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Year: 1877

Pussy was bound to possess the
clam. Cautiously, yet earnestly, she
went to work. First she walked
round and round it, eyeing it on every
side. Then she poked it with her paw
turning it round and round. The clam
knew she wouldn't do it, and he lay
there and laughed in his sleeve. Then
pussy inserted one Of her paws between
the shells and rapidly Withdrew it,
watching its effect on the objective
point. Not a muscle, however, did
his clamship move, not so much as an
eyewinker. Emboldened by this, puss
put her paw full upon the coveted car
cass Of the bivalve. The latter wink
ed with one eye, as mnch as to say
"Now old lady I've got you" and,
bringing those two jaws Of his together
with a snap, held that cats paw with
agrip that filled her with astonishment.
First came spit, then a prolonged
yell, then spit and yell alternately, and
a series of gyrations that would have
done honor to a circus rider. She
snaled that clam all over that yard,
up against q doorstep, between two.
fence pickets, and over a stone wall.
Bnt the clam meant business and
wouldn't let 90. Finally the cries and
antics of the poor creature brought
two men to the scene, and by their
united efforts the grip of the clam
was loosened and puss released.
Year: 1877

[ have yet to find a man who sue
ceeds in his ministry that does not feel
some enthusiasm about it. | have yet
to find a successful Sunday-school
teacher that don't take up his work
with some enthusiasm. For years |
was superintendent of Sunday-school
in Chicago, and l learned one lesson,
if | didn't learn any more, and that
was, that a man or woman who had a
class who didn't take hold of it with
some enthusiasm, didn't succeed. The
teachers who came in in a cool, indif-
ferent way, and never took any inter-
est in the scholars, and didu't seem
to have any enthusiasm in their hearts
about the work, didn't succeed. l like
to see teachers go into their classes,
and when the scholars come in, give
them good warm grasp Of the hand,
and ask them how the mother is, and
how the father is getting along, and
take right hold of the lesson as if they
meant it; not take up the question
book and ask them who was the first
man, and then look on the question
book to see if they had given the right
answer. We want to get this eternal
truth deep down into our hearts, that
we can't have success unless we carry
this enthusiasm into Gods work.
Year: 1877

| confess to a feeling of tenderness
toward the hired man, who gives me
his best services from five o'clock in
the morning to six i'm the afternoon,
and yet willing to add an hour or two
more, when there is need oft, without
my asking. / am exacting enough to
require this of those who get my mon
ey; my interest must be appreciated
by them and furthered as they can
further it; all this without my asking.
If | had need to ask, in the manner of
ordering, rather than in the manner of
suggestion and letting them know that
such and such is my pleasure, should
know that in me or my help there was
something wrong. should look about
me for other help and welcome the in
cident that should throw our lives
apart. ] would sooner quit the farm
life which has something of quiet and
peace l love so well, than not to be on
terms of good cheer with those | say
good morning to as often as the sun
rises. l know there are men with
whom it is uphill work to establish q
satisfactory relation,-men that are
not made up Of the stuff that suits me.
| bid them welcome to get out Of my
way the gcntlest way that l know; l
will have none ofsuch, l say to myself,
others | know will give them work, and
curse and swear at them to their hurt
and their own. In every hundred men
there are those who will like my way
Of treating them, if am what should
be to them and will be glad to take my
money, and will try to earn it, so that
| shall not wish them away. Some
farmers seem never to tire of complain
ing Of their help. Their help think i'll
enough Of them and they deserve it.
Wrong themselves in their philosophy
Of this labor question: wrong in treat
ing their hired men as less human and
less deserving than themselves be-
cause their birth Or circumstances have
been less fortunate, they do not see
things at all from the laboring mans
point Of view. If we look out, first
from our own stand-points, then from
that Of the laboring mans, we may
see some things alike. Seeing these
things alike makes us better citizens o1
our country, and makes us more use.
ful to one another.-ScientNc Farmer
Year: 1877

All our creature comforts are either
weights or wings-harmful or helpful
as we use them. Let it be remem-
bered that one reason that God so often
takes away the good things He once
gave His people is because they will
make them weights instead of wings
They love and enjoy, and yield them
selves up to those things, which were
ment to be tasted rather than consumed.
God would have His people rise.
The sand-bags Of the balloon therefore
must be cast over board. The weights
must be changed to wings, the loss
must be made gain,
Year: 1877

70 KEEP HARNESS IN 0 ORDER.-Take
Meats Foot Oil and Ivory Black-the
latter well pulyerized, or to be made
SO before using. Mix thoroughly-ad-
ding the black until the oil is well col
ored, Or quite black. In cool weather
the oil should be warmed somewhat
before mixing. With a sponge apply
a light coat Of the mixture-only what
the leather will readily absorb unless
the harness is very dry-in which case
a heavy coat may be necessary. After
the harness is dry-which will be in
from two hours, to a half or a whole
day, depending upon the weather and
previous condition ofthe leather-wash
thoroughly with soap suds. In max
ing the suds use good CASTLE soap and
cold rain water. (Warm water should
never be used ON harness leather. J
Apply the suds with a sponge. Rub
off with buckslzin. This will give your
harness a good glossy surface, and the
leather will retain a good color and
continue pliable for months. If it be-
comes soiled with mud or sweat, an
application of soap and water, as
above directed, (without oiling,) will
be sufficient to give it bright appear
ance. Two applications of this oil and
black mixture a year Cor once every
six months) will be sufficient to keeE
harness, as ordinarily used in good or
der.
Year: 1877

Begin the education Of the heart not
with the cultivation Of noble propensi-
ties, but with the cutting away of those
that are evil. When once the noXious
herbs are withered and rooted out,
then the more noble plants, strong in
themselves, will shoot upward. The
virtues, like the body become strong
and healthy more by labor than nourish-
ment.-Richter.
Year: 1877

"Are the children safe?" asked
the Christian at Work. Quite safe,
we assure you. They are up in the
garret playing hotel fire. Jimmy is
the clerk, and is trying to slide down
the water pipe to the ground. Willie
is guest hanging to the window sill
waiting for the flames to reach his
hand before he tries to drop to the
shed below and Tom is heroic fireman
and has tied his fishing line to the
baby's body, and is letting it down to
the ground. Oh yes the children are
all right just finish your call and don't
fret about the children. --Burliny-
tom HdaUkege
Year: 1877

TRAINING The ToMATO.-In the re-
port of the Maine Pathological Society
we find an account Of a method Of train
ing the tomato plant. Stakes, seven
or eight feet long, were inserted in the
gyouudthe last ofMay, three feet apart,
in warm sheltered location, and strong
tomato plants were procured, which
had been started under glass and con-
tanned one or two blossom buds. These
were planted near the stakes. The
plant was then tied to the stake with
listing, and all the side branches which
had started at the aXillar or angles
formed by the separation Of the leaves
were pinched or cut out with scissors,
so as to compel the plant to grow on
q single stem; and every week in the
season three branches were removed.
and the stems. from time to time, were
tied to the stake. when a sufficient
number Of clusters had been formed,
remainder were removed, so as to
concentrate the whole energies of the
plant to the grwth and ripening Of the
remaining tomatoes and the heaviest
branches were supported by tying them
to the stakes. AS the result, Of trim
ming the ripening Of the tomato by
this method is accelerated, and its fla
vor improved, because every part of
the plant is exposed to the free action
Of the sun and air. 1t is not soiled
by coming in contact with the ground !;
is not so apt to decay, and more ripe
tomatoes can be raised in a limited
space; but it requires CONSTANT care
and industry.
Year: 1877

Believing that the best interests of both buyer
and seller are enhanced by dealing in good
quality of merchandise at fair prices, shall try
and confine myself to such policy, and cordially
invite your support. Relieving, also, that nine
tenths Of the failures of business men are due to
the ruinous system of selling credit, shall do
business (buy and selD on the
Year: 1877

And you will have corn to sell and keep


Work while it is called to-day, for
you know not how much you may be
hindered tomorrow. One to-day is
worth two to-morows and never
leave till tomorrow anything that you
can do to-day. ."-ObSerUer
Year: 1877

A good sort OF man is this Darwin,
and we'll meaning, but with little in-
tellect. All it's sad aterrible thing
to see whole generation of men and
women, processing to be cultivated,
looking around in purblind fashion
and finding no God in this universe. l
suppose it is reaction from the reign


of cant and hollow pretense, profess
ing to believe in what in fact they do
not believe. And this is what we


have got to. All things from frog


spawn the gospel of dirt the order OF


the day. The older grow-and


now stand upon the brink of eternity
the more comes back to me the sem
tence in the Catechism, which
learned when a child, and the fuller
and deeper its meaning becomes


"What is the chief end of man? To
glorify God and enjoy him farever. "
No gospel of dirt, teaching that men
have descended from frogs through
| monkeys, can ever set that aside.
Year: 1877

Ifthe holders of Southern securities
will look over the history OF the past
ten years, they will see that just in
proportion as a State has been emanci-
pated from carpet>bag influence their
investments have became more stable.
The same law applies to trade in the
past, and apply to it in the future.
Healthy laws beget healthy business
without them there must be little OF
no trade, or in time, an entirely un-
sound one. Richmond Enquirer
Year: 1877

A PosTLY magistrate of Glasgow hav-
ing, one fine Sunday in summer, found
his way to church, WAS overcome by
the heat of the weather and fell fast
asleep during the sermon. In the mid
die .of the discourse, dog which had
got into church set up howl. "Put
out that dog" said the minister; "put
out that dog instantly-he'd wauken a
Glasgow magistrate"
Year: 1877

National Associated Press to the Star.


WASHINGTON, March &.-The Cabinet
to-day continued the discussion OF Sat-
urday in regard to the organization OF
the Civil Service. The doubts OF ability
to perfect the Commission with suitab G
persons seem to grow, and it is not 80
sure now but that 1t will be necessary
to adopt another plan OF settlement.


Ip regard to Civil Service it has been
found difficult to harmonize a service
ignoring political influence, and at the
same Time to keep up party organiza'
ton. 1t is possible that a medium
course will be adopted.
Year: 1877

l.. @. Washington in the n. Y. World ]


The action of the Senate, as at present
advised, [ deem wholly uncertain. The
key to it will be found in public opinion.
II public opinion shall condemn the at
tempt to install a usurper in the White
House, and the Democracy Of the coun
try, North and South, East and West,
shall let it appear most distinctly and
unequivocally that they will not submit
to be cheated out of the election by the
three returning boards, the chances are
very great that the conspiracy will break
down utterly, and even before the deci-
sive moment shall arrive. AS it is now,
unless some change shall occur, we are
drifting on to dual government-a
fraudulent counting in of Hayes by the
Senate, and an attempt by him to seize
the executive departments, accompanied
by resistance more or less bloody to the
lawful Government of the United States.


In word, we are shooting Niagara.
We are rapidly nearing point where,
in the process Of Mexicanization already
carried so far by President Grant, re-
treat to peaceful constitutional govern
ment will be impossible. 1t is a crisis in
which the people should act, and act at
once. They have very little time in
which to move and to exert their rightful
influence over events which concern the
destinies of the land for generations to
cone.


Believing from the first that the key
to the whole question lay in the action of
the people themselves exerting a right
full influence upon their public servants,
| have been somewhat impatient of the
attempts from this quarter to tone down
and repress public sentiment. Such adj
vice was not hostile to the very principle
of free institutions, but is directly in the
interest of the Hayes conspiracy. Chan
dler, Don Cameron and Morton want no
agitation 1t would suit them very we'll
for everybody to 60 to sleep and wake up
in March to find Hayes in possession of
the White House.
Year: 1877

Below we have copied the latest ex-
pressions from President Grant ON the
Presidential question. If it should be
come settled that the programme here
indicated will be carried out, it would be
desirable for the Legislature to be in
session to adopt such course as the emer
gency may require. Or in the event
all effort at an arrangement should fail,
and the pretentions of the conspirators
shoutd go to the point of attempting to
seize the government "a ct arms, the rea-
son for session of the Legislature would
be stronger still:


First. That if it is not decided before the
4th Of March who has been elected Presi-
dent provisional government be provided
and new election ordered forthwith.


Second. He believes that the President of
the Senate has power to count the votes and
determine who has been elected, and that
he will do C.


The Washington correspondent OF the
n. o. Democrat, telegraphed that as
members return from their holiday va
cation, many seem incline towards the
plan Of settling the embroglio by a new
election.


We are tempted to ask what assurance
there is that the Returning Boards will
not repeat their frauds and defeat an
election the second time. To hold an





other election is simply to give the Radi'
Gals second chance after having lost
the first. If it is done, proper safeguards
should be adopted to secure an honest
count and acquiescence in the election
after it is held There should be stpu
Iations also against the employment Of
the Uuited States Army for the purpose
of overawing voters and controlling the
election. Let it be free, fair and honest;
or let the people who have fairly won
the fight, maintain their right to install
Governor Tiiden, the man of their choice
Year: 1877

The report of Hon. Marion Smith,
Superintendent of the Penitentiary, ac-
companied by that of the physician, DR..
Writ Johnston, contains great deal of
valuable information in regard to this
institution, which for the first time since
the war, under the efficient management
of the present lessees, Messrs. Hamilton
and Hebron, is a source of revenue in
stead of burden to the treasury of the
State. 1t is unnecessary to recapitulate
the information so laudably presented
by Mr. Smith. The report will no doubt
attract the attention of all who desire to
acquaint themselves with the affairs of
the State.
Year: 1877

The Chickasaw Messenger explains
what was meant by its expression "no
fight of ours, in reference to the Presi-
dental issue. The part we have italicized
covers the ground:


When we use the expression sno fight
of ours" we do not mean to say that we
have no sympathy in common with our
Northern Democratic brethren, and that
under no circum stances should the South
take part in the war. should such a calamity
be in store for the American people. But
we do insist the South is in way sponsible
Tor the present alarming political outlook,
and cry of war from her would be to as
sumo responsibility which does not be-
long TO her. place her in false attitude be-
lore the country and paralize the arms Of
our friends North. We maintain, also. that
It IS unnecessary for US to be continually
reminding our Northern friends that we
will support them in any honorable move
they NAV make. looking to the inauoura-
tion of Tilden and Hendricks, the preserya-
tion of liberty and the perpetuity of Repub-
lican institutions on this continent, for they
know the spirit and temper OF the Southern
people, and theg kno1c acs toiH not be scantilaq
tohen the great emergency arises
Year: 1877

"A Washington letter writer says ::
Miss Waite, the daughter of the Chief
Justice, has the rare faculty being able
to talk to several people at once" Rare
faculty Oh, ignoramus did you never
hear IA woman on moving day tell the
druymcn precisely how to carry the bu-
redu down stairs, scream instructions to
the woman taking up the carpets, yell at
the boy packing up the china, tell the
hired girl what to do with the tinware
and stove furniture, shrek her husband
into n cold sweat for emptying half n
hushel of SCOT out of the stove pipe on
the paror floor, sniff the woman across
the street who wasn't going to move and
was looking on, and scOld seven children
for nine different things, with one and
the same wag Of her flexible tongue Rare
faculty, indeed !--Argonam
Year: 1877

viii have been Worn and smoothed
away in the twilight OF life, and
many dark spots We have passed
through viii grow brighter and
more beautiful. Happy indeed are
those whose intercourse with the
world has not changed the tone OF
their feeling, or broken the musical
chords of the heart whose vibrations
are SO melodious, SO tender aud so
touching in the evenings OF their
lives,
Year: 1877

ACCOMPLISHMENT. In this world
of oars nothing is accomplished
without effort. The doers in life
are those who intend TO do; all 9TH
ers are cumbers of the ground
thistles, weeds, unfruitful fg trees
doomed to perish. It is a very
easy matter to spend day after day
and week after week in merely 90
ing through the forms Of doing, and
at the end Of this time have actually
nothing accomplished. The butterfly
doubtless visits as many flowers as
the bee, the grasshopper goes over
as much ground as the ant, bat
how different the showing in the
TWO contrasted cases. A purpose
animates the bee and the ant; one
moves III '.bee line" to the accom-,
plishment Of her purpose, the other


works with such persistent industry
that tor three thousand years at
least the ant has been an example
known and read of, as many have
studied her ways. Even purposeful
men and women waste much time
for want of a wen digested plan OF
action. The "executive" individual
has pretty clear idea, first Of ex-
actly what he wishes to accom- plish,
and secondly of the manner in which
he intends to work. He doesn't
blunder into thing and blunder on


all the way through ii. He may not
see what his last step will be, but
he sees qnite clearly what his first
one must be, and then the second
and, as he progresses, the end be-
comes clear. lie does not allow
himself TO be diverted or detained
from his work by slight causes, pet
ty hiadrances, trivial Interruptions.
If one stops to follow all the little
sidepaths that lead Of from the man
thorougbfare from Joppa to Jerusa-
lem, he viii be long time in reach
ing that ancient capital The way
to secure main issues is to neglect
all smaller ones that have not q di-
rect bearing on the success aimed
at.
Year: 1877

A BEAUTIFUL THoUGHT.-When


the summer of youth is slowly vast
ing away on the nightfall OF age,
and the shadow of the path becomes
deeper, and life wears to its close,
It IS pleasant TO look through the
vista of time upon the sorrows aud
felicIties of our earlier years. five
have had a home to shelter and
hearts to rejoice with US, and friends
had been gathered around our fire.
side, the rough places Of waytaring
Year: 1877

Be FRANK.-Never deceive for
the sake Of d foolish jest, or to excite
the laughter Of a few companions at
the expense Of a friend. Be anxious
when you relate anything to tell it
Just as it occurred. Never vary in
the least degree. The reason why
our ears are SO often saluted by false
reports Is because people in telling
real things add little 10 them, and
as they pass through dozen mouths
the original stories are turned into
something entirely different. So
when you attempt to tell anything
that you have seen with your own
eyes, relate it correctly in every
particular, and as you grow older
you will reap the advantage Of this
course.
Year: 1877

The New Hampshire Republican
Politicians have apparently concluded
after all to see if they cannot keep
democratic Congressman Jones out of
his certificate of election for a while.
The Governor and Council on Friday
submitted to the Supreme Court,
which meets at Concord to-day, the
question whether they have any pow
er to go behind the returns in a Con-
gressional election and throw out ball
lots because they do not contain the
candidates. full Christian name-in
short, whether they can refuse Jones


his certificate because his name was
spelled Frank, instead of Franklin, on
many of the ballots, It will of course
make no practical difference in the
end what the court decides or the Gov
ernor and Council do, since the House
is sole judge of the election of its mem
bers and will give Jones his seat, as it
ought, in justice TO the voters OF the
district.