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Year: 1876


faith -,


appeal TO yOu TO say TO which OF these parties the
honor and the welfare OF the country can be most ae
cOuhded-which OF the two candidates for the highest
Office in the gift the American people ls The best ned
to continue without faint our long line OF llus-
trious chief magistrates with Washington at thelr
head-he whose public life and private char
acter are unblemished, or he who Is undef
prosecution for Withholding from private corpora
tons moneys aud securities which they claim to belong
to them; who is under unreuted accusation OF dc,
frauding the Government by false income return; ana
who Is acknowledged by bis own supporters TO nave
been fined for successive years 1of
violation Of the revenue lawsi 1t is the most
momcntous problem presented TO the American
people for sOlutiOn-a problem involving not thelr
character alone but the permanency OF our poltc syS-
tenn for government be preserved for any length
Of time without perfect Integrity in its principal tunc-
tiOnaries; aud / appeal 20 every honest Voter lu
the land to consider dispassi0natey, thoughtully,
and sOlemuy the responsibility resting upon
him. For the first time in our history tho
direct practical question s presented for US to decide
whether a majority OF the people OF the United
States hold honesty and purity Of character to be essen
tal qualifications for the highest Ofiiclal trusts anG
whether they the elevated moral sense which would
revolt any calculated to bring disbonor upon the
good country bears in own sight and IN the
sight of the civilized world
Year: 1876

The Republicans have undoubtedly carried the
State by decided majority and elected the entire
State ticket and Representative for the uneXprea
term of the XLIVth Congress, and secured the
Legislature BY majority in both branches.
Year: 1876

WATERING PoULrRY.-It is the belief of
the writer that many of the diseases
incident to poultry are due to neglect in
providing them with pure water; particu-
larly do believe such to be the case in the
majority of instances where chicken cholera
prevails The omission to furnish fowls
with suitable drinking water is one of tho
worst features of cruelty to animals.-Fan-
cicr'S Journal
Year: 1876

THE LAYING HEN.-An exchange says ::
" We have found that hogs lard is the best
thing to mix with the dough to give hens
to make them lay. One cut Of this fat, as
large as a walnut, will set hen to lay i'm
after she has been broken up
from setting, and by feeding them with
the fat occasionally the hens continue to
lay through the winter"
Year: 1876

Nota Dye; makes harsh hair soft and silky; cleanscs
the scalp from all impurities causing the hair to grow
where it has fallen off or become thin


Can be applied by the hand it does not stain the
skin soil the finest linen As a Hair Dressing it is
the most perfect the world hes ever produced The
hair renovated and strengthened and natural color
restored withoutthe application ofminera substances


Since the introduction of this truly valuable prepa
ration into this country it has been the wonder and
admiration of all classes, it has proved to be the
only article that will absolutely without deception,
restore gray hair to its original color health soness
ustre and beauty and produce hair bald heads Of
its original growth and color.


This beautiful and fragrantly pcrfumcd article is
complete within ITSELF washing preparation be-
fore after its use, or accompaniment of any kind
being required to obtain these desirable results
Year: 1876

A FEW Times THAT We KNow.-We
know that disordered stomach or liver
produces more suffering than any other
cause. We know that very few physicians
are successful in their treatment of these
disorders. We know that DaCosta's Radi-
cal Cure WILL without the shadow of
doubt, almost Immediately relieve and per-
manent.y cure all of these distressing
symptoms. We know of thousands who
are willing to testify that what we say is
true to the letter. We know that if you
will give it a fair trial you will let us add
your name to the "cloud of witnesses" :"
Will you give it a trial, and do it now =?
Trial size only % cts. Sold by J. Wesley
Denney, druggist. may Oily


Professor Parker's Pleasant Worm Syrup
is perfectly safe and extremity palatable.
No physic required. Costs % cts Try it.
Year: 1876

The immense cheeses made in Buffalo,
N. Y, one of twelve and the other of four
teen tons weight, have been built on plat
form cars, upon which they will be kept
during the entire centennial exhibition.
They are ten or twelve feet high, and are
bound with iron hoops one inch thick.
Year: 1876

There is a white hatchment over the
portal-a long streamer of snowy Grape
trails from the mufiled bell knob like a
film of ghostly morning mist. We know
that an impalpable f0Otstep has fallen on
this threshold that a shadowy hand has
knocked on the shrouded door; that the
dread visitant who will not be denied
nor turned away, has entered here. He
has entered and departed; but the veiled
mourner, sorrow, who treads solemnly
after him, has stayed behind.


His ruthless hand has plucked the
white bud of promise that gladdened the
fair garland of household love-the bud
that breathed the yet unfolded perfume
ofsweet but underlined hopes that coming
years would ripen to fruition. His re-
morseless foot has fallen beside this
hearthstone-and, 10! the dread foot
print has followed little grave. The
baby is dead


The tiny image, white as sculptured
parian, lies yonder in its snowy casket,
draped in spotless fabrics and wreathed
with funeral flowers. The mother bends
with anguished eyes above the estill, small
efigy of her lost hope, but the baby is
not there. Out Of her arms and out of
her life something has gone that will not
return. The sealed lids will not uplift
from happy sleep; the wondering eyes
will seek her face no more. Never again
the chill, soft lips will drain the
fountains of her aching heart. The little
restless hands lie still and pulseless,
frozen into eternal quiet; their silken
touches vague and aimless as the south
wind, will steal into her bosom and
soothe her WEAKNESS no mOrel She
realizes this with all the live pulsating
agony of newly bereaved motherhood, as
she leans over the dainty coffin, and
slow, scalding tears, wrung from the very
fibers of her bruised life, drop one by
one on the unconscious face.


She folds a sprig of hyssop on half
blown rose in the waxen hand and sends
them to the Father as message and a
token-the symbols of her grief and
baby's innocence: LO! surrender back
to Thee the soul that Thou didst lend
me unsullied, as from thy hands, / yield
it up in faith and hope; but o, / give
the child with bitter tears-with break-
ing heart-with passionate human woe
unutterable.


And the days lengthen, the nights fall,
the years go on. She keeps the key OF
baby's casket in her bosom-the memory
of the rosebud face within her heart
and life for her is never again quite what
1t was ere baby diedl
Year: 1876

A veritable plague is Furnishing Paris


nor less than a plaything, thoroughly


inofensive in appearance; but one


should not judge by appearances, even


in such simple objects as playthings.


The one hides real ferocity under a


modest exterior, consisting of small
support of bullets, made of copper, in


which is incased blade of steel slightly


convex. The whole has not three cent?
metres of length to one of width, and it
can be held between the thumb and
forefnger, when, by pressing lightly on


the steel blade and letting it rebound
naturally, it produces dry, shrill, and
even tragic sound.


1t appears to be nothing at all, and yet
it is simply odious, for this noise pro-
duced one hundred and twenty-five
times, two hundred times a minute,
would enrage the most peaceable Dutch
man. 1t is melting by its very regular
ity, it lacerates the ears by its rigidity,
and there is something unattainable and
diabolical in it; for just imagine clock
whose tic-tac is increased hundred fold,
and which marks two hundred vibrations
to the minute!


1t is only three days since the instru-
ment appeared in the market, yet the
boulevard repeats its echo; the railroad
depot, the top of omnibuses, the most
quiet streets, and even the households of
honest families are troubled by it. It is
the abomination of denominations at the
moment / write its unmerciful strain
scans each one o. my sentences. The in
strument costs but five cents; it has
cheapness in its favor which nothing can
vanquish; all buy it, young and old,
which goes to show that Parisians are
children. This terrible plaything hides
itself everywhere, executing its tic
tao" inside the pocket, in the palm of
the hand, under the seat of an omnibus
or in the depths of a coat.


1t seems to issue from beneath the
furniture or from the rafters of the cell
ing, and there is reason to believe that it
is but in its infancy, that it will be per-
fectioned as it grows older, for who
knows but that some Vivier will execute
on the monochord rigidness of the steel
blade the variations of the Carnival of
Venice" 1t has been decided to christen
this formidable infant by the name of
Embetan, which might properly be
translated into English as nuisance,
and we hope for your sake that it may
not grow sufficiently enterprising to
cross the waters, but should it do so
there is consolation in knowing that the
tariff will rob it of its chief charm, and
thereby save the condemned ears Of my
Year: 1876

The following bright little poem, brim full
sound philosophy appeared in recent number OF
m the Boston Pilot from the pen Of John Boyle
What man would be wise, let him drink of the
That bears on its waters the record of Time;
message TO him every wave can deliver


10 teach him TO creep till he knows how to climb.
Who heeds not experience, trust him net tell
The scope of one mind can but tribes achieve;
The weakest who draws from the mind will excel
The strength of mankind Is the wisdem hey


leave.


For peace do not hope; to be just you must:break
Still work for the minute and not for the year;
When honor comes to you, be ready to take 1t
but reach not TO seize 1t before 1t is near.
Be silent and safe silence never betrays you.


De true TO your word and your work and your
Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise
Nor Judge Of day till it draws to the end.


Take gifts with sigh most men give to be paid.
4" had" is a heartache " have' is a fountain;
You're worth what you saved, not the million you


made.


Trust toll, not intent, or your plans will miscarry
Your wife keen sweetheart instead of a tease
Rule children by reason, not rod and mind, marry
Your girl when you can, and your boy when you


please.


Steer straight the wind will allow but be ready
To veer just point to let travellers pass
Each sees his own star-a stiff course is oosteady
When this one to meeting goes, that one to mass.
Our streams not 50 wide but two arches may span
Good neighbor and citizen these for a code.
And this truth In sight-every man on the planet
Has just as much right as yourself to the road.
Year: 1876

GEN. NEWTON announces that the
reef at Hallett's Point has been swept,
and summary of the facts is as follows:
From one hundred and eighty feet dis
tant from the shore line to the line of the
buoys, the bottom slopes gradually from
eight feet of depth at low water to twenty
feet. Outside of the line of buoys nothing
less than twenty feet of depth at mean
low water was discovered. The divers
have been examining the reef, and report
a thorough breakup.
Year: 1876

THERE are a good many people in the
world who spend half their time in
thinking what they would do if they
were rich, and the other half in con-
jecturing what they shall do as they
are not.


A REVEREND divine, who was but
$3.50 preacher, being called upon acci-
dentally for sermon, asked friend
what he should preach about, to which
the other coolly replied, "About five
minutes"


No young man really believes he shall
ever die. There is feeling of eternity
in youth which makes us amends for
every thing. Death, old age, are words
without meaning-a dream, a fiction.
To be young is to be as one of the i'm
mortals.


UNPALATABLE advice is frequently
disguised in sermon, or anecdote, or
other confectionery. We are apt to take
such sugar-coated advice as children do
sugar-coated pills. We suck the sugar
coating, but we don't suck the advice
much.


DANBURY Nems: 1t was at the funeral
of the head of family. A neighbor in
the yard, while the service was going on
inside, was speaking of the deceased, and
took advantage of the opportunity TO
observe in tone of subdued sympathy:
can had just got in his coal and pota-
toes for the winter. 1t is sad case"


The common mind may maintain its
place under common circumstances; the
truly great alone overcome the trials of
prosperity or adversely; showing hum
BILE thankfulness in one, a generous SYM
pathy, not hardened by its own suffering,
in the other; not priding themselves on
the first, not enyying in the last.
Year: 1876

We envy not the princely man,
In city or in town,
Who wonders whether pumpkin vines
Run up hill or down;
We care not for the marble halls
Nor yet his heaps Of gold
We would not own his sordid ear
For all the wealth twice told.
We are the favored ones Of earth,


We breathe pure air each morn;
We sow, we reap the golden grain;
We gather in the corn;
We toll, we live on what we earn,
And more than this we do
We hear Of starving millions round,
nd laiI 10 haI,, ha, tar
Year: 1876

ACCORDING to the Lumleian lecture of
DIR. Quinn, an eminent English physician,
enlargement of the heart is more than
twice as frequent in men as in women,
the precise proportion being eight to
three. This he thinks unquestionably
due to the greater amount of work and
anxiety which fall upon men. The
Sorosis may reflect whether, in claiming
the rights OF men, they may not at the
same time incur new and unexpected
form of disability.
Year: 1876

The religious journals have been filled
for several months past with welcome re-
ports of widespread revivals. These have
been often spoken of as harvcst seasons in
the various churches. But the phrase is
an erroneous and misleading one. Conver-
sion is rather planting time with a soul
than its harvest. 1t is q beginning of
better things: not consummation COM
pleted. Those pastors and evangelists
commit a fearful mistake who feel that
the conversation of sinners is the one main
object of all gospel effort: whereas con-
version is only the means, the first step in
the great end of all true gospel effort,
which is the service of God by genuine
cooley life. These young converts make a
still worse mistake, if they sit down happy
and contentcd with having confessed
Christ and united with his church.


What is conversion? 1t is a turning
from the wrong road into the right one
the journey is yet to be performed before
heaven is attained. Too many, alas set
out on this road to fall away before they
reach the mark of the prize. Conversion
is simply an enlisting in the army Of Jesus.
The battles and the hard bivouacs are vet
before you. The sowing time of your
spiritual spring has just begun. Don't
repeat the current prattle about being Z" a
harvested soul gathered into the garner. "
The church is not a granary. You are
just beginning to sow for yourself; and
whatever you sow you will surely reap.


Conscience is the vital point. You need
not trouble yourself much about your
frames or feelings, SO long as conscience
turns steadily towards Christ as the needle
towards the North Pole. Feelings are very
fallacious. Some Christians are very devout
in their feelings, and wretchedly deficient
in their daily conduct. They forget tha


the best proof of love to Christ is "t to keer
his commandments" Fervent Christians
in the prayer-meeting, they are sorry
specimens of Christians outside of it
There is a lamcntable lack of conscience il


too much of the flaming piety which burn


out all its oil i'll the prayer-room or tn


praise-meeting."


We do not wonder at the sneers whicl
: are levelled by shrewd men of tho worlc
; at this sort of "revival religion" See t
: it that you give no occasion for such sneers
See to it that Jesus it not betrayed befor
his enemies by your inconsistency. TIL
, best thing you can do for your Saviour an
your Master is to live an honest, truthful
) pure and godly life. Others are watchin
7 you. Then watch over yo,~scy.-Rc
t THcad0re L. CpF,r.
Year: 1876

Do Nor GET Cool" Do not get cool, is
the Scientific Americans hot weather advice,
the meaning being that a sudden cooling
of the body is likely to induce bad colds,
which are harder to cure in summer than
in winter. II also says that ice water
shold be drunk slowly, with pause be-
tween oach swallow. Hot tea is recon:
mended because "the debility and down
ward progress of the system is arrested by
the warmth of the water and the stimula
ting quality Of the tea, until strength be-
gins to be impaired to the system" Gauze
worn next the body absorbs Precipitation
and prevents colds, but should be often
thoroughly aried and dried. Persons who
allow mental overwork to exhaust them
are particularly liable to sunstroke. at
is a foolish popular idea that this terrible
malady is due to the concentration of the
sums rays on the head. Persons are fre.
ouently struck, rs it is termed, in the night
but are more apt to be so late in the after
noon, when the system is depressed by the
heat and nervous exhaustion. The way tc
avoid sunstroke is to order ones doing sc
that vitality shall not be lowered, and the
conditions favorable to the disease super
induced. A sunstroke, if not fatal, leave
the patient less able to endure mental o.


physical work ever after, and requires from
him constant care against pulmonary dis


ease or second visitation"
Year: 1876

Our readers will thank us for the follow
ing sure preventive against hydrophobia in
dogs: "Boil three tablespoonsful of salt
and an ounce of carbolic powder in a pint
of water, squeeze in n lemon, and then let
a piece of meat simmer in the mixture to
give it attractive taste. Take out the meat,
and put the liquor in cool place. Then
while the remedy is cooling lead the dog
out behind the barn shoot him between the
eyes with Remington rife. One pint of
the liquor will be found enough for 100
dOgs.--Rome Sentinel.
Year: 1876

MUSCLE AGAINST BRAIN.-Whcn jackson
was moving on TO strike McClcllan's flank
on the Chiclahominy, he came to stream
that had no bridge, and couldn't be crossed
without one. The General had brought
with him from the Valley a rough, unedu-
Gated man, full of energy, who had served
him in emergencies, and in whom he had
the utmost confidence. He called his man
and told him the stream must be bridgcd
Immediately; the regular engineers were
advised Of the fact. In a short time the
rough carpenter and the polished men Of
science were at the stream, the former had
his plan, the latter had theirs; he wished
to 60 to work at once without drawings,
but they objected until they could perfect
the plans on paper. The engineers retired
to their tent to perfect a paper bridge; the
carpenter took his men and went to work
to make real one. In very short time
he appeared at the Generals tent reported
briefly, thus: General, that bridge is
done, but them pictures amt come yet"
Year: 1876

wHIrEwAsH FOR SACKED CEILISG.-For
the first coat mix to every two quarts of
whitewash one cup of fine sift ashes. This
will prevent the smoke from striking
through. After this another coat may be
nut on in the ordinary manner.
Year: 1876

GRAHAM BISCUIT WITHOUT YEAST OR SODA.
Mix your flour with warm mot hot)
milk and water to the consistency of batter,
with little salt. Grease your pan, make
it kissing hot, and pour in your batter.
Set it for a moment on the range to rise,
then into quick oven, and servo them as
baked, because they fall.
Year: 1876

The first seeds of matrimonial discord
are usually sown Immediately after going
to housekeeping. 1t is not because the
the tender wave of harmony no longer
pulsates from soul to soul. 1t is because
she insists on his doing the marketing i'm
mediately after breakfast, on full
stomach, when he doesn't care whether he
has q canvass back duck or boiled dish.
rag for the next meal.-.Norssich Bulletin.
Year: 1876

A bill to prohibit the sale of Intoxicating
liquors within four miles of the California
University is called by San Francisco
paper "An act to promote pedestrianism
among the students"
Year: 1876

There is a general tendency to speak
slightingly of those who save money, and to
extol those who do not. 1t is not easy to
indicate the precise grounds upon which
this is done; but there appears to prevail
an impression to the effect that one class
are mean-souled, sOrdid, and greedy, while
the other are full of generous impulses.
This impression, however, does not seem
to be justified by the facts of the case.
In many cases, those who spend recklessly
are by no means philanthropic. They
throw away their money, it is true, but they
do SO more in spirit of bravado than
from charitable impulses. Their benevo-
lence is, to say the best that can be said of
it, decidedly 'erratic, and unfortunate in
decd is the being who is dependent upon
them. Because they scatter their gold
with an apparently lavish hand wherever
they 60, and when the eyes of the world
are upon them, it does not follow that they
are doing more than giving was to parti-
cular form of self-indulgence. They may
treat their friends to costly entertainments,
but there is little charity involved in the
proceeding where the entertainments are
given at the expense of creditors who are
being defrauded of their rights.


Of course it may be held that it is rather
a clever thing to diddle ones creditors in
order that one may be generous to ones
acquaintance; but the man who does this
invariably fails so stand the wear and tear
of time. The probability is that, sooner
or later, he attempts to diddle you with the
same skill that he has diddled his cred


itors and the chances are that you dis
cover ere long that his promises are not tc
be relied on, and that it is hopeless to ex


pect him to keep his engagements. Nor is
this all. 1t will be found that, notwith


standing all his great show, he is indiffer


ent who suffers SO long as he is not forced


to deny himself. On the other hand, the


man who saves money will generally b


proved a man of his word. Unlike the


spendthrift who readily promises to dC
everything but actually performs next t.


nothing, the money saver is slow to promise
but what he does engage to do he is quicl
to accomplish. This arises from the fac


that when he does make an engagement h
carefully calculates how far he will be abl


to fulfil it. He does not say he will pa


you a certain amount on certain time Of


the strength of a vague hope that some
thing will " turn W" twiXt now and ther
but upon that of a carefullythought-ou


and reliable calculations. He realizes hi


obligation SO keenly that he is OCCASIONAL
i led, perhaps, to be unduly cautious. A


the same time, if you want a man to do
real serviceabie act Of charity you must c
, to him rather than a magnificent bein
J who holds money in contempt. 1t is nt
. surprising that he comes to the front
social life, and that he is placed in position
= of power and responsibility. Selfdeni'
- and integrity can never go unrewardec
=. their influence is so powerful and endu
. ing People may sneer at what they ca
:, miserliness. But providence is not miserl


ness, and the man who saves money is n


necessarily a miser.-Home Journal.
Year: 1876

To CLEAN THE INSIDE OF ANY TEAPoT.-If
the inside of your teapot or cohccpot is
black from long use, fill it with water,
throw in small piece Of hard soap, set Oh
the stove and let boil from half hour to
an hour. 1t will clean as bright as a new
dollar, and cost no work.