
pretending to be aggrieved, and.
when in the house the doors were
locked, and the woman began
using COW hide upon the Editor
whilst two men prevented him
from defending himself. A das-
tardly, and infamous proceeding
inwhich none butacoward would
participate.
Year: 1877

The remark is very commonly made
by parents, 81 don't want my children
to work as hard as | have done" In
the spirit of this remark by far too
many boys and girls are brought up
No responsibility is laid upon them.
No requirements that tax their ability,
their ingenuity, or their strength are
made of them; and by consequence
they grow up useless members of So
ciety, and utterly helpless in the
emergencies of life. No training, or
rather, no lack of training can be more
disastrous than this. As well might
the arms and the legs for years be band
aged, after the manner of the feet
among Chinese women, and then the
crippled members be required to take
their possessor through gymnastic per-
formances, as for a child to be reared
without the strenuous exercise of his
various faculties, and then expected to
assume his place in society as "A re-
sponsble being. 1t is no misfortune
to anybody to have tasks set him quite
up to his strength to perform; we
never know how much we can accom-
plish till we are taught by experience.
The incapacity for usefulness Of the
sons and daughters of many rich men,
in America, at least is too well known
to need description here. The idea of
many parents who have been what Is
called successful" is to give their
children plenty of spending money, to
have them fare sumptuously every day,
and have a smattering of all the accom-
plishments, but not to form in them
habits of industry, of self-reliance, of
self-denial. This evil in two or three
generations cures itself, for the grand
children of rich men are compelled by
poverty and toll TO learn most useful
practical lessons. While no amount of
preaching will change this order Of
things, there are enough who are in no
danger from pamperings Of ample for
tune to take comfort in the fact that the
teachings and the culture of adversely,
Year: 1877

There are riches which do not take
to themselves wings and fly away.
Banks may break, corporations fail,
business come to standstill, yet he
who has the true riches will possess his
soul in patience and peace, for the true
riches are essentially indestructible.
1t is often necessary for man to lose his
material wealth in order that he may
become aware how rich he is in what
cannot be taken away from him. GAS
darkness shows us worlds of light we
never saw by day." so days of adversely
bring to our knowledge resources of
which we were ignorant and uncon-
scious, but which as far surpass in
value and extent what we had called
ours as the heavens surpass the earth.


"a still and quiet conscience" gives
ga peace above all earthly dignities,"
and he who has this is rich, though the
possessor of naught beside. If the
right were easily distinguished from
the wrong, if our judgments were un-
warped by prejudice or passion, if our
perceptions were always clear and our
conclusions always sound, if the moral
and mental atmosphere in which we
live were always free of mist and mir
age, we might perhaps with certainty
choose the right and refuse the wrong.
But as it is, we must be often in doubt,
and in our ignorance and uncertainty
are sure to fall into many errors and to
lay hold upon many mistakes. He who
can acquit himselfof intentional wrong
doing, who bears with him conscience
void Of offence toward God and man,
he is rich in that which cannot be taken
away from him. A genuine and SYM
pathetic love of Nature in her various
forms and moods is inexhaustible
wealth. Friendship with the sky, the
air, the trees, the stars, the sea, the
birds the flowers, never fails in its
power to divert, TO soothe, to cheer
For a time, indeed, by bereavement, by
pain, by trial, the beauty of nature may
be veiled. but it shines forth again all
the more potent in its spell because of
Its temporary eclipse. lie who can
eyermore keep his soul in sympathy
with the great soul of Nature, in sun
shine as in storm, may claim for his
own those lines of Whittier:


TOO near tc @ d for D ubt or Fear,


She shares the eternal calm"


A sincere interest in the general good
is an unfailing source of wealth. "No
man liveth to himself, no man deth to
himself" though a great many men
and women have no love or hope or
aspiration, that does not begin and end
with self. Such narrow souls, no mat
ter how splendid may be their outward
Year: 1877

A traveller in Norway writes am
now quite convinced that ladies can
travel and endure hardship just as well
as men. Please to understand that this
assertion is applied exclusively to the
ladies themselves, and by no means to
their luggage. 1t is not the natural
weakness of women, but the intOlerable
incumbranCe of her ridiculous costume
that cripples her physical energies.
Imagine a regiment of cavalry in petit
coats, or, better still, a whole army
marching to battle in long skirts and
several underlying strata Of petticoats,
each man being prohibited from show
ing his ankles under penalty of imme-
diate degradation. OF what avail would
be the muscular strength, the powers
of endurance, the courage and every
other element of energy in an army
loaded with such impediments and en-
countercd by men i'm manly costume, or
even by women in tunics or short
skirts? What has been the fate OF the
petticoated men of the East and other
regions of the earth? They have been
run down and overwhelmed by bare
legged barbarians and trousered Anglo
Saxons. If any member of the Alpine
or other athletic clubs is disposed to
underrate the physical prowess of the
fair sex, let him try to ascend a difficult
col, to run a hurdle race, display on the
horizontal bar, or play a cricket or foot
ball match In lady's fashionable walk
ing dress of the period, and he will then
be able to estimate the extent to which
his sisters are handicapped, why they
are so averse to wholesome out Of door
exercise, and, consequently, enfeebled
both in mind and body.