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Year: 1877

One of the chief compensatiOns of a
wOman's life is found in the fact that
she does not have to ego a cOurting."
1t must be confessed that in these days
the modern belle does her share of the
wOOing, but she does not have to dress
up in a stiff collar and a pair of boots
size too small for her, and walk up to a
cannOn's mouth of her inamorata's
family, consisting of father, mother,
grandmother, maiden aunt, and per-
haps half dozen brothers aud sisters,
and inquire, in trembling voice.


SIS Miss Arabella at home?".


Whenever a man goes accounting,
everybody seems TO know all about il.
His demeanOr tells the Observant spec
tatOr the business he is intent upon.
He might just as well placard himself,
"Tm going accounting" Everybody
is cognizant of it, and looks knowingly,
and ask him if the "northern lights
were bright last night about one
" NioNh' anu hON lnO uldl hCl II lOl
kerosene oil up at Daddy Browns"
and score of other questions equally
out of place.


We know a young man who is deeply,
and we trust successfully, engaged in
going accounting; and our warmest
sympathies have been extended toward
him. When Sunday afternoon arrives
it is plain to see that something's about
to happen. He is tidgety and non-com-
municative and cannot sit in one place
half a minute at a time. He is contin-
ually interviewing his watch and COM
pairing it with the old eight-day coffin
shaped clock in the corner. He looks
in the glass frequently and draws his
forehead locks first back and then for
ward, and combs them Up and pats
them down, and is unsatisfied with the
effect throughout.


The smell of bay rum and bergamOt
is painfully apparent, When he shakes
out his handkerchief musk is percepti-
BILE. His boots shine like mirrors, and
there is faint smell of cardamom seeds
in his breath when he yawns. He
smooths his budding little mustache
with aflectionate pats, and feels his in
visible side whiskers continually to
make sure they are still there, fact
which is not established to outside OBJ
servers by the sense of sight. He tries
on all his stock of neckties without
finding just the thing he wants. Then
he has spasmS Of brushing his coat, that
commence with violence and last until
one grows nervous for fear the broad
cloth will not be able to stand the fric-
ton.


lie decl mes soup that day at dinner.
He says it is because he is not hungry,
but we know it is because there are
onions in it, and onions, as every one
knows, do not swecten ones breath to
any great extent.


If spoken to suddenly, he starts and
bushes and looks as guilty as if caught
stealing something, and directly one
does not speak to him, he goes back to
the delightful occupation of staring at
nothing, and waiting for the hour hand
to creep around to seven.


AT seven he sets forth, clean and tidy
from top to toe, looking precisely as If
he had just stepped out Of bandboX.
Year: 1877

of poverty, of toll are most noble and
helpful to earnest and noble souls. In
stead of evading or attempting to eyadc
the tasks imposed, true wisdom and
philosophy dictate the unllinching and
steadfast performance of them. If we
cannot walk, we may stagger, if we are
not able to stagger, we may yet creep
to our work, and in all times keep up
cheerful and patient courage in the face
of difficulty. There are times when we
are called to work beyond our strength,
TO lay down our lives even for the main
tenance of the just and the right. There
are ten thousand things worse than
death. sit is always better nObly to
fail than bascly 10 succeed" Let those
whose way lies along the rugged paths
of life rejoice in their burdens and their
wearincss. These are badges of honor,
proofs that they are earning noble
plaudits, though the welcome words
may be withheld; that they do not
Ntdilu eHlNtllHS bu lllt tuHt VI lllt
devious river, but are brayely stemming
its current or commanding it. There
are great many people who need no
stimulus to urge them to work, who al
ready tax themselves quite too much,
but there are also large number of
hangers-On to life who resOlutely sit
idle and are willfully helpless; a ma
jOrity of these are doubtless made as
they are by the indulgence of weak
and injudicious parents. 1t is good for
child to learn to climb. to run, to
swim, to drive, to ride horseback, to 90
on exploring expeditions in his own
locality, to wait upon himself, to learn
how to perform and to perform all the
tasks necessary for his physical and
intellectual well-being, and thus to en-
ter upon mature life equipped for its
duties and able to meet its various and
trying emergencies.
Year: 1877

The grandest forces in this world are
silent and unpreceived. They operate
unnoticed, but yet with resistless power.
A child's tin trumpet makes more noise
than the attraction of gravitation which
binds the whole universe as with chains
of adamant, but works so quietly that
it was thousands of years before NOR
tails discovered its existence. A bab-
bling brook, or little fountain throw
ing its jets into the air, attracts more
attention than the hidden forces of ma
ture which draw millions of tons Of
water from the earth beneath-spread
1t out in herbage and foliage, clothing
the fields with beauty, crowning the
forest with green, and diffusing fertility
and life through all the land. The
forces OF vegetation are silent. No
lightning flashes to herald the swelling
buds; no thunder peals to tell us when
flowers unfold their fragrant beauty;
no trumpets are blown when Spring
unfolds her leafy banners to the breeze;
but IN the sunshine Of the day and in
the silence of the night the work of ma
ture goes noiselessly on, until the
desert blossoms as the rose and the will
derness becomes fair as Eden's garden.
Year: 1877

surroundings know nothing Of real fe-
licity. The greatest joy of the noblest
life is the consciousness of comforting
benefits upon others. Not for self have
those lived whom we delight to honor,
not to hoard up gold or join lands to
lands, but to serve their generations in
honor, in truth, in simplicity. We
often hear of those, who in such a
world as this, have nothing left to live
for. For such can there be anything
to die for? While there is wrong to be
righted, a tear of woe to be wiped away
there is something yet to live for.


An intelligent love for literature, for
art, for science, for one or all these,
makes its pOssessOr wealthy. Plato,
Milton, Shakespeare have ever a wei
come for the loving discipline, live he
in palace or cabin. The illustrOus army
of great men that have made the annals
of the race bright with their intellec-
tual achievements have no frOwn or
sneer for the humblest student who
listens attentively TO their teachings.
Though ignored by the living, the
voices of the mighty dead are full of
counsel and cOmpaniOnship and in
struction for him; nay, to him also
speak continually, though not face to
face, the thinkers and writers of the
present time. FurrOwed in the cur
rent literature of the day are the
thoughts of our wisest, and he who
runs may read.


An unfaltering trust in the Divine
goodness is the sum of all wealth. He
who has this has all things, though he
be in immediate possession of but few
things. Arid deserts, sterile noun
tain chains, the wastes of ocean, the
frozen regions of the North are as nee
essary, so the wise ones say, to the
highest welfare of the planet as are
tropical luXuriance, fertile fields, pro-
ductive valleys, peaceful lakes and
gliding rivers. There is not one of us
who has been tried in the furnace of
atilictiOn that has not found the richest
joys springing from the deepest griefs.
1t is easy of a sunny day, when every
thing is well with us, to believe in the
goodness of God, but when no light
blesses our eyes, and we walk in dark
ness and cloud and storm, doubts creep
in, and we need to fortify our faith, to
strengthen our confidence, to rest our
our souls in an unfaltering trust, and
wait patiently till the morning.
Year: 1877

A writer on gardening in the Western Ru-
raj gives the following hints on starting ten
der seeds. such as tomatoes, squashes, melons
and the like:


1t is desirable in transplanting not to check
growth by disturbing the roots. A good way
to avoid this is to scrape out turnips, fill them
with good soil, and then plant in two or three
seeds, setting them in warm, light place and
keeping them moist When the weather is
suitable place them out in the garden at the
proper depth. The turnip will decay and the
plant will thrive unchecked if properly cared
for. Do not use potatoes in place of turnips.
Another method is to get squares of sod, say
six inches wide, from good, mellow soil,
turn them bottom up, and put in such seeds
as squashes, melons, or sweet corn, and treat
them in the same way, not putting out till the
weather is quite warm, and thus protecting
against bugs. For more delicate plants, flow
ers, etc., make little square paper boxes out
of thin writing paper or thick newspaper,
merely folding them at the corners as you
would the pepper in covering book and tack
ing them with a needle and thread; make
them about three inches square and two deep.
Fill with good soil; start the seeds and put
them out at the proper time, boxes and all,
without disturbing the roots.
Year: 1877

Home Correspondent Indianapolis Herald]


renewed my acquaintance with three
year-oId boy, minister's son, who gave me
some of his ideas about God. He was help.
ing to destroy good-sized strawberry short
cake, which to his magnified appetite and
worldly eyes looked all too small for the re.
quirements of those who had made an attack
on it. II wish, said the voracious infant,
''That could see strawberry shortcake as
tig as God" On being questioned as to his
idea of the size of the Deity, he thought that
He could do lots of things. He could slice
off q boys nose and put it on again ''just as
asy" and you wouldn't know it hardly.
Year: 1877

/ notice that Frenchmen are decided anti
clerical. Rarely is a pious man encountered
here, although one often finds men who re-
spect religious forms and comply Herewith.


When this is the case it is generally owing to
female or family influence. am satisfied
that the church in France has no doctrinal
hold on the mass of the men. Were it not
for the ceremonies of baptism, of marriage
and of funerals, the chusch system would
vanish. If Frenchmen wish to get rio of the
church either in the family or in connection
with the State, they must contrive some way
to satisfy the sentiment of women in these
directions. push my observations on this
point little farther This anti-clerical or
sentiment prevails among the
peasantry, which is rather curious, as the
French peasant is supposed to be ignorant,
and easily led by the priest. He
may be ignorant and superstitious, but he has
been educated and trained out of reliance up
on the priest, through popularity of another
kind. The press has had nothing to do with
it, nor has any system of instruction; it has
come about through the passion for owning
|and.-Paris Correspondence Neao Rork Post
Year: 1877

lie was friend of mine and used fire.
how ought to run my paper,


He was d minister, and consequently
thought should devote it little more to the
cause of religion, and not quite 50 much to
politics.


He said it could be made power of good
in the western land, in which we had both
cast our fortunes.


He was Il lover Of the original, too, and
he dislikcd to see reprint, aud thought should
write mOre-take the time, in fact, to fill the
paper right up with good. new stuff. That
seemed such an easy thing for him that one
day ventured to say:


''Brother, you had glorious meeting last
night, l hear-suppose you write it up for
me?"


He did not SEEM to act as though he want
ed to do it.


| urged.


He flushed little and stood around awk-
ward-like. He had never been honored with
an invitation to write for the press before.


Then he took off his gloves And his hat.
And his overcoat. Then gave him Il seat
ut the table with paper and pencil.


He sat down to editorial work.


He had always been talking about how it
SuOulO Sc UOuC, Iuu uO" uC was oG H.


He started in.


went about my work, and having written
column or two of matter for the paper, left
him still writing, while went out TO solicit
some advertisements


was gone an hour or two, and when l
came back he was still at it.


He was sweating awfully.


The table and floor were white with copy
paper, and the pencil in his hand was much
diminished in length.


/ went to dinner


When returned he was at it yet


There was more paper scattered around,
the pencil was shorter, and he was wetter
1t was summer.


The hours dragged along into the middle
of the afternoon.


Great cords stood out on the preachers
heated brow.


His eyes were bent on the dazzling white
paper before him, and his fingers moved ner-
vously, and the pencil was stub.


began to grow frightened. knew had
only small weekly paper, and that its four
teen columns of space Zone side was patent
inward) would not hold the contents of the
Bible: and supplement message from heav-
en- besides.


at last the man looked up, and, timidly
duVduCAuS WILL q pACNO VI P"poA AZ OA1S oesAAo,
suddenly turned and went back to change
word.


Then he came on again, and, like one who
had passed through vision, held out the pa
per and feebly asked:


'Will that do?'


looked.


There were Just seven lines Of it. adverts-
ing measure!


He was large man-weighed over 800
pounds then, but when met him three weeks
later he weighed less than 125.


He had been sick.


The seven-l line -nine-hour effort was too
much for him.


But it was not all lost. He never advised
an editor again.


Neither did he ever compose for paper
again.
1t was hard work for him to write, and he
saw he was not cut out for an editor
Chicago EUe. Journal.
Year: 1877

There has been tor years strife between
the breeders of the Berkshire and Poland
China hogs as to which was the most desira-
bic hog, taking everything into consideration
early fatening, heartlness, size, etc A
Poland China breeder claims the honor foz
his breed on the following grounds:


1. They do not get NANCY. l have never
had one that was troubled this way; and this
is something of so much importance that it
should not be overlooked by any former who
knows anything of the evil.


g. This breed is excellent on account of
its early fattening qualities; and yet for its
continued growth it has no equal. When
only nine or ten months old they will readily
fatten into clear pork, weighing 800 pounds
or more, or they will continue to grow until
twelve months old. and then weigh when fat
tened from $50 to 525 pounds.


3. 1t is the best feeder on clover and blue
grass that l know Of l have witnessed test
experiments which went to show that hogs
of this breed will make more gain and thrive
better on grass alone than those Of any other
breed.


4. They are naturally quiet at all times,
unless contrary spirit is stirred up by abuse.
They fatten we'll, eating their fill and then
laying down. The sows are good and pro-
life breeders, kind in litter and good suckers.


5. Poland-Chin is the hog for the packer,
because of the proportion of weight behind
the shoulders, and the amount of hig priced
meat it carries, and corresponding small
amount of offal produced. It has small
head and small feet


6. It is the breed that we can do the most
with between April and January. Pigs should
come when grass in the spring begins to
grow, SO that they can be fattened without
having to winter them. Or, if we deem it
good to hold them over, we want them to
keep on growing during the second summer
with the least cost
Year: 1877

NOTHING can be more certain to destroy
any good feeling that may be cherished to-
wards US than to show distrust. To be sus-
pected as an enemy is often enough to make
man become 80 the whole matter is over !;
there is no further use guarding against it.
On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally
to act kindly, we are affected by the good
opinion which others entartain of US. and we
are not easily induced to lose il, t,-(Madame
de Savigne.
Year: 1877

And still they come, the emigrants,
and all loud in denunciation of emigrant
agents. / only wish for their own good
they could or would send some one in
advance to secure . location before NOV
ing their little all, and not trust 10
blindly to what is told them by North.
ern agents. I met q man and family to.
day on our streets, apparently destitute,
who was trying to sell his wagon and
team. When spoke to him he said
''The agent stated he would write to his
agent here and Immediately on my arri.
val would be met and brought to the
farm selected for me, where l would find
. good house, water, and planter ready
and willing to furnish me tools and pro.
visions, and l might start to work in q
comfortable manner, with every prospect
of success. was also promised few
COWS until was able to buy" Such ID
the way Northern agents represent
things. I am glad to state that of the
land agents here. not one is in any way
connected With those sharks, but We dc
our best to settle the people when they
come among US. To have poor. confid


ing men believe all that is told to them
to induce them to sell out their little al
to come here to find that they are vic


Tins of merciless sharks, is too much fol
human nature to bear. l would advise
all who are comfortable and making q
good living in the older states. to stay
there and not come here trusting to make
fortune in few years. We live hard


and patiently and quietly endure priva.
tions little known in the North and
East. - Tsros correspondence st. Louis
Year: 1877

For 88g3stoF Of Ooo4s.


I believe that the Office Of Register Of Deeds is
purely non-political-that II is . matter Of no
concern to the people whether the ONCE be nlled
by Republican OF Democrst; that the people
are only interested in having the Office filed by
the man who will best discharge its duties.
I also believe that my past experience renders
me well qualified to MI the ONCE.


l therefore announce myself an independent
candidate for the Office Of Register of Deeds.


G. N. BROWN.
thereby announce myself candidate for Reg
lister Of Deeds Of Allen county. J. 3. FAST.
Year: 1877

We welcome to our columns again, the
able Washington correspondent whose let
ters were so acceptable to our readers dur
ing the last session Of Congress We also
give another letter from that ebservant
philosopher, RAMBLER" Both win be
read with interest by those who desire to
know what is passing at our great political
centze and capitoline city.
Year: 1877

A WoRD IN SEAsoN.--This is the
season when people are making their win
ter purchases and Holiday preparations,
and when everybody who has anything to
sell should be making corresponding effort
to attract purchasers. 1t is the season
when all persons whose business is benefit
ed BY Advertising find that Advertising
pays best.


Suppose our merchants and other busi-
ness men we're to cease advertising. They
would all ultimately lose large part of
their trade, which would go elsewhere.


Read the advertisements if you would
know where to buy bargains.
Year: 1877

Tue Public CREDIT, The public
credit Is a sacred truss = be sedulously
guarded BY al those in authority. But
we cannot help thinking that the extreme
sensitiyeness Of the public creditors which
vents itself in the denunciation of those
who would remonetize silver, as repudia-
tionists and swindlers, comes with very
bad grace indeed from men who bought
their bonds at an average Of 63 cents in
the dollar, and paid for them, not in gold,
but in paper The dollar, whether of pa
per, silver or gold, ought to be of equal
and uniform value, and at all times inter
changeable. The outery against silver
coin is senseless, inasmuch as it is, along
with gold, the recognized currency Of the
constitution. If the public creditors had
bought their bonds at par, and paid in
paper, at gold value, there would be some
show of consistency in their extreme sem
sitiyeness on this subject. As is, instead
of dealing out their denunciations SO freely
against those who favor a restoration of
the constitutional currency destroyed in
1873, they should put their hands on their
mouths and remember with shame the ex-
alted patriotism which prompted them to
prop and sustain their country's credit at
shave Of 81 cents in the dollar A
contemporary very aptly says


THKRENoNETIzATioN oFSnvER. press
In the commercial centres Of the country and
many Of the public men also, are attempting
to brand as repudiationists those who advo.
cate the remonetization Of silver. But the
discussion Of this subject has brought the
people to know what the facts are, and what
the laws have been as to silver coming, and
knowing these, they understand how abusive
and senseless such ephithets are.


The silver dollar of 37lt grains pure metal
was legal tender equally with gold, from
1892 to 1873, when it was demonetized by an
act Of Congress, passed in February Of that
year.


When silver was demonetized, the debtor
class were deprived of right they possessed
whenthe debts we're contraeted-that Of max.
ing payment in either gold or silver Of money
they had received from the creditor class in a
deprecated paper currency. The demonet-
zaiion Of Silver made specie scareerand dear
er, and was cruel wrong. At whose bid
ding was the financial policy Of 81 years sud
denly abrogated? The proposal to remone.
tize silver is a proposal TO retain as legal
tender currency coinage the country has
used as legal tender from the foundation OF
the government, until years ago.
Year: 1877

DIED FROM HIS INJURIEs.-Matt Darby,
who either shot himself accidentally or with
the intention Of committing suicide, in
Rockets, q few days ago, died at the aims
house yesterday afternoon.


Last night Coroner Taylor held an inquest
upon the body ut the almshouse. The testi-
mony elected was that he himself stated
that the shooting was accidental, but his
little son asserted that his father told him
he was tired Of living, and asked him for
the gun, saying he intended to kill himself.
The verdict was that the jury could not de-
termine whether the shooting was by acci-
dent or design.


The body was taken TO the county for in
tcrment by his friends.
Year: 1877

STEAM STREET Cause.-The brief expert
ence OF the Market-Street Railway Company
with the seven steam-cars that are on their
road is so satisfactory that there can be no
doubt OF the substitution Of steam for horse
power on all well-conducted street railroads
in the course OF very few years. The
"dummies" move easily and rapidly, but
with entire safety, for they can be stopped
and started more easily than can horse-car.
Nobody has been hurt on or by steam-car,
while there have been some dreadful acci-
dents caused by cars drawn by horses with
in the past few days. But the most import
ant question, so far as relates to their gen.
eral adoption, is the economic one, and du-
ring the time that the " dummies have been
in use it has been demonstrated that each
one is run at less expense than horse-car
and that the receipts, with fare at five cents,
are larger every day than those OF horse
car with fare ut six cents. The Market
Street Company. whose enterprise and lib
cralty surpass those OF any other, will, OF
course, adopt the steam-cars and abandon
the horse-cars as soon as the change can be
made. Then there ought to be jubilee OF
the Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty to
Animals, in which all humane citizens will
join heartily.-PhHadelphia Bulletin.
Year: 1877

A CRACK IN GENERAL WAsHINGroN's
HoRsE's LEG.-A crack Of about twelve
inches in length has been discovered in the
right hind-leg of the bronze horse on when
the statue of Washington is mounted IN the
Capitol Square. 1t is supposed to nave
been caused by the freezing Of water that
had gotten into the casting in some way
during the winter.
Year: 1877

ENTERPRISE OF A RICHMOND FIRM IN NEW
YoRK.-Messrs. Walter D. Blair IL Co. have
established factory in New York for the
manufacture OF the most popular varieties OF
domestic cigars. Their arrangements for
purchasing Havana and seed tobacco and
manufacturing cigars will enable them to
sell to the southern trade upon as good
terms as any house In the United States.
Such enterprise should be encouraged,
especially when embarked in by an old
and reliable house.