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Year: 1876

At the present day not less than at other
times-perhaps at the present day more than
at other times-the following hints by Mr..
Spurgeon are worthy Of being carefully pom
dered. We would not discourage any one
from Christian soork but it is worthwhile
for each one to consider what his Christian
work is-whether itia to teach or to learn
whether it is to be a soldier or an officer
whether it is to train himself, or, himself un-
trained, to train others. Mr.. Spurgeon
says:


"The first thing after conversion to Christ
is confession of Christ, and the next is in
struction in Christ. | fear that too many
professed converts leap over these hedgea,
and endeavor to become teachers at once
They call themselves disciples, and repudi
ate all discipline. They say they are sol
diers of the cross; but they can neither
march in line or keep step, neither will they
submit themselves to order. They appear tt
think that the moment they are born the.
are fathers; the instant they are enlisted
they are officers. Now, conversion is tn
beginning of the spiritual life, and not tn
climax of it. 1t makes a man disciple
and the main thing disciple has to do is t.
learn. After he has learned, he will be abl
to teach others also; but not till then.


have often said to you that nothing Cal
come out of you that is not in you; and
therefore, if there is not something put int
you, to begin with, you may go out to wal
but as you have neither shot nor powder il
your gun, the enemy will not be much in
jured by your valor. We must be filled be
fore we can run over. 1t is necessary TO
the Christian man to be prepared for hol
service; that, in fact, what he does for 20
should be harvest growing out of himsel
because of previous seed time, during whic
much precious seed was put into him.
Year: 1876

o, think of home over there,


By the side of the river OF light,
Where the saints all immortal and fair,


Are robsd in their garments Of white.
o, think of the friends over there,


Who before US the journey have trod,
Of the songs that they breathe on the air,
In their home in the palace of God.
My Saviour is now over there.


There my kindred and friends are at rest /;
Then away from my sorrow and care,


Let me fly to the land of the blest.
I'll soon be at home over there,


For ths end of my journey | see;
Many dear to my heart over there,


Are watching and waiting for me.
Year: 1876

Rev. DR.. CUNNING, of London, stated in
a recent sermon that some time ago he
preached at Ba'moral on the subject of the
Communion of Saints in Heaven" He
dwelt in his sermon on the doctrine that all
souls in better world would recognize those
whom they had kuOBn on earth, and would
find pleasure in conyersing on the events
which had happened to them on earth. At
the close of the sermon the Queen, who was
one of his hearers, thanked him for the COM
fort which the subject of his discourse had
afforded her.
Year: 1876

Two PERSONS were walking together one
very dark night, when one said to the other,
who knew the road well: 81 shall follow
you so as to be right" He soon fell into a
ditch, and accused the other of his fall. The
other replied: "Then you did not follow me
exactly, for have not fallen" A wide step
had caused the fall. There is like danger
in not following the Lord fully.
Year: 1876

NEW YORK, July 25 1876.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


VIII you permit me a word In regard to the
Mohawk disasters The jury evidently had their
minds that in order render the captain crimnaly
negligent he (the captan) must have intended some
thing criminal at the time of the disaster This is
roneous. Criminal negligence may whore no
rriminality intended Criminal negligence is that
degree OF gross negligence-the cupa lcrs OF the
Roman law-which has and can have no excuse; and
the degree is heightened when the guilty person is
the capacity OF an expert the captain OF ship and
not as nero passenger. II the engineer of locomo-
tive sees fit TO to sleep his train and thereby fails
~ see the danger signal but dashcs through broken
bridge, he is ''crminay negligent" although he may
have no criminal intent against any the train.
Year: 1876

How terrific must be the
molecular action in the brain
of a man who comes home at
one o'clock in the morning
singing 'Too raj, 'ooral Oddly
and mistakes his wife's pat.
ent hustle, standing pale and
rigid in the corner, for the
spirit of his deceased moth<
er-in-law.
Year: 1876

How TO keep Lemons a
splendid way to keep lemons
in hot weather is to cut them
in slices and mix white sugar
with them. Put in a glass
jar, cover we'll with sugar, and
paper the top air-tight.


TO prevent Moths.-A small
piece of paper or linen, moist
emed with the spirits of tur-
pentine and put into a bu-
reau or wardrobe for single
day, two or three times, is
said to be a sufficient preser-
vative against moths.


Short Cake.-One cpp Of
porridge, one cup Of water,
and one and a half cups of
barley meal or wheat meal
(Graham four. Make into a
cake not more than half an
inch thick and bake fifteen
or twenty minutes in a hot
oven till brown.


RyeandIndian lush. Use
two parts rather coarse corn
meal and one part rye meal,
stirring in the corn meal first
and cooking awhile if desired
then adding the rye meal,
stirring very carefully; cover
close and cook slowly one
hour or more, if desired.


To clean Tin-ware.-Rot-.
tenstone, soft soap, and oil of
turpentine, mixed to the con-
sistency of thick putty, will
clean tinware very thorough
ly. Mix the putty with the
water, rub over The metal;
then rub briskly with a dry
clean rag,or leather. A beau
tiful polish will be obtained.


Cheap Curtains.-One Of
the most agreeable materials
for curtaining windows is
coarse unbleached cotton.-
The irrugularity of the thread
and tho roughness of the sur
face gives its soft folds much
the charm off Russian crash,
and it warns the light of
cool north windows almost
equally as we'll as the glow
of sunshine.


Meat and Rusk Padding
Chop any kind of cold meat
with salt pork or ham, season
we'll with butter, pepper and
salt, add two or three beaten
eggs. Then make alternate
layers of wet rusk crumbs
with milk, or cold boiled nom
my or rice, and bake half or
three quarters of all hour.-
Let the upperlaye crumbs,
and cover with a plate while
baking, and when nearly done
take it off to brown the top.
Year: 1876

.ually .oywerk in a better. In
two or three years. time eve
rything was paid for when
bought; the firm never gives
its note to anybody for any
thing, and staLds A No. 1 on
all the mercantile agencies
lists.


Let me not be misrepresen-
ted as saying that it is wrong
to incur debt, [ say thatsuc-
cess in business does not make
it necessary. Slow and sure
is a very questionable mot
to, and quite antiduated, but
it is good nevertheless. And
as it is right to pay as you go,
so it is right to insist thatev-
cry customer shall pay you
when he promised to pay. If
that rule is in harmony with
the will of God. on which the
law Of love is founded, then
the law of love does not re-
quire me to release my debtor
from his promise to pay. I
do unto him as I would wish
to be done by in the same cir
cumstances. This application
Of the law would work a
healthful revolution in the
business world. 1t is in the
line of the greatest commer-
cial prosperity that pecuniary
obligations should be held sa-
cred AS personal honor. There
was a time, in London and
Frankfort and New York,
when to let a note go unpaid
at the hour it was due was a
stain that no water could
wash out. But now it is not
81 here or there. 1t is not
considered dishOnorable even
for IL church to wipe out a
debt by selling its property
tor what it will bring. For a
church, Or a railroad compa-
ny, or any association or in
dividual to do so, is a sin and
q shame.


Misfortunes may overtake
the best of men, and make it
impossible for them to pay
their debts. OF them I am
not speaking, but only of
those who, being able, are yet
unwilling to be honest.


If tho merchants of New
York would set their faces a
gainst debt and practice upon
the principle of paying as
they 60; if all donations for
building churches and collie
ges were made on the condi-
ton that no debt is to remain
when the building is compile,
ted-if this principle were
made active and universal by
the firm adherence to it of
men who are in trade, and
men who give of their wealth
TO works of Christian benev-
olence,there would be an i'm
mediate revival of honesty
that would be of more adyan-
tage to the business of this
country than the discovery OF
a thousand gold mines richer
than all of Peru or Califor-
MIA.


He is a philanthropist who
aids in maintaining sound
commercialin,egrity between
man and man. And he does
not feel the first element of
Christian charact'l who wants
bis debts discharged in any
other way than by paying
them. To shirk them,to wrig-
gle out of them, to comproln-
Use them, is not to get rid of
the obligation to pay them.
1t is God who says: with
hold not good from them to
whom it is due, when it is in
the power of thy hand to do
it, The law of love requires
you to pay your debt when
you have the ability, and no
bankrupt law that human
wisdom or folly ever devised
can release'you from the law
of God.


/ A country curate. a letter
TO BIackwood's Magazine,
says that on one occasion he
baptised a child named Acts.
Atterward in the vestry he
asked the good woman what
made herchoose such a name.
Her answer was this: why,
sir, we be religious people;
we've got four on 'em alrea-
Year: 1876

There are many ways of dealing Will.
unfaithftll wives. An incident that hap
pened recently in Brooklyn is worthy of
record. A merchant of New York, re-
siding in that city of marital troubles, sus-
peeted his wife of being too intimate with
very handsome lawycr-fn fact he WAS
certain she was in the habit of driving ont
with him to place of questionable char
acter, some miles ont of the city. One
morning. instead of staying over in New
York all day, he returned TO his home in afr
hour or two, and found That his spouse had
entered buggy with man, and had driv-
en- off only fifteen minutes before. The
merchant is the possessor of a horse that
can do his mile in three minutes, and he
had it harnessetl. Did he take his revolver?
Not any revolver. He loaded the bottom
OF his buggy with nice round stones--a
bushel or more, good stones for throwing
and he set out. 1t only took him a half
hour to oyertake them. for the pair were
going slowly, that the luxury of the eeance
might be prolonged, and he drove up be-
side them. The gay Lothario saw the
husband, and whipped mp his horse. Vain
endeavor. What could a livery steed do
against blood? The husband drove along
side, and holding his reins in one hand,
bombarded the fellow with stones with the
other. To escape the shower of stones,
the affrighted man drove faster, but it was
no use. Mercilessly, pitilessly the stones
few till finally there was smash. The bug
gy containing the unhappy pair eollided
with the fence, and spilled them ont. The
horse tore himself loose from tile wreck
and disappeared the man was too much
bruised to move; the lady was terribly
frightened, but otherwise unharmed. The
husband took her in with him, and drove
home In silence. On reaching his house,
he quietly told her to pack her effects and
get out, which she did. And he fled his
bill for divorce. The gay young man
was assisted to town. He paid for horse,
buggy and harness. and lett town. Thus,
what might have been tragedy was turned
into comedy. Stones are just as effeetual
as bullets.
Year: 1876

POLITICAL L.


The nomination of Seymour for the Gov
ernorship by the Democracy of the State.
and his declinatIon, after the convention
had adjourned, places the party in most
pitiable attitude. The Democracy of the
city are in a state of fdnmbfoundedness that
Is funny. They have ticket without
head, and they are bewildered to know
what to do. This is one Of Sammy Til
denis smart tricks. He wanted Hewitt for
that place, bat just before the convention
It was discovered that he was not eligible,
as he had been less than a year in the
State. Fearing that the convention wonii
not register his DEGREES, tor there is a strong
santfIrilden party in the State. he urged
the nomination of Seymour knowing thar
he would not accept. He had the commit
tee appointed to notify Seymour, instructed
to telegraph his acceptance. so that the
convention should have dispersed before
the real fact that lie would not take it all
could be known. 1t worked. The con-
vention adjourned. and Seymour, as soon
as he heard of it, declined peremptorily.
Now the nomination is i'll the hands of the
State colnmittee-the1 1committe belongs to
Tilden body and soul, and it will put at the
head of the ticket whoever the astute Sam
uel dictates. The cursing and swearing in
the city is somewhat dreadful. The De-
mocraey generally confess that this trick
ends the hope of the Democracy of carry
ing the State. had rather they had Kept
Seymour on, for it was very weak nomi
naIion
Year: 1876

Whenever anything is attempted tri-
fe different from what has been prcyi.
ousy done in given community, how
surely is the cry raised Can any good
come out Of Nazcrcth


These remarks assume many forms but
are nearly always raised in some form or
other by men who see something new
and strange, and wish to conceal their
Ignorance under the guise OF wisdom.


In Harprrs Mga'ine for February 1874
The fippant Charles NorlholT in his su-
perfcial and often inaccurate description
Of the Columbia River and Puget Sound
is surprised at class OF names some
what different from those he has been
used TO at the East. Seemingly forgetlul
that most of the beauty or discord We
see in names arises from associations con
nected with their use rather than from
the combination of letters employed in
their spelling, he ridIcules our people in
unmeasured terms for the names adopted
for our Counties, Cities and Towns. This
article is familiar to most of our readers,
we only quote one remark applied to our
own community which he never visited
and Of whose institutions he was iehOlly
igcorqnt.


They complain in Olympia that
Washington Territory gets hut little i'm
migration; but what wonder! What
man, having the whole American conti-
nent TO choose from, would willingly
date his letters from the County OF sno-
bomish 2"


Probably if this gentleman had ever
acquired any accurate ideas of our people
or had come among US with the purpose
Of seeing what class of men had chosen
to settle here, these lines would never
have been written.


At the time these lines we're written
the Snohomish River valley wac just
emerging from tue state Of frontier set.
clemer- and beginning to organize those
Year: 1876

T ttiC OhiO AOtotS


About two thirds of the Republican
newspapers of Ohio, outside of the
dailies in two or three principal
cities, have put up at their editorial
heads the name of Rutherford b.
Hayes for President, and nine tenths
of the others have emphatically ex-
pressed their preferences for Hayes
as their first and only choice. The
enthusiasm of the Republican press
on this point, and the comments of
the press of the State generally, make
very clear the fact that there is no
Republican Presidential movement in
Ohio of any significance whatever,
except that for Hayes. 1t may be
remarked that this is unanimity for
the Repu blican standard-bearer OF
last fall-the successful leader in so
many important political contests-is
in severe contrast with the torn up
condition of the minds of the Democ-
racy on the question of National
leadership.
Year: 1876

Washington Dispatch in New York


Times.l


The meeting of Congress was
eleven weeks tomorrow. In two
weeks more the date will come when
the last session of Congress ended.
All the appropriations were made
and every action of Congress neces-
sary to the regular and continuous
operation of the Government had
been taken. Some of the most use
ful investigations ever made in Con-
gress had been conducted to the sat
isfaction of the people. A large
amount of really important work was
accomplished, though it was the
short session, when little more is ex-
pected than the passage of the Ap-
preparation bills. This year, in
eleven weeks, only eight bills of small
Importance have become laws. One
bill the President has vetoed. About
seventy bills have passed the House,
the greater number being pension
bills, or bills ofa private nature. 1t
ought not to be omitted as part
Of the record of the House that up
ward of twenty-one hundred bills
have been introduced. 1t is an in
disputable fact that the work during
the whole of this session has been
less than has always heretofore been
accomplished b, fore the holiday re-
cess. The House has nothing before
it for action. The committees are
preparing no work. 1t is not within
the recollection of members that the
list OF committees has been called
through for reports three times in
one session. In the first days of
session, before the committees are
fairly organized, the list has been
called twice. But on the third call,
so much business has been present
ed by those first on the list, that the
last committees to be called have not
even had the opportunity to report
their measures to the House. Last
winter, for instance, the Committee
on the Pacific Railroad could not re
port Tom Scott's subsidy to the
House, and he was compelled to de-
pend upon the chances of a two
thirds vote to secure a consideration
of his bill. When needing two
thirds, however, he received much
less than majority. This session
the entire list of committees has been
eight or ten times called through,
and only few of them have suggest
ed any subjects for legislation. The
Committee on Ways and Means
meets twice a week, but has done no.
thing that might not have been fin
ished in two working meetings. The
last day for the meeting there was
not a quorum present. The Commit
tee on Appropriations seems to be
hard at'work, but not one of the i'm
portant bills has been introduced, and
the Legislative bill is not likely to be
brought in for at least another week.
Meanwhile the delay can not be
charged in any degree to the RePub-
lican minority. They have not yet
had an opportunity to oppose or OBJ
struct anything. The responslblll-
ty is plainly upon the majority, and
the delay is due tc inexperience and
inefficiency, not to use words OF
harsher import. If the Republicans
should decline to interfere in any
way in the business of legislation and
give the majority full sway, the APP
preparation bills would hardly be fin
ished before the end of the fiscal
wear.
Year: 1876

From the Whitenali lines


A few days since q WHITEWATER
called to pay his respects to lady.
He was obliged to wait in the par
lor some time for her to dress. As
the gentleman had been broken Of
his rest the previous night, he uncon-
sciously fell asleep. The lady enter
ed the parlor soon afterward, and
comprehending the state of affairs,
and wishing TO enjoy joke at the
gentleman's expense, she sat down in
chair on the opposite side of the
stove to wait the awakening and en-
Joy the astonishment of her caller.
In few moments a feeling of drow
siness began to creep over the fair
one. She finally dropped off fast
asleep. The gentleman awoke and
taking in the situation, thought ne
would turn the joke on his fair Joker
Taking a card he wrote on it: my
dear Miss -- AS. this is sleep
wear, / willingly accord you the priv
iege your sex is entitled to once in
four wears. Sleep on, fair friend.


Yours,
Year: 1876

4 Sl1On otUt IA A4t16Stass .
The Moscow Gazette gives details
of q heavy snow storm which oc-
CURED short time back at Saratotf


and its neighborhood. The roofs of


some houses were forced in by the


weight, and the snow was piled on


the sidepaths of the streets to the


height of the first story; also, the
cold was so intense that an officer


was frozen to death while proceed
ing to the barracks. A detachment
of Cossacks found upward of thirty
dead bodies in the surrounding conn
try, and the small houses in the
suburbs were covered to an extent
that made it difficult to rescue the
inhabitants. A disaster occurred to
a pleasure party of thirty young per
sons belonging to the highest circles
of the town. They had gone to a
ball at country house and danced
until three in the morning. The
storm commenced about two, and the
more prudent endeavored to persuade
the others to remain all night, but
they did not heed the advice and
started homeward. The vehicles
soon got astrsy and separated from
each other, and finally stuck fast
in the snow, the horses refusing
to proceed. The occupants then at
tempted to reach Saratoff on foot,
but, with one exception, all wandered
about the remainder of the night,
and when help was sent, after the
news was carried by the successful
member of the party, they were found
in the morning to have suffered more
or less from the effects of the cold.
The only daughter of the Deputy
Governor of the city had her feet
and hands frozen, and her condition
was most serious.
Year: 1876

"WHAr do you mean, you little
rascal?' exclaimed an individual to
an impudent youth who had seized
him by the nose on the street. "Oh,
nothing-only / am going out to
seek my fortune, and my father told
me to seize hold of the frst thing
that turned up"
Year: 1876

WHEN a stranger on a Brooklyn
ferry comes up to you with pencil
and notebook in his hand, and asks
your opinion as to Beecher's inno-
cence or guilt, don't get mad about
it. He is only taking vote, and
will have yours enumerated in the
evening papers under the head of
"a Straw"
Year: 1876

We find the following curious story
in the West Virginia Monitor:


We learn from a private letter to a
citizen of this place, from Mr. James
Meadows, of Boone county, West Va,
that child was born in that county
a short time since, with two faces.
One is in its natural place, and per-
feet in every respect; while the other
is not in quite so natural place, it
being situated directly on the small
of the back, it also being perfect in
form. 1t gets its breath as readily
through the nose on its back, as it
does through the one in its proper
place.
Year: 1876

found him standing at bay in small
ciump Of trees. and rushing upon him
en- nasse were the Mexican bandits.


As ! rode up he had dropped his rifle,
and with a revolver in each hand, was
firing in that rapid bat cool manner
that showed the man of nerve in the
most desperate danger


To run was impossible, and he knew
It, for the bandits were mounted and an
open piece of land would have brought
him under their fire: so he stood at bay,
determined to die like the brave man
that he was, rather than Weld.


As ! started up leading his splendid
horse by the rein, I saw several steeds
and riders 60 down, and the wild, def
ant cry OF the scout almost deafened
me.


At that moment the bandits were
checked, and wavering for an instant,
turned and spurred for the nearest shell
ter.


tried to believe that my arrival had
suddenly changed the aspect of affairs,
and Kit was kind enough to say so, but
love Of truth compels me to say, that
the ringing music Of the scouts revol-
vers, added to his deadly aim, was too
much for the Mexicans who did not
care to come to closer quarters with a
man who was such devil when brought
to bay.


Mounting his horse, and laughing
lightly at two slight wounds he had
received, Kit and myself dashed on to
the hacienda, and in an hour more
the whole party were safe in the Don :
strong house, where the fair Lita skill
fully dressed the scouts wounds, and
then served Us with asubstantial sup
per.


To make this story romance, kind
reader, should go on to say that Kit
married the lovely Lita, settled down
with the old Don's blessing. and were
happy with the old Don's money.


But that is not the truth-tor do
not believe he ever saw the pretty Mex
lean after that night, for we left the ha-
cienda the following morning and con-
tinued on our way, accomplishing the
end for which we had started forth.


Since that moonlight night in balmv
Mexico, Kit Carson and myself have
been on many trail together, but never
has he appeared so noble to me as when
score Of Mexican bandits brought him
to bay.