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Year: 1877

To those who prize the freedom pecu-
liar to life in the country, and also the
security Of steady occupation, the pur-
suit of farming in this country offers
great advantages. Every talent that the
most gifted young man possesses may be
exercised in connection with agriculture,
and the more finished his education the
better will be his chances of gaining cul-
ture from his surroundings and acquiring
influence with his neighbors.


Already large portion of the perma-
nent wealth of our nation is in the hands
of farmers. and every facility is offered
by our laws for any one who wishes to
secure farm for himself. The intro
duction of machinery for almost all kinds
of farm work, the multiplication of
means of transportation, and the great
demand in cities and towns for the best
farm produce, makes it necessary for
man to know the cost Of each crop he
raises that he may devote his time and
labor to that which pays the highest per
cent. on capital invested. Hundreds Of
farmers annually dispose of their wheat,
potatoes, apples, corn, cattle or horses
at the market price, without knowing
the actual cost of production of any
crop. AS q natural consequence they
60 on year after year in the same way;
while by knowing exactly the cost of rails
ing bushel of wheat or ton of hay or
pound of wool, they could soon decide
where their profits lay, and discard the
crops which experience proved to bring
them only loss.


Now to know the precise cost of any
farm product, it is as necessary that q
farmer should keep accurate accounts as
for a merchant or manufacturer. To no
class of business men is q practical
knowledge of bookkeeping more valu-
able than to our farmers. Because
many have succeeded without it in the
past does not alter the case. A higher
standard is before the farmer now.
Their produce must be of good quality
to meet with ready sale, and to insure
that success now demands that capital
be invested in good buildings, machinery
and improved kinds of grain, fruit and
live stock.


They need to know the exact returns
yielded by all such investments, which
can be ascertained only from a complete
and accurate system of accounts. Let
us impress upon young farmers, stock
dealers and fruit-growers the vast bene-
fit you would realize from a course of
business training. Better give year of
your time now to this study; you would
be more than repaid for your time and
money in five years. Surely it is time
the leading industry of our State and
country was conducted on the same
principles that control less important
interests.
Year: 1877

Expense of time is the most costly of
all expenses.


As moth gnaws a garment, so doth
envy consume man.


To some purpose is that man wise who
is wise at another mans expense.


The hen of our neighbor appears to us
goose, says the Oriental proverb.


The man who can be nothing but seri-
GUS OF nothing but merry is but half o
man.


People seldom improve when they
have no other model than themselves to
copy after.


Our natures are like oil, compounds
with everything, yet still we try to swim
upon the top.


A hesitating, tardy, or grim yielding
to the wishes of another, always CRATES
upon loving heart.


The woman who is resolved to be re-
spected can make herself to be 80 even
amidst an army of soldiers.


Many men profess to hate another, but
no man OWLS envy as being an enmity for
no cause but goodness or felicity.


We do not know of how much man is
capable, if he has the will, and to what
point he will rise if he feels free.


There is this of good in real evils-they
deliver US while they last from the petty
despotism of all that were imaginary.


The old saying is expressed with depth
and significance: "On the pinnacle OF
fortune man does not long stand firm"


Who shoots at the midday sun, though
he be sure he will never hit his mark, yet
as sure is he that he shall shoot higher
than he who aims at a brush.


We gain nothing by being with such
as ourselves. We encourage one another
in mediocrity. I am always longing to
be with men more excellent than myself.
Lamb.


God has made no one absolute. The
rich depend on the poor, as we'll as the
poor on the rich. The world is but
mere magnificent building; all the stones
are gradually cemented together. There
is no one subsists by himself alone
FeItHdn1.
Year: 1877

In the city of Brooklyn, N. Y, there
is an old man who never fails to be in a
certain place where he can see the clock
on the city hell when it strikes the hour
of noon. For many years he has invari-
ably been present, and his coming is re-
garded by the people there as sure
indication of the near approach of mid
day, so the old Brooklynite has become
the object of much interest and the sub
ject of many a romance.


Baltimore, Nd, 80 far rs known, has
no eccentric resident whose daily task is
to watch the clock at MONDAY, but with
in her limits resides all old fellow scarcely
less peculiar, and whose idiosyncrasy is
not unlike to the crazy Brooklynite.
The name of the Baltimorean is Francis
Farthing. He resides in tenement on
Eastern avenue, between Eden and
Caroline streets. Probably fifty two
years of age, he is bent in form, furrow.
ed in feature, morose in temper, and OF
forbidding appearance generally. he
has few friends or associates. How he
lives is q mystery to his neighbors, as
for six years, during which time he has
lived alone in one place, he has never
done any work, nor has the postman
ever been seen to bring him a letter. He
takes one drink of whisky daily in a
saloon, for which he always pays IN cop
pers, and his frugal meals he buys at
Restaurant near by, paying for them
always in coin of the same denomination.
He goes into his room, it has been OBJ
served, nightly at eight o'clock, and
energies as promptly on the hour OF
half-past ten the next morning. He
always takes tie same path going for his
meals, opens the door, a swinging one,
with his left and closes it with his right
hand in peculiar way.


But all these actions are the least
noticeable of his movements, and had 1t
not been for one proceeding more pro,
ncunced than all the others these might
not have been noticed. Regularly at
one o'clock every day he passes out OF
his low-roofed domicile, walks to tho
corner of Eastern avenue and Caroline
street, faces about and walks to the
corner of Eden street and Eastern ave-
nue.. Then he turns up Eden street to
Bank, crosses Bank and takes stand
within short distance of the pump at
the corner of Spring and Bank streets.
There he stands enumerating aloud each
person who comes to the pump to drink
until the number has reached seventeen.
Then he turns away, and walking by the
same route as before, going to the corner
of Caroline street and Eastern avenue,
he returns to his house. This he has
done for over two years, and perhaps for
longer period, but that is the time his
movements were first noticed by his
neighbors, who have come now to regard
him with but little curiosity. One day
not long ago while he. was counting at
the pump reporter spoke to him. The
old man looked up and resumed his self
imposed task of watching and counting,
but said never a word. So old Farthing
leads his life of mysterious regularity
and enters himself Us the rival of the
man who watches the Brooklyn clock.
Year: 1877

One of the most desperate daylight
attacks on record was made in Scranton,
Pa, few weeks ago, by a pair of mask
ed robbers, upon Paymaster Bessell OF
the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
railroad company, and his assistant,
Captain Carling, while on their way to
pay the employees at the Cayuga and
Brisbin collieries. The murderous Of
fair occurred within q stones throw OF
the Brisbin mine, at q short distance
from the main road, between Hyde Park
and Providence, almost in the midst OF n
thickly populated settlement, and shortly
after one o'clock in the afternoon. Pay
master J. H. Bessell and Captain ". H.
CarGng were driving leisurely along, i'll
buggy in which they had the money
for the men, amountin 6 to twelve thou
sand dollars, and on arriving at a point
of the road which is crossed by the rail-
way, and guarded by a gate on each side
of the track, they halted for the purpose
of Mr.. Carling getting out and opening
the gates that they might pass through.
The captain was just in the act of re-
moving the lap-robe from his knees,
when he and his companion were startled
by the sudden appearance of two masked
robbers, who had been crouching by the
roadside in wait for them, and now
sprang up and pointed pistols ut their
heads. The men were closely masked
with something that completely covered
their faces, so that it was impossible to
get even o glimpse of their features.
They we're quite close to the buggy,
being no more than two yards from the
horses head. and their appearance fairly
unnerved the paymaster and his assist
ant for q moment. They made no de-
mand, and it was evident from their de-
termined demeanor that it was their in
tention to murder and rob the men in
charge of the miners pay. In less time
than it takes to tell it, one of them dis
charged his revolver at Captain CARING s
head, which, fortunately, was inclined
backward, owing to the position he had
taken to get out of the buggy. The bull
let glanced along his left cheek, and
plowed its way through the skin of the
temple, leaving q ghastly mark, but
fortunately going whistling harmlessly
beyond it's intended victim. Such sud-
den shock, thrilling situation and mar
row escape from instant death, fairly
stunned the captain for the moment,
but summoning up his accustomed cool
ness and courage, he was out of the
buggy in m instant and he cried to his
companion "Shoot them-shoot them
down !" The horse, frightened by the
report of the assassin's pistol, plunged
forward, making it e difficult matter for
MIR. Bessell, who was still in the carriage,
to take aim ut the assassins, but before
the words were shoken his revolver was
leyeled at the highwaymen, at whom he
fired. It was close struggle. The
murderers were now no further off than
five feet from the buggy in which the
money lay, but it required more than
the heroism of even q highwayman to
approach it under the determined guard
Of Paymaster Bessell, who held his
ground firmly and kept firing at the
would-be assassins, who now, seeing they
were foiled, turned and fled in the direc-
ton of Church's Corners.
Year: 1877


At night, within my lonely room,
So shelterless and high,
I dread the storm winds when they como
And sweep the earth and sky;
They seem to shake the feeble wall,
AS with giants sE--,.
And oft look to see it fall
In desperate alarm.
But if in Ill the darkened sky
/ see one cleaning star,
smile to hear the rough winds try
My confidence to mar;
Or if the moon, so calmly bright,
Between the clouds appears,
Then, though the storm be at its height,
bid farewell to fears.
Or if by day the storm winds come
And drive the clouds with might,
If for one instant shines the sun,
know that all is right.


still when these are out Of sight
I see the blue Of Heaven,
No terror can my soul alright
OF winds and storm clouds driven.
I know then that the storm I dread
Shall have no power to harm,
And that the darkness overspread
Need give me no alarm.
'Tis so of other storms that come
My spirit to appall,
No evil shall by them be done
While Heaven is seen through all.
Year: 1877

Two sailors belonging to the Spanish
bark Aunisis, who we're sent ashore on
the morning OF the 18th instant, the
day OF our severe blow, with a lot Of
casks for fresh water, while returning
to their vessel in the afternoon, were
caught in the gale and their yawl boat
capsiaed some distance off Round Is.
land. The men becoming alarmed at
their precarious situation, a tremendous
seaway running which would not permit
their clinging on to the boat, they
struck out for the island, which, after
considerable battling and struggling
with the waves, they fnelly reached,
where they were received by Mr.. Henry
Anderson, who administered to their
wants and kept them till they were re-
stored to their vessel.
Year: 1877

s'Canada Bill" died of consumption in
the County Hospital. His funeral was
probably the strangest ever seen in the
Charles Evans Cemetery, for there were
neither tears nor women nor minister at
the grave that now holds the remains of a
man who died penniless in strange land,
but had the name one time Of having won
nearly half million dollars at three-card
monte.


His body was brought to the undertak-
ers room in this city, and thence taken to
the cemetery, VIII ere a dozen or more rep
resentatives of the sporting fraternity of
Reading had congregated about the grave
to do the last honors for the ''old SPORT
who had w,n money on nearly every rail
road in the United States, east of the Rocky
| Mountains


| After the hearse approached the grave
and the walnut coffin had been taken ont
and placed on bier, the question was
asked whether the remains we're in it. The
undertaken guessed that they were still
there. "Unscrew the ld," the master of
ceremonies ordered. 'sRill was in many a
| tight box and he worked himself out some
| how or other, and there's no dead sure
| thing that he hasn't got out ON the trip TO
the cemetery" While they were taking
off the lid it was found that the screws
were not solid silver. One of the mourn
ers remarked that Bill's game had not been
| one of the squarest, but he guessed there
| were tricks at all trades as well as the
monte players. The corpse was found in
the coffin The men had made arrange
meuts with one Of their acquaintances to
read prayer, or Il short burial service at
the grave, but he came not. The wind
was raw and chilly, and after the lid had
been again screwed on, orders were given
tliJt the interment should be made.


Canada i5ih's proper name was William
Jones. He was an English gypsy, aud
came to this country seventeen years ago
lie was a horse trader, and finally began
to i,lay at tdree-card monte. He drlsrt,
inJo Kingston, Canada, where he got the
name Of Canada Bill. He operated all
over the North during the war, and after
the war closed he was on the Red river and
the Mississippi. He was always dressed
in yery.slouchy manner, and cared moth
ing for good clothes or jewelry of any kind.
He won thousands of dollars on the Mis-
sissippi in the disguise of a planter At
one time he bad a livery stable, and kept
200 negroes at work clearing swamp land
at the mouth Of the Red river Subsequent
ly he operated at monte on the Kansas Pa
c'fc and Union Pacific railroads running
ont from Kansas City and Omaha. He be-
came infamously known all over the coun-
rIy. All The tricks and new points in monte
were invented by Canada Bill He always
Travelled as countryman. He is said to
have won thousands of dollars ON the
trains, and as soon as he had won it he lost |
it playing at faro. His friends say that In
Chicago alone, in 1874, he won $4,000 in
three months, and yet he died penniless,
and had to be buried at the expense of an
old friend. He was about forty years of
age.-Rsadsng Eagle.
Year: 1877

Gale, the pedestrian, has achieved the


feat OF walking 1900 miles In 1000 hours,


Looking at the matter purely from a physi-


cal point of view, it is a marvellous exhibi-


ton of human endurance. A steady walk


OF thirty-sx miles a day for forty-two DAYS


is. no mean task, but when each ,lay is


broken up into sets of mile and half to


be accomplished III each hour-day and


night the wonder is that any man can be


found possessing the stamina requisite to
accomplish the work. But it must have


been pitiable sight to have seen Gale


walking during the last half Of his allotted
time. Walking had become a mechanical


matter--all the functions of mind and body


beyond those necessary to keep him moy
ing on the track would be suspended In a
CONSTANT drowsiness. Want of sleep in
these cases is the great opponent of the Pc
destrlan, and twice in the course of the
match Gale fell asleep while walking. and
tumbled over on the course. Still looking
at 1t as feat, this walk of 1,510 miles in
.Oo0 hours, far trancends that of Captain
Barclay, whose distance was confined to
LOCO miles, and who, by walking one mile
IN the last quarter of an hour and another
IN the first quarter of the. next, really had
rests OF an hour and half each. But, af-
ter all, it may be asked, what possible good
can accrue from such performances? They
are not pleasing, they are most emphatical-
iy detrimental to health, and can only satisfy
a morbid desire to do something out of the
common. Gale is now able to say that he
has accomplished something which man
never did before, and in the interest of hu-
m"nity and of society the wish may be ex- |
pressed that no pedestrian will arise to at
tempt to wrest from him what trumpery
glory he has attained. -Glasgop Neacs,
Year: 1877

SCHOOL LANTERN, FAMILY LANTERN,


PEOPLES LANTERN
Each style being the best of its class in the market
Catalogues Of Lanterns and Slides with direC-
tions for using sent on application.


Any enterprising man can make money with a
Magic Lantern.


Eg- Visitors to the Centennial Exposition will do
wisely to defer purchasing goods in our line until
they come to our stores in New York where they
VIII find greater variety and more moderate prices
and can select more at their leisure. But we have
a concession to sell some styles of our goods in IN
building of the Department of Public Comfort and
those not coming to New York are invited TO call ON
our representation there.


RS- full stock of Views OF the Exposition Build.
ing and their contents.


June 20, Tome
Year: 1877

which is divided into two departments
the light exhibits being in the main
hall, and the heavy exhibits IN the
basement. The latter are small in
number, but interesting in character,
while the former are quite mum erous,
and are arranged with really artistic
taste.


The spaces ere conveniently arrang-
ed so as to have aisles running east
Year: 1877

Don't think when you have won a
wife that you have won also a slave.


Don't think that your wife has less
feeling than your sweetheart. Her re
lationship to you simply is changed
not her nature.


Don't think that you can dispense
with all the little civilities of life toward
her you marry. She appreciates those
things quite as much as other women.


Don't be gruf' and rude at home.
Had you been that sort of fellow be-
fore marriage the probabilities are you
would be sewing on your own buttons
still


Don't make your wife feel that she is
an incumbrance on you by giving
grudgingly. What she needs give
cheeIfully as if it were pleasure so to
do. She will feel better and so will
you.


Don't meddle in affairs of the house
under her charge. You have no more
right to be poking your nose into the
kitchen than she has to walk into your
place of business aud give directions to
your employees.


Don't find fault with her eriraragnnce
in ribbons, &c, until you have shut
down on cigars, tobacco, whiskey, DC


Don't leave your wife at home to
nurse the children, on the score OF
economy, while you bolt down town at
nights to see the show or spend dollar
on billiards.


Don't bolt your supper and hurry off
to spend your evenings lounging around
away from your wife. Before marriage
you couldn't spend evenings enough
with her.


Don't prowl in the loa6ng resorts till
midnight, wastingl your time in calpa-
BILE idleness, leaving your wife lonely at
home to brood over your neglect and
her disappointment.


Don't think the woman You promised
to ''love, cherish and protect" becomes
your servant as her part of the contract.


Don't think that board and clothes Is
a sufficient return for all wife does for
you. :.


Don't expect your wife to love and
honor you if you prove brute un-
worthy of love and honor.


Don't caress your wife in public and
snarl and growl at her in private. This
proves you both hypocrite and dog.


Don't wonder that your wife is not as
cheerful as she used to be when she
labors from early morn till late at night
to pander to the comfort and caprice OF
selfish pig who has not soul enough to
appreciate her.


Don't if yonr wife has faults, be con-
stantly reminding her Of them while
you have never word of commenda
tion for her virtues. If she did that
with you you'd be as mad as a hornet.


Dout expect your wife TO have no
failings. Not to have is not to be hu-
man; and you thought you were marry
ing a woman when you married her.
She thought she married man, and
don't deceive her.
Year: 1877

MHAr IS AN OLD MAID!-Never be
afraid of becoming an 'old maid, fair
reader An old maid is far more hon
orable than a heartless wife; aud single
blessedness' is greatly superior in point
of happiness to welded life without
welded love. Fall not in love dear
girls, beware, says the song, But We
do not agree with the said song on this
question. On the contrary, we hold
that it is a good thing to fall in love, if
the loved object be worthy Que. To
fall in love with an honorable man is as
proper as 1t is for an honorable man to
fall in love with yirtuous aud amlable
woman; aud what could be more gra-
tifying spectacle even to the angels in
heaven, than a sight so pure-so APP
preaching in its devotion to the celes-
tiall


No; fall in love as soon as you please
ladies, provided it be with suitable
person. Fall in love and then marry;
but never marry unless you do love.


That's the great point. Never marry
merely for "a home, or husband.


Never degrade yourself, by becoming
party to such an alliance. Never sell
yourself, body and sonl, on terms SO
contemptibIe- Love dignifes all things
il ennobles all conditions. With love
the marriage rite is truly sacrament
Without it the ceremony is base fraud,
aud the act human desecration. Marry
for love or not at all. Be an old maid,
if fortune throw not in your way the
man of your heart; and though the
witless may sneer, aud the jester may
laugh you will still have yolr reward
in an approving conscience and COM
partively peaceful life.


Pay up your dues al this office.
Year: 1877

A Coon SUGGEsTCON.-What good thing
it would be if some neat dairy women
would undertake to serve fresh milk or
butter milk in the railway cars. People
drink quantities of ice water and are none
the better for it, but milk is food and re-
freshment both. 1t would be welcome
innovation in the place of the popcorn
boy, the prize candy and venerable fruit OF
youthful vendors to have a company
"limited" to pure milk service, for whose
grass-fed COWS and integrity of supply the
badge of the railroad company would be
voucher. For even the roads that "water"
their stock run through regions of honest
dealers and luxuriant farms, where there
is no occasion to water the milk.-Phila.
Ledger.
Year: 1877

FAvORs.-lf you want to be happy, never
ask favor. Give as many as you can, and
if any are freely offered, it is not necessary
to be too proud to take them; but never
ask for or stand waiting for any. Who
ever asked favor at the right time? To
be refused is woful stab to ones pride.
1t is even worse to have favor granted
hesitatingly. We suppose out of hun.
dred who petition for the least thing-if il
be even an hour of time-ninety-nin wish
with burning cheeks and aching hearts
that they had not done So Don't ask
favors of your nearest friends. Do anything
for yourself, until you drop, and then il
any one picks you up, let it be because oi
his free choice, not from any groan you
utter. But while you can stand, be q
soldier. Eat your own crust rather thar
feast on others dainty; drink cold water
rather than another's wine. The world i:
full of people asking favors, and people
tired of granting them. Love or tender
ness should never be put aside, when it
full hands are stretched toward you; bu
so few love, so few are tender, that a favo,
asked is apt to be cruel milestone arount
your neck, even if you gain the thing yol
want by the asking As you cast you
bread on the water, and it returns
so will the favor you ask, if un
willingly granted, come back to you whel
you least expect or desire. Favors con
ceded on solicitation are never repaid
They are more costly in the end than an,
overdue usurer's bill.