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Year: 1878

TIE CRoPs.-The news from the corn re-
gions of the West is generally more favor
able. The growing weather of the past
two weeks has greatly improved the pros
poets, and yet owing to the protracted
rains and overhows of May and the first
half of June, which either rendered corn
planting impossible or drowned much that
had been planted, this years corn crop
will fall greatly below fair average. The
wheat harvest in Southern Illinois is about
finished, and the result is very satisfactory.
The prospect for good crop of wheat
throughout the West is favorable.
Year: 1878

Will our farmers furnish us the follow
ing facts concerning the present wheat
crop: number of bushels seeded; the
amount of fertilizer used, and the number
of bushels realized from this years crop.
Send US this information from all parts OF
the county and %ewill give them publicity
These facts will be a matter of general in.
terest to our people and will show, to some
extent, the number OF bushels grown in
this county.
Year: 1878

The Poultry World says that all birds,
even if berries, seeds, &C., are their natural
diet, feed insect food to their young, and
argues from this that chickens to thrive
well must have animal food of some kind.
Earth worms are recommended for young
chickens, also cooked meat chopped up
and mixed with boiled rice and potatoes.
Too much of this food should not be given,
nor too often. A little two or three times
day till they are six weeks old will be
advantageous. From this age they will be
able to get sufFiciency of such food by
seeking i among the grass.
Year: 1878

This admirable machine is now ready for the fruit
harvest of 1878. 1t is made in the most perfect man
wanting such a machine. 1t has no superior in the
market and is the only mill that will properly grind
grapes. This is the original Mill, very much i'm
proved and is now the best made anywhere Address


W. O. JIICKOK, Harrisburg, Pa.
Year: 1878

People who are convinced that their
usefulness and happiness depend upon
sound health, always use DR.. Bulls
Blood Mixture for impoverishment OF
the blood-which is the beginning Of
poor health.
Year: 1878

An amusing matrimonial story is
told Of tho olden time in New Eng
land. 1t so fell out that a young coup.
le became very much smitten with each
other-as young people do. The eyoung
woman's father was wealthy Quaker;
the young man was respectable. The
father could stand no such union, ald
resolutely opposed it. and she dared
not disobey. that is to say, she dared
not disobey openly She met him by
moonlight" while she pretended never
to see him; and she pined and wasted
in spite Of herself. She was really in
love-a state Of sighs and tears, which
women oftener reach in Imagination
than in reality. Still the father re-
mained inexorable.


Time passed on. and the rose on Ma.
rvs damask cheek passed off. She let
not concealment like worm in the bud
prey on that damask cheek, however;
but, whom her father asked her why
she pined, she always told him. The
old man was widower, and he loved
his daughter dearly. Had it been a
widowed mother who had Mary in
charge, woman's pride would never
have given way before the importuui.
ties of daughter. Men are not, how.
ever, stubborn in such matters, and
when the father saw that his daugh-
ter's heart was really set upon the
match, he surprised her one day BY
breathing out:


MARY, rather than NOPE to death,
thee had better marry as soon as thee
chooses, and with whom thee pleases."


And then what did Mary? Wait
till the birds of the air had told her
swain of the change. or until her faith.
er had time to alter bis mind again?
Not bit of it. She olapped her neat
plain bonnet on her head, and walked
directly to the house of her lover as
the street would carry her. She walk.
ed into the Louse without knocking
for knocking was not then fashionable
and found the family just sitting
down to dinner. Some little commo-
tion was exhibited at the heiress in the
widows cottage, but she needed it
not. John looked up inquiringly. She
walked directly up TO him, and took
both his hands in hers.


John" said she, father says may
have thee"


And John got directly up from tho
dinner table, and went to the parsons.
In just twenty-five minutes they were
man and wife.
Year: 1878

Cincinnati Saturday Night.


lie was tenor singer in one Of
the opera companies that visited
Cincinnati this season. He was q
good singer and everything he
sang the audience, with that de.
termination to get the full value of
Their money and a little more, which
is a peeullallty of Cincinnati at an
operq or concert, always insisted
upon an encore. And lie respond
ed good naturedlN although he
thought 1t little hard to be COM
PEELED to perform double the work
set down on the bills every night
One day while promenading Fourth
street it occurred to him to do a
little encoring himself and see how
it worked. He stepped into a hat
store and inquired Of the proprietor,
who came forward to wait upon
him, the price of a silk hat.
(" Seven dollars was the reply,
lie selected one that fitted him and
paid for it, then he shouted
" Encore eneorep


"What do you meant" " inquired
the proprietor, in amaaement,


81 mean Ethat l want another
hat"
Year: 1878

things, for we know the Judge of
the whole earth doeth right. And
when we see before us such a de-
monstration as was drawn from the
perfectness Of the work of Christ,
then | think no devout believer can
hesitate for one moment as to the
position he is to assume in regard
to that doctrine to which we have
just referred.


"lt is one solid doctrine; but it
is not |, and it is no preacher be-
fore us originated that doctrine. 1t
fell from the lips of the living Jesus
himself, and l am sure it could
never have fallen from his lips with.
out meaning something tremend-
ously awful"
Year: 1878

Twenty Thousand People
old and young. every week. tits Just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class Of
community.


We desire our business men to make note
Of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adver-
tising; for many good people seeing an a6
vertisement in paper, especially their
church paper, take it as guarantee of re-
spOnsibility. Such confidence should MOTTO
abused when it can be helped. We want,
therefore,
Year: 1878

=" How much better It IS That We
act submissiyely and like children;
and though we cannot understand


certain things in Gods government
and administration, yet to say we
relegatc all those difficulties to that
eternal period when, it may be, our
eyes will be enlightened and we
shall see. We arc perfectly willing
TO trust God for this aud other
Year: 1878

The peculiar arrangement Of this rnrivalei
implement needs only Ia he seen 10 be appre-
.iated Ask your neighbor what lie thinks
about IT, No complication OF levers. \ boy
can manage it, and do better work than nan
Ni.h walking pIow, and twice the quantity
per day We have paid especial regard 10 the
improvement Of orr implements and We only
import such as have the very latest improve
lents and best stXles As our line IS too extend
Year: 1878

4" | have brought your dinner, father.
The blacksmith's daughter said
As she took from her arm Q kettle


And lifted the shining lid.
There's not any pie or pudding.


So / will give you this"
And upon bis toil-worn forehead


She left a childish kiss.
The blacksmith took of his apron


And dinsd IN . happy mood.
Wondering much 1t the SAVIOR


Hid in his humble food,
While about him were visions


Full Of prophetic bliss;
But he never thought of magic


In his little daughters kiss.
While she with her kettle swinging.


Merrily trudged away.
Stopping at sight of . squirrel,


Catching some wild bird's lay;
And thought how many . shadow


Of life and fate we would miss
If always our frugal dinners


Were seasoned with . kiss.
Year: 1878

hare daughter to dispose of in mar
riage


have.


And that you intend to portion her
with ten thuosAnd pounds.


do so.


Why. then, SIR, let me have her. and
l will take her with nine thousand.


The master Of the house rose in .
passion, and turned him ont of doors in
a hurry.
Year: 1878

fifteen years? Doubtless his enemies in
his own party, (if he now has any will
try to make him appear the only "black
sheep" But the careful listener and OBJ
server of noteworthy revelations of the
gentlemen who have been running the
Republican party here to the benefit of
"all the respectabihty," will find out the
truth of all this before the several fac
tions of that party will again smoke the
''pipe of peace" For ourself, we
recognize in our late antagonist at least a
brave foe, beaten while making desper-
ate struggle for the life of his party; and,
as we believe he goes down covered all
over with just such deeds as gave
them triumph before, we shall not exult
in his defeat nor add to his misfortune;
but glory in the triumph of the people
over the fall of corrupt party, that has
run the city into heavy debt, and in
creased our peoples taxes when they
should hare decreased them.


Now comes the trial of the Democrats.
If they do no better, they will go out of
Office. They can do better and should
begin at the start to make the effort
When last in power they disgusted our
own people and their defeat followed
Let them in Council return to the con-
tract system for cleaning the streets and
all other work through which large ex-
penditures are made. BY the adoption of
wise system Of economy they will give
joy to their friends, and make their party
stronger in the future.
Year: 1878

And now the "Bankers' Association"
have issued another proscriptive circular.
Previously the newspapers that favored
the coinage of silver were directed to be
prescribed, and now the newspapers that
favor the substitution of greenbacks by
the government for government bank
notes, are by it ordered to be prescribed.
This prosecuting combination of ras-
Gals who had the bonds changed from a
greenback toa coin bond and then again
to a gold bond is almost enough to make
the people form party to repudiate ii
part the whole government debt by dis.
charging it with greenbacks.
Year: 1878

[From the Detroit Free Preeai


A rat of q hoy who had in vain searched
the Post Office corridors for the nickel which
q careless hand occasionally drops at the
stamp clerks window, yesterday took his
position before chestnut stand on Griswold
street and eyed the fresh nuts long time
before drawing deep sigh and groaning:


''Oh, wish I was rich!"


The chestnut-roaster made no reply, and
the odor of the roasting nuts finally induced
the boy to inquire:


care chestnuts healthy?"


''No, bub-they are prolific of indigestion" !"
was the reply.


After while the boy thought it was time
to remark:


''Did you ever hear the story of the man
who gave poor boy a handful of chestnuts,
and when the boy grew up and got rich he re-
warded the old man with diamond pin and
four -horse-team ?"


mo, never did, but heard of the man
who brought poor boy to the edge of the
grave by giving him dozen chestnuts."


The boy took turn up and down, secured
another strong snuff of the pleasant odor,
and then leaned over and whispered:


s'If Ill take the chances on the edge of the
grave business viii you take the chances on
the chestnuts ?"


The vender finally thought he would.
Year: 1878

|


! A novel exhibition in anatomy was given


yesterday afternoon to the students of Rush


Medical College. At o'clock the large am


phitheatre lecture room was filled with dedged


and unfledged doctors, and in the arena stood


Mr.. Charles Warren, man of about thirty
years of age, of athletic appearance, and
apparently jointed the same as ordinary NOR
tails. But he soon showed that he differed
from most men in his makeup, for there
was hardly joint in his whole body that he
could not throw out of place, or at least give
that appearance He went through with his
distortions, much to the amazement as we'll
as the amusement of ALL He commenced
by giving circulatory movement to the
scapule, moving either one or both at the
same time and without any apparent motion
of the shoulders. He then threw the humer-
us into he axille, disjointed his elbow, wrist
and phalanges. This was done merely by
the contraction of the muscles of the arm,
and not by the pulling of one member by an
other. In none of his feats were there any
such wrench of one joint from another.
Without touching any part of his body with
his hands, the joints would move out of pO-
sition. He forced the femur from the thigh
bone. This he could do while standing on
one or both feet, or While reclining. The
dislocation caused an apparent shortening of
the limb. Another striking feat was the
turning of his feet so that he could touch the
bottoms of them while his legs were perfectly
straight Perhaps the most remarkable of all
his powers was the wonderful expansibility
of his chest Medical works, upon the
strength of examinations of thousands of
men in the army and navy, generally give
five inches as the maximum of expansion.
The exhibitor could expand his from nine to
twelve inches. Those who did not take
much interest in his other performances were
wonder-struck at this. This feat was per-
formed by the remarkable degree of the COM
pressibility of the chest and his power to
force his heart and lungs into the abdominal
cavity, and then of the power to force his
viscera into his chest. The abdomen was
hardly less curious when the viscera was
forced upwards by the diaphragm than was
the inflated chest, for at such time there
seemed to be an entire absence of organs in
that part of the body, and to be no distance
at all from the front walls of the abdomen to
the spinal column.


This subject proved fine study in the an
atomy of the muscles, because he could con-
tract them so as to show the position of each
one from origin to insertion. He had this
power over the muscles in pairs or separately,
and could make them as distinct as if dis
sected.


Mr.. Warren concluded with an exhibition
of his ability to comfort his whole body, draw
ing himself through rings and performing
other things, much to the amusement of the
students and of the professors if they had
Sl Ws5ss 4t at Liberty sgt, give way s
himself, and can dislocate her joints with
such ease that they sound like rattles. Mr..
Warren is supporting himself at present by
giving exhibitions like the one of yesterday
to medical students.
Year: 1878

The genteel tramp mounted the landing and
rang the door bell. "Would you be so kind,
said he, as the mistress of the house appeared
at the door, ''to exchange this piece of pie
for couple of hard-boiled eggs and cup OF
coffee -? am of a dyspeptic turn, and this is
the ninth quarter of mince pie that | have
tried to 60 through this morning. can't
stand it, it's too much of a sameness. If you
accept my proposition. you can also have the
satisfaction Of telling the neighbors that Mrs.
Robinson across the street, used allspice in
stead of cloves, and that the undercrust is
very-slack baked" The temptation was
great, and the genteel tramp had his eggs and
coifee and large triangle of frosted cake as
bonus.
Year: 1878

cincinnati Commercia.}


"What do you think of the solid South ?"


II think 1t is q mistake I am sorry of
this tendency to draw sectional lines No
natter who is to blame, the evil is just as
great. The South is the weaker section, as
one ought to know by this time, and solid
South has tendency to unite the North.
Thisplaces the southern section under great
disadvantage. With solid South doubt if
the Democratic parry can carry enough
northern States to give them cnntrol of the
government. 1t looks as though our section
was fencing itself out of power for genera
ton. To have sectional lines and lines de-
stroys the harmony of the country, engenders
bitterness and bad blood. don't want to see
a solid South or solid North. want to see
both sections divided between the parties, and
sectionalism taken out of politics. want to
live to see this, but fear may not"
Year: 1878


and indecent it seems to be assumed on the
one side that there is something shameful
and wrong about the human form itself;
while, on the other, it appears to be claimed
that because physical outlines are beautiful
and honorable in themselves artists oil
vicious tendencies are to be justified In
adapting human lines and tints TO any
purpose which depraved nature may de.
sire to express upon canvas. After the
quarrel is over, however, the public will be
pretty sure to 40 on deciding the question
according to the pictures themselves, as IT
has done heretofore. The morality or inn
morality of picture is to be found in its
sentiment instead of its material. If an
artist has any Imagination, either good or
bad, his picture will express its exact
quality, whether the figures are draped or
not; and by this alone is the moral infiu-
ence of his picture to be estimated. If he
is mere copyist, rs nine out OF every ten
painters are, his nude figures will have no
more influence than the hundreds of theil
kind which hang in European galleries and
which are passed without second glance
by any observer, no matter what his per-
sonal character may be.
Year: 1878

Quarantine-rigorous and absolute quar-
antine--quarantine that effectively isolates
a place at which the epidemic has made its
appearance and maintains non-intercourse
for the whole time Of its prevalence--this, a
special committee informed the National
that is effective against yellow fever.
Having made elaborate and thorough in
quiry on the scene Of the epidemic, and
with all facilities extended to assist the
effectiveness OF their Investigation, these
doctors are satisfied that the infection of
the fever was carried into every
place in which it rage by personal
or commercial communication, and was
brought to New Orleans by the Emily Sou
der; that disinfectants have been Of no
value, but often have done harm; that proph-
ylactic medicines are of doubtful benefit,
and that the most rigid quarantine is the
only hope of any threatened community.
Everybody interested in the welfare and
prosperity Of the city of New Orleans
should take especial notice of this declara-
tion, for it's point will be remembered next
summer, and rigid quarantine will be
adopted against the Crescent City unless it
enforces very effective cne against ports
from which yellow fever can come. Ii New
Orleans cannot make q good quarantine,
some OF the cities up the river can-as was
seen this yearand doubtless will.
Year: 1878

An exchange tells OF pedestrian who
happened to see boy fall into a brook.
The observer had tender heart, but he had
also pair of new trousers for which he had
great regard, SO he hurried to house some
distance away and gave the alarm. 1t is
needless to say that the boy was drowned
before help could reach him. AS for the
humane pedestrian, a jury of unregenerates
were 50 stupid as to censure him severely,
apparently under the impression that he
had done something impro per. If the jury
men were really correct, and the careful
guardian Of his own trousers was wrong,
the last named gentleman deserves great
deal Of sympathy, for humanity like his is
quite the general thing. very great
number of men and WON en- who behold the
sufferings and dangers of others are deeply
affected by them, but, out of regard either
for property which they have or hope to
have. they hurry about to get relief for the
sufferer-by telling somebody else. Among
these dispensers Of humanity at Sec
ond hand are many of the godly
folk of this city, who are just now
weeping over the drunkards of their
acquaintance and turning them over to the
prayers Of the faithful aud the efforts Of Mr..
Murphy. If after thus quieting their own
consciences the humane souls look backward
and discover that the drunkard is no more,
they have themselves to blame. The man
who really wants drunkard saved should
himself plunge in and give the poor wretch
hand, even ut the risk of the operation
costing something; and though there may
be no regularly empanelled jury to censure
him in case of performance of his mani
fest duty the stupidest person Of his ac-
quaintance is fully competen. to perceive
that he is contemplate hypocrite, and to
say so.
Year: 1878

neglected as they did during the summer
months 1t is important that we have
thoroughly clean streets before the snow
and frost set in. II garbage heaps are
allowed to be covered up and frozen in
they tend to promote sickness and disease
in the spring. The bureau authorities
should take hold Of the work in earnest.
They have shown that they are able to keep
the streets clean when they choose TO do so.
and there is no good reason why they
should wait for an agitation of the subject
in the press before they make up their
minds to do their duty in an efficient
manner
Year: 1878

We copy from tho Cleveland Herald a


conversation with tho Ohio champion of
imitation and silver money The note
worthy thing in this interview is Mr..


Ewing's admission that resumption will be
accomplished on the 1st Of January, since
there will be no opportunity tor passing
bill for defeating or retarding resumption
before that date. There is just as little
likelihood Of the passage Of such q bill after
rs before the 1st OF January. Even if it
could be carried through the Senate,
which no good judge believes, it would
certainly be stranded on a Veto Mr.. Ewing
avows his strong preference for Senator
Year: 1878

Why did the clerical investigators of the
Wallingford church scandal, upon which we
publish a letter to-day. omit to notice the
charge that the accused pastor was fond of
kissing female parishioners If, as seems
most likely, the apostolic injunction to
salute the faithful With holy kiss seemed
to forbid them, We beg to say, in our humble
capacity Of laymen, that the nineteenth
century of the Christian era is not the first,
and that the pastor of to-day is differ
ent man from his apostolic prototypes,
and is living among entirely different
social ard religious conditions. When
ON unpaid, unkempt, prosecuted. utterly
religious enthusiast, as all the immediate
successors of Jesus were, hurried about
from place to place, exhorting men and
women to purity and to preparation for that
end of oil things which he believed to be
Just at hand, the kiss he bestowed was likely
to be given and received as a mere saluta-
ton, according to the custom OF the time.
1t gave no offence to the receiver or her
friends. To-day, however, there is scarcely
any one who expects to hear the last trump
except from a reserved seat in the next
world. The preacher Of the Gospel is, out
Of tho pulpit, man like ourselves,
and is judged by the social standards
which are admitted by other people profess
ing to be respectable. There is another
apostolic injunction, far.more emphatically
expressed than that upon kissing, to the
effec. that under no circumstances should
man do anything which causes his spiritual
brother to offend. It being an oft-proved
fact that the pastoral kiss causes many men
to wish black eyes and bloody noses to the
bestower and to occasionally infict them,
we submit to conferences presbyteries and
synods the question whether the peace and
reputation of churches is not Of more con-
sequence than any social precedent what
ever?