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Year: 1873

We are glad to notice that cur people
are wakeing up to the necessity Of effort
on the subject Of popular education. and
from present indications we are satisfied
that the day is not far distant when every
county in the State will have its regular
ly organized system Of free schools.


The. development of our school system
and the afording proper facilities for the
education of every boys and girl in our
State, is the FIRST step to grand develop
ment Of our resources.


About the first question propouuded
to us by the intelligent foreigner whom
We try to interest in our State is, what
is the condition of your schools? We
find that those counties that have voted
for the school tax, are looked upon with
more favor as a desirable field for invest.
ment than those that have refused. Let
our land owners understand this. II
they want to dispose Of their surplus land
if they want help t, develop the vast re-
sccurtes of the State, If they want the
man Of capital or skill, or energy, to
come and dwell with Us, they must have
schools. The men who are worth bay,
ing are interested themselves in the cause
education. No man whom We would desire
as citizen is willing to come and settle
down in county where his children will
grow up in ignorance.


The school house, remember, is the
producer of development and the corner
stcne of permanent prosperity. II then
for no higher reason than that of materin
gain, let every friend Of our State do al
In bis power to educate oar people up Il
the necessity of a vigorous effort to sus
tain our school Law, and to make it
adoption general and efectiye.-Ndsh
riue Journal OF Commerce.
Year: 1873

We call atte ltion of these off GERS to
the importance of making all transfers
in writing at or near the beginning of the
school. In this way we think most of the
difficulties arising out of transferring pu>
pills from ore district to another can be
avoided.


The school law also requires the clerk to
give bond. This matter should be atten-
ded to at an early day. The districts
are organized and ready for work.
Year: 1873

Come and meet me, little brother.


Come and let me take your hand;
Guide me through the darkened vale,
Leading to the better hnd.
can hear the angels calling,


Softly through tie summers breath
Sleep Is sealing down my lashes
iiNith the icy kiss of death.
Hasten, brother, close beside me,


Hold my fingers tightly now,
For the shadows fast are falling


Chilllnglytapon my brow.
You have been for years in heaven,
Living In its golden ray !; ....
Gou have crossed the stairlcss river
Brother, dear, you know the way,
And l trenble at the darkness


Closing round me as come.
/ can only hear the angels


Singing in their shining home.
Far beyond the rolling river,


Happy on the golden shore
J can hearthe music stealing


Softly through the open door.
Calltng-ever calling to me


From across the silent sea
Lying, cold and dark between us


Little brother. come for me.
Now, ieei your clusping fingers


Folding closely over mine,
AND across the waveless water


Golden lights begin TO shine.
Brother, lead your little sister
BY before the great white throne,
Where the loving Savior tells us


Little children are His own.
Year: 1873

The county Superintendent proposes to
meet the teachers at different points in
the county at such times as will best suit
the teachers of the locality selected for
the meeting. The object, mutual consul
tation on the art of teaching.
Year: 1873




The OFFICE OF SLEEP.-Nature
won't be robbed How many times have
you heard the old saying? Experienced
fathers and mothers urge upon youthful
sons and daghters that they should have
regular hour for going to rest at night,
and that hour be an early one, 80 that by
an abundance Of sweet sleep they may
not fail Of the best measure of physical
and mental growth, Hours Of sleep, not
the sleep of exhaustion, are hours Of
accumulation. Some one asserts that
the greatest preachers have been great
sleepers. Does the fact that the pastor
sometimes finds himself compelled to
write late into Saturday night to finish
his sermon explain the lack of force in
his pulpit efforts on the Sabbath One
Of minister's first duties is TO himself,
by rest and in all ways to keep himself
in as wholesome and perfect frame Of
body, and hence Of spirit, as it is possible
for him to acquire. e.-Selected.
Year: 1873

Telegraphic reports OF the ravsges of
cholera at Mount Vernon, Indiana, are
most distressing, and equal in extent
and decentralization the recent terrible
accounts Of the same disease at Green
vile in this State. Several instances
are related of a degree Of sadness heart
rending in their details.
Year: 1873

That clothes, clothes, and nothing
but clothes should absolb b the thought
of the greater portion Of the feminine
world 1t the present time must be evil
dent to oil. If we pass 8 group OF
ladies on the street, In any city or
town within knowledge, nine times
out Of ten we shall catch . remark
about their dress, past, present, or
prospective; ON every fair day they
throng the dry goods stores, and stand
in mute, admiring crowds before win.
dows where the last fashions are gOr-
geously displayed and when they re.
less circle of friends, eager to hear II
there is yet any news concerning the
coming shape for spring bonnets. No
sooner are two ladies introduced than
each sweeps the other from head to
foot with q glance as keen and scruti.
nizing as if she were taking an invent
ory Of her belongings for an auction
catalogue; no one turns her back upon
smiling friends but they instantly pause
to scan her in silence, while she van
ishes slowly in perspective; no com
versation is so absorbing that the fe-
male participants do not improve
every diversion between eager rhap-
sodies or earnest argument to ascer-
tain whether their neighbor's collar is
real OF imitation, and her bonnet
homemade or Partisan. In short, all
the interests of their lives, all their
trials and perplexities, cluster about
the immortal question, "What shall l
wear ?" which ans ver must be decided
upon at least twice each day.
Year: 1873

DIR. Hoffman, who went down with
the Dixon bridge, and who was res
cued when in the act Of drowning, and
afterwards restored to consciousness,
gives q very interesting account Of
how he felt when in that condition.
He says:


"When / was still sensible of the
surroundings, went apparently very
close to the bottom. The current
rolled me over and over, and my
hands frequently came in contact with
the gravel. I could feel the water
running down my throat and my ears,
and all at once experienced the most
delightful sensation. l seemed TO be
at peace with everything and perfectly
happy. My whole life passed before
me like flash of lishtning, the events
appearing in sequence, the most prom.
iuent appearing indeiibly impressed
upon my mind. Circumstances had
forgotten appeared vividly, and did
not want to be disturbed. l should
have preferred to remain where / was.
While in the midst of o beatific rev.
erie, thinking what my wife would do
if she were saved, and I drowned, I
felt hand on my shoulder. l was
pulled out and placed on rock. 1
was almost insensible, but gradually
came to myself.


was greatly astonished at the num-
ber of events that passed through my
mimi WtiiIe under tie water. NOtn.
ing that occurred during childhood
was evident, but everything since /
was about 10 years old appeared bc.
fore me as If photographed. The
sensation l experienced while the
water was going down my throat was
not unpleasant. 1t seemed as If ] was
going on q journey, and was sur
rounded by all kinds Of beautiful
things. While on the rock felt very
bad and desired to be left alone. The
transition from the beatific state in the
water to dry land seemed to have .
bad effect, and made me Indifferent as
to what was going on around me.
Several people came to me and wanted
to take me home, but l told them to
let me alone"


Several others with whom we con-
versed at Dixon, whose experiences
were similar to that of DIR. Hoffman
while under the water, declared that the
sensations they had while in the very
act Of drowning were by no means
unpleasant but were on the contrary
of the most enjoyable kind.


We are apt to look upon this mode
of death as most horrible, and we
shudder at the thought Of one drown-
ing. But are our ideas regarding it
corroborated by the testimony of those
who have had practically the best
means of knowing its natures
Year: 1873

The Nation describes the Democrat
ic party as 90 party without policy,
a party of mere negation, which never
has anything definite to offer; which
was opposed to the war, opposed to
emancipation, opposed to the consti-
tutional amendments, and which never
rises higher than an obstinate opposi-
ton to everything that is done or at
tempted by its adversary.


The Nation should have given De-
mocracy one positive quality, viz; A
burning desire and great willingness
to hold the Offices of the country
Year: 1873

Gonl. Crook has brought the Apache
Indians to beg Justify for quarter and
made with them very advantageous
treaty. 1t will probably be kept for
a season because it was seasoned with
a sound drubbing given the Indians.
Year: 1873

eth present annual pay on the route; or in case
of new service, not less than per centum OF
one years pay proposed in bid.-(Section 253.
Act of June s, 1922


The Postmaster must not sign the certificate
until the sum of the bid is inserted and the
bid and guarantee signed by all the parties, and
dated
Year: 1873

ing the mail on route No, -, from -


-, do swear that l have the ability pecuni-
arily to fulfill my obligation as such bidder !;
that the bid is made in good faith, and with the
intention to enter into contract and perform the
service in case said bid shall be accepted and
that the signatures of the guarantors thereto
are genuine, and that believe the said g1ar-
antors to be pecuniariIy responsible for and able
fer by reason of my failing to perform my OBJ
legations as such bidder
Year: 1873

NoTE.-When the oath is taken before JUS
tce of the peace, the certificate of the clerk of
court of record should be added. under his seal
of Office, that the person who administered the
oath is duly qualified Justice of the peace
Year: 1873




Napoleon III. is dead. After the reception
day and we have many OF our countrymen whose
sentiments have some weight; everywhere, among all
ranks, in every degree OF fortune and intelll-
gence, we have found the same indifference - the
same bitter smile equally expressive Of satisfaction
aud disdain We convinced that setting aside the
great political interests OF country; are con-
vinced say, that the public sentiment must be in
France, keeping the proper proportion In mind
almost the same as we have observed in New-10rk.
Napoleon III died at Sedan two years the phantom
Chsehurst longer for France andt Is only by
an illusion easily entertained by handful OF ambitious
men. without cOnssteace and without an echo, that
there still exists-almost nominay-a Bonapartist
party. We have often sd this in reply to publications
which ha appeared from time to tme
and which represented that party as having
an influence in the provinces and within the
army. No, not there, was there sympathy
or affection respect for the who sent France al
scarcely hate anger against HIM among those by
whom he eXecrated IL seems II the oblivion
OF death has already passed over him that
which remains Of his memory has more
authority, no more prestige, and the man. who
during quarter OF century filed the world with the
noise of his found before his death the strongest
not the seYerest chassement which could attend him
the chastisement OF silence. Without doubt history will
learn by all the acts OF this reign and will pro-
nounce upon him impartial judgment but the time
for collecting the sentiments OF his contemporaries
above all in the midst OF the tumut which
surrounds us, has not yet arrived The death
is too for the hour to be propitious
had snare abused confidence, believe IL is our
duty abstain for to-day from entering upon the
sderaon OF these twenty years OF Fictitious grandeur
which deserved TO end IN such terrible disaster
Year: 1873

The news of the death of the ex-Emperor
Napoleon was received In this city, yesterday almost
with indifference. The gathered from the
various bulletnboards. and crept around very slowly
afording brief topic OF conversation as men quietly
spoke of his life and discussed the possible effects OF his
death upon the schemes OF the Bonaparsts. The sub
ject dropped however for matters OF greater
consequence, seeming TO consider the event OF
more than passing Importance Among the French mer-
chants and residents feeling of the utmost apathy pre-
vailed. While in the hight Of his power the eX-
Emperor had a number OF ardent supporters
amsng the French people Of the city, but
most OF them are now earnest Republicans. Scarcely
any one indeed it stated can now be found here
who would have favored his restoration to the throne OF
France, and very few of them mourn his death. The
Republicans general thing. feeling that he was no
longer able bring further harm upon their country,
appeared TO very little about the matter though
occurred 20 years At the office of the French
OF the visitors referred TO the matter and the officials
reporter, when they merely expressed surprise


In regard to the effect France, gentleman who
has lately returned from Paris remarked that 1t would
hardly apparent, the Imperaiiss az far as his OBJ
servation went being few and of very slight influence
beyond the small number who keep up the agitation
in the Assembly. The death of Napoleon may cause
change in their plans but whatever they NAV do
would he thought be OF very little consequence 70 the
country.
Year: 1873

Have greatness of soul enough to
relish immortality, and at the same
time moderation enough to enjoy the
transitory blessings Heaven has be-
slowed upon you.-LsOordtes.


Love, it has been said, descends
more abundantly than it ascends. The
love of parents for their children has
always been far more powerful than
that of children for their parents and
who among the sons of men ever loved
God with thousandth part of the love
which God manifests to us?


In one Of his recent lectures, Prof
Tyndall said that the power of the hu-
man eye was not commensurate with all
that comes from the sun. The sun
sends us rays which, on account of the
slowness or rapidity of their vibrations,
are invisible. These abound at the red
and violet ends of the spectrum, and, if
the theory of evolution be true, may in
time become visible. In that case there
sions waiting for the man of the future.
The fact that this might be so was
shown by allowing the ultra violet rays
to fall on 9 sheet of paper prepared with
sulphite of quinine, when they at once
became visible on account of the lessen
ing of the rapidity of the wave vibra-
tion.


The love of God is the love of
goodness. The old Saxon God is iden-
tical with good. God the Good One
persOnifed goodness. There is in that
derivation not a mere play of words
there is deep truth. None loves God
but he who loves good. To love God is
to love what God is. God is pure, and
he who loves purity can love God. God
is true, God is just; and he who loves
these things out of God may love them
in God, and God for them, because He
is good and pure and true and just
RObert8On
Year: 1873

It is recognized by physicists that our
earth is gradually parting with its heat.
As it cooIs it contracts. Now, if this
process of contraction took place uni
formly. no subterranean action would
result. But, if the interior contracts
more quickly than the crust, the latter
must in some way or other force its way
down to the retreating nucleus. M.


Mallett shows that the hotter internal
portion must contract faster than the
relatively cool crust ; and then he
shows that the shrinkage of the crust is
competent to occasion all the known
phenomena of volcanic action. In the
distant ages, when the earth was still
fashioning, the shrinking produced the
irregularities of level which we recOg-
nize in the elevation of the land and the
depression of the ocean-bed. Then
came the period when, as the crust
shrank, it formed corrugations in other
words, when the fOldings and elevations
of the somewhat thickened crust gave
rise to the mountain-ranges of the
earth. Lastly, as the globe gradually
lost its extremely high temperature, the
continuance of the same process OF
shrinkage led no longer to the formation
of ridges and table-lands, but to local
crushing down and dislocatlon, Tins
process is still going ON, and Mr., NAL
lett not only recognizes here the origin
of earthquakes, and of the changes of
level now in progress, but the true
cause of volcanic heat The mordern
theory of heat as a form of motion here
comes into paly. AS the solid crust
closes in upon the shrinking nucleus,


the work expended in crushing down
Year: 1873

The saltness of the sea is very ration
ally accounted for in the following way:
A constant distillation of pure water is
taking place from the enormous surface
of the ocean by the solar heat clouds
are formed, which drift in part over the
continents, and on coming into contact
with the necessary climatic conditions
fall as rain this in its turn filters drop
by drop through the soil, and forms the
springs which overflow and prodnce the
brooks and rivers. The water of the
latter, however, is no longer pure, but
is found on analysis to contain, on an
average, about OF grains of chlorine
per gallon, derived, no doubt, from the
soil, and probably in most cases in COM
bination with sodium. The water thus
charged with chlorides reaches the sea,
where it is subjected to the concentrat-
ing process described above, and so
time after time the soil is leached, the
chlorides dissolved out of it accumulat-
ing in the ocean. The same process ex-
plains the presence in sea water of car
Donate lime, which forms large part
of the ooze found covering the bottom
of the sea. Chlorides are not the only
solid constituents of spring and river
waters. For every grain of chloride,
such waters contain on an average from
six to eight grains of carbonate of lime.
This is swept down to the ocean the
carbonic acid in the water, by which
alone the carbonate of lime is rendered
soluble, is dissipated by the suns heat
at the surface of the sea, and the car
Donate of lime subsidies in fine particles
to the bottom, forming the impalpable
mud or ooze described as coating the
lower half of the recovered Atlantic Ca
BILE. This sediment is doubtless partly
made up of the chalky exuviB of ma
rine animal life, but that its bulk is
chiefly the product of a process like
that above described seems clear, since
on any other basis we are unable to ac-
count for the disposal of the enormous
quantity of carbonate of lime daily car
ried by rivers into the sea.
Year: 1873

BEST IREES FOR TIMBER PLANTING
At recent meeting of Illinois farmers
this subject was well discussed, and the
European laurel was considered the
most important acquisition our country
has ever obtained. tits of rapid growth
and adapts itself to a great variety of
soils and exposures, while the wood it
furnishes is of the very best quality,
and can be used for greater variety of
purposes than perhaps any other. Ex-
periments in England and Scotland have
proved that in durability it far exceeds
the famous British live oak, and it has
been found superior even to the ash for
the various purposes for which that
timber is used, being light and of su-
perior strength.
Year: 1873

and dislocating the parts of the crust


is transformed into heat, by which, at


the places where the process goes on


with greatest energy, the material of


rock so crushed and of that adjacent to


it are heated even to fusion. The access


of water to such points determines VOL


canic eruption" Now, all this is not
mere theorizing. Mr.. Mallett does not
come before the scientific world with an
ingenious speculation. which may or
may not be confirmed by observation
and experiment. He has measured and
weighed the forces OF which he speaks
He Is able to tell precisely what pro-
portion of the actual energy which
must be developed as the earth con-
tracts is necessary for the production of
observed volcanic phenomena. 1t is
probable that nine-tenths of those who
have read these lines would be disposed
to think that the contraction of the
earth must be far too slow to produce
effects so stupendous as those which we
recognize in the volcano and the earth
quake. But Mr.. MalIett is able to
show, by calculations which cannot be
that less than one-fourth of
the heat at present annually lost by the
earth is sufficient to account for the to-
tai annual volcanic action, according to
the best data at present in our posses
sion.
Year: 1873

Why is the blue sky so gTandly arch
ed above our heads? The ancient
Greeks supposed it to be a solid sub
stance, spread above the earth at an i'm
mense height, in which the sun, moon
and stars were set like diamonds in a
ring. The upper surface was laid with
gold-the pavement of the gods In
pagan countries somewhat similar mo-
tions still prevail. A converted heath
en- said he thought the sun, moon and
stars were holes in the solid sky,
through which came streaming down to
earth the brightness and glory Of the
heavenly world. But, in reality, the
sky is nothing more than the air we
breathe. Instead of the solid arch,
towering so many thousand miles above
us, where our childish fancy put it, the
blue sky is thing but the color of the
ocean of air in which we live and move.
As to the distance from us, it is all with
in three or four miles. For travellers,
who go upon high mountain tops, tell
us that they no longer see any blue sky
above them there, where the air is so
thin that they pant for breath, but only
the blackness of empty space. But, it
may be asked, why do we not see the
cOlOE Vi Dluo dlE Wneu We iDOh UP W
the ceiling of our rooms? Why do We
moi have blue sky in the house as well
as out of doors? The answer is, that
some substances, of which air is one, do
not show their color except in the mass.
Take piece of glass, pour upon 1t a
single drop of ink now press upon 1t
another piece Of glass, and hold them
both pressed together TO the light.
Scarcely any color of the ink can be
seen. The poet says:


"'ris distance lends enehantment to the view,


And robes the mountain with its azure bue'
But philosophy, that great enemy to
poetry, steps up, and tells us that it in
not the mountains blue we see. but
onlv the air, which, like n misty cur
tain, hangs between us and the noun
taina
Year: 1873


tne winter goes and the summer comes
ana the clouds descend in warm. wet showers.
4ne grass grows green where the frost has been
And waste and wayside is fringed with flowers
The winter goes snd the summer comes
And the merry blue birds twitter and triT
And the swallow sings on his steel-blue viuva
This way and that way at widest Will
The winter goes and the summer comea
And the swallow he swingeth no more Aloft
And the blue birds breast sweIls out Of her nest
And the horniest bill of them all grows soft
The'summer goes and the winter comes
And the daisy dies and the daffod1 dies
And the softest bin grows horny and still
And the days set dimly, and dimly rise:
The summer goes and the winter comes
And the red fires fade from the heart Of the rose
Aud the snow lies white where the grass was bright
And the wild wind bitterly blows and blows.
The winter comes and the winter stays
aye, cold and long, and long and cold,
Ana the pulses beat to the weary feet,
Ana the head feels sick and the heart grows old
The winter comes and the winter stays
And al the glory behind US lies
1he cheery light drops into the night,
And the sunw drifts our sightless eyes.
Year: 1873

Let the young poet, however he
NAV believe Of his art that "all other
pleasures are not worth its pains" con-
slider what it is to call fire down from
Heaven to keep the pot boiling, before
ship as something free and easy. That
fire will not condescend to such Office,
though II come without asking, on GER
emonial days, to the free service of the
altaT. L0a0sH.