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Year: 1872

One by one the sands are flowing,
One by one the moments fall
Some are coming, some are going,
DO not strive to grasp them all.
One by one thy duties wait thee,
Let thy whole strength go to each;
Let no future dreams elate thee,
Learn thou first what these can teach.
One by one (brigtt gifts of hoaven)
Joys are sent thee here below
Take them readily when given,
Ready, too, TO let them 60.
One by one thy griefs shall meet thee,
Do not fear an armed band;
One will fade as others greet thee.
Shadows passing through the land.
Do not look at life's long sorrow,
See how small each moments pain;
God will help thee for tomorrow;
Every day begin again.
Every hour that fleets so slowly,
Has its task to do or bear;
Luminous the crown, and holy,
If thou set each gem with care.
Do not linger with regretting,
Or for passing hours despond;
Nor, thy daily toll forgetting,
Lcok too eagerly beyond.
Hours arc golden links, Gods token,
Reaching heaven; bat one by one
Take them, lest the chain be broken
Ere the pilgrimage be done.
Year: 1872

Here is how writer in the Detroit


Free Press talks about the pleasures
peculiar to the deep grim silence Of
the sanctum:


No one ever comes into the rooms
of the top story of four story build
ing set apart for the staff of a daily
paper This is why every article reads
so evenly and smoothly. All you've
got to do if you belong to the staff is
to climb up there, sit all day long in
the deep grim silence, and when mid
night comes you can lower yourself
down stairs with consciousness that
every article will read like clock work


Yesterday morning | commenced an
article entitled "The Unseen Inhuen-
ces of the Spirit world" and had got
as far as to say that although we
hear no voices, there is some subtle in
fluence prevailing the" when man
came up with demand for correc-
ton Of on article charging him with
bigamy. You have to keep right on
with an idea when you get hold Of it
50 | Yur him in.


"Pervading the air about you all
the time Peter Smith has called at
this Office to say that the unheard
voices coming from the dead often
swerve from he isn't the man mention
ed as having two wives the path mark
ed out by the OBSTINATE


(Here another man came in and
wanted notice of his new building)


"-spirits which refuse to yield to
that new block on Michigan avenue,
although Smith is directly charged by
the police with a marble front and l20
feet deep. At night, after a days
toll, who does not love to sit down and
let his mind run to the mysterious,
basement under it, and stone caps
move the windows we take great pleas
ure in setting Smith right before his
fellow citizens, and"


(Here a man came up and wanted
to look at a State map, although he
could have found one down stairs.)


"Certainly, sir; look at all the State
maps you want to, and call back the
spirit of some dear friend gone before
rs will ascertain the name of the po-
liceman who wrongfully accused Mr. |
Smith of having frontage on Michi-
gan avenue, which helps the looks of
hat street very much, and you will
ind the county Of Hillsdale further to
he left of that land from which no
nan has ever returned to tell us wheth-
'r our friends are sad or Joyful


(Here boy came up and wanted to
ell some tonka beans to keep moths
,ff)


"Thank yc, bub, don't want any ton
"a beans if you ever want to look at
my more of our maps come right up
With Mansard roof to crown all, and
smith is now set right before the pub.
10 and his friends generally, who have
hus improved the town and commune
nth them as to whether mo-
nent of sadness does not occasionally
teal over them as they think of the
ond friends left behind come up again
nd I'll talk to you about the tonka
eans and every patriotic citizen ought
o keep State map in his new block
n Michigan avenue Smith states that
ne of his wives deserted him in ILL.,
ois and the other"


(Herc a subscriber came up and
Tantcd to know why no paper was is ,
oed the day after Thaksgiving.) "a
Year: 1872

progress and final ratification, are en-


tirely due to the principles and policy


OF the Republican party. Having


conquered the Shareholders Rebellion


it then determined that these right


eous fruits of victory should not be


lost. Equal civil and political rights


are the law of the land to-day be-


cause Republicans have ruled the


land for the last ten years. So long


as they shall remain in power the law


will be vigorously applied for>the de-
Tense of all men, whether black OF


white. Their liberty record consti-


tutes the very brightest page of their
political history. General Grant, the


Republican President, has been abso-
lutely true to the principles upon
which he was elected and for this he
deserves the recommendation and thanks
of all who love justice, and especially
the warmest gratitude of the coloretl
people. The law in his hands has
been made a terror to evil-doers.


Congratulating cOlored men upon
the boon which they have received at
a great price, and reminding them
that they have nearly a million of
votes to cast at the next Presidential
election, we exhort them for the sake
of their own interests, and on account
OF the principles involved, to buckle
on the armor for the approaching
struggle; and do valiant service in
helping to elect the Republican ticket.
There will be really but two parties
in the feld-the one Republican and
the other Democratic; and between
these they must make their choice.
The one they can trust, as its record
amply proves; and the other they can
not, as its record equally proves. The
success of the Democratic party at the
next Presidential election would be IL
great disaster to the colOred race, es-
to the freedmen at the South.
The constitutional amendments are
not self-executing and, hence, they
need to be committed not to those
who reluctantly accept them as a po-
litical necessity, but to those who be-
heve in them, and will see to it that
they are armed with all the legisla-
ton necessary to make them oper-
ative. All the friends of liberty and
all the victims of former oppression
should unite i'm defeating a party
whose record will go to history as the
permanent evidence of it's iniquity.
Its past treachery to the principles of
equal justice is IN abundant reason
why its professions for the future
should not be trusted.
Year: 1872

Happy is the man who has q little
home and a little angel in it on
Saturday night-a house, no matter
how little, provided it will hold two
or so no matter how humbly fur
nished, provided there is hope in it.
Let the winds blow-close the cur
tains. What if they are plain calico,
without border, tassel or any such
thing Let the. rain come down
heap up the fire. No matter if you
havn't q candle to bless yourself with,
for what beautiful light glowing
coal makes, rendering cloudless,
shedding sunset through the room
just light enough to talk by, not loud,
as in the highways; not rapid as in
the hurrying world but softly, slow
ly, whisperingly, with pauses between.
for the storm without and the thoughts
within to fill up with. Then wheel
the sofa around close by the fire no
matter if the sofa is a settee, uncush-
ioned at that; if so it be, it is just
long enough for two and half in it.
How sweetly the music of silver bells
from the time to come falls on the
listening heart then. How mourn
fully swell the chimes of " the days
that are no more" Under spch cir
cumstances, and at such a time, one
at least can get sixty mine and a half
miles nearer "kingdom come than
any other point<in this world laid
down in g Matte Brun.p Maybe you
may smile at this picture but it is q
picture rudely done, bnt true as tho
Pentateuch of an original in every
human heart.
Year: 1872

One of the jurors in the Mayor Hall
case in New York is dead. We have
been apprehensive from the start that
death from old age would overtake
the whole of them before the thing is
done with,--LoaisuiIe Courier Jour.
Year: 1872

One Of the best temperance sermons
ever delivered is this sentence by the
late Rev. Samuel j. May: " If it is a
small sacrifice for you to give up
drinking wine, do it for the sake of
Others; if it is great sacrifice, do it
for your own sake"
Year: 1872




FIsTULA IN HoRsEs.-A correspon-
dent of the Cincinnati Gazette says
that fistula can be cured on a horse
after it has opened, and tells how to
do it 9 Take two gallons of ley, boil
it down to the thickness of common
soft soap; put as much in the open
ing as YOU can, apply every two or
three weeks Wash the diseased part
and the shoulders, every week with
strong white oak bark. The disease
may come again two or three times.
Treat every time in the same way.
The writer adds:


l have known the above used by
two of my neighbors, and a perfect
cure was the result. Toured my mare
and worked her part of the time. My
neighbor with the worst case, worked
his horse also when he had work to
do, although the fistula was SO bad
that instead of collar, breast straps
had to be used: No one should feel
discouraged if it takes two or three
months to effect cure, but continue
the above as often as the disease
shows itself. 1t took my mare about
six months to get well.
Year: 1872

The boy who hired himself to have
his teeth whitened every day for
month by one of those mountebanks
who sell dentrifiees OH the sidewalk,
now comfortably situated with an
eminent dentist, in the capacity of a
frlghtful example, without tooth in
ms head, and with hardly a socket
left in which to put one,
Year: 1872

mon the Justice committed both TO the County
jail Within fifteen uainutes after Proctor and
Denning were convaceed the Chief and his detec-
tive were taken before Judge Depue on writ Of
habeas corpus Ar. winfeld moved that they be
District Attorney-These men, may It please the
Court, are charged with q very serious effence.
One OF them is Chief Of Police Of Jersey City and
they were not only implicated IN the CRIME OF
which two men have just been found guilty, but
they actually assisted in making the preparations
or the robbery and employed the parties just refer
red to TO carry IL out


Cour-what amount are the defendants pre-


Mr.. winfeld-These men are poor and have to
rely on their friends. We can give say SIC, 600 in


District Attorney-The BAH in the case OF those
who have just been convicted was $40, 600 each,
and, considering the position occupied by the de-
fendants, the bail ought to be as much.


Court-If these defendants are guilty OF the crime
charged against them the case is one OF great
gravity, indeed, and the Court wonld be Justified
in liking the bail at the same amount as In the
other cases. The Court have no means OF knowing
from the affidavits how far the charges against
position which they hold will add to the cnormity
Of the offence. But under the circumstances just
stated the Court think that the sum OF 900 each


Bail was then promptly rendered and accepted.
Great sympathy was manifested for Mr.. Doyles
father, who was in Court, even by the Attorney
General. The old gentleman has been resident OF
Jersey City for forty years, and mas duriDA that
Ths Is ol the s Charge eVer





against his son in any court and this it is believed
Will initiate In his favor.


Speculation was rife as to the source from which
the District Attorney derived his Information. 1t
IL needless to say that that gentleman was very
reticent on the subject. When the HERALD re-
porter expressed some doubt as to the truth OF
the accusations the District Attorney replied,
Just wait for few days and you
you there is q great deal In this case !"
IL Is generally believed that the information was
given BY Foley, the burglar, who pleaded guilty, IN
the expectation that his punishment may be miti.
gated as well as to "get square" with Proctor and
Denning, who engaged counsel cOnj0intly and left
Foley out in the cold. few knowing ones say
that the information. was given by either
or both OF the women above allu-
ded to- while gentleman learned
In the law and to some extent IN the confidence OF
the prosecuting counsel, slyy whispered, "Y0u are
all out, gentlemen; this came from outside parties
altogether"


II these men be indicted the trial will possess
more interest for the people OF Jersey City than any
that has ever taken place, excepting perhaps, the
trial OF the Ring commissioners.
Year: 1872

The NEW YORK HERALD has constructed telegraph line
from New York city to whitesone, IL and the same is
open for the transaction Of business


This line will be found OF great service to those having
business with vessels passing and from the Sound and
every facility will be given to merchants and others to
communicate promptly.


As there is no other telegraphc communication with
Whitestone the Herald Line will be open for all business
and private messages and the attended to with all
possible despatch.


All messages must be prepaid.


The following rates have been established -


Private messages, twenty five cents for ten words
less; two cents for every additional word.


Business messages-For a message Of twenty words
less to be delivered board vessels of Whesone
dollar five cents for every additional word.


Advertisements for New York HERALD free.


Herald Office, corner Broadway and Ann street.
Herald Ship News Office, pier No East River
Herald Branch Office, No 1855 Broadway


Whitestone Dock, Whtestone, IL
Year: 1872

"To the world at large" says one of our
best poets, "it is not undelightful to see the
poetical instincts of friends and neighborS
finding some other vent than that of verse,
1t is not everybody who knows bit of true
poetry at sight, whether acted or written.
Here as elsewhere, it is signally true that
the "eye sees only what it brings the capa-
bility of SEEING" and most of us can see
nothing unless it g1itters.


We chop up by the roots good deal of
poetry that might touch our everyday life
with some charm or romance or tradition
when we discourage so absolutely, as many
good people do from conscientious motives,
all reference to "folk lore, or revival of the
childish, yet often beautiful and touching
legends of fairy y-land--its charms, signs and
s-qlls. There is not lisS4gia-Aaeaegn331
wcrid saperstitions that serves to grace and
refine the common places of even our hum
blest daily labors. Yet the best poetry of
daily life is found in the actions that spring
from true nobility of soul, love of truth, and
the heroism that would scorn to purchase life
at the expense of honor. The fancies that
people groves and fountains are the merest
pretty rhymes by the side of great epic,
when compared with Sydney'S last act as he
lay dying on the field of zutphen. There is
similar story, not so familiar, told of Sir
Ralph Abercromby after he had received his
mortal wound at the battle of AbOukir. A
private soldiers blanket was brought and
folded under his head. He inquired the
soldiers name and directed the blanket to be
returned in time for him to have it at MIG ght.
l have always thought there was poetry in
the Duke of Wellington's dispatch to the
British ministry in the full splendOr of his
career, declaring that he dared not stir out
of his house for public creditors, demanding
what he had not means to pay. The Duke
of Wellington at the head Of the British
army was AFRAID OF his creditors. Inls Is a
kind of fear that seldom troubles conquerora
and invaders. There is something very
heroic in such simplicity and honesty under
such circumstances. Something grand in
his consideration for the rights of others.
There was whole and beautiful poem in the
action of the person who having at the risk
of his own life rescued family from drown
ing refused to take the offered reward, and
directed it to be given to the poor people
who had lost all but their lives.


There is nothing so beautiful, SO divine a;
sunlight, and there is nothing so common
Good poetry is confessedIy rare, yet it is in
our power to food our everyday life with it,
presence, unwritten indeed, but as real, az
warm, as inspiring and as benignant as light
itself.
Year: 1872




Glow often must We say to our churches
in debt or difficulty, aal hoping to escape by
placing some gilded bal. in the pulpit to al
lure loose fish into the pews: You are sac
rifcing the very object for which churches
exist to your scheme Of financial redemp-
tiOn Let your church go into the sheriff s
hands sooner than seek to save it at the cost
of all spiritual fidelity. You mock at the
solemn truth of religion, at the sacred func'
ton of the preacher of Christ, at the value
of all truth, and at the dignity of human
reason and the significance of conscience,
when you take any means to draw people
into your churches, except the Legitimate
ones-intelligence, piety, trained faculties
and religious worth in the pulpit. If to
these you can add tact, contagious speech,
agreeable manners, SO much the better. But
when you seek these last, first and only, and
take all the rest for granted nay, when
stable character, substantial piety, sound
sense are the last things you pains-takingly
look for, you show that you are not worthy
to be called churches of Christ or religious
bodies. Let churches which can be saved
only by the tinsel and glitter they hang in
the pulpit go to ruin, and the sooner the
better! They are only a sort of Sunday
circus, where piebald horses snort and caper,
and get it called religion. We want none OF
them. Let churches in debt and difficulty,
by their own faults and mistakes, or even
misfortunes, make the necessary sacrifices to
clear themselves of their crushing burdens,
by paying off their own debts, with such aid
as real conviction of their value may in
spire other friends of their cause to afford
them, and then, calling solid, earnest and
able Christian man to build them up in
righteousness, educate their children in piety,
and visit their families in love, let them rely
upon ten years of patient fidelity for the re-
suits of his ministry. Let the church debt
be the least thing considered in calling a
minister. Seek first the kingdom of God
and His righteousness, and all things else
shall be added unto you.
Year: 1872

Some weeks ago writer in the Observer
mentioned church in New Jersey hun
dred years old, and that had not furnished
a single candidate for the ministry in all
that time. We were not made acquainted
with the history of that church, nor was
even the name, | think, given. But the
case has recurred again and again to our
mind, and has given rise to various refec-
tions.


This may net be the only church of the
kind in the United States. But still there
cannot be very many of this character, for
there are not very many churches in this
country hundred years old. Without in
tending any harsh judgment, or wishing to
give any church "bad eminence," the SUBJ
ject is one worthy of more than a single
passing allusion. A church hundred years
old that has never, in all that time, furnished
one laborer fsr eAO Lord. Suppose Tie
earth covered over with just such churches.
How long would Christianity continue to
live? One single generation would suffice
to extinguish the lightin every pulpit, silence
the voice Of every minister of Christ, and
leave the race without one herald of saliva
ton. One generation of such churches
would remove every candle.stick, and leave
us to darkness and death. A hundred thous-
and such churches would extinguish the
light throughout the Christian world in one
generation.


Such church exists not alone by the
mere grace of God, bat by the grace of
other churches. That it did not cease to
have even name-any preaching of the
gospel-it owes not to itself, but to the sup
plies furnished by churches not so lacking
in this first essential duty, to provide for its
own wants.


If such church should become extinct,
and if left to itself it must, what would be.a
fitting inscription to place over its desolate
ruins? Here died church, because IN a
hundred gears, no one Of all achO ~ere born
and reared within ats pale, was Vitling to
serve Christ IN the ministry.
Year: 1872

THE WEAKEST SIDE of Christians char
acter, in our country and this year, is his
political side. A good man is tempted to
say and do things, as politician, that bring
his Christian character into suspicion and
reproach, and when the waves run high
as they do now, many frail barks go down.
If principle has anything to do with politics,
there is just as really moral wrong in
abandoning principle for the sake of expedi-
ency in politics as in science or trade. But
there is little reverence for principle now
left, and Christians very generally find il
easy to 90 with the multitude.
Year: 1872

If you ask what fuel, you know the an
swer as well as l can tell you. There is
nothing new to say. 1 have not discovered
any new bed Of coal, any strange kind OF
forest tree, that will burn better than the
DID,


Prayer is an indispensable kind of fuel
The very approach to God kindles and warns
the soul. 1t takes it out Of the worldly at
mosphere and brings upon it breath OF
heaven. 1t surrounds it with the influence
of unseen things, the grand realities, of faith.
Ete5aR8s all dncleanliness before the Yh;te
purity to which it comes SO near. 1t dwarfs
earthly things, and relaxes their hold upon
the heart and the life. And it brings in the
grace and help besought for any time Of
need. The memory of the Saviour's inter
cession is very quickeniDg and sustaining
thought. That old recorded prayer of His
for His disciples avails still. And it is a
part of His office still to intercede for those
who believe on His name The realization
of this precious and tender truth feeds the
fire of love, and joy, and duty.


The Word of God read and studied is a
marvellous quickener of the spiritual life
There are the preeepts that bid us up and
doing, work while the day lasts, and use oul
diligence there are the promises that en-
courage; there we drink deep draughts ot
the spirit of Christ, who rested not day mol
night in his Fathers business; there we are
stimulated by the ardor of our brother Paul
and catch the inspiration of all the grea
evangelical motives.-Reu. a. L. Stone.
Year: 1872

IMPROVE AFFLIcrIoNs.-If you have af-
Fiction in your home, it is blessing to you,
unless you fail to improve it. To those who
are exercised thereby it always comes as a
help, and none can afford to do without it.
And if God do not send it to your own fire.
side, he means you shall cross the threshold
of your neighbor and find it there. "WeeT
with them that weep" 1t is sad misfor.
tune to live long life unchastened and un.
softened by the discipline of God.
Year: 1872




81 love poverty because Jesus Christ
loved it. love wealth beause it gives me
the means of assisting the wretched l
keep faith with all men. L do not render
evil to those who dol it unto me; but l desire
state for them like unto my own, in which
receive neither good nor evil from the
hand of man. [ endeayor to be just, truth
full, sincere to all men; and have tender
ness of heart for those to whom God has
has united me more closely; and whether L
am alone or in the sight of men, in all my
actions 1 have in sight God, who must Judge
them, and to whom have cOnsecrated them
all.


s.These- are my sentiments, and all the
days of my life bless my Redeemer, who
has put them into me; and who, from a man
full of misery, concupiscence, pride, and
ambition, has, by the strength of his grace,
made man exempt from all evils. And to
this grace all the glory is due, since l have
in myself nothing but misery and error"
Year: 1872

MIRAcLEs.-When the angel brought
Peter out of prison, the iron gate opened of
its own accord; but coming to the house of
Mary, the mother of John Mark,-he was
fain to stand before the door and knock!
When iron gave entrance, how can wood
make opposition?


The answer is easy. There was no man
to open the iron gate; but a FORTRESS was
provided, of course, to unlock the door
God would not, therefore, show his finger
when mans hands are to do the work
Heaven will not substitute miracle where
ordinary means were formerly in peaceable
possession. But if they either depart or
resign (ingenuously cOnfeSsing their INSULT
ciency,) then miracles succeed in their va
cancy.-Fuller.