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Year: 1876

1t is pity that so many young ladies
look upon domestic service with marked
contempt. Many of our social difficult
ties would be almost entirely mastered
if young ladies would consent to become
lady-helps in their own homes. Moth
ing can be more intolerable than the
mismanagement and discomfort to be
found in countless households, where
there are plenty of grown-up daughters,
who have really but little to do but
grumble at the dreariness of their lives,
and fret themselves into permanent ill
health. Perhaps they take sufficient in
terest in the housekeeping to wonder
contemptuously how their mother can
be troubled with such inefficient SER
wants, creatures" who cannot even
make palatable coffee, or keep the sill
yer bright. They have no patience with
the shortcomings of the over-worked
housemaid, from whom they expect as
much attendance as if she had only
lady's maids duties to perform. How
ever unreasonable their demands, they
expect any servant in the house to be at
all times in readiness to answer them.
Half the young women one meets sink
into state of semi-imbecility, from
idIeness and want of interest in their
surroundings. From mere thoughtless-
ness and ignorance they grow up exact
ing and unreasonable. From want of
active exercise they become the prey of
hysteria, dyspepsia, and spinecomplaint.
They marry any one who will have
them, simply because they are so bored
that any change is welcome. They make
bad wives, because they have never
learned the rudiments of domestic econ
omy. When the unfortunate mother of
such daughters allows herself to be per-
suaded, against her will, to add lady
help to the establishment, the height of
absurdity is reached. Four or five COM
mon-place, stupid girls may lounge
about the house-one with a piece of
soiled fancy-work, another playing
snatches of dance music, a third reading
French novels on the sofa, while per-


haps a pretty, graceful lady lays the
fire, dusts the room, and endeavors-
probably in vain-to bring order into


the uncomfortable and chaotic estab-.
| lishment.
Year: 1876

Health and happiness go together.
There is no use of talking about it, for
they do. Not all the medicines or creeds
in the world can make bilious, nerv-
Gus, sick person happy. He must be
well before he can say, 81 am in good
condition in mind and body" There
are a great many wrong notions in the
world, and every body has i'm mbibed some
of them. All have prescriptions for
whoever complains. Some take this or
that nostrum; others lay all unhappi-
ness to the heart or conscience, while
the seat of trouble is the stomach or
liver And it will be so as long as the
world stands, unless a reform be made
in our habits.


In the first place, mans house
should be the most healthful, quiet, rest
full spot on earth to him. The religion
of u mans life should begin here; find
its spring and nurture here. All the
churches and meetings under the sun
cannot do or undo what his home does.
When he enters there, and shuts the
door behind him, he should feel that
the cares, duties, business, noise, smells,
and everything else of the outside world
are shut out. Here are relaxation and
rest. He throws off his former life as
be throws off his coat. When be sleeps,
he should do it as going into the land OF
forgetfulness to come back refreshed
and new. When he reads or chats with
his family, it should be as he would sit
down in an orchard to enjoy it's fruits,
or in a flower garden to be delighted
and soothed by its beauty and fragrance.
Home should be the club, library,
picture-gallery, and sanctuary. But
there are material arrangements, con-
nected with our social life; and not the
least among them are cooking and
breathing. Poor or partially cooked
| food will drive health out of the body
and happiness out of the heart; and bad
or no ventilation will ruin the peace ol
any house. One of the best and great
est blessings in house is an open fire.
place. 1t is where the members of the
family mostly congregate, and are in
the best spirits. The hearth-stone has
witnessed more cheerfulness, and lis.
tened to more pleasant words, and seer
brighter, happier faces than any othel
place in the world. The only prescrip
tion we give is, go and make your home
bright and healthful, and it will bt
happy.
Year: 1876

Nor ASHAMED OF WORK.-Two of
the most agreeable girls we ever met
kept a grocery stOre-yes, and kept it
we'll, though they had been rich mans
daughters. When that father lost his
wealth, and became a confirmed invalid,
did they sit down and wiring their
hands? Did they go moaning all their
days, begging men to give them little
sewing, a little teaching, a little copy
ing? Not they. They began, in a small
way, to keep a dry goods and grocery
store. They gave fair measure and right
change. They kept what people wanted;
and if anything was called for which
they had not, they put it down in the
list of their purchases. They had the
cleanest, the incest grocery for miles
around, hired clerk, bought horse,
built house, and are at this moment
independent property-holders, as well as
piquant and agreeable women. 1t paid
them to step out of the beaten track and
find a new road to fortune.
Year: 1876

Good living is said to cause dyspepsia;
but the most healthy people have ever
known have been among those who
lived well-who ate freely several times
a day of the most nutritious food. By
some it is said that tobacco, snuff, tea,
coffee, butter, and even bread, cause
this complaint, but whoever will make
inquiries on this subject throughout the
community, will find that this is seldom
true. In fact, dyspepsia prevails, ac-
cording to my experience, altogether
the most among the temperate and care
ful-among those who are careful as re-
CARDS what they eat and drink, and the
labor they put on the stomach, but ex-
ceedingly careless how much labor they
put upon the brain. Such people often
eat nothing but by the advice of doc
tor or some treatise on dyspepsia, or by
weight, nor drink anything that is not
certainly harmless; they chew every
mouthful until they are confident, on
mature reflection, that it cannot hurt
the stomach.


Why, then, are they dyspeptic? Be-
cause, with all their carefulness, they
pay no attention to the excitement of
the brain. They continue to write two
or three sermons or essays every week,
! besides reading a volume or two, with
magazines, reviews, newspapers, etc.,
and attending to much other business
calculated to excite the mind. To me it
is not strange that such persons have
nervous and stomachic affections. The
constant excitement of the brain sends
an excess of blood to the head, and,
| therefore, other organs are weakened,
and morbid sensibility is produced,
which renders the stomach liable to de-
rangement from slight tcauses.-Dr. HoL-
brooks "LiUer Complaint"
Year: 1876

of a Training school


for Teachers Proposed.


At the meeting of the Board OF Ed,
ucation, last night, Col. Heisler offer
ed series of resolutions boxing to
the establishment of a school where
scholars shall be trained for teachers.
They were as follows:


1st, That the Committee on Teach.
ers he authorized to open a school for
training in School No. 8.


ID, That three rooms be set apart in
some school building, not specified,
for training school, In which those
persons on the accepted list of teach
ers may become pupil teachers, and,
under the direction of the Committee
on Teachers and the principal of the
school, teach for twelve weeks, after
which they may be appointed as regu-
lar teachers in the employ OF the
School Board.


3D., That the Committee on Teach
crs be instructed to open n Normal
and Training School in No. 8, to
which may be admitted residents of
this State who desire to qualify them>
selves for teaching; and that said COM
mittee shall recommend suitable teach
ers for said school.


4th, That committee of five shall
be appointed to prepare an amend
ment to the charter of the Board,
granting an annual appropriation for
the use of the Normal and Training
School. from the Legislature of the
State.


9th, That the committee prepare a
further amendment, defining more
clearly the assessment to be laid annu-
ally before the City Council, and also
all matters in the Charter pertaining
| to the finances of the Board.
The resolutions were ordered TO be
printed, and will be considered at the
next meeting.
Year: 1876

officers formed line in the rear, and the
encampment gradually assumed the look
of rude military village.


In this encampment, called by the
wits of the British army "Slab City"
the American army passed a sad and
dreary winter-for weeks at time on
half allowance, sometimes without meat,
sometimes without bread, and often
without both. The transportation of
supplies was obstructed; the magazines
were exhausted, and the commissaries
had neither money nor credit to enable
them to replenish them. At Valley
Forge, in the midst of frost and snow,
disease and destitution, Liberty erected
her altar and in all the worlds history
we have no record of purer devotion,
holier sincerity, or more heroic self
sacrifice than was exhibited in the camp
of Washington. The courage that nerves
the arm on the battlefield, and daEzles
by its brilliant but eyanescent flashes,
pales before the steadier and more
intense fame of patient endurance-the
sum of the sublime heroism displayed at
Valley Forge. If there is spot on the
face of our broad land whereon patriotism
should delight to pile its highest and
most venerated monument, it should be
in the bosom of that little vale On the
banks of the Schuylkill, amid the
tempted hills" consecrated by the
presence and suf1erings of those who
achieved our independence.
Year: 1876


How TO Reach Them, and Provision Made


for the Accommodation OF Visitors.
The Exhibition buildings are in i'm
mediate connection with the entire steam
railway system of the country, for the &C
commodation of which two commodious
depots are located adjacent to the Exhi-
bition grounds.


They are also in immediate connection
with the entire street railroad system
of the city of Philadelphia, which CEN
ters in grand concourse, located
adjacent to the Main or Belmont avenue
entrance.


There are thirteen entrances to the
Exhibition grounds.


The hours for admission will be from
nine a. m. to six p. m.


The price of admission is fifty cents,
payable in one piece at the entrance gate
this one charge admits the visitor to
Year: 1876

and cold were tine poor fellows who had
so long been keeping the field; for pro-
visions were scant, clothing worn out,
and so badly off were they for shoes that
the footsteps of many might be tracked
in blood. Those who were on the sick
list had to seek temporary shelter
wherever it could be found among the
farmers of the neighborhoed. According
to the regulations in the orderly book,
each hut was to. be fourteen feet by
sixteen, with walls of logs filed with
clay six feet and half high; the fire.
places were of logs, plastered, and logs
split into rude planks or slabs furnished
the roofing. A hut was allotted to
twelve non-commissioned officers and
soldiers. A general officer had a hut to
himself. The same was allowed to the
staff of each brigade and regiment, and
the field officer of each regiment, and a
hut to the commissioned officers of each
company. The huts of the soldiery
fronted on the streets; those of the
Year: 1876

The space occupied by each country,
as given above, refers only to.the Main
Exhibition building Most Of the coun-
tries also occupy space in one or more Of
the other principal buildings, and some
of them provide additional separate
buildings for their special exhibits.
Year: 1876

Amusementes


Watts Phillips drama, known in London
as "Not Guilty" was produced at the Va
rieties Theatre last night somewhat altered
from the original play, and bearing the
added title of Colonel Willoughby." The
main incident of the story, which shows
robbery committed and an innocent man
sent to the Dartmoor quarries for the Of
fense, while the real criminal obtains po-
sition as prison warden over his victim, is
said to have been derived from facts. The
escape of the prisoner and subsequent SER
vice in India, his being followed by the
real criminal, who steps into the position of
q colonel of the British army by taking ad-
vantage of the death of such an officer and
the villainous vagabond's resemblance to
him in form and feature, calls for . draft
upon the imagination Of an audience; but
the material of facts and fiction makes an
interesting play, and the military display
and mechanical effects adds attractive fea-
lures. The scene representing the de-
parture Of q ship with military band and
troops ON board, which ship is practical and
swung from the Southampton docks by
tug-boat, is novel and fine stage picture.
With go many supernumeraries, bands and
soldiers, scenes and mechanical effects to
manage, it is not strange that on the first
representation the curtain did not fall ON
the last act until late hour. Tonight the
drama will run smoother, and the enter
tainment is one deserving the attention Of
the public.


Harrigan and Hart have made sensa-
ton with their specialities and are drawing
good houses at the Academy of Music.


Miss Kate Fisher is filing out the week
with horse dramas at the St. Charles The
atre.
Year: 1876

A Passage in the New Testament says: "And if thine eye offend thee pluck it out and cast it from thee." Leon Gam betta, the invincible Republican agitator, is said to have deliberately destroyed his left eye when he was boy at school, if not exactly in obedience to the divine command, yet because he disliked to study the languagein in which this mandate was originally written. Gambetta hated Greek. and did his utmost to get excused from studying it. But when he found that his entreaties were of no avail with his father, he threatened to destroy his vision. Gambetta pere. a stern and reso- lute man, who deemed it wise fathers duty to thwart the whims of an obstinate boy, was immovable, and told Leon he could pluck out his eyes if he chose, not of course for one moment supposing the possibility of such thing. Enraged at this wholly unexpected answer, young Gambetta tore his left eye from it's socket, and informed his father that the right eye should go to keep company with the left if there were no other way of escape from study of the hated lan- guage. Happily for France, his father, recognizing the indomitable will of his son, at once yielded the point.
Year: 1876

Wat will you take to drink" asked
a waiter Of a young lad who for the FIRST
time accompanied his father to public
dinner. Uncertain what to say, and fee,
ling sure that he could not be wrong if he
followed his fathers example, he replied,
"I'll take what father takes"


The answer reached his fathers ear,
and instantly the full responsibility Of bis
position flashed upon him. And the
father shuddered as the history of several
young men, once promising as his OWN
bright lad, and ruined by drink, started
up in solemn warning before him. Should
his hopes be blasted, and that opsn.iaced
lad become burden? But for strong
drink they would have been active, ear.
nest, prosperous men ;and if it could work
such ruin upon them, was his own son
safe? Quicker than Lightning these
thoughts passed through his mind, and in
a moment the decision was made. III be
falls he will not have me to blame = and
then in tones tremulous with emotion and
to the astonisment Of those who knew hiu
he said, Waiter, I'll take water;' and
from that day to this, strong drink ha.
been bsnished from that mans home.
Year: 1876

Take goblet with the foot and stem
broken or cut oil, so that the bowl will
be perfect; take course red flannel. the
redder the better; stitch it neatly round
the bowl, or goblet, SO as to cover it
completely on the outside: dip it in
water SO as to wet it thoroughly then
rollit in flaxseed the seed will stick in.
and on the flannel; be sure that the
seed is distributed evenly. then stand
it on its month, or large end ID saucer
or small plate; put water in the plate
or saucer, and add to it as it absorbs.
Never let the vessel get dry, nor suffer
it to chill or freeze. 1t will grow in any
part of the room. and will be deep green
with AIRED ground.
Year: 1876




One hundred years ago wedding tours
we're not fashionable.


One hundred years ago farmer, did not
cut their legs OF with moving machines.


Ore hundred years ago mothers did
not worry over disordcred sewing ma.
chimes.


Que hundred years ago horses that
could trOt mile in 2:14 were somewhat
scarce.


One hundred years ago it took several
days to procure devorce and find a con.
genial spirit.


One hundred years ago every young man
was not an applicant for a position as a
clerk or book keeper.


One hundred years ago gas monopolies
and extortion were unknown, and the boys
and girls did their sparkling as well by
the light of oil lamps and tallOw candles.


One hundred years ago men did not
commit suicide by going up in balloons and
coming down without them.


One hundred years ago there we're no
Turkish harems at Salt Lake and 10
Anna Elias suing for the nineteenth
part ofa divorce.


One hundred years ago the people
knew nothing of "higher law" true in
wardness," or Plymouth Church morality.
credit mobilers, government subsidies, or
crooked whiskey rings.


One hundred years ago England was
not far behind the United States in all
that goes to make a nation powerful and
progressive.


One hundred years ago the Dutch had
taken Holland, but they had not made
France "dome down" with handsome
pile OF smart money"


One hundred years ago a young woman
did not lose caste by wettiug her hands
IN dish water or rubbing the skin
of her knuckles on wasLboard.


One hundred years ago physician who
could not draw every form of disease from
the system by tapping large vein
in the arm, was not much of doctor.


One hundred years ago men we're not
runring about over the country with mil,
lions Of fish eggs to be hatched to order.
Fish superintended their own Matching in
those days.


One hundred years ago the condition
of the weather on the lst of January wa
not telegraphed all over the continent on
the evening of December 81. Things
have changed.


One hundred years ago people did not
worry about transit and cheap transporta-
ton, but threw their grain crops across
the backs of horses and uncomplainingly
went to mill"


One hundred years ago every man cut
his coat according to his cloth, every man
was estimated at his real value. shoddy
was not known, nobody had struck ''ile'
and true merit and honest worth were the
only grounds for promotion.
Year: 1876

BE coutent as your mouth is full and


body covered remember the poor; kiss
the pretty girls; never pick an editor
pocket, nor entertain an idea that he is
going to treat kick hard times and dull
care both to the deuce; black your own
boots; sew on your Own buttons; cherish
friends aud forgive your enemies; lore
your neighbor and bis wife; and be sure
to take paper or two, and pay for them.
Year: 1876

New YORK, Sept. 4.-The Her
aid publishes a long interview
with President Grant, at Long
Branch, in which he expresses
himself very freely regarding the
political situation and prospects.
He thinks if the Republicans car
ry Indiana there will be scarcely
any contest at all, and he believ-
ed they would carry that State.
Regarding the withdrawal Of Mr..
Orth as a candidate for, Governor
under charges of corruption, he
President said he did not believe
that had injured


THE PROSPECTS OF THE PARTY
in Indiana. He spoke as though
he was far from convinced of the
truth Of the charges against Orth,
and contrasted the course of the
Republicans with that of the
Democrats. The former had shown
they would not run a candidate
who ever bears the semblance of
wrong. They had withdrawn a
Gubernatorial candidate charged
with having helped fraudulent
claims, but would the Democrats
withdraw their Presidential can
didate in the face Of the far more
serious charges made against him


REGARDING HIS INCOME TAX?


He thought it was a queer bust
ness, and wondered how he would
get out Of it. He believed the
Republicans would if they could
check Democratic intimidation at
the polls, and the negroes being
allowed to vote, have a good
chance Of carrying North Carroll
ma, West Virginia and Maryland.
He did not despair Of their carry
ing Louisiana and Florida also if
a fair election could be had, al
though he considered them more
Year: 1876

The Secretary of Treasury,
speaking Of the public debt, says
the results Of the present year are
very gratifying when the dimin
ished receipts from customs and
other sources are taken into con-
sideration, and, having reduced
the debt last year $29,0O0,00O, if
we continue as we have done so
far there is reason to believe We
will reduce il $5S,000,0OO in the
present year.
Year: 1876

While this would give The eIec.
ton to the party which carried
New York, it would give the Re
publicaps a decided advantage,
since; if they lose New York, the
gain of any other State without a
corresponding loss, or gain of two
more votes than were lost among
the smaller uncertain States,
would still give them the cleo
ton, while if the Democrats were
to lose New York they could
hardly hope to make up the loss.
We cannot see where the neoes-
sary votes would come from.
Year: 1876

The white Democrats in Brad
ley strongly condemn the course
OF the knoxville Democrats in
running a negro for Governor.
However. the Knoxville chaps
claim that Yardley is the strong
est Of the three.
Year: 1876

THE LAWS OF NATURE vs. THE DIVINE GOOD


NEss-sERMoN BY REV. JAMES NJ. PULLMAN.


At the Church of Our Saviour West Fifty seventh
street. near Eighth avenue, the congregation of the
Sixth Universalist Society listened to by the
pastor Rev. James NJ. Pullman, the forty hh
of the fifth chapter Of Matthcw-That ye may be the
children OF your Father which is IN heaven for ho
maketh his sun 10 rise on tho evil aud on the good,
and scndeth rain on the just and on the unjust"


In presenting his views the preacher said that amid
all the problems OF being that disturb and perplex
there is question which goes before touching
the character OF God in its relation to mani e.,
whether Tho goodness OF God co-cxist with our
misfortune. If We study our nature we find that of
all things in e have the greatest horror OF being
subject TO fixed fate, OF being imprisoned In
world whose forces are pitless and irresistible,
and we continually ask ourselves, 'Docs God care for
manYn Are there any evidences OF that love and
the laws OF natureS In this modern time there is
scepticsm abroad whose foundations are apparently
based natural science. II holds that the laws of
nature innexibe aud behind them there moral
II tells us that the ship carrying the scsacr
fcing missionary Is likely to be struck by lightning
is the ship carrying crew OF pirates and cut.
throats The very passage selected as his text
urged in confirmation OF the statement ''He maketh
his sun the evil and the good and sendeh
the just and on the unjust" is quoted to show
that God treats all alike caring nothing for either the
good the bad that then, indeed there
would be no life beyond, and religion would be very
moCkcry Inat


sCEPTICAL PHILOSOPHY


makes men fcel that like the prisoner who tho walls
Of his dungeon slowly closing around him. nearer each
day. at last they too, will be crushed. There Is
no patriotism gunpowdcr it will kill friend foo
alike The railway will carry and ANN milton
readily for army as for the other; there is no
tenderness in the knife OF the surgeon, and II knew
nothing about surgery would l not think tho surgeon
a iend when | saw him laccrating the body of a pa
tcnt? But know the pain necessary for the
cure The knife is directed by kind hand and u wiso
mind seeking to do good. When VIC study the laws OF
r,01,t hacn gfpir nlr tho
ones and to judge God by them? What right have wc
TO leave entirely out OF the question? Is he not
the creature of God. the being created in His image
There is love ana sympathy in man for They
given TO him. by the Father. he could not give
what He did not have But they say find IN man
coaness, hardness and inhumani,y. Men have always
recognized those qualities low and others high.


Let those who study nature study her highest awsthc
laws of human pature-and they will find the love aud
sympathy and care OF God In and over all.