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Year: 1878

POSTMASTER JONES, of Crook City, in
the Black Hills, has fallen into disgrace.
A local newspaper tells the story. The
people Of Crook City believe he has gone
for good, and petitions are being circu-
lated for the appointment of a new
Postmaster. AT the last game of poker
he played there he made grab for the
pot, said 10 represent one hundred and
twenty-five dollars, and claimed it as his
money, accusing the other players of
cheating. He made good his grab by re-
fusing to give it up at the point of a
revolver, daring the holder of the
weapon to shoot him. 1t was clear
case OF desperation, as he had invariably
lost, and probably this was his only
chance TO secure sufficient money to
leave the country with.
Year: 1878

MANKIND loves to be humbugged in
no way so much as by the three card
monte-man. 1t was a Broome County
farmer this time, and he was eighty
years old. Two men met him with
samples of cloth in the streets of Whit
ney's Point. Their prices pleased him,
and he readily followed them into their
hotel, where other and better samples
were TO be shown him. Once in the
room, the three cards came forth with
the usual assertion that no card could
be followed in the shuffling. The old
man saw the corner of certain card
was bent, and felt confident he could
follow it. He accordingly made wager
Of $40 and lost his meney. Then he
offered TO wager 81, 900 that he could
not be beaten again, and went into "a
bank and obtained the money. The
$1,000 went the way of the $40, and the
two men left the village, to be seen by
the old man no more.
Year: 1878

SAMUEL l.. RocKFELLow went TO the
Office of the County Clerk in Rochester,
and ordered search upon property he
was about to purchase. He received
the search and paid the fee. Relying
upon the search, he made a purchase of
the land, farm. II subsequently ap-
peared that the record of mortgage of
about $500 had been omitted by the
clerk or deputy in his search. Mr..
Rockfellow brought suit against the
clerk, claiming $500 damages by reason
of the neglect. The case was sharply
contested. The issue seemed to turn
upon the liability of the clerk, based
upon the question as to whether his act
in making the search is judicial or min
isterial. The decision by Judge Sill
gave judgment against the County Clerk.
The case will undoubtedly be appealed
and, as it is said to be the first reported
case of the kind in New York, will settle
the law on that question.
Year: 1878

but is he active can he breathe freely
and move with agility? There are scores
of gray-hesded men who we should pre-
fer in any important enterprise, to those
young men who fear and tremble at ap-
preaching shadows, and turn pale at Q
lion in their path, at harsh word or a
Year: 1878

/ THOUGHT you had dreadful row
with X, but you always seem to be
together now have you made it up with
him?" I" My dear fellow, detest him
cordially, but determined to make him
uncomfortable, 80 I've become friends
with him again 80 as to have the chance
to say disagreeable things to him.
Paris Figaro.
Year: 1878

the counting of the vote by President
Ferry and the sustaining of his conclu-
sion by Grant would have been.-To this
the Baltimore Gazette replies, "Now that
Hayes has turned out so badly republic
cans of the Conkling- Chandler stripe are
very eager to disclaim any responsibility
for the methods that secured his cleo
ton, but the country will not forget that
when the vote of Louisiana came up in
the Senate Conkling lodged it like a
coward, and that Chandler, who is now
foremost in attacking the President, was
the visiting stateman who engineered
the Florida fraud. We do notremember
that even the Sun, though it certainly OPP
posed the Electoral Commission, was in
clined year ago to pooh-pooh Grants
military preparation to sustain President
Ferry, or professed any confidence in
the disposition of the republicans in the
Senate to see the costly work of the
Louisiana returning board rendered
abortive by throwing the election into
the House"
Year: 1878

The City Of Chester is about to take
action for the reception of President
Hayes, who has promised to visit that
growing little city when the second
steamship for the the Brazilian line is
lounched from the yard of John Roach,
about the first Of April. The President
was invited to witness the launch of the
first ship of the line in March, but he
declined because of engagements for that
month. The Chester people are very
much elated with the Presidents promise
to meet them.
Year: 1878

SHERIFF's SALEs.-Every person whose
real estate is sold by the Sheriff has the
right to select one of the two newspapers
in the county in which the sale is to be
advertised. This is one of the provisions
OF the law, and the sale cannot be con
nrmed unless the law is complied with.
1t is the duty of the Sheriff to ask the
defendant to chose one newspaper. 1t is
then the duty of the Sheriff to advertise
the property in such paper.
Year: 1878

The New York Sun now declares that
the whole alarm a year ago, "about
danger that the peace might be disturbed
ana civil war inaugurated, is now known
10 nave been veriest humbug,o and that
sit is now conclussely proved that the
i'Puoncahs Of the Senate would never
have assented to such a usurpation,D y as
Year: 1878

Civil service reformers who were so
much shocked at the condition of the
custom House in this city, must be
greatly edited by the spectacle daily
witnessed in New Orleans, where Tom
Anderson is conducted from the Jail in
which he is held prisoner, under CON
yiclion for felony, in charge of the
Sheriff to the Custom House To sign Of
hcial papers AZ acting Collector of the
port. And they viii be gratified by the
announcement from Washington that if
Wells should also be convicted, 10th
these worthless will be retained in their
respective places of Surveyor and Depu-
" Collector, as an expression of the
confidence of the Administration in
their innocence and integrity TiBaeS.
Year: 1878

NEW England is again suffering from a
depresaion 7of the print cloths market
and the Manufacturer Board of Trade oii
Fall River have voted 70 close the mills
during tbe two latter weeks of the present
month and the first two weeks Of April
crowded that cooperation in the same
line can be secured from sufficiently
large number Of outside mills to insure q
reduction Of the heavy stock of print
cloths held in the country. 1t is claimed
in Fall River that leading manufacturers
throughout Now England are in favor Of
the proposed action, and will join in it.
Year: 1878

TIE San Francisco officials having spent
the allowance for the present month, were
at last accounts out Of funds, and the city
government had the prospect Of getting
along as best it could; the State Of Vir-
ginr had just $lOs in its treasury the other
day and the City Auditor, in despair, was
disposed to throw up the job of trying to
carry on the State Government with that
amount Of money, and owing to hitch
among its hnanclers, the city Of Chicago
has suspended cash payments, SO that its
creditors have to try to be satisfied with
warrants, redeemabls without interest, out
Of taxes yet to be collected. Evidently
there are number Of finan ial Solons in
various parts Of the United States whose
usefulness would be increased by a little
foresights en, Ts0 ''
Year: 1878

"SHUT Your MoUTH.''-Catlin
taught the world the Importance
of shutting the mouth and breath
ing through the nose. II would
seem that his little book, entitled
"Shut your mouth" is bearing
fruit in Germany, and where new
thoughts receive more attention
from physicians than anywhere
else in the world. Respiration by
the mouth is easier than by the
nose, but it is not SO safe. The
nose to a certain extent, fits the
air for entering the lungs. The
sense of smell warns US against
breathing an air loaded with
poisonous vapors. The moisture
of the nasal cavities to some ex-
tent saturates the air, and makes
it less irritating to the throat and
larynx. The mucus Of the nasal
passage and the hairs catch the
dust before it goes far enough to
harm. On the other hand breath
ing through the mouth dries the
throat, and in children may cause
false Group, catarrb, and it may so
effect the eustachain tube as to
cause injury to the ear and deaf
ness.
Year: 1878

A PR1zE.-"I will say but one
thing in praise Of my daughter"
said happy father at that daagh-
ter's wedding-breakfast. "She is
thorough and practical house
keeper" Could any compliment
have been higher? What an in
dorsement it was Of the good
sense and prospective comfort Of
her husband! For a man has so
much of the animal in his nature
that be cares more for a good
dinner than be does-so long as
his appetite is unappeased-to
listen to the music Of the spheres.
Heavy bread has made many
heavy hearts, given rise to dys-
pepsia and it's herd Of accompany
ing torments. Girls who desire
that their husbands should be
amiable and kind should learn to
make light bread. A story is told
of a happy wife who, when asked
how she managed her husband 50
successfully, replied, with q ro-
guish smile, "My dear, I feed him
well.". There is q great deal in
that. Those wives who are en-
tirely dependent upon hired cooks
make a sorry show at housekeep-
ing. The stomach performs a
very important part in the econo-
my of humanity ; and those who
are forgetful Of this fact commit a
serious mistake. Even the lion
may be tanned by keeping him
well-fed.
Year: 1878

Many a man whose patience might
have stood the test of coming home


and finding all the buttons of of his
shirt, just as he was going to dress


for a swell dinner at the club, or of
having his washerwoman in return for
dozen of his finest cambrics, bring
home a like number of the Vilest Man
chester cottons, would feel urged to
profanity Of the most serious charac-
ter at the idiosyncracies of the French


Post Office. I don't think that it is too
strong a qualification to say that for
insuferable stupidity and dirt the
General Post Office Department at
Jean Jacques Rousseau can scarcely


be matched in the world. If a Post
Office were simply medium for the
entertainment or convenience of the


country in which it is located, its To-
cal arrangements might answer very
well, but unfortunately it is patronized


BY Chinese and Irish, Dutchmen and
Yankees, English Fins, Russians and
Turks, and while I do not propose to
insist that the Post Office department
shall be a college of modern languages.
T do not think that it is asking too
much to demand that at least they shall
know their own. What I complain of
is not that they do not know Chinese
or Ilish, but they do not appear to
know anything else. It is not too
high an estimate to say that, at the
present time, fully one-third of the
Paris mail is directed to English
speaking people, and yet, at the
Bureau de la Grande Poste at which
which they are compelled to apply for
their letters, there is not a single
English speaking official. It is very
| possible that, in the local Offices OF
London, Manchester, New York or
Pennsylvania, you may not always be
able to find a talented and accom-
| plished French linguist, but most Ger"
| tainly either at the General Post
Office in London or New York, a
Frenchman would not find the slight
est difficulty in discovering some one
who would give him all the informa'
tion he required in his own Vernacular
Here you have to either speak French
or bring your own private interpreter
if you want penny worth Of postage
stamps. The letter-boxes, common II
the streets of less civilized lands, are


entirely unknown in Paris. You can


not post a paper at the same Office al


which you post your letter unless Ii


happens to be a Bureau de GrandE n


Poste, and one evening I arrived al


the station just as the postman' Whf


was gathering the evening mail, Wa


about closing his bags. On no con


dition could I induce him to receive


my letter, so I walked down the Ave


nue. of the Champs-Elysees along sld'


of him, nearly a half Of mile, an'


went through the ceremony of drop


ping it into the little box much to tn


satisfaction of the Post Office othcla


who no doubt. that he had taught th
Year: 1878




II child's mind is understood, it
is an easy matter to win its heart,
and impress it with what you want
TO teach. A father when he hears
his child utter a rebellious word
would do we'll to look into himself
and see II that line Of conduct was
not suggested to the child by exam
pie in his or her home, In educa-
tion there are few systems Of teach
ing children which are rational or
which meet the conditions and ne
cessities Of childhood. We are apt
TO call a child lazy when the fact is
We are not smart enough to interest
IL or engage It's mind. There is q
rational way of educating them. In
the first instance study a ohild'S
mind and win It's heart in the sec
Ond, study the boy or girls inclina-
tions, and tho mental direction
which their tastes lead them into
This is the way to bring upchildten,
putting il simply
Year: 1878

Col. j. NJ. Keating, of the Memphis
appeal, writes as follows from w ash
ington to that paper:


It was stated by the New York


World recently that the Postmaster
General had said. in the course of an
interview, that, if called upon, he
was prepared to step down and out
Of his present comfortable position.
and. as the nominee for Governor OF
the Observation-Disclosures of Tennes
see, take the stump and do whatever
he could to stem the current that


within a year, has swept the Legis-
lature very fast toward the grea
ocean of repudiation. To satisfy
myself of the truth Of this statement.
and ohtain some expression on Col.
Savage's very savage letter on re-
ported interview with the Postmaste er
General and the correspondent Of o
Cincinnati paper, l called on that
gentleman to-day and, calling bis
attention to the Worlds statement.
he promptly and fatty denied ever
having had any interviews, either
with New York or a Cincinnati pa
per's correspondent, or any one else.
He is not. and does not expect to be
a candidate for Governor--does not
want TO be--preferring. as he says,
TO be a Cabinet officer, at a salary
of ten thousand dollars year, with
comparative freedom from the tur-
moil and broils of politics, To the
bully-ragging and abuse of a cam
paign that promises to be one of ex-
ceptionM bitterness, and that, too,
for an Office that has nothing but its
dignities to repay or compensate for
the trial. He said that he had,
when spoken 10 in regard to State
affairs, expressed himself freely, and,
as to the State debt, had always
maintained the views he had given
at length in his letter TO Gov. Por-
ter. In sympathy with the people,
he said he had excused their eager
ness to ease themselves of their load
Of debt, on account of their great
losses by the war and their present
poverty, and the general impairment
of all classes Of business interests.
In doing this. he also said that it
was owing TO this feeling and cOndl-
ton of the people that gentlemen
like Mr.. A. S. COlyar and Col. Saw
age had attained to so much impor-
tance in State affairs. He did not
reflect upon them for want of service
in the army, or for their poverty.
Nor did he intend to reflect upon
them in any sense such as warranted
Savage in his very severe castiga-
tion. Mr., Key was very good ma.
tured about it, and, though treating
it quite as seriously as it deserved,
expressed himself unwilling to break
the silence he had imposed upon
himself as to personal attacks by
political opponents. Mr.. Key will
not be candidate for Governor.
Without a party to support him, to
enter the field under the critical cir
cumstances which necessarily will
attend the next canvass, would be
TO commit political suicide and blast
whatever prospects he nay have in
the future. He is too mnch in love
with his present place. Neverthe-
less, think he will try and make
himself felt.
Year: 1878


Singing wild song to the sea;
And bold the burden that it bore,
And sWeeter than all else to me
So sweet, Gagged the bird to hear
His magic minstrelsy so near.e.-.ss
Untamed, the captiYe's swelling throat
In one sad song his whole soul cast;
Too well know his loveiest note


Had been his last.
And yet, while memory hath power
To count the hours toe vainly spent,
The fragrance of that faded flower,
That harp's last dying music blent
With the wild birds weird death song,


will


Haunt every waking moment still
Teaching my heart the bitter cost
OF all the eye of hope hath seen,
Ofall that life had won and lost
~ aa That might have been.
-Tinsley's Magazine.
Year: 1878

Or unknown power to reef was brought
A man, and there abandoned pityless;
be does not know the roads, how anxious he


them sought
That let him hither to such deep distress.
What he is there for, he can't comprehend


it.
Hd steps ahead and there!-abysses all around
And no affectionate hand to help him TO es-


cape.
The endless sea, the ether without bound,
The stars he asks: "Where am I? Tell nv


fater-


In vain! Stars, sea and ether remain


silent.
And constantly he must expect the night
In which the same mysterious power that


brought him there
Once on strange paths, now might
Take him away again. Where to?
His spirit can't conceive it.
Year: 1878

Nv dearest thoughts unite to name you friend,
You who have given me Of your heart and


mind


In rich profusion, till fear to find
Your generous love grown weary in the end;
Rut well IL Is that our two lives should blend,
Like leaves by tranquil breezes interwlned-
For we are of a sad, communing kind
Who love strange gods and wander as they


Wend.
Through all the growth of time you have not


lost


That faith in what my life has vaguely told
In words that falter with the weight OF


song;
The world may marvel little at the cost
Wherewith a human heart Is bought or


sold


Yet we have learned it wisely and are


strong.
Year: 1878

Men can not daunt me with their petty rage,
Nor sorrow kill me, for laugh at both,
AS one who feels within his soul the growth
OF power which is the glory of the sage;
i am standard bearer of my age
And march in serried columns, nothing


loath


To fight like any hero for his oath,
Or like an emperor for his heritage.
In the cold night times o. my life 1 see
Faint forms of splendor borne through star


Lit space


On white, diaphanous wings that never


tire;
Then forget the earth and seem to be
One of that pure and dream begOtten race
Whose love is sweet air and strong as
Year: 1878


The moonlight glimmering over throbblng
seas


The stars aglow in myriad paths of night
The solemn grandeur of some mountain
height
The gentle sweep of murmurous forest trees
The faint, ethereal muse of the breeze
And all familiar sounds that mark the night
OF dawn beyond the circle Of our sight
And dreams exhaled like dew from grassy
leas:


We see and hearand feel like souls made one,
For one brief hour, in purity OF grace,
And in desire that yearns for wings 10 ny;
We have forgotten time, whose moments run
To the low wailings of a weeping race
That sees not any hope beneath the SKY.


III-DISCOURAGEME
All! there are times when my sweet years of
youth


Seem chilled at heart, like flowers of early
Nipped by the icy frost in blossoming;.
When grace and beauty seem deformed, un-
couth,
And love unlovely a dream of ruth;
When all the songs that have lived to sing,
Sound hollow as the cold and cherries ring
OF mockery on the resonant air of truth.
Yet hone returns in some sad hour of thought,
And with a soul grown strong In death
rise,


And walk the earth with calm, heroic
tread;
Then, like a bird, my heart goes out unsought,
To the free splendor of the dropping skies,
And to the august glory of the dead.
Year: 1878

Don't talk too much; you may make
your pupils think you are wise, but the
chances are that you will never make
them so. If some pupil is turning
around, or whispering to his neighbor,
don't call the attention of the whole
school to the matter; 1t is enough that
the few who are near should be disturb
ed. If pupil drops pencil, or passes
book, don't visit the act with superla-
tive wrath; what will you do when a
graver offense is committed?


See that your pupils do not use words
of whose meaning they are ignorant
A word is the sign of an idea" No
merchant puts out sign till his goods
have come.


See that your pupils understand prin-
ciples before you call for rules. They
should be able to make rules, not to say
them.


Cultivate self-reliance in your pupils.
Too much help is worse than too little.
Lead your pupils, don't carry them.


Correct ungrammatical expressions in
the arithmetic class as we'll as in the
grammar class. Let every lesson Of the
day be language lesson. Above all see
that your own pronunciation is correct,
and your language grammatical and free
from slang


If you wish your pupils to become
good penmen, see that they write their
spelling and other exercises as careful
ly as they do the lessons in their copy
books.
Year: 1878

Singing-I don't mean theory of
singing, has the advantage of diffusing
JOY in the school-room, and of forming
generations that are gay. Graces, uni
ted to piety, reign in school animated
by gayety and love; they Danish from it
sombre and morose spirit. And there
fore am careful to choose songs that
breathe serenity and joy; simple as ma
ture, both as to the words and the mel
ody, which the children of both sexes
can sing at school, at the domestic fire.
side, in the fields, and even in the soli-
tary cabins and chalets of the mountains;
songs which mother can repeat at the
cradle of her child. And, finally, I add
to them some national songs proper to
elevate the soul


Geography-A child always has
trouble in reading map when he comes
to it too abruptly, without its being pre-
ceded BY typographical plan, which
should De partly landscape, and hold q
medium place between the land and the
map. The first map ought to be that
Of the canton township or State), and
the child should endeavor to sketch 1t;
when he can help himself, he must be
left to 60 alone. 1t is on the native
soil that the first lesson of geography
should be taken. The child should first
seize and reflect upon all that surrounds
him, so as to possess the points of COM
parison he may hereafter need to pic
ture to himself the earth and the hu.
man that inhabits it. With such pre-
liminary knowledge, he can then easily
pass from the known to the unknown.


History.-The child should learn, in
his history lessons, to respect human
nature, and to interest himself in that
vast family from which he has inherit
ed many things, and to which he owes
In the march of human affairs, one
makes him discover the ways of provi-
dence to lead him to resignation. The
facts Of the case are thus connected,
they lend each other mutual support,
and knowledge becomes rational We
believe that it is exclusively reserved
for history to give to the pupil a majes-
tic idea of time, which is only retraced
worthily, and without effort in the sue
cession Of ages and events.


Natural History.-Educatlon ought
to give to the child the knowledge of
himself, that of the nature which sur
rounds him, and of the society in the
midst of which he is called to live and
labor. The finest and most necessary
study is that of Man. The more our re-
CARDS are drawn outside by our necessi-
ties and the objects that strike us every
moment, the more education ought to
bring them back to ourselves; otherwise
we shall remain as strangers in our own
dwelling.


CiUic Instructions is vigorously
required in States that are Loyalty pop
ular, or of the people. If it develops
the rights of the citizen, it derives
them, as is quite proper, from his du-
ties as man and member Of society.
Year: 1878

When we are young we waste great
deal of time in imagining what we will
do when we grow older, and when We
are old we waste an equal amount of
time in wondering why we waited SO
long before we began to do anything.