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Year: 1875

MUDsILI. THE late Vice President


Wilson in his speeches sometimes referred
to the events of his early life, and on one
memorable occasion he did so most clio.
9uently; In 1858, in reply to the famous
" mudsill speech of Gov. Hammond of
South Carolina, he said: -
Sir, am the son of a hireling manual
laborer, who, with the frosts of seventy
winters on his brow, lives by daily labor
too have lived by daily labor | too
have been : hireling manual laborer
Poverty cast its dark and chilling shadow
over the home of my childhood, and want
was sometimes therc-an unbidden guest
AT the age of ten years-to aid him who
gave me being in keeping the gaunt specter
from the heart of the mother who bore me
u lett the home of my boyhood and went
forth to earn my bread by daily labor"
Year: 1875

Coop EXAMPLE TO FoLLow.-The sen.
sloie and patriotic letter of the Chief Justice
OF the United States tChief Justice Waitel
has suddenly made him one Of the most
admired and trusted of American citizens.
lie came into the exalted position he holds
not very generally known to the people.
though respected by the whole Bar for his
eminent legal attainment5 and high char
acter This letter, in which he declines to
drag the Supreme Court into politics. will
make him known and valued by all Ameri.
cans as man who feels the dignity of his
place and has sense Of duty. What an
excellent example the Cnicf Justice has set
10 the President! lfnow General Grant should
IN his forthcoming Message formally pro.
nounce against third term as unadyjsable
and contrary to the spirit Of our institutions
ne too would find himself applauded by the
people, and he would disarm his enemies
m a way which would please all his trnost
friends.-N J. HeraH
Year: 1875

Life is full of traps of various kinds
wherein the unwary blindly walks.
Think of the social traps laid for us at
all corners, and then see what service
of peril this daily life of ours becomes.
Take for one instance, the undesirable
people to whom we are introduced, we
innocent of all causes of undesirable
ness. the mutual friend" being the
sinner, from his desire to do the Doubt
fuls a service at our expense. The trap
laid for us is one so artfully concealed,
there is no possibility of discovering it
until after we have been entrapped,
when it is too late to repair the damage
done to previously good reputation.
Then there are traps of another de-
scription-those which are set by
habitual secret hunters. No sooner do
these people see the faintest trace of a
secret lying about than they lay their
snares to entrap; and in the great ma
iority of cases they succeed. For
trapping is an art like any other, and
practice makes perfect in it as In any
other. The great art lies in the nice
selection of the bait. Sympathy goes
a long way with some. A nice friendly
manner, a soft wooIng voice, knees to
knees in the summer twilight; feet on
the fender, and the easy chairs very
deep and cosy, by the winter fire; a
little Indifferent talk to lead the way !:
a little pretended confidence on the
trapper's part, to smooth off the first
difficulties and warm the chill of shy
ness; and the poor victim is caught--
trapped without hope of escape. At
other times it is the bluff kind OF
liberality which processes to be shocked
at nothing. "My dear fellow" or ''my
dear child, you can tell me anything:
know human nature, and am no bigot.


On which the silly snip rms its head
into the moose, and learns the value OF
moral iberality professed for bait, at
its sorrowful leisure. Yes, life is full
of traps set everywhere and baited with
everything under heaven. Our fears
and our hopes, our loves and our hates,
self-interest, sympathy, the fervor OF
imagination and the influence OF
personalities, all are the bats and the
traps laid for us and perhaps no man
or woman lives who has not at some
time fallen into one or more.
Year: 1875

I don't ask anybody to take my word as
Gospel truth but they ndy-if 1t
pleases them-just do q little private
detective business on their own behalf
and then judge if I have very much
overdrawn the truth.


But what burlesque upon the rare
beauty and elegance Of pure and simple
speech.


So widespread and prevalent has be-
come this practice of idiomatic express
sion, the use of these cant and vulgar
phrases, that it is seldom except when
thrown in contrast with people of really
superior culture, that the habit strikes
us in its truly ludicrous and humilating
light.


Verify. the tongue is an unruly MEM
Der But do, for the sake of personal
decency and the general good, let us
each try, in herself and himself, to be-
gin and continue an effort towards the
correction of these low and gross vul-
garisms which are more particularly
the Characteristic of us Americans than
of any other civilized nation under the
sun. Americans both at home and
abroad have made themselves the
laughing-stock of foreign criticism,
though this pet weakness, long enoughi
Year: 1875

Charles Warren Stoddard quietly re-
moves the romance from the Venitian
fower-girls by saying:


There are fiower-women who offer you
a straw with q bud and three geranium
leaves at the top of it. "Offer," said.
Offer is a mild word to apply to their
attacks they stab you in the button
hole with their villainous little bouquets
and follow you for half block implor-
ing you to buy. II you take thewoman
by the nape Of the neck and dangle her
over the canal for few moments she
merely smiles when she returns to earth
and at once selects new bouquet, even
less desirable than the last, with which
to beguile you.
Year: 1875

Between forty and fifty years ago
there was an amusing contest going on
between two trades-people in London.
Both were hair-dressers, and lived
opposite each other. Seeing that one
throve by selling pomade made of bears
grease, the other knowing that it was
Just as good and more profitable to sell
any other material in pots, with "bear's
grease" on the label, started an oppo-
sition, using similar pots to those sold
by his opponent, filled with an mex
pensive unguent. The first dealer, who
was known to keep bears in his cellar,
and who had himself taken up once a
week before the sitting alderman as a
nuisance, by way of advertisement,
killed bear upon this, and hung him
up whole in full sight in his shop. He
also wrote in the window, "a fresh bear
killed this day." The other, who had
but one bear in all the world, which he
privately led out of his house after
dark every night and brought him back
in the morning Ito seem like supply
going on), continued his sale and an.
nounced in his window "Our fresh
bear will be killed tomorrow. The
original vender then determined to cut
off his rivals last shift, kept his actual
bears, defunct, with the skin only half
off, like calves at a butchers, hanging
up always at his door, proclaimed that
all bears grease sold in pots was vile
imposture, and desired his customers
to walk in "and see theirs with their
own eyes, cut and weighed from the
animal" This seemed conclusive for
two days but on the third, the cum
ming opposition was again to the fore,
with placard founded ON the opinion
of nine doctors of physic, which stated
that bears grease "obtained from the
animal in tame or domesticated state
will not make anybody's hair grow at
ALL" in consequence of which he went
on to say: He has formed an estab-
lishment in Russia, (where all the best
bears come from,) for catching them
wild, cutting the fat Immediately, and
potting it down for London consump-
tion. And the rogue actually ruined
the business of his antagonist, without
going to the expense of killing a single
bear, by writing all over his house,
Licensed by the Imperial Govern
ment, here and at Archangel."
Year: 1875

1t is no sign of gentility to be utterly
Indifferent to expenses. Many people
think it is quite ''the correct thing" to
know nothing OF the prices of common
articles. Such ignorance is supposed
to suggest the idea OF vast wealth.
But the facts are, that it suggests quite
different train of ideas. The truly
refined and high bred, with abundant
resources at command, know that it sd-
vertises great ignorance of the world,
a very limited education, and even less
common sense. This sort of display
goes hand-in- hand with vulgarity, and
stamps its possessor in a way that Is
s'known and read OF most men," Peo-
pie possessed of wealth, which is not
founded upon shifting sand," are
usually most exact and systematic in
all their money affairs. Ladies of
wealth and good breeding see well to
the ways of their households, and are
strict in their domestic management,
that no waste shall be allowed. As a
rule, the poor are more wasteful than
the rich-one reason why they remain
poor. When a young couple, with
their way to make in the world, begin
housekeeping in style that is only
suitable in people of established wealth
they do command the respect they wish
in places where their reputation is Of
the greatest account to them. Busi-
ness men, where confidence is a young
mans best capital, will not trust him
half as readily as if he had ''begun
small" III there is anything that makes
home uncomfortable. it is the continued
consciousness that one is living beyond
ones means, and that a reckoning day
is sure to come. Yet the calls for ex-
penditure are incessant, and each keeps
on buying, with no calculation how
matters are coming out, until the fnal
crash settles the matter for them. II
you wish to get true comfort out OF
your income, and command the respect
of those about you, learn to keep your
accounts accurately, and spend your
money with discretion.
Year: 1875

Let every one sweep the snow. from
his own door, and not busy himself
about the frost on his neighbor's tiles.
Great wealth comes by destiny; mod
crate wealth by industry. The ripest
fruit will not fall into your mouth.
The pleasure of doing good is the only
one that does not wear ont. Dlg wen
before you are thirsty. Water does
not remain in the mountains, nor
vengeance in great minds.
Year: 1875

A GENTLEMAN in Des Moines owns q
very intelligent little dog, which he has
trained to bring him his morning paper
from the front gate, where it is left by
the carrier. The other day some one
stole the paper directly after the carrier
had left 1t, and Carlo was greatly mys-
titled about the matter. Fearing his
masters anger if he entered the break
fast-room without his accustomed bur-
den, he secured about in great distress.
A happy idea struck him, however, as
he espled a journal lying on the door
step of the opposite neighbor, and
galloping off in high glee, he soon came
INTO the house with ears pricked up and
tail briskly wagging, with the stolen
prize in his mouth. 1t is quite need
less to add that his penetration, though
misdirected, was rewarded with q bone
of extra size.
Year: 1875

You WILL BE WANTED. courage
my lad. What if you are but an hum
BILE, obscure apprentice-a poor. ne
elected orphsn-a scott and byword
for the thoughtless and gay, and de-
spise virtue in rags because Of its
tatters? Have you an intelligent mind,
untutored though it be? Have you q
virtuous aim, q pure desire and an
honest heart? Depend upon it some
of these days you will be wanted. The
time may be long deferred-you may
grow to manhood, and you may even
reach your prime before the call is
made; but virtuous aims, pure desires
and honest hearts are too few not to be
apprecisted-nott to be wanted. Your
obscurity shall not always hide as a
mantle, obscurity shall not always veil
you from the multitude. Be chivalric
IN your combat with circumstances. Be
active, however small your sphere of
action. 1t will surely enlarge with
every moment, and you will have con-
tinued increascment.
Year: 1875

The RIVER OF LIFE.-A youth stood
on the banks of the river of life and
gazed upon the countless millions of
boats which crowded its broad surface.


Each boat represented a human life,
and the port to which all were sailing
was eternity.


At the wheel of some Of the boats
stood a shadowy form which guided the
vessel through the foaming rapids and
past the dark, rising rocks in safety,
and kept the prov of the boat always
pointed in the right direction.


The shadowy form was the good
guardian angel of that life. and the evil
angel hovered around and overhead,
endeavoring by false bescons to draw
the boat from its right course tut the
pilot was faithful and true, and the
efforts we're fruitless.


Other boats there were which had no
pilot, and these were drifted and dashed
around at the mercy of the waves. The
evil angel showed the false beacon, and
these boats were deceived and followed
it.


On, on they were led, until at last
they were dashed upon the rocks and
lost.


Some of the vessels, even after being
wrecked, called for pilot, which even
at that late hour was furnished them,
and they were brought safely into port.
Year: 1875

LONDON, Sept. s2,--Nearly all the morn
ing journals have leading editorials on
Sir Edward William Watkins Erie Rail
way report. The TING. says the advice
given to, Watkins, not to raise or remit more
money, is sound, and agrees with him that
in self redemption is the only possible pol
icy under the circumstances. The Daily
Telegraph cannot see why the report excited
such general surprise, the company having
been admitted as being heavily involved for
some time past. The future of the COM
pany is the real and important question,
and on this point the report is as encourag-
ing as could be expected. The property is
worth great effort to save and should not
be abandoned to its fate.
Year: 1875

We call the attention of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 10
the gross case at the p, W. & B. Depot,


where party Of colored porters use poor
half starved pony, as q hack for the odd
1obs in hauling which they may pick up.


Inc case Is gross violation Of the law
against cruelty to dumb animals and should
be attended to BY the s. P. G. Al. It has
been noticed by almost every one familiar
with the depot, and Officer Legg has driven
the porters away from the R. r. property
and the poor miserable little pony is now
usually hitched on Front street, back of the
Year: 1875

A Marvel of PerfectiOn...Now Novel
and Complete in COnstruction...I
genius, Economical and Convenient
in its ApplicatiOn-.-Simplieity Cheap
ness, Durability and Healthfulness
its Characteristic Advantages.
Year: 1875

On entering the room the visitor is apt
to gaze around and ask, where is your


stovel-little dreaming that very neat


upright cupboard-probably SIT high
with folding glass doors is THE MODERN
WONDER OF THE AGE. But it is-and
not only constructed with neat external


wooden case Sut lined throughout with
zinc. But where does the heat come


from is the next very natural interroga-
ton Of the visitor. Why, it is emitted
from an aperture on the top-out OF
sight and the room, from the ceiling
to the floor and to its utmost extent, is
kept at an equal temperature while the
atmosphere therein, (or even to the ex-


tent of three or four roomsl is easily
regulated, at pleasure, without the ex.
ira expense of fixing a foot more steam,


hue or water pipe. At one end of the
said heater is a neat inch iron fur
mace, enclosed in an outer box or case,
with bars working on a rack or cogs,
that the fire maybe almost momentarily
cleansed at pleasure without the least
possible chance of the dust arising. At
tho back of this fire-box or furnace is a
small circular outlet for the flames
through, which they pass after the car


bon and hydrogen gases have been dis
engaged while burning. This small


outlet or conducting pipe is only some
three inches long, though an inch thick,
and is perforated or punctured with
small holes, which admit the air. 1t
connects with another kind of iron box,
triangular shape, fiat side uppermost,
which is really constructed as a prism,
inside. Now comes a most important
point in this invention. The action of
the prism conce ntrates the carbon and
hydrogen gases of the flames, while the
small holes in the short conducting pipe
or hue admits the air-thus, again unit
ing the relative properties Of the flames,
which here burn over again. The re-
suit being-by this mode of generat-
ing heat, twice the value is secured from
the same amount of fuel as by the or
dinary fiue process in common stoves
which carry off half the heat with the
smoke. Still, this heater has d kind OF
exhaust or smoke pipe to dispose of the
surplus, but gives out very little smoke.


Outside there is also very fine copper
tank, through which this pipe-double
cased-passes, thus keeping constant
Year: 1875

There are now on view, two of these
heaters III operation i'll the third story Of
Bucliland's Block, over the Mayors Of
flee, corner of Front and State streets
where the patentee and general agent
for the United States are both in attend
ance, anxious to give every information,
with full tests They have also samples
Of dried fruit of every kind, corn, &c,
and are most courteous and willing with
information. The BOSWELL FAMILY
HEATER is offered only at ordinary
stoves prices-varying from $50 TO $S5
each, but when seen win be admitted to
eclipse anything of the kind ever sub
mitted to the American people.


Should a committee Of ladies be form
ed to give the invention a full test-as
has been done before elsewhere-the
will gladly receive and
entertain them-submitting with the
utmost satisfaction to their impartial
decision.


If any individual or corporation
should desire to secme the right of this
patent, for one or more counties, we ara
informed they are for sale, and result
of from 30 to 40 per cent. may be re-
fact the patentee will glad
ly prove Such an opportunity for 50
small cash capital TO form company
has scarcely ever presented itself, and
may never recur, TO which should also
be added tho still more important fact,
that by establishing such manufactory
the local demand for these indispensi-
bles in every family would certainly be
retaining almost the exclusive cash thus
expended within our own borders.
Surely some of our capitalists viii give
the matter consideration, and after care
full investigation, secure to the interest
of our city so excellent an adjunct 10 its
manufacturing resources.


Neighbors- theaddress- call aud
you will be fully convinced we have not
in the least exaggerated the facts.
Year: 1875

A letter from the distinguished English
poet and prOseyte to the Roman Catholic CDurch,
Mr.. Aubrey de We're, to Sara Coleridge, Is pub
lished in this number containing discussion OF
the Catholic philosophy on the rule OF fhth, OF
tho relation OF Church authority 10 personal re-
sponsIbty II presents an interesting account OF the
process by which the writer was led to make the tran
stion from the Church which he had been educated TO
the Catholic communion. The argument Is that OF man
Of letters aud not of theolugIn and i'll naturally com
maud a greater degree OF sympathy on that account.
different phase OF subject presented IN Re


giou and State In our Republic" 10 which the writer
considers the outes OF q Roman Catholic as cltSen
under the Uutcd states government he discai1s the


dea in behalf OF Catholics of their becoming an agGres-
sive party with the intention of Establishing the suprem
acy OF the Catholic religion By foroi0e aud violent
means SIN tho infallibe authority OF the Pope
s claimed as the rule OF faith for the lndlVld-
ua prescribing what must be done or omitted 10 order
TO obey the law Of God. But his governing power in
the Church is a different thing from his nalliohty. No
direct temporal jurisdiction Is Joined Dy divine night
with spiritual Jurisdiction The direct temporal authority
OF the Pope in his kingdom is from human right and the
Indirect jurisdiction which springs from divine night s
only an application OF spiritual jurisdiction, varying 10


Its exercise as tue civil laws less conformed


to the divine law and depending the concurrence OF
the evil power The Church has always recognized the
distinction OF the civil power from the spiritual power,
and its sovereign independence 10 its own sphere OF any
direct temporal jurisdiction Of tho Pope. This may


have been the practice OF the Church. from motives OF
expeiicncy or policy. but the logical consequences OF
the doctrine of infanbiity must think remain the
same II the head OF the Catholic Church is the au-
thorzed ylcegerent OF God the eartn his JuT,sdlc
ton extends to every relation, whether political or
spiritua with the certainty and universally OF the D
vine Law,
Year: 1875

1srRKYGTH AND BEAUTY. Dls1USSioH9 F0s YoUSG MEN


Is, MARG HJFkISs u. d. l2Bo. ~. jdl. D'dd A'-a.


The general title of this volume Is derived
from that Of the opening discourse which treats Of the
combination OF strength and beauty 10 the character as
the perfection of human excellence. These two Gle
nents Dr. Hopkins remarks, are not antaGonistic In
the. nature but in profound analysis are seen 10 Ds
but the various manifestations OF single force They
arc not one opposite polar forces are one but yet
strength undercs every form or beauty and Is essen
tia 10 s complete manifestation. 1t IS strength aone
that can elaborate itself into beauty and only "a 1t does
This can we have evidence If the perfection OF strength
The finish of the tulip Is from the circulation
within 70 OF tho divine omnpo,ence, aud ilus-
srates its glory no less than the starry spheres
which roll above Thls applies to strength and beauty
OF character The highest evidence OF strength Is It's
elsloration into beautY-tho beauty which flows from
the Of principle the beauty on the cheek
from the central force OF tie heart The strength Is the
strength OF faith the beauty is the beauty OF ho
mess Most OF the d!scOurses IN the volume are or
silar stamp, relating ~ the application OF ethical
principles 10 the discipline OF life and The formation OF
character. peculiar feature in their composition Is
the absence Of abstract metaphysical reasoning,
AND the free use of illustrations from the aes OF physi-
ca science The author evidently familiar with the
wide domain OF Mature not merely In the capacity or
pOetea observer but diigcnt student O her forces
ard laws. His frequent reference to modern re-
searches in his expeditions Of ethical truth gives GER





into IDe blood lmparis higher tJno to tho system and
enIarges its healthf1 energies The work makes no
.ppcal TO the love OF sensation which furnishes mere
tricOus bait to many popular teachers DR.. Hopkins
s always grave, sincere earnest, never attempting TO
court Jest when he would win SOUL and always pre-
.enting u lofty standard Of duty in the light Of q
thoughtful and serene wisdom Tie volume is issued in
the form OF essays although it consists OF dscOurses
that were prepared in the regular course OF
academic preaching This. 20 a certain extent imDairs
che unity work bY blending tho ferVor of horta-
tory appeals with the calnness OF judicial discussion.
also pass tge Of Scripture as referred
10 az text which is presented in the discourse,
causing incOnvGncDt incOngruity and suggesting
degree OF geuce want OF exactness In execution,
which Is by no means characteristic OF the author.
Thus OF the eighth discourse 1t Is
said, "In the second cpstie OF John we read" and
there the sentence breaks off, without any hint IA to
what We read. Such bemshes, however. do not impair
the character OF the volume for the substantial excel
lenee OF its teachings the wisdom and Sobrety OF It's
tone and the noble ideal of conduct which presents
90 the Young men Of the country.