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Year: 1878

Luther Martin was one of the most
famous lawyers of his time. He was q
little above the medium hight, and was
slovenly in appearance. His dress was
a compound of the fine and the coarse,
and seemed never to have felt the brush.
He wore ruffles at the wrist richly
edged with lace after every one else had
abandoned them. These ruffies were
conspicuously broad, and were always
dirty with tobacco juice. Judge Taney
said that in his speech he used vulgar
isms, and that he heard him say
scotch" him, instead Of caught him.
and we s'sot" him down instead of sat
down. His genius was, frequently
clouded by the excessive us str0ng
drink. Being engaged in an important
case, he promised his client the day be-
fore the suit was to be tried not to
drink any liquor. He retired to his
room, but could not resist his desire for
stimulants. He sent for bottle OF
brandy and loaf of bread, and after
saturating the bread with the brandy,
he ate it, and his unfortunate appetite
was satisfied, and he claimed he had
kept his promise not to drink. He
tried the cause in the ablest possible
manner, but being reprosched by his
client for his virtual violation OF his
promise, he remarked, 81 did not
drink drop; besides, say no more
about it. Had it not been for the
bread, would have lost the case.n He
had paralytic stroke, and having
squsndered bis large earnings at the
bar as fast as they were acquired, in
his old age, under the goading penury,
he received the hospitalities and kind
attentions of Aaron Burr, whom he had
ably defended at Richmond. Before
his death the legislature passed reso-
luton that every one on being admit
ted to the bar should pay 81 cash for
his use. He died on July 10, 1925,
when he was 81 years of age.
Year: 1878

1t has been stated in these pages that
nobody disputes the fact that in the
Greek New Testament the only words
meaning hell are Hsdes and Geheuna
Hades means simply the spiritual world
and Gehenna the valley of Hinnom,
south of Jerusalem, where idolaters
once sacrificed to NIoloch, where, af-
forwards, carcasses of animals and NAL
efactors were thrown, and there per
petuel fires were kept burning 10 pre-
vent pestilence. Such are definitions
given in Worcester's Dictionary. An
ingenious writer. referring to this AMI
| kindred subjects says:


Death to me has no terrors. Does
spirit life exist apart from human life?
We cannot conceive of human life
without the existence of its BRAIN there
with, but there are instances wherein
human life does not make entire and
active use of ITS brain, as in the case of
sound slumber, deep intoxication, stu
por or inactiOn of the brain resulting
from sickness or injury thereto, and
under such circumstances life most re-
sembles death, and at such times


"where Is the spirit fiedln or must we
allow that under certain conditions of
the BRAIN the spirit has no power Of
thought or action? Again, an insane
or idiotlc person is not accountable
here or hereafter for his or her acts,
1 hnk IF -
crime, and punishment, therefore, eli
ther by human or divine power, is not
expected, and wherefore so2 Why is
that person idiotIc or insane9 Is 1t not
because of some disease or malforma-
ton of the BRAN? And If, under such
conditions of the brain, the spirit is not
able to distinguish good from evil,
does it not demonstrate that the spirit
OF itself knows nothing and has not
the power OF reason unless ii be in
communication with healthy brain,
and does it not also demonstrate thar,
apart from that combination of matter
that constitutes man, spirit or soul does
not exist, and when that is dissolved
spirit or soul no longer isl


We are apt to long for hereafter.
whence comes this longing for here
aftera" Our whole life constantly
teaches us TO look forward to it from
the fact that we sleep expecting to
wake again on the morrow, and we
cannot divest ourselves of the feeling
that the fual sleep will be followed by
its final to morrow. In the sound.
healthy sleep of life VIC do not even
knnw of our own aviStauca and tho
final sheep Of death can have NO greater
knowledge; for If slumber can conquer
the spirit, then death must.
Year: 1878

II was an accurate thinker who said
that at twenty you know everything
at thirty you have your doubts; at
forty there are some things you don't
know: at fifty you are only sure OF
your own illimitable ignorance. After
that you may read Beecher on everlast,
ing punishment and hope he is right.
These progressive moral facts make
those preachers wise who make those
converts who are young. Faith, there
fore, is rather a matter of years and
growth than of reason
Year: 1878

EACH steamship coming from Europe
is freighted with vsst sums of gold,
though the enactment of the silver bill
IS deemed foregone conclusion in Eu-
rope, and yet those opposing the re-
monetization of silver declare that the
process will expel all gold from the
United States and give US silver alone.
Why was not this true when We had a
bi-metallic currency9
Year: 1878

THE New York Heraid's special
Washington correspondent insists that
the President will veto the, Bland sill
yer bill. 1t was the theory Of the old
Whig party that the President should
not veto the will of the people, and
very certainly two-;hirds of the people
of the United States would have sill
yer remonetized, and the President is
an old Wing. tt .La
Year: 1878

THE Kerrville F'rOntiersman would
have US correct statements made to us
by gentleman who has lately been in
that county. The STATESMAN Is not
responsible for the facts asserted, since
we said they were given by one We
knew. His name is at the service OF
the Frontiesmdn, which happens to
admit that there was basis of fact for
inferences and assertions made by our
informant.
Year: 1878

sEcHErAnr sHEHMAH gave banquet
to the Finance Committees, Of the
Senate snd House last Monday, and
whether this win have any effect upon
the fortunes Of the silver bin remains


o be seen. Il is stated that fifty-sao
Senators favor BANDS bill pure and
sirnpIe and these are enough to pass it
over the veto
Year: 1878

II the mint charge fof the coinage
of silver, it should for that of gold,
and yet the Bland bill is proposed to
be so amended that silver must pay,
and gold does not, for the privilege OF
going through the mint.
Year: 1878

The bill presented the other Gay for
the expenses of the United States SEN
ate for the last year contained some
queer items. The lemons and sugar
itemized In it amounted to some thou
sand dollars; and the snuff for the
Senators cost the government no small
sum. Both of these items may be re-
garded as sfegItimate expenses, it being
evidently the duty of the government
to pay for the snuff and lemonade of
its high-priced Senator'S; but the last
item Of the Sergeant-at Arms, twenty
eight boxes of cartridges to guard the
boxes containing the electoral votes, "
is rather too much of an imposition on
a long suffering public. The Republic
can Senators ordered the Sergeant at
Arms TO purchase these boxes, and they
alone should be made to foot the bill.


The New York World tells uf the
most unfortunate traveller now extant.
He was going East from his home at
Portsmouth, one day last week, and
the train started off very suddenly
while he was talking with his friends.
He grabbed hold of q woman, chucked
her on the tram, Jumped after her and
away they went. fifty miles an hour,
with his wife shrieking and tearing her
hair on the platform, and a woman he
never saw before going into high-pres-
sure Mysteries in the car, calling him q
monster and yelling, 'Saye me!' By
terrible mistake he bad got hold. of
the wrong woman, and the conductor,
refusing to listen to his explanations.
kicked him out of the car, the brake
man chucked him into the ditch, the
sheriff met him before he was hall, way
back to town and put handcuffs on
him, and when. at last, he got home.
he saw his business partner holding his
wife on his lap and telling her that
there were men in the world who loved
her much better than her faithless hus-
band ever did. He says the next time
he travels he will walk.
Year: 1878

The reelection of Judge Flippen as
mayor of Memphis has been of great
service to the city in the estimate enter
tanned abroad of the intelligence, taste
aud good morals of the people of the
fortunate city.
Year: 1878




mented upon by those who would discard
pretty much all.the rest OF his platform:


Resofred, That land Of equal production
and capacity shall be subject to equal tax
alton, whether cultivated or not, to the
end that the land monopolist in the future
may be held in check, and that the public
domain may be preserved TO the actual
tiller OF thesoil.


II this resolution was put forward, by
itself, for endorsement by the people Of
the United States, 1t is altogether probable
that it would be Overwhelmingly adopted,
The safety OF this country from com.
munism is in the exact measure OF jus.
tice meted out to the tax paying masses.
Vast accumulations Of property in one
mans hands are not to be encouraged, but
rather discouraged by q proper discrimina.
ton in the matter OF taxation in favor OF
small property holders. Most men can, il
properly favored by law, become at least
small property holders, and the safety OF
society is in the number Of such citizens.
1t is a better distribution of wealth that
the world needs. To this end no conhsca.
lion laws arc necessary, but simply such
laws as will throw the heavy end Of the
public burdens on the large properties OF
the country.
Year: 1878

As we were about to leave, says a Jap
anese correspondent of the Philadelphia
Times, lady of elegant attire and
attended by female servant bearing
her toilet apparatus, and another, with
other luxuries of bath, entered. Our
new arrival, after giving some directions,
with the assistance Of her maid began
TO arrange herself for the bath. With
her maid she neatly folded and laid
away on q cloth in q clean place each
particle of her apparel as It was re-
moved. First her silken robe, then the
flowing goWn-hke robe Of purple, then
the neither garments Of white, until We
reached natures own. As gently as q
zephyr playing upon the foliage Of the
trees she stepped along toward the
water. Her beautifnl-rounded form and
poetry of motion would have been
worthy Of the sculptoI's Chisel. A beau
tihll-rounded ankle and pretty foot.
vaguely visible beneath the larninated
folds Of dozen skirts would set the
whole community agog at home; while
e whole form, nude as nature and more
beautiful than an angel, would not 50
much as attract q passing glance in
Sepap,
Year: 1878

The following is an extract from DIR.
Reamy's lecture on the " Uses and Abuses
of the Bath" delivered before the Fac
ulty and students of the Ohio Medical
College:


Important as it is to keep these
millions of sudatory ducts open, it is
very questionable whether lavish use
of soap and scrubbing-brushes has a
tendency to do so. In fact. the contrary
may be presumed, for the application Of
soap to the outside cutiele, scrubbed
well into the pores with rough brush,
must rather block the capilIaries that
open them. The application of very
warm water surcharges the skin with
blood, while that of very cold water
drives back the blood, and contracts
the capillaries.


There are other reasons, however,
Why soap and scrubbing-brushe are
not only unnecessary to heae3h, but even
inimical to it. The outer cuticle, or
searfskin, of the body, is composed of
the same material as the nails, although
the fiber is ssomwhat differently arranged.
1t is, in fact, the enamel Of the skin,
and its proper preservation gives to the
skin of a beautiful woman the ivory
finish so much admired. It is the pro-
lection of the skin beneath. But, like
the substance Of the nails, it must be
painlessly scraped or rubbed off easily,
if one keeps scrubbing long enough.
Under the miscroseope it is scaly like
the skin of fish and these scales may
be easily scraped away. Nearly all soap
contains strong alkalies, which soften
the epithelium or scarfskin, and renders
it easily. removed by rough scrubbing.
A strong flesh brush, rough towel and
hot water, are all wonderfully efica-
cious in removing this protecting men,
brane, but are wholly unnecessary to
health and cleanliness. The only really
healthy and proper water bath costs
little or nothing, and can be taken at
home. Some say they have no time TO
take bath, but this only requires eight
minutes before breakfast, which every
one not inordiuately lazy can take. Go
to q timer and get him to make you a
tin tray about two inches deep and
eighteen inches square, This will cost
about sixty cents. Then buy q sponge,
which will cost you about q quarter.
With the tin-pan, the sponge, and gal
lon of water, you have all the require
ments for an excellent bath, and every
person should take such bath daily.
1t is only necessary to sponge yourself
thoroughly from head to foot, and wipe
dry with a soft towel. The exercise of
doing this ones self-no one else should
do tits excellent. The water should be
about the same temperature as the
atmosphers. If you are healthy and
strong. but If the weather is intensely
cold. tepid water may be substituted.
But the bath should not be taken with
the window open or in a current of air,
and the water shOuld be the same tenn
rernture as the atmosphere in the
room.
Year: 1878

Don't hurry so. Move slower; it may
be that you will go surer. Grind, grind,
grind, one everlasting grind, from five
o'clock in the morning till ten at night,
chasing the bubble of human riches.
What is the need, pray tell meP You
already have enough and even more
than you can use. You are heaping up
wealth for others to waste or quarrel
over when you are dead; and half your
heirs, instead of remembering you
gratefully, will contemplate your de-
parture from this huTrying scene with
infinite satisfaction. Do rest awhile.
You are wearing out the vital forces
faster than there is need, and IN this
way subtracting years from the total
sum Of your life. This rush and worry
day after day, this restless anxiety after
something you have not got IS like
pebble stones in machinery; they CRATE
and grind the life out of you. You have
useless burdens; throw them of. You
have great deal of needless care drop
it. Pull in the strings; compact your
business y Take time for thought OF
better things. Go out into the air and
enjoy the sunshine. Stop thinking of
business and profit. Stop grumbling at
adverse fortune. You will probably
never see much better times than these
in this doomed world. Your most OPP
perfume season is now; your happy DAY
is to-day. Calmly do your duty, and let
God take care of his own world. He is
still alive, and is the king. Do not
imagine that things will 60 to the ever
lasting smash when you disappear nom
this mortal stage. Don't fancy that the
curse of heaven, in the shape Of the
vain task of righting up a disointed
earth, is imposed on you. Cease tofnet
.an6 fume; cease to jump and Eorry
early and late. The good time is com.
ing, but you can never bring it; God
can, and will. Take breath, sir; sit
down and take long breath then GO
calmly to the tasks of lifeSand do your
work well.
Year: 1878

In England a patent check till has
been brought before the mercantile
public which seems to be a very ingen-
iOus contrivance. The official descrip.
ton Of it says that it will check every
penny taken and paid, better than keep
ing a cashier and using check-books
1t occupies no more room than the
ordinary till. If an assistant should
take money of a customer and fail to
put it in the till, it can be detected at
once. If only part Of the amount is put
in, it will show how much has been
withheld. If any cash has been taken
out, it will show the amount. The till
cannot be opened without it being
known, and the number of times. It
will show how much money there ought
to be in at time. Any amount Of
change can be left in it for use, and yet
none can be taken away without its
being known. It can be left any length
Of time without being cleared, and viii
show the amount that ought to be in
without counting the cash. It can be
used as desk, or let in level with the
cOunter-tOp, if required. 1t shows the
number of customers waited upon by
each assistant; and if line is drawn
across close to the glass every hour, it
tells the number of customers at any
given time. And all these advantages
are wound up with the brief statement,
''Interest on outlay and cost of working,
one halfpenny day."
Year: 1878

An English lady who can cook, enc
larges in a lively letter to The Standard
on one of the real grievances of the
present day, to wit, the number Of use
less and idle young wives, who, being
incapable themselves, spoil their SER
wants, and then wonder that the hus-
band leaves the ill-coOked meal, perhaps
observed also, to dine at his club, They
say eOntempluously they were not
brought up to that kind Of thing, and
consider It beneath them. This lady
replies that she was not brought up to It
either, but she denies that it is beneath
any gentleWOman to try and contribute
to the comfort of those around her. If
she need not absolutely work with her
own hands, the mistress of a house
should certainly have sufficient knOWl-
edge to direct her suboriinates, or they
win soon discover her ignorance, and
become insubordinate. Nor need the
absolute performance Of these duties
interfere with other pursuits. This lady
confesses that after pastry and cake
making in the morning, her hand 70
sometimes too tremulOus for her favor
ite oil painting, or to help her husband
in the preparation Of objects for his
microscope, but it is easy enough to find
some other occupation when that is the
case and she has not lost her love for
art, nor her appreciation Of science, be
cause she is happy enough to be lady
who can cook.
Year: 1878

A story is told Of man in Con-
nectieut who fell from the roof Of 3 Eve
story building to the sidewalk: but as
he struck on the thick soles Of his rub
ber-boots, lie bounded back within 3
quarter of an inch of the roof and so
continued to bounce, the distance de-
creasing by only a quarter Of an inch at
each journey. He subssted on hash
enclosed in rubber balls, which he
managed to catch on the bound, and at
the end of a month, was stopped and
restored to his family.
Year: 1878

Thou must be true thyself.


II thou the truth wouldst teach:
Thy soul must overflow if thou
Another soul wOuldst reach:
Itneeds the overflow Of heart
To give the lips fnll speech.
Think truly. and thy thoughts
Shall the worlds famine feed:
Speak truly, ana each word Of thine
Shall lie fruitful seed;
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed
Year: 1878

NHY FATHER and mother both died
IVl when was still great awkward
boy and 1, being the only thing they
had to bequeath, became the property of
distant relation. do not know how
1t happened, but l had no near relations.
l was kind of waif upon the world
from the beginning, and suppose it
was owing to my having no family
anchorage that l acquired the habit of
swaying to and fro and drifting hither
and thither, at the pleasure of the wind
and tide. Not that my guardian was in
attentive or unkind-quite the reverse;
but he was indolent and careless, con-
tenting himself with providing abun-
dantly for my schooling and my pocket,
and leaving everything else to chance.
He would have done the same to his son
if he had had one, and he did the same
thing to his daughter. But girls some
how cling where they are cast-any-
thing is an anchorage for them; and
as Laura grew up she gave the care she
had never found, and was the little
mother to the whole house. AS for the
titular mother, she had not an atom of
character of any kind. She might have
been picture, or vase, or anything
else that is useless except to the taste or
the affections. But mamma was indis-
pensable. 1t is vulgar error to sup
pose that people who have nothing in
them are nobody in a house.


1t is no wonder that was always in
hurry for L must have had an instructive
idea that had my fortune to look for.
The Governor had nothing more than
a good deal lessened after his death by
the lapse of an annuity. But sister
Laura was thus provided for well enough,
while had not a shilling in actual
money, although plenty of hypothetical
thousands and sundry castles in the air.
1t was the consciousness of the latter
kind of property, no doubt, that gave
me so free and easy an air, and made
me so complete the master of my ac-
tions. How did worry the blessed old
woman how Laura lectured and scold-
ed how the governor stormed and
how was forgiven the next minute,
and we were all happy again as the day
was long, But at length the time of
separation came. had grown great
hulking fellow, strong enough to make
my bread as porter, if that had been
needed; and so situation was found for
me in counting house at Barcelona,
and after lecture and hearty cry from
sister Laura, blessing and kiss from
mamma, and great sob kept down by
Year: 1878

Hope is life, and we who living


Having no hope, are as the dead,
Who in gloomy graves are sleeping,
While the sun shines bright o'er head
IT'S the source of all ambition,


IT'S the life of every scheme,
In II we see the future


OF every prospect, every dream.
Hope will cheer the broken hearted,
Soothing sorrow, curing pain,
IT'S the star of friends when parted,
For in It they meet again.
It Is that which makes the future


Seem pathway bright and fair;
Lifting oft poor weary mortals


From the depths of woe and care.
Hope is Gods great gift from Heaven
Radiance from higher sphere
Priceless boon, in mercy given,


Helping us to do and bear.
Year: 1878

Colonel Casey, who has charge of the work
on the Washington Monument. will have his
plans for Strengthening the base of that pile
ready for submission to the joint commission
by the last of this woek. Ills plans for this
work will doubtless be approved. Colonel
Casey expects to commence work In about
twelve days When the base is sufficiently
strengthened work will bo begun on the top OF
the monument. 1t will not be stopped until
the monument Is finished. There will have
to he another Congressional appropriation be.
fore this result Is effected the present appro.
priation, 5000 900, not being sufficient.
Year: 1878

An exchange, whose editor has evidently been
on a journey, says that the prophet Isaiah must
have eaten at a railroad lunch hcounter, rs is
shown by the following passage 80 He shall
snatch on the right hand and be hungry ; and he
shall eat on the left hand and shall not be sat
iSfed -
Year: 1878

4 man came into the Office last evening and
asked '' Are you going to print sermon to-
morrow We told him that such was not our
present intention. ' I'm sorry for that" he
replied. 9 You see, L was arrested and fined Tor
drinking this morning, and L thought If yCu
were to make fye-line report of it, and get 1t
mixed up with u sermon, nobody would ever
read it. Guess I'll have to ask you to keep it
out altOgether." And the man went out with
out Offering an explanation for his strange con-
duct.
Year: 1878

4 young lady in Yassar College at an evening
party found it apropOs TO use the expression,
- Jordan is hard road to travel and thinking
it too vulgar, substituted the following - Per-
ambulating progression in pedestrian excursion
along the far-famed thoroughfare of fortune cast
upon the banks of the sparkling river of Pales-
tine is indeed attended with heterogeneous con-
glOmeration of unforeseen difficulties
Year: 1878

Mir. Edison is not able to prevent the noise on the elevated railway. Hc has got contrivance to stop the noise and he has discovered where the noise comes from and hs knows where it goes to, but docsn'n appear % be able to find any place in between to put the machine.