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Year: 1873




"What a pleasant face YOU
pastor has" said one lady tC
another, ''and how CHEEKY his
voice. His coming is like a
CLEAN Of sunlight"


"And do you know" return
ed the lady, lifting a pleased
face toward her friend, "that
we call him Sunshine, because
wherever he goes he seems to
bring sunshine with him. II
he visits a sick one of his flock,
you can see the look of suffer
ing pass away, and the glad
smile take its place, for his
coming does good like medi-
cine. He has been a sufferer
himself, and the sick are conf
dent Of his kindly sympathy
Then he always leaves precious
.seed-thoughts, that are sure to
bring rest and peace.


eff any one has suffered loss
or bereavement, or any trouble
that leaves the heart sore, a
visit from our minister is sure
to bring healing"


"But how is it that he is al
ways so cheerful" was asked.
call christians are not so; has
he been mercilully kept free
from the losses and the crosses
in which all seem to share?"


ooh, no. said the lady and
her voice grew soft with pity ;
che has had heavy trials to
bear, but he counts these trials
as mercies. 1t is because he
himself has suffered that those
in sorrow are sure Of his real
sympathy. They feel that he
knows how bitter is their grief,
and when he speaks of comfort,
they listen, They know that
out of his great sorrow his own
heart has been lifted, and they
are willing to be led by him, to
the source of true comfort"


Into every heart where Jesus
comes a welcome guest, there is
rest, there is peace. 1t is writ
ten, "Thou wilt keep. him in
perfect peace whose mind is
stayed on thee; because he trust
eth in thee And of Jesus, it
is said, "For we have not a
High Priest which can not be
touched with the feelings Of our
infrmities; but was in all points
tempted like as we are;", and
again, "FOr in that he himself
hath suffered being tempted; he
is able to succor them that are
tempted" To be able to say,
"My Lord and my Cod" is a
dearer privilege than to count
as ours, the choicest, earthly
friendships.
Year: 1873

THERE is a man at South
Norwalk who understands the
eternal fitness of things; and is
not willing to interfere with
the sublime order Of the social
universe. He was witness in
an assault and battery case
lately, and testified that he "saw
the woman clawing at the mans
face and whiskers like a cat,
while the man had her by the
hair trying to hold her still,
while she was screaming 'mur-
der murderl' at the top of hel
lungs" ''It was an ugly fight


said the witness, ''but | sup
posed it was a man and his wife
having a bout, so | thought
wouldn't interfere" On being
further interrogated, the witness
said: "If | had known they
were not man and wife | would
have tried to separate them
Year: 1873

An interesting paper has re-
Gently been published by
southern writer attempting to
account for the increased sever
ity of the Gulf States winters.
1t is pretty conclusively estab-
lished that the cold of former
years in the cotton belt and low
er basin Of the Mississippi was
less rigorous than now, and
the fact seems to clash with
the known mitigation of climate
noted in Europe, Asia and ma
ny other parts of the world, as
apparently due to the telling Of
the forests and clearing the
soil. The writer in question
accounts for the climate change
by the telling of the Southern
forests, aiIording a more unre-
stricted scope for the northwest
winds, chilled by snow on the
Rocky Mountains. He also
very sbikingly contrasts the
effect Of the winds which
reach Southern Europe from
the arid ard sun-scorched waists
Of Africa and the Great Desert
and those which blow from the
Gulf of Mexico over the South
ern part Of the United States
The African winds exert no in
considerable influence on the
climate of Southern Europe,
producing higher temperatures
than those which rule on the
same parallels of latitude in
this country, while the gales
from the Gulf, impregnated
with moisture, only increase
the severity of the cold derived
from the northwest winds.


In the early part of this
century the average temperature
Of New Orleans was more thar
seventy degrees, and that o
the winters about fifty-six de-
grees-fgure undoubtedly toe
high for the present time
That the clearing away of the
vast forests of lofty pines from
the Southern States has opened
new ways and channels for the
cold winter winds from the
plains east of the Rocky
Mountains is highly probable
and plausible; but it is equally
probable that the rapid anC
widespread progress of emigra
ton in the Upper Valley o
the Missouri and Throughout
all the far Northwest has mad,
a comparatively smooth plane
over which the mountain wind,
may more freely and in create
volume descend upon th,
States of the Cult


Strange to say, the paper al
) Mded TO above has received
Year: 1873

are flashing along the track.


On the platform of the sta
ton are the lovers who are
waiting for their betrothed, and
parents who have come down to
greet their children, returned
with a fortune, and wives, who
have not been able to eat OF
drink since their spouse went
went away three weeks before.


AS the cushioned train flas Y
es into the depot and stops,
wedding bells peal, and the
gong of merry banquets sounds,
and white arms are flung about
necks, reckless of mistake, and
innumerable percussions of af-
iection echo through the depot,
so crisp and loud that they
wake the conductor, who
thought that the boisterous
smack was on his own cheek,
but finds that he is nothing but
a bachelor railroad man, with a
lantern in his hand, at mid
night, getting out into snow
bank.


APPLTcAToN:-Get an easy
position when you sleep, if you
have any choice between angels
and gorgons.


AT midnight, seizing a chair,
| ran into the next room, re-
solving to kill, at the first
stroke, the ruifian who was mur-
dering a member Of my house
hold. But there was no rutfian.
The sweet girl had, during the
day, been reading of st. Bar
tholomew's massacre, and was
now lying on her back, dream
ing it all over again.


/


When dreams find one lying
fat on the back, they cry out,
" Here's a flat surface on which
to skate and play ball." and
from scalp to toe they sport
themselves.


The hardest nag in the world
to ride is the nightmare. Many
think that sleep is lost time.
But the style of your work will
be nightly effected by the style
of your slumber Sound asleep
Is the sister or vide awake.


Adam was the only man who
ever lost a rib by sleeping too
soundly; but when he woke up
he found that, instead of the
twelve ribs with which he start
ed, he really had nigh two doz-
en-. BY this | prove that sleep
is not subtractino, but addition.


This night may that angel
put balm on both your eyelids
FIVE minutes after you touch the
pillow!
Year: 1873

"iAN HNN SNS'
No morning ever broke so fair
that it did not decline into
evening shades. No life was
ever given so dear that it was
not taken away. No family cir
Gle was ever formed so peace
full and holy, but that it was
not broken and passed away.
But it shall come to pass, that
at evening-time it shall be
light.


1t may be said that this is an
ordination of nature. God has
made lesser lights to rule the
night. Evening reveals to the
eyes of men the far-off and
beautiful light of stars, and the
moon, pale empress of the
night. They are lesser lights
in that they are less effulgent
than the sun, but that they are
not lesser lights as revealers fo
the breadth and majesty & beau
ty of the creation. Man had
never known his Creator as His
works disclose Him, had the
sun always shone, The COM
ing on of eveniog is the intro
duction to the world Of a glory
which the full light of day dies
the sun withdraws only to be
succeeded by other lights dear
er to the soul, and more declar-
ative of the infinite power and
goodness of God.


Evening has a beauty of its
own, not less than the day; and
and so there is in the passing
away of our mortal years, in
sorrows which quench our joys
and in the death which swal-
lows up our lives, a compensa-
ton which brings us nearer to
God, and reveals his glory to
us otherwise inconceivable.


The gospel of the grace of
God makes the evening-time
light. He who is the Resur-
rection and the Life, who Him
self entered the domains of
death and saw no corruption,
delivers his people likewise from
the power of the grave. AS
there is no death to the believ-
er, so there is no coming on Of
the night of death, but at wen
ing-time it shall be light.
This is the absolute, the high
est possible triumph of the
gospel of Christ. Overcoming
death, Christ overcomes every
thing that looks toward and
has the power of death.


To the believer resting upon
the gospel of Christ, there is
no peradventure about the flu
ture. He knows it will not be
dark to him. The light Of 9TH
er days shall 60 out but an
other light shall come in.
That other light shall be of a
different kind, come from a diff
lerent source, subserve different
purposes, but it shall be, and
when II comes it shall be sweet
er and more lasting than any
light that ever gladened our
eyes.


The grace ofGod in his gospel
comes here, a light shining
both ways-it sheds the light
of forgivness over all the past,
of healing, and Of hope over
all the future. Christ's media
torial work, putting his almight-
mess in place of our weakness,
his perfect merits in place of
our unworthiness, supplies every
wait, and leaves nothing to be
desired.


So utterly is sin done away
with by the love Of Christ in
dying for US, that as an en-
emy to condemn, q power to
enthrall, it exists no more.
The curse is removed; the bless
ing of God, of which It is q
trophy, remains. The wounds
Of sin are healed by the same
touch that restored Malchus
sad now they sss a0a0sabs
Year: 1873

The Valley wants to be off ard join
West Virginia. The propriety Of such
a movement, making the Blue Ridge
the line,is to be discussed by the Frank
lin society Of Lexington tonight; and
the Rock5ridge Citizen says the subject
is seriously and widely talked of in a
quiet way throughout the Valley.
Year: 1873

BULwER AS An ASONYNoUs.-It is
now announced of the late Lord Lytton
(Bulwer) that he was the author Of the
book entitled the Coming Race, Gu
riOus volume. the authorship of which
vas subject OF much curiosity at the
time adjudication. The work assumed
the existence Of a people within the cen
tire of the earth who had learned the
use of electricity, so that it vas srbser-
Went to the smallest or greatest Of er-
rands. Lord Lytton was not generally
supposed to have written it.
Year: 1873

rounds, and its bunch Of keys locked up
many thing besides food. That had
TO be apportioned TO the mouths that
were 10 eat it-so much meal and bacon
weekly 20 the people Who lived in the
quarters and worked in the feld. so
much to the house servants, and SO much
daily measuring for the table OF the
family. The hot bread which smoked
on the Southern breakfast board was
measured into the cooks kneading bowl
the night before. The coffee was given
out net the uncertain variety, half
chicory or two thirds rye and molasses,
which we drink who buy it ground, but
the best Java, bought green, Drowned
over the fire in a spider and ground as it
was wanted. The eggs we're counted for
the bsttercakes or the pone, and TO the
least mnuie Of salt and spice, every
condiment was distributed under the
mistress's eye. This was the only way
under the system Of affairs, for with the
easy-going shifilessness Of Chloe and
Dinah, had they been as honest as a
pane Of glass, things would have melted
away like snow in a March sun. All the
clothing, for winter and summer, for
men, women and children had to be cut
out and made under the direction Of the
ladies of the family. And at any hour
Of day or night, IL anybody was sick,
the mistress was the person to be called
upon. The medicine chest was always
well supplied with potent remedies, es.
pecially with the calomel and quinine
which frightened Northerners, but which
seemed to have blessed affinity for
those who live south of Mason and
Dixon's line.
Year: 1873

They have just received a fresh supply of those
beautiful patent Toilet Mirrors ut the DOLLAR
STORE, corner Ninth and Main streets. which they
are selling - the exceedingly low price Of one dol
Year: 1873

:, A man Of thoroughly natural NAN
ners would pass on either morose or
pert, according to his ood-either
stupid because disinclined TO exert
himself, or obtrusive because in the
humor to talk. He would mean no
oflense, but he would make himself
disagreeable all the SAME. Such a
man is the pest Of his club, and the
nuisance Of every drawingrooni he
enters. II matters little whether he
is constitutionally boorish or good
natured; he is natural and his nntur-
alness comes like an ugly patch Of
frieze on the cloth Of gold with which
the goddess Of conventionaIity co is dra.
ped. Natural women, too may be
found at times-women who demon
strate on small occasions, sincerelyno
doubt, but excessively, women who
skip like young lambs when they are
pleased, and pout like naughty chill
dren when they are displeased; who
disdain ali those arts of dress which
conceal defects and heighten beauties,
and who arc always at war with the
fashions Of the day; who despise those
conventional graces OF manner which
have come to be part OF the religion
Of society, contiudicting point, bluck,
soflening no refusal with the express
sion OF regret they do not feel, yawu-
ing 10 the face OF bore, admiring
with the najpetie Of q savage whatever
is new or pleasing to them. Such
women are not agreeable companions
however devoid Of aifectltion they
may he, however staunch adherent'
to truth and things as they are accor
ding to their boast.
Year: 1873

A man. lately learned what il was
to have insult added 70 injury, in be.
ing first scared out Of his wits BY his
horse running away with him, and
then arrested and fined for driving AZ
an illegal speed
Year: 1873

Father where is our Sammie toni ght-
Sammie SO bold and gay
The twilight shadows are falling now,
Why does he stay away
Sammie is handsome and manly, too,
And he will be good and great
But, father, why is our darling boy


\ staying away SO late ?
''Our noble child is boy no more,


He has grown to mans estate /;
He has gone counting Sallie Ray,


The reason he stays SO late
For her golden hair and eyes of blue
Have stolen his heart away,
And he goes in the holy twilight hour,
\ wooing sweet Sallie Ray"
.Why does the maiden lure him away,
Now we are growing so old
And we have shielded him all his life,
Our love has never grown cold;
Tie maidens can never love as we
Have loved him all his years,
Who have led him along the path of


life,


Sharing his smiles and tears.
'cBut Mollie, remember long years ago,
When | was handsome and gay,
And you a maiden so fair and sweet,
That you stole my heart away.
I had father old and gray,


And mother kind and true,
Who loved me tondly ali my life,
But my heart went out with You.
\ blush crept over her witlered check,
Her eyes shone clear and mild,
No longer she chided the lovely maid
For winning away her child
She thought Of the long ago, when she
Stood close to her lovers side
In the little church, where the man OF


God


Made her happy bride.
Year: 1873

ROMANCE IN REAL LirE.-A letter
from Sandusky, Ohio, to the Cleveland
Herald relates the following


\ young lady, residing in the country,
enjoys large circle Of acquaintance,
and is possessed Of enough Of the things
of this world to be decidedly a good
catch for any young man. y pleasant
home. the best and an abundance Of So
ciety, surrounded by large number OF
young men who kneeled at her command
or rose to the highest pith of earthly
happiness under her smile, she had, to
all appearance, all that was required to
complete her happiness. Dame Rumor
had her engaged to the son of awealtby
farmer. AT this point the hero OF our
sketch appears on the scene of action
from the Fatherland. In pursuit of
employment fortune brings him to the
house of Cur fair damsel and there be
gets employment. Scarcely a month
from the old country, our mode of farm
ing was new to him. But diligent APP
plication soon made him proficient in
his occupation, and right faithfully did
he serve his employer for about six
months. About the time rumor was
eliminating the engagement between
the young lady and her country lover,
she informed her mother that she loved
Hans, the hired man, and was going TO
marry him. The mother was astUinded,
and emphatically put her foot down in
opposition to any such movement, a
few mornings after she aud her lover
repaired to this city, wnere they were
bound together in bands which death
or the courts alone can sever. They
were compelled to sojourn in a land of
strangers until the wrath OF The fond
mother relaxed and her permission was
granted for their return, when they I'M
mediately repaired TO their old home.
Year: 1873

HEALTH is BEArrY.-Ilealth makes
plain child good looking; it is utterly
impossible for perfectly healthy child
to be ugly! Hence the importance Of
attending to health to redeem an ugly
face-not only for child but for every
one else besides There is bodily
beauty, a mental beauty, and moral
beauty-each of which is mirrored on
the face-constituting of itself beauty,
of its own; while on the other hand there
is bodily ugliness, and moral ugl.i-
ness, each and all being stamped, in leg
ible characters, on the countenance; but
the last two are the ugliest of the three
in child especially! Now the health
or the body,o the mind,and the morals,
may each and all, by management, by
care, by vigilance, and by culture, be
greatly improved; but unfortunately,
each and all are often allowed to go fal-
low, and to he overrun with noxious
weeds-all for the want of proper cult
yation.
Year: 1873

GIRLS SHOULD LEARN DOMESTIC DIT
rlEs.-A mother has no right to bring
up daughter without teaching her
how to keep house, and if she has an
intelligent regard for her daughters
happiness, will not do it.


BY knowing how to keep house, we
do not mean merely knowing how books
should be arranged on centre table.
and how to tell servants what is wanted
to be done We mean how to get Il
breakfast, a supper how to do q thou
sand and one different things which are
requisite to keep home in ORDER and
to make it pleasant.


\ person who does not know how to
do a thing well, does not know how to
have it done well. No number of ser
wants makes up for the want Of knowl-
edge in mistress.


a family employed a girl to do gene
raj houscwork- She came just at night
and the first thing assigned her to do
was to wash the supper dishes. She
washed them with cold waters and with
out soap.


A gentleman sent home a roasting
piece of beef and quantity of cut por-
ter-house steaks. When he sat down
to dinner he found that the new cook
had roasted the steaks.


Yet many a boarding school miss, at
the time of her marriage, might make
either of these mistakes.


Not one woman in thousand knows
how to make bread as good as it can be
made. And sour tcmpers, scolding.
dyspepsia, with its indcscribable horrors,
and even death itself, not frequently re-
suit from bad cooking.


Mothers, whatever else YOU may teach
your daughters, do not neglect to in
struct them in all the mysteries OF house
keeping. So shall YOU put them in the
way of good husbands and happy homes.
Year: 1873

A WoM,S SAILOR on THE ATLANTIC.
"A correspondent of the New York
Herald writing from Halifax in refer
ence to tire Atlantic disaster says: One
of the romantic incidents Of tins terrible
calamity has been the discovery that
one of the men, a common sailor, and
one whose life was sacrificed in efforts
to save others. was young woman
about twenty or twenty-five years of
are. Her sex was unknown until the
body was washed ashore, and the rude
clothing removed preparatory for burial.
She had served rs Il common sailor for
three voyages, and was farorite ship
mate with all. She is described as hav-
inc fewer of the vices incident to sail
ors life than usual, but she was never


theless, as jolly al old tar as any OF them.
One of the survivors of the crew in
speaking OF her remarked: didn't
know Bill was = woman. lie used to
take his liquor as regular as any OF MS,
aud was always begging and stealing
tobacco. lie was a good fellow though,
and am sorry he was woman. The
most singular part of the whole story
is that the woman was an American,
and was about the only one of that ma
tionalitv belonging to the crew. Who
she was and where she was from, and
her motive for leadin. such a strange
life of hardship,never was and never will
be fully known.
Year: 1873

If the Modoc war correspondents
continue much longer their present
fusilade Of lurid words it will soon
become an inevitable as we'll as q
legitimate verbal retaliation to refer
20 Captain Jacks stronghold rs The
Palaver Bed.
Year: 1873

The man who cheats the printer
Ont OF q single cent,
Will never reach the heavenly land
Where old Elijah went
He will not gain admftfance there,
By devils hell be driven,
And made 10 loaf his time away
Outside the walls of heaven.
without a man to greet him,
Without pleasant grin,
The happiness that he will reap
Will be almighty thin.
He'll have 10 eat the thistle
OF sorrow and regret,
He'll have to buck around right smart,
With cussedness, "You bet!"


-ExehHnQe.
Year: 1873

A ENCOURAGEMENT.


By authority special act Of the Legislature Of Ken
tucky the Library Trustees announce the Third Grand
GIFT Concert in aid Of the Public Library Of Kentucky to
be given in the large hall Of Library Building at Louis
ve on Tuesday, April g. 1873 on which occasion 1000
cash gifts aRgregating vast total OF half million dol
lars currency, will given by lot to ticket holders as
Year: 1873

The census returns of these islands
for 1872 shows a fearful decline among
the native population decrease at the
rate of about 1900 year The people
are. not peculiarly subject to disease,
but the women will not bear children.
They viii calmly tell you that they
don't want the bother of childbirth, and
have deliberately practiced infanticide,
or foeticide. A gentlewoman kind in
manner will tell you this. It is aston
ishing to observe their good nature and
amiability, and yet be assured of the
terrible things that they are capable of
doing. They have no idea of virtue or
personal chastity. 4 woman cannot
lose caste among them. Prostitution
does not alter in the slightest a woman's
position among her friends. There is
no family organization. They live in
groups, and to a great extent live IN
common. Polyandry is common, and
publicly avowed; and they do not seem
tice I know two pleasant men in bust
ness who avow that they have but one
wife between them. There are nearly
1900 more men than women in these
islands. However, public men are en-
tirely occupied with the interests of
property, and particularly of sugar,
and care nothing about the humanltari-
an questions which the condition of
this race so forcibly presents. The
salubrity of this climate is attracting a
great many invalids even from the mild
climate of California. The activity of
the volcano also brings a great many
tourists. Business is very dull The
decline ia the San Francisco sugar mar
ket is ruinous to ur planters. If sugar
does not improve, they must get reci-
Procity, or bring about annexation, or
break. Real estate is much depressed,
and estates could be bought cheap
Honolulu Letter.