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Year: 1877

A Dutch preacher, one evening, held a
meeting in strange city. While he was
preaching and enforcing upon the hearts of
his hearers the doctrine of the cross police
officer came into the room and forbade him
to go on; he even commanded him to leave
the city. As he was a stranger i'll the place,
aud the night was dark, he wandered around
the city gates. He was not, however, with
out consolation for he remembered him
who had said, "Lo | am with you Away,
even unto the end of the world" Though
| walk through the valley of the shadow of
death | will fear no evil, for thou art with
me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me-"
He had long been in the school of Christ,
and had learned to watch for the slightest
intimations of his will. While he was thus
wandering around suddenly he saw light
in the distance. See," he said to himself,
perhaps the Lord has provided me shelter
there" and in the simplicity of faith he
directed his steps thither. On arriving he
heard a voice in the house, and as he drew
nearer he discovered that man was pray
ing. Joyful, he hoped that he had found
here the home of a brother. He stood still
for moment, and heard these words poured
forth from an earnest heart: "Lord Jesus
they have driven thy prosecuted servant ont
OF the city, and he is perhaps wandering at
this moment in strange place, of which he
knows nothing. Oh, may he find my home,
that he may receive here food and lodging"
The preacher, having heard these words,
glided into the house, and as soon as the
speaker said "Amen," he saw his prayer
answered. Both fell on their knees and
together thanked the Lord, who is a hearer
of prayer, and who never leaves nor forsakes
his servants Christian Era.
Year: 1877

take no thought for the morrow" that
is, no anxious, fretful thought. Walk
through to-day as well as you can, and God
will undertake for your future. When you
go forward out of to-day, TO worry about to-
morrow, you are over the fence, you are
and God will scourge you back
into your own lot. When have been fish
ing in mountain stream, have always
found that so long as ! kept short line
could manage my fishing very well but
when | let my line run out, the stream took
it down, and there was, at the mercy of
every stick that stuck up in the stream, and
every rock that jutted out from the banks.
! lost my fish, and tangled my line; very
likely lost my footing also, and got over
head and ears in the stream. Now, most
men have cast out their line into life forty
years long, when it ought 10 be but one day
long. In consequence, they are not able to
manage their tackle at all but are pulled
after it, stumbling first into this hole, and
then into that slipping up here, and slip
ping down there, struggling and splashing
about in far more distressed fashion than
the fish at the other end of the line-and, as
a general thing, there is no fish there. Haul
in your line l-Selecied
Year: 1877

Poor EcoNoMY.-In cutting down the
salary of school commissioners, without re-
lieving them of the duties imposed upon them
by law, the legislature did very little thing.
Under the new law the school commissioner
gets three hundred dollars for doing what no
man on the continent could properly do for
less than twelve hundred dollars. Let us
look at the statute defining the duties of the
school commissioner: He has to visit all the
schools in the county at least three times dur
ing each term examine the instructors and
pupils; note the character and condition of
the buildings; make suggestions to the differ
ent boards of trustees encourage the forma-
tion of teachers associations, advise, instruct,
conduct and manage them, he shall deliver
public lecture in each of the school districts
during the year; report all of the operations
of each one of the schools under his charge,
and for the non.performance Of his duties
shall forfeit his salary and be liable for all
damages resulting from his neglect or failure
to discharge the duties imposed upon him.
The legislature has placed it beyond the pow
or of the school commissioner to do his duties.
They give him three hundred dollars and ex.
pect him to do the work of ten men for moth.
ing This is bit of parsimony in which We;
can see no sense and for which there is no ex-;
cuse. It would be better to abolish the pub.
lie schools than expect to run them on such
q scale.-AbbeviWs Medium.
Year: 1877

SALT FOR CABBAeE.-A New Jersey
gardner considers salt necessary to the
development of cabbage, especially in
places far from the coast. He finds them
more crisp, of better favor and to keep
better when salt is used than without,
He uses it as follows: A few days after
setting out the plants, and when they
are damp, either after a rain, or when
the dew is on, take small dish Of fine
salt, and walking among the rows,
sprinkle p ;nch of salt on the centre of
each plant. When the leaves begin to
grow, l repeat the sailing, and when the
centre Of the leaves begin to form the
head l apply salt again, scattering it
over the leaves. After this, look them
over occasionally, and if 1 find plants
that do not head well, or appear diseased,
l sprinkle the salt over freely. This will
save all such plants. A quart of salt is
sufficient for five hundred plants in a
season, although more can he used with
safety
Year: 1877

The extracts from the forthcoming
message OF the President, setting forth
his views upon specie resumption and
! the restoration of silver coin to Its O d
position in our monetary system, which
were printed at length in Saturday
morn ng's REGISTER, are acknowl.
edged to be authentic. Mr.. r. RcDGERs,
the Presidents Private Secretary, says
they must have been surrepticiously
| procured when the message was
under consideration in the Cabinet, but
we suspect that the truth will show that
the extra proof was obtained from the
Treasury printing Office by the use OF
Wall street gold. Whatever may be
said of the views expressed on the ques-
tion of resumption, we think no one will
deny that the views upon the remor eti
zation of silver are superficial and the
conclusions unwarfsnted by the fact, In
the case. His objections TO the re.lorsuon
OF silver are contained in this one SEN
tence:


at the United States government were
free IRON public debt, its Legislative deal
ing With the question OF silver coinage
would be purely sovereign and govern
mental, under no restraints but those Ct
constitutional power and the public
good as sfected by the proposed legi,la
tion, but IN the actual CirCumstanCo, 0!
the nation, with vast pubic debt dis
tributed very widely among our ow
citizens, and held III great amounts also
abroad, the nature q the silver coinage
measure as affecting this relation OF the
govern meuL 10 the holders 0. the public
debt, becomes m element in any pro
posed legislation OF The highest concern


That would be well enough in isc:,
eminently sound-it the proposition Was
to bestow upon silver the quality of
money now for the first time, or if silver
had not occupied the precise position
now sought to be gwen 1t at the time of
the creation OF this debt. The debt was
contracted IN greenbscks and on green
back basis, but by an act Of Congress
passed after the bonds were sold, the ma
iority OF the debt was made payable in
coin-god and silver. Upon this basis
sll OF the Temalning bonds were



marketed. Il was after this that
the silver com was abstrscted
from our currency. Good faith to the
debtor and simple Justice TO the creditor,
demand that the contract be observed.
The chan ge, by which silver was ban
isbed, was fraud and violation o
isith. Public credit can only be main
tanned by doing exact justice. The peo-
pie have been swindled in the interest of
the bondholder. Unless that swindle
is righted, the pendulum will swing ss
lar the other way. l. is not TO the i'll
.erest Of the boudbolder that this wrong
be perpe.uated.
Year: 1877

A Lowers QuARREL.-A young man
and maiden from one of the remote
townships in this county, started for
basket meeting, and allowed to get
married before their return home.
However, on their way to the
grounds, among their small talk,
she playfully said he had ears like a
mule. He retorted that if his ears
were large he had no kidneys in his
feet. Then she got mad and told
him that if her feet did not suit him
that she knew o fellow they did
suit, and jumping out of his buggy,
she left him to mediate on the un-
certainties of life, and walked back
home.


Every inch OF her n queen,


Tho the shoes she wore were marked IL
Year: 1877

ARIZONA STEAKS. s.-Dan De guile
tells this: Needless, the we'll
known tragedian, says that during q
late professional trip in the wilds of
Arizona he was obliged to pay a
dollar for his tri-weekly meal, and
came near starving to death even
when he paid in that priGcely style.
Why" said Needles, down there
they put on your plate little round
BIT Of beefsteak only so big"--de-
scrihing circle in the palm Of his
hand about the size Of q nickel
then it's so tough that one might
bolt it whole. I at first thought
they were playing off q joke on me,
but, looking on the plates of the
others, I saw that all had the same.
After leaving the table happened
to saunter around to the shed that
served as o kitchen, and there I saw
the cook with piece of meat spread
on a block, diligently engaged in
punching out the steaks with mall
ct and wad-cutter."
Year: 1877

1t makes the preacher awful mad to
be fumbling with the intricaces of a
front gate fastening, trying, to get in and
make his first pastoral call, to have the
woman of the house turn Stats in the
BAY window and call out "We haven't
got no old clothes to give away, and
there amt cold vlttle ia the house ~
Year: 1877

SETTING THE LAW AT DEFIANCE
1t seems that the laws are clearly against
the Presidents proposed action to main
tain the army after the appropriations
therefor have been exhausted. And it is
asserted that these appropriations will be
exhausted on the 30th of June. Congress
has been called to meet on the 10th Of
October, three and a-half months after
the expiration of the time for which pro-
vision has heen made for the payment of
the soldiers. If the President will take
the matter into his own hands as com
mander-in-chief of the army and discharge
large part of it subsisting the balance
as best he can with the means within his
reach, thus showing the country that he
is devoted to economy and the interests
of the whole people, we think. he would
be excused and sustained.


Bat if it should be shown that he has
set the laws at defiance ,and without regard
to the interests of the country continues to
quarter twenty seven thousand troops
upon the people when there is no author
ity for it, he can scarcely hope to escape
censure from either party; and will thus
place himself at the mercy OF his enemies
in his own party who, II is evident, are
only waiting for an opportunity TO assai
him with the heaviest blows they can
command, So far their blows may be
parted or weakened by the fact that he
has to some extent met the wishes of the
conservative masses. And the blows
aimed by Blaine, Phillips, Wade and
others fall so heavily upon the real inter-
ests or the country that they are laughed
at by the people, and Mr.. Hayes has been
strengthened by the threats of such Rad
icals.


But Congress intended to cortail the
army and it properly refused to vote
large appropriations, in order that the ex-
travagant outlays should be checked, and
it will be no light thing for the President,
in face of the known wishes and DISPOSE
tion OF Congress TO economic, to run into
such waste as the subsisting of so large a
force for more than quarter Of the next
fiscal year will certainly prove. Such
action would at once prevent the very
object which Democratic Congress had
in view, viz; the reduction of expenses
for the next fiscal year. 1t would Ger
tainly be the means of the country,
losing several millions of dollars, anC
this, at this time. is great matter.
Year: 1877

CoURT.-Court is now fairly under
way at New Castle. The charge Of Chief
Justice Comegys to the Grand Jury in
Kent county and Judge Houston's yes
terday, are regarded with high favor, and
show that the courts OF our State have
high appreciation of the efforts of the
moral portion Of our people, and that the
judiciary mean to do their full duty to-
ward advancing the cause of justice and
right.
Year: 1877

The only national policy implied BY Mr..
TILpEN's candidacy in which the South
ern policy holders felt any direct interest
was that of withdrawing the arm OF ex'
ecutive interference in their affairs, and
letting the local governments pass from
the propertyless carpet baggers
and negroes into the hands OF
the white owners of the ceun-
try. For this the solid South would
have supported any candidate OF any
party name, if his candidacy had been
understood to mean this result. This
fact made the Southern property-holders
so active and zeslous in support OF TIL
DEN before the election, and the same
fact after the election was as effectively
used to forward the conspiracy to seat
HAYES upon fraudulent reversal OF the
outcome in those States where the car
pet-bag governments were in absolute
control. HAYES has gained what he
wanted, the Presidency, and the South
ern whites have accomplished what they
wanted, the control of their local govern
ments.
Year: 1877

PHILADELPHIA, March 2.-Arrapge-
ments are in pro gress for great insug-
ural union prayer meeting to be held IN
this city on Sunday next, IN response to
wish OF President-elect Hayes, asking
that the people would pray that divine
assistance and guidance might be vouch-
ssfed to him in the discharge of his duties
as Chief Executive OF the nation, and the
hope Is expressed that similar meetiL gS
will be held throughout the country to
the end that peace and prosperity may
be restored TO our nation.
Year: 1877

Not long since negro wrs caught steal.
ing COW in Pike county, Miss. Tho par
ties who caught him cut the COW open and
placed him inside of her, took grass rope
and sewed him in securely, leaving only bis
head out. In this manner he remained for
four days, when he was discovered, nearly
dead. He said that 1t was all he could do
70 keep the buzzards from picking his eyer
out.
Year: 1877

1.-TWO and two never make
more than four, said q public
speaker. Yes, they do, = cried
u boy in the audience. Perhaps
our young friend will kindly tell
US when two and two make more
than four, blandlv said the
speaker whereupon the boy
cried. when they're side by
side-shen they make twenty
two, don't they 2.
Year: 1877

A Russian peasant was travelling in
a sleigh along the bank Of the Pruth
not long ago, and his wife and four
children were with hin. Suddenly
they we're pursued by pack of wolves
The peasant whipped his horses, but
soon prcceived that the wolves were
gaining upon him. When the hungry
beasts were on each side Of the sleigh
the worthy peasant seized his Youngest
child and threw in tho midst of his
pursuers, and while they were strug.
Cling over their prey he lashed his
horses and gained gronud. Four times
the wolves came up with the ingitives,
aud each time child was thrown to
them. At last the peasant and his
wife arrived at the nearest village,
leaving behind them the bones;of their
four children. The mother went be.
fore judge and made . complaint
against her husband for abandoning
his childrnd to the wolves. but the
peasant was acquitted on the ground
that he was trying 70 save his wifc'a
life. The old lady may have had mis-.
givings that if the village had been q
mile further on he would have pitched
her into the snow after the children ia
order to protect himself, and hence
her gratitude *aa lukewarm,
Year: 1877

Some claim that baking Is the re-
suit OF improper education, but no one
who will carefully investigate the trou
bic can fail to believe that the disposi :
ton Of the animal has much to do with
it. IF a horse balks once and is whip
ed for it. the chances are that he will
balk again, and If this remedy is re-
pcated,y tried, the bad habit is con :
6rmed. In nine cases out Of ten, the
entire absence Of anything like whip,
or cross language, and the presence Of
anything which will give the animal a
new idea or take his attenti~n n from the
trouble, will usually cause him to start
promptly. In some cases, simply rails
ing one fore. foot until the horse starts
will answer the purpose; in others, a
string tied tightly around one ear will
produce the Same effect; a rag OF
bunch Of cotton stuffed into one ear,
a string tied tightly around the fore leg
q small rope tied around the root OF
the tail passed in front between the
fore legs and drawn tight. all seem to
have one and the same effect Of taking
the horses attention and diverting il
from baking. In many cases the
trouble is caused by nervousness on
the part Of the driver which is easily
communicated to the animal, and eau
be remedied BY allowing the animal to
stand quiet until the trouble is forgot
ten. In any case, the whip is the
worst remedy than can be tried, and
its improper use is probably tue mos'
prolific cause Of the difficulty.
Year: 1877

PEsrs OF THE FARM The common
black bird is generally condemned
pest, but many are inclined to think
them beneficial Many Of them have
lived on our place for years. After
close observations, I am forced to the
conclusion that they do vastly more
good than harm. They destroy many
grubs, worms, and other insects.
They follow the plow lndustriously,
and pick up all grnbs and worms ex.
posed by the plow and cultlvator.
They daily, early and late, examine
the gardens and fields 70. their favor
ite food, and they seldom, if ever, eat
any fruit. The only injury they have
done us is to pick the ripening corn
aud grain and even in this way they
haYe done very little harm. On the
whole, we hail them as co-workers
rather than pests.-C Rural World
Year: 1877

Says the New York Graphic: SO
far We have enjoyed our boasts Of our
increasing beef trade with Euland.
Bat no rose is without thorn. A
dismail vail is commenced to be heard
at home. Our own prime joints and
roasts are given out, and even now are
difficult to procure. Only the best
cattle are shipped to England. None
60 under fourteen hundred pounds
weight. Forty-6ve thousand Of such
cattle have already crossed the Allan
tic. John Bull Is literally taking the
fat Of eur land and leaving us only the
lean, and "ths trade Is only in its In
fancy"
Year: 1877

We have no definite returns from
the State at large but it is certain that
the result is against the adoption of
the Amendment. The majority is
stated at $4,000 and is probably,
pretty cc.rect estimate. 1t is not the
result we desired and we do not be
lieve that it was the bes, thing for the
people to do, but they evidently did
and We have nothing further to say.
Year: 1877

While our City Councils are discuss.
ing needed reform in the city charter and
city government, they may do we'll to
consider whether it is not desirable to
concentrate a little more responsibility in
the hands OF the executive officer of the
city. In all governments, whether ma
tionsl, state or municipal, one OF the
most vicious defects is q mixed and ILL.,
defined responsibility. If the enforce
ment of the laws is divided between two
or more persons, or devolved upon COM
Missions" il is impossible to fix the blame
for misconduct or inefticiency upon any
tne officer. Divided responsibility is the
very essence of responsibility. The
officers subordinate to the executive, be
he Mayor or Governor, ought to be sp-
pointed by their chief. Otherwise
there is confusion in the government,
because chief and subordinate deriv-
ing their authority from the same
source, (election by the people, there
arises necessarily n division of response
bility, and the public business suffers
The business Of government does not
differ in this respect from that of n mer-
chant or a railroad company; and no
merchant could successfully conduc! his
business if his clerks. bookkeeper, and
porters were appointed and removable,
not by himself, but by his customers.


1t is no part of the lswmsking branch
of a government to either expound or
enforce its laws; neither has it any bust
ness with the appointment Of any officer
belonging to either the judicial or execu-
tive departments. Only the chief
executive officer should be elected by the
people; and upon him should be placed
the grave responsibility OF selecting the
subordinates by whose hep he is to carry
on The public business. II then he fails,
he may isirly be held responsible BY the
people, ana punished TO- his dereliction.


A careful review Of the whole subjec1
may bring the members or Council to
see that it may be wisdom TO ask the
Legislature to so amend tho city charter



as to make the Mayora responsible OIL
er, and then vote him salary for At
tending to the business of the city. We
hAve no doubt but an investigation of
thu question, iu all it, bearings, will con.
vince any intelligent gentleman thst both
bitter and more economical govern
met can be had in this way.
Year: 1877

A correspondent of the London Lancet,
who owns water power mills, writes: L
am frequently compelled, at this season
of the year, to have men working in
water even in frosty weather. [ find the
following allowance gives great satisfac-
ton to the men, and we never have a
case of cold or injury to the men in any
way Kettle OF coffee, made with half
sweet milk, half water, three or four eggs
whipped poured into it when off the
boil hot toasted bread with plenty of
butter of the finest quality. Serve up
this every two and half hours. The
expense is much less than the usual
allowance of whisky, and the men work
far better, and if care is taken to have
the coffee, milk (cream is still better,
bread. and especially the butter, OF the
very finest quality, the men are delighted
with it. I am persuaded it would be
worth while to try this allowance instead
of grog. Giving extra grog gives the men
a notion that it is good for them, and
perpetuates the belief in stimulants
among workingmen.
Year: 1877

The correspondent of the London
Ners writes Our company Is made up
of Servians, Russians, a Frenchman, a
Swiss, Prussian, an Austrian and a
Croat, so that we are rather polyglot
crew. The thatch of the barrack swarms
with mice, which have festive habit
of dropping down on the sleeper's face,
and they have been accused, [ cannot
say with what justice, of attempting to
nestle in boards. The Russians have a
perfectly frantic horror of mice. L have
seen veteran who would not turn his
head at an exploding shell, Jump from
his bed in tie middle of the night In a
paroxysm of fear, and, drawing his
sword, make frantic cuts and passes at
the spot where he believed his tormen-
tors we're harboring. have seen another
rush out into the cold night air because
a mouse ran across his face, and refuse
to re-enter till the break of day. Gen.
Douchtouroff, who used to be one OF the
inhabitants of our barracks, immigrated
altogether on account of the mice, and
fitted up for himself rough tente d'abri
behind it, into which he crept nightly
without undressing, and slept there till
the wind wrecked his habitation, when
he had to go into winter quarters III the
Chancellerie. Mice abound there, TOO,
but he fights against them by the device
of having his lion bedstead In the mid
die OF the room, and he does not so much
mind their playing on the hoor under
him.
Year: 1877

1t was only voice that swept through the hall
n accents responsive to somebody's call,


From form that did not see;
But the door stood ajar, and the sound made


way,


As the musical rhythm asserted its sway,


And fatefully foated to me.
At first it was only thrilling surprise,
Inviting the soul from its slumber to rise


After toll of tedious day
And the paper and pencil seemed tired, too,
And suggested the artists labor was through,


Til Lit by the mornings ray.
But the spell of that voice was potent spell,
And its musical cadences rose and fell
.. In dreams and in days ecstacy;
Till the brain gave heed to no other tone,
And the soul was in bondage to that alone,


Nor mourned for its liberty.
We have never met-but that voice so clear
With its marvellous melody smote my ear,


As loves own revei le;
And till heart throbs are silenced by deaths


tattoo,
That voice I shall hear, and the long sleep


through,


Be the call to eternity.