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Year: 1870

GOvernOj Buckingham, of Connects
cut, recently uttered the following
noble sentiments;


"It is safer for me to abstain than
to drink. If 1 should indulge ii
drinking, am afraid 1 could not stop
at the line which many call temper
ance, but should become a slave Of
this habit, and with others of stronger
nerve and tirmer purpose 90 down to q
drunkard's grave. If 1 indulge, 1 am
not safe. If 1 abstain, my child will
not be cursed with a drunken father.
We talk of the purity and dignity o. hui
man nature and of relying upon our
.selfrespect for security but there Is no
degradation 50 low that man will not
sink into, and no crime so hellish that
he will not commit when he is drunk.
There is nothing so base, so impure,
so mean, so dishonest, so corrupt, that
man will not do when held under
the laws OF Shot appetite. Safety is
to be found in not yielding ourselves
to that law. But if it could be proved
cOnclusively to my own mind that 1
could drink and never be injured, vet
with my views on the subject, it
would be my duty to abstain. could
not be certain but others seeing me
drink, might be Influenced to drink,
also; and being unable TO stop, pass on
in the path of the drunkard. My ex-
ample in that case, is evil. But am
asked am my brothers keeper2 Yes.
I am responsible for my influence, and
lest it shall be evil, I am under high
obligation to deny myself that which
may not injure me, but will injure
him. If 1 neither taste nor touch, nor
handle, nor countenance, then my ex-
ample in that case will not lead others
to become drunkaGds.'
Year: 1870

LUCKY.-Dickens was once at a dinner
party and had listened patiently for some
time to young author scOlding the world
as a most horribly bad place, when turn
ing to him he said, with an expression of
gladness on his countenance:


"I say, -, what lucky thing it is
you and don't belong to it. 1t reminds
me-" continued the author of Pickwick,
"of two men, who on a raised scaffOld
were awaiting the final delicate attention
of the hangman; the notice of one was
aroused by observing that bull had got
into the crowdOf spectators, and was busi-
" engaged in tossing one here, and anoth-
er there; whereupon be said to the other,
al say, Bill, hO1g lucky it is that ne are up
here"
Year: 1870

A hotel keeper near Chicago gave q
dance, and sent to the city for two
dozen boxes of sardines, but they
didn't arrive until the guests had sat
down to supper, when the boxes were
opened as hurrriedly as possible
Judge of the surprise of the guests, and
the profanity of the landlord, to find
that, owing to the bad writing, the
Chicago merchant had sent ''syringes,' y
which they couldn't eat to save them.
They call the landlord sold water
works" now.
Year: 1870

A SAMPLE OF DEMOCRATIC AD-
MINIsTRATION Dom Piatt, in the
Cincinnati Commercial, once in awhile
gives the Democratic party a back
lick. Speaking of corruption in the
country, he says:


"DemOcratic editors pretend to find
salvation in the restoration of their
party to power. We are told this
gravely, while the Democrats hold
New York aud make of city and State
the most imperial despotism of ignor-
ance and corruption that ever cursed
humanity"
Year: 1870

It is difficult to convince anything
more beautiful than the reply given
by one in affection when he was ask
ed how he bore it 50 well: at light
ems the stroke" he said, "tO draw
near to Him who handles the rod ="
Year: 1870

Good counsel for wife and mother ::
~ will try and make myself and all
around me agreeable. It will not do
to leave q man to himself till he comes
to you; to take no pains to attract
him, or to appear before him with 4
long face. Il Is not so difficult as you
think, dear child, to behave to hus-
band so that he shall remain forever a
husband. l am an old woman, but
you can do what you like; 3 word
from you at the right time will not
fail Of Its effect; what need have you
to play the suffering? The tear Of a
loving girl, says an old book, Is like q
dew-drop on rose; but that on the
cheek ofa wife Is drop Of pain to her
husband. Try to appear cheerful and
contented, and your husband will be
so; and when you have made him
happy, you will become so In reality.
Nothing fiatters q man so much as the
happiness Of his wife; he is always
proud Of himself rs being the source
Of it. As soon as you are cheerful you
will be lively and alert, and every
moment will afford you an opportunity
TO let fall an agreeable word. Your
education, which gives you an immense
advantage, will greatly assist you; and
your sensibility will become the noblest
yift that nature has bestowed on you,


when 1t shows itself In aifectionate
assiduity, and stamps on every action
q soft, kind, tender character, instead
OF wasting itself In secret repinings."
Year: 1870

i say, Deacon. have you hunted down that
chap that stole your overcoat and umbrella ?"
NO. have not moIssted him; he'll fetch up in
a world where neither overcoat nor umbrella will
be Of the least nse to him
Year: 1870

Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND My FRIENDS Il
am afraid that the title of this address may
have misled, more or less, some of those
who are here this evening, and may have
hindered others from coming. The words,
.'Work and Wealth" are apt to rouse very
different trains OF thought in mems minds,
but to most of us they suggest at once that
science which has been, most unfairly,
called the dismal science, and which has
for its aim to teach the laws by which the
production and consumption of wealth are
governed. Let me at once relieve your
minds then by stating that | am not about
to give you lecture on political economy,
in the ordinary sense of the term Were
| competent to the task, it is one which |
should shrink from attempting before a
general audience, whom | am addressing
for the first time tonight, and to whom
may never speak again. You will not
have to endure any discussion as to the
right principles of taxation, currency, eX-
change, the balance OF trade. or any of the
other deeply interesting and important
subjects which the economist has to deal


with. / hope even to avoid the great con-
troversy between Protection and Free
Trade, which every one must see is likely
to occupy q large share of the attention of
your people before long. My object is of
less ambitious kind. | propose, and
hope to approach my subject from its hui
man rather than from its economic side;
to give you history rather than discussion.
OF course, that history will be English !;
but in this matter the experience of Eng
land should be of great value to all other
nations, and above all to you, who among
the first-class powers of the earth, are the
only one blessed, as she is, without those
free institutions which leave the people to
settle economical and social questions for
themselves, without the intervention of
bayonets. | shall endeayor then to give
YOU the broad outlines of the great labor
movement in England during the time
now reaching near quarter OF II century,
that have been intimately acquainted with
it. In one sense. at least, | have no fear
of not obtaining your sympathy. In no
other country in the world is the belief in
the future--in the certain progress of our
race toward better state OF things, here,
on this much abused and patient old earth
on which we find ourselves--so strong, so
undoubting, as III these United States.
You have no Saturian age, decked out by
the imagination OF poets, to look back
upon and sigh for; and you have no wish
for any such. as far as have been able to
discover. The key note of your highest
inspiration has been hope, and faith in man
and his destiny. "Let the dead past bury
its dead,n and cone hther and work in the
living present, all you who can find neither
room nor work elsewhere-that take to


be your psalm of life to the poor of all
nations-and they are answering, and


focking in, of all creeds, and races, and
| colors
Year: 1870

'Men my brothers, men the workers work,
ing something new,


The things they have done but earnest of the
things which they shall do"


Well, then, you whose golden age lies
right in front, will, | am sure, rejoice in
any evidence even from the old world,
that confirms your own faith in the future,
and | know of nothing in history more
cheering in itself, or more calculated to
confirm faint hearts ahd strengthen feeble
knees, than the advance in prosperity and
wisdom of the working class in my own
country since can remember them. The
great problem of our time, how those who
| live by the sweat of their brow, and who
must always form the vast majority of
every human society, can be put in their
right place, under conditions of life which
| Christian civilization need not be ashamed
of, without injustice to the rest of the
great brotherhood, has no longer much
terror for US at home. How far we have
succeeded in solving it hope to show
YOU, so far as it can be done in the course
J of an hour; and | shall be indeed rejoiced
if, on the eve of my departure from your
country, in which have seen and learned
so much, and have received such eXtraor-
binary kindness, | can tell your people
anything which may render their path
along the same road somewhat less peril
Gus and stormy than ours has been.


For in England the war between labor
and capital has lasted with occasional lulls
for upward of 500 years, Far back in
those dim old Plantagenet times we find
| the traces of that war on the statute book,
and in the pages of the chroniclers. The
statute OF laborers and other acts endeav-
ored to fix the rate of wages, and the con
ditions under which handicrattsmen should
be allowed to dispose of their labor. After
the black death had devastated the
Southern and Eastern Counties the most
stringent laws were passed in the hope OF
checking the rise in wages which that
fearful calamity had caused-Scarcely
more than one smith or carpenter III tour
was left in some of the tairest and most
populous of English districts; but king
and baron and bishop and merchant
could see no reason why they should have
to paw more for the skill of one survivor.
The first great strike OF which we have
any record, so far AS | know, took place
among the masons and other artifcerS
employed in building Windsor Castle
under William of Wickham. They lcf
their work, and scattered over the neigh
boring counties but the sheritfs of Berks
Bucks, and Surrey soon brought then
back in obedience to the peremptory man
date of King Edward, and savage punish
ments Gin one instance, at least, if right
ly remember the last penalty Of death
were inflicted on the ring-leaders An,
so the vicious system went on for centu
turies through Tudor and Stuart and Han
overian times Now and then, as liberia
counsels prevailed and wiser Statesmen
were at the head of affairs, we fin,
attempts at legislation in the interests Q
labor to break the dull record of short
sighted selfishness. But not until on


own age had come did it occur to on
statesmen and people that the only wis
Year: 1870


| stood and watched my ships 60 out


Each one by one. unDooring Tree,
What time the quiet hsrbor filled


With food tide from the sea.
The first that sailed, her name was Joy.
She spread smooth. white ample ss''
And eastward drove with bending spare
Before the singing gale.
Another sailed, her name was Hope,


No cargo IN her hold che bore,
Thinking TO find in western lands


OF merchandise q store.
The next that sailed. her name was Love,
She showed red flag at the mast,
A Gag IS red as blood she showed,


And she sped south right fast
The last that sailed, her name was Faith.
Slowly she took her passage forth,
Tackled aud lay to at last che steered
A slrsigh, course Tor the north.
My gallant chips they sailed away


Over the shinmeIIng ses.
stood AMI watched for many day.


Bui one came back to me.
For Jov was caught by Pirate Psin-


Hope ran upon hidden reel
And Love took FIRE and loundered fast,


In whelmlng seas oi grief.
Faith came at last, storm beat and torn,


She r. compensed me all my loss
For as cargo ssle she broueh,


4 CrOun linked u cross
Year: 1870

day and Friday the French report the German loss
to be from 5000 to 10000 men, The actual loss was
under fifty men. The total loss during the last fort
night win not exceed l50.


The efforts to divert the river III, which flls the
moat have resulted In complete success.


New mortars have been placed IN position throw
ing shell OF two hundred pounds weight. The fire
on the face OF the citadel Is exceedingly effective.
A breach has already been made In the walls, and
the assault VIII be ready week hence. A capitula-
ti0n Is expected before the final attempt.
Year: 1870

The American Institute fair is now really worthy
of visit. The machinery IL all in motion,
and the arrangements for the display OF all the
good specimens and curiOsities have been fully and
satisfactorily completed. There Is a superb coec. /.
tion OF photography, and the agricultural and floral
departments are especially nne The attendance
yesterday was large and the music Is excellent
Year: 1870

Tne Department OF Public Parks announce that il
the weather be fine there will be music by the Gen.
tra Park Band In Washington square this afternoon
from hali.past four to hall past six O'Clock.
Year: 1870

They credit wider and longer, get oftener
cheated suffer more pecuniary loss, are oftener
the victims of misplaced confidence than any
other calling in the community. People pay a
printers bin with more reluctance than any
other. 1t goes harder with them to expend a
dollar on a valuable newspaper than ten on a
gew-gaw yet everybody eVails himself of the
editors pen and the printers ink. How many
professional and political regulations and for
tunes have been made aud sustained by the
friendly, though unrequted pen of the editor
How many embryo towns and cities have been
brought into notice and puffed into prosperity
by the press How many railroads now in sue
cessful operation, would have foundered but for
the lever that moves the world In short, what
branch Of industry and activity has not been
promoted, stimulated, and defended by the
press
Year: 1870

as you said, ten years. older than
when you saw her four months agoY'


My dear young friends, Ihave only
recalled this sad story to remind you
that we too, may sometimes awaken
to the consciousness that we have,
by our own waywardness, our per-
sistent disobedienee to our heavenly
Father, caused the doors of his
house to be closed against us. If
it is terrible to feel ones self an
alien from all the love and the joys
of an earthly home-which we can
have at best for only a few brief
years-how overwhelmingly sad,
how utterly hopeless will be our fate
if shut out .forerer from all the
beauties and delights of heaven?
For, if once banished from that, the
only other home that can receive us
is one where hate, and not love, is
the ruling spirit of the place.


You will find from a careful study
of Gods Word that "disobedience
to parents" is one of the sins which
he will surely punish by Punishment
from his presence and his home.


But" some boy or girl may say,
''my parents are harsh, unreasonable,
inconsistent in their demands upon
me-"


Is the way of duty always strewn
with flowers? Is it not sometimes
by the piercing of the thorns, and
the cuttings of the rocks in our path
way, that we are to be, disciplined
and fitted for our higher destiny?
Only let us take care that the thOrns
be not Of our oaon planting, and that
we have not, by our willfulness,
made those rocks more rough and
sharp than God meant them to be.
Year: 1870

The horse is like his driver, and
the dog is like his master. A ner-
vous, timorous man is almost sure
to have q skittish horse, shying at
any thing, unsteady, and runaway
if he gets chance. Many cow
is spoiled by lack of patience and
quietness in the mixer, and the
amount of milk depends more upon
the mixer than the pasturage. II
a man is afraid of a horse, the ami
NAL knows it before he goes into the
stable. We have seen the most in
offensive COW in the herd so wrought


upon by the nervousness of a green
horn son of Erin, as to dexterously
plant her foot in his breast and send
him rolling heels-over-head. A


noisy boisterous fellow about fatten-
ing stables will cause q serious loss
in gain of flesh to the animals so
important is quiet to them when
they are digesting their food.-Es,
Year: 1870

Take some thin lumber, say sid
ing, and tack a board to the bottom
of the sieve so as to cover about
half-the lower half. Have your
sieves not very slanting; turn mod
crate, not very fast. Never set
boy to turn, as he won't turn regu-
lar. When the wheat leaves the hop.
per on the sieve the wind carries the
oats farther than the good wheat,
and they go on to the board, and
over into the tailings, while the
wheat is left clean. This is some
thing like the ost mills used in our
section, except that they catch the
wheat in shoe and run it out at
the side of the mill.-Cor. Western
Rural.
Year: 1870

Angry words are lightly spoken


In a rash and thoughtless hour;
Brightest links of life are broken
BY their deep, insidious power.
Hearts inspired by warmest feeling,
Ne'er before by anger stirred,
Oft are rent past human healing


by a single angry word.
Poison drops of care and sorrow.
Bitter poison drops are they,
Weaving for the coming morrow
Saddest memories of to-day.
Angry words, o let them never


From the tongue unbridled slip;
May the hearts best impulse ever
Check them, ere they soil the lip.
Love is much too pure and holy,
Friendship is too sacred far
For a moments reckless folly.
Thus to desolate and mar,
Angry words are lightly spoken,
Bitterest thoughts are rashly stirred.
Brightest links in life are broken
By q single angry word.
Year: 1870

"Becausc she found that she had
not read his character as truly for
his own amusement encouraged her
in disregarding her fathers wishes,
now that she was in sorrow, had $50
many pressing engagements" on
hand, that really-though he de-
clarcd he would have been most
happy to do so-he could seldom
find time to come near her. The
heiress in a beautiful home and the
banished daughter of the house
were two very different affairs to his
mind, as Bella soon found out, to
her humiliation and regret. And
now do you wonder that she looks,
Year: 1870

Mr.. Editor,-I regret that at least two of
your correspondents have recently been in
duced to take to task our General Assembly
for its course on two points in regard to
which I cordially coincide with that body,
although I had nothing to do with either
One is about the baptism of the children of
ungodly parents, and the other is concerning
lay preachers or Exhorters. With your per-
mission l will present few remarks in ia,
vor of the Assem- = action on the latter
subject AS the as minute seems to
be well worded al darded, 1 can see no
objection to it, but real and pressing ne
cessity for it in our great lack of ministers,
and our lamentable destitutions. In most of
our churches there is a great deal of valuable
talent that for want of attention lies dor.
mant, and for want of exercise is unde-
yeloped. 1t is rather cause of lamentation
in this dead time, that in one sense all the
Lords people are not prophets. For we
not only have a vast number of vacant
churches, but many that are totally unable
to support pastors if they were to be had.
A few wealthy congregations when left va
cant manage to keep up supply by robbing
other churches, but in the aggregate we are
left as destitute as ever.


The A8sembly's minute has reference to
erhorter8, and not to lay preachers as dis
tinct class; and surely any layman has a
right to appoint prayer meetings and lead in
prayer and exhortation, with the consent of
the church or session. ] suppose, therefore,
the Assembly could not see that mere ex-
preston of appreciation to satisfy the scru-
pies of few, was San act outside of the
Constitution. While We should ever cling
to that instrument as an unparalleled monu-
ment of wisdom, let US "stand fast in the
liberty wherewith Christ has made US free, -


Among the surmises of your cOrrespOn-
dent is his apprehension that there will soon
Year: 1870

Pastors cannot feel too deeply the urgent
necessity for interesting the children in their
regular preaching services. If it is at all
possible-and who will assert it impossi-
ble?-the children must be saved from the
distressing ennui of an hour and half of
service in church, Frequently following an
hour and half in Sunday School, in which
there is nothing for their restless natures but
solemnly to endure, with the moral prospect
of punishment at home if they fail. This
is such poor training into habits of church
going, that the wcslIer is that SO many con-
tint practise habit SO '4splciOusly
.formetG 1t is signal pr u The p5Sei
of divine grace over obstacles raised by hu-
man fooliShness. Yet many pastors and
preachers who wish to remedy the difficulty
are quite at loss, and any method pursued
with success by one pastor deserves to be
made known to others.


We have lately heard of one whose heart
is deeply in his work, and whose other plans
of usefulness have much practical wisdom,
who goes into the Sunday School every
morning and promises the children that if
they will come into the church and listen,
they will be sure to hear something which
will interest them. Then, somewhere in the
midst of his discourse, he pauses and ad-
dresses the children, in fulfllment of his
promise, simplifying the subject in hand for
their especial benefit


Thus having aroused fresh interest in
all classes of his hearers, he goes on with
the discourse to the end This will be re-
garded by many as bold procedure, and
against all the canons of rhetoric and pulpit
dignity; but it is candid recognition of
the claims of a class who form one-third of
our congregations in numbers, and whose
Importance as available material is greater
even than these numbers.
Year: 1870

We are sometimes almost tempted to say
that no events can be called small, because
SO many which are deemed insignificant
prove to be the beginnings of the mightiest
results. 1t seems very small thing that
Eve listened when she should have turned
away her ear; that she looked when she
should have been blind to everything but the
consequences of disobedience; but who will
say that all the pain and sorrow and death,
which are the fruits of the first sin, are
small matter in the sight either of God or
man. The whole order of nature teaches
us in every department of industry and OF
life, not to despise the day of small things,
either for good or for evil


The grandest institutions of learning have
had their origin in very small beginnings,
and the greatest enterprises of the Chris
tian Church have sprung out of occurrences
exceedingly trivial in the worlds esteem.


1t was a small thing, apparently, that those
two young mer met out in the field, near the
haystack, to pray for the heather, and yet
in answer to their supplications the magnif-
cent system of the American Board of Com
missioners for Foreign Missions was insti
tuted. Life is made up of small things,
small duties, small disappointments, and
small trials; the great ones are the excep-
ton, and the part of wisdom is to guard dill
igently against all occasions of wrong doing,
and to watch sedulously for every opportu-
nifty to do good. The Lord Jesus rules, and
He uses the weak things of the world to
confound the mighty, and things that are
not to bring to naught the things that are,
that no flesh may glory in His presence
Men who desire to do some great thing are
seldom gratifed, while they who go forward
to meet present duty accomplish, through
His blessing great things for the gracious
Master.
Year: 1870

be calls from the churches for the ordination
of some of these jealous members, and "such
a pressure might result finally in a serious
and troublesome conflict, as it did with the
Cumberland PreSbytery," Our vision is not
sufficiently acute to detect the danger that
lies concealed in practice that should have
always existed; but suppose we are mistaken,
and our honest efforts to build up our own
house should finally result in the organiza-
tion of another great Presbyterian church of
14O, 900 members, we will still consider it
the work of God who knows how to overrule
even our prejudices and passions to his glory
and honor, and the salvation of souls.


A PRESENTER.