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Year: 1873

God has so arranged matters in this
world that His work is not complete with
out man. The human co-operates with the
divine, aud when this world is to be spirit
ually improved human cooperation is de-
manded, as it is said in the Bible, We
are workers together with him."


Now, who are to do this work ? Minis
tiers will never convert the world not be-
cause they lack the desire, but because they
cannot do it alone and if this world is ever
to be converted to God, the aity must
wheel into line You may elect ministers
as your captains and colonels, but we must
have the solid masses of infantry aud caval.
ry to accomplish anything.


Now, among the laity, to whom are we
to look? Not to the old men, for they
have one foot in the grave, but to the
young men our hope is in them. We
wish to win young men and bring them
home to Christ, and how are we to do it ?
We must set young men to capture young
men.


have heard it said that there are min
i.ters who are jealous Of the work of the
Young Mems Christian Association; il
there are any such | am not one of them.
If any work is not done inside Of the Church
for the community, and it can be done out
side, | am only too glad to have it done
| have no fear that this institution will de.
plete our churches any more than the blood
which throbs in the arteries will deplete
the heart, but it will come back again re.
vivifed, REDEEMED and glowing with life
if you shut up your blood, the heart would
be choked and soon die The reflex of thi.
institution upon our churches will be like
the reflex OF the blood back into the heart


The aim Of this institution is certainly
beyond criticism. 1t is most praise
worthy object to turn young men from the
paths of evil, and to build up bulwark ol
loving hearts between them and their temp
tatous to promote mental, moral, snC
spiritual culture to create elevated de
sires and to stimulate the very best habits
The field before you, young men, is i'm
mense, and it is most inviting
Year: 1873

A friend Of mine told me u story little
while ago which interested me so much
that | want to tellit to all my little friends.
This gentlemen owned fine horse, which
was very fond of him, and would come
from the pasture at the sound of his voice,
and followed him round like dog. Well,
at one time the horse became lame and was
obliged to stay in his stable and not be
used for many weeks, and it was during
this time that Mr.. b. became interested to
see how much the horse knew and how kind
his sympathies we're. An old cat had made
her nest upon the scaffold, just above the
horses manger, and had laid there her lit
tie family Of five kittens, to bring them up
under bis good tuition, | suppose.


She and the horse got on nicely for some
days. She jumped down into bis manger
and went of for food, and then came back
and leaped up to her kittens again. But
one morning she rolled off into the manger
with her foot bleeding and badly hurt, SO
that she could scarcely crawl; but she man.
aged to lenp away on three feet and get her
breakfast, but when she came back she was
entirely unable to get up to her kittens
and what do you think she did? She sat
down at the horses feet and mewed and
looked up several times, till at last pony,
seeming to understand her wants, reached
down, took the cat in his teeth and tossed
her up on the scaffold to her kittens, who
doubt not, were glad to see her. This Mr.
b. told me be saw repeated morning after
morning. Kit would roll of into the man.
ger, go and get her breakfast, come back
and be tossed up to her family by the kind
horse, who must have understood cat Ian.
guage and been willing to listen to it,
Chrisfian Era.
Year: 1873

Catch me using profane word in the
presence Of ladies'" said laxative strip
ling. with shade of down on his upper lip.
There's time for all things"


No, sir, there isn't time for all things.
No law, human or divine, ever set apart a
time for swearing, A profane expression
10 a sin and an abomination, utter it when
and where you will. AS for ladies, yea,
III grant you it is well to be and act our
best in their presence. We cannot be too
true, too pure, too honorable, If We want to
stand upright before good woman or good
girl--yes, while I'm about it I'll add, nor
before little mite Of girl-baby. know
Of one other before whom we ought to be
just as particular, If not more so. When
he is not around, my boys, you can safely
do just about as you please. But when
you're in his presence-and, TO my think.
ing, we're all there or thereabouts pretty
much all the time--have care Dom
offend all the deepest love, the whitest pur
ity, the grandest honor Of all.--Heartl
and Home.
Year: 1873

" mover would he weary,


Nor ever shed a tear,


Nor ever know a sorrow,


Mr. ever feel fear,


There right before my Saviour


SO glorious and 80 bright,


I'd wake the sweetest music


And praise Him day aud night


Nearer and nearer came the childish
notes, floating up through the carly morn
ing air into my window, till the last two
lines were so clear and joyous that |
thought the Atle singer was already max
ing " sweetest music" SO | laid down
my book and listened, aud at last looked
out to see who it could be. Up and down
the street | turned my eyes, but no one
was in sight, except little wee girl Just
under my window. Surely she could not
be the singer, for that song must have come
from very happy heart, and she did not
look happy. | did not see her face, but
her clothes we'll, | know more than Que
little girl, who would be unhappy il she
had to wear such faded old dress. On
her arm was basket so heavy that it drew
her little shoulder almost out of place to
carry it.


But bark she it was, for the same clear
voice began again;


This world is full Of trouble


And Trial too, they say


but will follow Jesus


All the way
and by that time she was too far away
for me to catch the words, though heard
the music even after she was out Of sight.
That was early this morning. Since then
| have learned something about this little
girl Her mother is a washerwoman and
very poor, and Helen goes back and forth
With the clothes, glad. her mother says.
that she can do that much to help the work
along.


but why do you sing on the way ?" l
asked.


Why, the basket never seems so heavy
when I'm singing, and the walk isn't half
so long, but then | don't always sing out
loud it is most as good to sing to myself"
What do you mean by singing to your.
self?" asked.


Why, just thinking over the words, be.
cause mother says it sometimes troubles
folks to have little girl singing all the
time"


Perhaps her mother was right, though
am glad she sang out loud this morning, for
she not only made her basket lighter, but
| have been happierall day, thinking of the
sweet words she sang Happier because
| have thought that even hard work and
old clothes cannot make children unhappy
when they can sing in their hearts,


"But will follow Jesus,


All the way"


VIII not some little girl try IIeen's way ?
See if singing will not make your work
easier. You know you need not always
sing out loud Think Of the sweet words
of the little hymns you have learned, and
if your heart is full Of glad, happy music
your lives will be full Of sunshine. A
sunny life will make all your friends happy,
and so in doing good to others you too may
be following Jesus all the Child's
World.
Year: 1873

Tom Marshall was captain of COM
pany in Col. Humphrey Marshalls regi-
ment of cavalry in the Mexican war.
One evening, when very much under the
influence of liquor, he went to the quar-
termaster with whom he mas intimate,
and behaved in 50 outrageous a manner
that the latter was compelled to kick
him out. Next morning, of course, the
quartermaster was the recipient of a
cartel from Captain Marshall. The
challenged office declined to fight duel
for the several reasons that he held n
profitable position, from which he de-
rived a comfortable support for his fan-
lily, who depended upon his exertions
for living; that he was constitutionally
opposed to dueling anyhow; that he had
taken an oath when sworn to his COM
mission not to engage in a duel so long
as he was an officer in the United States
army, and he did not desire or intend
to forfeit that commission and suffer ig-
nominious dismissal from the service by
gratifying Captain Marshall's very evil
dent mania for the duello. ''But, "
wrote the quartermaster in conclusion,
"as Captain Marshall is dissatisfied
with one kicking, l will pledge myself
to give him kicking every time he
comes about my quarters and misbe-
hares himself as he did on the occasion
complained Of"


"Gentlemen," Tom would say, in that
peculiar serio-droll way of his, 81
would rather the rascal had shot me
dead than decline my challenge in that
manner"
Year: 1873

The Shreveport Na.) Times of late
date says:


The epidemic exhibits but little change,
and that the decrease in the number OF
new cases is greatly owing to want OF
material. The number of deaths is
fearful to contemplate Che mortality is
beyond precedent, and it looks as
though but comparatively few will get
well. Thus far very few have got
about, while some linger along between
life and death. In some few instances
whole families have been swept out of
existence in the short tpace of one
week. The sudden change in the
weather last Sunday night sent scores
to their beds, which accounts for the
large number of interments in the last
day or two. In the language of one of
the New Orleans physicians, they drop
ped off like sheep dying with the rot.
Medical treatment of the most skillful
kind does not appear to do any good in
great many cases, whereas, in many
others, the temporary relief afforded is
quickly followed by death. Our stores
are all closed, and all our dwelling
houses turned into hospitals in fact,
Shreveport is one great hospital one
great charnel-housei


The Times publishes death record.
That journal says the number Of inter
ments since the 1st of September sums
up 342 !; the number of sick is estima-
ted, variously, at from 500 to 800.
Year: 1873

There was boy in Nelson street,
Danbury, yard cutting wood, yesterday,
and he worked at it in strikingly nat
ural manner. First he set the stick on
one end and prepared to strike it when
it tumbled down. Then he stood it up,
and put n silver under the weak side to
sustain il, and lifted the axe for the
blow, when it tumbled again. As he
had got the axe up quite ways this
time, and was fairly quivering with ex-
dectation, the reaction was not pleas
ant. II appeared TO weaken him, and
before another trial, he leaned on the
axe and looked around ON the scenery.


At the third trial he put several slivers


under the stick, and was some five min.


utes doing it. Then he raised the AK,


carefully, deliberately took aim, ant
| brought the blade down with terrible
force, and within about an inch-and-a


half of the stick, which Immediately
tipped over. This surprised him. He
looked at the axe, then at the stick,
and then around at the houses to see
if anybody was looking. He was ten
minutes propping the stick up the
fourth time. When he got it so it
Wpuli stdilu Wltuoui btlHS Htlu, ne
teok up the axe, and after several mock
motions so to get the right aim, he
swung the implement down again.
The blade struck the stick with terri
BILE force within about sixteenth-of-
an-inch from the edge, and took off
slip about five inches long. We don't
suppose there is anything quite so ag-
gravating as this. Splitting your shin
open to the bone is pastime in com
parison. The Nelson street boy stood
that stick up again without any cere-
mony, and with the least display in the
world swung the axe over his head and
brought it spitefully down. The blade
this time clipped off n half-inch chip,
and then swung around with such mo-
mentum as to throw the boy off his feet
and drive him headlong over pile of
other sticks, every one of which he
struck with his knees or face. We
don't think we ever saw any boy get on
his feet as quick as that boy did. And
we were not in the least surprised to
see him snatch up that axe, and with
screams and sobs, beat that stick until
he was exhausted. With this unpleas-
ant duty performed, he flung the axe
in among the tomato vines, and went in
the house for piece of cake.
Year: 1873

There is n young girl employed in the
factory at Ottawa, Canada, where the
Bank Note Company turns ont Canadian
greenbacks by the cord, whose life from
her very cradle has been n romance well
worth telling During the "cholera
year about 1855, unless my memory
is ut fault-there came TO Ottawa, then
Bytown, young American couple,
travelling, it would seem for pleasure,
or seeking home in Canada. Hardly
had they arrived here than both were
smitten by the fatal disease and died
with that terrible rapidity which marks
the most aggravated cases. They died
at IA hotel, leaving behind th..a Il baby
daughter but few weeks old, and
nothing whatever TO indicate their iden.
tity beyond the fact that they came
from New York. The proprietor of the
hotel wts about to send the child to the
Foundlin, Hospital when childless
woman of middle age, whom he had
employed to wash the infected clothing
of the sick, offered to take charge of it
and, if it lived, ado0t it as her own
The mild lived and thrived and grew
III handsome and ever girl, unaware


nat any one but the woman she called
mother had given her birth.


1t wa not until some four or five years
since, hat n gentleman from New York
inter ted in the publication of weekly
Journal, happened to be passing through
Ottawa and heard the girls queer his
tory. A little investigation sufficed to
show that she was his niece, the son of
h,nt hn l. al 1,nl
years before, anu the manner of whose
death the survivor had been unable to
trace. The result of his conference
with the girl and her foster parents was
her departure with him for New York,
where she remained until last summer,
enjoying every advantage of education
and position which wealth and atfec-
ton could confer upon her. Then she
came to Ottawa to pay her foster mother
visit. She found things with the old
woman changed for the worse. Her
husband, who had been IN his lifetime
a sort of crier or tip-staff in one of the
courts, was dead, and she had been
compelled i'll her old age to take to the
tub and mangle again to earn liveli-
hood. What put it into the girls head
devotion, fancy, or what not-l can
not say, hut certain it is that she vowed
not to leave her old mother while
she lived, but to stay with her and work
for her. Her uncle came from New
York SO soon as she had apprised him of
her intention and endeavored to induce
her to alter her determination, but she
was infexible. She gave up her easy
home in New York with all the accessor-
les of society, dress, and prospects,
doffed her silks and put On humber
but quite as becoming prints, obtained
employment in the Bank Note Printing
Company's office, and is there still,
living with her old foster-mother, to
all appearances as happy as when in
New York she was a budding belle and
probable heiress. Who, after this true
recital, shall say that there are no ro-
mances nowadays?
Year: 1873

The spirit of malicious mischief
which has given no respite to the
tortured spirit of George Russ, Of
Jonesville, found an aperture for whole
sale exit in the numerously attended
party at the Harris Works, says local
paper. After long and patient watch


ing, his eXpectant vision took III the
grand opportunity to relieve himself at
one fell swoop of the overburdened
desire to inhict his mischievous in
genuity upon his fellow creatures and
achieve that sudden distinction which
comes to those who enter with the true
spirit of energy upon the consummation
Of well-laid plans. George purchased
quarter of pound of cayenne pepper
and placed it safely in his outside
pocket. That night he attended the
party. He had no invitation, but
George stands not upon the conven-
tionalities of that society which refuses
him recognition. He had business
there and he Went. Cautiously he
entered the crowded room, threading
his way here and there, meandering to
the right, to the left, forwards, back
wards, and rs he progressed in his
travels the quarter of n pound of
cayenne pepper which he had bought
i'll the afternoon, spread itself IN ser
pentine shapes upon the floor of the
room. Then George withdrew to
retired corner and enjoyed the sneezing
and excited remarks of his two thou
sand victims. He went home happy
that night, and doubtless would have
been so still had not Marshal Crotzen-
berg pulled him from under the side
walk on North Main street the next
morning and taken him to Jail. He
was brought into the presence of
Justice Smith to answer to criminal
charge, and the upshot of the affair is
that he was sentenced to forty days in
Jail and fine of Sl4.9O,
Year: 1873

THERE is SORROW on THE SEA-We have
never heard a word from the President that
sailed from New York for Liverpool, March
II, 1871. She went down and made nc
sign. The sea has not yet given up its dead
what secrets "the dark unfathomed caves
of the ocean bear?" The Rev. DR.. Cook
man, of Phladel phia, was one of her passen-
gers, an eloquent divine of the Methodist
Church. For months and years afterwards
Lis vacant chair stood waiting for him at the
table and the freside, for to the heart that
loved him most, hope whispered that he yet
would come. 1t is so hard to believe that
one we love is lost. On the other side Of
the sea an English nobleman was waiting
the return, by steamer, of his only son.
His lordly domain extends to the cliff from
which he could look out afar upon the sea,
and the track of the ships that come from
the west into port. Daily he came to that
spot, and, too anxious to sit, he walked up
and down the cliff; the grass was worn
away by his constant tread, but his son
came not; months wore away, and hundreds
OF ships with other mems sons came home,
but none. with flags and guns, told him,
from the offing, that his boy was aboard.
And by and by the old man became himself
child and in his melancholy, waited, and
is waiting still. 1t is so hard to believe
that one we love is lost There is sorrow
in the sea.
Year: 1873

When the public finds that it takes foul
bushels of wheat to pay for the transporta-
ton of fifth bushel from the producer in
Iowa to the consumer in New York, and
nearly the same proportion for every ton Of
coal brought from the coal-felds of Pennsyl-
vania, naturally enough the question
whether this is necessary acquires a great
importance. From the railroads themselves
it is difficult to get definite answer to this
question. The railroad trade has its secrets,
like any other, which those who make their
living therefrom are loath to Disclose
Fortunately, however, we have the authen-
tic calculations which will show what is real
y the cost of railway transportation


In 1868 report was made by the Board
of Trade, in London, England, from the re-
turns made to Parliament by all the rail-
roads in the United Kingdom of their ex-
penses for that year. This average was Is.
ID (say 62 cents) per mile for each train,
including goods, coal and other mineral
trains, conveying two or three hundred tons,
as well as passengers"


The items from which this average was
made are thus given in the report:
Year: 1873

A retired sea captain, who had made the
tour of continental Europe and the Holy
Land, was asked how he was impressed by
his visit to Jerusalem. Jerusalem" said
he, sis the meanest place l ever visited
There is not drop of liquor in the whole
town fit to drink"
Year: 1873

SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SocIETl.-The EN-
executive Committee Of Tins Society at Il
meeting held on saturday made arrange.
n.rnts 10 actively push their important work.
They have been very fortunate III securing
General Wade Hampton to enter at once
upon an active canvass for extending the
membership Of the Society and collecting
material for its archives. They are arraDS-
ing with some OF the ablest men who figured
in the council chamber, the Cabinet, and the
armies OF the Confederacy TO prepare TOR the
Southern -Ads4ztne, the organ Of the Society,
papers bearing OH the civil and military his
tory OF the great struggle, thus bringing to
light many things which have been unknown
or are forgotten, and making most important
contributions 10 the truth Of history. They
have also arranged TO have in Richmond du-
ring the coming winter series OF popular
(trccl lectures BY some Of the most distin-
gtiished men in-the South on topics bearing
upon Confederate history. And they are
making earnest appeals to all interested to
help on tue good work by contributing such
material as they may have or can secure.
Year: 1873

..Lour1syr1LE AMONG THE CITIES OF THE west.


THE progress of louisville In the last few years has
been remarkable. There Is no more striking indi-
cation of this than in the growth Of her magnificent
Year: 1873

A few manufacturers, especially those connected
with the TailrOad interests, have been compelled
TO discharge part Of their hands. We do not
expect that this necessity will be Imposed on all
manufactures, though 1t must be confessed that
many of them viii have a hard time 10 pull
through. The recent panic caught them with
large contracts on their hands, fun compliments
of Workmen, high rates OF wages to pay, and the
eight-hour rule In operation in their establish-
ments. They were working on very close margins
for profit and the least depression In trade made
its injurious effects felt Immediately. They have
had no option but to reduce their expenses at
once; and this they have done by the peremptOEy
discharge of large proportion OF the WOEkmen


1t Is q cause OF regret that many men should


be deprived of situations on the verge Of cold


weather but 1t is not 10 be denisd that the actor


OF the men themselves has done more than any


thing else to make such step indispensable
4 By their combinations and dictalions they hv'
II raised the cost OF production onoFmOusly, put thu


prices of everything ArtiAcially high an left th
lprOpristoEs but little nom for profit; and tn
l moment the least financial disturbance occur
many Of these employers arc obliged to fail, O
turn most Of their hands adrift.-JowHaI o
IComneTce.
Year: 1873

SUsPENsION or A Gar MANUFACTURING
FRM.-NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-The Cummings
Car Company of Jersey City has been obliged
to suspend although is assets will more than
cover its liabilities. The trouble Is that there
Is = large amount OF debta due from railroad
companies which cannot be collected.
Year: 1873

One Of the best lessons which has been drawn
from the Congressional connection with Credit
.dobi1iet frauds is, that the General Government
should mover dabble in speculations. The de-
vclopments in the case Of the Government con-
nection with the Union Pacihc Road is at the
same time an argument against the Government
assumption Of the telegraph lines Of the coun-
try. Had the Union Pacific Railroad been the
work Of private enterprise, the frauds which
have been committed under the name of Credit
Mobi1ier would have been almost impossible. II
they had been committed, there would have been
nc. occasion for drawing Congressman into tho
Transaction. The truth Is, TINT Government
interference with railroads, or telographs, or
canals, OF farming, or any other actual business
pursuit, opens the WY for official corruption,


which is hard enough to control in republican
form Of government without Attending it special
facilities. We have industrial enterprises which:
hare been accomplished by individual effort that
are more magnificent than anything which Gov
eminent has ever done. The interference Of
Government Is, consequently, not necessary to
satisfy the business wanta OF any community !;
and Government cannot itself 60 into business
On its own account without rendering Credit
Mobiliers and their counterparts permanent
Institutions.