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Year: 1874

Over the beauty Of the plum and
apricot there grows bloom and beau
ty more exquisite than the fruit itself !;
a soft delicate flush that overspreads
its blushing cheek. Now if you strike
your hand over that, and it is once
gone, it is gone forever, for it never
grows but once. The flower that grows
i the morning, impearled with dew :
arrayed with jewels once shake it, so
that the head rolls of. and you may
sprinkle water on it as you please. yet
it can never be made again as it was
when the dews fell lightly on it from
heaven. On frosty morning you may
see the panes Of glass covered with
landscapes, mountains, lanes and trees,
blended into a beautiful fantastic pic
ture. Now lay your hands upon the
glass, and by the scratch Of your fin
ger, or by the warmth Of your palm,
all the deli;at tracery will be oblitera-
ted. So there IS in youth a beauty and
purity Of character which. when once
touched and deilad can never be re-
stored; a fringe more delicate than
frostwork, and which torn and broken
can never be re-embroidercd. A man
who has spotted ana soiled his gar
ments in youth, though he may seek to
make them white again, Can never
wholly co it, even were lie to wash
them with his tears. When a young
man leaves his fathers house with the
blessing Of his mother tears still wet
upon his forehead, if he once loses
that purity OF character it is loss
that he can never make "hole again
Such IS the consequence of crime. Its
effect can only be eradicated, it can on
ly be forgiyen.-Beecher.
Year: 1874

SILENT ISFLUEyCE.-We are
touching our fellow beings on al sides,
They are affected for good or evil by
what we are, by what We say or 10, even
by what we think and feel. My flow
ers in the parlor breathe their fragrance
through the atmosphere. We are each
OF US silently saturating the atmosphere
about US with the subtle aroma Of our
character. In the family circle, besides
and beyond all the teaching, tne daily
life Of each parent and child mysterious
/ y modifes the life of every person Ia
the household. The same process on a
wider scale is going on through the
community No man lives to himself,
and no man dies to hinself Others
are built up and straightened oy our
unconscious deeds. and others may be
wreuched out of their places and
throFn down by our unconscious inau-
ence.
Year: 1874

be proper to state that the Roman
Catholic exhibit is not full, for the rea
son that the churches keep no roll of
membership. and many who profess to
belong to that denomination are not
regular attendants or active partici-
pants in in the management Of the af-
fairs Of the churches.
Year: 1874

WAsHINGTON, ID. c., May 1.-THE eau
Gus of Republican Senators this morning
agreed upon the order of busines in the
Senate as follows: The Geneva award bill is
first to be disposed of; the currency bill will
then be taken up, and subsequently the
appropriation bill, in the order of their
presentation to the Senate.


The minority of the House Judiciary
Committee report that though the South
Carolina memorialsts show merits there
is no power in Congress to interfere where
suffrage is universal, and suggest than an
educational qualification may be needed
for Federal suffrage in that State.


Local option repeal bill defeatedin Penn
sylvania Legislature Lower House, on
third reading.
Year: 1874

in the determination of real death. The
perfect and complete


CESSATION OF THE HEARTS ACTION


is certainly followed by death, still
the heart may beat very family, so family
as to be unheard, except through the me-
dlation of instruments, and in this case
animation may be only suspended. To dc.
termine then, whether the hearts action
has ceased, the stethoscoPe is applied over
the region of the heart, land If after half
hours attentive examination, no heart
sound is heard, life may be pronounced
extinct. The application must be made
some hours after presumed death, and of
course, by an individual accustomed to
making examinations with the instru-
ment.


THE PERSONAL HISTORY


of the man who has left these
prizes may not he without inter
terest: He was by birth a Marquis, but
the revolution of 1913 deprived him of both
his title and fortune. He was then re-
duced to the necessity of working for his
daily bread, which he did, at six pence Il
day. He continued simple workman for
fifteen years, beginning as an assistant to
plumbers, but gradually working upward
to the grade of glass blower, and after
wards to be n manufacturer of scientific
instruments. At last, by dnt of hard la
bor he regained his title and came into
possession of fortune from his maternal
relatives. He still continued, however, to
wear the garb of the poor laborer. He
spent his money literally and always re-
membered the friends of his adverse days
and divided his means freely among the
poor mechanics and workmen. He left
large sum for the construction
of q hospital in st. Germain, his native
town. He investigated spiritualism and
somnambulism, and made many interest
ing experiments in crossing, acclimating
and tanning animals. And, last of all,
he left these prizes for the benefit of all the
human race that may come after him.


Itis the custom of Americans, and others,
to speak disparagingly of the French char
acter-its lightness, frivolity and unstable
ness but it must be acknowledged, that
the French nation, through its government
and its people, has done more 20 make the
| Sciences subserve the uses of man than any
| other nation on the globe. And in this
regard, it would be well for us 10 initiate a
truly worthy example, whatever opinion
we may entertain respecting the political
institutions, national, or personal vani-
ties of that gay, pleasure-loving people.
Year: 1874

There will be race this morning, at halLpast
nine from the foot Of Court street (Brooklyn
Yacht Club course), between Kaiser Wilhelm and
Emma IT, for the champion pennant won by Emma
T. last week.
Year: 1874

The boats In all the classes were given flying
start, indicated by the firing OF q gun from the
judges boat, the steamer Washburn stationed to
Allowance 81 one and half minutes to the foot
was made. The hour OF starting was quarter TO
two O'Clock, and the time required to sail twice
two hours Following Is the actual and corrected
mn Or ear
Year: 1874

TIE Chinese Government, in preparation
for the Formosa war, has been buying up
everything in the shape of firearms it could
find. In time, as correspondent from
Hongkong writes, it will have the most enor-
nous stock of unique and altogether worth
less war material on the face of the earth.
Year: 1874

"For murder, though it hath no tongue, will
speak with most miraculous organ"


In the year lS- John Smith | use
fictitious names was indicted for the
wilful murder of Henry Thompson.
The case was one Of the most extra
ordinary nature, and the interest ex-
cited by it was almost unparalleled.
The accused was a man of consid-
erable property, residing upon his
own estate. A person, supposed to
be an entire stranger to him, had,
late In summer day, requested and
obtained shelter and hospitality for
the night. He had, it was supposed,
after taking some light refreshment,
retired to bed in perfect health, re-
questing to be awakened at an early
hour the following morning. When
the servant appointed to call him en-
tered his room for that purpose, he
was found in his bed perfectly dead;
and from the appearance OF the body
it was obvious that he had been so
for many hours. There was not the
slightest mark of violence upon bis
person, and the countenance retained
the same expression it had horne
during life.


Days and weeks passed on, and
little further was discov cred. In the
meantime ramor had not been idle.
Suspicious were vague, indeed, and
underlined, and were at first whispered,
and atterward boldly expressed. The
precise object of these suspicious was
not clearly indicated; someirnplicated
one person, some another; but they
all pointed to Smith, the master ol
the house, as concerned in the death
of the stranger; and in fine, the mag
istrates were induced to commit Mr.
Smith to jail to take his trial for the
wilful murder of Henry Thompson
AS it was deemed essential to the at
tainment of justice to keep secret the
examination of the witnesses who
were produced before the magistrates
all the information of which the pub
lie were in possession before the tria
took place was that which have mar
rated. Such was the state OF thing
upon the morning of trial


The counsel for the prosecution
opened his case to the jury in a man
ner that indicated very little expeeta
tioD OF a conviction. He began b.
imploring them to divest their mind
of all that they had heard before the.
came into the box; he entreate'
them to attend to the evidence AM
judge from that alone.


1t would be proved beyond tn
Year: 1874

seemed to attach TO her statements,
that she had been led on by one ques-
ton to another till she had told him
ali that he wanted to know.


During the interval (accasIoned nv
her illness J as to the proceedings, s0-
licitor for the prosecution len the
court. 1t was between and O'Clock
when the judge resumed his seat on
the bench. the prisoner his station st
the bar and his housekeeper hers in
the witness box; the court in the in
terval had remained crowded with
spectators, scarce one of whom had
ieft his place, lest during his absence,
it should be seized by some one else


The cross-examiniug counsel then
addressed the witness: l Ihave a very
few more questions to ask of you; but
beware that You answer them truly
for your own life depends upon a
thread.


Do you know this stopper?


l do.


To whom does it belong?


To Mr. Smith


When did you sec IL last?


On the night of Mr.. Thompson's
death.


At this moment the solicitor for
the prosecution entered the court,
bringing with him. upon tray, a
watch, two money bags. jewel case,
pocket-bOok aud bottle of the
same manufacture as the stopper.
and having no cork in it; some other
articles there was in it not materifl
to my story. The tray was placed
upon the table in sight of the pris-
oHer and witness, and from that mo-
ment not a doubt remained in the
mind of the guilt of the prisoner.


A few words will bring my tale to a
close The house where the murder
had been committed was between
nine and ten miles distant The so-
licitor, as soon az the cross examina
ton had discovered the existence of
the closet, and its situation, had set
On Ou ntl ScOdChs VIII Two oHSiiu
officers, and after pulling down part
of the wall of the house, had de-
tected this place of concealment.


The search was well rewarded, the
whole of the property belonging to
Mr. Thompson was found there,
amounting in value to several thou
sand pounds, and to leave no doubt,
a bottle was discovered which the
man instantly pronounced to
contain the very identical poison
which had caused the death of the
unfortunate Thompson. The result
is too obvious to need explanation.


The case presents the perhaps un-
paralleled instance of Il man accused
of murder, showing such defence
as to induce the judge and jury l"
concur in a verdict of acquIGtal. but
who, persisting in calling witness to
prove his innocence, was, upon the
of that very witness, con
victed and executed.
Year: 1874

EARSEsT in wanting 10 see the good
work go on, why don't they take hold
and help PUSH it on. Reader, if you
are already q member of the Wo-
mans Foreign Missionary Society, be
q useful one, ever ready "with every
good word and work." and il you are
not. enroll your name at once. If
your home duties are pressing and
you can't attend all the monthly
meetings. he sure you go just as Of
ten as you can. And then, after you
have gone, don't come away grum-
bling that You did not enjoy Yourself
very well. you didn't think the exer-
cises very interesting, and all this
sort of thing. but rather ask your-
self the question what did do to
make the meeting s success, and con.
tribute to the enjoyment of those
present? You are just as responsible
for the success of the enterprise, my
friend, as Mrs A. or B. Don't cit
still and refuse to do anything your


self, and then accuse those who do
of making themselves conspicuous
These are little things but their eff.
fects are far reaching They are
mighty in their influence. Many a
heart, yearning to do something for
the Master, has been made to bleed,
and many an arm, willing to labor,
has been paralized by unjust criticism
falling from idle, fault finding lips.
at must needs be that offences
come says Jesus; and yet, "woe
unto them from whom they come"
But had thought to be brief, and
much of this is foreign TO what / in
tended to say And, in conclusion,
il all would labor, and labor har-
moniously, what grand victories we
would achieve, and how soon the
love of God would be glorified by
the enlightenment and conversion of
heather lands. JOYCE.
Year: 1874

For the GalllpollS journal.


The Missionary Cause.


Knowing that many Of the JoUREAL
readers are members of the Wo-
mans Foreign Missionary Society, !
thought q few words bearing npon
that subject might not be out of place
in it's columns All are of course
aware that the payment of two cents
per week, or one dollar per year, is
all that is required to constitute any
person a member of said Society.
And vet there are scores of fortunes
favored ones, belonging even to
the Gallipolis District, who might
pay five, ten, or even twenty dollars
per year without sacrificing either
comforts or luxuries. And o, how
this would cheer the anxious hearts
OF those noble women at the head OF
the movement, and enable them to
send out yet other laborers into the
great mission fields. ''The harvest
truly is plenteous but the laborers
are few" But while it is clearly
the duty of some to give largely, 1t
certainly is the duty of oil to give
something. Many women, even In
our own church. take no part IN the
matter, and some, alas, who at first en-
rolled their names, and helped to
form Auxiliaries, are beating a re
treat. while the work is butjust begun.
Sneak to them upon the subject, and
thew will say-well, yes, it's good
thing; I hope it will be kept up; in
deed I'd be sorry to see it fall through
with, but-but really. I don't think
I can take a part in it any longer.
My baby is sickly, or my family is
large. Or my health is poor, or the
Society is not governed constitution
ally, or don't iike'the President, or
the Secretary don't please me. or
something else of this sort


The secret of the matter is THEIR
HEARTS are not in the work. and they
want to SAVE THAT DOLLAR OF course
they would call you uncharitable II
they knew you thought so meanly Of
them, but the same Divine Teacher
who commanded us to Judge not,
said also, "by their fruits ye shall
know them." And if people are in
Year: 1874

FROM THE WRITINGS OF HORACE MANN.


Man is improvable. Some people
think he is only a machine, and that the
only difference between a man and a
mill ls, that one is carr led by blood and
the other BY water.


We want pillars, not pipe-stems. We
want men who will never use the rod OF
the opnressor, nor bear the touch of hi.
heel.


You need not tell all the truth, unless
to those who have right TO know it all
But let all You tell be truth.


Insult not another for his want OF the
talent YOU possess he NAV have talent,
which YOU want


Reproot is medicine, like mercury
or opium; II it be improperly admins
tered, 1t will do harm instead of good.


generosity during lite is very differ
snt thing from generosity in the hour OF
death; Que proceeds from genuine lib
era:lly and benevolcnce,- the other from
pride OF fear.


Some people are as Incapable of see
ing but one side of subject, as the
hounder and turbot tribes among fishes,
which, having both eyes placed on one
side OF their heads, are able to see but
one way.
Year: 1874

The TRUTH WELL STATED.-Since


slavery, drunkenness is the most desuuc-
tive evil and gigantic sin ofour land Ii
gives us million drunkards and paup-
ers, hundred thousand idiots and in-
sane, and nearly or quite thousand


murders and suicides every year. Add


to these the homes that are desolated by
intemperance, and we have host Of
slaves like that which we liberated by
war. Not one drunkard but beg an as a
moderate drinker and intended to re-
main such. One in ten of our habitual
moderate drinkers becomes drunkards.
ana eight of the other nine injured and
not one OF them bene fitted BY the indul-
gence. 1t was the example of reputable
men who drank moderately which ell
couraged this army Of drunkards to
think that they could safely do the same.
The result is poverty, death and hell.
HOW any man with these facts before
HIM, can make his brother to offend we
cannot understand. 1t is not enough to
say that the diunkard does not follow
the example Of the moderate drinker.
lie does follow it till his moral sense
and will are weakened, and he out runs
his teacher. Total abstinence is q safe
and nothing else is and to an
peal to the Bible in defense of alcoholic
liquors is like appealing to it in defense
of slavery.-Ne'D York Independent
Year: 1874

WARNING TO THE INTEMPERATE.
Charles Lamb tell his sad experience, as
warning TO Young men, in the follow
ing language:


The waters have gone over me. Blu,
out OF the black depths, could be heard.
| would cry out to all those who have
set foot in the perilous flood. Could
the youth. TO whom the flavor OF the
hrst wine is delicious as the opening
scenes OF life, or the entering upon some
new discovered paradise, look into
my desolation and be made to under
stand what dreary thing it is, when he
shall feel himself going down q preci-
pee with open eyes and passive will;
to see his destruction. and ave no pow
er to stopit, and yet feel It all the way
smanating from himself; to see all god
liness emptied out OF him, and vet not
able to forget time when il was other
wise; to bear about the piteous spccta.
cles OF his own ruin; could he see nv
levered eye, ieverish with the last nights
drinking, and feverishly looking for to-
nights repetition of the folly; could he
but feel the body of the death out OF
which cry hourly with feebler outcrv
to be delivered, it were enough to make
hlm dash the sparkling beverage to the
earth, in ALL the pride of its mantling
temptation.
Year: 1874

PRESERVE THEM.-Many people take
newspapers, but few preserve them. vet
!he most interesting reading Imaginable
Is an old file of newspapers. It brings
up every age with it's hustle and every
day affairs, and marks its genius and its
spirit more than the labored description
oithc historian. Who can take up paper
dated half century ago, without the
thought that almost every name there
printed is Low cut upon tombstone at
the head ofal epitaph? 1t is easy to pre-
serve newspapers, and they will repay
the trouble, for ike wine their value in
creases with years.
Year: 1874

A New York physician advised !,
wealthy Madison avenue father to
send his three sickly daughters toa
certain locality in New Jersey for
the Summer. It turns ont that the
girls were suffering f ON wnrt OF
exercise, and where they have gone
the mosquetors will keep them at
work in Il very lively manner both
day and night.
Year: 1874

The heroic tirmnesS with which q
woman will persist in carrying a
roll OF dry goods as large as she
can hold in her arms, is onl, equal.
ed by the politeness with which She
request her grocer TO deliver a
pound OF butter at the house,
Year: 1874

A correspondent of thes New York
Sun callsthe attention Of all consumers
of Kerosene oil to the pefnicious and
unhealthy practice of using lamps filled


with that article with the wicks turned
down: The gas whichp pshould be- con
snnea by the flames, IS by this means
left heavily in The air, bwhile the cost
Of the oil thus saved at present prices
would scarce be one dollar "per year for
the lamps Of d household. His atten-
ton was called particularly TO this Gus
tom by boarding in the caaatfy where
kerosene was the only available fisditg.1


a large family OF children were taken


lit one night, and or going to the annr-
isery the mother found the room nearly
shffocated with a lamp nearly out where
by the physician forbade the use of a
lamp at night, unless burned at full
head. He says he could quote many
cases, one "a young girl subject to fits
oftfaintness, which if not induced were
greatly increased by sleeping in the
room with the lamp almost turned out.
Besides the damage to health it spoils
the paper and curtains, soils the mir
rors and windows and gives the whole
house an untidy and unwholesome odor.
Year: 1874




| was once sitting in a cool
underground saloon at Leipsic,
while without people were ready
to die from heat, when a new
guest entered and took seat
opposite me. The sweat rolled
in great drops down his face, ,and
he was kept busy with his hand
kerchief, till at last he found
relief in the exclamation,
"Fearfully hot" l watched at
tentively as he called for cool
drink, for expected every mo-
ment that he woulsl fall from
his chair in a fit of apoplexy.-
The man must have noticed that
/ was observing him, for he
turned toward me suddenly say
ing, 81 am acurious sort Of per-
son, am l not?" "Why?' /
asked. ''Because IperspiI c on
ly on the right side" And so
it was; his right check and the
right half of his forehead were
as hot as fire, while the left side
of his face bore not a trace of
perspiration. | had never seen
the like, and, in my astonish-
ment, was about to, enter into
conversation with him regard
ing the physiological curiosity,
when his neighbor on the left
broke in with the remark
''Then we are the opposite and
Of each other, fer
| perspire only on the left side"
This, too, was the fact. So the
pair took seats opposite each
other and shook hands like two
men who had just found each
his other half Popular Science
Aonthty. " |
Year: 1874

Z - @SaO S<A GA 4st y A. Is


From the Detroit Free Press. November :.


Some five or six weeks $50 Il


young man named Charles Perrin,


% years old, and a carpenter by


trade, fell in love with a good look.


ing girl whoee parents live on


Orchard street. Charles has red


hair end a frecked face. and


although the young lady treated


him courteously when lie called


at the house, she had her mind


made up that she could never wed


a red-headed man. After an ac.
quaintance Of three weeks be


asked her TO becoma Mrs. Per.


rim, and was greatly taken down


when she told him that she,
couldn't think of such a thing.


Charles then sought to have the
ola folks put in good word for


him, but they declined TO inter


fAre. He continued his visits.
perhaps hoping to soften the girls
heart, but Thursday evening
the crisis came. He went to the
house with q bottle of acid in his
pocket, prepared to spoil her
beauty if she did not give him a
favorable answer. There was no
one at home but the girl and her
mother, and Perrin first wanted
the girl to take a walk with him.
She refused to go, and he.asked
to see her alone. She also refused
this request, aud the lover had
just got ready to draw the bottle
from his pocket when something
bit him. He thought it was a
dog. but it wasn't The cork had
worked out of the bottle, and his
coat tails were turning brick col.
or at the.rate of a yard a minute.
The acid wasn't content with the
coat tails, but struck for flesh,
aud in about a minute the young
man was dancing around the house
as if to escape a bullet. Shout
ing and whooping, he got out OF
doors and drew off most Of hiss
and rolled in the mud,
and it was some time before any
one could find ont whether be
lad snakes in his boots or had Sat
DOWN on brad awl. He was SO,
badly burned that two men had to
lelp him to his boarding house on
Fifth street, where a physician
]ressed the burns. There is q
good deal of laughing at his ex-
oense, and if he makes his ap-
1earance at the house again he
will be arrested, as he told one OF
lis friends in advance that he
N ont tho aoid fCr tho syirl
Year: 1874

A practical judge in England,
when tailor's bill was dispu-
ted on the ground that the
trousers and waistcoat did not
fit, ordered the man TO put the
garments on, and then decided
that they were a good fit, and
gave the plaintiff a verdict.
Year: 1874

THEY say that a member Of
one of the Eastern Legislatures
recently wrote home to his wife to
know what his religion was, and
that she wrote blck that he had
better call it Protestant, and let it
go at that.