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Year: 1878

Preparations are made and being
made by . large number of enthusi-
astic citizens for q celebration that
will do justice to the occasion. The
committee appointed to raise money
have reported favorably and an at
tractive programme will be the
order Of the day, which We hope to
give complete next week.
Year: 1878

some person or persons entered
the store of H. T. Osborne one night
last week through the cellar way.
What their intentions were cannot
be riddled out. Nothing is found
missing but it's certain some one
was in there, for the cellar door was
unbarred on the inside and the aoor
dooE leading intq the upper apart
Year: 1878

LATELY, after kind-hearted gent
put in his valuable time to see q
young lady safely to her home, the
ungrateful father of the girl rushed
madly from the house and command
ed the fellow to leave the place im-
mediately. It's quite evident the
father forgot when he was young
and in the habit of caring for the
fair ones after twilight.
Year: 1878

As our Chimacum correspondents let
ter, regarding election matters, did not
arrive in time for insertion last week, and
is rather old for this weeks paper, we tor
bear giving it publication. We have al
ready indicated lis tone and general
character of its contents. The writer
feels justly indignant that his precinct
should have been disgraced by the use of
whisky OH election day, and that the
sacred right of ballot should have been
tampered with. He complains that the
case developed was one of ballot-boX stuff
Ing. and says the good people OF that Vi
cinity hope neverto behold the like again.
Year: 1878

WHY JOSEPH Cooks FATHER DID Nor
MAKE A FARMER OF HIM-A Journey of
two and half miles brought me to Cliff
Seat, the residence of Joseph Cooks fi,
lher, where the distinguished lecturer and
author is rusticating. Mr.. Cook, senior.
though entirely unlike his son in personal
appearance, is Il gentleman of somewhat
commanding presence. He is very intel
ligent. well read, and is well informed
upon the prevailing topics of the day. He
is very free to talk upon the success which
attended his only boy, and stated to me
that he had spent seventeen thousand dol
lars on Joseph's education, not one cent of
which he would recall


When boy. said the father, tried my
best to make him work on the farm. |
resorted to every expedent, without sue
cess. He would conceal book under his
arm when ordered out into the lot to work,
and steal away under some tree to read.
II Il small cloud appeared in the Heavens
he thought it might rain, and would make
it an excuse to leave his work for study.
This occurred so often that my men would
say that the appearance of Joseph in the
field was a signal for rain. When nine
years of age, district school library was
advertised to be sold at auction. He was
very anxious to attend and purchase. l
gave him money and told him he might 90
and buy what books he wanted. He did
SO. and bid off all the best books; those
that were left were almost worthless. He
bought also small bookcase. and probab-
" never felt prnudGr in his life than when
he came marching into the yard with the
. II


became convinced that it was my duty to
give him an education. sent him to
school, to Andovor, to Germany, where he
studied two years, and you see the result.
When he graduated from school told him
| would give him Il nice watch or an ency-
copedit. He chose the latter.
Year: 1878

Compressed leather is now produced OF
quality said to be harder, closer and
more compact than the natural hide. The
manufacturing process is entirely simple,
consisting in the reductions of cuttings or
waste of shoemakers into fue filaments,
and these are combined with the cuttings
or refuse of OK and similar hides, when un-
fit to tan, these being reduced to fibrous
mass. The whole Is combined together
with water, to which is added one part OF
sulphuric acid to one hundred parts Of
water, until it assumes n plastic mass, when
it is pressed into moulds Of the size and
thickness required. When dried in a
steam heated room, they are passed
through heavy pulp rollers. glazed on one
side and rough on the other. to represent
the grain and flesh sides of the leather.
The addition of the raw fibre with the
tanned filaments is in certain proportions,
according to the quality Of the leather re-
quired, from five to twenty per cent be-
ing safely employed; it gives vitality to the
tanned tibres by agglutinating them and
imparting the abumen and gelatine de.
stoyed by the tannic acid. To render the
leather more supple or flexible, about one
pint of glycerine may be incoi porated with
each hundred weight of the mass. Th,
fact, as stated, that this kind Of leather Il
much less permeable than ordinary sol,
leather gives it IL superior value for certain
purposes, especially when it is considered
how large an amount of inferior stock is y
present employed in manufactures pre-
! sumably of pure leather.
Year: 1878

POWER OF A SWEET VoICE.-There is
no power of love so hard TO get and keep
us kind voice. A kind hand is deaf and
dumb. 1t may be rough In flesh and blood,
yet do the work of n soft heart, and do it
with u soft touch. But there is no one
thing that love so much needs as Il sweet
voice to tell what it means and feels; and
it is hard to get and keep it in the right
tone. One must start in youth, and be on
the watch night and day, at work and at
play, to get and keep voice that shall
speak at all times the thoughts of n kind
heart, But this is the time when a sharp
voice is most apt to be got. You often
hear boys and girls say words at play
with quick, sharp tone, as if it were the
snap of whip. When one of them gets
vexed you will hear voice that sounds us
if it were made up of snarl, whine,
and bark. Such voice often speaks
worse than the heart feels. 1t shows more
ill-will in the tone than in the words. 1t
is often in mirth that one gets q voice or
tone that is sharp, and sticks to him
through life, and stirs up ill-will and grief,
and falls like drop of gall on the sweet
Joys at home. Such rs these get sharp
home voice for use, and keep their best
voice for those they meet elsewhere, just
as they would save their best cakes and
pies for guests, and all their sour food for
their own board. would say to all boys
and girls, " Use your guest voice at home.
Watch it day by day, as pearl of great
price, for it will be worth more to you in
days to come than the best pearl hid in the
sea. A kind voice is lark's song to q
hearth and home. 1t is to the heart what
light is to the eye. 1t is light that sings
as we'll as shines. Train it to sweet tones
now, and it will keep through life."-


Yoatk'S ComrGtle.
Year: 1878

WHAT BECOMES OF WEALTH.-A boot
and shoe dealer has hanging in his store a
pair of boots worth seven dollars. They con-
stitute a part Of his wealth, and portion ol
the wealth of the world. A man buys
them and begins to wear them by friction
against the pavement little particles of the
leather are rubbed off, and thus separated
from the rest of the sole. Every particle
that is thus removed takes out portion oI
the value of the boots, and when the boots
are entirely worn out, the seven dollars oil
wealth which they formed is consumed.
The wheat, corn, ETC., which was raised
by our farmers last summer is being eaten
up. No particle of matter is destroyed BY
this process, but the value which was in
the grain is destroyed.


AS, while men are wearing out clothing
and eating up food, they are generally
busily employed producing wealth of some
kind. the wealth of the world is not usual.
ly diminished by the consumption. but it
is changed. This applies, however, only
10 personal property; town lots and farms
generally retain their value, but persona
property is subject to perpetual destruction
and renewal. As the several particles oi
water which constitute river are forever
rolling away to the ocean, while theiI
places are being supplied from the spring,
and fountains, SO the movable wealth o
the world is constantly being consumed tc
crafty human wants, and constantly be
ing renewed by the restless activity of hu
man industry.
Year: 1878

SATURDAY NIGHT.-How many n kiss
has been given, how many Il curse, how
many II caress, how many kind word
how many promise has been broken,
how many kind heart has been wrecked
how many q loved one has been lowered
into the narrow chamber, how many IL
babe has gone from earth to Heaven-how
many II crib or cradle stands silent now,
which last Saturday night held the raresl
of all treasures of the heart? A week is
II life. A week is history. A week
marks events of sorrow or gladness OF
which people never hear. Go home to the
family, man of business! Go home. you
heart-erring wanderer! Go home to cheer
that all-wronged waif of life's breakers.
Go home to those you love. man of toll,
and give one night to the Joys and COM
forts fast flying by. Leave your books with
complex figures, your dirty workshop,
your busy store. Rest with those you love
for God only knows what the next Satur-
day night may bring you. Forget the
world of care and battle of life which
have furrowed the week Draw close
around the family hearth. Go home to
those you love, and as you bask in the low.
ed presence, and meet to return the loved
embrace of your hearts pets, strive to be
Il better man and bless God for giving his
weary children so dear stepping stone in
the river to the eternal Saturday night
Methodist Protestant.
Year: 1878

As the trials of life thicken and the
dreams of other days fade one by one in
the deep vista of disappointed hope, the
heart grows weary of the struggles. and
we begin to realize our insigniIicance.
Those who have climbed to the pinnacle
of fame, or revel in luxury and wealth. 60
to the grave at last with the poor mendi-
cant who begs pennies by the wayside, and
like him are soon forgotten. Generations
after generations, says an eloquent modern
writer, have felt as we feel, and their fel-
lows were as active in life as ours are now.
They passed away as vapors, while nature
wore the same aspect of beauty as the
Creator commanded her to wear. And so,
likewise, shall it be when we are gone.
The heavens will be as bright above our
graves rs they arc around our path; the
world will have the same attraction for
ctfsprings yet unborn that she had once
for ourselves, aud that she has now for
our children. Yet a little while and all
this will have happened. Days will con.
tinue to move on, and laughter and song
will be heard in the very chamber in which
we died; and the eye that mourned for III
will be dried, and will glisten with joy
and even our children will cease to think
of Us, and will not remember to lisp oul
names. GoodTich.
Year: 1878

GLoRIFYING DoUBT.-The man who is
perpetually treating his hearers or his
readers to diagnosis of doubt, telling
them of its wids diffusion through all ranks
of society, raising II thousand grounds of
doubt and difficulty which he can not an
swer, is only helping to spread the malady
of which he speaks. He could not do II
more insidous and destructive thing. He
is simply scattering arrows, fire brands
and death. A preacher told the young
men at one of the great universities re-
Gently, that the essential condition of truth
and the first duty in religion is to begin by
doubling everything.


We greatly fear that this tone of uncer-
tahty and doubtfulness, this compromise
and connivance with the prevailing unbe-
lief is of growing tendency in some of our
American pulpits. Many of the published
sermons, both regular and occasional, now
given to the public, through the newspa-
pers and other channels, are of this uncer-
tam sound. They seem to be constructed
on the principle Of STOPPING to conquer, or
rather they seek to conquer the enemy by
going over to his side. 1t is worthy OF
notice that the Scriptures pass no eulogium
ON doubt or unbeief. They everywhere
assume that the evidence for all the great
truths of religion is ample and satisfactory,
and that there is no reason why any OF
them should be questioned or denied
Their language is: Be not faithless, but
believing. o thou of little faith. wherefore
did>t thou doubtp There is no laudation
of any doubtful minded people in all the
Bible. Interior.
Year: 1878

A WHOLE FAMILY IN HEAvEN.-The
following eloquent passage is from the
pen of Albert Barnes:


A whole family in Heaven Who can
picture or describe the everlasting Joy?
No one absent. No father nor mother,
nor son. nor daughter away. In the world
they were united in faith, and love, and
peace, and joy. In the morning Of the res
direction they aseended together. Before
the throne they bow together in united
alteration. On the banks of the river of
life they walk hand in hand, and as a fam
lily they have commenced career of Clio.
ry which shall be everlasting. Their here
after is 10 be no separation in their family
No one is TO lie down on bed of pain.
No one is to sink into the arms of death.
Never in Heaven is that family to move
along in the slow procession, clad in the
habliments of woe, to consign one of its
mepbers to the tomb. God grant that in
His infinite mercy every family may be
thus united.
Year: 1878

Christ is Il light, To show us the way oi
salvation. He Himself says, "I am th,
light of the world; be that followeth me
shall not walk in darkness. but shall have
the light of life." Again He is spoken oI
rs guide, to lead us along in The way OF
salvation: ITO give light 10 them that sill
in darkness and in the shadow of death
to guide our feet into the way of peace, ,
that peace with God to which the unre
generate and disobedient are strangers
and which is found only in Christ, the
way. Christ is the light, the truth, and
the way. and no man cometh to the Faith
er but by Him Neither is their salvation
in any other; for there is none other name
under Heavan given among men, where
by we must be saved" Trust in Jesus ms
your personal and all-sufficient Savior
and guide, and follow Him.-Evangelical
Messenger.
Year: 1878

Mr.. +. Peppard is the inventor of Gu
rious contrivance for awakening sleeper
Mt given hour. The apparatus is to be
affixed to an ordinary clock; it is so ar
ranged that when the hour hand of the
clock touches button, al electric circuit
is completed; the minute hand passes over
the button without effect. There are series
of holes for the different hours, into any
one of which the button can be pushed.
according to the time selected for awaken
ing. The completion Of the electric cir
cult may ring y bell, or sound any other of
the numerous ordinary methods of alarm
But this contrivance has yet more effect
i've method for arousing a deaf man or
any sleeper who is willing beforehand to
prepare himself for n shock. A bracelet
is provided which can he put on the wrist
at the time of retiring; to this, flexible
wires are attached. and the electric lis
charge will pass through it at the appoint
I'd hour. A man who could lie down to
pleasant dreams with such an apparatus
fastened to his wrist would naturally need
the violence of an electric shock to awak-
en- him.
Year: 1878

DoN'T BE Put ASIDE" Don't be put
aside,' said Henry Ward Beecher, in a
sermon. There are only two people
who have right to put you aside-your
doctor and your seXtcn. No one else. 1t
is ignominious to see men setting down in
Incidence simply because they are growing
old; don't seek easy ways; easy ways lead
TO rust; don't talk about yourselves, don't
talk about your age; and at all events for
decencys sake don't talk about your dis
eases. If you know you have the rheu-
matsm that's enough. Don't be prema-
turely old don't be older in your feelings
than you are in fact don't withdraw from
your interest in life, read what is going on
in the world; don't leave to younger men
the tasks of life and get out of their way.
Don't get out of anybody's way, and above
all don't get in your own way. Mingle
with the young; enjoy their pleasures
David sought out some one of his own
posterity, doubtless, 10 lie in his bosom
and keep him warm, and it is we'll for you
TO be warmed by the sympathy and COM
panionship of tt c young. Keep young to
the last. Blessed be the man that goes to
Heaven like II boy
Year: 1878

WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE. The or
igin of meteortes has lately been dis
cussed by Professor Ball, the astronomer
royal for Ireland. The composition of
these bodies is closely analogous to that OF
terrestrial volcanic rocks. 1t is probable
that there are forces existent in the sun
sufficiently powerful to hurl such frag
ments into space so that they would never
return. but it is doubtful whether there are
any solid rocks in the sun to be thus acted
upon. Professor Ball does not think it ut
all likely that meteorites come from any
of the planets, either, but is disposed to
attribute their origin to the earth itself.
They may have been driven off in prehis-
toric times of greater volcanic disturbance
than any known to man, and they are now
encountered by the earth, from time to
time along its path. According to the as
tronomer royal, it has been correctly cal
culated that body driven from the earth
with force equal TO six miles second
would never return.
Year: 1878

When riding on the cars, if cinders an
noy, persuade your neighbor next in front
10 close his window; that is where they
enter. You Can keep your own window
open with impunity unless your neighbor
behind is bigger man and compels you
to close it.
Year: 1878

One Of the popular errors in this country is
that which regards eating heartily in the
evening as detrimental to health Almost
any one can find a score Of persons among his
acquaintance who have dinner at or 3
o'clock in the afternoon because they are un.
willing, later in the day, to trust their stom-
achs with anything more solid than tea or
toast. If they 60 abroad. they look up. q
the eating on board the steamer Of Wei b
rarebts and the like, at 10 and l l O'Clock in
the evening, with much the same horror that
they would regard an excessive Use Of liquor.
But when once fairly brought into contact
with foreign habits, say English dinners at 8
ally fall back on the supposition that the
usage of several generations has fitted the di.
gestive organs of foreigners to bear this ex.
cessiye strain.


One very worthy American lady dismissed
native doctor in Paris as confessedly incom.
petent because he recommended for some dye-
peptic trouble that she should eat hearty
meal some two hours before going to bed.
Fortunately, his successor took the same
stand; and though she considered the method
of treatment as wholly wrong, she was per-
suaded into following it, and what 10 more,
was cured in spite Of herself II our physi.
clans would make this matter of diet more of
a study, it would fully repay them. It can
not be that we are differently organized from
our brethren across the water, and hence
what long experience has shown to be health
ful for them cannot prove otherwise for us:
The strains which our American habits of
eating put upon the physical system is that
it crowds the really life giving meals Of the
day. breakfast and dinner, close together. and
then leaves the body to fasti or sixteen hours
out of the twenty four.
Year: 1878

That fish may be scaled much easier BY
first dipping into boiling water about min
ute.


That salt fish are quickest and best fresh
ened by soaking in sour milk.


That milk which has turned OF changed
may be sweetened or rendered fit for use
again by stirring in little soda.


That salt will curdle new milk, hence in
preparing milk porridge, gravies, etc., the
salt should not lie added until the dish il
prepared.


That clear boiling water will remove tea
stains and many fruit stains. Pour the
water through the stain. and thus prevent
it's spreading over the fabric.


That tablespoonful Of turpentine boiled
with your white clothes will greatly aid the
whitening process.


That boiling starch is much improved by
the addition of sperm, or salt, or both, or .
little gum arabic dissolved. ,,e


That kerosene will soften boots or shoes
that have been hardened by water, and will
render them pliable as new.


That kerosene will make your tea kettle
as bright as new. Saturate a woOlen rag
and rub with it. 1t will also remove stains
from the clean vanished furniture.
That cold rain water and soap will remove
machine greese from washable fabrics.
Year: 1878

The next process takes in the rolling.room,
where the short, thick ingots are pressed be-
tween two steel rollers, again and again, till
they are rolled down into long thin ribbons
of metal about the thickness of coin.


The next step in the work is to draw the
metal ribbons through a "drawplate," to
bring them down to an exactly uniform
thickness. This pulling through a narrow slit
in steel plate hardens the metal, and again
and again it has to be put in the fire and
broug ght to light red to make it soft and pill
able. This drawing and annealing brings
each band of metal to just the right thickness
and condition, and We 60 on to see the cut
ting-p that stamp out the round pieces
of metal called "planchets" A workman
takes ribbon of gold and inserts the end in
the immense jaws of the press, and they bite,
bite and bite, and the round bits Of gold drop
in shower into box below.


"This press" says the usher, "is cutting
double.eagles and in the single moment, by
the watch, that we have been looking at it, it
has cut forty.fve hundred dollars worth.
The same number of cuts would make only
two dollars and twenty cents if made in cop
per-"


The machine goes on hastily biting out the
round planchets to the end of the ribbon, and
then the guide holds up the long strip full of
holes, much as you have seen the dough after
the cook has cut out her ginger-snaps. These
perforated bars 60 back to the furnace to be
melted over.


"The panchets," says the guide, "after be-
ing annealed in those furnaces which you see
at the rear of the room, are taken upstairs
and most carefully weighed"


None but women are employed in the
weighing.room, and so delicate are the scales
that they will move with the weight of a
hair. If planchet is found too light, it is
thrown aside to be remelted; if only slightly
over the proper weight, tiny particle is filed
of from the edge but if the weight is much
in excess, it is to 60 back to the furnace.
Nothing but perfection passes here, you see.


Now, one final washing in acid, then in
water, and these much enduring bits of met
al are admitted to the coining-room, there to
receive the stamp which testi6es to their
worth.


In the coining-room the planchets are first
given to the milling-machine. They are
laid down fiat between two steel rings, and
as the rings move one draws nearer to the
other, and the planchets are squeezed and
crowded on every side, and finding no escape
they turn up about the edges and come out at
Year: 1878

the end of the sorry little journey with rim
raised around the edge. Beyond the mill.
ing machines stand the ten coining.presses.
These presses are attended by women. Watch
this one near US. At her right hand is
box containing silver planchets which are to
be coined into 6fty.cent pieces. On that
round "die," which you see in the centre of
the machine, are engraved the letters and fig
ures which are to appear on the back Of the
halfdollar. Directly above the die, on the
end of the rod, which works up and down with
the most exquisite accuracy, is the sunken
impression of face.


The woman gathers up handful of the
planchets and drops them one at time into
brass tube and as the lowest planchet slides
from under the tube, two small steel arms
spring out and grasp it and lay it on the die.
At the same instant, the upper die descends
with quick thump, and the silver counter,
stamped in twinkling on both sides, falls
into box below. In an instant another
takes its place, and thus they 60 on dropping
under the swiftly moving rod, and turning in
to coins in hash.-&. Nicholas.