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Year: 1879

tidn Advocate delivered address from q strictly
business STANDPOINT. He said that the question OF
saving this world Is question OF dollars and CENTS
Ihe test OF mans character the speaker
believed to be the dollar mark. When man is not
tested to the depths of his pocket he not tested
deep enough to be saved. II man at baptism does
not go deep enough in the water to get his pocket
book under he mas not been dipped enough to save
him. The reverend gentleman made an exceedingly
strong appeal for funds to support the association.
assuring his hearers that their money much
needed. A collection then taken up for that
object. and the gathering dispersed.
Year: 1879

In article in the HERALD Of Saturday headed
Tempest Tossed" Captain Foster. Of the steamship
Morea made to say that "the had to work
six hours at the pumps" Captain Foster says that
the statement s incorrect. as his vessel is and
entirely seaworthy
Year: 1879

SERMON BY REV. DR. W. II. DAVIS IN THE


MADISON AVENUE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.


Taking for his text the language of the Psalinist.
'Great peace have they who love the Law. and moth


ing shall offend them" Rev. DR.. Davis at the Madi-
son Avenue Congregational Church, preached an im-
pressve discourse. The age, said he. is one in
every way of strain and effort and pay terrible
cost. Lunatic asylums built and prisons en-
larged tomorrow is mortgaged for the responsbli-
ties of to-day and still the frantic appeal is for
something great. We applaud the simple picture
of the past and go copying the less lovely
picture OF the present. and if ever calm
comes again to this country it must be through tho
presence OF God In mans heart. No human plan
can bring duietude and peace. Human life gets no
blessedness of calm unless it comes out or divine
life and is recognized by divine law. All peace has
its basis in law and therefore turns upon obedience
man may seem to have peace at home, yet he 10
tossed with tempest in his soul. II there be peace
in human life 1t must originate in the centre OF life,
and, working out make word and deed peaceful An
eagle has peace when he flies from his crag
and bathes in the sunhood. Man has his peace when
he answers the commands OF tho law; his body has
peace when observes natures laws; his mind has
peace he CLEANS and reaps here. mans soul has
peace when the divine law has control or it.
God puts law in mans spiritual nature and q
man has peace when he Is obedient to this law.
The pastor spoke OF the necessity OF obedience to
the divine law to perfect peace and said that
unless by the law Of our mind life and our heart
life We arc obedient to God We can have no peace.
Proceeding to consider the necessity of love OF the
law the preacher said that the greatness of peace
comes by love we'll as obedience to divine law.
The law may not be loved while it is obeyed. and
one can have the greatness OF peace who does not
love it WE'LL When peace is fulfilled In the heart
there is bond between it and other hearts, and
souls are united in fellowship and love. 1t is i'm
possible, he said to have the calm of peace and be
bitter and overbearing. The fact that a man
is obedient to divine law and love Will make HIM
love others. and carry peace to other souls. By
this means should be brought into q community
OF peace and love.
Year: 1879

turned from their green to all the brilliant
colors of the fall-russet. ruby and gold. The view
across the lake particularly fine. the still water
rejecting the bright hues OF the foliage to perfec
tion. The evidences of neglect on every hand We're
numerous and painful and made many of the vsi-
tors think that the prospects for the Park very
blue.
Year: 1879

PREscorr, February 2.-The Lcgis- laturc adjourned Saturday without doing much business.

 The bill tO remove the capital will be the special order for tomorrow. On account of some combinations it is feared it cannot pass, although there may be changes yet favorable.

 The Hughes election law bill was introduced in the Council yesterday.

 The Kirkpatrick mining bill is still with the House committee. There is some objection to it and it may not pass.

 Will send full report of proceed. ings tomorrow.
Year: 1879

THERE is no subject of morals or
fact or philosophy or progress which
the daily newspaper does not discuss.
There Is nothing which man may learn
and nothing that he would do in refer
ence to which he may not gain lntor-
nation through ever changeful pages
of the newspaper. 1t is the most
capacious library that exists and min
listers as much to culture and progress,
by making the multitude talk and
think, as the most didactic and logical
schoolmaster. None keep abreast with
the times who do not peruse every day
thoughtful ewspaper and yet we are
told that there are people affecting cul-
ture and refinement they do not pos
sess, who toss the newspaper aside with
lmpatience and speak of it with con-
tempt as coarse and plebeian thing
made for the vulgar multitude. They
look upon it as Of little account except
in some period of excitement when the
whole community waits with breath
less anxiety for the newest informa-
tion. They do not know that some of
the ablest lntellects of the day are con-
nected with journalism, and that the
cream of the richest contemporary lit
ersture is given to the public in the
papers of the day. The man who ig
nores the daily newspaper, loses the
living record of the time, the history
of his generation. He loses all the
fresh informition, the important
knowledge, the accounts of persons
and events, the story of discovery and
adventure, of calamity and crime, of
generosity and heroism with which its
columns teen. He loses what is more
than any of all these, the sympathetic
life of the age, of which he is a part,
and without which he is leaf broken
from the stem and dying, even though
apparently alive.
Year: 1879

Among the contributions mentioned in the second annual report are twenty eight prairie-dogs. In time these enter prising little creatures burrowed out of their inclosure under wall fourteen feet deep, and took possession of fine slope of lawn near the superintendent's office in the old Penn mansion called Solitude" and they bravely held it until last fall, when the old inclosure was dug out and paved with flags, and now it once more confines them. To catch them the holes were flooded, and the poor little creatures taken as they came up, half drowned. Their colony is one of the most interesting things in the garden. At any time almost you might see dozens of these active little animals popping in and out of their holes, uttering their peculiar cry-some- thing like the half-suppressed bark of the dog-to which probably they owe their name. Their increase begins to alarm the society. Something must be done, and it is very difficult to catch them. Some newly-forming geological garden applied to the Fairmont Park institution for prairie-dogs. This was while they held possession of the lawn. The re- quest was most willingly granted, but the catching required four men and about as many days, and then only three or four were secured.

 There is popular belief in the West that the burrowing owl. the prairie-dog, and the rattlesnake live together in great harmony. It is probable that the snake "invades the home of the dog for the purpose of feeding upon the young, while the owl, to save itself the trouble of digging its own habitation, takes possession of the deserted burrows which are left in the gradual change of loca- tion continually going on among the dogs" Two borrowing owls were once introduced into the inclosure of the dogs at the Philadelphia garden. and the result was a desperate fight, in which the owls were finally killed, their wings having been clipped so that they could not fly away. This hardly shows har- mony between the two. The prairie dog and the porcupine are among the animals that require no water.-M. Ho,c- and, in HaTpei.'s Magazine.
Year: 1879

From the parlor or roller skate has been evolved curious device called pedo- motor. The apparatus is practically a sandal shod with wheels, and is designed to assist the lame and halt in walking and the ordinary walker in making good time. The sandal is provided with four wooden wheels bound with rubber, two on each side, and when strapped to the boot gives the wearer firm footing. From the toe projects a point or supple mentary toe, shod with rubber, and at the heel is a similar projection almost touching the ground and shod with leather. In using these wheeled sandals the ordinary walking step is taken, on foot giving the body a slight push with the pusher, or toe, while the other foot rests fiat on the four wheels. The result obtained is greatly heightened stride, as the sandal rolls forward under the in- fuence of the push, and the walker practically gets over much more ground and with less exertion than in ordinary shoes. The pedo-motor~i reported to give good walker speed of twelve miles an hour over good sidewalks, and while the apparatus may be regarded as mechanical curiosity, it is worthy some attention on account of it's promises for the future. The roller skate was the re- suit of innumerable inventions and patents before it was perfected, and,

 like manner. this wheeled sandal ma

 cad in time to something yalue.- Sc1.ihaaer
Year: 1879

There are no data which tell positively when that useful invention, the alarm clock, came into vogue. It is likely that there were no alarm-clocks in the last century. People were not in such a hurry those days as they are now. They were quite content to have their "news'' two months old, and make the same ex- tensive preparations for a journey of 300 miles that we would to make tour of tEe globe at present. The numbering and reliable old stagecoach came along at seasonable hours, and there was no ne- cessity of an alarm-clock to terrify people into catching a morning train. It is likely that the first alarm-clock was the offspring of the rage of the man who was as usual at seven o'clock. Early trains are to blame for the alarm-clock There has been little improvement in alarm clocks from the first one that rung in the startled ear of night until the present time. But lately desire has been ex- pressed for clock that will make a man get up or else make his life burden to him. Suppose man wants to catch that unearthly train that leaves the Central depot at four o'clock in the morning. He sets the alarm dial at three A. M and winds up the striker. He goes to bed with strong inward conviction that the thing won't go off, and that he will miss the train. He is ready to make oath that hc has not been to sleep five minutes when a frightful sound is heard. It seems as if all creation was breaking up. Then it roars like cataract, and after ward like a freight-train going over a bridge.

 As the amazed man begins to compre- bend things, it seems as if the whole fire bell system of the city was concentrated in that room, doing it's best to bring out the engines. At last he remembers it is the alarm, and he wonders if it is ever going to stop. It stops. Then he argues, I set it at three; bet dollar it went off ahead of time. Anyhow, can get to the depot in half an hour, and, besides, the train is likely late.r The train is a hundred miles away and rapidly increas- ing the distance when he awakes. This has caused the introduction of new alarm-clock. It will ring for six hours if the alarmed person does not get up and pull cord. The trouble is that the ex- asperated sleeper will rise in his might and in his night apparel to kick the clock up through the roof, after it has rung for an hour or two. Herr Hum mel, an inventor in Germany, is the con- structor of this new alarmer. Detroit Free Press
Year: 1879

Of Georges shoal, where in a recent gale fourteen vessels from Gloucester, Mass, with one hundred and fifty-five men were lost, the Boston Herdtd says: Georges shoal is situated about one hun- dred and twenty miles east-southwest of Cape Ann, on the edge of the Gulf stream, which runs past it with so strong a tide that vessels have been known to be carried eastward by it in the teeth of a strong opposing breeze. In some sections of this shoal there is little water-in one place, it is said, not over three feet-and old bankers say that they have seen it at times above water. At other places the shoal has only eight fathoms of water. It is at the outer edges of the shoal that the fish are found, in the warm waters of the Gulf stream or their vicinity, and the vessels, when they encounter them, drop their anchors and put out their lines with baited hooks, and find lively work in landing the fish on deck. When one vessel strikes a school of fish the others draw near and cast anchor close by. In this way number of vessels are often an chored together, which is dangerous situation if storm should arise and one of them part her cable. In such an event, to avoid collision and certain de- struction, the other vessels in her track would have to cut their cables, which is always dangerous resort in a storm, for ifthe vessel broaches-to, with her side to the coming wave, she is most likely to be crushed by its tremendous force. The cables used are made of the best hemp, from two to three and one-half inches in diameter, according to the size of the vessel. With each lifting bound of the vessel in a storm, with her head to the sea, these cables stretch and give, and then contract again for the next similar movement. The waves in a storm on Georges banks are short, chop ping, but sometimes irresistible. If a vessel, with flush deck and strong bull warks, ships one of those seas-three of those heavy waves, it is said, follow one another in quick succession - she is weighed down so as to be almost under water, and before she can discharge the body of water on her deck the other two seas are upon her, and she sinks to rise no more. with no trace of her or her crew to be seen again. Nobody has ever seen Georges vessel lost, but it is sup posed that she gets into what is called the wash on the shoals, and is turned over and tossed about till she breaks into pieces and her remains are covered by the sand or drawn into the volume of the Gulf stream and carried away to the unknown depths of the ocean,"
Year: 1879

you will at hast marry me from sheer pity"

 He bent suddenly and kissed her hand. The next moment he was gone.

 Helen stood for moment as though bewildered, with the memory of his words ringing in her ears, almost feeling the touch of his lips upon her hand.

 "They are all alike" she thought, bit terly, attracted by the last new face. Foolish is any one who puts faith in their vowsw

 A memory of past pain came surging up in her mind, and made her unjust to all because one had seemed faithless.

 Randall kept his word. He was not obtrusive in his attentions, but occasior- ally basket of hothouse flowers or some choice new book would come by express to the school for Helen. Her vacations were always partly spent with Alice, and Randall invariably put in an appearance, apparently quiet and cold, but following Helen with eyes whose wistful language she well understood.

 One evening he called, accompanied by a college acquaintance. Helen's heart gave one great throb as her eyes rested on the stranger. It was her old friend, Archie Marron. Randall North saw her agitation, and when he learned of their previous acquaintance he at once drew ais own inference, and, to Helen's great surprise, for the rest of the evening was so absent-minded and silent that she Ivy tJ,1 f0y ord him in mute inquiry; but for the first time in their acquaintance he hardly seemed to notice her. A strange new pain began to thrill at her heart-strings. She looked at him and then at Archie, who had changed but little. The same careless waves of brown hair swept back from his high, white forehead; the same pleasant, merry brown eyes laughed back an answer to her own.

 Mechanically listening, she mentally contrasted the two. Randall's firm lips and massive chin; his dark eyes, domi- nant forehead and close-cut black hair truly he was not Archie's equal in come Illness! But 9 sudden conviction came to her that she loved Randall! Not one l she could. The knowledge made her so quiet that Randall noticed it, and made an excuse to return after they had taken leave.

 Sore as was his heart at his imagined discovery, he was at once filled with anxiety lest her health was failing under the constant strain of teaching.

 You are looking pale," he said. Are you i'll? You know" and his deep voice trembled a little, I told you that I should watch over you until some one had better right. Helen, tell me truly, is Archie Marron to have that privilege?"

 Helen's beautiful eyes shone down upon him like twin stars as he said this. So this was the key to his strange cold ness and abstraction through the even ing But she would not prolong his misery; so she bent and whispered:

 "No one will ever have that right but yourself Randall"

 He turned and looked at her.

 Are you in earnest, Helen? Do you really love me at last?"

 "Yes, better than life itself!" was her answer.

 Under the influence of his enduring, unselfish love she felt that she could trust him fully and freely. Her faith had been born anew.
Year: 1879

1.-two persons are to occupy bedroom during night, let them step upon weighing scales as they retire and then again in the morning, and they will find their actual weight is at least pourd less in the morning. Frequently there will be loss of two or more pounds. and the average loss throughout the year will be more than one pound-that IS. during the night there is a loss of pound of matter which has gone of from their bodies, partly from the lungs and partly through the pores of the skin. The escaped material is carbonic acid, and decayed animal matter or poisonous exhalations. This is diffused through the air in part and in part absorbed by the bed clothes. If a single ounce of wool or cotton be burned in room, it will so completely saturate the air with smoke that one can hardly breathe, though there can only be an ounce of foreign matter in the air. If an ounce of cotton be burned every half hour during the night, the air will be kept continu- ally saturated with the smoke unless there be an open door or window for it to escape. Now the sixteen ounces of smoke thus formed is far less poisonous than the sixteen ounces of exhalations from the lungs and bodies of the two per sons who have lost pound in weight during the eight hours of sleeping, for while the dry smoke is mainly taken into the lungs, the damp odors from the body are absorbed into the lungs and into the pores of the whole body. Need more be said to show the importance of having bedrooms well ventilated. and thorough ly airing the sheets, coverlets and mat tresses in the morning, before packing them up in the form of neatly made l,ad
Year: 1879

It is stated that German-American was forbidden to lecture in the city of Berlin on the prosperous condition of the United States, lest it should promote emigration to this country.
Year: 1879

IT is reported that Sitting Bull
has advised his band to make peace
with the Americans on any terms
they can obtain, as they can accom-
plish nothing by keeping up trouble
and hostilities with the whites. 1t
is said that he is sincere in his profr-
ers of peace, and wants his people to
come back under the jurisdiction of
the United States. The bands are
now hunting buffalo, going north
into the country above the dry forks
of the Missouri river. e
Year: 1879

We are informed that precisely the
same dispatch in regard TO the elec-
tion Saturday was sent from here to
each of the Omaha dailies. The
Herald, however, changed the whole
import of it by giving it this head
ing: "On to Deadwood. The U.
p. bonds carry in Platte county by
overwhelming majorities, &C." How
would it be possible for so wide
awake a journal as the Herald to
plead ignorance in putting on that
head? OF course it will take the
trouble to make the correction.
Year: 1879

The New York Svn says five young men
belonging to a Government surveying ex-
peditiOn got lost on the sterile. plains of
Colorado. After day of wandering with
out water, they disagreed as to the best di-
rection to take, and two went one way,
while three went another. The two found
a camp after three days of intense suffering
from thirst. A party hurried out to search
for the other three. When they were dis
covered two were dead, and the third lived
only long enough to drink little water
the first in Ave days. At about the same
time $4,000 fell to him by the death of a
relative in Baltimore.
Year: 1879

The Philadelphia Chronicle Herald criti.
cises the action of the Times of that city
for publishing the love story of which Miss
Duer is the author, rs carrying sensational
ism to the extreme and hopes PhiIadel.
phians will neither take any stock in such
wOuldbe enterprise nor in her lecture tour.
Year: 1879

There are 100000 colored Methodists in
the United States, and their representatives
have declared in Baltimore, that they must
have a representative in the Board of Bish-
ops. The next Methodist General Confer
ence will elect several new Bishops and the
colored brethren are determined to have
one Of the number. The question will at
least make some stir in the approaching
Conference.
Year: 1879

The political contest in Maine this year
is to be three.cornered one. The Demo
Gratis have renominated Governor Garcelon.
The Greenbackers are undoubtedly strong
enough to prevent an election by the
people. The character of the Legislature
will determine the event, and the fight will
be concentrated upon the Legislative DIS
tricts
Year: 1879

1t will he seen by the above that Middle
town is put down at 9lj souls, and exactly
the same as Newark. Delaware City, was
at that time, the third town in the county
in population, though Middletown and
Newark; hut little behind her. The census
Of 1880 will make considerable change in
the standing of the towns of the above
table Mr.. Vincent also gives a table show
ing the population Of the various hundreds
of the State in 10, which we append:
Year: 1879

To The Christian People of Knoxville


Greeting:


The snares, pitfalls and soul-traps
that the devil has set for the young
men of the land, and which he is
watching with ever vigilant care, are
daily and hourly Turing many to ire
trievable ruin. We have organized for
their defence aud for our mutual
strengthening. AS yet we are few in
number and weak in influence, but
under the blessings of God we are
growing stronger from day to day, al d
We are thereby made bold to ask you
to give us such aid as His Holy Spirit
may put you in mind to give, and
which. if given in proper spirit of
cOnsecratioD, will result in good to
His cause aud be as brta ad cast upon
The waters, to return after many days
with blessings for the giver.


We need money to put in good re-
pair the Hall we have rented. We
need money TO furnish it in such man
ner as TO make it comfortable and at
tractive to the young men who visit
it. We need money to procure whole.
some literature wherewith to feed
their minds and benefit their souls.
We need any works of real merit
which will interest the mind and i'm
prove the moral condition of the
reader. We need chairs to seat our
visitors and worshippers. We need
tables upon which to place the news
papers and periodicals which we may
obtain from any source, in order that
they may be conveniently before our
visitors. We need carpet or
mating for our fl Dor. We need
coal for fuel and stove to
burn it in. We need gas for light, that
our hall may be made attractive at
night. We need members who are in
earnest and are willing to work 10
save the souls of our young men. We
need the prayers of all of Gods people
who are willing to give US mater al
aid, even If it be no more than the
widows mite.


Some one of our members will call
on you during the following week TO
solicit such aid as you may be able and
willing to give.


YoUSG MEMS CHRIsr'N Assoc1A'N.
Knoxville, Nov, 1879.