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Year: 1875

Whom the rolling mill at Lcech-
burg is not in operation, the gas from
the big we'll at that place is conduct
ed to tie top of a derrick about one
hundred feet high and burned in six
large burners, which ilIuninates the
country for miles around, and makes
it 50 light in that town that the finest
print can be read on any Of the
streets.
Year: 1875

The President has spoken at last. The Pennsylvania Republican convention of last week passed anti-Third Term resolu- tions which have brought out letter from the President to the chairman of the con- vention. It is amanly document, evidently the product of Grants own mind, and set tling the question conclusiyely that he will not be a candidate for renomination.

 Beginning with reference to the un- doubted fact that the office sought him, not he the office, President Grant de- clares that he has not considered the claim about Third Term worth answer ing, until the action of the Republican party of the second state in the Union seemed to render it necessary. We regret that our space will not admit of our pub lication of this important letter entire, but the gist of it is to be found in the follow ing sentences:

 It may happen in the future history of the country that to change an Executive because he has been eight years in office will prove unfortunate if not disastrous. The idea that any man could elect himself President, or even renominate himself, is preposterous. It is reflection upon the intelligence and patriotism of the people to suppose such a thing possible. Any man can destroy his chances for the office, but no man can force an election or even nomination.

 To recapitulate, am not, nor have I ever been, @ candidate for renomination. I would not accept Q nomination if it were rendered, unless it should come under such circumstances as to make 1t an im- perative duty, circumstances not likely to arise.

 The sum and substance of this whole matter seems to be this: While President Grant has not really expected 6 third nom- ination he has considered the possibility of it. His letter clearly and honestly dis closes that fact. No doubt the fiatterers who always surround a man in high office have done their best to mislead him and foster the notion that his third nomina- tion might become as much necessity of the Republican party. as was his first. Whatever may have been his former views on this point. it is evident that President Grant no longer entertains any such expec- tation. It is the sensible conclusion of q sensible man, and we rejoice that sensi- tive public is no longer to be scared by the ghost of C@sarism. %.
Year: 1875

It is astonishing that men should under take the risks of boating without knowing how to swim. Last week three of the Trinity University crew were upset in the Connecticut at Hartford, where they were practicing. Tso of them could otswim. Luckily one of them saved himself by clinging to the boat; but the other, an es- timable young man named Cameron, was drowned.
Year: 1875

new device in the matter of locks saved the Mahaiwe Bank of Great Bar rington from loss, on Friday night. This lock, which had been put on the bank vault but recently, is so contrived that it becomes absolutely unbeatable for given term of hours. A gang of burglars enter ed the cashiers house, bound his family and carried him pinioned to the bank. Here. however. the new lock proved to be an impregnable barrier. The cashier could not open it; the burglars could not force it; and the attempt failed.
Year: 1875

The committee to whom these questions were referred by former Legislature, have presented e report favoring the establish ment of state inebriate asylum and a state workhouse for tramps.
Year: 1875

The skin acquired by these nomad


people in throwing Che lasso avails
them at times in making captiyes of
other animsSbesid theirown deer.
On one occasion, when a Lapp, in
company with young female was
driving the herd through the forest,


they accidentally reused a large bear


from his winter quarters, TRegirr
very fortunately had the lasso in
her hand. With greateeoolness and
skill, she threw it over, his head as
he was slowly quitting his den, and
at the same instant coiled the csothcr
end to a tree. The brute, on finding
himself thus in Che teils, dashedssat
the Amazon; but as she, slipped on
one. SIDE. he foEtpnatelg missed his
IfmSand, on coniingsto his tetler,
was, in sailor language, brought up
short and thrown TO the ground.
Bruins career was soon brought to
an end, for, seizing the thong with
his paws, and by so doing tightening
the moose, he presently managed to
strangle himself. The Lapp, on sec
ing the beast charge the girl, took
fright and ran away; and, as a con-
the bold girl, who was to
have been married to him, sent him
at once to the right-about, very prop
crly refusing to have anything more
to say to so dastardly a fellow.
Year: 1875

When q man gets the toothache it
will generally assume its worst form
about three o'clock in the morning.


He will toss and kick around in
bed and dig his elbows into his wife's
back, and groan in miserable way
until about daybreak.


Then he will tell his wife to gctup
and get something for it.


Of course she can't find anything
better than pennyroyal tea, which
only makes him mad, and he gctsup
himself and goes meandering around:
and tramps on the cats tail and
swears, and kicks the dog of the front
stoop, and probably barks his shin
on the corner of q chair.


His wife, who has been to a drug
gist's now returns, and, selling the
Sremedy" she has brought him, he
soon has all the inside Of his mouth
burnt out by his reckless use Of it.


Then he will houl around some
more, ard by this time the rest of
the family and his mother-in-law
have got down stairs, and there oe-
ours such general row that all his
neishbors are eagerly-looking over
his backyard fence to see the fun.


Finally, he gets his head done up
in hot poultices and things, and goes
around without speaking to any one
for two or three days.


An interesting lawsuit has just
been decided at Wilmington, Della
ware, where the possessionsof a large
property turned on the decision Of
the question whether baby which
was indisputably dead a few minutes
after it was born, had during those
few minutes sufficient life to give 1t
a legal existence; if yes, the share OF
its mother (who died in the contlne-
menD in her fathers estate seaiaiHeo
with her husband during his lifetime;
if no, it went. to her brothers On
the one hand it appeared that the
baby's heart had certainly beat 2
few times; on the other, that there
was no sign Of breathing, that all et-
forts to establish respiration soon
failed; and that the attending physl-
clan had described tie child in his
death certificate as ''still-born-"
The jury decided that the child was
really alive for few minutes, and
The property remains with thesashes.
Year: 1875

Fifty years ago this month the first train
Of vehicles was drawn by locomotive over
a road open to the public. This was at Dar-
lington, in England, and George Stephenson
was the engineer, both of the road and the
locomotive. 1t was the beginning of rail
roading, and a semi-centcnnial celebration is
to be had at Darlington on the 9th. The
little line then opened has since been absorb
ed into the Northeastern railroad of England,
an immense corporation, whose capital is
0,0OO, 900, or equal to that of our whole
Pacific railroad, and even that is surpassed
by three other British railroads. The rail-
roads Of the world have all been created
within this fifty years. The United States
have laid the most length in that time, and
about as much as all the rest Of the
world put together. The cost and manner
of building has been the most magnificent in
England, where the per centage of net return
and gross earnings to cost is less than with
Year: 1875

One of my neighbors last season raised
over 400 bushels OF potatoes per acre under
straw, while the rest Of US in open ground
hardly got our seed back, the summer being
extremely hot and dry His plan is to plant
very shallow Zone or two inches deep in
rows eighteen inches apart, and when the po-
tatoes are beginning to come up. to cover
with straw to the depth of eight or ten inches.
This straw is of most advantage in dry sea-
sons, showing but little if any benefit, and
sometimes positive damage in wet.-Cor.
". Y. Tribune.
Year: 1875

Correspondent. Do you expect to spend
the rest of your life here, on the Lime Rock?


Ida Lewis. Well, can't say what I ex-
pect. shall certainly remain here while my
parents live. am happy and contented as I
am, and don't desire a change.


At this point of the conversation your cor
respondent found that the time he had allow
ed himself for the visit to Ida Lewis was at
an end, so he reluctantly arose and wished
the unassuming, but truly noble little woman
good morning, thoroughly convinced that her
daring and unexampled bravery have not
been exaggerated.
Year: 1875

Some of Our iniiationist friends are very
positive in their answers to this question.
They affirm that all attempts we may here
after make to approach specie payments
must of necessity tend to bring on more or
less of commercial revulson, and to precipi-
tate financial panic. When asked for their
reasons they tell us that resumption cannot
be reached except through currency contrac-
ton. This is very true, but it does not help
them; for the universal experience of the
commercial world proves that contraction of
the currency seldom, if ever, produces
panic in modern times. The fact is just the
opposite. Currency contraction does not pro-
duce panic; but a panic very often produces
a scarcity of currency, because in panic
every man is anxious to hoard that which will
pay his debts


The infationists fail to comprehend the
great revolution which modern enterprise has
effected in the use of substitutes for money.
Checks now take the place of cash, and hun
dreds of millions of debts are cancelled and
paid every week in this city withoutthc use OF
a dollar in actual cash. The contraction OF
the currency, so long as there is no contrac-
ton of credit, will do little else than call in
to operation some of the thousand economies
by which society in modern times economies
money. On this principle it is that England
performs the prodigious operations OF her
commerce with so small a volume of cash.
Although England is at present the great
clearing house of the commercial world, the
volume of money with which she conducts
her exchanges amounts altogether to small
er aggregate than the present volume Of the
currency of the United States.


Our inflationists friends seem to imagine
that they are living in a state of things such
as existed years ago, when payments were
more generally made in actual cash, and
when banking facilities were not so exten-
sively developed as now. Their dread of
currency contraction should be transformed
into fear lest they bring upon the country
the mischiefs of contraction Of credit. II
this happy change could be made they would
soon see that the present intlationist agitation
in this country is raising up serious obstacles
to the revival Of business. 1t is threatening
US with worse evils than are likely to be pro-
duced from any healthy and moderate con
traction of the currency-such as may be
found needful preliminary to specie re-
sumption under the existing acts of Con-
gress. -Financinl Chronicle.
Year: 1875

[From the Kansas City T.mes.]


Every one who was at the Exposition on
Monday, the opening day, will remember the
chestnut mare Chiquita, who won the two
mile running dash so gallantly, making the
remarkable time of 1871. She was beauti-
full horse, with coat as smooth and glossy
as that Of ladys pet spaniel, an eye as large
and lustrous as fawn's and countenance
as mild and gentle as timid schoolgirls.
She became universal favorite after her
gallant victory, and every one will be panied
to hear that she met with an accident at Kan
sas City on Tuesday that will doubtless pre-
vent her from ever appearing in the speed
ring again. She was matched against Sweet
Bay and Orphan Boy for the $500 purse, and
had taken two heats, though breaking shoe
and coming in slightly lame at the end of the
second. After being rubbed down, she was
brought up for the third heat, which she won
in 1854, thus winning the race in three
straight heats.


To the establishment of all who cheered
the finish made by the superb beast SO hearth
ly, she was pulled up dead lame, being led
with difficulty from the track. Immediately
surrounded by all who were near her, the
cause Of the lameness was eagerly ques-
toned, and when the answer came that she
had slipped shoulder blade, and was prob
ably ruined for life as racer, one would
have thought the injury was inflicted upon
some warm personal friend so mournful
were the comments. Mr.. VIM. Mulkey, Of
this city, the owner of the mare, recently re-
fused S., 900 for her, and permitted her to
run in this race against the earnest protest of
many, who warned him of the danger of the
track, half-mile course being always risky
for runners, and this one especially, its sharp
turns and uneven grades being next to death
to thoroughbreds. 1t is to be sincerely hoped
that the mares injury will not, upon closer
investigation, prove SO severe as at first
thought, but certain it is that she will appear
no more upon the track this week.


It is certainly to be hoped that the owners
Of other fine running horses will be warned
by this disaster, and keep them off from half
mile tracks Thoroughbreds are not plen-
ty enough in the West to be sacrificed in this
way.
Year: 1875

How many Of the young men who loitertd
about the streets last week 10 read the tele-
grams from the Dollymount shooting match
caught the moral Of this businessH We
suspect that If they had seen the point, they
would not have spent the day. or had dav
to spend, in idle curiosity. The great evil
OF the world as it Is related 10 young men
Is that a multitude Of them grow up with.
out being trained TO accurate and careful
work-to shooting at some mark and hit
ting it,


Ihey learn, if ever, when it is too late.
that success pivots upon training, upon pre-
cision, upon patient practice. A young man
needs 10 know how to do something well. aud
this can be learned only 10y drill, pcrsevering
application TO one thing by steady, patient
and unchanging temper aud ambition. His
hat may be full Of genius, and his shirt
bosom OF aspirations he may be able 10 do
almost anything that he tries to do, having
houndless energy aud capacity, but If he
does not settle down TO a pursuit and pa
tently work out its details, shooting every
week at his mark, he will come to no special
success. We have no great admiration for
shooting. Gunpowdcr is not one of our gods
We believe that the after-piece of the war
suicides, murders, thriftless living, love Of
executing SENSATIONS, etc.--siiscOuuts more
than we have guessed from the glores Of
heroism and skill in the contest and we
wish the taste for gunpowder could be So
bered down. good deal But OF all uses to
which gunpowder is put, sharp-shooting is
the best we have heard Of (after blasting
out Hell Gate.) because il requires close at
tcnti0n infinite practice, and steady nerves.
Shooting at mark is innocent enough with
gunpowder; it is what We all need to learn
to do with our gifts energies aud means


The men who can now
save fortunes or make them, are those whose
mental and moral muscle and nerves have
been hardened in the schooling Of expert
ence. The coming men will not sobbcr sen.
tinent and gush their business they will
figure out the per cents, and calculate closely
the chances OF success. world OF close
lines and sman margins, OF three per cents.
and ten hours in a days work, has come
upon us The BoWhards will drop out Of
commerce, out Of the pulpit, out of congress.
The young men may as well understand it
soon--they will miserably fail unless they
learn to hit the mark. Those will best sue.
coed who do the closest shooting The Meth
o,iiSf
Year: 1875

How little do we estimate the true value
of sister How little do we think Of the
important part she has had, by her gentle
example, in shaping our lives And while
we may not have had As full an appreciation
Of sisters influence rs it eininently de
served, we can now look back, and with ten
der feelings pay high tribute to its worth


Next in honor aud Importance TO the rela-
tion which a mother bears to her child is
the relation a sister bears TO her sister or
brother. And only can we fully appreciate
the relationship when, IN after life, we are
recalled by memory to our childhood DAYS
when the name of sister was so dear to us.
Who cannot remember the many kindly
words and loving actions of devoted sister


Few of us forget the spring-time Of life,
crowded, as it usually is, with happy mo-
ments, pleasant hours, and weeks and months
in which, to our little hearts, there seemed
to be nothing but Sunshine" save, perhaps
the little troubles peculiar only to child
nature" But even these little clouds, pass
ing for a moment over clear sky, were soon
driven away, for "sister" was near, ever
ready TO contribute to our comfort by word
and deed shielding the tender plant from a
rough world.


But does sistel S influence end here


1t has but just begun What more i'm
portant part of life is there than the early
years, while our very natures are being
moulded


What better influence can be brought to
bear upon brotber's life than the noble,
self-sacriiicing example of a faithful sister :?
How many young men owe many Of the
noblest traits of character which they pos
sess, to a sisters gentle influence, which may
have been silent, but nevertheless potent
A word "spoken in season." spoken with a
sisters prayerful earnestness, cannot lose its
power, and though, perhaps, received in
careless, thoughtless manner, cannot be
shaken off, but carries with it its influence
which develops itself, sooner or later, in af-
ter life. a sister cannot over-cstimate the
high prerogative which God, in His all-wise
purpose, has given her. And while life
lasts, this mission of love is hers.
Year: 1875




The Psalmist prayed, " "Create in me n
a clean heart, renew a right spirit within
me- Then will | teach transgressors thy
ways, and sinners shall be converted TO thee"
lie felt that it was only when he was right
himself, he could lead others right Upon
this depends the success of the teacher, and
he must feel it so. When a scholar knows
that wrong action will offend the con-
science Of his instructor he will hesitate be-
fore committing it. The teacher, by his
own life has a hold upon the character of
his child, and there is his chance for good
work. Make him love you, not because
you are clever and kind, but because you
are good, aud his love will work out
blessed results. lie win pray because
you pray. lie will practice the precepts
you set before him because of the effects
they produce in you. The most withering
rebukes which Jesus uttered were against
those who were inconsistent in their duties


the teachers of the people who occupied
places OF high trust, and disregarded the es-
sential character they involved. One SEN
tence weighed and condemned them
"whited sepulchres. - Christian Weekly.
Year: 1875

AS proof that the idolatry of Japan
Is shaken to its foundations, it is said
that the beautiful temples, which are
thickly scattered over the land, are lit
tie cared for, and are rapidly going to
decay. A missionary remarks that du.
ring his many visits to these places OF
worship he had seen and heard much to
make him believe that the religion OF
Japan is fast losing its hold on the
hearts of the people, and that they are
willing, as soon as the government en-.
courages the step, to give up the old for
a rev and better faith.
Year: 1875

Here is riddle that dates back to
1871, time beyond the memory of our
young friends, and so we risk little in re
printing it: it is quite curious, and we
will wait for the correct solution:


Ye virtuous, come and see
A piece of curiosity.


As mushrooms start and live day,


So spring soon, so soon decay;
, Yet. still more strange, where most l shoot


There Daugbt beside can scarce take root
Year: 1875

No. 39-


My firsteis in cap but not in hat.
My second is in dog but not in cat.
MY third is in low but not in high.
My fourth is in you but not in l.
My fifth is in me but not in you.
NY sixth is in be but not in do.
Ny seventh is in cup but not in tin
My eighth is in nose but not in chin.


My whole is the name of city in Obi
Year: 1875

We think our preachers and church
members generally take too little
interest in the Sunday School.


This institution is now considered
by people everywhere, as second on
ly to the Church ITSELF it behooves
us therefore, as rising people to
make the most Of this means for the
up-buildiDg of our churches and the
moral elevation of the rising genera
tion.


Our common custom is to permit
our children to grow up in ignorance
and sin and then we must raise heav-
en- and earth to get them converted.
We think the wiser plan to be as the
Scriptures direct, "Train up child
in the way he should go; and when
he is old he will not depart from it. "


What better means is offered for
this training than the Sunday School?


But, you say, very few children
are converted in the Sunday School.
Well, whose fault is that? Not the
children's surely. If Sunday Schools
are not what they ought to be let us
make them so. We believe that chill
dren can be persuaded to follow
Christ with half the effort that is
made for grown folks. Why mol
have prayer meetings, exhortations,
and reviyals among the childl en-? Ii
cared for as adults are, the youthful
converts will hold out just as well,
or even b.tler. Moreover, children
are liable 10 die at any time, and
ought they not be ready? We claim
this to be the proper work Of the Sun
day School-to prepare the child
for living and tor dying.


Many excuse themselves from en-
gaging in Sunday School work be-
cause they cannot read, or they are
not gifted to talk to children &c &c.
Now it seems to lis that any person
who can preach or pray, or sing or
talk TO grown people can do the
same for children. But few Of our
class leaders or exhoriers can read,
but does any one object to their
preachingor or praying on that account?
The fact is, We are apt to look upon
children as "small game" not worth
the ammunition. But this was not
the way that Christ regarded them
when on earth, for He said, "Sutfer
little children to come unto me, and
forbid them not, for of such is the
kingdom of heaven"
Year: 1875

Mr.. IL. Harris; Dear Brother:


received through kind friend
to day a copy of the EDUCATOR No.
10 which made a favorable, impress
ion on my mind and seeing your
name at the head OF the religious
department, / thought would drop
you a few lines to let you know that
Zion is still alive in this city. One
year ago we were deprived of the
church that our fathers and mothers
labored for for thirty or forty years,
since which time we have been wor-
Shipping in a hired house. We are
getting on as we'll as we could ex-
pect under the circumstances, our
people being mostly out of employ
ment during the winter. Since we
have been out the Lord has been fa-
vorable to us and we have been
successful in purchasing building
lot at $500, payable in equal install
ments every six months. We have
paid two hundred and fifty dollars
and got possession; we have also
paid the first installment,and we have
now to raise the other three.


The Virginia Annual Conference
met here in November and we had
a joyful time in Zion. The ministers
elme up apparently full of fire and
the Holy Ghost and went away re
joicing. Each one pledged himself
to raise a collection at every point
in lis charge before the 4th of July
and send it ON for the benefit of this
Chu, Oh.


1 win show your paper to my peo-
pie and think | shall be able to get
at least ten yearly subscribers if not
more.


Yours for progress.


JAMES A. JONES.
Year: 1875

laid down by our parents while We
were still too young to appreciate
its bearing on our lives, And how
frequently have I wished that the
money put by some of my acquain.
tances into new Brussels carpet,
or expended for party, might have
been used to pay for a qOarter's les.
sons on the piano, or quarters term
bills in college,