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Year: 1875

JOSH BnLISGs' MARKED CARDS.
If a man is natrsl now-s days he is
charged at once with trying to be eI-
centrick or silly.


Menny man has reached the sum
nit OF fame and then he lookt down
upon the humble valley he cum from
and longed to be oack there agin.


There is a great deal OF modesty
that is nothing else but fear.


The days of chivalry are not over;
they will last as long as whiskey
duz.


I never have known ov an impu-
dent man yet to be possessed Of down.
right good sense.


1t is the little things that enable us
to Judge ova mans character; be
don't try TO hide them, aud couldn't
if he would.


have never seen but q few who
knew how to cry good, and even less
who knew how to laf we'll.


think the majority of people
have a better public than private
character.


If a man tells lie he is always in
a great hurry to prove it.


Pashunce is like caster ile--it is
one thing to prescribe it, and it is
another thing to take it.


There is more real happiness in
reducing our wants than in crafty
ing them.


NJ man ever failed OF success who
could do thing better than another
could and kept ADDING it.


Yu kant make a friend OF serv-
ant-triendship and servitude wont
mix, only in the same way a. lie end
alcohol du,.
Year: 1875

and member of the c0Uenant. Therefore
he was entitled to the covenant token, and
must have it. Thus God arranged it. The
believers household stood within the cove
nant, and were entitled to its token by virtue
of their connection with the head Of the fam
lily who had faith. And is not all this con-
sistent and right? God thinks SO. And
our thought should be formed upon His
In the next chapter rs: 49, we see that all
this agrees with the estimate which God put
upon Abraham in establishing such cove
nant with him :-"For know him, that he
will command his children and his household
after him, and they shall keep the way of
the Lord to do justice and judgment; that
the Lord may bring upon Abraham that
which he hath spoken of him.


From all this we conclude safely, that the
covenant which is given to the believer, EN-
braces his children also; and that the cove
nant token which he receives, he must give
to them. AS the patriarch of old, he is
Gods minister to his household, and the dis
charge of his duties sasald be auoh az will
enable God to speak Of him as lie spoke OF
Abraham, "The father of US all. y" For the
same covenant stands in binding force upon
us of this day, as will be hereafter shown.
Year: 1875

Alone I walked the ocean strand,
A pearly she'll was in my hand;
stopped, and wrote upon the sand


My name, the year and day,
As onward from the spot passed,
One lingering look behind | cast
A wave came rolling high and fast


And washed my hres away.
And so, methought, twill quickly be
With every mark on earth from me
A wave Of dark obhvion's S sea


viii sweep across the place
Where have trod the sandy shore
OF time, and be to me no more;
Of me, my day, the name l bore,


To leave no track or trace.
And yet with Him who counts the sands,
Aud holds the water in His hands,
know a lasting record stands


Inscribed against my name,
OF all this mortal part has wrought,
Of all this thinking soul has thought,
And from these feeting moments caught,


For glory or for shame
Year: 1875

SoRRow.-A great sorrow recasts soul;
it either draws it nearer 10 the friend whose
intimacy must elevate it, or drives it into the
far, cold space Of rebellion and despair
When the stripes of afliction are dealt to
those whom God has called into His great
school of work for souls, it is manifestly to
give them a new faculty in their calling
They needed to see deeper down into their
own hearts, and thus into the hearts of
others. Oh how many sorrow of the poor
NAV we have striven to comfort, while their
experiences told them that we stood outside
of it But the greater leveller, Death, has
admitted US now unto an inner circle OF fel-
lowship with the human family born unto
trouble" True human loneliness is only
found in living apart from God and his work.
1t has been said that " the infinite ocean of
human woes makes every idle moment in
Christian life, guilt in the sight of Cod
Life Work.
Year: 1875

Penitence which means the forsak-
ing of our sins because they are against
the Lords the great condition Offor-
giveness. Let the wicked forsake his
ways, and the unrighteous man his
thoughts; and let him return unto the
Lord and he will have mercy upon
him; and to our God, for He will
abundantly pardon. We must not
suppose that mems patience makes
the Lord merciful and forgiving; but
men while impenitent cannot receive
the divine mercy, and therefore enjoy
the comfort of a realized forgiveness.
The sense of pardon is, in fact, the
comforting sense of the divine presence
felt in the soul, which by penitence,
has become receptive of that pres
ence.
Year: 1875

Sunday morning! the pure, pale light
dawns upon the world like the smile
of God, with his gift of another day to
us. Impossible that sin and wrong,
evil and impurity can exist in the fair,
open light of morning-and Sunday
morning! The very trees seem to have
an easier lighter motion, for this is a
day of rest All over the world, the
people rise with feeling of respite
and calm, quite joy; all over the world
this advent of q holy day is hailed
with reverence. From civilized and
Christian homes assend the holy
prayers of true, earnest faith and care;
from wild, savage dwellings rises
nameless reverence to the mysterious,
unknown power that has brought
again to view the grand bright sun.
Sunday morning! the very words are
sweet and sacred; associated with all
that is best and dearest in our memo
rles, what wonder that we bow the
head and heart to their praise? On
that day, years ago, how often has not
loving mother gathered us around
her chair, telling in earnest, simple
words of the command God laid upon
His people to set aside one day for rest.
How incomprehencibly sublime to
young minds the thought that for
"years and years." all over the world,
thousands, yea!-millions of beings
bend in reverence to him, in union for
the time! Oh! Sunday morning-Sun-
day morning! all through the week of
temptation and labor, may the sancti-
fication of these hours endure, keep
ing us from weakness and sin, and
making us more fit for the eternal day
of rest
Year: 1875

We have heard of Nashville man
swallowing crooked piece of wire, and
not being relieved of it until many years
had passed and gone, but that was not
half as singular as the case of negress
at Shellmound who, nine months ago,
took into her stomach, as she AYERS,
without knowing it, ten pins tightly
wrapped in ball composed of African
wool. The negress is the cook in the
house of Mr.. Samuel Ingersoll She
says at the same time she provoked the
enmity of another negress, who, in turn,
and out of revenge, resorted to strata
gem to render her wretched the remain
ing days of her well-spent life. They
were together one day not long after
hot dispute which had risen between
them, when her enemy handed her, at
her invitation, in pint cup, some water,
which she drank down, having become
somewhat thirsty from the passion which
had been aroused in her by the severe
tongue-lashing of her opponent. From
that time on until recent Sunday she
had constantly felt an uneasiness in the
stomach, and often grew sick from the
f" charm (which she believed her enemy
had given her in the water. At times
she seemed almost ready to go. into con-
vulsions, when she would recover from
them and not be troubled again for sew
eral days.


On that day she was more violently
taken than ever, and was seized with
vomiting, emitting blood, and finally
small piece of something having re-
semblance to hard wad. When it was
examined it was found that it was COM
posed of the wool of Il negress, tightly
wrapped around ten pins, which We're so
bent, point to head, as to prevent stick
ing i'll the flesh, and thereby producing
death from any irritation that might en-
sue. It is supposed the continuance OF
the wad i'll the stomach, however, did
produce more or less irritation, and that
the brass contained in the pins doubt
less had the effect to produce temporary
sickness.


Since she was relieved OF the ''charm,
which she still persists in calling it, she
has shown signs of II decided improve
ment as regards health. - WshrW" B0it-
Year: 1875

A farmer named Clearinghouse lives on
an island in Neosho county, Mo-, having
acquired the land by purchase from a
former tenant. A dispute lately arose
about the validity of his title, and the
Settlers League, an organization Of the
opponents Of the system by which Gar
linghouse's predecessor got the island,
notified him that he musG "quit or die. >
The farmer accepted neither of these al
tarnatives, and sent back word that he
was ga bad man to mob" The same
night the Leaguers rode up to his house
masked and armed. Their leader got
off his horse and kicked open the door.
There was at once flash, a report, and
he fell dead The Leaguers made con-
certed advance ON the open door, and
two more shots from the dark interior
wounded two Of their number, and that
ended the raid. They retreated with
the killed and wounded, and CARING
house is still in possession of the island,
having proved that he is really ga bad
man to mob.
Year: 1875

A certain faithful teacher determined,
in his school of twenty-six pupils, to stop
whispering entirely. Having forbidden
it, he made it his chief business one day
to watch for violations of his rule. He
observed one or two only. On the next
day, there was scarcely an offense and,
on the third, he gave special attention,
but perceived none at all. He determ-
ed TO make thorough work he had de-
voted himself three days to the accom-
plishment of his purpose, and he fiatter-
ed himself that he had succeeded. But,
determined to leave no chance for doubt,
at the close of school on the third day,
he passed to each pupil small slip of
paper, and requested each one who had
whispered that day toput certain mark
on this paper. The pupils name was
not to appear on the paper, the object
being not to catch the offenders, but to
furnish testimony to the success OF the
attempt. The teacher immediately col
lected the papers, but though it prudent
not to examine them until he was alone.
When he reached his room and made the
examination, he found that only twenty
five out of twenty-six, according to then
testimony, had whispered that day This
story has a moral; i'll fact it has several,
but we leave our readers to make THEN
own reflections.
Year: 1875

The New York Tribune remarks that,
excluding from the army of lost children
the 1000 inmates of the House of
Refuge, and other Reformatory institu-
tions, there remains the fact that one
fourth of the children in New York alone
are absolutely given over to poverty, to
the temptation of every coarse and brutal
vice. In TACT one-fourth of the children
i'll New York city are in rags, in hunger,
and absolutely unable to learn how to
earn an honest living or to gain one ra-
tional idea of the God who made them.


We do right, the editor says, to pity
Charley Ross taken from his comfortable
home, and loving parents. But these
other souls who have lost their way, be-
long by right to an honest, intelligent,
virtuous life, and their father is God.
Have we no outcry, no money, no pity
for them? In Philadelphia, where 800,
600 were Gustly and generously raised
promptly to save one child, there are
II, 800 vagrant children utterly neglected,
no effort being made there as here by
industrial schools to rescue them to the
State and humanity. There are several
of these schools now in this city, but not
enough to reach tithe of the children.
There is many an idle woman, too, with
means and culture and religious purpose,
whose heart is wrung with pity to-day
for Charley Ross, whom she cannot help.
We only point out to her these thou
sands of other lost little ones to whom
she can give more than home or life, and
commend them to her thoughts.
Year: 1875

Yesterday, while the gale was at its
height, curious accident occurred on
Union street A nobby-looking Chi
naman was walking behind young
lady dressed in the extreme agony of
the fashion, when a sudden gust of
wind blew the Celestial's tail forward
and wrapped the end of it around the
lady's neck. Being frightened, she
grabbed the end of the queue to snatch
it away, but she pulled in the wrong
direction. The Chinaman also made
a grab to recover his property. but he
also was out of luck, as he got hold of
one of those long curls which are usu-
ally seen hanging down from water
falls, as well as of his queue, and
when he took pull at it the whole of
the lady's top hair, hat and all, came
off The ladys head had no hair on
it, only little that was gathered into
a small knot that stood erect, like the
scalp-lock of a Piute brave. If ever
you saw a Chinaman astonished at
what he had done, it was that man.
Virginia City Enterprise
Year: 1875

Many of the colds which people are
said to catch, commence at the feet
To keep these extremities warm,
therefore, is to effect an insurance
against the almost interminable list OF
disorders which spring out of a
"slight cold First, never be tightly
shod. Boots or Shoes, when they fit
closely. press against the foot and pre-
vent the free circulation of the blood,
When, on the contrary, they do not
press the foot too tightly, the blood
gets fair play. and the spaces left be-
tween the leather and stockings are
filled with a comfortable supply of
warm air. The second rule is, never
sit in damp shoes. 1t is often imag-
med, that unless they are positively
wet, it is not necessary to change
them while the feet are at rest. This
is fallacy; for when the least damp
ness is absorbed into the sole, it is at
tracted further to the foot itself by
its own heat, and thus perspiration is
checked. Any person
may prove this by trying tie expert
ment of neglecting the rule, and his
feet will become cold and damp after
a few moments, although, taking off
the shoe and warming it, it will ap-
pear quite dry.
Year: 1875

never look at my old steel com
posing rule that do not bless myself
that, while my strength lasts, am
not at the mercy of the world. If my
pen is not wanted | can go back to
the type case and be sure of work; for
/ learned the printers trade thor
oughly-newspaper work, job work,
book work and press work. 1 am
glad l have good trade. 1t is
rock upon which the possessor can
stand firmly. There is health and
vigor for both body and mind in an
honest trade 1t is the strongest and
surest part of the self-made man Go
from the academy to the printing
office or the artisans bench, or, if you
please. to the farm-for, to be sure,
true farming is trade and good
one at that. Lay thus a sure founda-
ton, and after that branch off into
whatever profession you please.


You have heard, perhaps. of the
clerk who had faithfully served
Stephen Girard from boyhood to man
hood. On the 21st anniversary of his
birthday he went to his master and
told him his time was up, and he GER
tainly expected important promotion
in the merchant sservice. ButStephen
GIrard SAID to MIN:


Very well. Now go and learn a
trade"


What trade, sir?'


Good barrels and butts must be in
demand while you live. Go and learn
the cooper trade, and when you have
made perfect barrel bring it to me-


The young man went away and
learned the trade, and in time brought
to his old master splendid barrel of
his own make.


Girard examined it, and gave the
maker two thousand dollars for it.
and then said to him:
Now, sir, [ want you in my count
ing room; but henceforth you will not
be dependent upon the whim of
Stephen Girard. Let what will come,
you have a good trade always in re-
serve"


The young man saw the wisdom and
understood.


Years ago, when the middle-aged
men Of to-day were boys, Horace
Greeley wrote:


1T is great source of consolation
to us, that when the public shall be
tired of US as an editor, we can make
"A satisfactory livelihood at setting type
or farming; so that while our strength
lasts ten thousand blockheads, taking
offence at some article they do not
understand, could not drive us into
the poor house"


And so many a man becomes truly
| Independent.
Year: 1875

Uncle Joe poked the fire yesterday
and live coal fell upon the carpet
The tongs were gone. and Uncle Joe
tried to raise the coal with his fingers.
1t was too hot. He couldn't hold it.
1t fell on chair Horrors! He
grasped it again. This time it flew on
the bed He was getting excited.
He wet his fingers and tried it again.
Whew! how hot it was. Into the
work-box. Uncle Joe danced around
wonderfully. That remarkable piece
of fire flew upon everything that could
possibly be scorched On the table
cover. Destruction! On the carpet
again. Uncle Joe executed the High
land fling in grand style. On the
foot-stool went that still hot coal He
seized it again. Window curtains
this time. Carpet again. Fearful
smell In the room Aunt Keziah
came rushing in with the tongs. She
conquered. She raised her voice.
She conversed with uncle Joe, and
Uncle Joe retired by the back door
with neatness and dispatch.-St. Louis
Republican.
Year: 1875

It is no part of our business to tel


how we know, but we do know, the
statement below. There is a doctor
of this city whose wife is, more than
common wives, kind to her husband.
On about the only very cold night
that has been experienced here for
nearly year-when the mercury got
below zero a week or two ago-he was
called at nine clock to go three miles
in the country. When he had started


his good wife made roaring lire and
pus an iron on the stove, thinking her
dear hubby would come home ALMOST
fl Oxen. Her intentions were to get
up wrap the warm iron in 6annels
and put in the bed to warm the toes-es
of her husband. She went to bed and
got into her first doze, when he re-
turned. Half asleep, in that peculiar
condition common to women when
they think they do something when
they don't--a condition that always
pervades their natures at shirt-button
time-she got up, took the fannels
and lifted the red hot iron from the
stove. Carrying it to the bed she
dropped it in at the front and then,
like good wife, went over behind
and dropped sound asleep The hus-
band came in, undressed rapidly, and
when he had taken off all his clothes
but his shirt and socks, he sat down
on the side of the bed to take off the
latter It so happened that, when he
sat down, he did not sit on his shirt.


He did not take his stockings off at
that sitting. In Iact, he did not sit
long enough. On the contrary, no
sooner did he sit than he jumped.
And when he jumped he screamed.
His wife screamed too. But the
house was not ON fire. The light was
|, turned up and an examination made.
The red hot iron had been left on the
side of the bed, and the smooth and
hottest side turned up, and the hus-


band had squatted on it squarely as if
it had been chair and he had tried
to get into it. We don't want to say
any more about it, but if that impress
sion would impart to wood the same
impression that iron did to the human
body, every time that doctor sits
down, he would leave perfect picture
of smoothing iron on the chair. He
will never order even hot brick for
a patient. The subject does not bring
sweet memories.-Kokomo Tribune.
Year: 1875

The other morning, nice young
man got into car on the Dayton
Short Line Railroad, and saw to his
delight the only vacant seat. in the
COACH was by the side of young lady
acquaintance He reached for that
seat with joyous strides, and her eyes
answered his delighted looks. But
just as he got there, an elderly party
from the other end of the car waltzed
up the aisle and dropped into the
coveted seat. The young man ap-
preached more slowly, and accosted
the young lady "How is your broth
er?f he asked. is he able to get out?'
"Oh, yes she said "W1ll he be
very badly marked?'' he continued;
and the old gentleman grew suddenly
interested. ''Oh, no" said the fair
deceiver, with the exception of few
small pits ON his forehead. you would
never know he had ever had it"
"Were you not afraid of taking it?'
the young man went on, while the old
gentleman broke out in cold perspira-
tion Not at, ALL she replied; Il
had been vaccinated, you know" The
seat was vacated instantly, two young
hearts beat as half dozen, aud the
prattle of nice talk" strewed that
part of the car, while gray haired old
man scowled upon them from the hard
accommodation Of the wood box.
Year: 1875

The duration of the beneficial ef-
fects of certain manures Is topic
sometimes discussed A correspon-
dent of the New York World writes:
'In order to Suow what an outgoing
tenant should receive for the perma-
nent improvement he had made in the
soil, it was decided By farmers club
in Scotland that the beneficial effects
OF horse. COW, and town manure. qua
no, bones and coprolites lasted four
years, and the rate of exhaustion was
four r-tenths the first year, and one
tenth less each succeeding year. Lime
on arabic land was supposed to last
ten y RS, as it performed chemical
action as important as its plant food.
Nitrate of soda lasted only for the
growing crop, and sulphate of ammo
MIA did not last like guano." This
opinion of the Scotch farmers club
may be like the verdict of some j,tries
quite wide of the facts-but it is of
interest as an estimate.
Year: 1875

Yes, kick her down as low as posi-
BILE Don't give her chance to rise
and invade respectable society again.


She has been tried and tempted, and
she has fallen from the holy estate of
innocence, and it behooves every vir-
tuous woman to see to it that she is
not allowed to breathe the foul malaria
OF her presence among the pure of her
sex.


There is contamination in her
touch. There is moral darkness and
degradation in her presence. Be-
ware of her as you would one smitten
with the plague.


When she passes by, or when her
disgraced name is mentioned, wrap
your plous garments around you, and
let the brush of shame tinge your
maiden cheek, and the pocket hand
kerchief Of insulted modesty cover
your face.


Men will deem you modest, and do
net men adore modesty in woman.
and do they by any act of theirs de-
stroy that quality in female character?
oh, no. Certainly not. We all know
that the world of men at large are
equally as careful of the character of
the young girls with whom they as
sociate as they would be if these same
girls were their own grandmothers.
To be sure!


Always think of the abandoned
woman at her worst Never for
moment indulge the idea that there
may be good life in hers. The days
when it was possible for good to come
out of Nazarath' are passed away.


She has fallen-let her be where
she has chosen her place. In the
mud of the gutter, under the faring
gaslight in the wintry streets, in the
waters of the river-do not trouble
your fair hands about her. ''She has
made her bed, SO let her lie; so let her
lie"


You can pity the poor heather in
foreign lands, and knit stockings for
the goddess inhabitants of the tropics.
and send Bibles and tracts to the
South Sea Islanders, and put pennies
in the mission box to enlighten the
Hindoo as he goes out to cast himself
beneath the wheels of Juggernaut, but
with these wretched heather at your
very gates you have nothing to do.
Your eyes must be blind to the sad
fact of their existence, and if per.
chance they cry out for help-you
must not forget that you are virtu-
Gus woman, and as such your ears
must be deaf


Smile your sweetest on the men that
have made them what they are, and
ignore the certainty that there is temp
tations in the world to which you
have never been exposed Your gilt
edged gold clasped Bible holds for
you no lesson of mercy and forgive
ness, for you read it in heart set in
judgement, and your idle eyes have
pever paused 70 rest with grave con-
sideration upon the sentence, For
the greatest of all there is charity. -
Kate Thorn.