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Year: 1876

From the Philadelphia Times, (Dem.)


The public viii not take kindly to re-
Elections or innuendoes against Mrs.
President Grant She may have accept
ed a watch from Gen. Ingalls,, and if so,
committed what proves to be an indis-
cretion, as it is judged by the light of
present events; but in all the flood of
debauehery that has been surging about
the administration, Mrs. Grant has
borne herself with true womaniy dignity
and propriety. Considering the shoddy
social surroundings of power, and the
reign of greed that has made the highest
authority the plaything of its purpose,
the rare prudence and entirely blameless
demeanor of Mrs. Grant is just cause for
the sincere eongratulation of the coun-
try. 1t is evident that neither General
Ingalls, nor any other person has ever
implicated the wife of the President 10
any interference to advance speculative
or political interests, and it is most un-
just to assume that an intended or actual
present to her by an old comrade in arms
of her husband, was either given or re-
eeived with any corrupt purpose. For
seven years Mrs Grant has been the
mistress of the White House, and her
name has uniformly and justly escaped
the scandals which have spared SO few
in their sweep. She has been model
of a modest, sensible woman for the We
men of her country, and commands the
universal respect of the nation.
Year: 1876

There never was truly converted
person in the world that did not love
the written word of God. Every living
thing that God has created requires food.
And the divine life that God imparts to
the soul needs sustaining. When the
Holy Ghost raises man from the death
of sin and makes him a new creature in
Christ Jesus, it is the written word
that constitutes the proper food for that
soul. When see professor of religion
who slightly esteems Bible-reading or
Bible preaching, 1 am persuaded that he
is not yet converted, or that the new
life is sickly and nigh unto death. A
man may be a jealous ecclesiastic, a
great stickler for forms and ceremonies,
may be dilligent in attendance upon the
sacraments, but if these are more pre-
cious to him than the Bible, he is still
walking in darkness. Love of the word
has been a prominent feature in the his
tory of all the saints, of whom We know
anything, since the days of the Apostles.
Job could say, 81 have esteemed the
words of his mouth more than my neces-
sary food" And David, so. how love
thy Law" Let us study the Bible till
it makes us wise unto salvation.
Year: 1876

Alasl how many evils do zoe fear?
What would we give, what would we
not give, could we honestly adopt
David's words? We know that fear is
base, that it disarms and paralyzes us
just when we most need to quit us like
men, to show ourselves strong and brave
And yet, though it be SO base motive,
is there any motive by which we aIe
more constantly animated and betrayed2
To what absorbing and degrading cares
and tolls do men devote themselves be-
cause they fear want! OF what shame
full sins are they guilty because they fear
pain! What torments do they suffer
because they fear death! And how often
do they sink into want by the very
crimes to which their fear of want has
impelled them! How often do they fall
into keener and more insufferable pangs
through the very sins which the fear of
pain has prompted! How often do they
go all their lifetime in bondage to the
fear of that death which brings them an
immortal freedom and blessednessl


1t is only too probable that most of
us have suffered far more from fear of
i'll than from all the ills that have be-
fallen us. As we review the past we can
see that not title of the calamities we
apprehended have come upon us; that
our lives might have been calm and
happy but for these fretful and fore
boding hearts of ours, had we put our
trust in God and been content to wait
on him from day to day, Nevertheless,
though we see how groundless most of
our fears have been, and what needless
torments we have inflicted on ourselves,
how many of us, untaught by the past,
are at this very moment looking forward
with apprehepsive eyes, and peopling
with grim threatening shadows future
which, bat for these unsubstantial fore
bodings, might be fair and brightl-Rec.
S. Goa.
Year: 1876

Bad handwriting is great bore to the
various unfortunate people who have to
read it, but where it deals with a subject
of which-as it usually happens-the
person addressed has some knowledge a
little patience generally surmounts the
difficulty, unless, indeed, the writing he
of that supremely bad character which
caused Sidney Smith to write to his
friend Jeffrey: II have read your letter
from left to right, and Mrs. Smith from
right to left, but neither of US can make
one word of it." The exasperating feat
ure, par excellence of bad writing, lies in
tHegibLe signatures, and strange to say,
signatures are more badly written than
any other portion of a letter. We imag-
Inc that a ridiculous sort of vanity, viz:
the idea of having "a characteristic sig
nature" must underIie this exceeding
great folly and stupidity. A signature
ought, of course, to be the very clearest
part of letter, hrt it often happens
that person receiving letter from a
total stranger has the utmost difficulty
in getting the correct name of his CORES
pondent out OF an obscure conglomera-
ton of twirls and dashes. A frequent
result is that the postmen are driven half
frantic in a vain effort to find out the
man with what the writer wrongly con-
lectures is the name appended to the let
ter he answers, and thus very often the
return letter never arrives.
Year: 1876

If you're ever going to love me,


Love me nov while | can know
All the sweet and tender feelings


Which from real affection flow
Love me now while / am living


Do not wait till | am gone,
And then chisel it in marble


Warm love-words on ice-cold stone.
If you've dear, sweet thoughts about me,
Why not whisper them to me?
Don't you know 'twould make me happy
As glad as glad can be.
If you wait till am sleeping


Ne'er TO waken here again,
There'll be walls of earth between us,
And l could't hear you then.
If you knew some one was thirsting


For drop of water sweet.
Would you be so slow to bring it?


Would you step with laggard feet?
There are tender hearts all round us,


Who are thirsting for our love;
Shall we begrudge to them what Heaven
Has kindly sent US from above:
/ won't need your Kind caresses


When the grass grows DER my face:
/ won't crave your love or kisses


In my last, low resting-place;
So, if you do love me any,


If it's but little bit,
I'd rather know it now, while


Can, living, own and treasure it.
Year: 1876

No one can truly help another with
out helping himself. The reflex action
of doing good brings good to the actor.


Value the friendship of him who stands
by you in storm. Swarms of insects will
surround you in sunshine.


We should learn not to interpret duty
by success. The opposition which as
sails US in the course of obedience is no
evidence that we are emistaken.-Neao-
man Hall
Year: 1876

HOWEVER false or unhealthy religious
feeling may sometimes be, the great
truth still remains behind, that feeling
is the secret of doing. The heart must
be engaged for Christ or the hands will
soon hang down. The affections must
be enlisted into his service, or our obe-
dience will soon stand still. 1t will al.
ways be the loving workman who will
do most in the Lords vineyard. .-Ryle.
Year: 1876

ALL truths, unless productive of holi-
ness and love, are of no avail; they may
float upon the surface of the understand
ing, but this is to no purpose unless they
transform the heart.
Year: 1876

ALL think they mean well, and by an
egregious piece of self-fattery they take
it for granted that our defect lies not in
the will, but in the ability. Just the
reverse; if the will be good, we are good.
Year: 1876

THERE is no class that has not few
scholars who are in certain branches
naturally superior to the teacher. Such
childl en- should be encouraged in their
peculiar aptitudes. 1t is not necessary
that the teacher should set himself rp
as an infallible educational Pontiff on all
subjects; but An occasional confession of
his pupils superior talent viii spur them
on to greater effort, and not lower him
one whit in the estimation of his flock.
Year: 1876

NOTHING is more desirable in teacher
than good nature. Alllegitimate means
to secure this good temper should be
employed. 1t is well-known fact that
ladies who have pleasant home sur
roundings, or are in receipt of attentions
from gentlemen, are in better spirits
than poor forlorn maidens, whereas
there is no Tartar on earth like an an
cient maiden-lady who has lost all hope
of pleasing the opposite sex. In view
of this fact we suggest that one of the
regulation questions for first-grade GER
tificates behave you a beauw
Year: 1876

But ONE SESTIMENT.-The attempt
to saddle Belknap's crime upon the Re
publican party is as senseless as the at
tempt to saddle the crime of default
ing employe on the man he has robbed.
and whose confidence he has abusec-
II the Republican party should Justify
the wrong done, or attempt to shield the
fallen Secretary from the punishment he
deserves, then his crime would in .
measure become the crime of the party.
But neither will be done. Throughout
the country Republicans are united in
denouncing the transgression, and the
loud demands for justice which comes
from all quarters show that the honor
of the party and the purity Of It's intsn-
tions are as assured as ever.


Democracy has screened its ofliciat
criminals, but the Republican party
never
Year: 1876

By giving information in a manner
which the scholar will count it worth his
hearing.


Interest the scholar in a subject and he
will cheerfully give attention.


BY telling the child something which
pays him for giving attention.


Awaken the scholars sympathy with
the subject and he will give earnest at
tention.


Excite curiosity in the mind and cheer
full, earnest attention follows.


Curiosity in children is but an appe-
tite after knowledge. doubt not but
one great reason why many children
abandon themselves wholly to silly sports
and trife away all their time insipidly,
is because they found their curiosity
banked, and their inquiries neglected.
Locke.


Bring distinctly before your own mind
the well known fact, that children de-
light as much in exercising their minds
as their limbs, provided only that which
is presented to them be suited to their
capacities, and adapted to their strength.
-Du'an's Principle Of Teaching.


Under some circumstances, children
are capable of vigorous and long sus-
tanned attention. Nor can we find a
better illustration of mental absorption
than the schoolboy engaged in a match
of cricket or football-W. II. Grocer.


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ITmay appear tritiing to criticise meth
DDS of adding and subtraeting; but we
have weekly evidence that addition and
subtraction are still spelled out under
the direction of the teacher, instead of
being read of, as they should be. "Three
and two are five; five and four are nine;
nine and eight are seventeen. Five
from four we can not, but five from
fourteen leaves nine" What a waste of
words and timel What a misdirection
of mental energy. No instruction is
more valuable to primary children than
drill in rapid addition, and when pupils
get facility therein there is no ability of
which they are more proud. Columns
of 2's, 3's, As and SIS placed on the board
for Second Reader pupils, and of 6's, rs
SIS and 9's for those in the Third Reader,
the sum limited to 80 in the first case
and 60 in the second, give pleasant and
profitable employment to the children.
By placing single different number at
the foot of the column the necessary
combinations are made and variety of
drill afforded.
Year: 1876

In many respects the years that lie between
youth and manhood are the most decisive
and important Of life. As is often remarked


if the Young man reaches the age of twenty
FIVE without falling into evil associations
and bad habits, the probabilities are that
his pathway thereafter will lead along to
respectable if not successful manhood. We
cannot, therefore, but watch with great
anxiety the progress of these early years.
which have such deep and abiding infu-
cnce upon the entire life In almost every
community. whether city or country, there
is to be found large class of young men
who are being led into associations, which
in the great majority of cases are ruinous


What can be done to reach aud save them 2
Ia the cities they are found hanging about
street corners, and the doors of theatres and
saloons. In the country they meet in the
evening at fayorite places, TO pass the time
with ribald Jest and foolish stories, and often
in midnight frolics which strain the char
acter aud debase body and soul. They be-
come utterly Indifferent as regards all re-
ligious influence and everything sacred and
spiritual is made the subject of banter and
ridicule 1t is sad TO pass the hotel steps
on Sabbath evening, and see how much
stronger the attractions of such place are
than the meeting for prayer in the neighbor-
ing church. We cannot afford simply to
shake our heads and prophecy evil things OF
these young men. They must be saved


Some of these persons are where you can
reach them in the place of business. Win
their confidence by showing a kindly inter.
est in them personally, Bring them into
the atmosphere of good associations. Go
after them. Don't wait for them TO come


IT is not their place, and they will go where
the door of welcome first opens, Bet your
thought and prayer go out after certain indi-
yiduals, and then use all the sanctiied com
mon sense it is your privilege to possess in
| drawing them into associations which will
open the way for them to receive the Saviour.
Year: 1876




There is an art in everything. II, when


the harvests are ripe, we should go into


the fields, we would find that while one hus-
bandman goes over the field, cutting down


the grain with great exhaustion, halting at
the end of the first swath before he has
strength again TO strike into the grain,
another man goes for two or three hours
without halting, save to sharpen his instru-
ment-goes from one side OF the field TO the
other without any especial fatigue. What
is the difference In the one case the man
knows how to swing the scythe, aud in the
other he does not. One man will 60 out
with fishing apparatus that has cost INN
fifty dollars, and catch absolutely nothing
the liyelong day while another man, WIN
an apparatus prepared with his own jack
knife, will catch so many of the spoils OF the
water that his basket will hardly hold them
What is the difference ? In the one case
the man knows how 10 fish in the other he


does not We acknowledge that there Is an
art in everything. Is there any art IN reli'
gion Why is It that one man starts out III
tle Christian life and makes rapid advance
ment lie seems to walk across the HELD
going from one degree of grace TO another
Getting stronger and mightier in the Chris
| tian life, with no especial drawback, his ms
fortunes and his trials becoming his ooadJu-
tors, so that at the end Of thirty years he can
look back and see that he has made one long,
] complete triumph; while another man Will
Year: 1876

DO we notice how much more rapidly each
succeeding year seems TO pass away Can
we remember how, in our childhood, the
term Of a year appeared interminable, and
we could compass into that great space al
most any amount Of work and play But
now we become so engrossed that holy days
and holidays are alike invaded and after
all is done, how much is left unfinished, and
how many schemes remain untried. 1t is
the solemn thought connected with middle
life says the late +. w. Robertson, " that
life's last business is begun in earnest; and
it is then, midway between the cradle and
the grave, that a man begins to marvel that
he let the days of his youth 60 by so half en-
joyed. 1t is the pensive autumn feeling; it
is the sensation of half sadness that we ex-
perience when the longest day of the year is
past, and every day that follows is shorter,
and the light fainter and the feebler shadows
tell that nature is Fastening with gigantic
footsteps TO his wintry grave. So does man
look back upon his youth. When the first
gray hairs become visible; when the unwel-
come truth fastens itself upon the mind that
a man is no longer going up hill, but down,
and that the sun is always westing, he looks
back ON things behind. When we were
children. we thought as children. But now
there lies before US manhood with its earnest
work and old age, and then the grave, and
then home. There is a second youth for
man, better and holier than the first If he
will look up and not look back
Year: 1876

III thou wouldst find much favor and
peace with God and man, be very low in
thine own eyes. Forgive thyscll little, aud
others much.-Lagiion.


2 In all thy actions think God sees thee
apd in all His actions labor TO See Him.
Qnaas.


st is only imperfection that complains
of what is imperfect The more perfect We
are the more gentle and quiet we become
towards the defects Of others. .- Fne'oa


Meditation is the souls perspective
glass whereby in her long removes She dis
cernetL God. rs if he were near at hand
Fciiaa.


o. The do-uothiugnrss Of Christians is the
bane Of the church. Live with respect to
business and society a. you do the church,
and there will soon he neither shop nor store,
nor viii there be a freside TO invite You 10
its comforts


G-There is a third silent party TO all our
bargains. The nature and soul of things
takes on itself guaranty Of the fuflment
Of every contract, so that honest service can.
not come to loss. II you serve an uugrate-
iul master, serve him the more. Put God
in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid.
The longer the payment is withholden, the
better for you, for compound interest on
compound interest is the rate and usage Of
this exchequer.


There is no kind Of vocation no de-
gree either spiritual or temporal, no estate
and condition Of life; which can lank this ex-
cellent yirtue-Christian patience. For, as
it Is some time day, some time night, other
whiles cold and frosty winter, other whiles
pleasant and lusty summer, and other whiles
sprngtide, so the life of man and woman is
mingled of sweet and sour things. 1t hath
commodities and pleasures, and it hath
griefs and displeasures. There be things
which delight and refresh us, and there be
rs many things which molest sting, and vex
MS. For who is there living, either temporal
or spiritual, who can truly report that he
hath had continual health and prosperity,
without any storm Of adyersityY Where
fore patience is necessary unto all sorts of
Year: 1876

| IIcaDS


eide whether the close corporation created ahU
controlled by CustOm-hOuse patronage shai
continue to discredit Republicansm Ill the
ewes of good citizens of New-YorlI by pre-
! tending TO be the only organization OF kepuD-
licans here.


II would be worth many thousand votes to
the Republican cause in this State if Its Con-
vcntiOn should seize this occasion to put an
end to ring management and cXciuslyeAcss III
this city. The State Committee did It's part
wisely The Custom-hOuse faction betrayed
its conscious weakness when it refused to IN
yite to primary meetings all those voters
whom il had been commanded to invite. FOR
this exclusion no other excuse can be given
than the fear that the CustOm-house Republl-
cans might be outvotcd by other Republicans
who have by that faction been called irregular
and unreliable. But the party cannot carry
this State without the votes Of that very class
of Republicans who have opposed the Custom
house Ring. If it intends to win, it will act
with the wisdom shown by its state Commit
tee, and welcome to participation Ill nohlha-
tons "dH Republican electors and all other
"yotersn who intend to support Hayes ana
Wheeler. That way lies victory.


The opportunity is the more valuable because
il enables the better Republicans OF the state
TO escape from the irksOme domination Oh "the
"brcad-and-hutter brigade" For years the
party in this State has been growing weaker
because its better elements have thus been
oyerpoWered by the machine vote OF this city.
Even now there is possibility that candi-
date whose nomination the Republican voters


Al.
forced upon the party by the solid machine dele
cations of York, if delegations elected Ill
defiance of the call of the State Committee should
be exclusively admitted. But II the State Coh-
vcntion gives the preference to those RepuD-
licans who have faithfully obeyed the DGoad
and liberal mandate of the State committee,
il is certain that the wishes of the wiser ana
better elements of the party will prevail III CON
ycntion.


The truth is that ostracism and exclusive
rcss ouol,t TO cease. The adhcrcntS of the
Custom-hou.c are earnest Republicans, but not
bcttrr than those who have disscnted from
them. Thcy have strength, but they are not
strong enough to- carry this State alone. III Il
folly to prescribe and exclude any class 0i
mon whose votes are desired and needed to
secure q triumph; nor can any set of men be
expected to rupport with zeal ticket when
they have been held unfit to be consulted with
rcspect 70 its selection. If the State ticket
fairly represents the wishes Of the majority OF
those who support Hayes and Wheeler, the
result will probably be a handsome victory.
If it represents only one faction OF them, no
intelligent Republican will look forward with
confidence 10 the result. The opportunity has
come to make the State Convention repre- sent
for once the whole party If the Convention
sczes that opportunity it will organize victory.
Year: 1876

When the Centennial Exhibition first took shape,
and there was reason TO hope that it would attract
large crowds of.visiors from distance, there a
good deal of discussion as to its probable effect on
general trade. On tho one hand, those who Lad OBJ
served the results that have followed other great
exhibitions, were confident that general trade would
be stimulated. They argued that people coming to
Year: 1876

Letters from Summer resorts begin now TO
show more material than formerly. Saratoga
is at the hight of the season. Long bralich
begins to look crowded. The cottages at ocean
Grove are occupied In their endeayor to ma
recreation or rest the residents at all THESE
resorts contrive to do enough to keep our cor
rasnoOdents busy.
Year: 1876

England is yet long way behind in freeing
Church and State from each other. The
means of comparing progress in Great Britain
and the United States may be found III the
Educational Amendments which have Just been
adopted in each country. There was great eX-
citrment over the measure in Parliament, and
rs finally phrased il was a victory for the re-
actonsts, since it authorizes the support OF
dcnomnational schools from the public purse
Years of agitation are probably in store for
Great Britain before reaching the position that
this country will have assumed when the Blaine
Amendment is adopted by the States; but to
this point the free thought of the age is lneyi-
tably tending, and even in conservative En-
gland it is only q question OF time.
Year: 1876

The mudlle in the Brooklyn courts over
the Hampstead Reservoir is precipitated hy
political rather than economical reasons, ana
little relief to the taxpayers is likely to come
OF it.. BY persistent delays and struggles, as
if in the interest Of the city, to prevent the
use of a half million appropriation, the present
Democratic Corporation Counsel hopes to Sc
cure reappontmcnt by a Republican Mayor ;
and that is about all there is at the bottom OF
the affair The Legislature appropriated half
n million dollars TO finish the reservoir on the
altered plans which the Council had unwlsely
insisted on and that law, whether wise OF
otherwise, il will he difficult to evadc FOR an
other half year even to secure Nh DeWiits
reappointmcnt on the absurd plea that he
actually cares for the city interests.
Year: 1876

A Summer nights stroll in the Eternal
City, as described by our Vlvacious CORE
spondent, seems an endurable mode OF spend
ing time even in not weather In Rome as
well as in other cities, leaving town is mat
ter that is dictated quite as muclsby fashion
as by any real necessity.