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Year: 1875

The comfort and value OF good temper
are things not 20 often taken into account as
they should be. The Scientifc American calls
good temper the great moral lubricator,
which makes everything in human life run
without friction. As soon as this is ex-
hausted, the journals OF the human machine
begin TO heat, and wear, and screech, and the
entire mechanism becomes noisy and ruin
ously wasteful Of power. SO admirably ex-
pressed Is an article ON this subject in the
paper we have named that we transfer IL to
our columns


"'The horse that frets is the horse that
sweats, is an old saying Of horsemen, and it
is just as true Of men as Of horses. The
man that allows himself 10 get rritated at
every little thing that goes aniss in his busi-
ness, or in the ordinary affairs of life, is a
man that, as rule, will accomplish little
and wear out early. lie is a man for whom
bile and dyspepsia have particular fond
ness, and for whom children have partic-
ular aversion. He is o man with perpetual
thorn in his flesh, which pricks and wounds
on the slightest movement man for whom
life has little pleasure, and the future small
hope.


"To keep Jolly under all proyocations is
perhaps a task which only Dickens, Mark
Tapley could perform. We never have met
Mark Tapley in our experience of human
nature, but we have seen him closely approx
mated and it would be well il people in
general could approach more nearly that
inimitable character.


In all the phases, emergencies and occu-
pations of human life, good temper is com
modify for which there Is great demand; but
in those which bring an individual into
daily contact with many Others, II is perhaps
in greatest demand aud most limited supply.
"To foremen in shops, ana superintend-
ents OF large manufacturing establishments,
good temper is a most valuable qualification.
Indeed this article was suggested 10y a nota-
BILE want of good temper, in the treatment
Of subordinates. by a foreman in an estab
lishment recently visited by us. IL was evil
dent that this establishment was pervadcd
by a spirit of revolt, begotten by the brow
beating, insoent language and manner of
the foreman. The men were sulky and oh
stinate, being undoubtedly rendered unman-
ageable and restless 10y the total disregard Of
amenity in the man placed over them.


Surely, thought we, whatever skill in his
profession this man might possess, it was
dearly purchased at the expense of willing
service on the part Of the workmen,


"When, from any cause, man is forced
TO add to his physical toll the burden OF a
discontented mind, he will neither do as much
nor as good work as when his heart is light
and his mind easy.


at requires more than technical knowl-
edge and skill to make good foreman. The
power to manage aud control men, is essen
tial, which can never be found apart from
good nature. OF course. we do not mean
that sort of good nature which results from
want Of firmness but that broad wholesome,
breezy heartiness that feels good itself, and
loves to have others feel good and which
shows itself as much in rebuke as in praise"
Year: 1875

! saw wife pull out the bottom drawer of
the old family bureau this evening and went
softly out, and wandered up and down. until
knew that she had shut it up and gone TO
her sewing. We have some things laid away
in that drawer which the gold of kings could
not buy and yet they are relics which grieve
us until both our hearts are sore. | haven't
dared look at them for year, but remem-
Der each article


There are two worn shoes, little chip
hat with part of the brim gone, some stock
ings pants, q coat, two or three spools, bits
of broken crockery, q whip and several toys.
Wife--poor thing-goes to that drawer every
day of her life and prays over it, and lets her
tears fall upon the precious articles, but |
dare not go.


Sometimes We speak of little Jack, but not
often. 1t has been long time, but some
how we cant get over grieying. He was
such a burst of sunshine into our lives that
his going away has been like covering our
very existence with pail


Sometimes, when we sit all alone of al
evening, writing and she sewing, a child on
the street win call out as our boy used TO-
and we will both start up with beating hearts
and wild hope, only to find the darkness
more of burden than ever


Ii is so still and quiet now. | look up at
the window where his blue eyes used to
sparkle at my coming, but he is not there
| listen for his pattering feet, his merry
shout and ringing laugh, but there is No
sound. There is no one TO climb over my
knees, no one to search my pockets and tease
for presents, and | never find the chairs
turned over, the broom down, or ropes tied
to the door knobs.


want some one 10 tease me for my kniie
TO ride on my shoulder, to lose my axe, tC
follow me TO the gate when | go, and bt
there TO meet me when come 10 call "good
night" from the little bed now empty. Ano
wife she misses him still more there are now
no little feet TO wash, no prayers 10 say, ne
voice teasing for Jumps Of sugar or sobbinl
with the pain of hurt toe and she would
give her own life almost to awake at mid
night and look across the crib, and see oul
boy there as he used TO be.


So, we preserve our relics, and when W,
are dead we hope that strangers will handle
them tenderly, even if they shed no tear
over them.
Year: 1875

As for the Gospel, it wears the dew Of its
youth after eighteen centuries of struggles
and it predominates in those young nations
which have evidently a history before them.
The old systems are now most favored by
those nations which are left behind in the
race of civilization, but the people whom
God has made quick by nature are those to
whom lie has given to be receptives of His
grace. There are grand days coming for
the church of God. Voltaire said that he
lived in the twilight of Christianity aud so
he did but il was the twilight Of the morn
ing, not of the evening.
Year: 1875

The late lamented Legislature is
receiving left handed obituary notices
from the press, regardless of party,
in all parts of the State. Here are a
few samples:


We do not see what this Ohio
House could do that it hasn't done
to disgrace ITSELF Gin. Commercial


We trust that all the members of the
Ohio Legislature viii reach home In
safety and that few of them will ever
find the way back to Columbus
CCin. Enquirer.


This Democratic General Assembly
has raised stencil all over the State,
and has died in the odor of its own
infamy.-C -CCin. Gazette.


The record of the Democratic
General Assembly of 1S74-75 will be
for all time to come, we believe, the
low water mark in the history OF
Ohio Legislatures. It will be very
difficult for any future Legislature IN
this State to make a record more
disgraceful and contemplate than
that of the Legislature which has
inst closed its miserable existence
TCleveland Herald.


The discussion in the House OF
Representatives, on the Wood county
bribery business, was simply disgust
ing and disgraceful. 1t certainly
eoualed the worst exhibition OF de-
pravity ever given in the Legislature
of South Carolina Toledo Dem
Year: 1875

The Republicans of Ohio have so
expressed themselves in their Coun-
ty Conventions as to leave no doubt
that when they meet in State Con-
vention next Wednesday they will
speak loud on Third Termism and on
the division of the School money for
secular uses. With platform that
pledges the party to the preserva-
ton of the Common Schools, and of
the Common School fund in its en-
tirety; that will exercise from politics
once and for all, the third term
spook; that will review the present
tendency to the making of county,
township, school district and espec-
tally municipal debt, and pledge the
party to such legislation as will check
it, and that will place the party fair
ly and squarely on the road leading
to specie-with such platform, ant
with the record of the recent Demo
cratic legislature fresh in the minds


of the people, it does not seem pos
sible that the Republican majorit.
in Ohio this Fall can fall short o
10000 Hamilton Telegraph.
Year: 1875

A Coon SUGGEsTIoN.-An exchange
makes the following suggestion,
which we commend to the farmers
of this county:


1t would be a great convenience il
the farmers generally would have
their names printed upon the gates
in front of their residences. Stran
gers often have much difficulty in
finding persons of whom they are in
search, which would be obviated by
this course. Besides, a nice gate
with the name of the occupant, adds
greatly to the appearance of place
and looks as though the inmates
were not isolated from the outside
world.
Year: 1875

Write proper names very plainly.


Write on only one side of the sheet.


Be brief in statement and sparing in COM
ment.


Write with ink-not with pencil, when it
can be avoided.


The most convenient sized page (manu-
script for compositors' use is what is
known as ''commercial note"


When you have nothing to say on any
subject, say nothing. Don't string words
together for the purpose of filing pages OF
manuscript.


''Short items and lots of them, was the
homely rule given by country editor to a
correspondent, once upon time; and it is
capital one.


Avoid 'puffs" for this one and that, and
save the editor the trouble of ''cutting
them out" of your letter. A puff that he
doesn't write himself is an abominstion to
the editor.


Don't attempt 'tfne writing" and don;
Gf you have any regard for other peoples
feelings) say ''eve" for evening, "scholar'
for pupil, ''pants" for pantaloons, gents
for gentlemen, or Sabbath" for Sunday.


You can keep the authorship as nearly s
secret from the public as you please; indeed
nobody need know you write for the news
papers, unless you choose to let them know
yourself. The editor won't tell-rely upon
that.


Don't be Influenced too much by the ad
vice (Which will be freely offered-depend
upon thatD of people who don't know any
more about it than you do, as to what yor
shall put in your letters. Be sure you arr
right-then go ahead.


Always calculate upon your letter reach
ing the editor at least the day before hiI
paper goes to press; then if anything i'm
portant occurs, and you can send it in tim'
for that weeks issue, send it as a post
script or addendum. Many good lettel
has been lost to the world because it reach
ed the editor too late to have it put in type


Remember that it is the privilege of thu
editor to omit any portion of your letter hi
may not care to print-that whoever writel
what appears, he is responsible for it, an'
has the right to say what may and Whs
may not go into his columns. His view o
propriety or e1pediency is from a stand
point altogether different from yours, anC
however he may misjudge he will be prett.
likely to assert his prerogative.
Year: 1875

Nh. Ed Dimes came over from
Greenfield Saturday night on the
freight train. He didn't have time
to wait for the passenger train. The
fact is, the Highland County Sheriff
was around looking for two or three
more jurors to listen to the evidence
in the Dunn case, and as the '-sit
gave promise of being one of some
permanency, when the Sheriff came
in Dimes front door, he vanished
through the rear entrance, and didn't
stay to see whether the Sheriff want
ed him or mott Chill. Post.
Year: 1875

SOMETHING FOR SUPERv1soRs.-The
Ohio Legislature, in March last,
amended the law relating to roads
and highways, by providing 'that
each supervisor shall receive for his
services pay at rate not exceeding
two dollars per day for the time he
is actually employed on the roads,
provided that no. supervisor shall be
allowed in any one year sum ex-
ceeding sixteen dollars in addition to
the commutation for his two days
labor on the roads as provided for in
this act.
Year: 1875

A HARTFORD man recently got piece
Of tough meat lodged in the lower part of
the esophagus, making breathing difficult
and threatening Inflammation, and was
treated by DR. Ellsworth, of that city, who
killed number of dogs, and with the
gastric juice Of their stomach coatings
succeeded In dissolylng the piece in the
course Of the day
Year: 1875

THE Chicago Journal Of the 9th says
Private information and press dis
patches from various parts of the West in
dicate that, although here and there some
Of the corn was damaged by food or frost,
yet the aggregate crop will be literally
stupendous. Advices from the South also
indicate that the cotton crop will be better
than the average"
Year: 1875

THE United States Supreme Court has
recently decided, in the appealed st. Louis
Minor case, that the new amendments to
the National Constitution do not confer
the right of suffrage upon anyone, and
that the Constitution and laws of the sew
eral States which confine that right to men
alone are not necessarily void.
Year: 1875

A trick that can only be played once
on the same conductor, was perpetrated
on the gentleman who ran the $40 train
from New York last Thursday. A gem
tleman on the train who lives between
New Rochelle and Mamaronic, and who
evidently wanted to get herns in hurry,
came to the conductor, and with feigned
excitement and earnest tones, said that
the train had Just run over n man, and
for Gods sake TO stop. The conductor
at once pulled the bell-cord, and the
train soon came to standstill A num-
Der of passengers got off and ran back
some distance, but could see nothing of
the mangled remains the inexorable iron
horse had made. After the train had
again started, the only passenger left
behind was the man who gave the in
formation, and he, having thoughtfully
taken his bundle under his arm, was seen
crossing lots toward his home Some of
the brakemen "allowed" that he would
have more than his ticket punched" the
next time he got on that train. Siam
fOrd AdUOcdte.
Year: 1875

young man stood nj jOiner's bench,


Flung chisel and maui away,
And cheery cried 10 his wife. Dear wench
I've labored enough to-day;
Lay down your knitting and sit 10y my side
III sing You song tonight.
While the shadows are falling at eyentide,
And the log on the hearth grows bright.
There's time to work and time 60 earn,
time TO rest and n time TO learn.
" 'Tis not song of wassail or war


song of women or wine
goodlier song. trow, by far,


Shall be this song Of mine
For him that labors with muscle and bone,
Or labors with brain and skill
For the queen that sits on her stately thrcne,
Or the lass that works at the mill
song the goodwill OF all to earn
For every man and woman TO learn.
"Men and women, from cradle to bier,


All have need to earn;
Rich and poor, and peasant and peer,
All have need to learn.
The poor man earns his daily bread,


The rich man power and name;
The statesman 10 stand on a nations head,
The scholar, glorious fame
Zach child OF Adam was bora to earn
This is the lesson we all must Iearp
" None so dull that he may not know


More than he knew before;
None so wise that he may forego


To learn yet something more
To learn all his duty to God above,


To self, TO kind below;
Better to do, think, help and love


Wiser and better TO grow.
'Tis the son of our queen that bids us earn;
He may be our king who bids us learn"
Year: 1875

Monday night Mr.. A. ID. Cornell, q


miller employed in the Ktna Mills, met


with severe accident, and one that only


his strength and presence of mind pre-


vented from being a tragedy. About


midnight some gearing in the extreme


peak of the mill began to creak, and Mr..


Cornell went up to oil it. It was in II low


part of the room, well under the caves,
and III applying the oil he was obliged to
reach over n shaft. While STOPPING


down key on the shaft became caught
in the breast of his shirt, and about the
time he was through his job had taken
up all the slack, and held him down and
was drawing still tighter. He was
thrown over the shaft, his light went
out, and then in the dark he coolly
braced himself, and let the shaft slowly
tear off his clothes by strips, and the un-
dressing operation was not delicately
performed either. 1t would not do for
him to struggle much, as on either side
was gearing within few inches
of him that seemed waiting to
seize on a member and draw him into its
destructive embrace. Gradually his
clothes parted company with him, caus-
ing severe pain by the roughness of their
taking off, and at last he felt that he
was no longer in the tolls. Slowly he
drew himself back, and wiping the heavy
drops from his brow, brought out there
by the agonizing strain of body and
mind during the trying ordeal, he start
ed to grope his way down stairs, for he
knew that cries of help would be un-
availing and would not be heard below.
On hands and knees he made his way,
narrowly missing falling to the floor be-
low, his outstretched hand going over
the aperture, warming him of the danger
and at the same time serving to tell him
where he was. He crawled along, un-
der shafting and around posts, feeling
his way along till he reached the head of
the stairs, when he staggered to his feet
and got down to the ground floor and
appeared to his fellow-workmen, pale
and trembling, clad i'll the light and airy
costume of shirt collar and the waist
band of his pants. His first remark
was, "Well, boys, I've stopped that
squeaking." Explanations were soon
made, and he was sent home. DR.. Nc
Laughlin was called in and found that
he had dislocated his shoulder, and the
inside of his breast and arm were de
nuded of the skin and badly inflamed by
contact with the revolving shaft These,
with the shock, were the only injuries
received and were soon dressed, and he
was put to bed to recuperate. Last
night he was feeling much better. So
tightly were his clothes woven around
the shaft that it was found necessary to
shut down the mill to remove them.
They look as if they had gone through
a threshing machine, so shredded and
are they. 1t was narrow es-
cape from lasting injury, perhaps from
death, and Mr.. Cornell escaped cheaply.
(Mich.) Patriot.
Year: 1875

and made motion to stuff it in between
them.


Bill felt her hand going down, and
making dive after it, clutched it III his
and held hard and fast.
Then they went on quite distance, he
still holding her hand in his and won
dering what he should do when they got
to Green's, and she wondered why he
did not say something nice to her as
well as squeeze her hand, why his coat
was buttoned up so tightly on such
warm evening, and what made his
face and hat so dirty, until they
were going down n little hill and one of
the traces came unhitched and they had
to stop.


"Oh, murder !' exclaimed Bill, "what
next9"


"What is the matter, Mr.. Smiley ?"
said the widow, with start which
came near jerking the robe off his
knees


Zone of the traces is of" answered
he.


"Well, why don't you get out and
put it on l''


CT can't" said Bill /; "I've got-that
is, l haven't got-oh, dear, I'm so sick !
What shall do ?"


"Why, Willie" said she tenderly,
"what is the matter do tell me-" She
gave his hand little squeeze, and looked
into his pale face she thought he was
going to faint, so she got out her smell
ing bottle with her left hand. and pulling
the stopper out with her teeth, she stuck
it to his nose.


Bill was just taking in breath for
mighty sigh, and the pungent odor made
him throw back his head SO far that he
lost his balance and went over the low
back buggy. The little woman gave a
low scream as his bare feet flew past her
head and covering her face with her
hands gave way to tears or smiles-it is
hard to tell which. Bill was "right side
up " in moment, and leaning over the
seat humbly apologising and explaining,
when Ed. Wilbur and his wife and baby
drove up behind and stopped. Poor Bill
felt that he would rather have been shot
than had Ed. Wilbur catch him in such
scrape, but there was no help for it
now, SO he called Ed. to him and whis-
pered in his ear. Ed. was like to burst
with suppressed laughter, but he beck
oned to his wife to draw up, and, after
saying something to her, he helped the
widow out of Bills buggy and into his,
and the two women went on, leaving the
men behind. Bill lost no time in ar.
ranging his toilet as well as he could,
and then with great persuasion Ed. got
him to go home with him, and hunting
up slippers and socks, and getting him
washed and combed had him quite pre-
sentable when the ladies arrived. need
not tell you how the story was all
wormed out of bashful Bill, and how
they all laughed as they sat around the
tea-table that night, but will conclude by
saying that they went to the show to-
gether, and Bill has no fear of Gus
Socllrider now.


This is the story about Bill and the
widow, just as had it from Ed. Will
bur, and if there is anything unsatisfac
tory about it, ask him.
Year: 1875

The Shullsburg (Wis.) correspondent
of the Galena gazette gives the follow
ing account of an attack 10y bull on a
man and boy, near that place, lately:


On Sunday, Mr.. Buck, with his little
boy, 10 Years old, attempted to cross an
adjoining pasture, in which was kept an
embodiment of hell, biding his time of
destruction, in the shape OF mOnstrous
wicked bull, the property of Mr.. Col
Inns. When but short distance IN the
pasture the bull made for the boy, and
seeing the terrible danger to which HIM
self and the child were exposed from the
attack of the furious beast, the father bid
the son to run for his life, while he re-
NAMED and fought the monster with II
club. The terrible struggle for life then
commenced. The horrors of lifetime
were concentrated in that short space of
twenty minutes. The paternal impulse
was to save his child, even at the expense
of his own life (Which subsequently
proved TO be the tribute paid, and next
to save himself, for the more he hit the
bull the more ferocious it became, while
the unfortunate man was fast eXhausting
his energies. The charge was keenly
felt by Mr. Buck, for never can man
see so much at a place as when IN situ-
r'ion of extremity. He began to back
towards some trees that were standing not
far behind him, hoping to find there some
refuge from his furious assailant. Fortu-
nately he succeeded in reaching the trees,
and after dodging about from one to an
other climbed one out of reach of the
bull. The physical prostration and his
mental condition after so terrible strug
gle can only be imagined, and, to add to
its intensity, the mad beast reached the
tree, and standing under it tore the
ground with his hoofs. His agony of
mind for fear of the limb breaking could
have known no bounds, for during his
delirium for days before his death the
only audible calculations he uttered
would be his fear of the limb breaking or
that he would fall. While in the tree
he took n chill, but started to work the
next day, during which he was obliged
to go home. From that time he began
to sink until Friday morning, when
death terminated his sufferings.
Year: 1875

Christianity m ade a considerable rev
olutiOn in the ideas and practices of
dispOsing of the dead throughout the
civilized world. The laws of both re-
republican and imperial Rome inter
dicted all interments-excepti indeed of
the vestal virgins, and later of the En-
p-rors-within the limits of the Cries
of the republic or the empire. But
when Christianity gained the ascendant
another set of feelings came into being.
Gradually. as the pagan temples and
endOwments were converted and ap-
prOpriated by the priests of the new
faith, the groves and meadows that fire.
Quentiy surrounded the temples were
partly devoted to the burial of the
faithful, a horrible desecration in the
eyes of the partisans Of the old rite. To
understand the desire of the early
Christians to sleep their last sleep in
the neighhorhood of the places made
holy by the tombs of the saints and
martyrs, we must bear in mind that it
WAS the prevalent impression among
them that cOrpoIeal resurrection was
thing imminent, and almost imnedi-
ately to take place. Thus they eagerly
desired to rest beside their holy men,
as the sheep around the shepherd,
ready with them TO rise and salute the
birth of the new morn. Nor we're the
holy men themselves backward in turn
ing this fond sentiment co useful ac-
count. They encouraged the belief in
the speedy arrival of the last and dread
full day, when the earth should melt
and the armament disslve, when the
last trumpet should sound, and the
faithful alone be snatched up into
glory. And this faith they fostered al
30 by the pi0us stories they told Of the
incorruptibility Of the bodies Of the
saints.-Besgrdria,