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Year: 1871

Young man speak kindly to your
mother and courteously, tenderly of
her. But little time and you shall
see her no more forever. Her eye
Is dim, and her form is bent and her
Others may love you fondly; but
never again while time Is yours
shall any ones love he to you as that
OF your old trembling, weakened
mother has been.


Through helpless infancy her throb-
bing breast was your safe pro-
lection and support; in wayward
boyhood, she bore patiently with
your thoughtless rudeness: she nursed
you safely through legion of ills and
maladies.


Her hand bathed your burning brow;
or mOistcned your parched lips; her
eye lighting up the darkness of night
! ly vigils, watching sleepless by your
side as none but her could watch.
oh, speak not her name lightly, for
you cannot live so many years as
would suffice TO thank her fully.
Though reckless and impatient
youth, she is your counsellor and So
lace. TO "A bright manhood she guides
your steps for Improvement nor even
/ then forsakes or forgets.


/ Speak gently then and reverently,
of your mother; and when you, too,
shall he old, il shall in some degree,
! tighten the remorse which shall be
yours for other sins, TO know that
! never wantonly have you outraged
the respect due to your aged mother
Year: 1871

Everybody knows how TO render
lard but every does not know that
u handful of slippery elm bark put
into it while cooking will prevent II
from becoming rancid. 1t will not
only preserve II perfectly sweet for
any length of time, hut will impart
TO it n most delightful flavor. Try
It, everybody.
Year: 1871

THE world Is made of differently
shaped persons-as, for instance,
round men and square men and hall
the trouble in life is caused hy the
round men getting into the square
holes. If people would not be ever
last'ngly mixing things-the sand
and the sugar, the flies and the milk,
etc! Better to succeed blacksmith
than to fail as poet to measure
ribbon well than to bungle in trying
to be "a statesman.
Year: 1871

Young Mark Kaiser, the violinist, writes
from Paris. on the fourth instant, to his
father, in this city, that he recently stood
three severe examinations at the conserva-
tory, and was No. l in his class Mark
writes that "there were a great many
scholars sent away from the conservatory
after having been examined for not being
sufficiently advanced in their musical
studies. It was really very hard examin'
alton this year, as we have new drector


who is trying to reorganize the conserVa
tory. You know that when directors art
changed they make too many changes, bu


in the time of Auher there were not enough
Year: 1871

THE Intolerance" of the Southern
people toward their Northern friends
can no longer be questioned. Near
Brandon, Mississippi, only few DAYS
ago, q couple Of virtuous New Eng
land young ladies, who had left all
the comforts Of home and come down
South to teach the poor negroes how
to read were cruelty Ostracised, for no
other reason than that they went bath.
ing with some Virtuous and inoften-
sive negro men. Certainly the re-
markable temper Of these Southern
people needs subjugatiOn.
Year: 1871

The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue has offered a reward Of i've
thousand dollars Tor the detection OF
the murderer Of Assistant Secretary
Clinton Gilbert, in the recent raid on
the Brooklyn Illicit distiileries.


NO REPORT ON TILE TARLFF UNTIL


NEXT SESSION.


The report on the tariff, which the
press has stated had been prepared at
the Bureau Of Statistics, has not even
been begun. The Chief OF Revenue
DR., Young, does not contemplate
Year: 1871

Frankly A. was young man who followed
MS trade Of carpenter. He was an honest.
industrious, and religious young man, quiet
and unObtruslve, hut withal, naturally shrewd
and obScrvant. Jimmy NJ. was hsrd-work
l'g young farmer, who cultivated his own
land, and though an humble man, he was re-
garded as well-to do person, in his neighbOr-
hood, and as q very fair catch, by mammas
with marriageuble dauehters 1t so happened
that Frankly and Jimmie conceived liking for
the same young lady, the daughter Of respect
able farmer in the neighborhood. Franky
had been a regular visitor at the farmer's
house for some time, and had established very
intimate relations with the family. He would
60 OF Saturday night, after finishing his
week work, and stay until Monday morning
so that he came to I've looked upon almost as
" one Of tie family" One Sunday afternoon
Frankly was at the farmers house as usual.
The table had been spread for supper and
they were about sitting down to very plain
repast of mush and milk. just then Jimmy
" seen riding up the lane on a fine spirited
young horse. The farmer went out to meet
him. The mother gathered up her plain delf
cups and saucerS together with the milk aud
mush and brown table cloth, and disappeared
into the kitchen. The daughter whipt up
! stairs and exchanged her dull calico Tor her
best silk, and soon joined the gentlemen iu the





into fine lady. In the meantime the supper
table had been respread. The china glittered
upon fine white table-clolh, and tempting
>hort-cake,' and pot of fragrant teA, had
been provided instead of the palmer mush and
milk. Supper was announced 1t was the
custom in the family to have ''grace" ut meals,
and the farmer usually called upon Frankly to
render Il at service He did 50 on this coca
sion. Franky. who had been silent hut atten-
tive spectator Of all that had passed since the
coming IF his rival, and who was somewhat OF
a wit wthnl, drew up to the table, and with
becoming gravity commenced as follows:
| The Lord be praised how I'm amazed


| To see how things mended.


| Here's shert-csks and tea for supper see
When milk and mush Intended.


The meal was eaten in silence. 1t was the
last grace frankie ever said at that table
When supper was over he took his hat and
bade them good evening His rival married
the young lady some months afterwards
Year: 1871

A popular writer says: ut is as ahsured to
spend ones life in boarding up millions of
wealth, which the ro>se>>or can never enjoy, as
it would be to collect and lay up in a store house
10000 mahogany chairs which were never
intended to be used for the furniture of apart
ments. OF $4,000 pairs of trowsers which were
never intended to be worn
Year: 1871

Some girls never will learn to restrain the
natural impulses Of their nature A minister
was haptizng a girl at Ripon, Wisconsin, and
when he had submerged her, and came out of
the water, he asked her how she felt in her
mind Her answer was, "all hunky, only
little wet"
Year: 1871

A play is enacted in a Chicago theatre in
which man is hung for fen. The other night
the gearing got out of order and they came
near hanging him for good When they cut
him down he said he guessed they hal better
get some one else to take his place, as his
neck was not talented enough to play that
usrt "
Year: 1871

The most respectable and decorous of the
society papers o. New York city contains a
paragraph which, excepting proper names,
reads as follows: " A rumor is current that
Mr.. Jones Robinson Of Staten Island is engaged
to a young Spanish lady OF thi, city, but the
report needs confirmation" What wonder.
ful thing society must be in which impert-
nenceS of this sort are received with favor
The editor of a fashionable paper knows his
public too well to print gossip which they do
not relish and though the young Spanish
lady ref''ned to in that elegant extract may
r"dden with shame and vrxarion, as she
probably will, unless she has lived long enough
in New York society to get rid of all rrfue
ment OF feeling the paper that printed it will
be sIl the more welcume to fashionable
parors-N y Tribune.
Year: 1871

THE following isa pithy Scotch favor Of ar
iOnyl


Jenny is poor. and I am poor.
Yet we will wed, say no more,
And should the barnies 10 us come
As few that wed but do have some
No doubt that Heaven will stand our friend,
And dread as well aS children send.
So fares the hen in farmers yard,
To live alone she finds Il hard
I've known her to wsary every CLAW,
In search for corn among the straw,
But when In quest Of INCEST food
She cucks among her ch rpns brosd,
With 10y We see the self same hen
That scratched ior one could scratch for ten,
Those are ths thoughts that make me Wiling
To take my girl without a shilling;
And for the sef Same cause, you see
Jenny resolved to marry me.
Year: 1871

benevoence or pity, in imitation of Christ
Is there in our breast no sympathy with suf
ering humanity, nor desire to see the God o.
heaven glorifed in the earth, and the domin
ion of the god Of this world broken up?-
Are we prepared.in our hearts to do nothing,
or as good as nothing for the millions of our
wretched race sunk. in gross idolatry and
every abomination; or to say "Out of sight,
out of mind ?" If city near us is burnt,
or region desOlated with food, the most
of our people with commendable alacrity
will afford speedy relief; but greater and
better work is here. Every form of suffer-
ing in this life is to be alleviated, and the
precious soul delivered from an eternal hell.
And let us in honor to our God, labor and
pray to send up to heaven that full revenue
of glory due to his name,


From every crowded city, and every fertile land,
From Greenland's icy mountains, to Indias coral


strand.


In so doing we may expect to enjoy a
double portion of the Spirit, and all good
things. The millennium perhaps does not
imply absolute perfection or universal con-
version, but decided religious influence; for
it is written when the thousand years are
expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his
prison, and shall 60 out to deceive the ma
tions, and make final but futile attempt to
destroy the Church of God


SENEX.
Year: 1871

An article under this caption occurs in
the Central of 11th October, by "Obseryer.
He says she finds many who upon going to
bed in room, where others lodge with them,
kneel down in the ve1y presence of the COM
pany TO engage in secret prayer. I am far
from supposing their motives are wrong, but
am free to say that very much disrelish
the practice. And in nearly every case of
of the kind how easy it would be to avoid
the appearance of doing it "to be seen of
men," again he says that the place for
the observance of secret prayer is not "even
in a private bedroom in the presence of
other people" :"


These views do not commend themselves
to me as correct.


l. 1t is often quite impracticoble to secure
privacy before retiring.


2. 1t is bad plan to lie in bed, and wait
until quiet moment occurs, when one can
approach God without distraction. More
over, one is apt to fall asleep during the at
tempt to pray there.


3. When a consistent Christian kneels at
his bed side, no impcnitent person in the
room will think he wishes to be "seen of
men" He would rather comment on the
neglect of devotion thus: ga strange Chris
tian, who goes to sleep just as carelessly as |
do.


l. 1t is painful and surprising to some
who attend our Church Courts, that often
when all in the room are protesting Chris,
tians, many elders and ministers lie down
without prayer, and after long conversation
and gay, seem to fall asleep aOithOat prayer
1 say seem to do do. Younger Christians
are greatly troubled at this. There is more
appearance of evil in this apparent neglec
of secret prayer, than in its observance III
the bedroom in presence of the company.


5. Would not the better plan be to always
seek pause of talk, when all could engage
in this proper and sweet Communion with
the Father, and each be unobserved by tht
other. Thus our good would not be evi
spoken of, and all things would be done
decently and in order.


ANOTHER OBSERVER.
Year: 1871

OF noon the summons reached him, and found
him ready and waiting-his clamp trimmed
and burning" Unable to meet with the
children of God in the sanctuary below, he
was called on high to close that lovely, holy
day Of rest in Mount Zion, in the city of
the living God, in the heavenly Jerusalem,
amid an innumerable company of angels and
the general assembly and Church of the
first born, which are written in heaven
lie has gone where there is no more night,
no sorrow, no tears, no sin,-where "they
need no candle, neither light of the sun, for
the Lord God giveth them light: and they
shall reign for ever and ever" "Even so,
come Lord Jesus"


Thus having passed beyond "three score
years and ten, and reaching on very nearly
to four score, this faithful servant of God,
this diligep pfficer in the Church, this lovely
Christian, las peacefully "fallen asleep"
his spirit passed into glory, his body await.
ing the glories of the resurrection morning.
lie leaves an aged widow bowed down under
the burden of sorrow, but not as those who
"have no hope" She is not alone; for
there is One who hath said, 81 will never
leave thee nor forsake thee" Though sadly
missed in the house of worship, in the ses-
sion and in the social circle, we would not
recall him again to earth. He cannot come
to us, but we will go to him.


"Now sweety sleepl Angels thy soul receive,


And bear to Jesus breast


Long in our hearts thy memory shall live,


Here let thy body rest,


Secure from earthly pain and sorrow,


Till dawns the resurrection morrow,


Now, sweety sleepl'
Year: 1871

"THERE Is NO GREATER MISTAKE" says
an eminent divine, ethan to suppose that
Christians can impress the world by agreeing
with it. No. it is not conformity that We
want; it is not being able to beat the world
in its own way; but it is to stand apart from
and above it, and to produce the impression
of holy and a separate life; this only can
give us true Christian power.
Year: 1871

A GOOD DEACON once said to the wife of
clergyman, whose salary was small, that it
was good thing for ministers to have limi-
ted means. 1t tended to increase their faith,
and to make them more spiritual. To which
it was replied that if it was a good thing for
ministers, why not also for the deacOns, and
for the other members Of the church,
Year: 1871

wears had transpired without tidings
from her long lost son, She was mono
maniacal on the subject and not despair.
ing, but continued 10 advertise and offer
rewards. There was in the family of
Tichborne's u negro named Boyle who,
perhaps, alone was in the secret Of the ma
ture of her son. The claimants father
who would be half brother to the real
Roger and like the cunning old negro as
he is went off quietly 10 Sidney, and
there finding Tom Castro alias Arthur
Orion, revealed To him the secret Of
his parentagC, title and estates OF itch.
borne. With this revelation them ystery
disappears for lady TiChbOrnG was easily
persuaded to recognize the claimant us her
own son. The claimant acquired his
knowledge OF the history OF the real
Roger after his 10th year, from which
time he resided in England, When Boyle
and other servants Of the family knew but
little of Rogers boyhOOd in France, We
have the explanation Of the remarkable
fact that the claimantS evidence as To his
history prior to his 18th year is so lame
and unsatisfactory, II Is rumored that
tho defence Is so alarmed at the strength
of the plaintiff in the case, disclosed in
cross examinations, that they will, on the
reassembly Of the court, shift their
grounds and attempt to defoat tho
claimant Us q natural son Of Sir James
TichbOrnc.
Year: 1871

Our Florence letter brings further partcu- lars regarding the discovery of a rich mine of silver, to which we have referred else where. The letter was received too late for publication this week
Year: 1871

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Second. Don silInz you t., needs get
up sumptuors dinner for his accommoda-
ton. Let the chickens alone! He is often
chiekened too much! He has just such a
stomach as you have, and it needs the same
kind of food, and about the same quantity.
If he is man of sense and kindness, he will
feel uncomfortable when he sees you make
great parade on his account. The less he
troubles you, the more he will enjoy the visit.
He don't care so much for your nice and
numerous dishes as for your society. And
beware of exposing your own vanity by let
ting him see what grand dinner you can
get up. He will take it for granted that
you can do handsome thing in that line,
even if you do not always demonstrate it
before his eyes. There is vast amount of
downright gluttony among the Lords peo-
pie.


Third Don't fill his ears with lot of low
scandal about your last minister, or about
your neighbors. He will never greatly suffer
if he should remain in perpetual ignorance
of thousand dirty little things which are
really not worthy to be mentioned to any
body. If you heedle8sly talk about them,
you will surely degrade yourself and those
who hear you. Better sit in total silence.
Low slang is the curse of social life. If you
talk thus to your minister about others, he
will naturally think that his turn to be
slandered will come next A scandal-ped-
dler, whether in the church or out, is very
mean and misunderstanding character. See
that you are not one of the number.


Fourth. Try to make your minister easy,
comfortable and at home. And mark he
would rather see tidy house and clean
table than fne furniture and expensive
dishes. See that the young children bshays
we'll. And if your minister should spend
the night with you, see that he does it CON-
fortably and without inconvenience.


Fifth Don't ask him too many questions
about the curious or difficult things in the
Bible. Give him chance to do you good.
Talk chiefly about those things which have
most to do with your Christian experience
and your daily life. Seek substantial good,
rather than the qualification of an idle curl
osity.


Sixth. Don't think you must spend every
minute iu your minister's presence. He
don't wish to keep you from your necessary
business. And don't forget that he has
great many things to think of, and that he
would sometimes rather be alone than in the
best society.


Seventh. If convenient ask him to pray
with you before he leaves. A visit is never
finished without prayer.-PresJyterian Ban
ner
Year: 1871

He who has no dear friend in the better
world, who has not been called to surrender
to heaven one whom he has cherished here,
lacks as yet an experience that would link
him to the spiritual and the eternal with the
most feryent sympathies of his being. All
heavenly ne may be in his temper and in his
life; his faith may bestrong, his hope bright,
his union with Christ complete, but he wants
that tender and endearing sympathy with
heaven that comes from having there a
parent, child, sister, a wife, and that gives
to the unseen world home-like and pre-
sent reality He who has caught the last
affectionate breathings Of the departing saint,
who, even as from the other side of the
River of Death, has received the farewell
greeting of faith, and love, and joy, has
thenceforth a new experience of things
spiritual aud heavenly; has vested interest
in heaven, has more assured hold upon its
realities, and is nearer partaker of its life.


The gain of such an experience, the value
of such palpable and personal interest in
that world, may well mitigate, if it does not
compensate his loss. New links bind him
to that great spiritual world Of which he is
a member, and of which he shall soon be.
come more cognizant, when flesh and sense
and all the external media of thought shall
give place to the direct intuition of God and
of the future state. AS each relationship of
life-son, brother, husband, father,-opens
a new experience of sympathy and affection,
SO does this personal affinity with some al
ready in the world of spirits-the marriage
of souls that survives the dissolution of earthly
ties-bring with it life-like experience of
the unseen, the eternal, that binds the soul
more closely to its higher destiny, and i'm
parts to it, in hopes and aspirations, an ex.
ceeding gain. Why art thou burdened, 0
my soul, with the pain of earthly loss Is
not thy loss their gain whom thou didst love?
and if their gain, is it not thy gain also, who
art forever linked to them as partner of
their blessedness -. p. Thompson.
Year: 1871

bring forth fruit. We pray for the cOnyer-
sion Of the children, not believing that we
aow receive, but that after many years we
shall receive the things which we ask. In
other things we may believe the promise,
"Before they call will answer, and while
they are yet speaking will hear" But
when praying for the conversion of the chill
dren we feel that such faith would be bold,
almost presumptious.


Now, Christian, is not this doubling and
postponing faith wrong? And is it not won
derful that with such want of faith in any
immediate efficacy of the means, standing in
the way of Gods gracious and saving power,
there should be so many children converted ?
What might the result be if we had faith to
believe that the wonderful gospel and grace
of God had power to save little children !;
and then had such fidelity as this faith would
claim and warrantG Shall we not preach
the gospel to the children, expecting their
conversion while they are children?


Christian reader, ponder these questions,
so pertinent to the welfare of the children,
and the prosperity of the Church.


KARL.
Year: 1871

Not long since poor widow came into my
study. She is over sixty years of age
Her home is one little room, about ten feel
by twelve, and she supports herself by hel
needle, which, in these days of sewing ma
chimes, means the most miserable support.
Imagine my surprise when she put into my
hands three dollars, and said:


"There is my contribution to the Church
| fund"


"But you are not able to give 50 much I!


cob! yes" she exclaimed; 81 have
learned how to give now"


"How is that?" I asked.


"Do you remember" she answered, "that
sermon of three months ago, when you told
US that you did not believe one of your peo-
pie was SO poor that, if he loved Christ, ne
could not find some way of showing that
love by his gifts?"


81 do


"Wel, 1 went home, and cried all night
over that sermon. Isaid to myself, MY min
lister don't know how poor | am, or he would
never have said that But from crying |
at last got to praying. And when l had
told Jesus all about it, l seemed to get an
answer in my heart that dried up all tears" I"


"What was the answer ?" / asked, deeply
moved by her recital.


"Only this, IF you cannot give as other
people do, give like little child And l
have been doing it ever since. When have
penny change over from my sugar or loaf
of bread lay it aside for Jesus and SO l
have gathered this money all in pennies"


"But has it not embarrassed you to lay
aside so much?"


"Oh! no" she responded eagerly, with
beaming face. "Since I began to give to
the Lord l have always had money in the
house for myself, and it is wonderful how the
work comes pouring in. So many are COM
ing to see me that never knew before"


"But didn't you always have money in
the house?" | asked.


ooh! no. Often when my rent came due
| had to 60 and borrow it, not knowing how
l ever should find means to pay it again.
But don't have to do that any more-the
dear Lord is so kind"


OF course I could not refuse such money.


Three months later she came with three
dollars and eighty-fve cents, saved in the
same way. Then came the effort of our
Church in connection with the Memorial
Fund; and in some five months she brought
fifteen dollars, all saved in the little mite box
1 had given her. This makes total of
S21.85 from one poor widow in a single
twelvemonth. | need hardly add that she
apparently grew more in Christian character
in that one year than in all the previous
years of her connection with the Church.
Who can doubt that if in giving, as well as
other graces, we could all thus become as
little children, there would result such an in,
crease in our gifts that there would not be
room to contain them ? Christian Weekly.