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Year: 1871

A eotemporary truly remarks that
there is as much connection between the
words and the thoughts as there is be-
tween the thoughts and actions. The
latter is only the expression of the form
er, but they have a power to react upon
the soul, snd leave the stain of corrup-
ton there. A young man who allows
himself to use one vulgar or profaDe
word, has not only shown that there is
a foul spot upon his mind, but by the
appearance ofthat word he extends that
spot, and infames it, till, by indulgence,
it will pollute and ruin the soul. Be
careful of your words as of your
thoughts.


If you can control the tongue so that
no improper words are pronounced by
it, you will soon be able to control the
mind and save it from corruption. You
extinguish the fire by smothering it, or
by preventing bad thoughts bursting
into language. Never utter word any
where which you would be ashamed to
speak in the presence of the most re-
fined female or most religious man.
Try this practice little while, and you
can soon have command of yourself.
Year: 1871

Let your religion be seen. Lamps
do not talk, but they do shine. A
lighthouse sounds no drum, it beats
no gong, and yet far over the wat
ers its friendly spark is seen by the
mariner.
Year: 1871

A tree 12O feet in height, stood upon an emineRce,
but being partly broken Of at a certain distance
from the ground, and the top falling down de-
civty considerably lower than the foot Of the tree
but resting upon the stump, the distance from the
foot to the top of the tree when down 80 feet, and
line drawn from the foot, at right angle with the
perpendicular stump, to intersect the part broken
off was 40 feet. QuestiOn-hoW high was the tres
broken above the ground
Year: 1871

Too DEEP BY HALF.-PeopIe who
have secret motives for everything
ascribe the same to other people,
and in doing so are often tripped up
by the very simplicity they neither
can understand nor cope with.
Manoeuverers are a detestable spe-
cies; and it is curious as well as edify-
ing tOsee them thus caughtin trapsof
their own springing.
Year: 1871

LITTLE EVILs.-It seems to be q
law of our nature, intended perhaps
for our preservation, that little evils,
coming home to ourselves, should
affect US more than the great evils,
at distance, happening to others /;
but they must be evils which we
cannot pre- vent, and over which we
have no control for perhaps there
is no man who would lose q little
finger to save China.
Year: 1871

At all times in this wintry life the
presence of those we love is like q
CLEAN of sunshine through the
clouds, lighting up one particular
spot amid the shadows, and giving
warmth and lustre and loveliness to
all beneath the ray. The passing
CLEAN still seems brighter than tbe
full sunshine.
Year: 1871

MARRIAGE.-A man who passes
through life without marrying is
like q fair mansion, left by the
builder unfinished. The half that
is completed runs to decay from
neglect, or becomes at best a sorry
tenement, wanting the addition Of
that which makes the whole useful,
Year: 1871

Content converts everything near
it to the highest perfection it is ca
pabIe of. 1t irradiates every metal,
and enriches lead with the proper
ties of gold it heightens gold into
fame, flame into light, and light
into glory single ray of it dissi-
pates pain and melancholy from
the person on whom it falls. In
short. its presence naturally chang
es every place into a kind Of heaven.
Year: 1871

"A young woman in Connecticut
recently, when sick, mortgaged her
body to her physician for dissection
in case of death, as compensation
for professional attendance upon her.
And then maliciOusly she got well.
Year: 1871

if they come into power, ever con


sent to tax themselves to pay pen


sions to the Northern soldiers who


took their subjugation, while their


own are unprovided for? I tell you


they will not, and the power which


will Justify universal amnesty will


Justify the pensioning of rebel sol
diers and putting them on the same


footing with Union soldiers, and
(which would be greater coneilia-


ton than even general or universal


amnesty, and they will advance the


same argument i91Fsgard to pay


ment of the national debt-they


probably would not insist upon pay


ing the rebel debt-that would be


put another way. They would re-


fuse to vote a dollar for the pay
lment of the national debt except on


condition that the slaves Of the


South be paid for. Reverting to af-


fairs in Missouri, he said he did not


come here to take part in local


troubles. He would bury them out


of sight. I want all Republicans,
regardless of differences, to rally for
the great principles of the Republi-
can party. believe the dominance
Of the party is necessary for the sal
walton of this country.


Whatever may have been your
opinions of that party, it is tonight
simply a question between a Demo-
cratic and a Republican President.
There is no middle ground for you
to occupy. You are either upon
one side or the other. If you fail
to vote on the Republican side, it is
half a vote for the Democratic can
didate. I ask you in view of these
considerations, to lay aside all your
past differences and come together
in the great contest, for the nominee
of the next National Republican !
Convention, whoever he may be. |
Immense appIause.] I do not be-
lieve it will nominate anybody but
a good Republican, and pledge my
self in advance to support him,
whether it be Mr.. Greeley or Mr..
Sumner, Mr.. TrumbulI, or General
Grant. prolonged cheers.] "a
vOice.) "I go for a niger, Mr..
Well, I think this Gov
ernment would be safer in the hands
Of great many of them than in
he hands of any Democratic Presi-
lent. He thought President Grants
nance little the best at present.
He denied the assertion that Grant
lad violated the Constitution in the
San Domingo affair, and defended
lis action in protecting American
interests, pending the negotiation of
he treaty. He opposed State Sow
.reignty as taught by the Democra-
y and said there was no safety for
he people while it existed. There
vas no danger of centralizatiOn.-
The greatest idea of the Republican
,arty was that of national unity. If l
We ever abandon that we are not a
lation, but simply an aggregate of !
Independent States, then we will :
ONE way CT other go to pieces.
Year: 1871

Marry young, accumulate a large
fortune, live contentedly to a ripe
old age, and die with caImness and
serenity. This is the only way to
avoid trouble. People who do not
do this make a great mistake.
Year: 1871

Try what you can make of the
broken fragments of time. Clean up
its golden dust; those raspings and
parings of precious duration; those
leavings of days and remnants of
hours which so many sweep out of
existence. And thus, if you be a
miser Of moments, if you be frugal
and hoard up odd minutes and half
hours and unexpected holidays, your
careful gleanings may exc out long
and useful life, and you may die at
last richer in existence than multi
tudes whose time is all their own
James Hamilton.
Year: 1871

Often have I thought with myself
I will sin but this one sin more, and
then I will repent of it and of all
the rest of my sins together. So
foolish was I and ignorant; as if I
should be more able to pay my
debts when I owe more; or as if I
should say, will wound my friend
once again, and then I will lovingly
shake hands with him. But what
if my friend will not shake hands
with me? Besides, can one COM
NIT one sin more, and but one sin
more?-T Thomas Fuller.
Year: 1871

A lady who had a great horror at
tobacco got into a railroad carriage
the other day and inquired of a male
neighbOr, "Do you chew tobacco,
sir ?" ono, madam" was the re-
ply; "but I can get you a chew if
you want One."
Year: 1871

"RebePs Cave" is the appropriate
locality from which Henry Clay
Dean writes to New York paper
that he is opposed to the ''New De.
parture," and sticks to his old faith
which he thus defines:


81 was honestly opposed to the
war and its consequences, and in
favor of the repudiation of the pub.
lie debt or its payment in green
backs"


Is not this short and comprehen-
sive platform, after all, just about a
fair expression Of Democratic opin-
ion in Ohio to-day? Would not
nine Democrats throw up their hats
with sympathetic delight over this
confession Of faith, where one gives
a faint hurrah for the nineteen plat
itudes of the Departure? The Dean
platform is the thing.
Year: 1871

What heroes from the woodland sprung,
When through the fresh awakened land
The thrilling cry of Freedom rung,
And to the work of warfare strung


The yeoman's iron hand?
Hills flung the cry to hills around,


And ocean mart replied to mart,
And streams, whose springs were yet unbound
Pealed far away the startling sound,


Into the forests heart.
Then marched the brave from rocky steep,


From mountain river, swift and cold,
The border of the stormy deep,
The Wales where gathered waters sleep,


Sent up the strong and bold
As if the very earth again


Grew quick with God s creating breath,
And from the sods of grove and glen,
Rose ranks of iron hearted men,


To battle and to death.
The wife, whose babe first smiled that day,


The fair, fond bride of yestereve,
And aged sire and matron gray,
Saw the loved warrior haste away,


And deemed it sin to grieve.
Already had the strife begun;


Already blood on Concord's plain
Along the springing grass had run,
And blood had flowed at Lexington,


Like brooks of April rain.
That death stain on the vernal swad


Hallowed to Freedom all the shore,
In fragments fell the yoke abhorred-
The footsteps of q forcing lord


Profaned the soil no more.
Year: 1871

AccoRD1NG to the London Lancet, plan
has generally been adopted in France Of
placing babies in bran An ordinary cradle
is filled with common bran, a hair pillow is
put in, and then the bran is moved aside
with the hands until hollow is formed the
size of the child's body. The infant, divest-
ed of everything below the waist, and having
little bodice or cape above that, is placed
in the bran and its body completely covered
with it, exactly as may be seen at the sea-
side at the present time, where children play
at burying one another in the sand. A light
coveret or counterpane is placed above all,
and the baby is in bed for the night. The
two great advantages connected with bran
are said to be its particular cleanliness and
the pleasant and even temperature which it
maintains about the infants body. There
seems to be no good reason, says an English
paper, why this privilege, if il possesses
these advantages, should be confined to the
small portion of humanity. Bran might be
used instead of bedding in casual wards,
common lodging houses, and would be pre-
ferable to the dirty beds to be found at sea-
side lodgings. Perhaps the day is not fan
distant when the sojourner at the seaside
will take his carpet bag, a folding box and a
bag of bran, and bid defiance to dirt, fleas
and infection.
Year: 1871

DEATH To THE FAmLY.-In the pathetic
history of Mr. Nix, of Wyoming, the dele
tefious effects of female juryism on the fam


lily have been shown. Mrs. Nix, then having
divers children Of tender years at home, one
requiring sus,enance from her and all atten-
ton, was drawn upon jury. For a whole
long summers day that jury sat. With
night it was still undecided, and by direction
Of the Judge was put in charge of bailiff,
as is customary in exigencies Of this kind.
Nix first sought his wite's return to his hab-
itation by an argument ad miscricorliam,
but the Court refused to recognize in the
Juror the wife and mother then Nix took
legal steps and sought by an injunction, or
habeas corpus, or ca sa to obtain Mrs. Nix,
and again failed; then he pettioned the
Judge to send the jury to his house, which
the Judge refused; and finally, in an agony
of despair, carried his grievances bodily, in
the shape of bowling infant, TO the door Of
the jury room, beseechng that the innocent
might he let in. Once more justice inter-
posed with remark that the law forbade
strange person 10 the jUry-room, and babe
was in the eye of the law person; and on
this fourth rebuff Nix secured the services Of
good-looking cook and committed into her
keeping the infant, the other children, his
house, and himself If Sarah is drawn on
Jury what is left for Abraham but to put up
with the best that Hagar can do. Warned
by the Nix case, every wise man in Wyo-
ming has comely handmaid in reserve to
| preside over his household when the mistress
Of the household Ia off administering tho
! law.-Nep York World.
Year: 1871

tons to the Senate for its decision, as il
affects so closely the right to do any
Gen. Logan, the G. A. r., and tine


Presieency.


1t is reported that Gen. Logan is active
~ at work TO secure the support of the
Grand Army of the Republic in his aspira-
tions toward the Presidency. Active MEM
bers of the order here, who owe no ale
glance to the Logan clique, Indignantly
deny that their order can be used for any
such purpose, and comment severely on
Logsn's personal disposition expressed
against the Executive since his promotion
from the House to the Senate During
the late Senatorial election in Illinois, at
the instance of Logan's friends here, the
President cheerfully authorized denial of
the reports in circulation at the time that
the Executive had thrown the weight of
his official influence against Logan, and
expressed himself as entirely friendly to
his late companion in arms; and viii he
hoped the Republican party in Illinois
would not fail to adopt candidate pleas
ing to him, he should be glad to see Gen.
Logan promoted to the Senate. Gen. Los
gan acknowledged at the time the advant-
age he derived from this warm assurance
Of the friendship of the President, but
since his return to Washington he bas been
engaged industriously in denying his obi
cations to Gen. Grant, and seems ready to
return them with the opposition of q dem
agogue. II is certain that the members of |
he Grand Army throughout the country
Eil scarcely ssympathizs with Logan in |
his course, and be may expect no endorse
nent from the order directed against the |
President.
Year: 1871

A Serious Planetary Disturbance.


MEMPHIS, March 24.-For some weeks
q bad feeling has existed between the
proprietors of the Daily Sun and mem
bers of the Typographical Union, grow
ing out of strike. The printers pub
lished small paper called the Moon,
making personal attacks on the propre-
tors attaches, to which the Sun re-
sponded. This afternoon as w. A. Nc
Cloy was passing through the park for
the purpose as he states of asking pro-
lection for himself and Office
from the Recorder. He was at -
tackled by Henry White, President
and Henry Moode, Secretary of the ty-
biographical Union, who opened fire on
him with revolvers. McCloy fred once
but was shot through the thigh and slight
ly wounded on the top of the
head. They then attacked him
and beat him with their pistols until the
keep per of the park came to bis assistance.
They waived examination and gave bonds
for their appearance in the Criminal
Court to answer the charge of assault
with intent to commit murder in the first
degree.
Year: 1871

There will be special meeting of the
Board of Trade on Monday at 10 o'clock
for the purpose of taking action with re-
ferencs to the location of the Cumberland
and Ohio Railroad. The meeting is one
o. the utmost importance and every men,
ber is urged to be present.
Year: 1871

Tonight the Mechanics end Manufac-
turers' Association will hold their semi
annual meeting in the County Court room
at the Courthouse, at which time the Off
GERS will be elected for the ensuing term.
Year: 1871

Better be understood by ten than ad,
mired by ten thousand.-Edwor1s.
Whosoever shall do the will of my
Father which is in heavsn, the same is
my brother, and sister and MOTHER
Jesus.


Seven years of silent inquiry are
needful for man to learn the truth, but
fourteen in order to learn how to make
it known to his fellow men-Pldto.


Whatever you would not wish your
neighbor to do to you, do it not unite
him. This is the whole law; the rest
is merely the exposition of it.-Rabbi
Hilei.


Look not back upon ycur dark, STUN
bling paths. nor within on your fitful
and vacillating heart, but forward to
scenes of integrity and usefulness; be
more than a cipher in,life.


The first man must have received
knowledge of God by intuition, or from
God. The analogy is wholly in favor of
u supernatural revelation and intuition
would only have been guess.


1t is quite the fashion to drop now
and then a lump of piety into personal
conduct, but too often there is little care
to work it in." A life properly sea
soned with grace has q uniform flavor.
II. ". Beecher.


No words can describe the wonderful
and continually enlarging blessings in
Christ which have been poured into the
souls Of many Of the children Of God,
through the simple, unreasoning faith
which prays confidently and with ever
unceasing trust.


1t is to the Lord that we owe any sue
cess we have ever achieved. We have
been defeated when we have gone in
our own strength; but when we have
been victorious it has always been be-
cause the strength of the Lord was put
forth for our dellverance.-Spuryeon.
Year: 1871

les, and was afraid she might have an
attack then. That is why put her to
sleep.


No, will go up stairs" he said,
| when spoke of her. If she should
ask for me tell her was my own doc.
tor. Tell her took a dose that made
me better. don't want the doctor, "
and he laughed strangely as he went
toward the chamber door, hurrying.
looking behind him as if escaping from
some foe.


The fumes Of the liquor he has
drank havn't altogether left his brain
yet" Mr.. Ames said, after Stephen dis.
appeared up the stairs. 1.-THE best thing
for both of them is to sleep"


He then said he must go houlc and let
his wife Know where he was, and attend
to some necessary affairs. He would
come back in an hour or so. He hoped
the doctor would be there by that time.
He went away. The doctor did not
come. Mr.. Ames came back in about
an hour. Prudence had not walked
Stephen had not come down. Mr..
Ames thought 1t would be best to go up
and see him. He ascended the stairs
softly, and went to the room where
Stephen lay to see il he still slept. One
glance at his face was enough. He was
sleeping his last sleep.


We never knew what he took. No
examination was made. Prudence
could not bear it. We thought he took
some fatal draught purposely. We
kept the circumstances Of his death to
ourselves for the sake of Prudence. Mr.
Ames advised it. People knew that he
had fallen, but supposed it to have been
in fit.


No need to detail the painful closing
scene. When the last rites were over.
and Prudence resumed her customary
duties, she was changed and stricken
woman. The horror was constantly
upon her that she had caused her hus.
death. She secluded herself from so
ciety, busying herself with household
cares, and eking out slender subsis
tence for herself and child by sewing.


When last saw her, about two years
after the death of her husband, she
looked like woman Of sixty, though
she was only thirty-seven. Her hair
was quite gray. Deep lines were plan
ted in her face. Her form was bowed
and shrunken. She lived but for her
child. She tried to do her duty by him.
to atone for the past as far as lay in her
power. For some time before her hus-
bands death she had tried to learn and
do her whole duty by him. 1t was too
late. His habits had become so CON
firmed, the appetite for stimulants he
had cultivated too strong to be easily
overcome.


Now felt that all this wretchedness
might have been prevented by a proper
degree Of enlightenment as to home du
ties, "a to what it is the province of
wife to perform, added to knowledge
of hygiene, of the relation of food to
temperament, and the importance of its
proper preparation to health of body and
mind.-Lddies' Repository.
Year: 1871

The Seaman's Friend Society have the
credit of capital arrangement for head.
ing off beer saloons in Chicago. They
keep open a temperance refreshment
room in connection with their Bethel
Home. Coffee, tea and soup are furn-
ished at five cents cup or plate. Sal
lors and workmen of all classes have ac-
cess to it. Is not the plan worth copying
in other cities and towns, wherever beer
saloons attract either the idle or the
needy?
Year: 1871

1t is energy of will that is the soul OF
intellect; wherever it IS, there is life,
where it is not, all is dizziness, despon-
dcncy aud desolation. People who have
no experience of it imagine that it is de.
slructiye To- the nerves, exhaustive TO the
animal spirits; that il aggravates the
wear and tear of lile But this is an
idle notion. rs idle as the habits and hui
mos OF those who entertain it. We
leave it to any man who knows its real
effect. 10 strike the balancc--to compare
'an exhaustion Of an indolcnt day with
that OF M active one to say in which of
the two eases the subject is in better heart
for werk and filter to undergo Il.


Whatever we may be about, one thing
IS certain, that il the spirits are spent by
energy, they are utterly wasted by idle.
ness al worst energy can end only in re-
laxation--it is superior 10 it for while,
and possibly at last may fall into it;
whereas idleness is actual relaxation from
first TO last, and can be nothing else. But
even this view, favorable rs il is, is yet
not favorable enough TO be just. The fact
is that violence is not necessary TO energy
any more than tyranny is 10 kingahip; on
the contrary, it is the greatest energy
that docs the most work


Energy, literally from the Greek,
means inwardworkinsne.si the bloom.
ing of the flower is energy, the increase
OF fruiI is energy, the growth of the body
is energy yet, in all these there is no 81.
olcnce the efficacy is not destructive but
vital; wilhou! il the whole frame must
TALL at once into corruption, with it. in.
stead of corruption, we have life. But
this, it may be said is a refinement. 1t
may be so, but it is true in fact, ncyerthc'
less. The gainsayer will find it difficult
to produce anything from the subject of
surer or more essential Truth.
Year: 1871

The Government Of New Brunswick
has appointed three Of its members as a
delegation with the Nova Scotia and
Prince Edwards Island Oovernments
with view to united action against the
Washington treaty.
Year: 1871

We frequently arise from a perusal of
medical journals in utter astonishment
that we are yet above ground But
lately we shuddered over an account Of
what we had been drinking for many
years under the sound belief that it was
wine. We now read in publication
which bears the ominous name of The
Doctor, the following account of our
favorite beverage, tea: Leaving out Of
consideration that wretched stuff, dust,
which the poor are compelled to pur-
chase, and also the low-priced teas, we
find that high price offers no guaranty
for the worth of the legitimate article.
Independent Of the several botanical
adulterations, including used up and re-
dried leaves, it is indeed surprising TO
note the quantity Of fine dust-not even
tea-dust-but apparently floor sweepings
(to which finely powdered oxidized iron
sweepings have been added, with which
the higher priced teas are mixed" II
is sincerely to be hoped that these reyc-
lations serve some more useful purpose
than to add mental anguish TO the physi-
cal pangs Of the grocers victims, be-
cause otherwise there is an old saying
in point as to ignorance being bliss.