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Year: 1874

~ ''Ai III" "'StHOuo pioPOSSu W
reconcile Genesis and Geology,
that offered by the Rev. Mr.. Terry,
Il Roman Catholic priest of Chica-
50, is By far the most effective, if
not the most orthodox or most
satisfactory. Science, according
to t!.is view, is all fact and Genesis
all fiction and rs fact and fiction
cannot be said to contradict each
other, Science and Genesis cannot
be said TO disagree. The book Of
Genesis; Father Terry teaches, is
a grand epic The stories Of Eden
and Of mans creation are poems.
So is that of the creation Of Eve
out of one of Adams ribs. Pearls
Of revelation are contained in
them, it is true. The acid OF crit
icism will redeem them from their
incrustation. The story Of the
deluge and the rainbow in the Bi-
Bile are no better than those con-
corning the rib and the garden,
nor are they of different nature.
Sodom and Gomorrah were burn
ed just as Chicago was. There
was nothing mysterious in their
burning. God had no more to do
with it than He had with the great
Chicago fire of 1871. Notan aveng-
ing Deity, but the West-side
shingles aud the high winds were
the cause Of that disaster.


If this be Catholic doctrine, it
can no longer be said that the
Catholic Church is immoveable.-|
Indeed, if it be the Catholic doc
trinc, the Catholic Church is the
most advanced Of all churches.-
Father Terry has reconciled sci
encc and religion in such q way
that they can never quarrel again.
If it be urged that God did not
create the world in six days, the
future Catholic theologian will an
swer: Of course not-that is all
poverty. fla prosclyte finds it
difficult to subscribe to the &C
count of the fall; how the temp.
ter took the shape of q serpent and
induced the first woman by it's ell
oquence to cat tho apple, his
doubts may be calmcd by the as
surance that This is one canto Of
an epic. If it be suggested that
Christ is not the Redeemer of the
world in the commonly accepted
sense, the skeptic may be confirm.
cd in his position by the assur-
ancc that since mans fall is fc-
ton, there was no need Of such
redecmer; that, therefore Christ
is not q redeemer but only an ex-
ample.


Having begun this, Father Ter
ry will do we'll to continue. Let
the Young Mems Catholic Libra
ry Association have series Of
lectures of the same character as
that on Thursday night. And
from the same gentleman-one on
the Poetry of Mathew, an anoth-
er on the Poetry of John, third
on the Poetry of Job, a fourth on
the Poetry Of the Virgin Mary,
and a fifth on the Poetry Of the
Judgment. II Father Terry is
only consistent throughout, and
induces the rest of the Catholic
Church to follow him, he will find
Darwin, Huxley, and Spencer hum
bly, knockiat the door, begging
admission into the One Holy
Catholic and Apostolic Church,
and ready to use their influence
in favor of Father Terry for Pope
of Rome.-Chlcaao Tribune.
Year: 1874

The tears we shed for those We
love arc the streams which wafer
the garden Of the heart, and with
out them it would be dry and bar
rem. and the gentle flowers of af-
fection would perish.
Year: 1874

BY KATE PUTNAM osGooD.
have neighbor, so spick and span,
In his glossy suit of black and yellow;
Never, sure, since the world began
Vas such comical fool of q I. howl


With his Knowing wink


And his pert little prink,
And that plain conceit of his whistle mellow.
When the locust blossoms begin to swell
And the chestnut leaves are so thick together,
Under their roof it is hard to tell
Whether it's stormy or sunny weather.


That is the time,


In the merry May prime,
When my friend is in fullest feather
One moment up in the top of the tree,
Then back with seif-important rustic;
The care of the universe has he, 5'-.
fone might judge by his busy hustle.


And yet wi hal


He does nothing at all,
In spite of that reckless waste of muscle.
My neat little neghbor, be off with yourselfl
Your airs are too trying altogetheri
Oil why was not such fortunate elf,
w Without any trouble forever IR feather,


The liyelOng year,


With a conscience clear,
To busily idle thros gh every weather.


IN. r. Independent.
Year: 1874

To CLEAR room of mosquitoes, take of
gum camphor piece about one-third the
size of an egg, and evaporste it by placing
it in tin vessel and holding it over lamp
or candle-taking care that it does not
ignite. The smoke will soon fill the room
and expel the mosquitoes. One night. not
long since was terribly annoyed by them,
when | thought of and tried the above,
after which neither saw nor heard them
that night, and next morning there was
not one to be foand in the DOM.
Year: 1874

The closing price of gold in New York, on
the Goth, was Ill.


The stockholders of the Atlantic and Great
Western Railroad Company have ratified the
agreement entered into with the Erie Rail-
way Company, binding the Atlantic and
Great Western Railroad Company to the
Erie forrnine years from the first of May.
The property of the Atlantic and Great West
ern Company is sold to the Erie Company,
the actual value of the same to be credited to
the Atlantic and Great Western Company on
account of dues for labor, materials, etc., to
be paid by the Erie Company.


Following is the comparative cotton state
Year: 1874

Tomorrow evening, the White Rose Minstrel
Association, of this city, will give an entertain
ment in the Opera House. The members have
been practicing for the occasion for some time
mast
Year: 1874

NEWSPAPER BoRE..-There is not q
more intolerablc nuisance upon earth than
the newspaper bore lie carries of your
exchanges; insists upon reading your
proof sheets, and then goes out and .ells
what will be in the paper; smokes your
pipe upsets your paste-pot, and worse
than all, obtrudes his advice upon you.
He listens keenly to any private conver.
satiou you may be having about some.
thing that does not concern him in the
least Turn him loose in the composing
room and he is worse than bull in q
china shop. We remember hearing once
Of newly married bore, who. as all new
ly married men do. thought he knew ev.
cry thing. and took his fresh victim 20 ex.
plain to her the mysteries of printing
office Coming up to an unoccupied case
about half full of letters, he said to his
bride, This, my dear, ia where they keep
their types, (pointiug to the lower case,)
and this (laying his hand upon the cap
case) is the lid they have to cover 'em up
at night to keep the rats and mice out"
Suiting the action to the word, he pulled
down the " lid to show how it worked.
Was anybody mad Oh, no
Year: 1874

disclosing by the awful suddcnuess of her
death.


Then you were the ghost? :? gasped.


Il suppose | must have been


We'll, it is laid forever. You have no
further need to haunt this apartment.
Here is the missing document for which
you have been searching; tomorrow
will abdicate as gracefully y as possible and
Richard shall have its own again


And while he stood staring at me, as
if quite dumbfounded, | pushed the will
into his hand, and made a second effort
to gain the door.


This time it was Lawrence who de;ain-
ed me forcibly.


Don't 90 Madelon' he whispeaed, his
arm gathering me close to his side. Now
can speak my mind freely. l'll not be
master here unless you consent to be mis-
tress, for love you too dearly. What
say your


| will not repeat my answer. But II
Aunt Jerusha had hurried to my rescue
as she declared she would do-a few
minutes after | first shrieked for assist
ance, she would have beheld tableau
that might have given quite shock to
her strict ideas of propriety.
Year: 1874

TTIUH tUt -NtW IUTh NIdI,


The Boston Herald rather uniavoraby attributes
10 the editor Of the Star the reports which purport
TO reveal the secrets Of the Plymouth Church
committee. The star prints what its reporters are
able to obtain from reliable, or apparently
So about the general matter, but it has pre-
tended to give the details OF the action OF tie COM
mlttee, and It's editor has never furnished hint
IN relation to the committee or Its doings It ~
unfortunate for all concerned that ones very
friendship and faith In friends should lay HIM open
to suspicion OF unfair dealing; but there is great
consolation IN faith after all, and the star has
faitn IN the absolute purity OF Mr. Beecher's lie
and thought, and equal confidence Ia the belief
That even the Boston Herald wlll take pleasure in
80 saying when convinced by proof tnat Mr..
Beecheri is worthy OF his fame. We predict a public
testimony TO the moral herosm OF the man.
Year: 1874

The New York Tribune, in the course
of an editorial commenting on the ae-
ton of the faculty of the Michigan
university in expelling those students
recently found guilty of "hazing, !"
says: "It is sentimental nonsense,
gathered from English novels, to say
that it makes a boy manly to be kicked
ana cuffed by his elders. II a man
kept only the company of gentlemen
and ladies from his cradle to his grave
he would be all the better for it. Ihis
is unfortunately impossible, but It il
the duty of teachers to see that while s
youth remains at school he shall see as
little of the vulgar brutahties Of life as
is consistent with the conditions of hu-
man existence. Tt is not alone in the in
terests of the victims Of hazing that it
should be put down with the strong
hand. It is the best thing that can be
done for the rough hobbledehoys them
selves who consider It sueh q pleasure
and privilege to bully the youngsters,
To show them that If they act like ruff
fans and blackguards they Will be pun
ished for it. A single decided act like
that of the Michigan faculty viii do
more to convince the yCath Of that re-
Rion of the immortality of hazing than
any amount of lecturing.
Year: 1874

There is a popular delusion that a
three days storm is inevitable when
the sun crosses the line in the lat
ter part of March and September,
and the unsettled state of the weather
at this period, which usually eliminates
in showers of some duration, is always
spoken of as the ''equinoctial storm. ."
According to Professor LOomis, of
Yale college, however, the equinox has
very little to do with the storms, and
excepting that the weather is generally
unsettled by the changes which are
taking place in the atmosphere, there is
no mere likelihood of a storm upon
the day that the sun crosses the line
than upon any other day of the year.
So much for one of our popular the
ories, which, like our popular supersti-
tions, obtain a stronger hold upon
the public mind than the strongest
facts. In the light of this truth 1t is
not difficult to account for the length of
time-centuries, perhaps - which 1t
takes to discover a popular error or es-
tablish a scientific truth nor can we
measure our Indebtedness to the men
who devote their lives to discovering
facts in nature and art, and establishing
them upon a scientifc-that IS, real
and knowable-basis. For 1t must be
remembered that these men are always
in a minority the mass of mankind are
content to take the world as they md 1t.
with all its errors, superstltlons and
preiudices, and feel no gratitude to
those who disturb their fond and fool
ish belief in them.
Year: 1874

A retired physician writes q" How
does it happen that amid the everlasting
cry against drunkenness, we never hear
q word against its sister evil, gluttony ?
1 think can assert with truth that, IN
a long practice, three have died among
my patients from over-eating where one
has died from drink. Whence comes
apoplexy, paralysis, dyspepsia, and a
host Of other diseases, but from too
much and too rich food taken under the
most imprudent circumstances? ? And
yet we hear of no society formed to pre-
vent this growing vice. A man cats till
he drops down and expires with apo
plexy by the roadside, when up comes
a coroner with IA jury of twelve good
men and true, who pronounce a verdict,
Died from intemperance. So he did,
but what kind of intemperance was iti
/ have heard more than one minister in
the pulpit expatiate with great vehe-
mence against the sin of drunkenness,
whose very appearance was proof posi-
tive that he was pre-eminsntly guilty
of gluttony."
Year: 1874

We extract tic following from pri-
yate letter from W. 5. Creation Of Port
Gamble, w. I, TO his brother, !. D
Creator OF Stark:


AS | was travelling through the cast.
ern part Of the Territory met an editor,
and he was ro,ating to me some OF tie
little difficulties ol journalism which he
was called upon e. encounter in that part
OF the Territory. lie said Tor one thing.
the wolves gnawed into his Office and
chcwcd up his press roller, and he had to
send thirty miles after glue to cast an.
other. The Office was visited by an earth
quake tho next day; and the next, tho
editor was called to go on an eighty mile
raid 10 punish Indian horse thieves.


''As his assistant editor was laid up
with bullet in his leg, these things would
have discouraged an ordinary editor, but
they had no effect on him. lie trusts that
his readers will have patience until spring
opens, and apologies for the palcness
of his paper by saying that he had run
short of ink, and that there was none to
be had within 230 miles.


but these little troubles were nothing
10 his visit from three desperadocs whom
be had advised to get They got in the
wrong direction, walking into his Office
with drawn reyolyers. lie was accidun-
tally warned Of their approach, and says:
They commenced blazing away while
we were slipping sIugs into the shot gun
but after we had sent Pearl River Jack 10
the silent tomb, and brought down Big
Tom with charge in his hip, the other
party concluded that it wasn't a healthy
morning for clearing out the neUS. We
received a Slight wound on the shoulder,
but nothing to prevent us from issuing
the news on time"
Year: 1874

It is not uncommon, in giving advice
to newly married young ladies who
marry poor young men. to allude to the
fact that Eve married a gardener; but
they don't say anything about the gard
ener losing his situation on account Of
that match.
Year: 1874

The UNDERTOOK CAsE.-The Counsel for
VIM. E. udderzook, are now busy in preparing
the paper book Of evidence and other necessary
documents for the approaching hearing before
the Supreme Court. Mr. Perdue informs Us
that if everything can be made ready for the
hearing it will come up in the third week of the
present month. If matters are not sufficiently
prepared by that time it will be postponed until
May. st which time the supreme Court will sit
| in Harrisburg Local Ne,os
Year: 1874

tom Railway did little e1tra busips4 On Fri
day last 1nS the forenoon, Presidenl Nod and
two or three directors of the Phiia.- u Baiti-
more Central Railroad. accompanied by Vice
President Dickey, Treasurer Alexander and Sec
retary Russell, OF the Peach Bottom road, made
the Grip from Oxford to the end Of the track and
return. The object was to show the former
gentlemen the line and condition OF the road,
the character Of the work, the couutry traversed
and the action OF the rolling stock, etc. We un


derstand they expressed themselves gratifed with
the appearance and prospect Of the rod, and that
they were particularly pleased with the splendid
action of our little marrow gauge locomotive on
which they rode part of the time AOrfard
Press
Year: 1874

LIFE IAsURAscE AND LIQUoR.-A verdict
OF S22, 900 was rendered few days ago in Gin
cinnati against the New York Life Insurance
Company, which resisted payment OF three pol
ices on the ground that the death Of the assured
was produced by the use of intoxicating liquors
and opium. There was evidence that he died
from unskilliul treatment, neglect and an over
dose of opium while lying sick, and the court
held that such ause of opium, though within the
letter. was not within the spiri. of the prohibi
ton contained in the policies
Year: 1874

Why do not people goto church moref
One thinks 1t is this. and anOtherth
ii is this, and another thinks it is that.
You can open a church in a hOvel, and
let voice go forth that it has the pow
er of touching men, and you will find
it crowded and thronged. You do not
want the cob that used to have the
corn. That which men want Is slppy
food. refreshing food. Men are willing
to be dealt with. to have their con-
sciences aroused, but do not want to be
handled. They want preacher that
takes hold of them IN some way, and, If
he can, do more than that; if he can
give to them that which every man con-
scientiOusly needs-sOme men have as
piratiOns, and some more indulge in
superficial thOught-and if we can give
him strength to bear his buIuen.


Men that are sore in life; men who
are in sorrow; men who don't know
how to bring up their children, and
who are continually having more and
more added to their flock; people who
want to know where the next hOd of
coal is coming from; people who are
afraid of the sheriff; men who are
pricked with 10000 nettles of human
life-they come to church and hear a
long discussion on the fall of Adam.
Well, that is not inOpportune, but still
they're so fiat themselves that they feel
as if they would like to know some
thing that deadens the struggle that is
going on within them; they want some
one who will take part with them, a
minister who brings God down to the
side of men, not as the everlasting
condemner, but one who brings God
down rs present help in time of
trouble.
Year: 1874

A man Of high position in the world
made it rule to associate with men OF
exalted minds. Better to hog among
kings" says the homely old adage,


'than king among hogs. Choose good
company, or no company. Sir Thomas
Fowell Buxton often spoke of the great
benefits he had derived from his visits
to q particular family. Their words
and example stimulated him to make
the most of his powers. cit has given
color to my whole life," he said.
Speaking of his success at the univer-
sity, he remarked, 81 can ascribe it to
nothing but my visits to this family,
where 1 caught the infection of self
improvement" Surely, if our visits
have such an influence upon our char
acters for life, it should be q matter of
serious importance to us in what fami-
lies We allow ourselves to be intimate.
Boys and girls form attachments very
easily, ahd often with very little fore
thought. In this, as in all things else,
you should not fail to take advice Of
those who are older and wiser. and
never, never choose for q friend one
against whom you have been warned by
those who dearly love you. There are
people whose very presence seems to
lift you up into better atmosphere.
Choose such associates whenever it is
in your power, and the more you can
live in their society the better, for both
mind and heart. "He that walketh with
wise men shall be wise but a compan-
ion of fools shall be destroyed"
Year: 1874

81 mel, the other day, writes foreign
sportsman, with an Englishman who
travels some hundreds of miles every
year to indulge in his favorite sport of
trout-fshing. believe that, provided
stream was uudisturbed' this enthusias-
tic fisherman would be but little con-
cerned if the whole world was SUBJ
merged in q second deluge, as may be
judged by the following anecdote {:
One day he was exploring the banks of
his favorite stream, accompanied by the
landlord of the inn at which he was
stopping. The latter happening to come
too close just at the moment when his
guest was throwing his fly, the hook
caught the poor wretch's eyelid, causing
him intense pain. The sportsman coolly
took out the hook, readjusted the fly,
and, as the innkeeper continued, howl
ing at the top of the voice. You can,
said he, in whisper, put your eye
down in your bill but I'll trouble you
to stop that noise. 80 As not to frighten
my fsh."
Year: 1874

Life in general is possible only be-
tween certain limits of temperature;
and life of the higher kinds is possible
only within a comparatively narrow
range of temperature, maintained ar
tifcially if not naturally. Hence it re-
suits that social life, presupposing as
it does not only human life, but that
life vegetal and animal on which human
life depends, is restricted by certain
extremes of cold and heat.


Cold, though great, does not rigor-
ously exclude warm -blooded creatures,
if the locality supplies in adequate
quantity the means of generating heat.
The arctic Fauna contains various
marine and terrestrial mammals, large
and small; but the existence of these
depends, directly or indirectly, on the
existence of the inferior marine crea-
lures, vertebrate and invertebrate, which
would cease to live there did not the
warm currents from the tropics check
the formation of ice. Hence such hu-
man life as We find in arctic regions,
dependent as it is mainly on that Of
these mammals, is also remotely de-
pendent on the same source of heat
Popular Science Monthly.
Year: 1874

Look we'll to the time of doing any
thing; there is a time for all things.
Choose the right time for saying things.
II YOUR wife looks wearied and worn
out. be sure il is not the right time to
tell her that the dinner is not hot, or
that the bread is sour. Comfort her,
cheer her up. Use the ten thousand
little stratagems you were won't to
handle SO skillfully in the old days, to
bring out the smiles around her lips.


II you are annoyed or vexed at peo-
pie, Just remember it is not the right
time to speak. Close your mouth, shut
your teeth together firmly, and it will
save YOU many q useless and unavailing
regret, and bitter enemy.


If you happen to feel little cross,
and who among US does not at some
time or other do not select that season
for reproving your noisy household
flock. One word spoken in passion will
make q scar that summer of smiles
can hardly heal over.


If you are a wife. never tease your
husband when he comes home weary
from his days business. 1t is not the
time, Do not ask him for expensive
ontlays when he has been talking of
hard times it is most assuredly the
wrong time.


If he has entered upon any undertak-
ing against your advice, do not seize the
moment of ITS failure to say, II told
YOU SO - In fact, it is never the right
time for those four monosyllables.


II people only knew enough to dis
crimininate between the right time and
the wrong, there would be less domestic
unhappiness, and less silent sorrow, and
less arrangement of hearts The great
est calamities that ever shadow our
lives have sometimes their germ in
matters as apparently slight as this. If
you pause, reader, before the stinging
taunt or the biting sneer. the unkind
scoff passes your lips, pause Just long
enough to ask yourself. sis it the right
time for me to speak ?" you would shut
the door against many heart ache.


The world hinges on small things
and there are not many more trivial
than the right time and the wrong.
Year: 1874

When lulls the bowling northern wind,
And rests its curse Of iow'ry death;
Its anger soothed to mood more kind,
By kisses of the south winds breath;
And ice and Snow no longer hold


The impulse Of the yearning earth,
Then on the bed of moss clad mold,


The sweet srbutus has its birth.
The sylvan shadows darkly frovn


Upon the modest little plant;
The lofty pines with scorn look down,


And scarce ray of light viii grant;
But yet it opes its tiny star.


And heralds the approach of spring,
And song-birds gather from afsr,


The joyful news to sweetly sing.
So. humble though may be our lot,


And ev'ry view with shadows frsught
And sunlight seem to reach US not.


And our aspirings seem as naught,
We may uplift the silver star


OF hope and love each heart should hold.
And gather from pure hearts afar


The songs of joy the rays of gold
Year: 1874

1 covet rest neither for myself nor my
friends, SO long as We are able to work |;
but when age or weakness comes on,
and hard labor becomes an unendurable
burden, the necessity of work is deeply
painful, and it seems to imply an evil
state of society wherever such a ne
cessity generally exists. Ones child
hood should be tranquil, as ones old
age should be playful; headwork at
either extremity seems to me out of
place. The morning and the evening
should be alike peaceful; at midday
the sun may burn, and men may labor
under it-Dr. arnold.