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Year: 1877

A Chicago woman has been the wife
of four brothers. She began with the
oldest ten years ago, when she was sew
enleen years old, and he died. She soon
married the next younger, and after
three years got divorce from him, and
the third was divorced from her after
about the same period of welded life
She is now the wife of the fourth, and
they seem to live. contentedly, possibly
because there is no fifth brother for bel
to eaDturp
Year: 1877

It is absurdly argued by some, that by
communicating knowledge to the labor
ing classes, we teach what is to them of
no use, but tends, on the contrary, to
unfit them for the necessary duties of
life. Ignorance and neglect of the laws
of nature, however, occasion suffering
to them as well as to men of superior
rank; and as they, also, have faculties
capable of acquiring knowledge, it is
obvious that those faculties should be
made use of. We may rest assured that
the fulfllment of every necessary duty
is compatible with mental cultivation
in all the race; because nature cannot
have bestowed upon mankind capacities
and desires which their inevitable con-
dition renders it impossible for them to
cultivate and crafty. There are hum
bier minds fitted to perform and happy
in performing the humber duties of
life; and no cultivation of which they
are susceptible will probably carry them
beyond this sphere of exertiOn. In a
thoroughly moral and enlightened COM
munity, no useful office will be cOnsid-
cred degrading, nor will any be incOm-
patible with the exercise of the highest
faculties of man.


The duty of acquiring knowledge i'm
plies the duty of communicating it to
others, and there is no form in which
the humblest individual may do more
good, or assist more effectually in for.


warding the improvement and happi.
ness of mankind, than in teaching them


truth and it's applications. All knOwl
/ edge concerning natural laws, which
any one possesses, should be freely i'm.


parted, and if there be instructors of the


people who pronounce this course dan


gerOus, it is a sufficient answer tina


there is no such thing as a dangerous
| truth.
Year: 1877

They tried to prosecute a Chinaman
for illegal voting at Deer Lodge, Mon
tana, the other day, but failed to make a
case. because the prosecuting attorney
could not prove that the defendant was
a native of China.
Year: 1877

KEEPING AT IT.-A man who inher-
its wealth may begin and worry through
three-scOre and ten years without any
definite object. In driving, in foreign
travel, in hunting and fishing, in club
houses and society, he may manage to
pass away his time; but he will hardly
be happy. 1t seems to be necessary to
health that the powers of a man must be
trained upon some subject and steadily
held there day after day, year after
year, while vitality lasts. There may
come a time in old age when the fund
of vitality will have sunk so low that
he can follow no consecutive labor with
such a draft upon his forces that sleep
cannot restore them. Then, and not
before, he should stop work. But so
long as a man has vitality to spare
upon work, it must be used, or it will
become a source of grievous, harrassing
discomfort. The man will not know
what to do with HIMSELF and when he
has reached such point as that, he is
uncOnsciOusly digging grave for him
self, and fashiOning his own coffin. Life
needs steady channel to run in-regu-
| lar habits of work and of sleep. 1t needs
steady, stimulating alma tend to-
ward something. An aimless life can
never be happy, or, for a long period
healthy. Said rich lady to gentle
man still laboring beyond his needs


Don't stop; keep at it," The word-
| that were in her heart were: "If my
husband had not stopped, he would be
alive to-day" And what she thought
was doubtless true. A greater shock
can hardly befall a man who has beer
active than that which he experiences
when, having relinquished his pursuits


he finds unused time and unused vital


ity hanging upon his idle hands anC
mind. The current of his life is thu


thrown into eddies, or settled into ;
sluggish pool, and he begins to die.
Year: 1877

An old colored preacher of this city
was lecturing a youth of his fold about
the sin of dancing, when the latter pro-
tested that the Bible plainly said,
"There is a time to dance" eyes, dar
am a time to Dance" said the dark di-
vine, "and it's when boy gifts whip
PIN for gwine to a ball."-AttdrtG
Times
Year: 1877

A Journal for the People.


Devoted to the Interests of humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religion.


Alive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrong
of the Masses.
Year: 1877

Never use a lady's name iu an improper
place, at an improper time, or in mixed COM
pany Never make assertions about her that
you think untrue, or allusous that she herself
would blush to hear When you meet with
men who Go not scruple to use a woman's
name in a reck less manner slun them they
are the very worst members Of the oommuni-
ty; men lost to every sense of honor, every
feeling Of humanity Many q good aud
worthy woman's character has been forever
ruined and her heart broken by lie, manu-
flctured by some villain, and repeated where
it should not have tceD, and 10 presence Of
those whose little judgment could not deter
them from circulating the foul and Dragging
report. A slander is soon propOgated, and
the smallest thing derogatoiy 10 woman 5
character viii BY on the wings Of the wind
and magnify, as it circulatcs, until its mon
strous weight crushes the poor unsonacious
victim. Respect the name Of woman. Your
mother and sisters are women, and as you
would have their fair name untarnished, and
and their lives unimliltercd hy the sanderer's
bitter tongue, heed the III your own words may
bring upon the mother, the sister or the wife
Of some fellow creature.
Year: 1877

You think you love the man who is coming
this Sunday night to visit you And he acii
as if he loves youl Suppose he declares
himself" aud asks you to become lis wife
Are you prepared to say to him, 81 love and
will trust you through life with my happi
ness, aud the lives and veal Of our children =


lie is jolly, gay and handsome, and all The
darts Of Cupid are twinkling and sparkling il
lis eyes; but will those eyes always fnd ez-
preston from the love Of true soul


Tonight he says many pleasant things
and draws pretty pictures for the future.


Does be 60 tomorrow to work which gives
promise Of the falf'lment Of your desires in
life?


Do lis ambitions and achievements satisfy
your


Does his everyday life slime with the noble
endeavors Of trustworthy man


If you think and desire a companion in your
thiukiug-one who can unlock the deepest
depths Of your mind, TO what strata Of hu-
mauity does lie belong in The scale of excel
leuce and morality? Is he doing al he can
to build up future usefulness and happiness
in which you can fhsre and feel blessed p
These are questions which the experience o!
after years make many women weep in bitter
ness tha; they we:e not thought Of before they
answered "Yes"
Year: 1877

memory of her illness and suffering fresh 10 my
mind, ! always think Of her as "happy old
Aunt Patsy" for had she not been worth her
weight in gold p The dear old soul alway
had laid great stress, not at being priced at
her weight 10 gold, but In being really 'cig II.
That was the point. And the best of it was,
that her weight being mainly in her tcing q
good servant, it increased just so much IN pro-
portion as she cxcelIed. Simplc-heartcd
creature though she was, she would have scorn-
ed the idea Of weight, in this connection, being
a matter Of mere flesh and bones No, It was
Patsy. the cook who was weighed 10 the
| balance.


1t seems to me now, that If ! had seen Aunt
Patsy when was little girl, and heard her
tell her story, it would have been great help.
1t would have taught ne, in one easy lesson,
that to be worth your weight in gold is great
advantage, and that the best way Of becoming
worth your weight in gold is TO learn to do
some one thing thoroughly well. Aunt Patsy
could cook. That is fine thing In ITSELF
Cooking is good business when one las
living 10 make, and valuable accomplish
ment when one has living ready made
Every one Of Us girls, little and big, young and
old. should know something about it, and
should seize all good opportunities to improve
in the art. But am not going TO ask you to
learn to cook that is, not now, especially II
it is no. "born into you" ] only throw out
as irieudly suggestion that every girl should
make it an obi ct, as Aunt Patsy did, to learn
to do one thing well at q time. II, IS a start,
she selects some style Of housework, 50 much
the better. Let it be sweeping and dusiing;
let i. be bed-making let it be clcar-starchine,
silyer-cleaning or buiter-making, or even a
single branch Of cookery, such as bread-mak-
ing, or that rare art, potato-boiling. Let her
aim at real excellence 10 any one Of these, TAX
ing the most exact pains, looking out day by
day for ways Of improvement, aiming to excel
herself at each effort, until at last, Jenny did
it" Tor whatever her fortunate name may bel
shall stand as a guarantee for excellence 10 this
or that special department. Let Jenny's but
ter or Jenny's bread be the best her father and
mother ever tasted or Jet them feel that 10
one else can SO brighten the silver, or the tins
or furpiture; that it is sure to he all night il
Jenny but sweeps the halls and stairs, or Jen-
ny but makes the pudding Its her special
ty, you know and you viii see, if YOU are
Jenny, what satisfaction there IS in it.


Then. when one style Of work is mastered,
another can be taken up aud made study
and so on, till you are worth your weight in
gold to your family Mind. / DO not mean to
say that while these special endeavors are 60
ing on you are 10 DO all other work clrelessly
and without interest. Not so, Of course. J
mean only that one branch at time shall re-
Year: 1877




There is h1mor in suicides. Miss Pixley,
Of South Lee Mass, jumped into a river to
drown herself, aud then pulled herself out by
The bough Of tree under which she noated.
She writes 40 account for the newspapers, say
ing If there is any one who reads this, fool
ish enough 10 want to die before God S chosen
time, don I jump into the river where there arc
trees with limbs hanging in the water, for if
you do, no matter how determined you are 70
leave this world, you will either have to make
up your mad TO stay little longer, or else try
it again, which latter you will not be likely 10
do" Lawyer Bancroft, Of San Francisco, be-
fore killing himself with Laulsnum, wrote in
letter to a coroner: "I beg to inform you
that this Is a case Of laulanum taken with sui
cidal intent Reasons, concern no one but my
self; still, if any one should insis, upon bay-
ing reason, you may say was driven to des-
peration by the Presidential muddle, and see
ing no prospect Of ascertaining in this world
who was to be next President, went TO the next,
where all things are supposed TO be known, for
tie information"
Year: 1877

There is nothing worth living for apart
from the glory Of God May We live TO an
swsr the great purposes for which We were
caeated live TO bin who died for US and rose
again live 10 anticipation Of a blessed i'm
mortality, and regardless Of the frown or al
plause Of the world, seek to DO the will Of Gcd
and to finish bis work.
Year: 1877

XVWWW Dc0Us


Yesterday morning about 8 o'clock, Got
leib Juggler, baker employed by Henry
Miller, No. 400 Orange street, was found
dead In bed.


He had been out on Saturday evening till
10 O'Clock, and as that was the only night
he went out of the house, he came home in
good spirits, nothing seeming seeming to be
the matter with him. He retired about
half past ten and was found laying dead
with his clothes on. There were some pea
nuts in bis pockets, and 1t was first thought
that he might have been eating them while
sleeping and had choked to death.


The body was brought to the Morgue, 9Th
and shipley streets, and Coroner Rose held
an inquest, whore his throat was examined,
but no sign of his being choked was visible as
his face was not tho least discolored. The
jury came to no verdict, as 1t was necessary
that past.mortem examination should be
held, they adjourned to meet tomorrow
evening at 7:30 O'Clock.
Year: 1877

belgrade Locals.


Farmers have commenced sowing, which is
some two or three weeks in advance of previous
seasons. Grass has winterod remarkably well,
and with favorable season good crop Of hay
may be expected.


The tramp question has agitated the town con-
siderably of late. The town authorities pay out
some thirty dollars for keeping them through the
winter, and about the same amount since the
spring election, and at town meeting called for
the purpose, few days ago, it was voted to build
a small house espec tally for the accommodation Of
such gentry, and for fare they to receive cod
fish and crackers, with cold water. The great
cause of this influx of tramps the past winter
arises from the fact that when they have arrived
in town the muu icpal officers have sent them to
the hotel where they have been furnished with
beefsteak and q good bed to sleep on. but they
will find change the next time they come along
An effort is being made to build a meeting
house in the north part of the town. We think it
would be better to occupy some that are now va
| cant than to build new ones.


Rev. j. w. Smith (Methodist) preached his far
well sermon at the Mills on Sunday last, and will
do the same at the Depot on next Sabbath Mr.
Smith has served the people very acceptably fol
the past three years. and it is with regret that they
part with him.


Belgrade Depot seems to be favored with ar
abundance of hotel accommodations, and we feal
from indications to be seen, it would be well fo
the officers of the law to be vgilant and have al
eye in this direction.
Year: 1877

No words of ours needed to induce people
to visit Granite Hall tonight, as tie great and
only Sol Smith Russell will hold forth in his unap-
proachable character impersonations, bringing
wildly before his auditors, in the chaste, easy and
graceful peculiar to this artist, the various
ludicrous and comical characters that one meets
with in journeying up and down the world. One
evening with Sol Smith Russell will dissipate the
blues from the heart of grindstone. The musi-
cal portion of the entertainment will also be very
unique and brilliant being concert by the cele-
brated Berger Family.
Year: 1877

Two hundred and eleven dogs have thus fsu
been licensed in this city. OF course it will be
seen at once that there is an attempt ON the part
of many to evade the law. This is an act os in-
justice to those who have taken pains to comply
with its provisions, and the proper authorities
would be fully justified in administering the PEN
ulties of the law in such cases
Year: 1877

The people of Somerset county readily get one
dollar bushel for potatoes delivered at the sta
tons along the route of the Somerset Rsilroad'
The building of the railroad has been great ben
eft to farmers.
Year: 1877

The Wing says The question is asked, "Did
solomon have the Electoral Commission in mind
when he wrote Give portion to seven and also
to eight, for thou knowest not what evil shall be
upon the earth 2"
Year: 1877

TRAVELLERS find an easily prepared and most
satisfactory beverage in the Vanilla Chocolate pre-
pared by Walter Baker x Go. A SINGLE trial will
establish its popularity. Dealers in family stores
everywhere supply it. aprlS-tt
Year: 1877

If The thief who, on Monday night stole from
Mr. Tobeys clothes line, nine stockings, will
make himself known. the one he left on the line
will be presented him, as an odd stocking is of no
usc to a person with two feet
Year: 1877

PAINT AND REPAIR Your INPLE-
MENrs No farmer should fail to put
bis farm implements in good order be-
fore work commences in the spring
Some Of them. undoubtedly, need
painting; and others, perhaps, are not
10 good repair. a brace being broken,
Or bolt. or nut missing. While you
are al the blacksmith's. ii would be
well to get few extra nuts made for
such implements as are liable to have
them lost when in use You should
have the duplicates Of such parts Of
your moving machine as are most
liable to break These can be obtained
Of the maker; and if you never need
them, you may consider yourself for
tunase Now is the time to attend to
these matters. In regard to hoes,
shovels, spades. &C., it is best to have
. surplus, to be used in case you want
to employ extra help at any time. 1t
is unpleasant for neighbor to be called
on to lend hoe, shovel, or other farm
implement, when they can be bought
for so cents to $3.50 Remember, too,
that the best tools are the cheapest in
the end
Year: 1877

At late ball in Paris very stout
gentleman, proprietor Of very bad ca
tarrh and a very charming wife, in
sisted. very incOnveniently at the close
of polka. that madame shsuld return
to the bosom Of her family Never
mind" she said to her partner; ask
me to dance in the next quadrille all
the same l will find way to stay for
itl' Slipping out while the sets we're
forming, she went into the gentlsman's
dressing groom. found her husbands hat,
and threw it out Of the window. Then
returning. and requesting her spouse to
first find bis hat and call the carriage,
she accepted partners for the next six
dances. quite sure Of two hours before
the hat could be found
Year: 1877

A gentleman, says Tbackeray, is a
rarer thing than some Of Us think for.


Which Of Us can point out in his circle
men whose aims are generous whose
truth is constant and elevated who
can look the world honestly in the face,
with an equal manly sympathy for the
great and small 7 We all know hun
dred whose coats are well made. and a
score who have excellent manners, but
Of gentlemen, how many? Let US take
scrap Of paper and each make bis list
Year: 1877

A New York school master told a
Young miss that the word obligatory"
meant binding, whereupon she laid her
head upon her hand, and, after a brief
coqitation. handed the teacher this SEN
ts1ce. 1.-The obligatory of my spelling
book is worn out" He tainted
Year: 1877

A Young lady sent poem to Brit
ish newspaper entitled II Cannot Make
Hin Smile The beast Of an editsr
ventured to express an opinion that
she would have succeeded had she
shown him the poem.
Year: 1877

A French soldier was sitting, short
time back, on the summit Of bill over
looking a garrison town bis horse
was picketed near BY the man was
sMoking leisurely, and from time to
time glaneing from the csplanade to a
big official envelope be had in bis hand


A comrade passed and said "What
are you doing there ?" II am bearing
the President MacMnhon's pardon for
our friend Flichmann, whe is to be shot
this morning" replied the smoker
"Well. then, hurry along with il, said
his comrade 20 NO See. there is
hardly soul on the esplanade, and the
firing platoon has not yet been formed.
You surely would not have me rob my
appearance of all dramatic effect"
Year: 1877

A STRANGE BIRD SToRY.-L. Page and SOD,
emitting wood near San Jose, noticed for sever
al days that a number of birds remained con-
stantly upon tree near them, some going and
coming from time to time. Upon cutting
down the tree they discovered Ea limb with q
hollow cavity, some two feet in length and
three or four ipches in diameter, in which
were two full-Rrown birds of some goodly-
sized species. There was small aperture
through which the birda were supplied with
food from their mates. The limb was cut and
the birds liberated. They were neither of
them able to fly, having evidently never been
out of their imprisonment. How they came
inside is question. 1t is probable that the
mother bird was small, and though able to
make her nest in the hollow of the tree and
rear her young could NOT. extricate them, and
they did not gain strength enough to help
themselves until the hollow had so closed that
escape was impossible. Those who examined
the birds think they are about two years old.
They had been fed from their birth by their
bird fellows through The aperture in the limb
of the tree. A nobler instance of devotion
even the human family never exhibited
San Jose (Cal) Mercury.
Year: 1877

Inc legislature has passed joint reso-
luton to adjourn on the 18th instant.
we should be glad if the legislature can
10 SO at that Time. But we doubt the
ability OF the legislature to get through
in this time. The last session increased
taxation by raising salaries and adding
to the cost of licenses, while it cut down
the fair prices for labor done. We hope
that this session viii enable the Demo
Gratis throughout the State, and the Dem
ocratic newspapers to point to the fac
that the taxes have been made lighter
1t is hard to labor for the success of ;
party unless its representatives will assis
to make that labor light and agreeable.
Year: 1877

The Republicans of the Senate are get
ting alarmed over the state of things
among themselves at the beginning Of
Hayes administration. The two New
Hampshire Senators dare not leave their
places to stump their State. ~
Year: 1877

lean War Veterans-FataI Acci-


dent.


National Associated Press to the Star


LOUISVILLE, Sept. 15.-The arrange
ments for tie reception OF President
Hayes are all on grand and liberal
scale. At the Fourteenth.stre Depot,
and also the Exposition, raised plat
forms for the President and party will
be erected. thus affordiug every one an
opportunity OF seeing them. The people
seem determined to make the affair The
most cordial and hospitable, and in
every particular honorable to the people
OF Kentucky.


There was a large attendance at the
Year: 1877

Captain Bearse, of the steamer Glau-
Gus, relates curious incident of his
last trip from New York to Boston.
While passing through Long Island
Sound, on Tuesday night, the sky being
thick with smoke from the forest fires
to the southwark, it was observed, after
nine o'clock, that the air was full of
birds apparently bewildereda and in search
of a resting place. Attracted by the
glare of the ships lights they steered
their fight toward the vessel, and,
striking against the masts or the house,
fell dead upon the deck. A few of them
were found to be alive. About two
hundred in all were picked up on the
deck, representing thirteen different
kinds of forest birds. During five hours
they continued to drop on the vessel,
she going at the time full twelve knots
per hour, and multitudes of the poor
creatures must have perished in the
water. 1t is probable that the birds
were driven from Long Island by the
extensive forest fires, and were flying
over the Sound for shelter.
Year: 1877

Nothing is more easy than to grow
rich. 1t is to trust nobody, to befriend
none, to get everything and save all you
get, to stint ourselves and everybody
belonging to us, to be the friend of no
man and to have no man for our friend,
to heap interest upon enterest, to be
mean, miserable and despised, for some
twenty or thirty years, and riches will
come as surely rs disease and disap-
pointment. And, when pretty near
enough wealth is collected by disre-
gard of all the charities of the human
heart, and at the expense of every en-
joyment, save that Of indulging in mis-
cradle meaness, death comes to finish
the work, and the body is buried in n
hole, the heirs rejoice over it, and the
spirit goes-whither.
Year: 1877

A silver dollar represents days
work Of the laborer. 1t is given to q
boy; he has no idea OF what it has cost
or OF what it is worth. He would be as
likely to give dollar as dime for a
top or any other toy. But if the boy
has learned to earn the dimes and dol
lars by the sweat of his face he knows
the difference. Hard work is to him a
measure of values that can never be
rubbed out Of his mind. Let him learn
ny experience that hundred dollars re-
presents hundred weary days labor
and it seems great sum Of money; a
thousand dollars is q fortune and ten
thousand is almost inconceivable, for it
s s more than he ever expects to possess.


"hen he has earned dollar, he thinks