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Year: 1870

ETERNAL DxArH.-I know not what
eternal death is. I can tell you some
things. 1t is far away from hopc-hope
that there comes to ALL It is the abode
Of all the abandoned and profane, and
vile-the collected guilt and wretched
ness Of this world. 1t is place where
no sanctuary opens its doors and invites
to heaven where no Sabbath returns to
bless the soul where no message Of
mercy comes to the suffering and the
sad It is q world unblessed like this
with the work of redemption,


On no second Calvary is there q Re-
deemer offered for sin; and from no
tomb there does he rise to life 10 bless
the sufferers with the offer, and to
furnish the pledge of heaven. No spirit
strives there to redeem the lost and on
no zephyr there is the message of mer-
cy borne whispering peace. No God
meets the despOnding thero with prom
ises and hopes and from no eye there
is the tear of sorrow wiped away. There
is no such friend as Jesus ; 10 voice of
mercy ; no day star of hope; no father
mother, daughter, pastor, angel 20 SYM
pathize !; no one to breathe for the lost
prayer Of pardon; no great intercessor
to hear the cry of mercy 10 the throne
of God. 1t is death-lingering, long,
interminable death-the dying sorrow
prolonged from age to age; onward to-
ward eternity-ever lingering, never
ending II Chr istian at Work.
Year: 1870

by mere force Of physical laws, withou
any grand mastery of mind and inspira
tioa of idea. But in fact beneath this
dull and lifeless seeming, forces were
in preparation, element, and germs ms
turing which were in due time to ripen
into blessings of which all that work and
waiting were actual elements. The
seeming death forctold and foreor-
dained the life. The thrilling story Of
the voyagers rang round the world and
seemed to have rang itself away. But
it is heard again coming round on the
other side, swelling with the yet more
wondrous harmonies Of prophecy full
filled.


So we may be building better than
we know" Our humble works wrought
in faith are regenerated by a mightier
spirit than that in which they were con-
ceived, and built into loftier monuments
than our hands have reared. We pass
and are forgotten, but amidst the silent
or tumultuous years our good deeds are
working free from the taint of our i'm
perfection, and stand solid and shining
in perfect day. God deals with men
as the melter of metals. He puts the
earth mingled ores into his crucible.
and seals it up in fiery furnaces out of
view. Men forget it, but He does not
In the fullness OF time it is opened-lo,
on one side the dull Garth, on the other
the glittering ore. Surely, He sits as
refiner of silver


He who thinks Of these things will be
humble, but will not be idle; trustful but
not spiritless; reverential but not afraid.
He is the true worker, heir Of the ages
past, and testator to the 'all hail hereaf-
ter It is thus that they who labor
must also wait; that they who are faith
full shall endure. 1t matters little what
becomes Of us if we so conduct our
great concernments that they who come
after us are thereby made wiser and
better than we, It matters little that
our poor toll seems buried in the dust,
if so be that it shall spring ~ again to
bless the coming time.


The ways of Providence seem slow to
our brief, impetuous lives; but they are
swift in the centuries of God"
Year: 1870

South Carolina, used to say to his stud
ents, 'sDon,t be afraid of dirt, young
gentlemen. What is dirt ? Why, no
thing at all offensive, when chemically
viewed. Rub little allsali upon the
grease spot upon your coat, and it un-
dergoes a chemical change and becomes
soap ; now rub it with a ittlo water and
it it'disappears; it is neither grease, soap,
water nor dirt. That isnos o very odo-
rous pile of dirt you see yonder well !,
scatter a little gypsum over it and it is
no longer dirty. Everything like dirt is
worth your notice as students of chem
istry: Analyze it : It will separate in
TO very clean elements, Dirt makes
corn, corn makes bread and meat, and
that makes very sweet young lady that
l saw one Of you kissing last night
So, after all, you were kissing dirt
particularly If she whitened her skin
with chalk of Fuller's earth. There is
earth. Though may say that rubbing
such stuff upon the beautiful skin of q
young lady is dirty practice. Pearl
powder, think, is made Of bismuth-
nothing but dirt


A PLEASANT HINr.-Fanny Fern
knows thing or two, and is not afraid
to tell Of it. Here is her quiet explana-
ton Of q vsry proper domestic duty
that Of "wives' allowances from the
aal sub treasury.


When the time comes to give your
wife any money don't open your pocket
book, heave q deep sigh as you spread q
bill on your knee, and give it a despair
ing glance of love. as you dump it into
your wife's outstretched hand. No sir
Don't even trouble yourself to tell her
to 'aake it go as far as she can,' because
she will naturally do that, and there's
where you are a fool again. I should
think you'd know by this time thai it
will go so far you won't see it again in
the course ef your natural lifetime. And
why should it not P


LEGAL TENDER DECISION New
York Tribune says of the recent illegal
tender decision" Of the Supreme Court;


The gravity of the decision by the
Supreme Court on the Legal Tender act,
to which We surrender the greater part
of our second page can be heardly be
overrated, whether considered in refer
ence to interest on State Debts, or to
a thousand other forms of Indebtedness,
incurred before 1862. The opinion Of





the majority of the Court. does not 90 to
the question of the right to make the
United States notes a legal tender in
all contracts made after the passage Of
the bill; but its general tendency is
plain. Get your house in order,' is the
meaning of the warning yesterday
sounded to the whole business commu-
nifty from the Bench of the Supreme
Court. This decision means a speedy
resumption Of Specie Payments! Stand
from under!


1t was Jeremy Taylor who said to all
men, If you are for pleasure, marry; if
you prize health, marry. A good wife
is heavens last, best gift to man; his
angel of mercy; minister of grace innu-
merable; his gem of manly virtues; his
casket of jewels; her voice his sweetest
music; her smile his brightest day
Year: 1870

One of the tendercst and most touching of
Uhland's poems is that which describes tho
departure of the youth, escorted by his com
rades, from the town where he had lived,
and his sad glance up to a window where
maiden is sitting, and his sad thought, a. If
she could only love me :" while the girl
looks down with melancholy eyes, and thinks
" If he had only loved me 20 And so he goes
his way, and neither knows of the others
love neither knows that each might have
had all the hearts desire. | fancy there is
more of this kind of thing in real life than
people are inclined to suppose. Let me tell
the story of pair who might have served as
living illustration of Uhland's poem, but for
the fortunate chance which flung them for
moment heart to heart, and compelled a
mutual recognition and revelation


Professor Rhodes filled the chair of Modern
Languages in one of our younger American
universities mind what its name or
its whereabouts. Professor Rhodes knew
the languages and literature of most Euro
pean countries we'll, and had picked up his
knowledge in rather hard school. He was
the son of a Western farmer, and he had
been seized, very early in life, with longing
to visit and study the old countries across
the Atlantic. All such yearnings his shrewd
and practical father despised, and the father
and son quarreled, and young Rhodes crossed
the Atlantic. He starved and struggled ant
studied in London and Paris and Rome anC
Madrid his hunger for the life of the olC
European lands was not extinguished by tn,


physical hunger which often gnawed him


he managed to visit and live in every countr,
of Europe, and to know the ways and tn
life of every capital; he became a cosmopol
itan in the matter of language, and coul
talk with almost any body any where in an


body's own tongue he took part in at leas
/ half dozen revolutionary movements, re
ceived several wounds, was often imprisoned
fand once escaped after having been ordere


for execution, SO his youth went away
Year: 1870

If these things are so as one of our old
dIVines used to say in the peroration ofhis
discourse, we see no reason yhy an extern
sive branch of trade may not be Inaugural
ted between the South and rH4 other Sec
tions of the country, which shan supplv
Americans with a pure and cheap dfial
which being the growth of the same soil
and climate as ourselves may with reason
be deemed more adapted to our tempera-
ment than foreign production. Prof
Cotton says that at the risk of being laughed
at for want of aristocratic ideas, or for
preferring an article wholly American, he
must declare that he prefers yupon to tea,
coffee, or any OTTER stimulating drink that
exists, and that he knows of remarkable
cases of its beneficial effects on the decay
ing systems of the aged, and the shattered
nerves of the feeble,-Ner5uryport Her
aid.
Year: 1870

a Rochester lady, who last year travelled
in Colorado, sends the following anecdote to
Harper's Magazine:


" Among others, 1 met German lady who
certainly spoke English, but who experienced
some difficulty in the use of words having
distinction without difference. She gravely
informed me that she intended going to Den
yer, to spend pGir Of days.


On another occasion L met young lady
who had recently been bereaved of several
members of her family since she had removed
to the far West. Intending to be most syn
pathetic, said, 1t must have been great
trial to have the grave of a friend made in
that new country To which she replied,
in tears, but wishing to take the bright side
of the subject, Why, IFS good, sandy
soili'
Year: 1870

As an active. jovial lady in one Of our
working parishes was entering church,
Sunday, it was suggested to her that she
might best see the floral decorations by
passing up the center aisle to the altar, to
which she quickly but archly replied.
" All! sir, know the way, have been
there"
Year: 1870

them holds to any creed of general princi-
pies, which compels it to uniform and con-
sistent practice, or to any creed indeed which
is logically coherent, and inevitable in it's
results on conduct. Neither of them, SO far
as we have been able to learn, processes any
doctrine of the proper sphere and function
of government, distinguishabIe from that of
the other, or aims at any line of policy
which may be regarded as more than an ex-
pedient suggested by circumstances, and to
be turned this way or that as the prospects
of mere party success may be adverse or
propitious.
Year: 1870

move to Greenwich, couple of hundred
carts were seized for the conveyance OF
his baggage. Trade was as much ham,
pered as the carmen; it literally walked
in fetteTs; and the religions public were
at as bitter issue between singing min
listers and preaching ministers as they
have been at any time ever since. One
is puzzled on first reading a decree for
raising $50 men "nOt with curates,n but
we remember that CUR and cuirasse be-
long to the same word, and that itmeans
a back and breast plate, which was or
iginally of leather. Plague seems to
have troubled the citizens as much as
impressment for war; and dOleful was
the appearance of the streets when no
one was allowed to issue from an infect
ed house, and every one fled from the
men who walked the streets with red
rods, knowing by the sign that they
were searchers. 1t is well to turn from
such scenes, and see how busy some
parts of the city are in. furthering the
expedition about to be undertaken be-
yOnd seas by Sir Francis Drake and Sir
John Hawkins. Perhaps as curious a
document as any here is the letter from
King Charles, in 1888 requesting sub
scriptiOns from the citizens toward the
erection of an academy for the educa-
ton of the young nobility and gentry in
the practice of arms and arts" We are
not surprised to find the citizens taking
no notice of this request, and His Majes-
ty, a year later, angrily inquiring what
they intended to do in the matter. Their
intent was to do nothing, and they did
it.-AtbenOuDl.
Year: 1870

The abundance and hrilliance of color
of the wild flowers of the Northern
countries is remarkable. The most COM


mon at this time is our pansy. Find
ing it first near a mill, the natural infer
ence was that a neighbering garden had
OverTun its borders, But no, it is as


wild and as common here, as our own
eyebright, spring up by the rOadsides,
among the tall grass in the meadows,
and standing in thick clusters on the
rocks or hiding in the clefts. Of every
size, except really large, and of the usual
cOlOrs, in every shade and variety OF ar
rangement. Sometimes wholly white,
sometimes dark red purple throughout
they are Oftenest medium size, with
their two upper petals a soft blue purple
shading through blue into pale yellow
below. Looking at them fiuttering in
fresh masses on the rocks, they give the
effect of the most delicate purple flowers
so light that the wind must blow them
away. They are so beautiful and and so
abundant that our wild violet, which
grows here also, seems hardly worthy of
notice.


Another Of our choice flowers equally
common is the lily of the valley, precise
Iy the same in color, size and perfume
as our garden flower. Coming from
Stockholm, at the different stations we
found children under the car windows
with hands and arms and baskets full of
them, great delicious punches, for a pen
ny each. We were still incredulOus
enough to ask where they came from,
but when small brown fists pointed tow
ard the woods over beyond the station,
there was no longer room for doubt
The forget-me-nOts of our gardens also
abound here, growing little smaller as
a general thing, but of the same pure
blue, sometimes colOring whole fields.


All our common wild flower come and
go here at the same time and in the
same order as in New England. We
miss no one except the eyebright and ar
butus, which should not, perhaps, be
called common with US, it is found in so
comparatively few places, The sandy
soil in and about the pine woods
of Norway seem perfectly adapted to its
growth, but we have not been able to
find any traces of it where we have
been.


Among many that are quite new to us
is rich purple blossom, delicate and
small, but growing in full cluster low on |
the ground. Many fields are bright |
with fall flower a little like our mea- |
dow pink, of color so deep as to be al |
most crimson, making a fine contrast to |
the OX-eYe daisy of our meadows, which |
is often mixed with it. A tall spike of
blue flowers, as blue as our deepest lark !
spur, borders many of the country roads !
roses grow wild in almost every color
white, yellow, red and pink, and Of great |
fragrance; the wild geranium of our |
fields has q much richer color than with |
US, our harebells grow not only on the !
rocks and hills but by the roadsides, and |
purple cOlumbine, large and dark, takes |
the place of the light red of our rocks. /
The variety of bright yellow flowers is
almost innumerable.
Year: 1870

NAT is very poor, rather light finger
ed, and it is said not so bright as his par
ents could wish. The other day, while
passing neighb0r's. Nat saw a brood
of chickens, and Immediately caught
one to carry home. He had not gone
far, however, before he saw the owner
coming up, the road, and not knowing
what to do with the chicken to conceal
it, at last succeeded in crOwding it into
his hat, which he again placed upon his
head. But the chicken, having a long
neck, and being also pressed for air,
managed to thrust its head through an
opening in Mats old straw hat. Nat
was presently accOsted with:


What have you got in your hat2'


Nothing but my head, said Nat.


But 1 see q chickens head sticking
through the top of it


Nat, taking off his hat and looking at
it in feigned astOnisbment, exclaimed:


wal, how do you s'pose that critter
came in there? He must have crawled
up my troWsers leg
Year: 1870

The subject of agriculture is one that
demand fully as much attention at the
hands of the reading public IS it gets.
Indeed no theme presents itself that is
fruught with more real import, so far as
regards our prosperity, than the wants
of the agricultural world. What we
mean by attention, is a Studious, care
ful search for the best ways of accom-
plishng certain desired results, not
superficial investigation of some theory.
merely for the purpose ofcreating differ
ence and provoking discussion. The
day has happily passed when being a
farmer was synonymous with being a
blockhead. It requires something more
than mere pysiciai strength to keep up
with the advance of the age I'M farming
Us Well rs science. Many Of the Sys-
tens of years ago are no more applica-
ble to the demands ofto-day than would
be an OK team to run an opposite freight
line across the Plains. The farmer who
reads much, and reads that much with
care, is the one who stands il. advance
in intelligence and prosperity.
Year: 1870

Restored TO power the Democracy
will endeavor to restore respect for the
Constitution and the laws throughout
the whole country; to restore good tenn
per and kind feeling among the whole
people. By Tetrenchment and reform
in ali the branches of Government.
State and Federal, they will reduce the
taxes Of the people; and by investiga-
tion stricll but impartial, they will ex-
pose and punish the thieves who have
been rObbing the Treasury and who now
seek to retain power in order to avoid
such exposure and punishment.


Restored to power, they will try and
restore our commerce, which is well
nigh destroyed to revive trade, which
is well nigh paralyzed, and remove the
unequal and unjust burdens which now
weigh heavily upon the shoulders of in
dustTy, so that our farmers, manufactur-
ers, merchants, mechanics and work
ingmen will be able to save a portion of
the profits of their toll, instead of hav-
ing them gObbIed up by the Ieeches who
are growing fat by sucking the life
blood of the peOple.-Gen. G. W. Nor
gan.
Year: 1870

y man who has just got cut lawsuit
wants 90 obtain large, framed picture
of a cow, with one client at the head
and the other at the tail, pulling, and
the lawyers meanwhile quietly milking
her.
Year: 1870

! There Is no medicine equal TO Hoo1ands German
Bitters or Tonic in cases of Debility They impar


tone and vigOr 10 the whole system strengthen the
appetite cause an enjoyment Of The food enable the


stomach to digest it, purify the blood, give good,
Year: 1870

ever known, and will cure all diseases resulting from
bad blood. Keep your blood pure; keep you liver in
order; keep your digestive organs in sound, healthy
condition. by the use Of these remedies, and no dis
ease will ever assai yOu. The best men in the cOun
try recommend them. If years Of honest reputation
60 for anything you must try these preparations.
Year: 1870

The Buffalo E1press tells the fol


lowing story:


In one of the boarding houses


upon the east side of Main street


there occurred a singular incident


last Monday night. A very respect


able young gentleman and refined
young lady who had resided in the


house for over six months as single
persons and mere acquaintances,
suddenly announced to their fellow
boarders that they were man and wife
and had been for some time. The fol-
lowing little circumstance the young
gentleman related as to the cause of
their secresy. Two or three years
ago he had boarded in the family
of very wealthy old gentleman at
Nashville, Tenn. This old gentle
man quarreled with his wife, and
having taken a strong liking for
the young gentleman in question.
informed him that he would will all
his property to him on condition
that he would marry his only daugh-
ter. This the young man refused
to do especially as he knew that the
daughters affections were centered
elsewhere than upon him. But the
old gentleman, whom i'll health had
made irascible, stoutly asserted that
unless he agreed to the transaction
he would leave his money to some
charitable institution; and the young
man, who was not very well posted
in legal matters, thinking to do the
wife and daughter a service, agreed
to the proposition, and the will was
made and the old man came to the
eastern part of this State to receive
medical treatment. The.yOung man
shortly afterwards married the lady
of his choice and came here to live,
but, as he says, to prevent the old
gentleman from willing his property
away to charitable institutions, his
marriage was kept secret, and his
wife and himself lived together in
the same house for months rs friends
simply. Last Sunday, however, a
telegram was received announcing
the death of the old gentleman, and
the young man, having made over { y
all of his right and title (D to the
extensive estate to the family of the
deceased, now publicly announces
his marriage and is happy.
Year: 1870

1 SS.


Very well; my orders are to see


this placed nsyour bands, and that
done l may as wen Be off,


But who sent you with it," asked


the bewildered woman.


Indeed, Madam, l was too busy


to ask that; and besides it was none


of my business he said, with a


hearty laugh; ''good day, and a good


Thanksgiving to you, and he sprang


into his wagon and drove away.


Let us carry it in, mother" said


the girls, land take off these wrap


pings; there may be something in


side that will explain the mystery"


Yes, l see some writing under
there" cried Emma. eagerly, and
pulling away the outside paper she
read aloud: "Mrs. Thurston will
please inspect this turkey carefully
AS it was dressed in a hurry some
thing may have been left inside
which should be removed before
cooking" The girls laughed mer-
rily as their mother-more and more
bewildered still-exclaimed:


Il should think there was some
thing inside, truly, and a good deal
that never belonged there, toow
And pulling out what seemed to be
a stufiing of thick brown paper, they
found five parcels securely wrapped
up from all danger of being soiled
by the nice fat turkey. The largest
of these was opened first, and Lefty
opened her eyes in wonder when it.
proved to be pair of blue boots
the very things she wished but had
not dared to pray for. The next
was collar for Emma, then came
pair of kid gloves for Lizzie, the jet
bracelets for Mary, and, last of all, a
pair of spectacles for the mother,
with full directions where to have
them exchanged provided they did
not suit her eyes, which, however,
they happened to do charmingly.
How they all stood and stared as one
thing after another was opened and
proved to be the very things that
little Lefty had been praying for.
And such great grand turkey as
that was-they never had seen one
more than half as large before! Hun
CRY as they all were for thanksgiving
turkey, after they had eaten as much |
as they possibly could, and had sent
a wing to poor sick man over the |
way, and a drum-stick to the little |
lame boy next door, there seemed
still the half of it left on the plat
ter. So they had a second thanks
giving dinner on Friday, and on
Saturday the picking of the bones
afforded them another grand feast.
In the midst of all the rejoicing
little Lefty slipped away by herself
to thank God for having heard her
prayers, while all her sisters felt that
there must be some use in praying
when it had been the means of
bringing them such nice things. 1t
was a long while before they learned
that these gifts of their heavenly
Father had come through the hands
Of their kind brother Theo.


l think my little reader will agree
with me that the thanksgiving tur-
Key which Theo. Thurston thus got
lp and sent home was a nice affair
Is well as real funny one.