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Year: 1871

As singing after silence is, or sun is after rain,
so may the lesson be that tells the bessedness Of
pain.
For only at the ending of the journes lies the ero~n
And none all itsIlight but they who on its light


look down.
Life's labor is never won, until it first be lost;
As priceless things most priceless are when bought


at priceless cost.
The sorrow and the SHINING that are Ger shall be


the way
That leads US from darkened past into bright


ening day.
Though still, as in the past, the night must come


before the morn,
The loest loves in sorrow still must deepest down
+ be born.
Not all on page ofsparchment, monumental


stone,
The records have been craven that the universe


hath known:
God still is writing gospels IN the lives of those that


sin;
Fen Gwhile their hearts refuse to let the gravers


chsel in.
Though all have sinned, and stm they sin, it shall


not be in vain
That any human heart has drunk the dregs Of hu-


pain,
or not the sky of life is dark with clouds of


woe,
While all misty mountain-tops clad in track


less snow;
The light shall shine out brighter, when last it


flashes through;
And evermore the old shall be the pathway of the


new.
Year: 1871

Those persons in cities whose occupation
confines them to the house the greater part
of the time, when walking out should al
ways keep on the sunny side of the street.
| Food can make US cosmopolitan. Eat
fish with the Feejee, sour milk with the
Tartar, or tallow with the Esqulmaux, and
with the aid of intellect you may beat
each upon his own and his fathers ground.
No apparatus is at all equal to the uni
versal diffusion of inner warmth which
Matchmaking food produces. Stoves will
warm US in warm climates, but fire was
not used by DR.. Hayes in that ice desert,
thousand miles beyond any permanent
dwelling place, in that wonderful march
which will one day get into mythology as
a thirteenth labor of Hercules.


The habit to which persons generally
are most prone Is to bend forward when
walking. This has not only bad effect
upon the health, but detracts from the ap-
pearance The natural position of a man
is an erect one, and any deviation there
from is sure to be punished by nature, who
will not have her laws transgressed. To
maintain or regain an erect position is very
easily accomplished, by keeping the eyes
fixed on some elevated object when walk
ing, and not allow the gaze to be turned
downward.


All consumptive people, and all afflicted
with spinal deformities, sit habitually
crooked, in one or more curves of the
body. There was time In all these when
the body had its natural erectRess, when
there was not the first departure on the
road to death The make of our chairs,
especially that great barbarism, the un-
wieldy and disease engendering rocking
chair, favors these diseases, and undoubt-
edly, in some instances, leads to bodily
habits from which originate the ailments
Just named.


Brain workers of all classes especially
need to study the art of breathing. Amid
the rush and whirl of our nervous civiliz-
alton we are often in danger of starving,
not for want of food, but for want of oxy-
gen. To breathe well and plentifully,
under our artificial system of life, requires
special study and attention, Just as much
as it does to eat well and abundantly. In
order to breathe well there is need of good
lungs and a general vigorous condition.
This can only be maintained by activity of
mind as well as of body, by resting the
faculties through variations of employ
ment, by abundance of sleep and food,
superadded to faithful and joyous cuiti-
walton of the moral nature.


Potatoes, turnips, carrots, etc., are not
only less digestible than fresh beef and
mutton, but they are also less nutritious.
They lipger longer on the stomach, and
being composed mostly of water, give less
nutriment to the system. Therefore, many
who cannot digest vegetables at all, can
eat with relish and assimilate beefsteak,
mutton, lamb, chicken, turkey, ETC., with
out difficulty Chronic invalids and dys-
peptics should, as a rule. eat largely of
fresh fish and meat, and very moderately
of vegetables.
Year: 1871

Some time ago we read OF an incident
/ that will serve as an illustration of this
/ beautiful law. 1t was substantially to
this effect. A poor, coarse-teatured old
woman lived on the line of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railway, where 1t passes through
wild, unpeopled district of Western Vir-
ginia. She was a widow, with only one
daughter, living with her in log hut,
near a deep precipitous gorge, crossed by
| the railway bridge Here she contrived to
support herself and daughter by raising and
selling poultry and eggs, adding berries -
their season, and other little articles for
the market She had to take a long
weary walk of many miles, to town
where she could sell her basket of produce.
The railway passed by her cabin to this
town but the ride would cost too much
OF the profits of her small sales, so she
trudged on generally to the market on foot
The conductor came finally to notice her
walking by the side of the line or between
the rails; and being a good-natured, be-
nevolent man, he would often give her a
ride to and fro without charge. The en-
ginemen and brakemen were also good to
the old woman, and felt they were not
wronging the interests of the railway COM
pany by giving her these free rides. And
soon an accident occurred that proved that
they were quite right in this view of the
matter.


In the wild month of March, the rain
descended and the mountains sent down
their rolling, roaring torrents of melted
snow and ice into this gorge near the old
woman's hut The flood arose with the
darkness of the night, until she heard the
crash Of the railway bridge as it was
swept from It's abutments, and dashed its
broken timbers against the craggy sides of
the precipice on either side. 1t was near
ly midnight. The rain fell in a food, and
the darkness was deep and bowling with
the storm In another half hour the ex-
press train would be due. What could
She do to warn it against the awful des-
struction it was approaching She had
hardly whole tallow candle in her house );
and no light she could make of tallow or
oil, if she had it, would live moment in
that tempest of wind and rain. Not a
moment was to be lost and her thought
was equal to the moment She cut the cord
off her only bedstead, and shouldered the
dry posts, side pieces, and head pieces.
Her daughter followed her with her two
wooden chairs. Up the steep embankment
they climbed, and piled all their house
1 hold furniture upon line, few rods be-
/ fore the black, awful chasm, gurgling with
the roaring food. The distant rumbling
of the train came upon them Just as they
had fired the we'll dried combustibles The
pile blazed up into the night, throwing its
red, swelling, booming light long way
up the track. In fifteen minutes it would
begin to wane, and she could not revive il
with green wet wood.


The thunder of the train grew louder


1t was within five miles of the fire. Would


they see it in time ? They might not put


on the brakes soon enough. Awful thought!


She tore her red flannel gown from her in


a moment, and, tying it on the end of a


stick, ran up the track, waving it in both


hands, while her daughter swung round her


head blazing chair-post, little before
Year: 1871

Curing OFF THE WRONG HEAD.-An
old farmer was out one day looking over
his broad acres, with an axe on his shoul-
der and small dog at his heels. They
espied woodchuck The dog gave chase
and drove him into a stone wall, where
action Immediately commenced. The dog
would draw the woodchuck partly out
from the wall, and the woodchuek would
take the dog back. The old gent eman' s
sympathy getting high on the side of the
dog, thought he must help him. So put
himself in position with axe above the dog
waited for the extraction of the wood
chuck, when he would cut him down. So
an opportunity offered and the old man
struck, but the woodchuck gathered up at
the same time, took the dog in far enough
to receive the blow, and the dog was kill
ed on the spot. For years after, the old
gentleman in relating the story would al
ways add: And the dog don't know to
this day but what the woodchuck killed
him
Year: 1871

One evening, after our rubber, L said to
the General, There is one question have
often wished to ask you, but have been
restrained by the fear that it might be i'm
proper The General drew himself up
and said, in his emphatic manner, Sir,
you are incapable Of asking an improper
question said, you are very kind
but if my inquiry is very indiscreet, | an
snre you will allow it to pass unanswered.


L hear you, sir, he replied. Well
Year: 1871

How To BE NoBoDY.-It is easy to be
nobody, and we will tell you how to do it.
Go to the drinking saloon to spend yonr
leisure time. You need not drink much
now; Just a little beer or some other drink.
In the meantime play dominoes, checkers,
or something else to kill the time, so that
you will be sure not to read any useful
beck. If you do read, let it be the dime
novels of the day. Thus go on, keeping
your stomach full and your head empty,
and yourself playing time-killing games
and in few years you'll be nobody, unless
as is quite linely, you should turn out
drunkard or professional gambler, other
Of which is worse than a nobody.
Year: 1871

that


"Whstling girls and Growing hens


Always come to some bad ends'


But, notwithstanding the old preverb,
a writer steps forward to defend the whist
ling girls in their independence Show me
the girl who has the hardihood to whistle
in these days, when everything natural,
even the hair of your head, is at discount,
and I'll show you girl who can be de-
pended upon, one who will not fail you in
time of need, and will give you the hearty
grasp, the hand-shake, the warm, genuine
welcome no tip of the kid glove, and
cold how-do-you-do; who can brave dan
ger, look toll in the face without shrinking
laugh with those that weep, as well as
whistle with those that whistle whe can,
in short, take the world as she finds it.
rough and rugged, not 60 through life as
though she was walking on eggs, and afrad
of cracking a shell who deals in sub
stance, not shadow
Year: 1871

In a speech of Mr. George Potter. of
London, at Oldham, be touched the short
time subject in these words:


He thought the hours of labor in
England were sadly too long, and longer
than was necessary for the advantage OF
lbe country. Long hours Of labor were
curse to any country where adopted.
They physically degraded man, made
him Q dwarf in intellect, put him in q
premature grave, and left bis wife and
children to become paupers on the parish
They we're tie fruitful source of many
evils. Twelve or thirteen hours Of daily
physical labor was more than the human
system conld berr; over work ruined the
health, cnI pied the body, stunted the
mind, gave 10 time for culture, no oppOr-
tunity Tor reading, study, or mental In


rovement An over taxed system craved
70 st mulants, which ops ned the door for
other indulgences from which flowed not
only the degenerscies Of individuals, but
even of nation and a race Reduce
the bours and they would soon see a
change give the working classes time for
improy' ment, selfcuture and recreation,
and the result would soon follow make
labor tolerable and it would then be honor
able. Labor was degraded by ignorance,
and elevsted by intelligence t. drgni y
work they must dignity the worker. He
claimed, therefore, some hours rest from
their mental. moral and intellectual rea-
sons, and also from the glorious introduc-
ton Of machinery. At present more work
could be performed IN England in onc
month than could formerly be done in
Twelve. If all mauipuIative power were
called into action we could stock he world
for five years in less than twelve months
This Introduction OF machinery ought to
shorten the hours Of labor, and if it was
TO be OF any benefit to the working classes
It must be in that respect"
Year: 1871

NSHeSaPs ASi l11Wt


The alarming outrage recently com.
mitted at New Orleans by President
Grant, through his brother.in-law and
his other ofiicoholders, though exceed.
ing in audacity and in its menace to
liberty everything before attempted
in this country, is, after all, entirely
in harmony with the general conduct
of Grant since his accession to the
Presidency.


The predominant characteristic of
his Administration from the beginning
until now is contempt of law.


Immediately after the inauguration,
Gen. Grant appointed Adolphe Borie
of Philadelphia to thcnominai position
Of Secretary of the Navy, at the same
time assigning his own personal ia.
vorite, Admiral David ID. Porter, to
perform the real duties of the Office
This involved both imposture and
asurpation. The President had no
right whatever to intrust any naval
officer with the power and authority
of Secretary of the Navy. The act
was one of contempt for law upon
great scale; and it was perseverod in
until Mr.. Borie, who has some sens
tiveness, could bear it no longer.
Another act, notorious then and
since, in which Grants contempt for
law has been manifested, is the ap-
pointed Of Augustus G. Ford as Asses.
sor ofInternal Revenue in the Eighth
District Of this city. Ford was an
old crony of Gen. Grants, the Ford
family having been connected with
the Grant family in various ways
The law requires that every Assessor
of Internal Revenue must live in the
district where his office is; but Grant
appointed Ford, although he knew at
the time that he lived in Brooklyn /;
and though Ford still lives there, he
is continued in Office.


Another unblushing outrage upon
the law is Grants maintenance of a
military court at the White House,
The law provides that no military
officer shall be attached TO the house
hold of the President. and expressly
forbids any such officer TO perform the
functions of any civil post Never.
theloss. President Grant has from the
first kept about his person three or
four generals and colonels. giving the
mansion Of the Chief Magistrate the
appearance of a military hendauarters
This also has involved imposturc as
well as a violation of law. These
officers are sent to Congress with
messages from the President. and in
the official journal in which the pro.
ceedings of Congress are published
they are spoken Of, without their mil
itary titles, as private secretaries of
the President, when all the while il
is notorious that they are officers of
the army detailed from their proper
duties to swell the court and perform
tho private behests of the ruler. Had
Andrew johnson committed any such
violation of law, his conviction in the
impeachment trial would have been
certain, and the whole country would
have acquiesced in its Justice.


A still more giaring violation of law
is Grants interference in The civil war
in San Domingo. Without any au.
thOrity whatever, he has directed the
Year: 1871

A man ought to be saved as n young
tree is saved, being rooted and ground.
cd and fitted up by each years increase,
stretching out hands to heaven, and
gaining strength with stature, to stand
against tho blasts, TO defy the frosts,
and hail the returning Spring With
bud and blossom, fragrance and fruit.
If some such progress Of growth be
not possible then the days Of active,
aggressive piety are already numbered.
Year: 1871

DYlNo.--There is II dignity in going
away alonc which wo call dying
that wrapping of the mantle of i'm
mortality about us; that putting aside
with q pale hand the azure curtains
that are drawn around this cradle Of a
world; that venturing away from
home for the first time in our lives,
for we arc dead, and sccirg foreign
countries not laid down on any maps
wo have read about. There must be
lovely lands somewhere starward, for
none ever return who 90 thither, and
wo very much doubt If any would if
they could.
Year: 1871

Reasoning against a prejudice is like
fighting against shadow; IL exhausts
the reasoner without visibly affecting
tho prejudice. Argument cannot do
the work of instruction any moro than
blows can take tho place of sunlight.
Year: 1871

A good book and a good woman arc
excellent things for those who know
how justly to appreciate their value.
There are men, however, who judge OF
both from tho beauty Of the covering.
Year: 1871

1t is said that homicide is a
rare circumstance among the
Turks. and that no murderer is
ever put to death except upon
full personal confession of his
crime; otherwise he is held 70
perpetual imprisonment. 1t is
rot a very great country fol
criminal lawyers, and still
worse for the whisky trade
The Turks are a very well-be,
haved, easygoing sort of peo'
pie, and in this respect set the
Christian world an illustrious
example.
Year: 1871

have not found her, but know


That somewhere on the fruitful earth
The stars of love and joy have sung


Their welcome to her happy birth.
have not found her, yet know


How year by year the gentle days
Have led her up, through light and shade,
The lovely heights of woman ways.
| dream her eyes are softly dark,


But whether dark or heavenly blue.
know the light within them is


Mylifes Norch Star-so bright and true
dream her mouth is ssweetly proud,


Reticsnt-sirce it waits for me;
And round her brow her brown aair lies,
In perfumed wavelets, light and free
Of voice, and hand, and light step,


The blissful kisses of her mouth,
dream-as one who. winter bound,


Dreams ever of the radiant South.
have not found her; yet / shall,


Though fate seem coldly to defer;
She is my own, and will keep


Ny life all pure and true for her.
Year: 1871

A dog, says a morning pa
per, bit the proprietor of a
store in Huntington, Loug
Island then fell down in a fit.
The dog only was shot. Peo-
pie who carry poison about on
their bones in this way, ought
to be taken care of.
Year: 1871

There is a dress question in
which all Christian congrega-
tions have a common interest,
and with regard to which we
wish they might all unite to
effect a reform. 1t has refer
ence to the ordinary apparel
female apparel, especially
proper to wear at church.
There was time when good
taste demanded the use of the
plainest clothes in the sanctua-
ry, when the wealthies were
distinguished for the conspicu-
Gus absence Of personal adorn-
ment, and sartorial display
was a mark Of vulgarity,. at
such times and places. But
nowadays, in the congrega-
ton, on the Sabbath, rich and
poor alike seems on a desper-
ate strain, the one to make


some faint approximation to
the other in point Of extrava-
giant display, and the other to
demonstrate to the one the ut
ter hopeleSSneSS Of the attempt.
1t would almost appear as if.
whatever might be thought OF
the prepriety of a modest garb
in other places, the proper COS
tune for the house Of God,
where, theoretically, we all go
to be reminded of our common
origin and destiny, were an
agglomeration of the jewelry,
and all the panniers, and all
the feathers and furbelows in
ones wardrobe. The weareI
is to carry all this piled agony
to the sanctuary as to fair
as if her errand were not Sc
much to praise as to be appraiS,
ed-and there employ the sa,
cred time in envious compari-
son of her own mountain OF
millinery with the Himalays
triumphs of her neighbor
Shall we ever get back to the
standard of good taste and un,
obtrusive piety in this? Viii


not all good Christian people
especially those whose wealtl
and refinement make them the
proper and only efficient lead


ers in such a reform-will mo-
the pulpit of every cburh ant
of every sect unite in the effor'
to effect it?-lSoutherS Time


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Year: 1871

distributed among the political
bummerS as a gratuity.


To show the facilities the
Radicals possess for raising
large sums Of money by black.
mailing office.holders, we need
only refer to the fact that last
year their Executive Commit
tee was furnished with more
more money than they could
use. Their Committee treas
ury was running over with
greeubacks plundered from
clerks and other Government
employees. When the campaign
closed there was over thous.
and dollars unexpended in the
hands of the Committee, and
this was voted as a gratuity to
Mr.. r. A. Harrison, its Chair
man, we suppose for his eff.
cheney in promoting civil serv.
ice reform by bleeding Office
holders.


We mention these facts for
the benefit of our friends
throughout the State, that they
may know the corruption they
will have to encounter. We
can not meet it by like expen-
ditures, even if so disposed, for
our Committee has but little
money for even the legitimate
expenses of the canvass. We
have no clerks to black. mail,
and no officials gorged with
public plunder to draw upon.
There is but one way to meet
the corruptionists, and that is,
for every Democrat to enter
upon the work of the canvass
with his whole heart and soul.


If that is done, Democratic en-.
thusiasm and zeal will prove


more than a match for Radical
stealings, and we will carry


the State.
Year: 1871

Ifit weren't for the Radical
party there would have been
no rebellion.


If there had been no Radi-
cal party many noble men who
now sleep in unknown graves
would be acting their parts in
the drama of life.


If there had been no Radi-
cal party the nation would not
now be groaning under griev-
GUS taxation and heavy debt.
If it had not been for the Dis.
union Radical party, the vast
substance of this nation, wasted
in four years war, would yet
have been n part Of the wealth
Of the land.


If it had not been for the
Radical party there would have
been no riot in New York.
Year: 1871

The Coshocton Democrat and
the Macarthur Enquirer con-
tain editorial articles concern
ing the proposed call of Con-
vention to amend the State
Constitution. Neither of these
papers has yet seen any sutfi-
cient reason for holding such a
convention, and they therefore
decline to favor it until the
advocates of the measure show
that it is needed. This is right.
The expense of a convention
would be more than that of Il
State Legislature, and there is
no knowing but the Constitu.
tion would be damaged instead
of improved by the changes
If there is a general demand in
the public mind for any partic.
ular amendment, let it be nam
ed (; and when the Legislature
meets it can submit it to a vote
Of the people. This is a cheap,
er and more direct way Of ma,
king change in an instrument,
which, as a whole, is not the
subject of complaint.-[New-
ark Advocate.
Year: 1871

In 1910 the Democratic par
ty was accused by its political
opponents with an intention to
reduce the workingman's wa
ges down to what was then
represented as the pauper la
Dor of Europe. 1t was asser.
ted in every imaginable form
that the Democratic party
would, if successful, crush out
prosperity and fill the land with
wailing and lamentation, be.
cause, it was asserted, it was in
favor of a money system that
would render the country mon,
eyless. Now it is claimed that
the Democracy Of lOhio are in
favor of q money system that
will make money too plenty,
and initiate prices and enter.
prise. 1t seems difficult for
the Democratic party to satisfy
the Opposition, no matter what
attitude it may assume. The
farmer, the laboring man, the
mechanic, the merchant and
the man of enterprise, we take
it, could stand a little more
money than they are now in
the habit of getting.-[Wayne
County Democrat.
Year: 1871

The Columbus and Hooking
Valley Railroad Company are
now using the patent air break
on all their passenger trains


By use Of this break the engin,
eer can stop a train under full
headway, in one half the time
occupied in the old way. 1t
dispenses entirely with break
men, the whole thing being un.
der control of the engineer. oo.