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Year: 1873

In all mems deepest feelings they do
acknowledge is an instinct irreprossi-
ble-that the one thing needful for
them is a loving intercourse with God.
All other things we need only qualified
ly, as wealth, or friends, or learning,
or the arts of life, but this one thing do
we need absolutely. It we're by itself
an essential bliss; yea, even in the loss
of worldly good. That an assured fel-
lowship with God must exercise and
satisfy the exact self-hood Of a man, is
a very intuition Of all men. Whereas
all worldly good, without God, does
but leave US restless and aching still.
All the things thou canst desire, the
passions gratified the appetite regaled.
the inebriation of power, the ministry
of art, the wonders Of science, the glow
of thought, sentiment and sensibility,
enterprise, friendship, the family, the
State-all these things, without God,
are only a triumph of the pulse,
dance Of the spirits, froth Of Joy, leav-
ing the soul more vapid than before.


Serious-minded men know it to DO so.
Nor Is it any mere thanking of God that
will satisfy US; neither the searching out
and admiring of his wonderful works.
but only the personal meeting with God.
A man will give his lifetime to the study
of n butterfly, or a rock, or star, and
fondly claim that he is converting wlth
God; but vainly thus will he whisper
peace. peace to his soul, when there IL
no peace. That butterfly was but a
beaming forth from God--net Cos blf2r
self. ,-----lt from Wonder ma -
shining into the outer darkness, 1n'
poor, houseless stranger on the stree''
thinks it beautiful, looks at it wistfully,
and all the more wraps his tatters about
him in the shivering blast Of winter
evening. But, seei another wanderers IN
the street. The long-lostson the house
has returned, his step is at the door, he
enters, the shout Of welcome greets
him, loving arms are all around him.
and fathers heart is beating next his
own. What a difference between tho
two because of that one element OF niiai
fellowship Even SO the religious con-
sciousness, if shut off from a personal
embrace with God, is vagabond III
rags and darkness, although IN the
midst of the marvellous works OF Goo'
and the sense of responsibility to Goo
goes shivering along his life. Besides
if now we stand aloof from God' nc
will hereafter say to us, depart ys
cursedr p while if he and we do come
together now, he viii say to us: Come
We blessed" OIL surely present iel'
lowship with God is the very chietess o.
our blessings; and how should We oouAu


forward to it, seeing that we can have !.


by simply drawing nigh to HIM by ia''l


in Jesus Christ.
Year: 1873

No mechanic can ever attain distinc-
ton unless he is able to detect ordinary
imperfection at sight, so that he can see
if things are out of plumb, out of level,
out of square and out of proper shape;
and unless he can also detect dispropor-
toned or ill-shaped patterns. This is
great mechanical attainment. We say
attainment, because it can be attained
by any ordinary person OF course
there are defective eyes as there are
other defective organs; the speech, for
instance, is sometimes defective; but
the eye is susceptible of the same train
ing as any other organ. The muscles,
the voice, the sense of hearing, all re-
quire training. Consider how the ar
tist must train the organ of sight in or
der to detect the slightest imperfection
in shade, color, proportion, shape, ex-
preston, sc. Not one blacksmith in
! five ever attains the art of hammering
square; yet it is very essential in his oc-
cupatIon. 1t is simply because ile-sri
/ lows himself to get into a careless habit;
little training and care is all that is
necessary for success.


The fact is that the eye is not half as
much at fault as the needless mind.
Some carpenters acquire the careless
habit of using a try square every time
they square off a shaving, in place of
giving their minds right to their bust
ness and properly training their eyes;
and unless they cultivate this power of
the eye they will always be at journey
work. Look at the well-trained black
smith; he goes across the shop. picks up
/ the horses foot, takes a squint, returns
to the anvil, forges the shoe, and it ex-
/ actly fits the foot Contrast him with
/ the bungler who looks at the foot, then
! forges a shoe, often TO the ruin of fine
/ horse. Now the fault lies in ever allow
! ing himself to put a shoe that is not in
/ proper shape for the foot; he should de-
! termine to make the shoe fit the foot in
/ place of the foot fitting the shoe, and
he should follow it up until the object
is accomplished.


/ A very good way to discipline the me-
3 NAd4iNtiA ID ~ AAASt iAANt~'tAAS eAAA t-A~-'
with the eve, then prove it with the
rule, then measure a half inch, then an
eighth, and 50 on@and you will soon be
/ able to discover at glance the differ
/ ence between twelfth and q sixteenth
/ of an inch; then go TO three inches, SIX,
/ twelve and so on. Some call this guess
ing; there is no guess work about it; it
is measuring with the eye and mind.
+ Acquire the habit of criticising for i'm
perfections every piece of work that you
see; do everything rs nearly as You can


without mshsuring Cor spelling it, or
as nearly as you can trust the eye with


with its present training. If you can


not see things mechanically do not


blame the eye for it; it is no more to


blame than the mouth is because we can
not read, or the fingers because we can,


not write. A person may write very


good hand with his eyes closed. the


mind OF coJngu Siirecting tire fingers


The eve Is necessary, however, to de-


tect imperfections.


Every occupation in life requires a


mechanically trained eye, and we should


realize, more than we do, the great i'm


portance of properly training that


organ.
Year: 1873

Il will give you an unfailing key to
success" said an experienced man to
his young friend Make one ne,o
friend every day, and retain all you
make" Three hundred and sixty-fve
friends a year would certainly be an inn
portant auxiliary to the productive re-
sources" of an ambitious young man
making his may in the world. But then
comes the question: How are these
friends 10 be made , It will be easy
enough TO retain a friend once earned,
but how can this very excellent pre-
scription Of making friends be car
ried out? There may be many
ways In which progress may be had in
this direction, even if the task should
not be literally accomplished. Let us
look at the matter in a rational way.
To commence with, civility is an ex-
cellent bait with which to catch friends ;
and civility IS cheap. Nothing is easier
than to keep supply constantly on
hand. There are bogus articles some
times attempted to be palmed off for
the real thing, but they are all SO base
that they are easily detected. Obsequi-
ousness is one fattery another mock
modesty a third officiousness a fourth,
and soon. These may have the " genuine
stamp" but their spuriousness IS easily
detected. True civility needs no false
lights TO show its points. 1t IS the en-
bodiment of Truth, the mere opening
out of the inner self The arts and
/ artifices of a polished exterior are well
I enough but II tIfey'-tfe anything less
or more than fair exponent of inward
rectitude, their hollowness cannot long
escape detection. Shakespeare has said,
"a man may smile, and smile. and be
villain - but all the world knows that
there is a wide difference between the
smile of a villain and that of an honest
man.


Courtesy, which is the natural out
growth of inward gentleness, bears It's
characteristics by the artless child as by
the grown man. Civility, therefore, to
be effective in this quest, must have the
sub-stratum of goodness 1t must be
pervading and uniform, not exceptional
and fitful. It is all very we'll TO lay the
/ blame of an unreliable and explosive
/ temper upon weak digestion, or that
trash humor" inherited from others
/ but its disastrous effects are all the same
( The worst tempers are made subservieni
/ to a we'll settled and persistent prin
ciple of right doing and that is the
only thing which can be relied on. The
whole question therefore resolves itself
( into this formula.


To make friends, Do right.


To Keep friends, Do right.
Year: 1873

FREEDOM without religion is desti-
tuition, vagrancy, vice. Freedom from
religion is animalism. The freedom
that is religion can come only from a
religion that is free and makes free
" IT (gorJe
Year: 1873

The wisest woman Is supposed to be
the one who accompllshes oyster stews
and egg.nog In order to keep her hus-
band at home evenings; but she Is pro-
badly not aware, wise a. she IL, that
there Is much amusement In the game
OF seven-up to see who shall pay Tor
them.
Year: 1873

Captain Jack has been compared to Tecumseh. They were alike in that they both were Indians, as well as in the pluck, resources and tenacity dis played by each; but there the paral- Tel stops. We read in the dispatches that "the cord of Gen. Canby's hat was found in Jacks satchel." Just think of an Indian chief carrying a satchel! It is we'll that Fennimore Cooper is dead. Were he alive, this paragraph of news would make him crazy. When Capt. Jack started ont with satchel to carry his scalps and war paint in, he struck a violent

 blow at our Indian conventionalities.

 It Is g. serious offence. The Indian romance Is very dear to the American heart. We don't want any Indians

 unless they will stick to the tradi-

 tional breech clout, blanket and eagles feathers. An Indian going around with satchel and secondhand army over coat, is great deal worse than no Indian at all. An Indian soaked through and through with commissary whisky, and muttering slang in broken English, Is bad enough, but he is a far better Indian than a noble red man on the war path with satchel. There is a good deal of romance in a tomahawk and pair of moccasins, but there isn't any romance in a satchel. We wish the correspondent hadn't said anything about that satchel. There was mate rial in Captain Jack for good deal of solid romance. As things were going we might have got four or five dime novels out of him. Take one episode of the capture-Jack sitting gloomily on a rock, buried in his mournful stoicism, as Marius might have sat amid the ruined Carthage; there was poetry in the scene, and the New York Weekly could have made good thing out of it. But it's all up now. We know that Captain Jack carried a satchel, and that's enough for him. The moment that the satchel came in view, Captain Jack sank from the position or mlSuty Fra Diabolo, with enough romantic glamour about his head to deprive whole seminaries of susceptible young ladies of their wits, to that of very dirty, half breed murderer and horse thief. The Indian of our imagination may go stark naked if he choose providing he sports one daub of paint and one feather, but he must not carry d satchel. That is an accessory utterly at war with all received ideas of MT. Lo, whether derived from Cooper, or the author of Eagle Eyed Zeke." Captain Jack with a satchel is hopeless case. Let Secre- tary Belknap or the Governor of Ore gon do as he is mind to with him now.-[ Cleveland (Ohio) Plaindealer.
Year: 1873

THERE has been some reference in the public prints regarding the making of an inland lake on the Colorado desert, by means of opening up @ passage whereby the Gulf of Cali fornia will flow northward instead of southward. It seems some engineers have been examining into the pos sibility of accomplishing the job, but we have not yet heard of any favor able reports sent forth by them. They probably will build a water-tight dam, several thousand feet high, across the mouth of the Gulf to insure the con- plete success of their little undertak- ing. To this dam, the Colorado Steam Navigation Company and Guaymas people may at first object, but when they reflect a little on the matter, they I'll yield good-naturedly, we think.
Year: 1873

Somebody robbed, somebody killed,

 Somebody sent to jail, This is the way the papers are filled

 Coming by every mail. All that devils and bad men do

 Faithfully gathered in; The press has become horrible ghoul Feeding on filth and sin. Shame on the din, vaunting of hell,

 Telling of death and strife; CrowdIng away from the aching hearts Glad news ot love and life
Year: 1873

Ask me not to speak,

 Words are but Q mask, Only read my eyes,

 That is all 1 ask. Let us not look back,

 Let us not explain; The past is still the past, All regret is vain. We are sorry both;

 Let us bury all, And upon the ruin

 Build a strong wall.
Year: 1873

nre broke out yesterday morning at No. ss
East Twelfth street, that caused damage OF about
500. The room in which the fire broke out was
occupied by Drostel Il Mattenges as a tailor's
shop, and In the one Immediately in the rear Of It
slept two women and q child, whose lives were
placed in imminent danger. When the news OF the
fire reached Fire Marshal Sheldon he Immediately
went 10 the place. and, after a careful exam-
nation, arrived at the conclusion that the
owners OF the business carried on there
should know something Of the cause OF the ire


He sent his officers Miller and Reinlsh for the part


ners yesterday afternoon, and took their testimony
as to how the names caught and the amount Of
property in the shop. They swore to having
about S. 200 worth OF goods. and to being insured
in the German Insurance Company for 5000. MIR.
sheldon then took them to the shop and asked
them to account for the kerosene oil, matches and
train Of candle grease found connected with the
goods They were completely staggered at this, but
offered no explanation OF it. Both were then
rested on charge OF arson in the first degree and
locked up The fire was discovered by one OF the
women In the back room, and but for her timely
waking both women and the baby would certainly
have been burned to DEATH The rooms we're only
divided by folding doors, and the woman who had
the child slept close beside them An examination
Of the prisoners will be held at court this morning.
Year: 1873

Heartless Treatment OF Poor Laborers-


Where IL the Paymasters


The destitution almost inevitable among the
families OF the employees on the Erie Railway In
Jersey City Is attracting widespread attention.
The fact that these poor men were not paid for
the month OF october TIL the sth OF the present
month was puhlasHr he HERALD. The men
Year: 1873

ssMuch Ado About Nothing'' I'm the Cause


OF Charity.


Last evening the Academy OF Music was filed
with a highly respectable audience to see Shakes
peare's comedy 'Much Ado About Nothing"
played by o company OF philanthropic amateurs.
The performance was in aid of the funds OF the
Central Dispensary, an institution which has been
Of especial benefit to the sick poor. When ladies
and gentlemen play out Of charity 1t would be
long way out OF charity to crticse The amateur
actors and actresses on such occasions move in an
apoogetic atmosphere which absorbs all their
little shortcomings before they can be-
come apparent to the cold eye OF
the critic. Everybody who makes up his mind
to enjoy an amateur performance can succeed in
passing pleasant evening All 1t wants is good
nature; and who would fail OF that quality when
he knows that every word uttered upon the boards
is dose OF medicine for some poor individual.
every simulated embrace poor mans plaster,
every smile box of pills, everv fr0wn an emetic
for some unfortunate Viewing last nights per-
formance in this way, the result was that we dis
covered the Benedck to be perfect drug store OF
merit. His scorn OF w0mankind we looked on with
q view to the amount OF Quassia and quinine 1t
represented. His subsequent excess OF love for
Beatrice we recognized as an ocean OF emollients
and soothing syrups. Beatrice herself we looked
on as gentle stimuants and tonics, and Hero, OF
course, suggested the heroic treatment which all
the poor will receive for twelvemonth to come at
the Central Dtspensary on Eighth avenue, between
Fity-hfth and Fifty-sixth streets The cast was az
Year: 1873

Taken altogether the acting was very fair and
the play ran smoothly. 1t would be tnvdious to
partlcularize anybody out OF the company, where
all evinced such excellent intentions and so many
were above the average OF amateurs.
Year: 1873

BY CHARLES MACKAY.
THE venerable Past is passed;


'Tis dark, and shines not in the way
Twas good, no doubt-'tis gone az last


There dawns another day.
Why should we sit where iv1es creep,
And shroud ourselves in charnels deep,
Or the worlds yesterdays deplore
Mid crumbling ruins messy hOar;
Why should we see with dead mems eyes,


Looking at Was from morn to night,
When the beauteous Now, the divine TO BE,


Woo with their charms our living sight?
Why should we hear but echoes dull
When the world of sound, so beautiful,


VIII give us music of our own?
Whyin the darkness should we grOpe
When the sun, in heavens resplendent cope,
Shines as bright as it ever shone?
The Present needs us. Every age
Bequeaths the next for heritage;
No lazy luxury or delight,
But strenuous labor for the right;
For Now, the child and sire of Time,


Demands the deeds of earnest men
To make it better than the past,


And stretch the circle Of its ken.
Now is fact that men deplore,
Though it might bless them evermore,
Would they but fashion it Alright,
'Tis ever new, tits ever bright.
Time nor eternity hath seen
A repetition of delight
In all its phases; neer hath been


For men or angels that which is;
And that which is hath ceased to be
Ere we have breathed it, and its place
Is lost in the eternity.
But Now is ever good and fair,
of the Infinitude the heir,
And we of it. So let us live
That from the Past we may receive
Light for the NOw-frOm Now JOY
That Fate nor Time shall ne'er destroy.
Year: 1873

OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY.


WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.
The official report Of the Commission on the
Wawaset disaster censures the conduct of the
Captain, whose efforts were directed towards
tue saving of the boat rather than to save life 4;
that he had no discipline among his crew to fa-
oilitste putting out the fire. or for saving life,
and he was acting as Captain without license
The Engineer is also censured, as deserving the
highest penalty prescribed by law.
Year: 1873

Anyoity taxpayer who does not vote to-mor-
row, and vote his best judgment, unless kept
from the polls by sickness or some other equally
good reason, deserves to suffer the natural con
sequence Of his indifference-an unsatisfactory
city government.
Year: 1873

EXi.uming of Wonderful Skeleton at
lockwood. nulI r -Its.
The following communication was hand
ed us yesterday by friend direct from
lockwood, Roane county-the famous
Roane Iron Company's growing yonug
city:


In making an excavation Oh the bank
of the river at the lockwood landing few
days ago human skeleton was exposed.
The burial case was earthenware of the
same kind or character as that found in the
mounds and along the river bottoms. From
this fact it is reasonable to conclude that
the skeleton belonged to the race of Mound
Builders, as this kind of pottery is found
in all the mounds of the country, This
race was so far anterior to the Indian race
that their oldest traditions give no account
of them. The only way to determine the
time of their existence is by course of
reasoning somewhat indirect, yet, to my
mind, certain and conclusive. OIL


Geological research has proven that this
continent was once an ocean bottom. When
upland it was perfectly barren and devoid
of any Vegetation. All the rain that fell
would, of course, run off as from o house
top and the water courses would be swollen
to immense proportions. The cham els
would be washed out very wide by the i'm
mense tides that flowed through them.
Now when the land, by the action of the
atmosphere, freezing, &C., was pulverized
and vegetation began to cover it the rains
would be partially absorbed and the tides
would be proportionately less. The vege--
table mould carried off from the soil was
deposited along the bank forming the river
bottoms. These bottoms was the first in
habitable land. AS we find no mounds or
other signs of the mound builders away
from these bottoms we may reasonably
conclude that they inhabitedth this country
when they could subsist only along the
water courses. Now, as we have abundant
proof that this country was capable of sup
porting inhabitants many hundred years
ago, we may conclude that this race was
very ancient, probably existing here when
eastern continent was the theater of the
wonderful works of Christ and his Apos-
ties. sssA


The skeleton was five and One-half feet
long. The bones We're large and heavy,
The arm bones were disproportionately
long. The right one was broken near the
shoulder and was probably the cause of
the individuals death. The most peculiar
feature about the formation of the skele-
ton was that the arm at the shoulder con-
Meeting short strong bone that was con-
nected firmly with the sixth joint of the
backbone counting from the head.


The head was small and round. From
the impressions i'll the soil the hair had
been thin and hung as low as the shoulders.


w. T.. MCE-
Year: 1873

To every person sending us club Olive SUBJ
scribers to the WEEKLY CHRONICLE for one
year accompanied with the cash, eight dollars
and seventy-fve cents, we will send Wood s
Household Magazine, for one year. It is a
splendid Magazine, sent monthly, full of good
reading and worth one dollar per year.


We will send the Magazine and WEEKLY
CHRONICLE one year for two dollars and twen-
y.fiye cents dec28dSwtf
Year: 1873

:


It eonduces much to our content
if we pass by those things which hap
pen to our trouble. and consider
what is pleasing and prosperous,
that by the representation Of the
better the worse may be blotted
ont. If l be overthrow in my suit
at law, yet my house is left me still
and my land; or I have 8 yirtuous
wife, or hopeful children, or kind
friends, or good hope. If | have
lost one child, it may be have two
or three still left me. Enjoy the
present, whatsoever it may be, and
be not solicitous for the future; for
if you take your foot from the pres
ent standing, and thrust it for
ward to to-morrow's event you are
in a restless condition; it is like re-
fusing to quench your present thirst
by fearing you will want to drink the
next day. If tomorrow you should
want, your sorrow would come soon
enough. though you do not hasten
it; let your trouble tarry. till its
own day comes. Enjoy the bless
ings of this day, if God sends them,
and the evils of it bear patiently and
sweetly for this day is ours. We
are dead to yesterday, and not Yet
born to the Exchange.