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Year: 1878

THE Rev. De Witt Talmage is strongly in favor of unrestricted Chi- nese immigration, but in q recent ser mon in his Brooklyn Tabernacle he said: don't care what q man is if he loves Christ. l have employed Catholic servants, and I never saw a more honest and faithful class. If you love God, no matter whether you kneel on the tiled floor of a cathedral, or the floor of log cabin" Now, as the Chinese, as people, do not love or believe in Christ, why does Mir. Talmage favor their coming here, to crowd from labor and place the thou sands from Europe of the Caucasian

 race who do worship the Savior! He should live up to his own preaching.
Year: 1878

Sentinel: It ie remarkable that the field of sugar cane on the Redondo ranch has lived through the summer without irrigation, and has even made something of crop. Prior to the heavy rains in August, water was scarce and needed for irrigating other crops, and the cane was neglected. Canes have been brought in here from that same field, four or five feet long, of usual diameter and quite juicy A sorghum mill from New York was taken out there last year, but arrived too late for making anything but 'panocha," or the common brown sugar of Sonora, in cakes, and resem. bling maple sugar. The present crop, light as it is, is to be crushed and boiled down this season, as an expert ment.
Year: 1878

All this time the boy is growing nearer
manhood-nearer the time when he must
be the JOY and stay of those belonging to
him or their grief and curse There can be
no middle course It the tWlg is not pa


tiently and prayerfully kept straight Satan
will bend it to his own will, and the gnarled
and crooked tree will bring forth bitter
fruit. Even q child is known by his do.
ings," and the reason why SO many parents
arc disappointed in their children is that
they take 30 little pains to discover their
natural bent, to become acquainted with
them, so to speak. Nature never repeats
itself. No two leaves are exactly alike,
and no two children are ever cast in the
same mould. Every mother knows that
her children are unlike; that different


motives prompt them that punishment
affects them differently. 1t is common


saying that all children love play, but what
plays7 Watch your own little ones with


their toys. One is happy with box OF


blOcke, from which he evolves castles and
bridges, tunnels and towers, while another


with the same material never gets beyond


tall tower or q train of care. Another
takes picture, and, sitting down, weaves
q wonderful romance about it, while his


brothers and sisters, very likely, cast the
same picture aside after hasty glance.


wise mother will keep all these things in


her heart, and in the training of the child


the parents will have an eye to his partic


ular talents. Still it must be remembered


that few, very few, people are possessed of
genius, and it is scarcely worth while to


spoil a good mechanic to make a poor
preacher or still poorer artist. Because


Captain Cook, when apprenticed to dry


goods merchant, ran away to sea and be-
came famous, is no reason that every dis
satisfied salesman should do the same and


meet with like good fortune. If Andrew


johnson rose from tailor's bench to be
President he studied hard for an education
first, and did not quit his goose until he
knew himself qualified for be tier things as


we'll as desir0us thereof Turner, the great
painter, was meant for o barber, and Her


schel was educated as a musician. Sir
Joshua Reynolds used to declars that pa
tience and perseverance, would make any
one a painter, and Button declared genius


to be patience intensified. Others differ
with them and know that for as much as
| training cOnnts, IL is not all. No amount
Year: 1878

admission a. lay brother amongst the
CapuchinP. He was at first repulsed on
account of his weak and sickly appearance;
but once received, he soon proved that a
hearty good will can more than compensate
for want of bodily strength. Frequently
employed to gather aims for his convent,
he would teach the Christian doctrine to
children in the streets, together with little
canticles he himself composed in Mary's
honor. For this reason he was commonly
called the "Apostle of Mary" Oil from
the lamp which he kept burning before his
simple image of Mary, or flowers from her
altar were so efficacious in sickn that
it was commonly said, "the oil and f1owers
Of Brother Crispin do more good than all
doctors stuff" Consumed at length by
labors and suffering, he died in Rome at
the age of eighty-two. He rejected all
marks of respect on his death bed, but
repeated constantly, "In a few days my
lady mother will make me rich, and how
truly rich!"


Our Saint made in the convent garden a
little shrine of boughs ins which he placed
his image of Mary. Some of the religious
said that the fret rain or wind would
destroy it, but he replied, "What rain
what wind The very mountains will be
thrown down rather than this little cover
ing of my Madonna, who commando the
winds and the storms and the whole heav-
en-" And SO it was, for the storms came
and the trees of the forest were blown
down, but his little chapel stood as frm as
a rock in the midst of a raging eea. Before
this shrine Crispin would say his prayers,
and round about it he strewed grain TO en-
tice the birds to come and sing with bin in
honor, Us he said, of his beloved Qaeen.
Year: 1878

In moet households the boys form, proba-
bly,, one of the most discOIdsnt eiements.
1t is not given to every one, women especi-
ally, to know how to manage them just so
that they shall be happy themselves and
disagreeahle to no one else. A healthy,
active boy has an astonishing faculty for
mischief; ia noisy and obstreperous, with
a talent for kicking out shoes AID wearing
out the knees OF his trousers which is sim
ply appalling to a mother, especially if she
is by DO means sure whore the money for
tho next supply IS to come from. Yet these
boye are the men of the future, and on
their training depends the veal or woe of
the nation. The coming voter and law
maker is in the nureery and school room of
to day, ard the lessons taught him there
will surely bear their frult in years to
come. When the boys rush in like
wbir!wind, bringing in mud and noise,
ciamoring fer dinner and dashing dOUa
hats and books anywhere, tired and head
achy mothers are too apt to hurry the meal
that the youngsters may be off again to
play. Ia the country and in good weather
this may be well enough, though it does
not add much polish to the manners of the
boys but in the city boy on the pave
meDt is not always sure to be in good COM
pany, and somebody ought at least to keep
a look out of the window for him. But in
too many homes the boys are regarded as
necessary nuisances, whom every one is
glad to have out of the house and SO out
of the way. "Boys always have dirty
fingers ~ SO sisters are in terror if the small
brothers hands come near her work OF
books; mother is too busy patching knee
less trousers to have time to talk to bim !;
beside lie is sure to wake the baby. Cook
will none of them in the kitchen, and be-
tween him and the nursery maid there is a
deadly feud-she considering Master Tom
as her greatest trial and he insisting that
she pulls his hair and rubs his uose the
wrong way when his toilet is made. His
father, probably, sees very little of him if
he is city boy, and if of the country very
likely he has his hands too full to give
much time to Tom. Perhaps he has a
propensity for asking questions (most
bright boys have), and his ceaeeless
"Why ~ is a torment to his elders, who
snub him perpetually with, "Do stop ask
ing questions ~ 1t may be that the boy ia
fond of books, and will sit reading all day
long to the delight Of his parents and the
quiet of the household. In that case who
directs his reading Do his father and
mother choose his books and talk with him
about what he reads or do they take it
for granted that the mere act of reading
anything is meritorious We have already
pointed out the dangers of the dime novel
and other weekly story papers, and every
day some journal ljfjs up it's voice against
them. Tom had better never known his
letters than use the knowledge to read such
stuff
Year: 1878

At the tender age of twelve Mary left
her fathers house that she mig ght sin with
out restraint, and for seventeen years ehe
lived in shame at Alexandria. Then she
accompanied pilgrimage to Jerusalem,
and entaugled ma1y in RrievOus sin. She
was in that city on the Feast of the Exalta-
ton of the Holy Cross, and went with the
crowd to the church that contained the
precious wood. Tie res entered and
adored but Mary was invisibly held back.
In that instant her misery aud pollution
burst upon her. Turning to the Immacu-
late Mother, whose picture faced her in the
porch, che vowed thenceforth to do pen
ance If she might enter and stand like
Magdalen beside the Cross. Then she
entercd d in. As she EGelt before CUR Lady
90 leaving the church voice came to her
which e&id, "Paes over Jordon and thou
shalt find Iest." She went into the wilder
ness, and there, in 420. forty years
after, the Abbot ZJsimus met her. She
told him that for seventeen years the old
songs and scenes haunted her; ever since,
che had had perfect peace. Al her request
he brought her on Holy Thursday the
sacred Body of Christ. She bade him
return agaia after year, and this time he
found her corpse upon the sand with an
inscription saying. "Bury here the body of
Mary the sinner" She had passed over
the Jordon of death into the rest which is
promised alike to the penitent al d the pure
of the people of God.


He that loves danger, says the Holy
Spirit, shall perish in il. Our Saint, after
her generous surrender of herself to God,
after forty seven years fasting and silence
in the wilderness, fled at the sight of
Zosimus, though she knew he was priest.
He could scarcely come to speak with her.
After he had heard her story, she only
spoke with him once again when he gave
her the last Communion. Aud we, who
like her have left our Fathers house, with
our half conversion and scanty penance, go
on riekiDg that Fathers favor because we
will not avoid some plain occasion of sin.
Year: 1878

nortapt laws of the United States. Gold
certificates were to issue only upon gold
deposits but in the second section the
! bonds were to sell for coin, and in the
first section they were to be redeemable
in coin of the present standard value.
The solemn assurance given by that
law to the public creditor was that the


bonds issued under it should be re-


deemed in gold and silver at the weight


and tineness then fixed by law. Upon


this subject | have no new opinion to


express.


In my letter accepting the st. Louis


nomination for Vice President l sald


gold and silver are the real standards OF


value, Indeed, would rejoice ii our


supply of the precious metals was sui,


ticient for the wants OF our trade ana
commerce, but we all know that it is
Insufficient, and we also have a paper
currency, and therefore | have opposed
the policy of a forced resumption OF
specie payments, based upon contrac-
ton, by withdrawing the Treasury notes
from circulation. The Treasury note
has been safe currency, and the ,peo~
pie have had confidence in it, and have
not asked for its rDiemptiGn. Whilst
it is a safe currency, it is also a cheap
currency in the Sc % that it does not
represent any int. est-bear1ng coilga-
tion of the govern ntnt: In that res,
pect, and in the respect that IT IL legal
tender, it is better currency than the
national bank note Because of these
views have urged the repeal not on; ly
of the resumption clause, but also of the
provisions that sought to substitute
bank notes for the outstanding Treasury
notes. No higher duty rests on the leg
islators of this country than the prompt
and final settlement of financial ques-
tions upon right and permanent basis.
From the farm and the shop and the
market place there comes the earnest
appeal for final decision, that as far as
may be finance may be taken from poll
les, so that under a stable adjustment
confidence and prosperity may return to
very interest.
Year: 1878

A strict Turk is obliged not only to
wash his head, face, neck, ears and feet,
but also his teeth at each of the five daily
calls to prayer, so he very soon wears
out his tooth brush, and those articles
are a., generally sold in packets of dozen.
Fhey arc made of olive stocks about ten
inches long and half an inch in diameter,
At one end for about half an inch they
are split In all directions, so as to form
brush closely resembling stenceling
brush. 1t is easy to see that they are
not calculated to endure hard wear,
The less particular Turks use ordinary
European tooth brushes. but as even the
most lax among them look on the pig
and all belonging to him as vile and un-
clean, they would as soon think of de-
fining their mouths with Russian bris


tie tooth brush as OF eating a pork chop
therefore, swears by the heads and souls
OF his father and mother that the hair Of
which bis tooth brushes are made grew
on the back OF the camel, the COW or the
horse. ~ '''o
Year: 1878

WHAT CAN Be DONE "A great many
| persons in this country out of employ
| ment are in the habit of asking what
| they can do to make living-how they
can go into business for themselves


without capitsl-how they can 20 to
farming without farm to go On-aLtl
if they are offered land for only the cost
of entering it how they are to get it,
stock it and work it without horses,
wagons, implements and years stock
of provisions. Probably the best way


to answer these questions is to cite facts,


showing what can be done by what has


been done. The Southern States have


produced some fine examples of indivi-


dual effort in the way OF lnakinga a living


under very adverse circumstances, and


it will not be unprotitable to mention a
few of them. The Newberry IS. ca


Herald says there are four widows in


that vicinity who have each ACCOMPLISHED


what many man would hardly dream


of doing. One while raising four chill


dren without assistance has managed to


make crop every year, keep out of
debt and pay cash down for all she buys.
Another has the proceeds OF one cotton
crop ahead and 5000 pounds of flour be-
sides-all the product of her own farm.
Another has labOred heroically On her
farm ever since the war and with the
assistance of her children, six in num-
Der, made a living and bought addition
al land for which she paid $1400. An
other has managed her own little farm
since the war and managed it so well as
to have reared several children, kept
out of debt and saved some money
which she loans out at interest. Hun
dreds of similar cases are to be found in
the Southern States-and in the Nor
thern States, too. When an American
woman has living to make she gen.
orally goes at it and succeeds. There
are no female tramps, they all belong to
the other sex.
Year: 1878

We understand that No. 7 has again
been at work in our town, and another
man left here early Wednesday morning
with his face in mourning. We learned
from a secret source that the society
was organized by DR.. Harmon, the great
temperance lecturer, while on his last
visit for the purpose of aiding the q. F.
of T. Let the good work go on.
Year: 1878

Miss Peale, the daughter of james
Peale, tells this story of the punctuality
of Martha Washington My father had
an engagement TO paint miniature Of
Mrs. Washington in Philadelphia, the
general being then out of town. He
was obliged to go to her house, and the
appointment for first sitting was ar
ranged for seven O'Clock in the morn
ing. My father arrived at the house
and taking out his watch found he
was exactly on time. The thought,
then struck him that possibly it might
be to early to disturb lady, and he de-
cided to give ten minutes grace before
knocking at the door. He accordingly
walked the pavement, and at the end of
ten minutes pulled out his watch and
rang the bell. He was ushered into the
parlor and Mrs. Washington accosted
him, drew out her watch, and said she
had given her orders for the day, had
heard her daughter take her lessons on
the harpsichord, had read all the
morning papers, and after all this had
been waiting for him ten minutes.
Year: 1878

The following truthful anecdote of
Chinese social life may interest and
amuse our readers. A Foochow car
penter, who has been in foreign employ
for several years, discovered recently
that he had saved money enough to in
dulge In the luxury of matrimony.
Though 80 years of age his choice fell
on damsel turned IA, and for this ten
der little morsel the moderate sum Of
$3.50 was asked as dowry. Before the
event was celebrated, the young lady's
mamma, with true feminine caution,
employed a middleman to inspect the
bridegroom. The latter, to make sure
of not being rejected, persuaded his
brother, who is at least ten years youn-
ger than himself, to appear for him and
so passed muster. On the wedding day
the elder brother wore a false queue
and carried off his prize. We are told
that the little girl is already tired Of
married life and "wants to 60 home to
her ma"
Year: 1878

There was some little difficulty ex-
perienced when Mr.. Middlerib presen-
ted himself at the rink and called for the
necessary paraphernalis in finding pair
of skates that would accommodate him.
He has been afflicted for years past with
tender feet, and has dealt most tenderly
with the active "reminiscences OF youth
ful cOrns and bunions, and the distorted
remembrances of the tight boots of his
eallow days, by wearing the largest and
softest socks and the roomIest boots
that could be had for money. Conse-
quently, when ne asked for skates, the
man thought he must mean pair of
skids. But they found pair that conld
be persuaded to do, and, although Mr..
Middlerib could not see them when
they were on his feet, he accepted the
statement of the artist that they were
just a snug fit, and stood up-tem-
porarily.


He had fallen with such amazing
celerity and promptness that he
couldn't for the life Of him see that it
changed the slippery skate of his boy
hood a particle to take off the blade and
put on wheels. He felt around for his
hat which had jolted up off his head
like rocket and lodged in the chande
lier; and, when they had fished it down
and handed it to him, he felt around for
his head, which seemed to have gone a
story and half higher than the hat.
But it was in its usual place, and he
tenderly covered it with his hat, pull
ling the head piece clear down over his
ears, to avoid the danger OF jolting it up
through the ventilator In the ceiling.
Then he got up very slowly and with
alarming caution. He Leld on to post
with one hand and man with the
other, and Strengthened up by degrees,
as boy hiding behind the wood pile
rises to see If his father is coming.
When he stood up at last and looked
down at the floor Mr.. Middlerib was
amazed to see how far away it was. 1t
didn't seem as though he could stand on
one foot and reach down to it with the
other.


If his knees would only quit wobb-
ling, he said, he could strike out and
get around with any of them. The man
who steadied him told him they
wouldn't wobble after he got started.
Mr. Middlerib's confidence in the
steadiness of roller-skate, however, had
been sadly shaken since he got his foot
on it, and it required a great deal of
persuasion on the part of exhibition and
poetic skating on the part of the exposi-
tory artists, to indnce him to strike out.
But he struck out at last, with both feet.
East by north ith the left foot, or kind
of up toward the Cedar Rapids depot,
and southeast by south, or in the
general direction of Dickie's mill and
Prospect bluffs, with the other. His
feelings were terrible. Each foot went
further than the other, and gained in
speed at each revolution of the little
wheels. Ii Mr.. Middlerib's legs had
been longer he would have skated
further and faster, and in more widely
diverging directions. As 1t was just
before he tore himself in two, one of his
Year: 1878

feet struck bench, and the other a
good but PROSTATE young man, who
had, If Mr.. Middlerib could judge by
the crash which accompanied his arrival
just fallen from the moon. Strong
hands sustained Mr.. Middlerib, and as
sisted MIN to pull himself together
again; for the owner of the building
had just informed the proprietor Of the
rink that if Mr.. Middlerib fell again he
would raise the rent. Mr.. Middlerib
sighed heavily, and said it was a dread
ful feeling to feel yourself seeding
fairly disintergrating, as it were-and
no constitutional distractions TO check
the proceeding. He had, however, he
said, rather got the hang of it, and
thought he would now do very well.
Ii the man, he said, would only give
him helping shove and started him.
And now Mr.. Middlerib started of
down the rink like landslide on legs.


He had not got twenty feet away from
the man before he Inade the appalling
discovery that his feet were moving for
ward at much greater rate than his
body. He thought that maybe he was
making steam too fast, and accordingly
he, shut off and held his feet close to-
gether, but they held the start they had
gained, and even kept on increasing it.
Mr.. Middlerib knew that this could not
last long; he knew the matters would
be brought to crises very soon; and he
saw disaster staring him in that face if
he didn't manage to eaten up with his
feet very Immediately. He remembered
how he used to stop himself when he
was boy, and raising his toes, he es-
sayed to dig his heels in the floor.


He came great deal nearer, so the
people said who saw him go down, dig
ging his toes into the ceiling. But he
dug something into the floor with suf-
''slow up" before he went through the
end of the building. He said, when
they set him up and let him lean up
against the perforated end of the arnica
bottle, that the ice of his childhood. as
he remembered it, was less addicted TO
slivers than the rink surface, and when
man fell on it, he slid far enough to
break the force OF the fall. He then,
asked for a pair of skates with air
brakes, and on being informed that
there were none In the market, ne said
he would take a pair with tue old fash
ioned, hand brakes, and when he found
there were no skates with those appen-
dages, he solemnly said, if he had
known that, he would not have de-
pended on them and need not have
fallen And he SAID. too, that he be
lieved he had all of the fruit he cared
about. There were men, he confiden-
TALLY informed the attendant who un-
harnessed his feet, VINO never knew
when ii was time TO assume the dignity
of manhood, and the pleasant reserve of
age, whose gray hairs were u constant
reprOach and rebuke TO their childish,
imbecile follies and longings, but for
his part he could not cOuntenance such
degeners te manhood. He loved to wit
ness the sports of youth, but he did not
feel any desire to Join in them; and
such a feeling, in any man of mature
years, would be morbid, unhealthy,
foolish and wicked.