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Year: 1874

@. One who has lately decided for
Christ is at loss to know how to act
with regard to dancing and playing
cards, and mixing again with friends
and companions she is specially anxi-
GUS to have directed to the Master.


4. Well, never heard of getting
any one to Christ by sitting down
playing cards, Or going to the theatre
with them Make a bold stand for
God, and keep to it, let it cost you
what it will. You may lose influence
for few days, but people will soon
have more respect for you. A lady
whose husband said to her. GO
with me to the theatre and / will go
with you to the church" went with
him, and he had no respect for her
religion after that. Never let down
the standard. If you are going to
win men for Christ, you must take a
bold stand, suppose Noah had been
playing cards when he saw the world
going to destruction, you would have
said he was hypocrite. What is the
world doing now but going to ruin :?
Look at the men going down to a
drunkard's hell. We haven't time to
dance with the world. Let us come
out from it. We mast come out from
it if we are to have any influence over
Year: 1874

A BOY borrowed a tool from a car.
penter, promising to return it at
night. Before evening he was sent
away on an errand, and did not re-
turn until late. Before he went, he
was told that his brother should see
the article returned.


After he had come home and gone
to bed, he inquired, and found that
the tool had not been sent to its own
er. He was much distressed to think
his promise had not been kept, but
was persuaded to so to sleep, and
rise early and carry it home the next
morning,


BY daylight he was up, aud no
where was the tool to be found. Aft,
er long and fruitless search, he sci
off for his neighbor's in great distress
to acknowledge his fault. But how
great was his surprise to find the too
on his neighbor's door-stone And
then it appeared from the print of his
little bare feet in the mud, that the
lad had got up in his sleep and carried
the tool home, and gone to bed again,
without knowing it.


OF course a boy who was prompt in
his sleep was prompt when awake
He lived respected, had the confidence
of his neighbors, and was placed in
many offices of trust and profit


fall the grown folks felt as this boy
did, there would be a good many
tracks of bare feet found some ofthese
bright mornings; and what piles Of
tools and books would be found lying
at their owners doors !-[From Phre
biological Journal.
Year: 1874

Judge Pitman's chimney has
been foul for some time, and when he
mentioned the fact at the drug store
Mr.. Squills said he could easily clean
it out by exploding little powder in
the fireplace. The idea seemed to
Pitpan to be good one, and he
bought almost ten pounds Of powder
in order to do the work thoroughly at
the first blast. The men were busy
gravelling his roof that day, and just
as the Judge was about to touch off
the charge a,workman named Snyder
leaned over the top of the chimney to
call to the man below to send up more
tar. Then the Judge lit the slow
match. The view which met the eye
of Mr. Snyder as he went up was a
fine one embracing as it did Cape
May and Omaha and Constantinople
and Baltimore and the Sandwich Is-
lanes, and when he got enough of
drinking in the scenery he came down
in the river apparently with the inten-
ton of exploring the bottom. When
he was fshed out he was glad to learn
not only that the Judges chimney was
thoroughly clean, but that it would
need about four carloads of bricks to
repair damages, After this the Judge
will clean his fues with brush fast


ened to a clothes prop Max Ade
Year: 1874

THE shade of color which seems de-
cidely most in favor this autumn is the
very blush shade of gray called Rus
sian gray. Steel blue is another varie'
ty of the same, and agrees well with
the steel bead embroidery now so
much in favor 1t would be an error,
however, to suppose that the present
f,uew for beading will be lasting 1t
often comes, but never lasts very long.
The fact is, jet beads in moderation,
are elegant and effective, especially
upon dull black silks and black velvet,
but beading to any great extent, and
especially steel Or glass beading, is not
in good taste and so though they
may be carried away fora while, by
the caprice of fashion, ladies of real
taste very soon give up beading when
it verges on bad style From Demor'
est's Monthly Tor November.
Year: 1874

If l could find rose without thorn,


A fragrant blossom with no bitter taste,
A day of sunshine with no spot of cloud,
A world without dreary desert waste,
Or one bright hope unshadowed and serene,
One perfect trust with every fear cast out,
My heart could rest upon the promise sweet,
Laying aside the ever present doubt.
The shadow dim that falls upon The ring,
When welded palms are clasped in fonc


embrace


The spectre at the banquet, and the guest,
That silently usurps the highest place
The presence all unseen, yet ever near;
The minor note to every joyous strain
The echoing thrill that answers rapture sweet
With something very near akin to pain.
1t dims the lustre of the conqueror's sword,
And falls upon the radiance of the cross
No alchemy can purify the gold


Beyond the clingng of its ashen dross
1t falleth like mildew on the page


Who're weary fingers toll for empty fame,
And on the shining scutcheon of the great
Beside the greatest there. it writes its name.


From The ALD1NE for November.
Year: 1874

The Societd di LEiOne FndteHdnz1
HGlidnG has selected next Wednesday as
the time for its annual picnic, at James's
park. The executive con mittse is
making extensive arrangements for this
picnic, and will do everything possible
to make it unusually attractive to the
public and interesting to those who may
participate in its eDjoyments. The
society will parade the streets during
the morning, and Immediately after
reaching the park, addresses will be de-
livered by the queens, who will be at
tended by pages and maids of honor.
This occasion will be one OF the most
delightful of the season.
Year: 1874

The excellent organization known as
st. Georges society will give its annual
picnic at James's park next Tuesday.
Our English friends know full well the
art OF entertaining handsomely, and al
ways conduct their picnics pleasantly
and agreeably. In addition to the music,
dancing and feasting, variety of old
country games and sports will contribute
to the amusement of the hundreds who
are expected to attend this grand occs-
sion. st. Georges picnic last year was
one of the happiest of the season. and
the one this week will prove equally as
successful.
Year: 1874

The twenty-fourth day of next month
is the day set by the Masons for their
picnic at James's park. This organiza-
ton is not only conceded to be one of
the strongest aud most influential in
the orld, but embraces in its member
ship the best of citizens and most relia-
bic of men. The different lodges of
Memphis will unite together in their
desire to make this picnic one OF the
most successful Of the season.
Year: 1874

you see this I shall be far sway from
here


She touched her shoulder to arouse
her, but there was blood on her breast
and lips. Yes. she was far away"
somewhere, nesting in the arms Of
Death.
Year: 1874

The contentious which derange the
temper are easily dissipated by kind
words that cost us nothing. This
world at best is full of misery which
bears down the heart and sinks the
spirit low in the depths of sorrow
and despair. Melancholy sits supreme
upon her throne and spreads around
her the sad gloom of dependency,
obscures the serene sky of happiness,
hides the fair scenes of joy, and man.
ties nature with dismal robe of dis
content by the dreary clouds of for
gotten joy. She forces us to mediate
upon the misfortunes of the past, and
many dreary professions of sorry file
in slow and mournful measures
through our minds. Every unkind
word becomes barrier to our enjoy
ment and adds its might to the side of
sorrow; every past grievance looms
UP until our cup of woe is full, and
we sad victims of dependency are
tired of life and almost covet death as
a gIad-relief from earthly sorrow !
How sweet then sound the kind goords
of loving parent, a fond sister, a
true brother, or faithful friend! How
soonthe gloomy thoughts vanish from
the mind how willingly we cease to
mediate upon the sadder things of
life, and turn over thoughts to the
brighter pages of the past, when we
hear kind acoTdS from the lips of love
Toledo Democrat.
Year: 1874

Wewent out to Slaymaker's IN june.
to spend the summer. Slaymaker had
small stream near the house, from
which he used to pump water into his
garret. 1t occurred to him some time
ago that it would be good idea to
put up wind mill that could do the
pumping for him, so he built one at 3
cost of $500. The first day it began
to revolve, it frightened Slaymaker's
best horse, SO that it ran against the
fence and was killed, and the arms
were so long that they nearly Drained
Slaymaker's Oldest boy who was
standing beneath, watching it work,
when it suddenly stopped, and refus-
ed to move an inch. Slaymaker ac-
cordingly pumped the tank full, and
just as he stopped, the mill began to
pump like fury. Slaymaker in alarms
procured a rope and tied one of the
arms to a tree. When the tank was
empty, he tried to make the windmill
fill it again, but the concern was iT1-
movable. Thea Slaymaker waited
couple of weeks, and carried the wa
ter up to the house in buckets because
he was afraid TO fill the tank, when
the mill might get to work at any mo-
nent, Finally, as there seemed TO be





no hope of the machinery getting All
right again.. he did pump the tank full,
and then went to bed. That night
there was the worst hurricane ever
known in that neighborhood. The
Windmill made about four hundred
minute, left the bed of
the stream below it perfectly dry
while it poured nearly six hundred
gallons an hour into Slaymaker's gar
ret. The boarders all SWAN out of tha
windows and spent the night in the
barn, while Slaymaker took to trse,
from which. at daylight, he had 3
view of the falls, as they
poured picturesquely from the attic
windows, every minute or two Drlng-
ING ont with them a chair or hair
trunk, or one of Slaymaker's shirts or
a wash-stand. Mrs. Slaymaker will
not clean house this fall, but Slay
er has a windmill that he is anxious
to sell. He will probably close it out
cheap to a purchaser who wants TO
take it away right of.
Year: 1874

A good little boy ont West under
took to come the G. Washington on
his mother in this way: He cut of
the cats head with the traditional
hatchet, and then hid the defunct fe-
line in the meal barrel. When the old
lady went for meal to make the g hoe
cake" for the frugal morning repast
she discovered the cat and Interview
en- her little son. He said: II did it,
mother, with my little hatchet, but
III be swizzled if I can tell you the
whole truth about the little affair." y
Now most mothers would have kissed
that brave, truthful lad on his noble
brow, aud kept right on nslng meal
out of that barrel just the same, but
this one didn't. She said, Come
across my lap, my son, come across
my lap" He came, aud for while
there rose a cloud of dust from the
seat of his trowsers that effectually
hid the SON from view, and the old
woman now sports goggles and is
layieh in the use of Pettit's eye salve.
That good little boy had peppered the
seat of his pants.
Year: 1874




TO literary men, preachers, teachers.
lawyers. doctors, journalists, aud
brain orkers in general, the follow
ing hints are exceeding worth atten-
ton: 8


The fact is, that as life becomes con-
centrated, aud its pursuits moro eager
short sleep and early rising become
impossible. We take more sleep than
our ancestors, and we take more be-
cause we want more. Six hours sleep
will do very we'll for a plowman or 3
bricklaycr, or any other man who has
no exhaustion but that produced by
manual labor, aud the sooner he takes
it after the labor the better, But q
man whose labor is mental, the stress
of work is on his brain and nervous
system, and for him who is tired in
the evening with day of mental ap-
plication neither early to bed nor ear
ly to rise is wholesome. He needs
letting down to the level of repose.
The longer the interval between the
active use of the brain and the retire.
ment TO bed, the better his chance of
sleep and refreshlnent. To him an
hour after midnight is probably as
good as two hours before it. and even
then his sleep will not so completely
and quickly restore him as it will his
nelghbor who is physically tired. He
must not only go to bed later, but
lie longer. His best sleep probably
lies in the early morning hours, when
all the nervous excitement has passed
away. and he is in absolute rest.
Year: 1874

AN old farmer employed son of
Erin to work for him on the farm
Pat was constantly misplacing the
end boards in the cart-the front
board behind and the tail board in
front, which made the old gentleman
very irritable. To prevent blunders
he painted on both boards large b,
then calling Pat to him and showing
him the boards, said, Now. you
blockhead, you need make no mistake
as they are both marked; This lpoint-
and this Cndicating the tail board,) is
B." for behind" whereupon the old
gentleman marched away with great
dignity.
Year: 1874

Will. those who maintain that the
wine of which we hear so much in
the Bible was not intoxicating, being
unfermented, please explain why. IT
that was so, there are such strong
texts in the Holy Book against its in
temperate use--against drunkenness,
in factP The two positions don't 60
well together,
Year: 1874

A KENTUCKY farmer refused to look
at a sample sewing machine recently
as he always sewed wheat by hand" !"
He is related to the man who did not
want 8 threshing machine on his farm,
for, said he, "give me a harness tug,
or barrel stave. and l can make my
family toe the mark according to the
law and acripter,
Year: 1874

THERE are young men who can not
hold skein of yarn for their mothers
without wincing, but viii hold l2S
mounds of neighboCing family for
the best part of the night with q pa
tienes and docility that are certainly
phenomenal.
Year: 1874

Oil piece of white paper on one side:
hold the side that is oiled over lamp
or pine knot smoke till quite black;
place the leaf on the black surface, as
the veins and fibcrs of the leaves show
palmer on the under part; now press it
on all parts of the leaf with the fingers;
then take up the leaf and put the black
oiled sides on the page of book (made
for leaf impressions) with an extra
piece: Of nice paper on the top to pre-
vent shutting the opposite page; press
it few moments; then remove the
green leaf, and the impression will be
left on the page as beautiful as an er-
craving. Flowers Of single corolla can
be pressed in like manner. Many Eof
the geranium leaves make beautiful i'm
pressions. The Impression book can be
made still more interesting by giving
classiications of each leaf and
wer.-Scientifc American.
Year: 1874

Attention is invited to tho items from the
report OF Tho Freedman Bnnk Commissioners
furnished by our dispatches this morning.
They show pretty clearly TINT tho institution
went to r,1in through reckless and corrupt
man ngolnont. It is not credible that any set
OF mon could have disposed Of 80 much
money On worthless securities without having
G hand in the spoils.
Year: 1874

SAMUEL BROTHERS guarantee to supply the very nne


18th mly yc sound and exquisite workmanship and perfect
Al The vast Stock e largest London divided into classes eac
piece cloth aud every garment marked the class to which
and the price in plain figures This equitable system has been T
successful in gaining confidence necessary between buyer ~
seller Patterns SELF Measurement sens FREE


Al Sizes Of erery Clas Kept IN Stock for 'sa'aS use"
Year: 1874

There having been some doubt in
the public mind about who had re-
ceived and expended the $4,000 do
mated by the National Grange, the
Committee of Relief demanded that
the matter should be explained, and
a meeting of the Executive Commit.
tee was called at Des Moines two
weeks ago. The following was pub
lished In the Western Farm Journal
as a result of that incubation. The
thing looks thin, but those may be.
lieve it who can. We hope, howev.
er, those in the grasshopper region
whose hearts are overfowing with
gratitude at we'll supplied larders and
amply clad children will let the
world know that the So, 900 has full
filled its mission of mercy. We are
free to confess, however, that we
have no faith in the poorly devised
explanation. For the credit of the
Order, and for the reputation of
poor, weak humanity, we regret so
shallow device had to be resorted
to. Here it is:


"THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEET
NG.-The Executive Committee furnish
the following extract from their proceed
lngs at the meeting last week, for publica-
ton:


The three thousand dollars donated by
the National Grange to the State Grange
was paid into the treasury of the State
Grange. A considerable part has been
used to defray expenses in connection with
the Northwest relief matters the balance
is in the State Grange treasury, and will be
used if necessary.


No portion of this money has passed
into the hands of the Relief Committee,
but has been paid out on vouchers passed
upon by the Finance Committee of the
State Grange."'


Any business man can see that the
above is no extract from the pro-
ceedings. 1t is not so worded, and
is feeble tub thrown to the whale.
The State Grange has Relief Com
mittee, but these men (the Execu-
tive Committed pretend that they
have spent this money for the N. W.
sufferers, when they have not been
on the ground. 1t will be a good
thing for some men if there be no flu.
ture Day of Judgment.-Frona the
Agrscultural Department of State
Register, edited By a prominent
Granger.
Year: 1874

[From the Western Rural


Our story commences in a small,
wooden school-house, in one of the
western counties in New York. The
time is mid-winter the hour of the
day, noon. The teacher was absent
and the scholars were assembled
within the school-room, evidently
discussing some matter of interest.
One little boy, apparently about
fourteen years of age, ragged, dirty,
forlorn and weeping, stood aloof
from the rest. He was the topic of
discussion then on the tapis. He
was an orphan who had recently
come to the little town in which the
school house was situated. He pre-
sented himself in a most destitute
condition, and the man with whom
he then lived, although he hardly
needed any::such addition to his fam
lily, consented to his staying with
them through the winter-gave him
some of his cast-off clothing, treated
him with uniform kindness, but no
special attention.


He attended the district school
and had been, ever since the first
day of his attendance, to use a COM
mon but coml rehensive phrase, ga
speckled bird" among the other
scholars. The present commotion
among the scholars was caused by a
personal abuse he had received from
one of them named Charles Foster,
a son of a wealthy merchant of the
place, who felt no little Importance
in being the son of the wealthiest
man in the village and the best
dressed boy of the school. He was
proud, overbearing and lnsolent, and
took great delight in taunting poor
boys with their poverty, and con-
trasting them with himself, thus
seeking to wound their feelings. At
this time he not only insulted James
Tenly four little hero) by taunting
him with his poverty, but pelted
him with hard snowballs, tore bis
already ragged clothing and other.
wise abused him. This aroused the
indignation of the other scholars,
and our little hero found that he was
the object of no little sympathy. HIS
principal champion was Maggie
Bently, the lawyers daughter, who
was but few months our hero's jun
ior, who manifested no delicacy in
expressing her opinion, in denounc-
ing the cowardly meanness of the
one who had abused friendless or
phan, or expressing her sympathy
for the abused one.


James was weeping when they
commenced this conversation, but
when he heard words of sympathy
he quickly dried his tears and rails.
ing his eyes, he caught the express
sion of kindness from his champion
and felt a pleasure, despite the
wrongs he had suffered, that for a
long time he had been a stranger
too.


Several of the girls, led on by
Maggie, approached him. Maggie
took him by the hand and spoke
kindly to him, told him they were
his friends and would befriend him
in the future in any way they had
the power to do. She then asked
him to relate his story, and the
Year: 1874

An observing correspondent in the


Western Ra1raI give the following
on how to keep situation:


"Be ready to throw in an odd half
hour or an hours time when it will
be an accommodation, and don't
seem to make merit of it. Do it
heartily. Though not word be said,
your employer will make note of
it. Make yourself indispensable to
him, and he will lose many of the
opposite kind before he will part
with you. Those young men who
watch the clock to see the very see-
ond their working hour is up-who
leave, no matter what state the work
may be In, at precisely the instant
who calculate the extra amount they
can slight their work, aud yet not
get reproved-who are lavish OF
their employers goods, will always
be the first to receive notice, when
times are dull, that their services sre
no longer required"
Year: 1874

Now she was here and he was in.
Geed I1e her ideal OF manly greatness.
"nen she returned to her home it
was as his betrotbed. But little
more need be added. When the
1une roses We're in bloem, he led the
olushlng Maggie to the altar, and
their marriage proved truly to be
Joining of two hearts that beat in nm
ison.


This was but the commencement
OF his career and not few of those
who had once ridiculed and abused
the poor friendless orphan, in after
years looked up to him as he occu-
pied height in public favor and
well earned renown to which they
could ever hope to attain.
Year: 1874

The fact that Watts hymns have been
translated into the Choctaw language and
have become favorites with the braves, is
perhaps not generally known, but is never
the less fact. 1t is very affecting to think
of noble red man sitting upon fence and
singing, ''How doth the little busy bee,"
while he watches his wife carrying home
couple of bushels of potatoes upon each
shoulder, and wondering if he couldn't swap
that squaw for jug of robust rum. And
it is even more touching to imagine the
dusky son of the forest chanting, II want
to be an angel" while he dances around a
white man who is pinned to the ground with
a stake between his ribs and a bonfire on
his bosom. There is something majestic
about the Indian. He not only has poet
ic and musical language, he not only spulns
idolatry, but he has immortal longings and
a weakness for snatching other peoples
hair.
Year: 1874

The management have determined tC
have the drawing of the Fifth and Last
Gift Concert Of the Public Library of Ken
lucky, on the 30th day Of November next.
We believe now that all the tickets will be
sold, and that the drawing will be full
one, but whether all are sold or not the
drawing will nevertheless certainly come
of on the day appointed.


The special object Of this card is to call
meeting of the ticket-hOllerS at Public
Library Hall, on the 10Th of November, to
make arrangements in connection with the
committee appointed by the Trustees to
superintend the counting Of the tags repre-
senting the numbers of tickets sold. While
there is no actual necessity for the presence
of tieset-holders, as under our arrange
ments the interests Of all are equally cared
for, yet ut the same time L would greatly
prefer that as many of those interested as
can, would attend this meeting and see
each for himself how perfectly fair and i'm
partial the distribution must be.


Every arrangement has been made for
the draHing-5ut little more than a month
remains iOr the sale of the remainder of the
tickets, and whatever is done must be done
promptly. THOs. Z. BRANfLETTE,


Agent and Manager.


Louisville, Ky, Oct. p, 1874.