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Year: 1875

There Is no dock, however watched and tended


But one dead lamb is tberei


There IL NO nrestde, howsoe'er defended.


But haa one vacant ehairi"


The hour of bereavement is the COM
mon lot Of us all; and we come back
from the new-made grave when we have
laid our loved ones to sleep, come back
to the vacant chair, the desolate room,
the empty life-oh, how empty! Yet
not for all this do the cares and duties
of life press on us with any less weight
or diminish aught of their demands.
Wisely is it thus ordered. To sit down
and nurse our grief, to give full rein to
the indulgence of sorrow and tears, is
the worst possible thing for us and for
those around US. If grief opens our
hearts to feel the woes Of others, inclines
us to forget self aud selfish sorrow in
binding up other bruised and bleeding
hearts, leads us to double our diligence,
that before we too are summoned away,
the whole work given US to do shall be
done and well done; it will be possible
in some near future for US to say from
the, heart 1T is good for me that have
been afflicted"


Bitter as is the cup of bereavement,
cruel as are the pangs of separation at
the jaws Of the sepulcher, lasting as is
the sense of loss, yet, from these all
good may be evolved, for only those
who have had this baptism, know how
to feel for others woes, to speak words
of consolation and to keep silence when
no words can be of any avail. Death
runs mis- plOw-share through our house.
hold tearing up the sod, cutting of at
the r0ot roses and viOlets, and the
tender blossoms whose fragrance cheered
our lives wither and perish, but by and
by a richer harvest justifies the ways of
God; and, as little by little, our affec-
tions are transferred from this to an
other world and the fruits Of patience
and hope and resignation ripen above
the sod thus rudely up-torn, We begin
dimly to perceive that "whom God
loveth He chasteneth."
Year: 1875

As often pass the roadside,


When wearily falls the day.
/ turn to look from the hilltop
At the mountains far away.
The red sun through the forests
Throws hithsr his parting beams
And far in the quiet valley


The happy village gleama
There the lamp is lit in the cottage
As the husbandman's lsbors cease,
And think that all things are gathered
And folded in twilight peace.
But the sound Of merry voices
Is heard in the village street,
While pleased the grandame watches
The play OF the little feet.
And at night to many freside
The rosy children come;
To tales Of the bright-eyed fairies
They listen and are dumb.
There seems it JOY forever


To labor and TO learn,
For love with an eye Of magic
Is patient to discern.
And the father blesses the mother,
And the children bless the sire,
And the cheer and JOY Of the hearthstone
Is rs light from an altar fire.
Oh, flowers Of rsrest beauty
In that green valley grow;
And whether twere earth or heaven
Why shouldst thou care to know?
Save that thy brow is troubled,
And dim is thy helpmate's eye;
And graves are green in the valley.
And stars are bright in the sky.


-SGibner's Monthly.
Year: 1875

1t is very certain that no man is fit
for everything; but it is almost as
certain, too, that there is scarcely any
one man who is not fit for something,
which something nature plainly points
out to him by giving him tendency
and propensity to it. Every man finds
in himself, either from nature or educa-
ton (for they are hard to distinguish),
a peculiar bent and disposition to some
peculiar character; and his struggling
against it is the fruitless and endless
labor of Sisyphus. Let him follow and
cultivate that vocation, he will succeed
in it, and be considerable in one way at
least; whereas if he departs from it he
will at best, be inconsiderable, probably
ridiculous.-LordC Chesterfield.
Year: 1875

Timidity never accomplishes anything
in the world. Getting up in life is very
much like getting up to make a fire in a
cold room. If you crawl timidly out of
bed, go on tip-toe to the stove, and allow
the shivers to get control of you before
the kindling starts, your fire will prob
ably be a failure, and you will half
freeze to death in the operation. But if
you jump out bravely, hustle around,
pull on your clothes, knock over a chair
or two, and pitch in the stove wood, you
will probably be warm by the time the
fire gets to burning, and have to open a
window. So is life. Attack it timidly
and you will fail Grapple with il,
hurry up things, stir around, conquer
fortune, and you will be success.
Year: 1875

II is said that the late Lord st. Leo
nard taught that it was the sacred duty
Of every man to make his will, and he
wrote book to show how it should be
done. He made his own will with the
sound of trumpets, as it were, and now
that will cannot be found-lost appa-
rently, in the wilderness of his papers,
or, as conjectured, perhaps buried with
him-for he kept it sometimes in the
pocket Of his dressing gown.
Year: 1875

OF WHAT good is it to learn? That we
may become modest; that we may
occupy life with something better than
those things to which our vanity
prompts us; that We may make our
selves Of some little use to our fellows,
without exacting gratitude from them.
Year: 1875

NEGATIVE K1NDNEss.-Do the doctors
know that half the wives 10 the world die
of this com ptaint "He never spoke an
unkind word to his wife," Yes, but did
he remember. now and then, to speak q
kind one Did ne have any sympathy for
her bodily or mental ails Z Or was he
blind or deaf to both, treating them with
that cutting Indifference which in time
chilis the most loving heart, and silences
it's throbs forever Men are very guilty
in this regard. They take young girl
from the warm atmosphere of loving,
cheerful home, and, after few brief weeks
of devotion, leave ber to battle single
handed with new cares and new duties,
and to bear sickness with what courage
she may, and go their ways into the tang
led paths of life, without thought of the
responsibilities they are shirking, or the
solemn vows they have really broken.
Year: 1875

Not far from Salzburg, Austria, is a
mountain, which consists of nothing but
beautiful marble. The stone-masons cut
out blocks and columns of it, take it To
the great city, and build palaces and fine
houses of it. But what becomes of the
little pieces which are broken of, and
which are so small that the people cannot
use them? These are for children Out
OF them are made the little marble balls
playing marbles How this is done, let
me tell you: From this same mountain
several brooks flow down into the valley
below. Their waters rush down from one
shelf of rock to another, and from count
less little waterfalls. BY the side Of
these little falls numerous small mills
have been placed. In each of these the
water drives little flying wheel. Under
meath the barrel of the wheel is round
grinding-stonc. This milestone turns in q
strong trough into which fresh water is
constantly splashing. The larger bits of
marble are broken with q hammer into
rough, angural pieces about as large as
walnuts. No child would care to play
with these stones; they are sharp-corner-
cd, jagged, and gray and dusty besides
They are thrown into the stone mill
trough with water, and the milestone be-
gins to turn. Now the angular stones
have long, merry dance; they hop and
skip, and stumble over one another, and
whirl round and round in circle; they
crash, and beat, and CRATE upon each 9th.
er all day. At last they become so small
that the milestone in the trough takes no
more hold of them and the little mill
stands STILL Then tho little stones are
ready. The milestone is fiIled-there
they lie, thousand or more, all together


one just as pretty as the other. They are
perfectly round; all corners and roughness
are gone. The marbles now only need
polishing. Then the child gets them and
plays all kinds of games with them.
Year: 1875

I walk down the Valley of Silence.


Down the dim, voiceless valley-alone
And hear not the fall of footstep


Around me-save God and my ownl
And the hush OF my heart is as holy


AS hovers whore angels have flown.
Long ago was weary of voices


Whose music my heart could not win,
Long ago was weary of noises


That fretted my soul with their din;
Long ago was weary of places


Where met but the Human and Sin.
walked through the world with the worldly;


craved what the world never gave;
And said, I'm the world each Ideal


That shines like q star on lifeS wave,
Is toned on the shores of the Real,


And sleeps like dream in the grave"
And still did pine for the Perfect,


And still found the False with the True;
/ sought mid the Human for Heaven,


But caught a mere glimpse of its blue;
And wept when the clouds of the Mortal


Yelled even that glimpse from my view.
And toiled on, heart tired of the Human;


And moaned mid the mazes of men;
Till knelt long ago at an altar


And heard Il Voice call me; since then
j walk down the Valley of Silence,


That lies far beyond mortal ken.
Do you ask what found in the Valley?


'TS my trysting place with the Divine!
And fell at the feet of tho Holy,


And about me a voice said, BE miner
And then rose from the depths of my spirit
slAn echo-"My heart shall be thine"
Do you know how live in the Valloy2


Iweep, and dream and L pray;
But my tears are as sweet as the dew drops
That fall on the roses In May;
And my prayer like Il Perfume from censcr,


Ascendeth to God night and day.
In the hush of tho Valley Of Silence,


1 dream all the songs that sing;
And the music floats down tho dim valley,
Till each finds u word for wing,
That to men, like the doves of the deluge
The message of Peace they may bring.
But far on the deep there are billows,


That never shall break ON the beach;
And have heard songs in the silence,


That never shall float into speech;
And have had dreams i'll the Valley


Too lofty for language to reach.
And have seen thoughts in the Valley


All, mel how my spirit was stirredl
And they wear holy wells on their faces
Their footsteps can scarcely be heard;
They pass through the Valley like Virgins,
Too pure for the touch of word.
Do you ask me the place of the Valley,


Ye hearts that are narrowed by carer
1t lieth afar between mountains,


And God and His angels are there;
And one is the dark mount of Sorrow,


And one the bright mountain OF Prayer.
Year: 1875

TIE DEMOCRAT is thoroughly in- dependent in it's course, under no pledge or covenant to support the schemes or fortunes of any man or set of men, always having at heart first, the good of the people of Pope county, and of the state of Arkan sas. It claims no right to lead or direct in politics, or any other sphere; but it does claim the right, and will fcarlessly and at all times assert it, to speak its own opinions, on all matters coming within the scope of its duty as an independent journal. Whatever prominence it maintains in the affairs of this county or State, will be voluntarily accorded by the people who support it. In short the DEMOCRAT wishes to be judged solely upon its own merits as local and state newspa- per, having for it's chief object the dissemination of the news of the day with such comments upon current topics as seem appropriate and are conscientiously entertained by its management. It will heartily sup port all movements, political or otherwise, which promise to fur thur, and unhesitatingly oppose those which would jeopardlze, the interests of the people. In every department it will be as enterpris- ing as it's patronage will justify. Sensible men will approve the busi- ness management that limits expen- dIture to the bounds of income; on- ly fools or enemies expect q degree of excellence in all points that can alone be attained by the possession of resources and income.
Year: 1875

E7E OONs

 NEW YORK CITY. WEEKLY AND DAILY FOR 1875.

 The Weekly Sun has now attained circulation of over seventy thou sand copies. Its readers are found in every State and Territory, and it's quality is well known to the public. We shall not only endeavor to keep it fully up to the old standard, but to improve and add to its variety and power.

 The Weekly Sun will continue to be thorough newspaper. All the news of the day will be found in it, condensed when unimportant, at full length when of moment, and always we trust, treated in clear, interesting and instructive manner.

 It is our aim to make the Weekly Sun the best family newspaper in the world. It will he full of enter- taining and appropriate reading of every sort, but will print nothing to offend the most scrupulous and deli cate taste. It will always contain the most interesting stories and TO- mances of the day carefully selected and legibly printed.

 The Agricultural Department is q prominent feature in the Weekly Sun, and its articles will always be fresh and useful to the farmer.

 Tue number of men dependent on politics is increasing, and the Weekly Sun is their paper especial ly. It belongs to no party, and obeys no dictation, eontending for principle, and for the election of the best men. It exposes the cor cuption that disgraces the country and threatens the overthrow of re- publican institutions. It has no fear of knaves and seeks no favors from their supporters.

 The markets of every kind and the fashions arc regularly reported in its columns

 The price of the Weekly Sun is one dollar a year for sheet of eight pages, anl tifty-siX columns. As this barely pays the expenses of pa- per and printing, we are not able to make any discount or allow any premium to friends who may make special efforts to extend it's circula- tion. Under the new law, which requires payment of postage in ad- vance, one dollar a year, with twen- ty cents the cost of prepaid postage added, is the rate of subscription. It is not necessary to get up club in order to lr.xe the Weekly Sun at this rate. Anyone who sends one dollar and twenty cents will get the paper postpaid, for year.

 We have no travelling agents.

 The Weekly Sunlight pages, fifty-siX columns. Only $l.20 Il year, postage prepaid. No discount from this rule.

 The Daily Sun.-A large four page newspaper of twenty-cight col umns. Daily circulation over l20- GOO. All the news for two cents. Subscription, postage prepaid D cents q month, or $6.50 q year. To clubs of ten or over discount of twenty per cent.

 Address "THE SUN"

 New York City.
Year: 1875

Patent have been adopted and used elusively in the New York Conservatory of Music

 a undergo is use Il The Music has constantly in upwards Thirty Aron Pianos and pectfuly this durability excellent qualities instruments Pianos also used by the leading Seminare and Colleges throughout the United and by the principal Opera Troupes.
Year: 1875

A medical man, diseoursing upon
sleep, makes this remark:


One man may do with little less
sleep than another, but as gener4i
rule, if you want clerk, Lieutenant,
a lawyer, u physician. legislator, a
judge, president or u pastor, do not
trust your interests to any man who
does not take on the average eight good
solid hours of sleep out of every TWEEN
ty-four. Whatever may be his reason
for it. If he does not give himself that
much he will snap some time jast
when YOU want him 20 be strong.
Year: 1875

In announcing the arrival at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel in that city OF
Hon. Reverdy johnson, the New York
World says:


In, eouyersatioa last night with a
World reporter, Mr.. Johnson said that
he did not think that the recent elee-
tons should discourage the Democratic
party at all. On the contrary. be felt
satisfied that if the party leaders acted
wisely they could not fail to elect their
President in 1876. He declined to ex-
press any opinion as TO who would be
the most available candidate. Judging
from the tenor Of Republican Journals
throughout the country, and from the
action Of certain prominent Republi-
cans, he also believed that President
Grant would undoubtedly be the Re
publican candidate, and Grant he be-
iieved to be undoubtedly eRdeavoring
to prepare the way for such an event.
Year: 1875

The bottom idea Of grangerism, as
We understand it. is to dignity and i'm
prove the agricultural pursuits of the
country; to make farming profitable
and pleasant; to protect the farmer
from impOsitions aud to elevate him to
the high position his calling entities
him to occupy. And this is to be done,
not by making warfare on any other
occupation, nor by degrading or de-
stroyihg any other pursuit, nor by
bringing any odium or contempt on
anybody, any association or class, but
by an honest, united, and earnest at
tempt to make the farm bear its legitI-
mate fruits of plenty and independ-
ence. by clearing it up properly. cul-
tivating it well, harvesting it carefully,
improving it handsomely, and adorn-
ing il beautifully, thus securing the
full reward of honest labor, to be kept
in possession for needful and charitable
purposes, and at the same time filling,
from the scenes Of nature, the soul
with immortal longings for higher
life than this. Who can fail TO feel a
deep interest in a moyement like this
to lift up and protect an occupation
upon the success OF which all things
else of an earthly character depends


Vest Israessec Journal.
Year: 1875

St. Louis Republican says: "If the
next Congress were Republican it
would probably bring about rpeeie pay
ment on the day fixed, By the same
forcing process with which it accom-
plisbes all its objects; but the fact that
the next House is Democratic and the
Democratic majority IS composed very
largely of Western and Southern mem
bers, makes il reasonably certain not
only that the Resumption Act Of last
spring will not be perfected by add:
tional legislation. but that its repeal
will be attempted.
Year: 1875

One hundred aud fifty millions Of
dollars is sent to Europe every year to
pay interest on our indebtedness. More
than one-third goes out in coin, the
rest in new bonds, or in some other
form. This it is that with the cotton,
tobacco, rice, sugar and naval stores of
the south sent abroad to maintain the
balance of trade keeps the country
poor. Yet, with these plain Facts be-
fore them there are those whe persist
in the foolish cry Of specie payments.
Specie payments, when there IS no
chance of earning the specie to pay
with.-Msmphis Appeal.
Year: 1875

IT is asserted by papers who delight
in assailing the Democratic party by
suggestions Of its weakness on the f.
naneial question, that it was the posi-
tion of the party ON that question in
Ohio that secured the Republican par
~ its meagre majority few days since.
We have taken pains time aud again
10 tiisprove this from the columns of
the most ultra Republican papers of
that State-the Cincinnati Times
among them-which declared the tri-
umph Of its party victory on the
school question. And this is the fact,
for it is well known that the Republi-
can party in all the States west of the
mountains, is as much divided on the
currency question as the Democratic.
But Notwithstanding our showing, the
same papers continue to repeat these
statements and to add that the same
question, urged by the Pennsylyanis
Democracy In the same way as by the
Ohio Democracy, accomplished the re-
election of Hartranft. This, also, is
far from being true. The New York
Herald even admits that the currency
question was largely ignored in the
Keystone State, the defeat of Allen
producing but little effect. Reform in
domestic concerns engaged the most
attention and was the chief topic dis
eussed before the people The finan-
cial plank In the Republican platform
reads free banking, safe and uniform
national currency, adjusted to the
growing wants of the business interests
Of the country, and steady reduction
of the national debt" Many Repub-
licans considered this a demand for
more paper money. and SO supportedit,
We therefore reiterate again that it
was not the financial question that oc-
casioned the defeat of the Democratic
party in Ohio and Pennsylvania. 1t
was the school question in the one,
and local reform in the, others The
financial question was not the leading
issue, but mere incident of the cam
paigns in both these great States
lHemDhis ADpeal.
Year: 1875

A philosopher in America can't get
more than fifty dollars week for his
work, while leading negro minstrel
can make five hudred dollars IN that
time. And yet when an Englishman
happens to say that our tastes are low,
and that ignorance is gnswing at the
vitals of the Republic, the American
eagle looks around for some place
where it can get up and scream.
Year: 1875

The New Orleans Picayune IS right.
The result Of the Mississippi election
is fraught with encouragement for the
people of Louisiana, for it has shown
that a persistent, untlring determina-
ton and effort TO shake of the yoke
of oppression must at length succeed.
Year: 1875

The Cincinnati Gazette thus srates
its theory of specie resumption We
shall reach that result when our trade
relations enable US to keep in the
country the precious metals We pro-
duee. Until this condition is realized.
specie payments are out Of the ques-
ton"
Year: 1875

L dared not call out. L knew the
man was dead, but if | shrieked for
help, would not the host and his wife
become my murderers when they be-
held their dead son.


How l lived through those hours is
a mystery to me. God was with'me.


The embers died out, and left me
and the throttled corps and the happy
child together in dense darkness; and
so watched for the dawning day and
the coming of my husband


Leadcn-footed hours dragged by,
at last the first rays of the merning
sun shone in at the window. [ dared
not look at the awful thing that lay
prone upon the floor, lest | should lose
| my reason.


| could not release my hold for | had
grown rigid. | Was paraiyzed.


On the still. clear air of the morn
ing at last | heard Clarke's voice in
the court below:


Halloo mine host Did my wife
come last night?'


could not distinguish the answer.


My reason tOttered.


| knew nothing more until months
afterwards, at least distinctly.


have faint recollection. and a
fearful one, of the bursting in of my
room door, of a glimpse of hideous
face with blackened tongue and eyes
starting from their sockets, and of our
boy starting from his happy sleep to
greet his father. After this, all was a
blank tor weary weeks.


Clarke has told me since that sus.
pieion rested upon the host and his
wife.


They hushed the matter Up quickly
and the would be robber aud ASSASSIN
was buried quietly enough.
When next l looked in the mirror
my face was prematurely piuched and
wrinkled, aud my hair was as silvery
gray as it is to-day.


We moved from Anselmo, and re.
turning to our native state We battles
with the bravest till fortune came to Us
Year: 1875

STREET RAILWAY FARIs.. There is much
said in Philadelphia about reduction OF
fares in the street cars to .fN cents. They
cite five cents as the rate in the New
York cars. In Philadelphia an exchange
ticket is sold for two cents extra. This
IS not done in New York, and perhaps
makes the fares in Philadelphia about
the same or less. We have heard that
there is more money to be made at the
tive cent rate without exchange tickets
than at the present charge.
Year: 1875

WEST NIRGINIA's QuorA or ARMS. =
Congressman Faulkner has addressed a
letter to Governor Jacob apprising him
that there are $4,000 to tho credit of
West Virginia ON the books of the War
Department, but that this sum cannot
be drawn in money, but may be drawn
in arms of such quality and character as
may be indicated whenever it is the will
and pleasure OF the State to make de-
mand for them,