Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1877 — Page 6

Street-Cars-Important to horse-Rall-read Patrons.

■ith a therind the atIt ideas of heat or cold. The bell-strap will be within easy reach iMSKSiVLStSSS pleasure. Big market-baskets, drunken men and bowling babk* are desired, and will be specially oared for. A three-ply carpet will be pnt down «very trip for all who apply for It, and if they prefer ingrain, the company will get it if they have to give an oat for It • In addition to the ordinary bell-punch, ovary passenger Who is not already prc. vHled with a slick or .umbrella to punch the coaduetor with when they with to attract his attention. Gentlemen wishing to swear at the conductor or driver will he furnished with a printed list of choice expletives. Stroking will be allowed, and gentlemen chewing tobacco are at liberty to make themselves as disgusting as if they were a: home. The car will be backed up on demand to any lady's residence, and the conductor will bring down the babies and bagKge from the fourth story. People who ve got into the “ wrong car” can stop the same on steep grades, crossings and curves, and receive their money back. Ample time will be afforded lady passengers boarding or leaving the car, to take a long farewell of their friends, and relate the salient points of the family history. The conductors will be uni form el in dress suits, white kid gloves, and wear buttoiH&ole bouquets. They will be able to speak all known, and several unknown, languages, answer all questions promptly and intelligently, be familiar with the names of all the streets; numbers of the houses and names of the occupants; able to tell the time that all steam trains start and where they stop; know to a minute how long it will take their car to reach any given point, and willing to point out all objects of interest ou the rente. They will have eyes in the back of their heads and be competent to collect fares, punch tickets, make change of bank-bills of any denomination, wait upon passengers inside the car, start and atop the same, pick up passengers at any distance, at one and the same time. They will also Cheerfully accept the situation that they steal from. the conupany and conspire against the passengers" and will enjoy being bull-dozed and nagged by both. The drivers will be dressed in complete and elegant English coaching costume nod will be able to manage a spirited four-in-hand, man the brakes, keep their temper, curse any teamster dumb in thirty seconds, be responsible for all people who wish to roll off the front platform under the wheels, stop their teams to allow unprotected females to enact the role of a frightened hen in the roadway, stop and •start to suit everybody, never get the car -off the track, always be on time, never -expect the passengers to look at the car for thflfonte or destination, willing to pull > up promptly and answer questions for any length of time and in ail weathers. this new and improved car will be put -upon the street on the Ist of April next, on which occasion all the hopeless idiots who ride in street cars are invited to take free ride. —Boston Commercial Bulletin.

Hidden Resources.

“ There is so much economy practiced everywhere in the universe, where we know waste to be impossible in the tranaformation of matter, and feel that it must be correspondingly so in spiritual affairs, that -it is exceedingly doubtful whether there are any individuals on earth who are not possessed of some special aptitude, if they could only find it out. Even idiots may have their peculiar uses for some future generation to turn to account,‘if ‘that to which they are turned in the ,present in cultivating a divine .patience in the human breast be not sufficient; nur-can we quite think that is sufficient, since that is merely their use to others, and we fancy that every soul must be of some sort of use also purely to itself. But the majority of our lives are so tranquil, going on like the weather, driven try superior force from day to day, :«nd seldom taken in hand aad positively • directed by ourselves, that we have little . occasion to discover our one talent, the less so if it is anything at all out of the way," Women, especially, 'are so well taken care of by husbands, fathers, brothers, that they are not often piqued to any of -the discovery by much necessity . In girlhood they are occupied with little pleasures, interests, vanities, loves; as they .grow older, their day is filled with the care of parents, or of children, or of nephews and nieces; and thus they have mo opportunity to attend to the possibility of ffie discovery, and usually, so, no need •of «L And when this Is not the case, pleasure frequently refuses to resign with youth, or necessary attention to the poor occupies the time when the instincts that betray the aptitude might be obeyed. A lady of our acquaintance, then just on the edge of ft rty, discovered one day by pure accident her skill in dabbling in clay, made immediately her own tools, worked to make up for lost time, and is ■ow one of the distinguished sculptors of the world. Another lady that we know, thrown by a reverse of fortune out of a perfectly tame life among perfectly tame people, and in a tame part of the country, where art was little known, saw a piece of fine wood-carving for the first time, and examining it in a rapture, proceeded —like one inspired, but for her patience and her first failures—to draw hgr own -designs and execute carvings that now go far toward satisfying those who know the old Florentine and Veniti&n wood-carv-ing, and now has not only a certain source of good income, bat a delightful resource for all the rest of her life. And,. to proceed with our statements, an oM lady, wife the snows of eighty winters on her head, who honors us with friendship, lately took up the hew needle work, and ajthnngh feeling herself too old for completeexcellence, 'delights herself and all about her with her wonderful picture embroidery. Yet we think she need not despair of excellence, for another lady whom we have met, who had never known that she had any further ability with her pencil than that of giving her sitUdsen their early drawing lessons and evening amosemakta, on smog to Europe.

after her seventieth birthday, free and unencumbered by care, was so wrapt and And by the wander and beauty of the paintings in the galleries that she straightway took to easel and mablslick, and became In less than two years quite an accomplished copyist, and is still painting merrily away to about as much purpose as most of the crowd of younger students, probably painting all the better, too, while her outer senses last, for the deep experience of emotion and comprehension that her longer years give hes to Inclose with an illuminating power within her work, Nearly all of us think, after a little, even after to very little as forty years, that “ nothing is of any use now, and we are too old to make fools of ourselvcrs,” if we do not quote the old saying about Us being “ hard to teach an old dog new tricks,” and we sit down to rust out the rest of our days. Yet for certain things we may be too old—for those, indeed, that require supple joints and swift movements—but perhaps for nothing else. It is not positively sure that because this one is superannuated at threescore and ten, therefore we shall be, and that there is no time to do, if there is will. Old Parr —for whom fate had to step in and conquer a " confirmed habit of living,” with every organ in perfect health at one hundred ana fifty-two—is not the only longlived inhabitant of this planet; human life, under "to easier conditions, is lengthening with every generation. None know for a certainty that they may not be as long-lived as llupazoli, who had the good luck to have a share of three different centuries, whose gray hair changed to black at one hundred, and whose teeth returned to him at one hundred and thirteen, who wrote and worked to the last, and who must have looked on himself with awe, it not with fright. There are, indeed, a round dozen of names of various men and women who have lived well and happy all the way from one hundred to one* hundred and sixtynine; and a book of English statistics tells us of twenty-oue persons dying, between 1700 and 1839, over one hundred and thirty years old, thirty-nine more at one hundred and twenty, thirtysix at one hundred and ten, and fifty-four at one hundred. And if at Pliny's time there were, accordingto census, more than one hundred people between the Apennines and the ro over a hundred years in age, what shall there be in this day, when there is everything to encourage life ? Of course these few instances are but beggarly ciphers in comparison with the millions of the earth; but nobody knows who is to figure among the ciphers; and if it should happen to be our own chance, how very agreeable it would be if at any station, the fortieth, the fiftieth, even the seventieth, when the world acquitted us of care, we had discovered any peculiar talent, with all our powers fresh and vigorous to pursue it, and had not neglected to cultivate it because it was “ all nonsense at our age” to begin, and we didn't want people laughing at us! And even if we are not going to live to these antediluvian bounds, it is as well to put ourselves in condition for enjoyment .for the ten or twenty years that we probably shall live after passing that Rubicon where we thiuk it is too late to learn. Tea years, in comparison with these vaster numbers, seem but a breath; but in reality there are very many long weary days and weeks and months in them, as looking back on any last ten years, and all they have held,* will show us; and whatever will legitimately lighten and brighten those ten years of life, if ten they are, it is safe to say should never be neglected. Moreover, we cannot brighten time for ourselves without brightening it for others, for everybody around us; brightening it not only by interesting them in our pursuits, by giving them something more to take pleasure in than they otherwise might have, bnt by giving them also the sight of a cheerful face and a contented spirit from day to day, than which there are few things to make a house pleasanter, and whose opposite can imbitter life spent in a palace. Let as all feel, then, that it is flever too late to begin anything that is in the least within our powers or desires; and, as the days pass on, let those of us who have not found it be looking about ns for the secret seed that time has not yet developed within us, but which imbaftial Nature must have given U 9, which we shall bring to Hght as our hidden resource of pleasure in those days when the grasshopper may be a burden.— Harper's Bazar

The Mexican Centaur.

We were shown last week by Dr. Collins, a resident of Little River'County, in this State, one of the most remarkable phenomena of nature we ever saw. It was nothing less than the body of a wellformed red deer, with a head that resembled a babboon, and bad a suit of long, brown, shaggy beard. He says that it had been seen in the neighborhood frequently by several parties just after the war, but for some time had been missing, until one day lately his wife and a negro girl, who were returning from a visit to a neighbor’s, discovered the horrible creature a short distance from them standing in the woods: they became alarmed, and hurried to the house, when Dr. Collins took his gun and started in hot pursuit of the phantom, which he soon found and killed. He says when he was aiming at it its large eyes seemed to melt in pity and compassion, as though it was aware of its dreadful danger. Ire had no sooner fired than the creature leaped high in the air, and uttered a most heart-rending scream. The Doctor says it must be a species ot the Mexican Centaur, as described in legend as existing in certain portions of Mexico. —Jeferaon (Ark.) Republican.

The Health Bureau of the German Empire reports that during the week ending on the 27th of January last the number of deaths to every 100,000 of the inhabitants in the cities enumerated were as follows: Berlin.. 48 Basle 45 -Breslau 5 ■ Brussels . 49 K-jeoig*b<uv 62 Part* 53 C010gne......... f 2 Copenhagen ». 58 Magdeburg t 6 'tockhoim 55 Stenin 40Cbrl-tian» 45 Altona 401 Warsaw.. 28 Straxburg T6N spies. tit Mnnich SOtrarin 48 Aagebarg ** Bucharest 59 Dresden.....! 38L0nd0n..... 40 Leipzig ..... 54 Liverpool 55 Stuttgart 48 Glasgow 49 Brunswick 41 Dabbs 58 Car grnbe 48 Bdinbug v ,„ 41 Uamborg 48 Alexandria, Egypt... 85 Vienna..... 52 Madras 181 Peath................. 81 Bombay 65 Prague 9> Hew York.... 47 Amsterdam 56 Philadelphia 52 Rotterdam 51 805t0n.... 75 The Hague. ......... 41 San Francisco 38 —“ Did I not give you a flogging the other day?" said a schoolmaster to a tremblingbor. “Yes, sir,?’ answered the boy. “ Well, what do the Scriptures say ujjon the subject ?" “ I don’t know, sir,” said the boy, “ except it is in that passage which says ‘lt is more blessed to give than to Receive.’”

Anecdotes of Clover Dogas.

Tkb following dog stories are told in « recent number of the London Spectator: I should like to be allowed to help preserve the memory of a moat worthy dogfriend of my youth, well remembered by many now living who knew Greenwich Hospital thirty or thirty-five yean ago. At that time there lived there a dog-pen-sioner called “Hardy," a large'brown Irish retriever. He was so named by blr Thomas Hardy when Governor (Nelson's Hardy), who at the same lime constituted him a pensioner, at the rate of one penny per diem, for that he had ene day saved a rife from drowning just opposite the Hospital. Till that time he was a poor stranger ana vagrant dog—friendless. But thence, forward he llred in the Hospital, and spent his pension himself, at the butcher’s shop, as he did also many another coin given to him by numerous friends. Many is the halfpenny which, as a child, I gave “ Hardy,” that I might see him buy his own meat—which he did with judgment, and a due regard to value. When a penny was given to him, he would, on arriving at the shop, place it on the counter ana rest his nose or paw upon it until he received two halfpenny-worths; nor would any persuasion induce him to give up the com for the usual smaller allowance. I was a young child at the time, but I had a great veneration for “ Hardy,” and remember him weil; but, lest my juvenile memory might have been in fault, I have, before writing this letter, compared my recollections with those of ray elders, who, as grown people, knew “ Hardy” for many years, and confirm all the above facts. There, indeed, was the right dog in the right place. Peace to his shade! J. D. C. When a student at Edinburg, I enjoyed tire friendship of a brown retriever, who belonged to a fishmonger in Lothian street, and who was certainly the cleverest dog I had ever met with. He was a cleverer dog than the one described by ”A. L. W.,” because he knew the relative value of certain coins. In the morning, he was generally to be seen seated on the step of the fishmonger’s shop-door, waiting for some of his many frjends to give him a copper. When he had got one, he trotted away to the baker’s shop a few doors off, and dropped the coin on the counter. If I remember rightly (it is twelve or fifteen years ago), his 'weakness was “ soda scones.” If he dropped a halfpenny on the counter, he was contented tyith one scone; but, if he had given a penny, he expected two, and would wait for the second, after, lie had eaten the first, until he got it. That he knew exactly when he was entitled to one scone only, and when he ought to get two, is certain, for I tried him often. Lawson Tait.

A correspondent favored your readers last week with an interesting anecdote of a dog’s intelligence in reference to the use of money. Permit me to relate an instance of a dog’s intelligence in reference to the day of the week. Some three-and-twenty years ago, in the infancy of the Canterbury Province, New Zealand, there lived in the same neighborhood as myself two young men, in the rough but independent mode of life then prevalent in the colony, somewhat oblivious of old institutions. These men possessed a dog each, affectionate companions of their solitude. It was the custom of this primitive establishment to utilize the Sabbath by a ramble, in quest of wild ducks and wild pigs, about the swamps and creeks of the”district. It was observed that, long before any preparations .were made for starting, the dogs always seemed to be more or less excited. This was remarkable enough, but not so much as what followed. One of these men after a while left his friend, and, taking his dog with him, went to live with a clergyman about four miles off. Here ducks and pigs had to be given up on Sundays for the church service. It was soon noticed that this dog used to vanish betimes on Sundays, and did not turn up again until late. Upon inquiring, it was found lhat the dog had visited its old abode, wluere on thatdayof the week sport was not forbidden. The owner tried the plan of chaining up the animal on Saturday evenings, but it soon became very cunning, and would get away whenever it had. the chance. On one occasion it was temporarily fastened to a fence-rail about midday on Saturday. By repeated jerks, it loosened the rails from the mortice-holes and dragged it away. Upon search being made, this resolute but unfortunate dog was found drowned, still fast to chain and rail, in a stream about two miles away in the direction ot its old haunts- The gentleman who owned the other dog is in England now, and went over the details of the facts herein stated with me quite recently. Alfred Durell.

An Absent-Minded Painter.

Miss Jane Stuart, daughter of Gilbert Stuart, the painter, in hex recollections of her father, published in Scribner's Monthly, tells the following anecdote of his lack of method in business matters. (Stuart once painted a picture for Mr. Hare, of Philadelphia.) *' On its completion, Mr. Hare made the requisite payment to my father, who at once said: ‘ Excuse me, this picture has been paid for.’ ‘Excuse me for contradicting,. Mr. Stuart, but It has not, I assure you,* replied Mr. Hare; My father could not remember the circumstances. Mr. Hare persisted in paying the amount due. and handed him S6OO, which was a high price at that period. The picture was a full-length of Mr. Hare, with his little daughter introduced. This anecdote was related to me by the daughter, herself, when quite advanced in life. I write it as an instance of my father’s utter inability to transact business.” It would seem that Stuart inherited his absence of mind, for Miss Stuart, in fee same article, says: “ How well do 1 remember listening to my grandmother’s stories of those dear old times; for instance, how they would both go to church on & pillion. On one occasion, my grandfather (who was the most absent-minded of men), while jogging along, lost in a reverie, dropped my grandmother on the road. He soon became aware of her absence, however, and turning suddenly, rode back, exclaiming, ‘ God’s-my-life, are you hurt ?’ There she sat, enjoying her anticipation of his surprise when he should discover her plight.”

Enormous Growth of Australia.

That a great English-speaking empire is fast growing up in the Australias is apparent from the marvelous showing those colonies already make. Their total amount of trade is $450,000,000. dag from tfae bcwels of the earth or gathered from it* surface. Of that total one-half, or $225,000,000, consists of the precious metals. There are gold, copper, tin and iron in all the colonies, and silver in Hew Zealand. In miscellaneous products they have wool, tallow, sugar, hides, preserve# meats and wine. In all the colonies there

were last year 05,000,000 sheep and 7,000,000 cattle. The population of Australia and Tasmania numbers 2,000,000 and New Zealand 4(0,000. The public revenue of the whole group is fM,000,000 annually. Comparing there colonies with Canada we find that the population in the New Dominion is 4,800,000 and her total trade amounts to #325.000,000, as compared with #450,000,000 of the Australias, which gives the latter double as much, with apopulstion only one-half as numerous. The Dominion’s exports are but #95,000,000, against #225,000,000 from the Australia*, and the Dominion reven,U6 is but #25,000,000 against their #06,000,000. ■ Going further afield, we find that the Indian Empire, with a total population of 240,000,000, has q total trade of #435,000,000, and her exports are #275,000,000 against #225,000,000 from the Australias. The colonies have borrowed considerably, but every cent, except in the case of New Zealand, has been spent in useful and well-copceived public works. Victoria has borrowed #70,000,000 at a little over four per cent., and has nearly 1.000 miles of railroads and numerous water supplies to show for it. Already the railroads are paying their working expenses and the interest upon the cost of construction, beside which her public lands are worth at least ten times her total indebtedness. The same is true of New South Wales, Sueensland and South Australia, and *is so true, though in a less degree, of New Zealand, Tasmania, and Western Australia. These figures indicate the unmistakable elements of a great empire.— San Francisco News Letter.

The Fashions.

Among the beautiful dresses of an outfit for spring is a breakfast dress of pale blue basket cloth, made with a demi-train and loose jacket trimmed with cardinal red galloon and wide white Smyrna lace. The best Parisian authorities announce that there will be no decided changes in the fashions'of spring dresses, and the first importations confirm this assertion. We find these importations to consist, first, of suits with princesse polonaises, basques with overekirts and lower skirts, and, finally, princesse dresses. Among features common to most of the handsome polonaises are the long seams of the back, the plainness ovet the tournure, and sufficient length to give a Very slender effect. The Byron collar is seen on a great many. Fringes and wide galloons are the trimmings universally used, and the galloon is very generally arranged in sloping lines, or else in a long V down the back from shoulders to waist. To support the train of carriage and house dresses a sweeper or plaited flounce of muslin edged with imitation Valenciennes lace is set on the inside. It is about three-eighths of a yard deep, and is set on at such a height that a glimpse of the white lace appears below the edge of the dress. Imported dresses are provided with French sweepers that are made of crinoline and muslin, and may be changed from one dress to another. A drawing string across the back breadths to hold them back is the rule almost without exception on French dresses. Knife-plaiting still prevails on the newest dresses. Around the bottom of the skirt are two rows of fine knife-plaiting, each two inches deep when finished; above this is a fiat band of galloon, or of bias brocade, or of plain silk, and by way of heading are two upright plaitings that stand out with more fullness than is seen in the lower plaits. The newest white muslin frills have the heavy scallops wrought in color. For ginghams self-trimmings are preferred, in plaited or gathered ruffles headed by bias bands; there are also colored cotton galloons for trimming such dresses. Sprigged and figured Swiss muslin suits made by this design will have pufls of the material edged with lace and lined with ribbon. Square bows will fasten the front, and many long-looped bows trim the pockets and ornament the back of the polonaise. If the polonaise is made of washine material, it is best to omit all linings of the waist and sleeves, as no matter though the dress goods and the lining are both shrunken by being washed before they are made up, they are still liable to further shrinkage when washed a second time; as the two materials are of different quality, they will not shrink precisely alike, and the consequence is the outside is either drawn or wrinkled upon the lining, and the fit of the garment is spoiled.

The front of the princesse polonaise is fitted by two darts, and clings as closely to the figure as if glued upon it. Buttons half an inch in diameter are set down the entire front. Vegetable ivory or else smoked-pearl buttons are now used on wool, silk and cotton dresses. These buttons are exceedingly close together, and there is usually a button-hole for each; but those who are not equal to the task of working so many button-holes set the buttons on the two fronts after turning down the hems, and lapping them. New black silk sacques are partly of brocade and partly of plain silk, and are trimmed with galloon, lace, fringe and ribbon bows. Dolmans are thus far confined to the gray and drab wool cloths already described. The sacques are halflong and of French outlines, with long seams in the back, or else ihe galloon trims the back perpendicularly. The long slender garment of sacque shape, with shoulder pieces giving the effect of a dolman, is imported in summer cloths and in black silk, and promises to be as poDQlar as it has been during the winter. The polonaise predominates among the plain suits of woolen stuffs for spring. Among these are wool brocades of ecru and brown gray quadrille and basketwoven woolens, small checked goods and plain challis trimmed with brocaded bands. The small pin-head checks of black, blue or brown, with white are made up for young girls* suits without any trimming except that given by rows of machine stitching. The skirt is plain, with the exception of a few kilt plaits set iq the back breadths lfee a fan trmn; the front breadths are turned tip and sßtched. — Harper'a Bator. ■.l j*- j The change which has been Wrought in a few yeata in the source, of supply of iron and steel rails in the United Statesis most remarkable. Of steel rails In 1872 we imported 235,680,087 pounds, and manufactured" 188,140,000 pounds; in 1875 we imported only 95,850,902 pounds, while our manufactures had risen to 581,726,000, and the figures fpr 1876 will show a still greater balance in our favor. Our rail manufacturers now have fee home field practically to themselves, and with the revival of railway building that is sure to come their business will reach figures hitherto unprecedented.— BaiUcay ASIt. —The proprietor of a line of stages in New York has adopted the picture of a whale as his business emblem He says feat feat fish was the first Stay-Jonah mentioned in history.— Patenon Amateur.

- qiw " * 1 "up mm tJWiIW'H'iUP" ’ ' *«*'*“*> am*** •ivw**#* ( Religious. , “ ■ 1 ■ ■ 11 ■» . , ■ BUPPOBB. ScrroiiE thU world won beautiful aa ever world coaid be; Bupoone the cloud* of gathering storms forevermore would dee; Suppoec there were no grief nor pain, no aorrow nordiatme, And nothing that comd hurt or harm, but everything to bleae; , Suppose the flowers would always bloom, from May again till May; Suppose the bird* would never tire of singing day by day; Suppose the trees warn always green, the sunlight always teir, With songs from happy hearts forever ringing through the a : r; Suppose that friends should love their Mends more warmly and more truu; Suppose that none should overwork, but have ■ enough to dp To keep the mind from discontent, to keep the hands from rust; Suppose we banished doubt and fear and lived In ■ daily trust; . Suppose that sickness were unknown, and death should never come To wake a heart from cherished dreams and blight a haopy home; Suppose there were do sin nor wrong, nor aught to make us grieve; Suppose that we might know as real the fancies that we Weave; Suppose we lived forever'ln this delightful land. With every grace and beauty that reason could demand; Suppose that every blessing to mortals should be given— Suppose all this were true—what then? 'Why, then it wonld be Heaven. —Amy S, ffullsr, in N. Y. Witness.

The Story of a Hymn.

There is a remarkable history, one which signally illustrates the special providence of Goa, attached to a beautiful German hymn. About 1050, George Neumarck, a writer of hymns and a musician of Hamburg, fell sick. He had picked up a scanty living by playing on the rioloneello in the public streets, a custom not then unusual with poor students. The sickness prevented Neumarck from going his usual rounds. He was soon reduced to such poverty as compelled him to part with his instrument, his only means of support. He pawned the violoncello to a Jew, who leut him on it a sum much below its value. The loan was to run two weeks, and if the instrument should not be redeemed within that time, it would he forfeited. As Neumarck handed it to the Jew, he looked at it lovingly, and, with tears in his eyes, said: “ You don’t know how hard it is to part with It. For ten years it has been my companion. If I had nothing else, I had it, and it spoke to me and sung back 'to me. Of all sad hearts that have left your door, there has been none so sad as mine. Let me play one more tune upon it ?” Gently taking hold of the instrument, he played so exquisitely that even the Jew listened, in spite of himself. A few more strains, and he sung to his own melody, the hymn written by bimseli: Use 1* weary, Savior, take me. Suddenly he changed the key, and his face lighted up with a smile, as he sung: Yet who knows the cross Is precious. Laying down the instrument, he said, “As God will, I am still,” rushed from the pawnbroker’s shop, and stumbled against a stranger who had been listening at the door. “ Could you tell me,” asked the stranger, “where I could obtain a copy of that song ? I would willingly give a florin for it.” “ My good friend,” replied Neumarck, “ 1 will give it to you without the florin.” The stranger was the valet of the Swedish Ambassador, and to him the singer told his sad story. He told his master, who, becoming interested in Neumarck, appointed him his Private Secretary. With his first money he redeemed his instrument, and calling in his landlady and friends, sung his own sweet hymn, of which this is a part: To let God rule who’s but contented, And humbly in Him hopetii still, Sbull marvelously be prevented Prom ev’ry sorrow, ev’ry ill. Who leanetn on God’s mighty band, He bath not built his house on sand. Por what is all onr heavy yearning. And wherefore make we such ado? What prospers it that ev’ry morning We o'er our sorrow wail anew? Wherennto works our clamor vain But to increase our grief and pain ? = Then must we for a time content ns, And for a little while be still; Await what through God’* grace t* sent us. What worketh his omniscient will. God, who our helper deigns to be. Well knoweth our necessity. —Youth's Companion.

I Will Tell It.

Many a physician has gained his practice by one patient telling others of his cure. 1 ell your neighbors that you have been to the hospital of Jesus, and been restored, though you hated all manner of meat-, and drew near to the gates of death; and, maybe, a poor soul just in the same condition as yourself, will say: “ This is a message from God to me.” Above all, publish abroad the Lord’s goodness, for Jesus’ sake. He deserves your honor. Will you receive His blessing, and then, like the nine lepers, give Him no prai9e ? Will'you be like the woman in the crowd who was healed by touching fee hem of His garment, and then would have slipped away* If so, I K that fee Master may say; “ Some- ■ hath touched Me,” and may you be compelled to tell the truth, and say; “I was sore sick in soul; but I touched Thee, O my blessed Lord, and I am saved, and to fee prifese of the glory of Thy grace I will tell it, though devils should hear it; I will tell it, and make the world ring With it, according to my ability, to the praise and glory of Thy saving grace.”— I Spurgeon.

A Practical Application.

Is one of our Sunday-School lessons for this month, we are told about King Ahab who became verj mnch vexed because a vineyard that he desired was refused him. gow careful all of us should be nat to act that way when something displeases us. Perhaps pa or ma may refuse to get something which the child wanted very much, but they should be regarded as knowing best, and a ready compliance given to their decision. A failure at this point is sbmetimes due to the parents themselves, for it is a sad fact that many of such have ceased to command their households after them. Children at a very early age cease to honor their parents. Boys are young men, girls are young ladies before they are in their teens. And when a boy sets up to judge for himself as to his hours and habits, in spite of his father’s wishes, and a girl assumes to know more than her mother about her company and dress, the rebellion has broken out, and unless it is put down, die ruin of domestic peace, and very likely of happiness and hope, follows naturally. When I hear a boy speaking of his father as “ the old man,” or “ the governor,” I know there is a bad spirit »t work* And the girl who pouts when reproved by her mother, and jerks off her

bonnet in a pet when restimtneSTftxftn' goiag abroad, tare already mbtia!«i*|pimt the law of Heaven, aha entered the road that leads to a gulf from wbicktiheae is no return. ** This is a sad but true picture rjjjKrting many homes. Parent! you are obligated to avoid it. -Much can be accomplished in the way of elevating homa’Jife through the influence of a good,example. Not a few have a feeling that they can do little or no good in the world ; tiey cannot go out and seek the poor arid .the lost. To such these words should unng comfort: “Let them show pKWy* at home.” That may be, dear TjqJgJlcMhe only place Providence has designed., you should show it. The home circle ijreur sphere. No qther place Is mote favorable wherein tolet your “ light Bpine,” and by influencing those under the same roof for good, they may go out aad win others to the Savior. You may “ soretfttßqvs” —they may “ reap in joy.” “it' otto of cold water” given to a disciple JmeSTiot lose its reward, if done for Christ's sake. How easily any one can giv«" seat —the poorest as well as the richest-a gentle smile, a loving look, a kindly WOrA,VA silent reproof, a tender admonition, .waiting on the sick. All this can be floftfe in your home “ without money and without price.” Just try it.—Appeal (Chicos*.)

A Catting Argument.

A New York gentleman came to i: the Gibson House, a few days ago and registered for a brief stay intßuulty. One of the firet things he did whs t# jrisit the barber-shop next the office aad-get shaved. Charley, the barber, having scraped the gentleman's face to a fcrffcfefactory cleanliness, noticed that Up wore rather long hair, and, alVvsyl' reddy to make a dime or two for his etnployer when opportunity offered, he thought ho had struck upon a thirty-ccnt job wltblthe scissors, sure. So he interrogated; “ Cut your hair, sir?” ' ','U > “ No,” was the reply. ~» t , “It’s mighty long hair, sir,” ventured Charley, tucking the towel down -‘behind the gentleman’s collar. There was, no reply, and, as he ran his fragers through the long, straight hair; he adued: q “ Much too long, sir, for this weather and the present style.” ■ *»_ No answer. “Better let me just sort o’ trim 4t up, sir," continued the barber, grabbing) his scissors and limbering up its rivetclose to the customer’s ear. • * * “ I don’t want it cutto-day.” “ Better not put off till to-morrow what can be done to-day, sir. It won’t tike me IBHg:" ——™--_-===™-. T “ But! say I don’t want it cut, my good fellow.” , if “ Excuse me, sir,” persisted .the kaight of the scissors, “ but it is not hdsllUfy or stylish to wear one’s hair so loqg. Just let me show you how nicety I can 4 feather’it.” <’ IP f Then the stranger looked up, .with a desperate cast to his eye, ancf said: “ Young man, must I tell you thqhL.wear a wig? Now let me alone and brush my hair.”- >l* The barber grasped the arm qhair to save himself from falling.— Cincinnati Enquirer. «3I The official report of pork-packiirg at Cincinnati,recently submitted to thaChamber of Commerce by Superintendent Maxwell, embraces the following figured relative to the winter packing for the.season from Nov. 1, 1876, to March 1, 1877: Number hogs packed, 523,570; decrease compared with the previous Reason, 39,783; average gross weight, 274 7-100 pounds; increase, 1 3-100 pounds; average yield of lard per head, 38 2-10 poubds; increase, 4-10; average cost, per hundred, gross, #5.90 18-100; decrease, #1.37 35-100; barrels of mess pork made,’ 38,480; other kinds, 8,514; increase, 3,20$ barrels. Lard made, tierce?, 01,492; barrels, 77; kegs, 3,584; production of cot meats, green meats,clear sides,7,6oo,72opounds; clear rib, 26,236,167 pounds; long clear, 2,208,164 Dounds; all other kind*; Including rough sides and bellies, 2.463,122 pounds; hams, 16,180,303 poundsrshoulders, 16,187,643. u-1 I have often wished to say something about the use of sugar ia cooking, and will here simply suggest one thoiieht: As sugar is often employed in cookings the sweetness is largely lost. For Instance, in cooking apples, if the sugar be ‘added before the apples are put to the firp, when the cooking is completed the sauce indicates no addition of sugar, but if the sugar be added after the apples are sufficiently cooked, the full benefit is derived. This is explained’ by saying that the caae sugar added before cooking” js changed .to crape sugar, and the latter is only - two-flftns as sweet as the former. This is perhqps a 9 noticeable in the use of cranberries as in any other fruit. The addition of a large amount of sugar before stewing setups to have no effect in modifying tiic extreme acid of the fruit.— Cor. Detroit Tribune. An American air-brake company recently received an order from England for #250,000 worth of brakes to be placed on 300 locomotives and 1,000 cars.

A Result of Obstructed Digestion.

Among the hurtful consequences of obstructed digestion, is the impoverishment of the blood, and since a deteriatlve'Condition of the vital, fluid not only produces dangerous organic weakness, but, according to the best medical authorities, sometimes causes asphyxia, it Is apparent that to improve the quality of the blood by promoting digestion and assimilation, fa a wise precaution. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is precisely'the remedy for this purpose, since it stimulates the gastric juices, conquers those bilious and evacuative irregularities which interfere with the digestive processes, promotes assimilation of the food by the blood, and purifies as well as enriches it. The signs of improvement in health in. consequence of using the Bitters are speedily apparent in an accession of vigor, a gain in bodily substance, and a regular and active performance of every physical function.

Thousands of Affidavits.

Many having used “ patent" and prepared medicines and failed In finding the relief promised, are thereby prejudiced against all medicines. Is this right? Would you coudemn all physicians because one failed in giving the relief promised? -Some go to California in search of gold, and after working hard for months and finding uoue, return home and soy there is no gold tfa-re. Does that prove it? Many suffering with Catarrh and pulmonary affections have Used the worthless preparations that crowd the market, and in their disappointment say there is no cure for Catarrh, Does that prove it? Poes it Dot rather prove that they have failed to employ the proper remedy? The»e are thousands of people in, the United States who can make an affidavit that Dr.-Sage’s Catarrh Remedy and Dtr Piercc’q Golden Medical Discovery have effected their entire cure. Many bad lost all sense of smell for months, and pieces of bone had repeltedly bees removed from the nasal cavities. Dizziness, Hzadachs, Pais across the Eyes, Inflammation of the Kyis, Copious Watery Dischargee from the lyes and Nose, are symptoms of Catarrh. One to two bottles or HAMfroßD’s Radical Ctntn von Camisb will at once cure these symptoms.