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Year: 1875

There are very few men, women or
children who will not do better and be


better for a little judiciOus encourage
ment. Indeed, it is absolutely neces-
sary to their welfare. Every kind of
worker, whether in the pulpit, class
room, desk, or workshop (and that
includes editOrs), will be more thrifty
and skilful for a little lubrication by
the way OF sensible and timely express
sions of appreciation, when his work is
worthy of it.


We do not mean that fawning and
tiattering eulOgies must be forever ex-
pressed, and people be treated like
spoiled habies who will cry most
Justify if the sugar-pOt is not in con-
stant use. There is a wide difference
between judicious praise and baby-talk
What We mean is: when a minister,
teacher, OF scholar is making proper
efforts to do his duty, and is making
anything like due progress, let him
know in quiet and subdued way that
you notice it and appreciate it. Thous-
ands of persons, both young and old,
are languishing in their work for the
want of little encouragement.


A good many persons have the faculty
of quickly discerning when a thing is
done right or wrong. lfit is done right,
they have nothing to say. But if there
is any flaw or shOrtcOming, they deem
it an important duty to speak of it in
deprecating tones and manner, and
they feel that their cOnsciences would
be deranged if they failed to rebuke
the fault. The consequence is, they
are regardedas scOlds-a sort of human
currycomb; and the more sensitive the
objects being curried, the more wincing,
laying back of ears, and occasionally
kicking, results from ii. The best way
To curry, it Is said, is to use a brush.
The currylng process may be neces-
sary, and therefore not to be dispensed
with. Ii is the manner of doing it that
makes it for better or worse.


Every observer of human nature
knows that the fault finding, scolding
style provokes a rebellious spirit in
those who are the subjects of it, and
when that style is the pre-
vaIling style. They may even know
that they deserve it, but, after all, when
their good work is passed by III silence,
and their imperfectiOns loudly con
demned, it Is not well received-indeed,
it will discourage and drive away such
persons.


Let imperfectiOns be pointed out and
duly corrected, by all means, and level
up the account by giving due credit
where credit is due. Sensible people
are never hurt by little timely encour-
agement, and 1t is about as good plan
as any to make the other kind sensible.
Lubricate Don't scoldl
Year: 1875

The shadows all day long play at
silent games of beauty. Every thing
is double if it stands in light. The
tree sees an unrevealed and muffled
self lying darkly along the ground.
The slender stems of flowers, golden
rod, wayside asters, meadow daisies,
and rare lilies (rsre and yet abundant
in every nice, level meadow cast forth
a dim and tremulous line of shadow,
that lies long all the morning, shorten
ing till noon, and creeping out again
from the root all the afternoon, until
the sun shoots it as far eastward in the
evening as the sun shot it westward in
the morning. A million shadowy ar
rows such as these spring from Apollo's
golden bow Of light at every step. Fly
ing in every direction, they cross, in
terlacing each other in a soft network
of dim lines. Meanwhile, the clouds
drop shadow-like anchors, that reach
the ground, but will not hold every
browsing creature, every fitting bird,
every moving team, every unconscious
traveller writes along the ground in dim
shadow.
Year: 1875

A few evenings since there dropped


into an uptown hotel q man about five


feet eight, with heavy chin-whiskers,


and with rather an intellectual cast of


countenance, but slightly under the in


huence of liquor. He was attired in


rather seedy and patched suit, but


clean. He wanted lodging for the night,


and inquired of the landlord, if he could


''bunk" with him. The landlord, not


liking his condition and appearance,


told him"he guessed not" The stranger
took a seat and entered into conversa-
ton with some of the boarders. The
landlord discovering during the evening
that he was an educated man, re-
membered the saying of entertaining
angels unawares," told him he might
stay if he paid in advance. The stranger
at once took out about ten dollars in
currency and rendered five-dollar bill
for payment. The landlord soon after
took him to bed and left HIM in his
room, but stationed himself where he
could see the occupant of the room.
The stranger after taking his boots off
got down on his knees in front of the
bed and delivered the Lords prayer in
a most impressive manner, after which
he prayed for all the inmates of the
house, for his friends and for his
enemies, that they might lie preserved
from all danger and that they might be
happy. He then arose and commenced
in the meanwhile talking
to himself and making expression aloud
like the following "What a fool /
hsve been :" ''Some thieves might have
picked me up" 81 wonder if 1 have
got it?" The last remark being ex-
planned by his taking two large rolls of
bank bills from different parts of his
person, which he put under his pillow
and soon got into bed. The landlord
says he never heard the Lords prayer
repeated in a more impressive manner.
The stranger is heavy lumber dealer
from the upper Hudson.-Iroy Press.
Year: 1875

1t is, perhaps, well for us that We do
not count up in early life the number
of steps, many of them weary ones, we
shall have to take in treading the long
road that reaches from the cradle to
the-grave. 1t is well for the. young
housewife that she does not estimate
the number of million of dishes she
will have to wash during period of
Housekeeping forty years long, in each
of which years the table must be cleared
and the dishes washed a thousand
times. It is well that the poor seam
stress does not count the number of
miles of seam and gusset and band,
band and gusset and seam her tired
fingers must form till the lamp of life,
like the table lamp. gives out. 1t is
wise and well that sine, who sits from
one year to another in the same little
room, does not realize that her hand
moves, in forming stitches, more miles
than a steamship travels In crossing
the Atlantic
Year: 1875

upon anything like a thorough study
of oyster grounds and their effects upon
the growing oysters. They vary as farm
lands do on shore, the oystermen of any
locality being able to recognize, at
sight, the oysters of different beds
within gunshot of each other, often
those of different parts of the same
bed. A novice can tell by its plumpness
the cultivated from the natural oyster.
Even when the latter has had the best
of advantages, and has attained the
rounded outline of the perfect oyster it
invariably lacks the depth of body,
the thickness of meat, which the culti-
vator strives to attain. 1t will be very
apt to lack, also, firmness of flesh and
delicacy of flavor.
Year: 1875

THE BLIND GIRL AND HER BIBLE.-A


tile girl who low ed the Bible dearly


became blind, and when she could no


longer see to read it she only loved it


more. A kind friend gave her New


Testament, printed for the use of the


blind, IN raised letters, which she could


feel with her fingers, and so make out.


Never was child more delighted than
she. 1t was a touching thing to see
her, every movement she could spare,
passing her fingers slowly over the
page, as her lips silently uttered the
precious words. But her touch was not
quick enough for her /; her fnger-ends,
poor child were rough, and sometimes
she had to stop d long time over word.
So one day she took a penknife and
lightly pared away the skin from Just
the tips OF her fingers, hoping that so
her feeling would be more tender, and
she could get on faster. What was her
distress IN finding, after a few days,
that her skin had grown again, but so
hard that she could not feel the shape
of single letter She tried and tried,
but all in vain then bursting into an
agony of tears, she pressed the much
loved pages to her lips, to bid them, as
she thought, last farewell But as
she did SO, she suddenly found out that
her lips had the feeling which her
fingers had lost. The letters, the
words, were quite plain l cannot tell
you her Joy that she still could read.
And hundreds of times since the blessed
book has been held to her lips, not IN
sorrow for farewell kiss, but IN thank
fulness and Joy, that even she can read
the words of everlasting life.
Year: 1875

What good does scolding do. 1t does no
one the least service, but it creates infinite
mischief Scolded servants never do their
work well. Their tempers are reused. as
well as the mistress's, and they very often
fail in their duties at awkward moments,
simply to spite her and to ''serve her out ="
Very wrong in them doubtless; but human
nature is frail, and service is a trying insti-
tuition. 1t does no good to husband or child,
for it simply empties the house Of both as
soon as possible
Year: 1875

BAD HABTTs.-As the snow gathers
together, so are our habits formed. No
single flake that is added TO the pile
produces a sensible change no single
action creates, however it may exhibit
a mans character but as the tempest
hurls the avalanche down mountains,
and overwhelms the inhabitant and his
habitation, so passion, acting upon the
elements of mischief, which pernicious
habits have brought together by i'm
perceptible accumulation, may over
throw the edifice of truth and virtue.
Year: 1875

On Wednesday evening a musical concert
will be given in Grace NJ. E. Church, Ninth
and West streets. Quite large number OF
our best known musical talent will take part
in the entertainment several ladies of &C.
knowledged ability will sing solos, and a
very fine baritone will make his debut before
Wilmington audience. The musical selec-
tions are, We feel assured, the finest that
could be chosen.


A number of ladies and gentlemen well
known among our musical circles, have
been engaged to take prominent parts in the
programme. Miss Pickles and Mr.. Null
hausen, both well known for their musical
talents, will preside at the organ. Alto
gether the affair promises to be the event Of
the season
Year: 1875

~ To ladies and others interested in the
Boys and Children departments we would
respectfully say that these departments O
our vast concern have been filled TO over
howins.with an entirely fresh supply o


SUITS AND GARMENTS
fol the little folk-sufficient to stock all the
clothing stores within the limits of the city
and we unhesitatingly assert that such q
beautiful collection of choice winter wear
for children was never arranged on the
counters of any establishment in Delaware
We have


LARGE FORCE OF SALEsMEN.
In these departments, who have made it
their study for years to suit and tit the
rising generation and who will take
great pleasure in displaying the various
new designs and novel ideas gotten ND es-
pecially for the season, and found in no
other establishment


OUR RULE:
GUARANTEE;


CASH RETURNED.
oct3O
Year: 1875

asked man of wealth to tell me whence
And what the secret of his worldly gain;
His answer was, 81 seek to save the pence,
And leave the pounds to rack another's BRAIN
l made inquiry of q man of lore


To know the wherefore of his richer mind;
" In YOUTH" he said, {" gathered such store
Ofchoicer things as age might fail to find.n
importuned the Christian teacher how
best might gain that bliss beyond the grave;
He, smiling, said, "Twere well if and thou
Were mindful ofthe blessings that we havep
And thus learned that he who would be rich
Must not despise an honest penny earned;
That wisdom's garb is fraught with many


stitch,


And joys immortal here on earth are


learned.
Year: 1875

To praise with anything like justice
is the work of an artist. To condemn,
to villify, to dogmatize, is within
every mans power.


Montaigne says of marriage that it
is like a cage-those birds that are in
side desire to go out, and those that
are out want to get in.


A difficult question-How much of
the community's desire for justice is
the impulse of the community's tim
idity and selfishness?
Year: 1875

To test the soundnoss of piece OF
timber, apply the ear to the middle OF
one of the ends, while another person
strikes upon the opposite extremity. If
the wood is sound aud good quality,
the blow is very distinctly heard, how
ever long the beam may be. II the
wood is disaggregated by decay or
otherwise, the sound will be for the
most part destroyed.
Year: 1875

A LETTER from Fall river, where
1900 mill operatives voted themselves
thirty days vacation, rather than sub.
NIT to 10 per cent reduction in wages,
states that the action of the grocery
aud provision dealers in refusing to
credit will be speedily felt, for available
funds OF most employees must be nearly
exhausted; that while it is not the policy
OF the municipal government to allow
actual starvation, charity will be dis
pensed very sparingly, and the feeling
OF the community is decidedly against
the operatives; that they will resist all
measures for relief not absolutely called
for In the light of humanity. Mean.
while, the mill owners say they are
determined to maintain their position
and settle forever the principle that
their business is not to be at the mercy
OF the help; that they have been gov
ened by the operatives too long.
Year: 1875

IHE postmaster.general has received
from Germany an exchange draft for
shoOo In gold, tho balance due this
government postal money-order bust.
ness Tor the quarter ending March 81,
1919. This is the first time in the his.
tory OF postal money.orders that any
balance has been found to the credit of
the United States as between this and
the European country. A couple of
years since it was usual for the United
States to become indebted by the postal
money.order business b the amoust of
three or four thousand dollars a week


The change, the postmaster. general
says, is an indication of harder times in
this country and better times in Europe.
Year: 1875

ACCORDING to the monthly report of
the agricultural bureau, the large in-
crease of acreage in tobacco this year
Q75 per cent. over 1870 did not bring
the breadth planted up to tho standard
of 1873. The increase of acreage over
last year in Tennessee is set down at
2O3 per cent. and that of Kentucky at
223. The report says further that the
present condition of the crop in this
state is six per cent. above the average,
and in Kentucky thirty.four per cent,
adding: "a very depressed condition
is found only in those states whose
yield is too small to greatly affect the
general result" These views will hard.
ly be accepted in this immediate local.
lty, and some may go 80 far as to insin-
uate that the bureau report is manipu-
lated by the "bears."
Year: 1875

The iniquitics Of legislation are some,
times slow in developing Themselves, buI
like murder they will out, Just now
very peculiar feature Of the law in rela-
tion to actions for debt before justice ol
the peace is attracting the attention oil
lawyers and litigauts. The law was
enacted in 1872, and in substance Is thus
A brings u suit against d, say for SO
small sum rs one dollar; b in answer
to the writ served on him goes before the
Justice and says he has an Offset against
IA claim, or in other words that A owes
him a sum exceeding twenty dollars,
Upon this assertion the Justice orders the
cause to the County Court for trial. The
peculiar feature OF the law is that d Is
not required to sustain his assertion to u
counter claim by an affidavit, but upon
his simple statement that he has sUch n
claim the Justice sends the case up to the
County Court. When the cause comes
before the County Court for trial, B is
found to have no counter claim, on the
other hand he does not pretend to have
any. Here then We have on our statute
books law which instead Of promoting
Justice by enabling creditor to obtain
his Just claim without unreasonable delay,
seems to be formed for the express pur.
pose Of hindCring Justice by vexatiOus
delay, II it does not act as u total bar to
the collection Of small debts, thus
actually perpetrating fraud under a
very thin disguise Of law.


The countycOurt holds quarterly terms
and by tGchnicaliIies, which lawyers we'll
understand, the trial Of cause sent up
under thia iniluitous law may DO delayed
anywhere from three to six months, The
law acts, We have said, US bar to any
attempt on the part Of many persons to
collect their just claims, because that in
any case going before the court there Is
necessarily involved expense, such Us
lawyers fees, &c., which in many cases
would be five or ten times tho amount Of
the claim. The wash woman or the day
luborer or the small creditor Of any class
or calling can be every day swindIed out
Of their hard earnings by any one who
chooses to avail himself Of this wonder
lul provision Of law for the collection oil
debts before u justice Of the peace. II
the law had no other bad feature, II l.
worthy Of condemnation for the reason
that It iscalculated to load down the cOun
ty court with MI endless array Of causes
which cannot be reached In any one term
Of the court, and inthis way to defeat tho
ends of justice by prolonged delay. Tht
law Is q most ingeniouSly contriyed
swindling net, and yet its meshcs are moi
so finely wrought but one would have
thought that even The ordinary acnmCr
Of West Virginia Legislature would
have been enough to dlscoycr the miser
able fraud entangled in II. ...
Year: 1875

Has, made the most Astonishing Cures =.
so quick, so rapid are the changes the
body undergoes under the influence of
this truly wonderful medicine, that


Every Day an Increase in Flesh and Weight


Is Seen and Felt.
The Great Blood Purifier.
Year: 1875

There resides in the town Of Kinder
hook, n. Y, an old man aged eighty
years, who owned a few years ago large
farm land we believe two),' and was con-
sidered wealthy and prosperous farmer.
About twenty Years ago he had one colt,
for which he expected to receive a large
sum, but the price not being forthcoming
the stallion was placed in the stable where
he still remains, being now tw, nty-four
years old, with two other stations, one
aged sixteen years and the other eleven
Years.


These animals during their lifetimeha
been out of the stables but few times,
and during the past five years have not
seen open daylight. During all seasons
of the year, hot or cold, these animals
have stood at the racks eating nothing but
hay or straw, and drinking water OCCASION
ally. They have not been permitted to
breathe fresh air or straighten out their
limbs over the ground or the fields during
that time. Never being groomed their
hair became long, and their skins filled
with hayseed which fell from the hay
NOW and with dust.


No doubt the horses would have re-
manned there until relieved by death had
not gentleman named Gray from Ohio
induced the old man to let one Of them
" go west" This, horse, when taken from
the stable, was greatly deformed aboHt
his feet. His hoofs, which had never been
handled by blacksmith, had grown to
to the extraordinary length OF ten inches,
and, In fact, curled over SO that the horse
walked on the heels of his forward feet
and above the hoof. This horse was led
to the blacksmith shop last week. where
his feet were pared down and shod. The
excitement occasioned at the shop where
he was shod drew together a crowd OF
about 400 persons.-Hxdso1 Register.
Year: 1875


Men become baldi Why? Because they
wear close hats and caps. Women are
never bald. Sometimes, from iong-c9n-
tinued headache, heat in the scalp. bad
hair-dressing and some other causes. wo-
men may have bare spots here and there /;
but with all these combined, you never
see woman with bare, shiny, bald
head And you never see a man lose a
hair below where the hat touches the
skull, 1t will take it off as clean as you
can shave it down to exactly that hne, but
never hair below, not If he IA been bald
fifty years. The common black stiff hat,
As impervious as sheet iron, retains the
heat and perspirasiOn. The little hair
glands, which bear the same relation to
the hair that the seed wheat does to the
plant above ground, bt come weak from
the presence of the moisture and heat, and
finally become too weak TO sustain the
hair. 1t falls out, and badness exists. A
fur cap we have known to produce COM
plete badness in single winter. A man
with good head of hair needs very little
protection where the hair grows. Women
who live much within doors, and who are,
therefore, susceptible to the cold, oil their
hair and plaster it down bard and fat
upon their skulls, so as to destroy nine
tenths of It's power as a snon-conductor,
have worn for years postage stamps of
bonnets stuck on the back OF their skulls,
and then, going out of furnace heated par
lars, have ridden for hours in a very cold
temperature without taking cold and with
out complaint.


Man, with his greater vigor and habits
of outdoor life, and with his hair net
plastered down, but thrown UP loose and
light, could no doubt go to the north pole,
So far as that part OF his person is con-
cerned, without any artificial covering.
And yet we men wear immensely thick
fur caps, and do not dare to step out into
a chilly atmosphere moment lest we
take cold. 1t is SILLY, weak and really
serious error. The Creator knew what he
was about when he covered mans skull
with hair. 1t has a very important func-
ton in protecting the brain. Badness is
a serious misfortune. 1t will never occur
in any man who will wear q common
black high silk hat with five hundred holes
through the top, so that there shall be
more hole than hat. This costs nothing !;
the halter will do this for you when you
purchase your hat. If the nap be eombed
back the wrong way, and after the holes
are made it be cembed the right way, no
one will observe the PECULIARLY. The hat
will wear quite as long the hatters say
considerable lOnger-because it is dry in
stead of moist; in brief. there is not a
single objection to it, while it will GER
tainly prevent badness and keep the top
of the head cool and prevent much head
aoha
Year: 1875

doors all winter. II makes ones head
dizzy to see how they do things in Ca.ifor-
mia in harvest.


The more careful farmer harvests his
grain with a reaper. and binds it into
sheaves. In the hot aud dry interior the
straw is too brittle to be bound BY day. so
you shall sometimes see John Clinanian
binding wheat al night long by the light
of the moon and the stars, and sleeping
by day in a dirty tent or underneath a
spreading oak, perfectly secure from rain.
The ranehman's house is generally too
smsll for this sudden host of laborers,
quite small enough for himself and his
family, and the wOrkmen sleep outdoors,
like BOaz, at the end of the heap of corn,
wrapped in their gray California blankets.
] Usually the grain is sacked and lett in
the open field fer months together, with
out fear of rain or thieves. BY and by it
accumu'a ates around the little country de-
pois. corded up in quarter-acres and half
acres. For month after month immense
trains of platform are rolling down
to the bay with this gorge and plethora OF
wheat, and frequently the rainy season
begins befo, e it is all reinoved.-Stephen
Po1ueTs in June Atlantic