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Year: 1878

"When / was little baby, and
cried from pain, they gave me soOth-
ing syrup. That made me drunk,
and of course l went to sleep and
cried no more. When j was a lit
tie boy, and some one gave me a
penny, / would 20 and buy a wine
drop. This Is the trap which the
Giant Intemperance sets for the
children.


Mother put wine and brandy in
her pudding sauce and nince pies
sometimes she made "brandy
peaches" i began to think every
thing with wine and brandy in IL
"very nice" When my father drank
his glass Of wine, beer or cider, he
always gave me some, and / would
drink the brandy and sugar I'm the
bottom of the glasses when my faith
er's friends had been drinking.
When l was only twelve ye.lrs old,
/ got drunk on the fourth of July,
and sat i'm the corner Of the depot
before l got sober enough to 90
home. Oh! how the people did
stare at me! When l grew up TO
be a young man, drank with the
other young men, ana treated them
because / did not want to be mean.
/ began to feel sick and weak q
great many days, 50 ! got into the
habit of taking a little something
-"bitters," so they are called-be-
fore each meal, To make me feel
better. / began often to leave my
work, and go into the saloon for n
few moments for drink. Then 1
lost my place, and spent whole days
in saloons. ] spent all the money
had for drink. Then / borrowed
from my friends then / got trust
ed F; then | sold my coat and shoes
to buy drink then | stole money tO
buy il; and here am in prison.
Nobody trusts me; everybody des-
pises me; but l am my worst enc
NV"
Year: 1878

SENATOR JONES, of Nevada, said
in talk with reporter Of the Gold
Hill News, Of the Southern policy
of President Hayes:


The election of President Hayes
was all that prevented Gen. Grant
from pursuing the same course. /
know that six months before the
Inauguration of Hayes, Grant had
determined that the colored voters
Of the United States could not be-
protected by United Stateo troops,
Our Government is a peculiar one,
1t Is founded on the principle that
the majority will rule, and that the
fact that it is majority invests it
with power to protect itself. In
such a Government, If the majority
cannot or will not protect itself, it is
almost impossible to protect it by
any agency outside of itself.
Year: 1878




The contributions so far to the
women's fund for the liquidation of
the State debt are very encouraging,
and give a practical aspect to the
scheme, which at first appeared
visionary and almost impossible,
and which even now is but in a
crude state of development. The
ladies, however, have laid hold of
the enterprise with right good will,
and when these energetic and en-
thusiastic creatures are thoroughly
in earnest, they inevitably succeed.
One cannot repress a thrill of pride
while reading a report of these con-
tributions and promises for the
future. The unselfish and patriotic
spirit there displayed is worthy of
Spartan mother or Roman matron.
The bOndhOlders could very well
afford to contribute largely of their
bonds to foster the enterprise. Ef-
forts will be made to organize fund
in every city and county in the
State, and, if successful, the effect
will be to crush out an agitation
which has already seriously i'm
paired the credit of the State and
tarnished her character for good
faith.
Year: 1878

Roane County (Tenn.) Herald.


A sign of the times which is dis
quieting is the growth of a habit
among tho people of looking to the
Government to take care of them.
The idea seems spreading luxuri-
antly that the Government is some
thing above the people, with distinct
abilities and resources and that its
function is not so much to represent
as to protect-that it is not the SER
want but the master. We see ii
labor troubles at Washington. The
mob assumed that the Government
was rich and was depressing the
poor. It did not seem to occur to
the men composing the mob that
they were the Government; that
the public property, that public
economy was for theirsake; that pub
lie money saved was their savings !;
that Government was a creature of
law, and had to act according to
the forms of law that the contracts
taken at certain bids were under
the laws made by the Representa-
tives of the people to prevent favor
iteism. The mob saw nothing but
unseemly low wages, and looked
upon the Government as doing q
wrong, when it was simply an
agency through which the people
themselves were transacting their
business according to the prevalent
condition.
Year: 1878

Dr. Smith has devoted years to the study of Medical Electricity and the dis eases to which it is best adapted. His prices are always reasonable. and are not varied from except to the poor. Consultation free.
Year: 1878

bunal upon Mr.. Hewitt, but they make great miss
take If they think that burden is all the one which
will bother him when he attempts to switch ths
party around again in 1880. The South has never
forgotten or orforgven that letter Southam claims
and that cannot be put off on Mr.. Hewitt or anybodv
else. Upon the South depends Mr. Tildens fate, and
while he undoubtedly has faith In his ability TO con-
troll it, as he did in 1876, still it would be great
help to him if this letter could be annihilated in
some way.


Governor Bishop, of Ohio, is no chicken He has
adopted policy which will endear him to the Demo
cratic heart and make him President, if anything
can. At the close of his third day in Office he could
look over the list of offices within his control and
say truly that there not in any of them an in
cumbent who had ever dreamed of voting the Repub.
lcan ticket. Crippled soldiers negroes and orphan,
had all been "bounced' without mercy, and rock.
ribbed Democrats put in their places. This is the
sort of man the hungry refOrmer wants to in the
White House. Your Uncle Dick has grasped the
Democratic theory of Civil Service in all its beauty


like the statesman that he is, and the heart of tie
great party will thrill with delight when it behods
his action.
Year: 1878

tract to both parties than one containing the
"sane or insane exception, is one that leaves
the company bound as in ordinary cases OF
death. when the insured is, at the
time of decease, confined in lunatic
asylum. This would have the effect
of hurrying the friends of an insured
lunatic to confine him in an asylum upon the
earliest evidences of insanity, and thereby very
greatly diminish the chances Of his harming
himself or others.
Year: 1878

family with which he had provided himself
was altogether too big to be satisfied even with
a big estate. But while the contest is SAID 10
be coming it is not coming from his family
but from his Church Many of its leaders are
not satisfied with his accounts, and evidently
believe that this prophet now without honor
was. during his life, without honesty.
Year: 1878

The courts make it more expensive for the
miliman to be caught in the act of watering
his milk, than to be detected by the sly and
insinuating lactOmcter. This is a fresh illus
tration OF the great moral truth that there are
degrees of guilt in being found out and will
increase that modest and retiring disposition
which already characterizcs the mllman of
our native land.
Year: 1878

This common and exssperatug habit,
which spoils no many otherwise splendid
trotters, il a plain case for applying in
the "ounce of prevention" II the colt is
trained ~ that he won't "break" or will
recover himself at once and without loss
from an occasional and perhaps inevita-
bic loss of step, the horse will be n steady
goer.


To the boys, therefore, who are iegin-
ming 70 speed their fsvorite colt this
spring, we say again; Remember that
your business Is to educate to trot, not
to teach him TO run. But II he does
ever break, then let him break with 9
vengeance. Let there be no halfway
work about it; no hslting and hobbling
and coming back In the breeching, but
q regular plunge forward, aud q rocket
like movement through the air. If he
breaks, make him gain by the break
Make him understand that his bushes:
is to 60 ahead, hit or mis-, In one style
as long as possible; but to go It, style OF
no style.


II you have n green horse tina, coIBeS
back in the breeching when he breaks, oil
even when his backbone tsgins to twis.
up before the break has actually begun
then give him the whip; give il To him
sharp and quick. Get all that nonsense
out Of him at once; keep him sailing
Do not ysnk' him now, ard grab al
him with the lines, rs il your life de.
pended on pulling your wagon over his
back but let him take. four or five
jumps until his backbone Is Strengthened
out, and he has got leveled down 70 it, and
is gathering bis legs up under him like 8
racer; then move the bits In his mouth
and pick him up Don't saw and
sway him, and double him up until hi.
nose is down between his fore legs, and
his launches up over hi shoulders
Remember that his back must be kept
straight at all events, or he will not catch
his tret square, or b able 10 keep II when
he has caught it. With sharp, firm
turn Of your wrist, and lit on the hit
pick his nose upwsrd, and slightly to one
side; this will throw him from hi,
balance Just enough 10 make him "grat
for his bit," and not enough to twist hin
into uDsteadiness or to slack him up.


You may not succeed the first or sec
ond time, but persevere until you have
educated your wrist and eye to act in
conjunction, and you will then have
mastered one of the most difficult feat,
Of finest ho~emanship.- Psrscn Mur
raw.
Year: 1878

Every farmer living in fruit-growing
district should keep few swarms Of
bees, enough at least TO furnish honey
Tor his own table. There is an
abundance OF honey material in the
flower garden, In the meadow, in the
orchard and in the vineyard to support
half dessn swarms of bees on each farm
in the neighborhood. But, more espe.
cially should they be kept In sections
where the culture of the vine Is made q
speciality, for there can he no better
honey feod than ripe grapes, 1t is true
that the honey bee has not been pro


vided by nature with any means Of
puncturing the skin Of sound fruit, but
there is always more or less fruit with
broken or cracked skins, sufficient for
the bees 10 carry awsy. As far as any
difficulty might be concerned, few
bunches could be picked each day and
placed where the bees could find them,
the grapes first having been bruised or
the skins broken. First, in the spring,
would be the wild and tame flowers,
then the fruit flowers, then the ripe
rruit, and, finally, lasting until late in
the fall, the grape crop From this it is
easy to see how the hives would be filed
with honey, and the pleasure Of having
white comb honey for table use, saying
nothing of what would be sold, would
more than repay the cost and trouble.
Year: 1878

1--WE had letter few days ago from
gentleman In Hartford, Conn, inauir.
ing about the feasibility OF erecting a
truit-drying establishment in this coun.
try. We have written and advised him
to do 30. We believe 1t will pay. and
now is the time TO do it. With our im>
mense crop coming on, fruit will be sold
st low prices. Such an establishment
will furnish employment for a large
number Of laborers, and will open up q
certain market to our farmers for their
fruit. Besides, we have learned upon
inquiry from one Of our leading retail
grocers, that fruit dried in this way is
worth in the New York market more
than double Of that dried in the ordi-
nary way. We will probably have a
response from the gentleman alluded TO
In q few days, and trust lie may be con.
vinced that this will be q profitable in
vestment. We are greatly in earnest in
having our fruit crop cared for. II will
be a source of revenue which we can not
afford to overlook in these hard times. -
Knoxville Chronicle.
Year: 1878

meet in this city 18th inst.


More About the Attempt to Assassinate


the Emperor.


Berlin, June At seems that after
the shooting of the Emperor Sunday,
when the enraged populace broke into
Nobeling's apartment, he fired twice at
them, severely wounding Holtfeur, an
inn keeper. The crowd seeing the lat
ter bleeding supposed he was the assas-
sin and fell upon him. He was so
roughly handled before the people dis
covered their mistake that his life is
despaired of. After the second shot,
Modelling shot himself. He was instant
ly seized and placed in a prison van.
As the driver passed rapidly through
the archway at the entrance his head
struck the arch with such violence that
his neck was dislocated, he dying al
most instantly.


DIR. Modelling admits his earnest SYM
pathy with the Ultramontanes and So
cialists. He had accomplices, and
though he had no reason to spare them,
would mention no names just then.
The Office of shooting the Emperor de-
volved upon him by drawing lots, and
he said he believed it would be to the
public interest were the head of the
State to be removed. The greatest ex-
citement and afiliction continues. The
crime will produce grave consequences.
Year: 1878

THE investigating committee will go
to Florida during the dog-days Of July,
if at all, and we move that Tilden and
Potter be sent along, if they don't es-
cape before that time to a still hotter
cline
Year: 1878

THE Secretary of War and other
prominent officials had under discus
sion Indian troubles in the West Thurs
day. They believe the present force Of
the army inadequate to preserve peace.
Year: 1878

FEMALE " EAVERS ON STRIkE.-SeTeral female
pOWer-ioom WeaveFS in the carpet mills OF the
nineteenth ward OF Philadelphia struck Monday
on account OF notice OF reduction in their
wages Of one cent yard. The strikers are Will
ing to accept q half-cent reduction
Year: 1878

EDITOR HERALD: The follow
ing State apportionment of SS1 rs
for each teacher has just been
made. Each District Clerk will be
Immediately notified by postal
card of the amount due his dis
LII al.
Year: 1878

The churches have lesson to learn which
probably only consecrated hearts can teach.
The place to plant churches and keep them
is where the people live. A greater spirit of
Christ in the churches would somewhat re-
construct our church appointments. We
would not leave dense downtown popula-
tions because they cannot pay high pew
rents. Nor would we consgn the humber
portions of the city to mission accommoda-
tions which shame poverty itself. Avenue
churches-living in exclusive luxury and
and throwing crumbs into the alleys they
never enter, for the Lords poor to pick up
are disgrace to Christianity. Serving God
by dollar-proxy, instead Of warm, sympa-
thetic, loving contact, brings the church into
contempt among the poor and brings lean
ness TO the souls of the rich. We talk about
perils. Those perils can be
removed, but not by dingy mission buildings
and charitable offerings from the rich, but
by personal hand-to-hand and heart-to-heart
work, by churches bright with Christian
love aud by the cultivation of a spirit of
helpfulness and independence fostered by
mission system which condescends to fight
for Christ only at long range, with artillery
planted on the heights to subdue sin in the
slums. And with all this religious ministry
we need the enforcement of civil law to pro-
tect the tempted and degraded How few
laws are fully executed What
sensation has been created in New York by
the sudden enforcement of law which TO
the disgrace of the city has slumbered for
INTERIOR
Year: 1878

Francis Murphy, in recent speech at
Pittsburg, in speaking of men who have
violated their pledge, urged them to renew
their covenant again in the following beauti-
full words. Hear him "A child that is


just learning to walk you treat so tenderly
if it falls you pick it up and kiss it, and
fonde it, and encourage it; and those kisses
are sweeter to it than if it hadn't fallen.
So should you do with these men who are
trying to do right Go to them-plead with
them. Tell them you are their friend. If
he is hungry, give him food A kind word,
a pleasant smile, will do more good than a
world of scorn and hate. The inebriate
will remember your words, and in time
perhaps "A very short time-he will study
over his downfall. Then he will think of
your interest in his welfare and again sign
the pledge. We should follow the example
OF him who came into the world to save it
through his love. lie was perfect man
his mission it was TO save all those who
would believe in him--no matter of what
class or condition-while some OF us would
prefer to let some 60 to IA country that is
spelled with few letters. You cannot
drive men; you cannot do it; the blessed
Saviour did not try to do it. 1t is love, il
is mercy, it is good WILL that will do it, and
the use of such means only"
Year: 1878

NEVER despair; but if you do, work on
in despair.-Burke.


You cannot dream yourself into char
acter; you must hammer and forge yourself
one.-Froude.


As ten million circles will never form a
square, so the united voices of myriads of
men will never give the least reality TO that
which is Goldsmith.


Duty is the voice of God, and man is
neither worthy of good home, or a heaven,
that is not willing to be in peril for good
cause.-John Brown.


BE not ashamed before God of thy trade
every honest calling is acceptable in his eyes
but with thy trade be not ashamed of thy
God and thy Christianity.-Gerok.


IT is better that Joy should be spread over
all the day in the form of strength, than
that it should be concentrated into ecstasies,
full of danger, and followed by reactions,
Emerson.


WORKS of love are more acceptable than
lofty contemplation art thou engaged in de
voutest prayer, and God wills that thou g
out and carry broth to sick brother, thou
shoudst do it with ioy.-Iduler.


THE happiness of your life depends upon
the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard
accordingly, and take care that you entertain
no notions unsuitable TO virtue and reason
able TO nature.-MdrcuS Anionius.


Snow Inc the man you honor know by
that symptom, better than by any other
what kind of man you yourself are. Fol
you show me there what your ideal of man
hood is, what kind of man you long mex
pressibly to be.-Cdriyle.


Tue Bible tells us of the streams, that il
may allure us TO the fountain it tells us Of
the past acts of Gods faithful love, that We
may be led TO set our hope on God, and tc
feel assured that he who hath loved viii
love unto the end.-ThomaS ErSkine.


A LITTLE girl, gasping for her last breath
cried Father, take me-" Her father
who sat dissolved in tears by her bedside
lifted her into his lap. She smiled, thanked
him aud said 81 spoke to my Heavenly
Father," and passed away.-Christ'n at Work


FoR one, would not rid myself of the
hope that we shall sometimes-perhap'
on great anniversaries commemorative OF
earthly Enthusiastically sing, in heaven
the very psalms and hymns which are sc
often the gate of heaven" " TO us here. II
would be sadder parting with this world
than we hope it will be when our time
comes, II we must forget these ancient Tyr
les, or find our tongues dumb when we would
utter them Are they not a part OF oul
very beingf Take them away, with all the
experience of which they are the symbol
and what would there be left of US to carry
! into heaven Y-Professor A ustin Phelps.
Year: 1878

put on, and put on to stick, and so il did,
and you would know to the end of its DAYS
it was a red school-house. For more than
half century it stood browning the hilltop
When its sons and daughters returned to the
homes of their youth, there was the venerable
school house, though no more therein was
read the facetious history of John Gipin,
Gray's Elegy in a country church-yard
quotations from Milton, Dryden, Pope, and
the story of Uncle Toby's Lefevre. Within
this venerable building the first steps of
learning commenced, and the first sentence
lisped by infant lips was, " No man may put
off the law of God from Webster's old
speller-a sentence which has volume of
meaning within itself, and if its doctrine
was to-day more thoroughly taught and in
stilled in the heart there would be more
thoroughly honest men and fewer defaulting
cashiers and trust company treasurers.


Y !
Year: 1878

The woman was old and ragged and gray,
And bent with the chill Of the winters day;
The street was wet with a recent snow,
And the woman's feet were aged and slow
She stood at the crossing, and waited long,
Alone, uncared for, amid the throng
OF human beings who passed her by
Nor needed the glance Of her anxious eye.
Down the street. with laughter and shout,
Glad in the freedom of school let out"
Game the boys, like flock Of sheep,
Hailng the snow piled white and deep.
Past the woman 80 old and gray
Hastened the children on their way,
Nor offered helping hand to her,
So meek, so tmid, afraid to stir
Lest the carriage wheels or the horses feet
Should crowd her down in the slippery street.
Al last came one Of the merry troop
The gayest ladde Of all the group
He pause beside her, and whispered low,
IN help you across, II you wish to co."
Her aged hand on his strong arm
She placed and so, without hurt or harm.
He guided the trembling feet along,
Proud that his own were hrm and strong
Then back again to his friends he went,
His young heart happy and well content
" Shes somebody's neither, boys, you know.
For all she's aged and poor and slow;
"And hope some fellow will lend hand
Tohelp my mother. you understand,
II ever she's poor and old and gray,
when her own dear boy Is far away"
And somebody = mother" bowed ow her head
In her home that night, and the prayer she said
Was, God be kind to the noble boy,
Who Is somebody's son and pride and JOY w


--Harpef's Weekly.
Year: 1878




Judging by the pains taken by certain
class of people to hide from their friends
the fact that they are poor, one might sup
pose that to be short of funds was some
thing far worse than a crime. Now this
trying to keep up appearances and do as
Others do, whether it can be afforded or not,
has become the bane of society, and, like
what is called mimicry among insects, pro
duces nondescript race very difficult to de
fine or assign to its proper place in the order
to which it evidently belongs OF course,
we are not advocating the exposure of
mans business to everybody with whom he
comes into business or friendly relations !;
but we do hold that he has no right to pre-
tend to be better off in worldly goods than
he is in fact; for to do so is a deception
which is but another name for dishonesty


10 be sure, it is hard TO deny ones self the
luxuries of life, and resolutely turn from all
expensive pleasures. But it must be done
if wealth is to be regained. There is a
pleasure in self-denial that majority of our
people never experienced, and it comes in
most gloriousy, and is extremely satisfac-
tory to the one practicing it, when he can
say, :" ! owe no man, and at the same time
has a hundred dollars in his pocket; but,
wanting some article costing two, he refuses
TO purchase until, through sef-denial, the
other hundred is obtained IL requires some
courage to adopt such a system of living
and dealing, but il has this as recommen-
dation--it is perfectly safe aud honorable.
Year: 1878

LET all professed Christians remember
for the memory will start them as the bugle
note on the morn of coming battle rouses
the solder--the terribly truthful words Of
him who realized the hight and depth, the
length and breadth of the awful ruin rum
works in the SOUL when he said Z" No drunk
ard can inherit the kingdom OF heaven
Golden Rule.