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Year: 1877

The Marksville Temperance As


sociation is in a thriving condi-


ton. Each week new members


are initiated this is as it should


be, for the cause is worthy, noble


and good. Experience teaches us


that the use of alcohol is Of no


benefit to any one, on the contra


ry, it's ase is injurious in every


shape, manner aud form. It is


injurious 10 health, it is injurious


to the mind, it is injurious to bust


ness and in fact injurious in every


conceivable way. We therefore


would urge on all to avoid its use


entirely--in fact, if one wishes to


prosper, it's use must be discoun-


tenanced in toto. By it's use, one


is rendered unable to perform the


duties that may be assigned him
in the various walks of life. 1t is
hardly necessary for us to particu-
larize on this matter, suffice it to
say, that those who may have been
addicted to its immoderate use
will bear us out in triumph in our
remarks.


We now desire to address our
selves to our friends, who indulge
in the tempting cup, in the fond
hope that it contributes to their
enjoyment, to their health and to
their pleasure, to pause, to reflect,
and to turn back ere it is too too
late. We would invite them all to
abstain from its accursed use. We
know 1t il but natural, when they
are first approsched on the sub
ect of total abstinance, that they |
will say, it is of no use tor them to
become members of any Tempe
rance society, from the fact that
hey will resolve in themselves to
abstain in future. Fatal delnsion |;
or hardly will those resolutions be
ormed when some one happens to
lrop in and call for drinks and in
,ite those we have alluded to, to
AXE drink-they at first may re-
nse, but 1t will require no great
lrging Tor them to forget all their
,ood resolutions, and on second
invitation. behold we see them at
he bsr.-probably with the re-
aark that they will only take q
mall drink; that there can be no
arm In that one, certainly, there
'onld be not much harm done
nen, if they would stop, but such
] not the case, after having taken
ne, they care not how soon they
Ike . second, third, q fourth,
nd SO on and the first thing |
icy know is, they are hopelessly1
runk. Friends, have we over
rawn the picture. How many |
Year: 1877

Lovers of bric-a-brac-and the phrase des-
Ignates a large number of very interesting
people-are apt to make an important mis-
take. They transform their homes into mu-
seums. They bring together and pile up a
Now, the interest with which
a visitor regards a home is very different
one from that with which he regards col
lection. To find scattered about a home.
just in the right hooks and places, objects of
art and teauty, is an exceedingly delight
ful thing To examine a collection for the
collections sake-leaviug its relation to the
home entirely out of consideratiun-may be
interesting to some people who are 'up"-
as we say-in those things, but it is not at
all interesting to those who do not see the
use of it. That is-anybody can see that a
beautiful object in barren place serves a
purpose, while a great many things shut up
in cabinet, serve no purpose except by
their numbers to cheaper one another


An object of art in a home is entirely and
always out of place whenever it shows that
the interest of its owner is in the object
rather than the home, A collection usually
oetrays passion or taste which subordi-
mates the love Of home. A person possess
ing this passion, and enthusiastic in pur-
suit OF its object, spoils his home by trans


forming it into a show-place for curiosities.


The true policy is, never to buy an object of
art, OF any sort, without knowing just where


theywil fit into the home-just what unin-


teresting spot it will illuminate-just what


vacant shell or barren surface it will adorn.


Cabinets may be very interesting pieces o.


furniture, but they are often used in such a


way as to degrade or destroy the home idea
II, @. Holland .ScribRer for December.
Year: 1877

There's never day so sunny


But little cloud appears;
There's never life so happy


But has had its time OF tears;
Yet the sun shines out the brighter
When the stormy tempest clears.
There's never garden growing


With roses In every plot;
There's never heart so hardened .
But 1t has one tender spot;
We have only to prune the border
TO find the forget-me-not.
There's'never cup so pleasant


But has bitter with the sweet;
There's never a path so rugged


That bears not the print Of feet;
And we have a helper promised


For the trials we may meet.
There's never a sun that rises


But we know twill set at night;
The unts that gleam in the morning
AT evening are Just as bright;
And the hour that is the sweetest


Is between the dark and light.
There's never O dream that's happy
But the waking makes us sad;
There's never a dream OF sorrow


But the waking makes us glad
We shall look some day with wonder
At the troubles we have had.
Year: 1877

HIS YOUTH.
His coat was too thick, and his cap was too thin,
He couldn't be quiet he hated din;
He hated to write, and he hated to read.
He was certainly very much injured indeed
He must study and work over books he detested,
His parents were strict and he never was rested;
He knew he was wretched as wretched could be,
There was no one so wretchedly wretched as he.


HIS MATURITY.
His farm was too small and his taxes too big,
He was selfish and lazy, and cross as pig;
His wife was TOO silly, his children too rude;
And Just because he was uncommonly good
He never had money enough or TO spare
He had nothing at all ut TO eat or to wear
He knew he was wretched as wretched could be,
There was no one 80 wretchedly wretched as he.


HIS OLD AGR.
He finds he has sorrows more deep than his fears,
He grumbles TO think he has grumbled for years
He grumbles 10 think he has grumbled away
His home and his fortune his life's little day.
But alas I is too late--it is no use to say
That his eyes too dim and his hair is too gray
He knows he is wretched as wretched can be,
There is no one more wretchedy wretched than hs


st. Nicholas for Decenp5e,
Year: 1877

William Dooley. an amateur detective in
search of two cattle thieves, found them at
church at White Sulphur, KY, whereupon
pistol in hand, he informed preacher and
congregation that they were all under arrest,
While everybody looked astonished, he
picked out his men, marched them out of
the building at the muzzle of his weapon,
and, turning on the step, shouted to the
minister that he could go on with the bene-
dictiOn,
Year: 1877

A deacon in Danvlle, Ken, is so scrupu-
lous about observing the Sabbath that for
twenty years he had not even fed his stock
On Sundays. 1t is also noted that he had
done very little work on other days.
Year: 1877

Boston is to have an exhibition of five
hundred ladies in Horticultural Hall, and a
gold watch, necklace and diamond ring
are to be given to the three handsomest. At
least so the advertisements read.
Year: 1877

Gen GRANT has ceased to be President


after service Of eight years, being the only


Executive who has held the Office that leus th


OF time since Gen. JACKSON, who retired in


1887. His Administration covered a period
Of unprecedented Importance in the history
Of the nation. Entering West Point while q
boy, and the army Immediately after his
graduation. and serving actively in the army
until advanced inyears, he had no education,
direct or indirect, in relation to national pol
itics. After brief retirement from the
army, he entered it again in 1861, and was
made General at the close of the Rebellion.
After his long and arduous labors in the
field he sought repose in life-office, with
q rank be6tting his successful career .s q
soldier. The War was over but, taough no
hostile arms were raised against tho Union,
the most difficult of all the questions raised
by the Rebellion were still to be disposed of
by statesmanship. There was an immense
national debt there WAS a vast system of
the mcst searching and e1acting taxation;
the national credit was sadly impaired; and
the country Was flooded with an ir1edecm-
able and deprecated paper currency. Eleven
States Of the Union weze prostate in ruins;
Year: 1877

Not Democratic lawyer Of the meanest in
te1igenco voted for this measure but knew


perfectly well that it was unconstitutional,


and that it would be imperative and futile If
it became Law. The President is by


the Constitution made the COMMANDMENT


Chief Of the Army and Navy, and


by the same supreme instrument is not


only empowerd, but directed, to employ the


Federal troops when demand for their as-
sistance is made by the Governor Of State
to suppress violence and insrrTection. It
was an impudent and in every way unworthy
act of partisan spite, this attempt to dictate
to the President as to the exercise Of con-
stitutiona1 prerogative, and the Senate
rightly chose to let the Army bill 60 by de-
fault rather than be coerced into legislation
Of this kind. Better that ten extra sessions
Of Congress be made necessary than to yield
to pressure SO outrageous, and be forced to
commit wrong act at the dictation of a
partisan majority of 80, Of whom all but
three have been repudiated by their constit-
ueutS.
Year: 1877

To-day President HAYES enters upon th


grave and important.duties of the Chief Ex


ecutive Office for period Of four years, afte


a contest the most prolonged and bitter, tn,


most stormy and dangerous, ever known il


connection with the Presidency in this coun


ty,-a contest that has severely triet


tbs self-governing capacity and the law


abiding and conservative character Of the


American people. With any other nation
! in the world such contest would have lee
! inevitably and directly into bloody anG
destructive war, deluging the land with the


blood Of its own people, and leaving Of on,
cities and towns only heaps of smoking
| ruins.


The very closeness Of tho contest was in
itself an element of peril, but the fact that
there had been no tribunal established and
no enactment Of law provided for the deter
mination of the result added fearfully to
the complication and the danger Of the
deadlock. But it is over now, and We can
all rejoice together that not drop of blood
has been shed, not weapon drawn-nothing
worse than hot words and sharp, vitupera-
tive talk in Congress, where faction OF
deperadoes failed miserably in the attempt
to precipitate anarchy and chaos upon the
country. The great mass of the people,
however, have remained wonderfully cool
and calm throughout the exciting and critic
al interval preceding the final declaration
of the result.


While the Republican party rejoice that
their candidate has ut last been duly declared
to be the President Of the United States, it is
gratifying to see that the vast majority of
the Democrats accept the situation in good
faith, and acquiesce in the final decision like
good citizens, in short, conduct themselves
just as the Republicans would have dore if
the count had gone the other way, or if the
Eight-to-Seven had been against them aud in
favor Of the Democrats


Now, let the new President have q fair
trial and opportunity to demonstrate his
policy and intontions. He undoubtedly
wants to do right, to be the President of the
whole people, to give to the country what it
most needs-rest from the long aud distract
ing agitation just brought to q close. With
peace and contentment will come revival of
business prosperity as the result Of coxfi-
dence in the future. Let US all rejoice that
it is to be SO; that the great agony-is ended
and the tremendous contest settled without
spilling drop Of blood, and that profound
calm is rapidly taking the place OF the raging
storm. |
Year: 1877

The draft of an address by the National
Democratic Committee having been approved
BY the House caucus, the document is duly
distributed by telegraph through the coun-
try. In tone and temper the address was
what might be e1pected,-a purely partisan
present1nent of the Presidential question
with which Democrats will coincide, and
from which Republicans will just as unani-
mously dissent Nobody will be any the
worse or the wiser for it, and everything will
move along Just the same.
Year: 1877

iition to her position and superior in
Itelligence was the consideration of her


native rank, which to them at least


wss source of unquestioned right.
The establishment was kept up. in


almost priDcely style. The sons were


sent TO England to be educated; for the


daughters French and English govern


esses were procured, and established in
seperate houses near the mansion;


white artisans of various kinds were
employed, making quite q
large community aside from the hum
dreds Of slaves upon the island. And
over all this, ia her husbands long and
frequent absences, reigned cur dusky
princess, as absolute in her insular do
main as her savage father in his native
wilds. She had q strong and power
fol mind, and womanly kindness and
sympathy as well. One old negro,
who died some time since, so old that
no one could remember him as other
than old, used TO tell how he was
brought over when young to this
Island, where he had lived ever since,
and how he and others, sick and ex-
hsusted, were ministered to by the
''missis'" own hands, and how they
all loved her and always prayed, Lord
bless Ma'am Hannah ~ Every morn
Ing as she stood upon this very spot
the field hands passed in review before
her, each gang with its driver, going
to their daily work. She inspected
them all, picking out such as were un-
fit for labor and sending them to the
hospital or to lighter tasks; and every
night in the same spot she heard the
report of the day, examined into all
and with strict justice ad-
Judged each offenders punishment; and
her order not a lash could be
piyAn
Year: 1877

From Harpers BaZar.


American women take vastly better care of
themselves than formerly. They have more
acquaintance with hygienic laws, and hold
them in far higher esteem. The days when
they exposed themselves to dampness and
wintry cold in thin slippers and silk stock
-ings; when they abstained from f1annels next
to the skin; when they pinched their wastes
to emi-suffocation; when they sacrificed
comfort and health to what they conceived to
be their a, pearance-those foolish and un-
happy days have gone forever, have barely
been known to the rising generation. Our
women now have no mawkish or morbid no
tions as to themselves; they no longer think
that to be unhealthy is to be attractive; that
invaldism and interestingness are synony-
nous; that faces and compressed lungs are
tokens of beauty. They dress seasonably;
they wear thick boots and warm clothes in
bad and cold weather; they allow themselves
to breathe freely, and they find their looks
are improved, not injured, by the wholesome
change. There are exceptions, many OF them,
doubtless, but the rule is as we have described
and the exceptions are constantly diminishing
1t may be safely said that all sensible women
are becoming, if they have not already become
converts to nature, and that they heed her be-
hests, recognizing that what is not natural
cannot be beautiful
Year: 1877

Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette. r-.


An Eastern paper calls attention to the fact
that all the wheat is not raised in the West
Forty or fifty years ago the centre of wheat
growing was on Long Island which shertly
after that time was transferred to the Genese e
Valley, New York New England, New
York and Pennsylvania were all then largely
engaged in wheat growing; but the fly, and
the weevil and the exhaustion of the land all
contributed to shorten the product, and finally
the West became the principal source of pro-
duction. For few years past more attention
has been paid, in the country east of the Allie
ghenies, to the culture of wheat and the pro-
duct has been gradually enlarging in volume,
but this year has witnessed return of old
time fertility, and nearly every agricultural
county east of the mountains has grown
enough wheat for its own supply, while many
have good deal to spare. All the counties
of this. State along and east of the Susquehan-
ma will be sellers of wheat this fall They
will have all the advantages of Dearness to
market, and hence can profit earliest by any
sudden movement in prices. Western grow
ers, therefore, in calculating the future of the
prices of wheat, must take into the account
the increased production of a region which
heretofore has been purchaser of that grain,
instead of seller, as now.
Year: 1877

Much as / dislike funerals, have had to
see many, and of all kinds, but none, except
at times, in the form of the Episcopal church,
are to me so beautiful or so pleasant as these
Russian funerals. The Presbyterian form is
too cold, too black, too still. We bury our
dead too much as if we were trying to draw
lesson from the dead, and as if we doubted
where the soul had gone. The Catholic ser
vice is too granidose. There is fine music,
but the ceremony is too long and too entirely
confined to the officiating priest. In the Rus
sian church every one seems to be taking a
part in the service, and the dead are treated
with tenderness and love not elsewhere
found The bows and prostrations, the tapers
in each ones bands, the kissing the bands, the
earth thrown in the coffin with its beautiful
symbolic meaning, are marks of affectionate
respect, as well as the carrying of the coffin
and the earth thrown into the grave by the
hands of the friends and relatives There are
no black pals, no double coffins or burial
caskets, no horrible screwing down of the lid.
''Dust thou art, to dust must thou return" is
a truth which man here does not attempt to
evade. As said above, every ceremony and
every repetition here tends to make us realize
the fact of death, without destroying any of
its sanctity. .H.~


My thoughts and reflections have detained
me long, and the funeral procession which
gave rise to them has passed my window long
since, and the church bells are silent.-[ Eu-
gene Schuyler, in Scribner for September.
Year: 1877

From the New York World.


A good many years ago, when the accom-
plished. daughter of a well-known gentleman
of this city was little girl, she was taken ill
with scarlet fever, and when she recovered
was stone deaf. Fortunately the child, who
possessed remarkably sweet voice, had
learned to talk before the attack, and the
physician who attended her, finding that her
sense of hearing had entirely gone, enjoined
upon the mother the necessity of carefully
keeping up the habit of speech in order that
it should not be totally lost. From that time
out the mother devoted herself to the preser-
walton of her daughters voice, almost to the
exclusion OF everything else, and the success
sui issue of her undertaking has proved an
ample reward for her labors. The yeung lady
is now not only an accomplished member of
society, but an excellent artist, well known
among the painters of New York. Her educa-
ton was so carefully attended to by her
mother that she not only talks well, but un-
derstands everything that is said to her by
simply watching the lips of her inteilocutor.
On one occasion an eminent clergyman of this
city called to see her mother, and was receiv-
ed by the young lady. After some fifteen
minutes the mother presented herself, and
the young lady retired. Presently the con-
versation turned upon the daughter, and the
mother said something about her ''infirmity."
The clergyman, who had seen nothing to in
dictate any lack of perception in the young
lady, and who had not noticed any physical
defect, was surprised, and asked what was
meant. The mother then explained that her
child was stone-deaf. The clergyman was
10th to believe it, and almost demanded furth-
er proof of the fact. The young lady was
then called, and it was proven to his entire
satisfaction that she could not understand
single word that was spoken unless she saw
the motion of the lips which uttered it. Like
the deaf girl described in Wilkie Collins
novel of Glide and Seek" she is is singularly
susceptible to any vibration of the timbers of
the room or house in which she may be, and
her mother has established a system of tele-
graphy with her by means of the doors and
balusters, by which she can communicate
with her throughout the whole house. By
simply striking the baluster or door with the
open hand her parents can apprise her thai her
presence is desired in a particular room or
part of the premises, and by notifications of
the raps can inform her of many of the minor
affairs that are taking place. Although her
father has handsome competence, this
young lady earns enough f'r her own sup
port in the pursuit of her art.
Year: 1877

PRIVATE TELEPHONES for business pur-
poses are now in successful operation in New
York, and there is prospect that they will
come into general use. The circuits vary to
o miles of wire in length, and the instrument
at each end consists simply of wooden tube,
which can be used al leisure for the trassmis-
sion or reception of sound
Year: 1877

A Dantury man describes q church
festival for raising money as an opera
tiop wherein one half of the church
bu US berries at fifteen cents quart
and sells them to the other half for one
dollar.
Year: 1877

COUNTERFEIT TIcKETs.-Some two weeks
since ten counterfeit railroad tickets came into
the general ticket Office of the Maioe Central
railroad in this city. Detective John S. Heald
was employed to look up the origin of the tick
cts and on Tuesday he arrested Chas. r. Green
leaf, medical studen. at Augusta. He was
taken before the Municipal Court and plead
guilty 20 the charge of making and circulating
the tickets and was bound over in the sum OF
$1,000. Greenleaf is q years of age and is
graduate at Bowdoin. The tickets were made
with pen and ink, with the exception of slight
blue color, which was made with indigo. They
were SO nicely executed that it was difficult to
tell them from the genuine ones.
Year: 1877

THE guests at the WINDSOR are among the
best IN the land. They have been drawn there
by the carefulness of the proprietors shown
towards them, aid many make this house their
home during the Summer and Winter. 1t is
cool in Summer, and its thorough ventilation
obvates the many dangers resulting from i'm
proper heat during the Winter. Hundreds of
W. althy people spend portion of the year
there, where they may have easy access to the
amusements of the city. No better place can
be found than the WINDSOR, on Fifth avenue,
between Forty-sixth and Forty seventh streets,
New York
Year: 1877

A long life of honorable activity, potent and


enduring in its influence in many directions


and spotless in its purity has been crowned by


period of tranquil contemplation not void of


pleasure and instruction, and by peaceful


death in the sure and certain hope of bright


life to come.


1t is sixty years since the name of Ether


Shepley began to be widely known and respect


ed among the people of this state. 1t is TWEEN


ty since he ceased to occupy the last of the


prominent official stations which he so long
adorned. Yet so strong was the impression
he had made by his life and its works that L
am sure the announcement OF his death carried
with it a sense of loss, not only to the sur
yyors of those amongst whom he wrought, but
to those who have grown up since his retire.
ment from any active participation in the work
in which he was SO long and SO ussfully en-
gagged.


1t is eminently fit and proper that we, as
members OF this Bar, should place upon record
the testimony of cur gratitude and our respect
for all that he was and all that he did, and
some brief memorial of a life so worthily en-
ployed. Yet, to his name and fame, it matters
not at all what we say or omit here to-day. A
more lasting memorial than any. words OF his
contemporaries or successors is the record that
| he has made of himself as counsel and as
judge in the first for:y volumes OF the Maine
Reports.


He was born in Groton, Mass, Nov. 2, 1889
Year: 1877

II l. "a fact not altogether unworthy Of
mention that the man who compcls hia
wife % use a broken stove-lid for seven
teen consecutive years, seldom complains
Of the expense consequent upon pfovid'
ing his yellow dog with the latest thing
IN patent automatic muzHlcs each season.