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Year: 1875

"Poor little baby Belief" That was
what everybody said when they looked
into her great brown eyes so full of suf-
fering patience, and the slender misshap-
Ell figure that sat so still in the tiny wheel
chair Poor little baby Belle! She had
lived through five summers Of roses, and
though the Lilliputian feet had never
learned to walk, ard Tic fragile hands
were translucent like Scvres china, she
sang as the sunshine played over her on
the latticed porch, or in the bay window,
and was happy all the day long. No cloud
seemed ever to darkcn the bright light Of
her lustrous eyes, and the notes of her
bird-lil1c voice were as sweet as those Of
tie meadow lark


One day tall sad lady, clad in gar-
mcnts Of deepest mourning, visited baby
Bellies mamma, and as she looked at the
cheerful little soul so happy with the toys
on the miniature table before her, yet dcs-
tined never to walk the beautiful earth,
always to sit helpless in the quiet corner,
she silently shook her head, and said to
baby Bellies mammal: "Why arc such
spared, and my husband, so full of life,
and labor, and usefulness taken away"


'Baby Belle has her mission" replied
the mother, "and perhaps, in her quiet
way, does as much good as many strong
man. What patience she teaches us, what
gen ntlcness! The boys are sometimes
rude to each other, but they are always
kind and tender to baby Belle. In their
long rambles in the fields and woods, they
never forget her; some sweet wild flower,
the stray feathers of some bright-tinted
birds, or a gayly-hued butterfly, or a bit
Of green moss, they bring back to Belle.
When she was little thing, and before
we knew she would be an invalid all her
life, she always cried when the boys took
her, they handled her so roughly. But
they have learned to lift her so carefully
that she loves now to sit in their laps, and
have them tell her stories, or to be carried



bits and squirrels, and to feed them from
her own tiny hands.


"Baby Belle cannot bear word of an
ger, or impotence, or roughness she can
only grievc over unkindncss. Knowing
this, and careful never to wound her ten
der little heart, we are all more gentle and
considcrate toward each other than we
should be were Belle strong and rugged
as the other children are. So she has be-
come our perpetual peacemakcr, and the
maker of sunshine as we'll, for we cannot
look into her face, pale with suffering,
yet bright with patient cheerfulness, and
wear clouds upon our own.


"You cannot wish her to live" said a
friend to me the other day. Not for her
sake would I have her live, though the
world is so beautiful, but how could we
spare her? Who would teach US as she
does, lessons of smiling recognition, OF
Year: 1875

in itself, it can in several ways be made a
quick and easy operation; but when there
arc half dozen or more very much soil
ed harvest shirts to wash, and other
things IN proportion, for one think that
the farmers wives and daughters, equally
with the farmers, need the assistance Of
the horse in their extra labor, when they
can possibly have it. Women especially
arc not educated to the idea that very Sc.
we're labor needs some other power than
human muscle to completely alleviate the
Ir1,1 rprv
Year: 1875

There is nothing in this world that in
sures success so completely as does per
feet independence. People who are al
ways waiting for help may wait long
time as a general thing; little assistance,
little accommodation, a little influ
cnce, is not to be had for asking, but
there is always something one can do for
himself. Do it, whatever 1t is, and do it
with . will. One thing leads to anoth-
er.


If you area girl, don't sit still and hope
rich man will marry you, while your
old father tolls for your daily bread.
Make dresses, or go into q store, or-if
you know how to be a good scrvant--in-
to some ones kitchen. Good, honest
pluck and sensible independence are a
dover III themselves, and there arc men
who know it.


Ifyour means place you beyond SUCH
need, be independent in another way.
Learn how to help yourself, and take
care Of yourself as much as possible.
ilatilcr be one who does things for others
! than be one who must have things done
for you or suffer Two hands, two feet,
sight and streng g;h-these ought to ena-
ble you to dispense with help while you
! arc young and healthy.


like men who can defy adverse cir
cumstances, and could earn a living in
| any quarter Of the world in which they
were dropped down; who can roll UP
their sleeves and set to work at almost
anything that offers, and who can even
sew on their own buttons and make them
selves Il cup Of tea when deprived Of the
help Of womankind.


! like women who are not annihilatcd
! when the girl goes off i'll a huff; who
could preside at the White House or scrub
the kitchen floor, if either unpleasant et-
fort were necessary; who are not afraid
TO travel few miles alone, and who can
split kindling wood and u2cork a bottle
with the scissors, if nothing better is at


hand; and vino, moreover, il plunged


into the depths Of poverty, would fight


their own way cat Gift, asking help oi no


man.


Independence makes no woman less
/ loving. The most helpful wolncn are


Condest and truest, I think; and as for u


man, never trust him in any capacity if


he has not the true spirit Of indepcnd-





sweetness may be hoped Tor.


In the battle OF lie there is but one


way to succeed yht it out for yourself
Give the helping hand when you may.


Take it if i'll some sore straight it is offer


ed freely but never ask for it, never wait
for it.; be Independent as far as may be,
you would honor yourself, or be honor
cd by others, or be happy.


MAEY KYLE DALLAS.
Year: 1875

nerve more tightly strung; a pulse more
lightly quickcned; and the boasted self.
control is lost. A difference so slight it
can: hardly be computed; and yet upon it
hangs the destiny Of millions. 1t may


be, my reader, that you are of the few who
can put aside the cup with its contents
only tasted; but the odds arc fearfully
against you in such a trial. DO not make
it. The risk is too great. Do not take it.
Year: 1875

How TO Cur Your NAILs.-The cause
of nails, either on the fingers or toes, grow
ing into the flesh is that the nails are cut
toward the flesh instead of from it. To
pare the nail, cut from the corner to the
center Of it; and if any ingrowth has al
ready begun cut the center of the nail
little hollow. BY this means nature hast. :
ems to fill the vacant space, and the
growth is Immediately directed from tho
flesh, and in short time the nail will as
sumo much better form, growing from,
instead of into the flesh. The nursery
man in pruning trees always cuts outward.
never inward otherwise he would make:
q shapeless, Improbable tree.
Year: 1875

WASHING BY HORSE EPOwER.-A Farm
cr's Daughter" writing. to the Country
Gentleman, says Of particular washing
machine What we like best about it, is
that in summer, when our washings are
very large we can attach it to our little
churn power, and have horse to do all
the severe labor of the washing-a wiring
er being combined, and operated with the
some handle or belt that moves the wash
ing machine. When tho washing is light
Year: 1875

ooh, he'is good fellow enough, but


he's tied to his mothers apron-string"
We heard the remark the other day
spoken in Il contemptuous tone by a
Young blood with a cigar between his
lips, lnsy cane in his kid.glovcd
hand, a fifty dollar coat on his back, in


the pocket Of which, doubtless, there
| were plenty Of "dunners" from his tailor,
boct-malzer and wasi,crwoman.
This same young man is in the habit Of
| calling his mother the old woman,' and
his father the ''governor" and his cstima-
ble un married sister the ''old gal;' and


the young man Of whom he spoke was


one who had just come into town to re-
side, accompanied by his mother, to


whom he was devoted and affcctionatc
son.


Tiled to his mothers apron-strings,
eh?


Well, what does that expression gcncr-
ally mean when applied to a young man?
Why, it means just about this-that the
young man Of whom shallow Drained
fops and Anticipated sports speak thus
disparagingly is one who docs not smoke,
chew, drink, nor swear-cne who has not
forgotten that God once gave for all time
a command which reads: "Honor thy
father and thy mother, that thy days may
be long in the land pit means that he
! IS one whom virtuous men will respect,
whom refined society will welcome to its
ranks, whom good women and pure girls
will receive into their homes with pleas
urc, and whom his wife, when he gets
one, will respect and love next to her
Creator.


1t is quite too much the custom nova
days to sncer at parental authority and to
disregard the advice and admonition Of
our elders. Old age is no longer revor.
cnced; it is ridiculcd instead.
1t is quite the fashion for young men
to speak slightingly to the mothers who
bore them and nursed them through the
troublesome. tiresome season of boyhood.
1t is the fashion 10 disregard the advice
Of tie mother, to cut loose from her in
fluence, to go it alone" after the man.
ner Of other reckless young men, and it
is quite as much the fashion for these
same independent youth to bring up iii
the prison or on the gaIlows as anywhere
else. And, young ladies, our word for it,
the man who Hl-trcats his mother will
never transform himself into IN affection
ate and agreeable 1T is
impossible!


There is an old provcrb to the effect
that the boy who is kind to the cat and
his mother will he good to his wife, and
we have observed that the saying is found.
ed in truth.


The young man who is disrespectful to
his mother and who does not seek to
make her declining yearshappy will tyr
annie over his wife (unless, perchance,
he shall marry a woman who has the
Year: 1875

In the recent elections the people have de-
clared In favor of honesty in politics and in
dependence in journalism. The TRIBUNE
which years ago declared that it was not and
never would be party organ, claims the YER
dict, as the popular vindication of it's course
people for reform and integrity in govern
meDt, for candor and independence among
newspapers. During the campaign which has
just closed THE TRIBUNE has fully maintained
its right to the title of Leading American
Newspaper. This position it has earned and
retains for the following, among other reas-



1t publishes all the news earlier, more full
ly, and more intelligently than any other pa
per.


1t insists on peace throughout the whole
country, the right of local self-government,
and the protection of all classes in the exer-
else of their just and legal rights.


1t advocates confidence and good feeling be-
tween North and South, and labors for an
honest and abiding reconciliation.


1t maintains fairness and candor toward all
public men and questions, and dignity and
courtesy towards associates and rivals.


1t publishes scientific news reports, discuss
siOns and discoveries to a decree of fulness
and accuracy never before attained by any
paper


It gives every week ten or more columns of
the most carefully prepared agricultural mat
ter during the year, much more in the aggre-
gate than the entire contents of any other ag-
ricultural publication, and the whole forming
a department of which an eminent agriculture
al editor said ut has done more to make
good farmers than any other influence which
ever existed"


1t has published series of scientific and
literary extracts which have met q wider sale
and more emphatic popular approval than any
similar publication of the kind
Year: 1875

newly-married young couple, just about


taking and furnishing house, anticipate a


great deal of pleasure in the choice and selec.
ton of their furniture, carpets, paper-hang-
ings, Sc. Both being persons of good taste,


they never for one moment imagine that any


thing but the most complete success will crown


their choice; but it very often happens that


the carpet which looked very handsome in the
shop is of much too large pattern for small
room, and the paper which seemed very bright


when exposed to view in the rear room. lighted


from the top Of the paper-haLger's store, has q
dark, not to say dingy appearance when
placed upon the walls. So with the furniture
coverings. So with almost every article of fur
nture. 1t requires person with a very ex-
perienced eye to imagine the difference between


the look of things in shop and their appear
ance when put in house.


1t has become the fashion lately to adopt un.
covered oak hoors and they are very nice in


sitting-rooms if they are kept thoroughly pol
ished; and if there are several handsome mats


and rugs about there need be no regular carpet


put down in summer. A carpet in winter is
warmer and more snug, but margin might be


left all round the edges of the room of polished
oak.


dining-room is very handsome papered
with dark crimson green flock, with rep
curtains to match, with Grecian border in red


or green and gold silk. A Turkey carpet is al
ways incest but any carpet of rich dark hues
and quiet pattern is suitable The prettiest
wallpapers for drawing rooms are those with
very pale gray or buff grounds. with gold stars
or .feur de lys on them. For bedroom papeis


none can be prettier than French gray or neu-
tral-tinted grounds, with elegant trails or sprays
of flowers and groups of many-colored birds all
over them. Curtains of cretonne to match
look best, though some prefer contrast Car
pets for bedrooms should always be of small
pattern, and there should never be lack of
comfortable easy chairs and sofas.
Year: 1875

IT is declared in the Daily Telegraph, the
great peoples penny paper of London, that
a crisis is coming on in the iron trade of Eng
land which will cause general stoppage Of
mining operations; that one great company
in the North has closed all contracts and dis
missed all hands; that one-half of the pud-
ding works in the northern counties of Eng
land have stopped or given notice, and that
the remainder are working without profits.
As certain result, this reacts on the coal
owners, in consequence of the diminished
demand for and consumption of their prod
uct, and there is a general threat Of a reduc-
ton of so per cent. in miners wages, which
the men will almost certainly resist by gen.
eral strike. At this season of the year, and
with the prospects of long and severe
winter-which, according to English expert
ence, always follows flooded autumn-this
is most unpromising prospect. The decay
of any one great trade causes serious injury
to many others.
Year: 1875

In accordance with revered custom, and in con-
formity with the recommendation of the President
the United States, do hereby with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council, appoint THURS
DAY, the 25th of November, instant, a day OF
Thanksgiving and Praise to Almighty God for the
mercies and blessings of another year.


And earnestly request all the people of this
State to abstain from their usual secular employ
ments, and appropriately observe day hallowed by
so precious memories, and set apart for SO exalted
purpose. Let all the people give thanks in the sane
tuary rejoice and not withhold praise in their homes
and by cheerful deeds of hospitality and charity,
commemorate the loving kindness which the Heaven
ly Father has shown them in all the relations of life
Given at the Council Chamber, this first day Of


November, in the year of our Lord one thousand


eight hundred and venty-fve, and of the inde-


pendence Of the United States of America the


one hundredth.


NELSON DINGLEY, JR.
BY the Governor


SIDNEY PERHAM, Secretary of State.
Year: 1875

The Sanitary Inspector of Glasgow has
found that the yellow toy balloons sold to
children are poisonous. He says that the
coloring matter consists of one part chromate
of lead and three parts of carbonate of lime
Children, being in the habit of applying their
mouths to the orifce of these balloons for the
purpose of filing them with air, may readily
receive quantity of such poisonous powder
into their mouths,
Year: 1875

THE appointment of Hon. VIM. G. Mar
shall to the important position of Collector
Of Customs at Belfast is one of the best ever
made in Maine. Mr.. Marshall is well known
in the state as gentleman of cultivation, in
tegrity and ability. He represents the sound
business element, and his selection is an indi-
cation that the public sentiment in favor of
first class men for places of public trust is
likely to be gratified in Maine. We con-
gratulate Mr.. Hale en- his fortunate selection ;
as we presume this appointment has been
made on his recommendation,
Year: 1875

tramps are enough TO excite the liveliest
apprehensions, and the Columbus conven-
ton will be awaited with general interest in
the hope that something practical may be
suggested from the experience Of the entire
state to meet this serious and increasing evil
Year: 1875

The Cook Excursion Company of England,
have made arrangements on colossal scale for
English people alone They have chartered
seven steamers to bring the excursonists to
America, aud have made arrangements to
leave them a certain time at the Centennial,
after which they will divide into two routes,
one to proceed through the country to San
Francisco and the other to New Orleans.
Year: 1875

The tramp nuisance is so greatly on the
increase in Ohio, and has become so formid-
able that state convention has been called
to meet at Columbus on the eighth of next
month to devise some means of relief. The
farmers and those who live in small isolated
villages and hamlets are particularly inter-
ested in this move. The crimes which for
the last six months have been traced directly
to wandering vagabonds calling themselves
Year: 1875

THE Tribune admits that the Republicans
have improved both the prospects and the
merits OF their party within the past year,
and that the Democrats have managed to re-
vive all the old distrust in their party. "In
this state of things" says the Tribune, ''it is
clear that the Republicans can win the next
Presidential election if they will only con-
tinue to deserve it, The people who have
given them one victory after another and
have kept tho party in power for fourteen
years will be only too glad to find themselves
justified in sustaining it again.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1875

THE Committee appointed by the New Or
leans indignation meeting to demand the resig
nation Of the Pinchback School Board, which
established the mixed schools, have resigned.
In published card, in which they recon-
NIT the whole matter to the people,
the members of the Committee state as
their reason for resigning that the State Su.
perintendent of Schools invited them to ap-
pear before the State Board and produce the
evidence in support of the charges by them
made against members of the New Orleans
Board. TIE be asked to prove what they had
charged was all too much for the indignant
members of the Indignation Committee, and
they incontinently resigned.
Year: 1875

PRED REDEsTINATION.-Nothin Is more use
full for men who are educating themselves,
nothing more profitable for theological
study, than to endeavor TO find oul what is
the truth that lies at the bottom of doc
trines in opinions with which, as common
ly expressed, we feel ourselves constrained
to disagree. Such is the case with the doc
trine of predestinaLiOn, which is at the
root of all that is peculiar in what we call
Calvinism. There has been so much ex-
aggeralion, so much folly talked concern
ing il that we are sometimes inclined to
think It thing altogether passed by. But
the Luth itself which it was intended TO
convey is one which will never be altogelh-
or put out of the world. 1t is, that there is
an overrullng providence which guides our
steps in life without our perceiving it-that
there is a power greater than ourselves,
without which we cannot move or act that
this providence leads US through mysteri-
Gus paths TO our very highest good that
whatever we have good or excellent in our
selves or others comes from this higher
power. This is the true doctrine of predes-
tination-a doctrine which many think
mere iatalism, but which IN itselfis perfect
ly certain and most important; and the
merit OF Calvin is, that though he may
have pushed it to excess, yet he helped to
preserve 1t in the world and hand 1t on to
us. We might remember that great wri-
ter of our own time as unlike Calvin as it
is possible TO conceive, has recorded SOL
EMMY that this doctrine Of predestination,
so understood, was in his judgment un-
queslionably and indspensably necessary.
He meant Thomas Carlyle. When in his
history OF Frederick the Great he said this
he meant, and at the bottom of his heart
Calvin also meant 10 tell us that We are
each aud all of us instruments in the hands
of the supreme government for working
out his wlll-links in the chain of long
enduring providence, with a work before
us TO do, for the sake OF doing which each
one Of us is sent into the world.-DeaH
stanley.
Year: 1875

Apparently the better part of our history in
regard to horses is in the future; for although
the past has its glories, and bright ones too,
their full splendor is dimmed by relation
with many facts not altogether satisfactory;
and at their best these glories were in great
degree local, while the turf promises in the
future to have with us the greater strength of
a national interest and q national TASTE
There is an undoubted progress year by year.
There are more races they are better man
aged and excite constantly greater interest;
they are better attended and by people that
formerly neglected this pastime altogether;
there are more millions in it" and there is
more taste for it than there ever was before;
and the effect on the breed Of horses is very
great. Indeed, the time is not far away
when our stables will turn out the best
horses in the world, and England will send
here for good blood in the equine race as she
now does for fresh blood in the finer strains
of horned cattle. This will be mainly con-
sequence of natural facts, which the horse
breeders will utilize. In England, the horse
left to himself would become extinct in this
country, left to himself he would thrive and
improve; for his natural habitat is a land of
great plains with a dry continental climate
and the damp climate Of England induces in
the horse the same diseases of the respiratory
organs of which it is so fruitful in man. In
England, however, all animals increase in
bone and muscle; and this popularity of his
English home has given the thoroughbred
his splendid frame and size. Placed in
climate such as ours, where he retains these
and breathes an air almost as fine as that he
breathed on his native plains, he must reach
perfection that may now seem only ideal;
and this is the immediate tendency and must
be the ultimate result of the extensive intro
duction here of the best blood from British
stables.
Year: 1875

RAPID TRANSIT is too important measure
to be hindered by any action Of the Common
Council. If the questions suggested by the
resolution of Alderman Gross arise at all
they must be settled in the courts; and it is
almost ON impertinence in the Board to con-
slider them in the present state of affairs.
What we expect just now is that the Rapid
Transit Commission shall designate the line
Of the proposed railway, and if this is done
within the time required by the statute the
principal difficulty in the way, whether it is
legal or constitutional, will have been met
and determined
Year: 1875

WAR IN COLOMBIA. As we anticipated some
DAYS ago, the troubles between the State Of
Panama and the United States Of Colombia
have resulted in declaration Of war against
the Republic Fortunately, we are able to
print simultaneously with the announce
ment Of this declaration on the part of
Panama history and analysis of the mis-
understandings between the State and the
general government. The story will be read
with interest, notwithstanding the resort to
arms is q common device in the South Amer
lean republics