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Year: 1876

By the merest chance in the twilight gloom,
In the orchard path he met me
In the tall, wet grass with its faint perfume
And tried to pass, but he made no room;
Oh, / tried, but he would not let me;
So stood and blushed till the grass grew red,
With my face bent down above it,
While he took my hand, as he whisp' bring said
aIow the clover lifted each pink, sweet head,
To listen to all that my lover said
OH the clover in blOOm-I love it,
In the high wet grass went the path to hide,
And the low, wet leaves hung ever;
But could not pass upon either side,
For found myself when vainly tried,
In the arms of my steadfast lover,
And he held me there, and he raised my head,
While he closed the path before me;
And he looked down into my eyes and said


How the leaves bent down from the bOughs Ger head
To listen to all that my lover said;
Oh, the leaves hanging lowly DER med
He moved aside little way
could surely then have passed him,
And would not have heard what he had to say
Could only aside have cast him.
II was almost dark and the moment sped,
And the searching night-wind found Us;
But he drew me nearer and softly said
How the pure sweet wind grew still instead,
To listen to all that my lover said;
oh. the whispering wind around usD
lam sure he knew when he held me fast
That must be all unwilling;


For 1 tried to go, and would have passed,
As the night was coming with its dew at last
And the sky with stars was filling.


But he clasped me close when would have ned
And he made me hear his story.


And his soul came out from his lips and said
How the stars crept out where the white moon led
To listen to all that my lover said;


Oh the moon and stars in gloryD


know that the grass and the leaves will not tell,
And am sure that the wind-preeiOus rover
Will carry his secret so safely and well


That no being shall ever discover


one word of the many that rapidly fell


From the eager lips of my lover


Shall never reveal what fairy-like spell


They wove round about us the night in the dell,
In the path through the dewladen clover;


Nor echo the whispers that made my heart swell


As they fell from the lips of my lover.
Year: 1876

1t is as unnecessary for a child to die o.
scarlet fever, says Good Health, as it is
that it should be blind with cataract.
Let us see: At any time before the body |
has finished it's Intellectual struggle we are
able to help it, not by wonderful medicines,
but by the knowledge of anatomy and the
application of common sense. We consult |
the mpathetic~nerve, and do what it
commands us to do. We must give this
child salt when it wants it; we must give it
acid when it has fever-not vinegar, but
lemon juice, because the first coagulates
albumen, and the latter does not, on
account of the surplus of oxygen which it
contains. TO initiate the soothing mucous
in theintestines, which is now wanting, and


to give some respiratory food at the same
time we add some gum arabic. To restore


and relieve the injured we apply more


warmth. In practice we can fulfill all this


with the following simple manipulations


Undress the. child and bring it to bed at


the very first sign of sickness. Give it, if


it has already fever, nothing but warm


sourish lemonade, with some gum arabic


in it. Then cover its abdomen with some


dry flannel. Take well folded bed sheet


and put in boiling hot water; wiring out


dry by means of dry towels, and put this


over the flannel on the childs abdomen.


Then cover the whole and wait The hot


cloths will, perhaps, require repeated
: heat.


According to the severity Of the case
l and its stage of progress, perspiratiOn vii
t utes to two hours. The child then il
n saved; it soon falls to sleep. Soon afte
L the child awaEes it shows slight symptom
l of returning inclination for food help it
It bowels, if necessary, with injections Q
| oil, soap and water, and its recovery vii
d be as steady as the growth of greenhous
1t plant, if well treated. OF course, if tn
e child was already dying, nothing coul
Il save it, or if it has effusions in the linin
,e of the heart or brain, it is much bette
ie that it should die. But if the above is al
is piled in due time, under the eyes and d
Ie rection of competent physician, 1 wi


guarantee that not one in hundred CHI
L. dren will ever die of scarlet fever. l kno
d. this will startle some of my readers, esp
Ie fcially those who have children alread!
he but I shall go still further. mainta
is that a child will never get scarlet fever
e. properly treated. If a child has correct
st mixed blood, it will not catch the disord
le if put in bed with sick child. This
d, still more startling, but nothing is easier


proof.
Year: 1876

VALUE OF MAN.-Every man is precisely
what he is-no better and no worse. He
is worth precisely what he will bring. The
only just measure of his ability is his per-
formance. If he drinks whisky, his in
temperance is part of him. If he is idle,
his Incidence is as much his as his head or
his hand is. He is entitled to credit only
for the net result, whatever it may happen
to be. Possibly he might be great man if
he were not drunkard; but he is a
drunkard and hence it is quiet as absurd to
talk about his possibilities of this sort as it
would be to say of an idiot that he might be
distinguished writer if he only had the
necessary intellect. 1t is poor sort of a
reputation that hangs on an "if," no man
is entitled to it, and to very many of its
possessors it is an unfxed evil.
Year: 1876

81 hear you children talk great deal
about Temperance" said our old grandma.
" Would you like to hear the first temper
anse story that have heard? "Oh ! yes"
we all exclaimed, always ready for one of
grandma's stories. So she told us this
story:


"When [ was a little girl, we lived
among the hills of Scotland, where my
father had large sheep farm. "Temper-
ance" was never heard of then, and every
day for dinner, we had homemade beer,
and all drank as much as they wanted
and no friend ever came in without being
asked to have some old whisky. On
market and fair-days | have seen men come
home sick, as the little folks were told
and all the remark that would be made
about it was, Folks must have little fun
sometimes | used to think that getting
sick was queer fun but as grew to un-
derstand that it was the whisky that made
them sick, l would wonder why people
would take so much trouble TO brew any
thing that made them sick and cross for a
long time after they had drank it.


"One day l shall never forget; we were
in the kitched with our mother, who was
speaking kindly to poor crazy woman,
who had stopped to rest and beg cup of
milk. Mother felt so sorry for the old
woman that she brought glass of hot


whisky and offered it to her. In an instant
| glass; sand whisky were hurled to the back


of the fire. How her eyes sparkled! She


screamed out: How dare you give me q


drink of fire-fre, 1 say? We did not


know what to think, and clung to mother


who tried to quiet the old woman, but il


was of no use. L want to warn you anC


your pretty little ones, never to taste the


stuff that has burned up my husband anc


child, and left me to wander without {


home. was married to as fine lad al
ever walked, and we had a sweet little bab'


and cozy home. My husband and alway


kept the jug in the corner of the cupboard


After while thought it had to be fillec
great deal oftener. than when we wer


first married, and not only that, but 10


(my husband) would stay too long whe


out with friend and ! would mix som
hot drink to put me to sleep, and some
times would drink so much could scarcel
! remember even to 60 TO bed afterward


So you see was getting fond of it too.
"One night left the baby in Joe's cal
/ and set the jug and glass on the table fC
E company while l stayed with sick neigl
e Dor. Before morning, we heard a nois
/ and on going out, found it was my hOu'
/ in flames; by the time we got there, II
/. roof had fallen in on Joe and the bab
f They never would have been burnt up
O he had not had the jug for company. I
!. must have drunk himself stupid, and
n the candle or his pipe fall into the cradl
q learned to hate it too late; but | wa
O you to hate it as much as do"


IS "My dear children" said our gran
"a mother, when she had finished the stol
,r "that was our first lesson in Temperate
le and it was good one. Not one of us W
or heard the old beggar-woman ever wou
Il drink after that. We did not have Ban
" of Hope in those days; but am thank
n we have now, and bless God that my dC
er little grandchildren belong to one"
Year: 1876

THE MINISTER'S WIFE.-Under the head
of "The Minister'S Wife," the London
Baptist Magazine has the following bit of
pleasant satire:


"The minister's wife ought to be selected
by committee of the church. She should
be warranted never to have headache or
neuralgia; she should have nerves of wire
and sinews Of iron; she should never be
tired nor sleepy, and should be everybody's
cheerful drudge; she should be cheerful,
intellectual, pious and domesticated; she
should be able to keep her husbands house,
darn his stockings, make his shirts, cook
his dinner, light his fire, and copy his
sermons; she should keep up the style of
a lady on the wages of day laborer, and
be always at leisure for good work. and
ready to receive morning calls; she should
be secretary to the Band of Hope, the
Dorcas Society, and tho Home Mission !;
she should conduct Bible classes and
mothers meetings should make clothing for
the poor and cruel for the sick; and,


finally, she should be pleased with every
body and everything, and never desire any
reward beyond the satisfaction of having
done her own duty and other peoples too u
Year: 1876

SAGACITY OF RATs.-Incredible as the
story may appear of their removing hens
eggs by one fellow lying on his back and
grasping tightly his ovoid burden with his
fore paws, whilst his comrades drag him
away by the tail, we have no reason to
disbelieve, knowing as we do, that they
will carry eggs from the bottom to the top
of the house, lifting them from stair to
stair, the first pushing them up on its hind,
and the second lifting them with its fore
legs. They will extract the cotton from a
flask of Florance oil, dipping in their
long tails, and repeating the man@uvre
until they have consumed every drop
We have found Jumps Of sugar in deer
drawers at distance of thirty feet from
the place where the petty larceny was
committed; and friend saw rat noun
a table on which drum of figs was placed
and straightway tip it over, scattering it


contents on the floor beneath, where
score of expectant brethren sat watchin


for the windfall. Quarterly Rerie,c.
Year: 1876

Trenton editor makes the statement,
Cor the good of correspondents, that they
need not commence their communications
aI take my pen in hand,p as he don't care
whether they write with their toes or WIN
,ba pen in their mouth, so they SEND the
news.
Year: 1876

The New York Sun of late date con-
tains an article giving "advice to a young
convert" The editor of the Sun should
print some "advice to an old sinner" and
read it six times day.-Norristoaon Herald.
Year: 1876

Wong Chin Foo, the Chinese lecturer,
was present at the Teachers Institute of
Adams county, Pa, not long ago, and de-
livered an interesting address on the sub


iect of education in China. He said that |
the first lesson inculcated in Chinese |
schools are obedience and reverence for
parents and respect for teachers. He |
claimed that in no country in the world is
education so general-as in China, and that
in no other country are intelligence and
moral worth so promptly and so literally


rewarded by the government. He also


alluded to the Great Wall of China, the


immense number and size of its walled


cities, its palaces and works of art its


canals, and other public improvements, its


wars and its civilization, its geography and


history, and its systems of religion. He


closed with a demonstration of the Chinese


method of computation, which was truly


wonderful for rapidity and accuracy. By


means of an ordinary abacus he performed


the most difficult operations in addition


and satisfaction with the utmost dispatch


and correctness, throwing the so-called


lightning calculators completely in the


shade. The lecturer also described the


manner and customs of his people, using


good English and speaking with but a


slight accent. We quote his language, as


reported in Home and School: "The capitals


of the different divisions of the empire are


all walled cities. There are seventy-five


thousand of these walled cities in China.


The material in these walls is sufficient, in


the aggregate, to construct a wall thirty


feet high and twenty feet thick entirely


round the world, and leave brick and stone


enough to build all the houses in the


United States besides. This may seem


wonderful, but it is true. In China every.
thing is done in different way from what
it is done in. this country. The manners
, and customs of the people are different
In this country when gentleman enter!
| parlor or drawing room, or goes into
5 society, he is expected to remove his hat
s in ours, he is expected to keep it on. II
}, China it is considered very rude and uncivi
s to go into company with the head uncover
n ed. In your country, when friends ant
i acquaintances meet, they seize and shak
e each other by the hand; with us, whel
n friends meet, each clasps his own hand
/. and shakes them to his satisfaction, at tn
q same time giving expression to his feeling
I. in a suitable manner. You read and writ
IS from left to right; we from right to lef
le This is altogether habit and education
10 and one method is just as good as anothe
= provided one understands it. With yo
ne black is the prevailing color Of mourning
in with us, white serves the same purpos
SO Your young people, previous to marriag
lie usually spend much time cultivating eaC
CIV other, and trying to ascertain their mutu
as adaptability and congeniality we leave Il
,d matter in the hands of our parents, WI
as manage our matrimonial affairs in a way
it once satisfactory to themselves and to |
tn And am free to say you will find as mu
a. conjugal happiness among given numt
I'll. of families in China as you will find in a
cL other country of the world"
Year: 1876

THk AMERICAN EINISG BOARD.


Under the name OF the American Mining and stock
Exchange IL has been resolved that and after
January 1871 thero shall be regular call OF rail-
way shares and miscellaneous securities, on which the
OF commission has been xed vt onc-twenticth of
one per cent" The Official announcement will be
found elsewhere In view OF tho fact that tho Mining
Board. projected, was intended 10 deal only with
mining properties and that reorganzed by Of
the young gentlemen who constitute the majority Of
It's membership It is proposed to antagonizc tho New
York Stock Exchange with its MILLIONS Of capital and
credit the experiment suggested by the announcement
will be watched with q great deal OF interest
Year: 1876

FACTORS AND TRADERS INSURANCE COM
PANT-In another column publish the card of this
"elEknoWn company. Though comparatively young
eve think 1t is now in its twelfth year financial
inshtution in the couutry is solid basis
enjoys more fully the confidence of the public or can
o'sst larger business. This is owing to the beraty
OF its management less than to the splendid admin
istratve ability and high character Of the executive
ohcersr Mr. Z. A. Palfrey, President, and I. f
"akor, ksq Secretary, and the earnest support given
them by the Board of Trustees which R composed of


large number Of our most eminent citizens as refer
ence to the list in the advertisements will show We
can and do say that know Of no uafr
or better company in the land and that with none will
they find greater general SAsctOn in doing business
than with tho EActora and TraderS No 81 CarOndslet
sSyset
Year: 1876

The following advertisement is from a
New Zealand paper: : " Mr.. John Cow
hegs to intimate to the party or parties who
are in the habit of helping themselves to
his hrewood, that they may now have the
axe, as he has no further use for it. He
hopes that the taste which they so strongly
display for heat may be gratifed, if not in
this sphere, at least in the next.n
Year: 1876

would not be out OF sympathy for Turkey but merely in
defence OF their possessions At any rate England
10 hardly in condition to 60 10 at present, and
Will probably dplomatze for time before she will
be drawn into actual hostities Al this point couple
OF other gentlemen joined tho party and the conver
saton camc TO an end.
Year: 1876

ns~ Senator Thurman perfectly un-
dcrstands the duty of the hour and
does not hesitate to meet it as true
statesman and patriot should. The New
York Herald represents him as lukcwarm
but we have seen no better or more ear.
nest and solid talk than he is now ndul.
ging in. Here is what he says of the
paramount duty of the democrats OF
Ohio and the whole country:


"lf a man is Il democrat at heart, now
is the time to show it; if he is true and
earnest friend of reform, now is the time
to prove it; if he prefers constitutional
government to lawless party rule, a Union
of justice and fraternity to n Union of
force and violence, now is the time for
him to show his faith by his works II
is no time to indulge in vain repinings
it is no time to "cry over split milk" il
is no time to make some special but sub
ordinate theory paramount to the success
Of Il great cause. The supreme neccssi-
tv of the hour is constitutional and hon.
est government. Al other questions are
subordinate to that Until that be secu-
red, no thorough reform will be possible
no solid, substantial, enduring pros.
perity be attainable.'
Year: 1876

THE JOYS OF CnlLDHooD,-A boy at
the az west end" had birthday party.
A six year old guest thus describes it to
his mother: g. First we all had some
bread and butter, then we had some
lemonade cold enough to freeze you;
then we all had piece of birthday cake !;
then we all had a lot OF icccream, and
then all the little boys had the stomach,
ache. The big girls told us to go into
the house and lie down on the floor, and
they made us drink peppermint and water
till we felt better. Then we all went out
to play"
Year: 1876

According to the Herald of Health,
marbletop tables are very unhealthy
though we never have heard of one com
planning Of feeling unwell. They look
just as healthy and strong Is any other
kind.
Year: 1876

w hear it intimatcd that our Band
will assist the Ladies in entertaining their
company, Friday night, at the Festival.
Good music and ice cream is something
you don't get every day. Recolleet
Friday night.
Year: 1876

A week ago Gen. Grant invited number
of prominent northern republicans, such as
John Sherman, Stanley Matthews, John A
Kasson, c. b. Farwell and dozen others, &c
90 to New Orleans and have an honest count
made of the vote cast at the late election in
Louisiana; and thereupon Mr.. Hewitt, chair
man of the National Democratic Committee
invited like number of prominent northern
democrats also to 90 to New Orleans and
use their influence 10 have an honest count
made. Both these ponderous delegations
having arrived at "the seat Of strife,' the
democratic delegation addressed note to
the republicans, inviting a conference, with a
view to the adoption of some plan by which
both parties could watch the proceedings of
the returning board and at the close of their
labors, write out such a statement as the
country would accept in reference to the
honesty Of the count


In the estimation Of all thinking men, no
proposition could be more reasonable, fair or
manly. But how was it treated By the fair
minded and honorable men" whom Grant
had sent to New Orleans "to see that there
was an honest count made?" Yesterday S
papers brought their answer. 1t is simply
humiliating and disgracetul, They decline
fatty to meet the democrats in conference,
for the shallow reason that the law Of Louisi.
ana prescribes the duties and the way of per.
forming them of the returning board, and
that the presence of outsiders TO watch and
take note of their proceedings would be an
impertinence! If so, why permit us to ask,
did President Grant invite them to go there
for that purpose? But the secret OF this un-
willingness on the part of these northern re-
pablican saints is easily understood. The
returning board, which in contemplation of
the law of Louisiana is to meet with open
doors, dare not SO meet and let the world
see its proceedings, but propose to meet and
transact their rascallty in executive" or Sc.
cret session, which of course would impossl.
BILE in the presence of JOINT committee of
half dozen or dozen of prominent men of
both parties from the north. The republican
committee decline to take part in this sur
veillance because they KNOW that fraud is
predetermined upon, but that their presence
with as many prominent democrats might en-
barrass the returning board in It's commits
sion. That Is the disgraceful admission
which the refusal of these republican digni.
taries to meet with the democrats involves. 1t
should damn them forever III the estimation





parties to the frauds they know are to be
and fastens upon them the charge
Of advising and consenting to those frauds.
Year: 1876

The intense excitement and uneasiness OF
the public mind in view OF the threatening
condition of the presidential problem is deep.
ening and intensfying rather than wearing
out The certainty that Tilden has fairly
and honestly carried not only clear MAORI.
| ty of the electors, but also that he is endorsed
by the largest majority on the popular vote
ever given to any presidential candidate,
renders the crime which it is now believed
the scaawag Governors of Florida and
South Carolina, and the infamous returning
board OF Louisiana, with due backing from
Washington, have determined to commit, so
enormous and devilish, that there is certainly
room for the gravest apprehension that the
outrage will not be peaceably submitted to.
If such rascality Is borne now, what security
have We that it will net be repeated four
years hence? In short, does 1t not amount
to an actual Mexicanization of the country
and an admission that hencetorth our presi-
dental elections are to be quadrennielly re-
curing farces?


| Coming down to the essence of the matter,





this election anyhow? To call the dynasty
of thieves and scoundrels that havJ control
there state government is a hideous abuse
of language. All know how Kellogg became
Governor by force of United States bayonets
in opposition to a square popular majority
of 5000 votes of the people of Louisiana
against him; and all know how, with their
internal returning board" machinery, the
same band of thieves and scoundrels are able
to and do keep themselves in power indefn-
Itely and manipulate what they facetiously
call elections 10 their own hellish pleasure
no matter how the people vote. Shall a
close corporation of freebooters and ruflians
of that sort be allowed to figure in presi-
dental election of this great Union, as a
free republican, "state," and decide who shall
be President and who vice President of forty
millions of people?


There Is but one course in this matter that
congress next February can honestly pursue,
and that is to kick out the vote of Louisiana
with the same indignant promptness that 1t
would kick out q pretended electoral vote
from Hayti or the Feejee Islands.
Year: 1876

Let it be borne in mind that the present
state government in Louisiana, which Grant
is upholding with bayonets and which Is
about to cheat not only the people of Loulsi.
ana but of the United States out of their choice
for President, was twice declared to be a
shameful usurpation and fraud by republi-
can United States Senate, which twice re.
fused TO admit PInchback to a seat in the
senate, claimed by virtue of a certificate from
the same fraudulent returning board which
is now backed up by the army to count out
the Tilden and count IN the Hayes electors
over square popular majority of 5000 against
Hayes. The question is, ought the vote of a
state, whose government is thus admitted by
its own party friends to be shameful usur-
patton and fraud" to be counted at all ?