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Year: 1878

And it is not enough to so 10 church.


When there, it is the duty to give dill
gent attention to all parts Of the services


and to feel in them the iiveliest interest.


Though pastor he the messenger of
the Lord of Hosts, he is yet a man, and
may be very sensitive man, too and
the popular treatment of him when he is
in the pulpit may change the entire
complexion ofhis discourse. Every look
from the pew affects his whole soul. He
is not lifted above human sympathy be-
cause he IS in the pulpit. He feels =
neglect there Just as much as he would
in The houses where he calls. II the
congregation stares at strangers who are
entering, screw around to lesk when the
doors open, turn the leaves Of hyma-
book, whisper and giggie, or lean their
heads forward IS If III sleep treat-
naent is as rude As though they shoall read
or sleep when he is talking with tl.sH in
Year: 1878

HOME CoNvERsAIIoN.-Children hanger per-
petualiy for new ideas. They viii learn with
pleasure from the lips OF parents what they
deem it drudgery TO study in books and even
II they have misfortune to be deprived of many
educational advantages, they will grow up in
teliigent If they enjoy in childhood The priv
iiege OF listening daily to the conversation of
intelligent people, We sometimes zee parents
who are the life Of every company which thew
enter dull. silent, aud uninteresting at home
among their children. II they have not mental
activity and mental stores sufficient for both.
let them first use what they bave for their own
households. silent home is dull place for
young people. place from which they will
escape II they can. How much useful infor-
nation, on the other hand, Is often given in
pleasant family conversation, and what uncon-
scious, but excellent, mental training in livelv
social argument Cultivate 90 the Utmost the
graces Of conversation.
Year: 1878

Persons afflicted with any form Of chronic
disease or weakness should read the advertise
ment of DR.. Bruce in another column OF this
paper, which will inform them what he treats
and cures and OF the equitable plan on which
be does business. 1179ly
Year: 1878

Which they offer for sale at low figures.


Persons wishing anything of the kind can
procure one OF them-provlded they pay for IT.
or can show that their bank account foots well
on the credit side. 1186
Year: 1878

property and was his own lord and master.

 Prior to this, however. the farm was man aged by the old gentleman and factotun

 Boston, rolored man, who we'll knew

 how to study and humor the eccantrleI-

 ties and poeuliarltles of both father and son; and no man had greater influence than he. Moving machines, rcapers. and

 Indeed all agricultural machines for labor saving wore then unknown, so that when the season arrived for cutting hay, thure were bustllng times on the farm, for all Of the available help In the uelghborhood was brought Into requisition. It was on such occasions that the hill exhibited uew

 lifo, and not unfrequcntly high words and

 angry disputes could be heard across the

 valley, in which Andrews sonor0uls voice could be distinguished but ere long,

 through the kindly counsels iof the ever prudent Boston,) peace would be restored. The death of Uncle Bird at length brought things to Il close on the farm, for Andrew soon resolved to quit ii, and seek pas lures new, by removing over to the street where he purchased of Lawyer Shelton comedy dwelling, but being found to be Il little too old fashioned, new one with all the modern Improvements, was soon after erected on the adjoining lot, (which is now occupied by Mrs. Beldcn,) and in that Andrdcw passed the latter part of his life. The old home on the hill is so associated with the lamcnted Andrew that l never look at fl without thinking of him. His romantic trip to and adventures in Cali fornia, (whcn the gold fever was raging there, his lavish expenditure in his outfit, which includei a telescope to "see into the mines with, as he expressed it, his early marriage, schemes, and so forth, are probably already too we'll known to many of your readers to require further men ton here, but'if he was little obtuse in his modes of thought and action, he may be said to have been an honest well mean- ing man, liberal to the chnrch as well as to all charitable objects as far as his means would permit.

 Those who remember the events refer ed to in this imperfect sketch will also re- member the old Glover dinner horn which every day at high noon was vigorously blown at the kitchen door of the old house, and that the sound from it pene- trated every nook and crook and corner {. in the valley, c. !
Year: 1878

VINO would be q candidate for the
Governorship and iardels bear what.
ever fardels are) when base ball
catcher il the hero OF the men and darl'
ing Of the ladies. with $1,000 n year,
Year: 1878

SPEER's PORT GRAPE WINE FOR PARTIES
Physicians employ SpEEE's PORT GRAPE WINE in
their practice in all cases where pure wine IS called
for ard do all in their power to foster ana encourage
Its production II Is coming into great favor among
the NEST wealthy in New York city rs IN evening
wine. For sale by CHRISTIAN C WHITE.
Year: 1878

Mr Turner familiar with the political condition Of
the Southern States He was asked TO give his views as


TO the probable results Of the election In the South
on the House of Representatives lie answered that be
considered tho prospects good for the Republicans The
negroes as they became better informed saw more
clearly why their hope lay In the Republican, party
very material change taxing place In one respect
In purs OF the South thiekly settled by negroeA The
Republicans had been nominating I1enfor once VINO
were ignorant and unit for ln eVety way Simply De
~ the Whes were beginning tO understand that ~ was
that they should not be thrust INTO once unt lAey
tween tho races dying out IN many parts Of south
CarolIua and Louisiana, and they were beginning 70
think alike THIS would result IN advantage 70 the Re
pubhcans. and those States IN particular gains mgnt
be expected Mr. Turner believed n 70 be OF the highest
that the next House should be Republican,
otherwise the Southern negro might expect TO fare
Year: 1878

An exchange says: We suppose many
people think that he newspaper men
are persistent duns; 1T farmer place
himself in q similar business position
and see if he would not do the same.
Suppose he raised one thousand bushels
of wheat, and his neighbor should come
and buy bushel, and the price was q
small matter of only two dollars or less.
and the neighbor says, " I will hand You
the amonnt in few days" As the
farmer did not want to be small about
the matter, he says all right, and the man
leaves with the wheat. Another comes
in the same way until the whole one
thousand bushels of wheat are trusted
out to one thousand different persons,
and not one. of the purchasers concerns
himself about it, for it is a small amount
that he owes the farmer, and of course
that would not help him any. He does
not realize that the farmer has fritted
away all his large crop of wheat, and
that its value is due him in thousand
little driblets, and that he is seriously
embarrassed in his business because his
debtors treat it as small matter. But if
all would pay him promptly, which they
could do as we'll as not, it would be a
very large amount to the farmer, and
enable him to carry on his business
without difficulty. The above comparit
son is too true OF the difficulties tina.
the newspaper man has to contend with
Year: 1878

Get that you may give; and fail not to
give when you have got.


The strongest kind OF men are those
who have got the most weakness and
know it.


Have the courage to show your re-
spect for honesty, in whatever guise it
appears; and your contempt for dis.
honesty and duplicity, by whomsoever
exhibited.


Do not be afraid of diminishing you
own happiness by promoting that or
others. He who labors wholly for the
benefit of others, and, as it were, for
gets himself, is far happier than the man
who makes himself the sole object of all
his affections and e1ertions.


Whatever you wish your child to be,
be it yourself. If you wish it to be
happy, sober, truthful, afectionate,
honest, and godly, be yourself all these.
If you wish it to be lazy and sulky, a
liar and thief, drunkard and a swear
er, be yourself all these.


Men often speak contemptuously of
over exactness-or attending to minute
and subtle distinctions; while these
distinctions are exactly those which
call for careful attention in all who would
escape or detect error.
Year: 1878

"Mr. Peterson,n said a Post reporter
to the very handsome and very gentle
manly night clerk at the National Hotel,
"I see paragraph going the rounds
of the press that the man in whose
house President Lincoln died asks the
Government to take it off his hands at
several times it's value. LIS there any
truth in the statement" ....'...


GAS the man who owned the house in
which President Lincoln died, himself
died eight years ago, and thus resigned
all right, title and interest in and to the
property in question, I think I am JUS
titled in saying there is no truth in the
statement" .'. '.''


"You are a son'of MIR. Peterson, the
late owner of the house referred toP",


IT am. The house cost my father
when it was built $13, 900, and we adver-
rised it at public sale about month
ago, bidding it in ourselves at St, 900.
We were willing to take half it's cost
price, but did not feel inclined to actu-
ally give it away. We are very willing
to sell it to the Government or to any
body else, but have not asked and do
not intend to ask it to purchase from US,
except in the same general manner We
invite buyers through the medium of an
advertisement. So far from my father
wishing to obtain a good price from the
authorities for the house, he made o
dying request to his children, that
should they see fit to sell the property,
they would carefully abstain from men,
tioning the fact that it was the house in
which Mr.. Lincoln died. He was an
noyed at the publicity which that event
gave his residence, and studiously sought
to avoid doing anything in that connec-
ton which might result in pecuniary
benefit to himself. I was small boy at
the time OF Mr.. Lincoln's death, and
was offered $40 for very little piece of
q towel which was stained wita some Of
his blood, and we'll remember fathers
indignation at the mere idea. There
has been good deal published in refer
ence to this matter, and it is very un-
kind and unjust, to say the least, to pull
a dead man out of his shroud t,' smirch
him with the filth of falsehood, the only
effect of which is to wound and annoy
his children. Warrington Post.
Year: 1878

Evening is the liveliest time in the
Greenland hut. Then the bright lamps
are burning, the kettles and pots (made
of soapstone) all steaming and boiling
over each lamp, the women busily chat
ting at their work, and half-naked chill
dren running about OF the warm rein
deer skins on the ledge behind them.
This is the scene going on before us.
The seal hunter has just arrived home
from after his days toll on the sea, and
while he is hanging mp his lines, his
waterproof gloves, and other parapher-
MALTA, a piece of skin is drawn forth
from beneath the ledge and spread be-
fore him. Its contents-the small dried
fish called "angmagsat," or capeling-
he eats in silence, weary as he is. This
is only q preliminary meal, an appetiz-
ing pastime, while the more substantial
things over the lamp are getting ready
and it does not take long to boil seal
flesh. After the fish he takes draught
from the water pail behind the door.
The skin curtain of the ledge, hiding
the mysteries of the lower regions, is
once more drawn aside, and the skin,
with the remnants, disappears behind
it, to join host OF the more heterogen-
eous articles. A good deal of talking in
the relating line, or in the chatting,
prattling, merrymaking style is gener-
ally going on. What I remember most
distinctly from my many visits and stays
in the Greenland huts are the stories
and descriptions of the men relative to
their sea adventures, accompanied by
the most animated gestures, showing
how the seal had first appeared, and
then again dived down on his approach
ing it; how he 1.-THE hunter] in his turn
had fingered behind until the animal,
made incautious by the ensuing silence,
again rose to the surface; and now the
hunter, leaning back with graceful
movement, shows how he resolutely
swept across long surge, and came
within reach of his mark, took aim, an d
threw his harpoon and bladder float;
how the wounded animal dived and
again came to the surface and so forth.
In fact, he paints the scene with the
most lively colors, as we all listened IN
wrapt attention. My brother, who had
lively comprehension and great tai
ent for mimicry, had in after years in
Denmark often to act the part of the
seal-hunter, and it strikes me that I had
myself part in play representing an
unsuccessful whale hunt. Certainly we
had many an hour of amusement in the
Greenland cottages. No doubt we were
very unpretending, and easy to please in
the extreme; but why criticise the
means when the result is happiness :?
And happy we undoubtedly were, alike
in the dark, frosty days, with the moon
shining down upon us at noontide, and
in the calm, delightful summertime,


with its bright sunGt nights. The


Field.
Year: 1878

o. blow for the Hero o trumpet,


Let him. lift up his head in the morn
Il slry..of glories is battle,
'-'- 1t is we'll for..the world hs was born.
Let him joy.in the SOUND Of the trumpet,
And sun in the worlds proud smile; ..
But what had become Of the Hero,


Except.f for the frank and file?"
o, grand is the Earth'iu.. her progress,


In her genius and art and affairs;
The glory Of glories is progress,


Let the great find Joy in their cares.
Let the kings and the artists and statesmen
" Look round them and proudly smile;
But what would become of the nation,
Except for the rank and file ?"
And when the brief days of this planet


Are all ended and numbered and told,
And the Lord shall appear in His glory,


And shall summon the young and the old,
For the Hero shall sound forth no trumpet,


For the great no welcoming smile;
Before the good Lord in His glory
3 We are all the I" rank and the file"
Year: 1878

In the summer of 1S42, when Bis
marck was twenty-eight years of age,
and was o cavalry officer, he was stand
ing one afternoon with some of his COM
panions on a bridge, when his groom
led his horse into the water to drink.
Suddenly the horse lost footing, fell,
and the groom disappeared. Bismarck
Immediately threw away his sword, tore
off his uniform, and sprang into the
river to save his servant. He caught
him, but the frightened man clung to
him with such grip that he had to 60
to the bottom before he could get loose.
Eventually he saved the groom. For
this gallant deed Bismarck received the
well-known Prussian Rettungsnaedaiue
(rescue medaD that one still sees between
SO many stars and orders on his breast.
He is very proud of this mark of honor,
and once, when q distinguished man
asked, with some sal casm, the meaning
of the simple decoration, which, at the
time, was the only one he had, he
answered quickly, "I am in the habit
of saving peoples lives sometimes y
Year: 1878

We would rather be poor and merry
than inherit the wealth of the Indies
with adisCOntentedspirit. A merry heart
aCheerful spirit from which laughter wells
up naturally as bubbles in the springs of
Saratoga, are worth all the money bags
stock and mortgages in the city. The
man who laughs is a doctor with diplO-
ma, endorsed by the school of nature
his face does more good in a sick room
than pound of powders or a gallon of
bitter draughts. If things go right, he
laughs because he is pleased; if they 60
wrong he laughs because it is cheaper
and better than crying. People are
always glad to see him, their hands in
stinctively go half way out to meet his
grasp, while they urn Involuntary from
the Clammy touch of the dyspeptic who
speaks on the groaning key. He laughs
you out of your faults, while you never
dream Of being offended with him. It
seems as # sunshine came into the room
with him, and you never know what a
pleasant world you are living in until he
points out the sunny strealls on its path
way. Who can help loving the whole
sOuled, genial laugher2 Not the bUffOOn,
nor the man who classes noise with
mirth-but the CHEEKY, contented man of
sense and mindl A gOOd-humOred laugh
is the key to all breasts. The truth is,
that people like to be laughed at in a
genial sort of a way. If you are making
yourself ridiculous, you want to be told
of it in pleasant manner, not sneeTed
at. And it is astonishing how frankly
the laughing population can talk without
treading on the sensitive toes of their
neighbOrs. Why Will people put on long
faces, when it is so much easier and more
comfortable to laugh? Tears come to us
unsought and unbidden. The wisest art
in life is to cultivate smiles; and to find
the smiles where others shrink away for
fear of thOTns.
Year: 1878

The OLD WORLD AND THE NEW.-AleX-
andria is so little of an Eastern city that
it Is difficult sometimes to believe that it
is one of the capitals Of a Mahomedan
country and one of the chief cities of the
Ottoman Empire. As one walks round
the great square and notices the bread
pavements, the frequent gas-lamps, the
lofty houses, the spacious shops, the
crowd of carriages, the Frank costumes,


one feels quite Western. But yCU turn q


corner and straightWay stumble against


a camel with his nOiseless tread, and a


man in blue gown offers to sell you


sherbet in the name of Allah; and you


see a narrow little opening in the wall


and men gOIngin and out with their shoes


IN their hand, and you pass in and see


a broad space covered with mating,


where people are PROSTATE in pray er, and


up above is a little minaret, where an cid


man in white cotton quavers out the in
vitat'On, and tells YOU there is no God
I but Allah, and that prayer is better than


sleep. AS you 60 on you see money


changers in the street, letter-Writers


doing the correspondence of a dozen,
cross legged dsChOOlmasterst teaching their
children to reCite the FatWah, the chap
ter Of the Koran that all must know as
we know the Lords Prayer; you turn
into police court and listen to a long
rObed Cadi administering justice to half
a dozen screaming men and women; and
then suddenly you come upon big ware
houses full of goods, stores piled with


cotton, steam presses turning out hun
dreds Of bales per day, a great market
where English, italian, and Greek are
almost the only languages you hear, and
a port crowded with shipping Of every
nation.
Year: 1878

We want a religion that softens the
step, and tunes the voice to melody, and
fills the eye with sunshine, and checks
the impatient exclamation and harsh re-
buke "a religion that is polite, deferential
to sUperiOTs, courteous to interiors, and
considerate to friends, q religion that
goes into the family, and keeps the hus-
band from being cross when dinner is
late, and keeps his wife from fretting
when the husband tracks the newly
washed floor with his muddy boots, and
makes the husband mindful of the scrap
er and the door mat; keeps the mother
patient when the baby is cross, and
amuses the children as well as instructs
them; cares for the servants besides pay
ing them promptly, projects the honey
moon into the harvest-mOOn, and makes
the happy home like the eastern fig-tree,
bearing in its bosom at once the beauty
of the tender blossom and the glory of
the Tipened fruit. We want a religion
that shall interpose between the ruts and
gulies and rocks of the highway of life
and the sensitive souls that are travelling
over them,
Year: 1878

MAKE FEw.-A pretentious student
in Brown university once told DR.. Way
land that he thought it would be easy to
make proverbs like those of Solomon.
The only reply of DR.. Wayland was
Make a few!" If skeptics who have
spent so much time in railing at the Bible
would try their hands at makinga better
book, a book that would take hold upon
the heart of humanity; which would
interest children and comfort old age;
which would inspire manhood and
wOmanhOOd with the highest, truest, no
blest thoughts; which would chasten
them in Joy, and comfort them in sorrow;
if inidels would produce the first page
Of such a book as this, we would gladly
listen to what they have to say. But
this eternal fault-fnding, this everlasting
negatiOn; this seeking to rob people of
a healthfUl and comfortable faith and
leave them nothing in its place; this
paTading of q few wOrn-OUt sneers and
objections, never will accomplish much
with a world that is hungering for the
bread of life, and that longs to drink of
the waters of salvation.
Year: 1878

SpurgeOn sententOusly expresses q
number of thoughts worth remember
ing" in the following appropriate sen
fences, which he publishes as advice
gratis"


Nobody ismore likean honest man than
a thorough rogue.
When you see a man with a great deal
OfreligiOn displayed in his shop window,
you may depend upon it that he keeps
a very small stock within.


Do not choose your friend by his looks
handsome shoes often pinch the feet.


Do not be fond of compliments; re-
member Thank you, pussy, and thank
you, pussy" killed the cat.


Don't believe the man who talks the
most; for mewing cats are seldom good
mOusers.


By no means put yourself IN another
persons power. If you put your thumb
between two grinders they are very apt
to bite.


Drink nothing without seeing it, sign
nothing without, and make sure that it
means no more than it says.


Don't 60 to law unless you have nothing
to lose, lawyers houses are built on fools
heads.


Put no dependence on the label Of q
bag, and count money after your own
kind.


If in any business never wade into
water when you cannot see the bottom.


See the sack open before you buy what
is in it.; for he who trades in the dark
asks to be cheated.


Keep clear of a man who does not
value his own character.
Year: 1878

The great struggle with civilized men
in this world is for wealth. This is call.
ed the prime good, the one thing need.
full, the great desideratum of lie. So
men toll for it-deceive, cheat, defraud
for it. Give time, strength, and too often
good health for it. The truth is the es-
innate put upon wealth is too high. It's
value, itsgOOd isoverrated. It is not the
great good, not the pearl of great price,
1t is not the best thing man can have
1t does not confer peace of mind, nor
purity of heart, heartfelt happiness nor
contentment, nor home joy, nor social
blessedness, nor any kind of solid and
enduring enjoyments. Wealthy homes
are often no happier than those of the
poor and comfortable livers. Poverty is
always an evil; but a fair supply of the
necessaries and comforts of life is quite
as apt to confer real peace as great
wealth.
Year: 1878

SUGGESTION TO MIyERs-The abrupt
change from bright sunshine to the in
tense darkness of a mine often causes
temporary blindness, where the journey
from the top to the bottom of the mine
is made quickly. To allow the miners
to recover their sight. it is the custom,
in some mines, to have a well lighted,
whiteWashed room at the foot of the
shaft, where the miners can sit while
recovering the use of their eyes. To OBJ
yiate this delay, it IS suggested that, if
one eye be closed 4 moment or two before
entering the pit, and kept closed till the
bottom Of the shaft is reached, on OPEN
ing the eye the miner will be able to see
distinctly the moment the lower lark
ness is reached. This custom IS already
carried out by miners in Mexico, who
come to the daylight, and then return at
once, keeping one eye closed during their
brief excursion to the sunlight.
Year: 1878

In an address, delivered before the
Edinburg University Theological Society,
Prof Flint gave a discouraging account
Of the condition of theological literature
in Scotland. He said: "NOwell-infOrmed
man will venture to deny that theological
learning is in an extremely unworthy
and unsatisfactory condition. For genera
tiOns not a single work of European rep
utation has been produced by the clergy
Of Scotland. Theological science is in q
withered and stunted condition among
US. The system is wrong, and theological
science refuses to grow on Scottish soil"