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Year: 1875

There is altogether too much
marrying by form of law; those who
at the most, are only a third or half
married in other ways. And there
is altogether too much urging and
cOaXing, and alluring young people
into the most important and sacred
of all human relations before they
are prepared or moved to assume
it's burdens, and by those who
ought to know better and act with
more consideration. We make too
much of marrying and being
married, until it is thought by
many people somewhat OF a
disgrace for woman to pass
through life single; when in
fact, the life of many a single wO-
man is poetry, romance, rapture
even, in comparison with that OF
many a wife. So there is a vast
deal of discomfort, heartache, mis-
cry, hypocrisy and unmarrying at
the last What we want is not a
more stringent divorce law, but a
better understanding of the moral
law which fOrbids the marriage of
those not already one; not less mar
ryiug, but less marrying where
there is no real marrying. And
above all, let there be no inciting
or bribing those to marry who are
not drawn to each other, and held
inseparably together by qualities OF
mind and soul.
Year: 1875

The Salt Lake (Utah) Herald,
which always speaks a good word
for Brigham Young, and is really
an organ of the Mormon church,
takes this view of the recent noun
tain Meadow massacre trial at
Beaver, which is interesting as ex-
pressing the Mormon estimate of
the proceedings:


Bloody as the crime was, and
guilty as Lee may have been, the
prosecution did not desire his con-
viction, and while they labored,
hard to bring out all the testimony
possible to find, they worked with
quite as much energy and skill to
avoid a verdict of guilty. As evi-
dence of this fact, we cite the reader
to Mr.. Easkin's argument to the
jury, which plainly indicates that ii
is not particularly John d. Lee that
is desired to punish, nor is it SO
much the bringing to justice of the
blOodstained particIpators in the
foul massacre. The great object to
be achieved is the crushing out of an
entire community, and the placing
Of a prosperous Territory into the
hands Of political spoilers. There
is no way to accomplish it save by
proscriptIve Congressional legisla
tion for Utah, and the Mountain
Meadow trials will be made the pre-
text upon which the necessity fol
such laws are to be demanded.
Year: 1875

Charles Lamb once said that
he had found out why a friend
wrote to him in such blind hand
it was to conceal his bad spell
ing! We believe that every
body makes mistakes in oIthog-
Laphy, and that very great wri-
ters are frequently under obliga-
tions to the proof-readers. There
is a good deal Of idiosyncrasy
about it. When everybody, incIud
ing the great and good George
Washington, spelled badly, it was
not of so much consequence. But
now that a spelling reform has been
set afoot, now that the accomplish
ment is to be made a sort of semi
cardinal virtue, let no man write
ten lines without one or the other
of the two W's at his elbow, as he
would escape the sharp correction
and the humiIiating snub.
Year: 1875

To retain or recover health, per
sons should be relieved from all
anxiety concerning disease. The
mind has power over the body, for
a person to think he has a disease.
will often produce that disease.
This we see effected when the mind
is intensely concentrated on the
disease of another. 1t is found in
the hospitals that surgeons and
physicians who make a speciality
of certain diseases are liable to die
of them themselves; and the mental
strain is so great that sometimes
people die of diseases which they
have only in imagination. We have
seen persons sea-sick in anticipation
of a voyage, ere reaching the vessel.
We have known persons to die of an
imaginary cancer in the stomach,
when they had no cancer or any
other mortal disease. A olindfold
ed man slightly pricked in the arm,
has tainted and died from believing
that he was bleeding to death.
Therefore well persons, to remain
so should be cheerful and happy,
and sick persons should have their
attention diverted as much as
possible from themselves. 1t is by
their faith that they die. AS a man
thinketh so is he. If he wi is not to
die he can often live in spite of dis
ease, and if he has little or no at
taChment to life he will slip away
as easily as a child will fall asleep.
Men live by their souls and not by
their bodies. Their bodies have no
life Of themselves, they are only
receptacles of life-tencments for
their souls, and the will has much
to do in containing the physical oc
cunancY of giving it nn.
Year: 1875




Would it not serve a useful pur-
pose if some scientific meteorologist
were to gather into a mass the vari-
Gus weather signs-whether valua-
bic or nOt-Jreasured by the farmers
and other common sense people of
the country, and then sift them so
that those of real value may have
their proper influence, and those
which are merely fanciful may cease
to misleadl


That there are weather signs in a
bundance, everybody knows. That
the greater part of these signs are ut
terly valueiess, every person ofintel-
ligence can testify. Yet that they
do practically influence the time and
mode of planting crops, and OF Their
after culture, will be acknowledged
by many who would not be suspect
ed of the folly, and who can give no
other reason for it than the force OF
habit.


1--WE are going TO have a dry
month, " said a farmer the other day.


''How do you knowY" he was ask
ed.


by the Indians sign of the new
moon," he replied. "Its horns hung
so sloping that they could hold no
water"


His companion laughed. "why,
that's my Injin sign for wet moon.
The horns slope so that they let
loose all the water"


The sign in one case was no doubt
as prophetic as in the other.


always plant your potatoes in
the dark of the moon, ifyou wish to
have a full CROP" l heard my neigh
Dor say. "But never kill your pork,
nor boil your soap at such time,
unless you are willing to have them
shrink to nothing"


"What is your authority for thisY'


81 have always so heard" he an
swered with some hesitation, "and al
ways so practiced. Potatoes, you
know, being roots, naturally love
darkness. And soap and bacon
l suppose they take their cue from
the state of the moon. The fact is,
1 only know that this is the old time
rule"


"We are to have frost on the 10Th
of May" said a farmer to me on the
9Th of April.


1 was shocked, for he looked wise
and lugubrious, and a frost at that
time in our latitude would have cost
millions of dollars. asked, 'How
do YOU knowY'


Because we had fog on the 10Th
of March"


He saw me smiling, and added, II
have heard this rule ever since l was
boy, and it has never failed yet. -


''The surest rule l know for fore
telling the weather throughout the
year." said planter, possessed Of at
least a semi-collegiate education, sis
to note the twelve days between new
Christmas and old Christmas from
December 20 to January g.. The
months of the ensuing year are apt
to be wet or dry, cool or warm, ac-
cording to the days corresponding.
He seriously declared that for many
years he had pitched his crop" and
ordered his plantation work under
the guidance of this rule, and found
that it served well. No doubt, for
that amount of time in advance, il
was quite as good as any other rule
in ordinary use.
Year: 1875

A girl was heard to remark the
other day, that "a thing of beauty
was a boy forever.


If Rome was not built in a day,
the inference is that it sprung up in
the night, and thus became mush-
roomy city.


He who. does nothing don't
amount to much. 1t makes but
little difference whether he is a mil
lionaire or pauper. He is only


An editor down east has insulted
the whole female sex. He says
that the ladies wear corsets from a
feeling of instinct, having a natural
love for being squeezed.


An exchange gives as a reason
for business inactivity that too many
people are sitting down waiting for
it to become more active instead of
going to work to help make it so.


There are I12 newspapers in
Georgia. Every town, village and
water tank has one or more, and we
constantly hear of new ones. They
live as long as their credit holds
good, then the proprietors pocket
their type, and, like the grasshopper
of the west, moves on to new pas
lures of "green. ."-Ex.


stagnant pool, without energy
enough to start ripple. He
dif'uses a moral miasma over every
thing around him. Do something;
don't stand on the corner gaping
with your hands in your pockets
like an idiot The world was made
to work in, and if you fill your hearts
with good angels, the bad spirits will
keep out because there is no room
for them.


The Rome Commercial tells of a
practice in its neighborhuod i'm
which bad management is still more
clearly shown. 1t says that farmers
who last fall sold corn TO the mer-
chants at 70 cents per bushel are
now buying corn from them at 81 80
on a credit. When they come To
pay for it next fall with cotton atI2
or 10 cents, the circuit of improvi
dence will be complete. Cheap corr
is needed to make cotton culture
profitable, and the only way to So
cure cheap corn when transportation
from the West is SO high, is to
raise it at home


If our good friends, the merchants
would try advertising their wares
more freely, we think they would
find that it would pay. If it pays
to hang ready made coat, piece of
calico, ham, shovel, hoe, apples,
onions, Goldfish, and the like, before
the front door, where they will at
tract the notice of the passerby, why
not show them up in the columns
of your city paper, where several
hundred families-many Of whom
will never see the things may be
had Advertise and call attention
TO your goods, offer inducements and
let people know where you are an
what you are doing.-Ex.
Year: 1875

The Northern friends of the ne
gro need not worry themselves
about the proposed new constitution
of Alabama. The Montgomery
Advertiser, whose principal bust
ness it is to procure Alabama in
formation, says:


If any man thinks that Alabama
will attempt to "interpose obstacles
in the way of the enjoyment of their
H. G., the negroes } rights he is a
thrice sodden idiot, to begin with.
The negroes may have all their
rights and welcome. They will
help US in the electoral college; they
will hereafter help us on the floor OF
Congress. The term voting cat
tie" by which one of the Grant
organs was kind enough to describe
them, may be apt, and all that, but
voting cattle" or not, they are an
element of political power which We
of the South mean TO utilize.
Year: 1875

How some men are moved by
prejudice and hatred against a fel-
low-citizen who is struggling for
success. They Sneakingly under
mine and gloat over any misfortune
that may befaIl him. How many
such men in Pulaski. They who
have nothing else to do but to pick
out the faults of their fellow beings
and publish them abroad, will find
enough TO keep them busy. How
much better to help thy fallen
brother than to degrade. Have you
no sympathy, no charity? Are you
free from faults? Have you no Sc
cret sins? Are you doing as you
would like to be done by? First
pull the beam out of thy own eye
before you attempt to pull the mote
out of thy brothers eye.
Year: 1875

ranks of the enemy, and the hero
sank by his gun to rise no more.


Heaven knows, my countrymen,
l loved that lost cause, but this in
which We are now engaged is no less
sacred. We will do our whole duty
in this campaign, and, ifneed be, in
the moment of death, fire the last
shot in our battery for the honor of
Mary and Lucy.
Year: 1875

The plank in the Ohio Democratic
platform which is attracting so
much attention is as follows:


Eighth-That the contraction Of
the currency heretofore made by
the Republican party, and the fur
ther contraction proposed by il with
q view TO the forced resumption of
specie payment, has already brought
disorder TO the business of the coun-
try, and threatens it with general
bankruptcy and ruin. We demand
that this policy be abandoned, and
that the volume of currency be made
and kept equal TO the wants Of trade,
leaving the restoration Of legal ten
ders to par with gold TO be brought
about by promoting the industries
of the people and not By destroying
them.
Year: 1875

Honey comes originally from the
roots of plants, and undergoes pro-
cesses during the formation of the
flower, and that which is gathered
up by the bees is an excess, and not
essential to the development of the
fruit or flower If not saved by the
bee it would waste its sweetness on
the desert air.
Year: 1875

R5 What are you doing for the
souls Of your careless friends?-
Will you allow day after day 10
pass-witness their certain drifting
toward a time of inevitable hope
lessness-eomprehend perfectly their
despairing end if not sustained by
Christ-feel assured that the Re
deemer's blood cries out for their
souls-will you, can you sit in
active and let the days 90 by. You
advise with them on other subjects,
and feel quite guilty, if you hold
back even for a short time, what
would be TO their advantage 70
know, or TO be counseled upon
How about their salyationY Is it
true that they must be saved or
suffer eternal lossf Do you, in
yonr soul, believe it2 What tre-
mendous contradiction then your
life is! Why, either your love is
not what you pretend, or you are
unpardonably Indifferent Which
God teach US all, in this, 70 love our
neighbor as we do ourselves.
Year: 1875

'fs1 WHAT IS HIS CREEDi He Jeff a load of anthracite In front Of poor widows door, When the deep snow, frozen and white, Wrapped street, square, mountain and moor Tbat was his deedi

 He did it we'll -A-.,4 "Wbat was his creed :"

 l cannot tell Blessed "in bis basket and his store :" A In sitting down and rising up; When more he got he gave the more Withholding not the crust and cup, He took the lead

 In each good task.

 "What was his creed 2"

 did not ask His charity was like the stow- Soft, white, and silent in iis fall; Not like the noisy winds that blow From sbiyering trees the leaves--a pail. eftsaE For flower and weed,

 Dropping belowl

 "What was his creed? 2"

 The poor may know. He had great faith in loaves of bread For hungry people, young and old: And hope inspired kind words, be said, To those he sheltered from the cold. For We must feed, As well as pray.

 "What was his creed 2"

 cannot ssyl In works he did not put his trust His faith in words he never writ He loved 10 share his cup and crust With all mankind who needed ir.

 In time of need

 friend was he

 "What was his creedy 2"

 He told not me He put his trust in Heaven. and he Worked well with hand and head; And what he gave in charity Sweetened his sleep and daily bread. Let us take heed, For life is brief: "What was his creed: What his belief?"
Year: 1875

We now enter the field for
the fall and coming Winter
and are furnishing the bes.
paying aud most easily worked
agency in the world. our
agents have always been the
most successful, and we have
lately added ne " and exceed


ingiy taking inducements, re


quiring only intelligence and
application for any one,young
or old, Of either sex, to make
really first-class paying busi
Year: 1875

and told the desolating news that Pinch"


had broken loose, and had threatened to
tell all he knew about misrule in Louisi-
ana, and as much more as his fertile in


tellect could devise. A long consultation
was held with the president, and then
Year: 1875

pecunary straits has gone on to II its promissory
notes can be cashed and hand TO mouth living OF some
sort can be got out Of the shindy One would like,
however, to know what the borderers Of the Herzego
vina will do with such allies what they will do when
they get to their destnaton9 They will have 10 skip
about the hills in the rain without anything eat
yond an occasional putrd sleeps head baked in hole
OF mountain cavern and they will have TO run away
as fast as they can go whenever they see a red cap
After week or two of this trade unenivened by gin
and water or casinos, they will perhaps have had
enough OF 1t II not they will do harm than good
to the cause they JOIN, If it be a cause


The troubles OF the Porto are however, increasing
One Coroneus, baggy- -breeched Greek who mixed
up with the fighting in Crete few years ago. set OF
with plot in his head get up Eprus Now,
both Epirus and Thessaly have been long ripe for
VOLT and are made of highly nammable material They
have been crying for the twenty years. through
the Athenan newspapers for annexation to Greece.
What the cry signifies so clear for no Greek OF
means or respectabty has ever thought t to reside
his native land and the Rails the Rhodoconachis the
Mavrocordalos and the rest of them have all preferred
TO go on enduring voluntary exile foreign countries
But the people of Thessay Epirus are as ignorant
and silly as the popuace other places and il is very
likely that Coroneus may induce them to make such
disturbance as will cost the Porte some money TO
quel it,


1t is not necessary at present inquire into the
mantle aspect of the case to ask whether right
in the abstract THAT Christians should be governed by
inhdes The real question issue is whether Turkey
shall be broken up and if so, how its possessions
to be divided? As matter Of fact the rayahs in Tur-
key are not in any sense governed by the Mohamme-
dams They have their laws and their own magis-
trates to administer them. They have absolute free
dom of worship How they going to get a better
governments And if good is to be done by Coro-
and other hand agiators why the they
are caught and abated or put to fight the better.


very queer complaint has been made against the
Turks. 1t is reported this morning in of the


liberal papers here that the troops under Dervsh Pacha
(who is, by the way, Austrian while his commander
in chief Mehemet Ali Pacha, is Prussian) have CON-
mtted several of violence" In the same journals
it announced that the insurgents carried OFF
all the live sock in the neighborhood and 'sellng
them openly'' in the Austrian markets. Now that
cate-seaers who have been stopped in their opera
tons or molested while stealing should complain of
rough usage something peculiarly frank and amusing
yet this is the latest charge against the Turks and
has aroused considerable amount Of indignation Let
us be thankful for small mercies
Year: 1875

THE DELAY OF THE OVERDUE STEAMER ETH


oPIA ACCOUNTED FOR.


Considerable anxiety has been felt by the friends here
of passengers from Glasgow board the steamship
Ethiopia, of the Anchor line, account Of the delay
of that steamer This anxiety will probably be lessened
by the news reported by the Dutch steamship Mas,
from Rotterdam which arrived here yesterday. The
Ethiopia left Glasgow the 4th inst, and has conse-
quently been sixteen days On the 14th inst she
sighted and spoken by the Mas latitude "A deg
so min. and longitude ~ deg 40 min. She was then
moving slowly under SAIL Captain Craig reported that
the main shaft OF the engine broken, but
that repairs were being made, and that
the Ethiopia would probably be enabled to proceed
with steam power upon the 10th inst He declined
offers Of assistance but transferred the mails which
the Ethiopia was carrying TO the Mas Captain Craig
of the Ethiopia is known able and courageous
seaman, and it may be relied upon that he will bring
his vessel into this port If it lies within the power Of
man to do So 1t is probable that the voyage Of the
Ethiopia will be heightened day still by the
severe weather which now prevails.
Year: 1875

and commencing thereon, aud making fun
Of his articles. Ile sat down on the wood
box and trie8 to think up leader for tie
next days paper and dropped tear as
he recalled hs boyhoods happy days,
and the time that would elaspe before
the pirate, sitting on his own particula.
arm chair, would be cutting the best
thing out of the latest papers and put.
ting them in his hat. But be looked out
of the window and saw an expatriated
local trying to write Up his notes against
the side of u brick house on the other
side of the stress, and he felt some
CLEAN of comfort from this company in
his misery snd took courage


Moral-There was moral to this
story when we commenced, but we have
got so far from the commencement that
We have forgotten what it was. Never
mind, readers always skip the moral
anyhow.
Year: 1875

A friend and admirer of Jefferson
who had named a son after him, reques.
ted that he would write letter Of advice
to his young namesake. Jefferson accord
ipglY wrote the following note, to be kept
for him until the young child come to
years of understanding:


ITO Thomas Jefferson Smith: This
letter will, to you, be as one from the
dead. The writer will be in the grave
before you can weigh its counsels. Your
excellent and offectionate father has re>
quste9 that would address to you some-
thing which might possibly have favorable
influence on the course Of life you have
to run, and |, too, as a namesake, feel an
interest in that course. Few words will
be necessary, with good disposition on
your part. Adore God. Reverence and
cherish your parents. Love your neigh>
Dor as yourself. and your country move
than yourself. BE just. BE true. Mur-
mur not at the ways Of providence. So
shall the life into which you have entered
be to the portal to one of euterual and
iuefflble bliss. And, il to the dead il
be permitted to care for the things Of this
world, every action Of your life will bo
under my regard. Farewell"
Year: 1875

W 1t is better for farmer to sell a
horse he has no use for, for $50 in the
fall than to keep him all winter and sell
him in the spring for 500. twill
require at least $50 worth Of grain and
hay to keep horse six months say
nothing of the time consumed in taking
care of him Here is a saving in favor
Of the farmer who sells in the fall o.
$40. Farmers, think of this and do not
winter stock lit for market, You'll lose
money If you do.-Clecland Banner'
Year: 1875

Once upon time an editor, after re>
volving in his weary mind few of the
weary problems which are the mysteries
OF his singular profession, left the seclu,
sion of his office and sailed forth into
the busy world to do among men as he
was done ly. He had long years
before been disabused of any impression
which might have haunted his mind that
he knew anything about editing a paper
Tor every man who came into his office
know more about that business than the
unfortunate editor did and never scrupled
to tell him 50. But the poor man thought
it would be very agreeable and pleas


ant thing to do as other men purpose Of
following general custom that he went
out on this beautiful day 50 long
Year: 1875

The attempt to pass the Force Bill,
says the Press and Herald, brings TO
mind the stormy language in which
Richard Brinsley Sheridan denounc-
ed in Parliament the unconstitu-
tional exercise of the prerogative
that had been assumed in employing
the military to suppress the late riots
Q78O), without waiting for the au-
thority of the civil power" In burn
ing words that are applicable to
these times he said:


Ifthis doctrine was to be laid down
that the crown could give orders to
the military to interfere when, where
and for-what length of time it please.
then we wight bid farewell to free
dom. If this was the law then we
should be reduced to a military gov
ernment of the worst species, in
which we should have all the evils of
a despotic State without the disc1p-
line or the security. But we are CIV
ensto understand that we had the
best protection against this evil in
the virtue, the moderation, and the
constitutional principles of the SOW
ereign. No man upon the earth
thought with more reverence than
himself of the virtues and mcdera-
tion of tie sovereign; but this was
a species Of liberty which he trusted
would never disgrace an English soil
The liberty that rested upon the vir
tuous inclination of any one man was
but sespended despotism the sword
was not, indeed,- upon their necks,
but it hung by the small and brittle
thread of human will.