IR TYR de
NEWS OF
THE WEEn
-- Cn the 23d, George Daut, 30 years
old, fired two bullets from a revolver
into the body of his wife, Lena, inflict-
ing probably fatal wounds, and then
discharged one ball into his own brain,
and died in a few minutes, at their
home, at the northwest corner of Fifth
and Powell streets, Philadelphia. Mrs.
Daut said her husband was crazed with
drink at the time. The couple had an
nfant five months old.
— William
old, on the 23d
puted wife,
years old, at
gourt, in ti
street, Phil
himself at
bard street
1]
Bush, colored, 22 years
shot and killed his re-
Johnson, colored, 20
home in Yesager's
70% St. Mary
He surrendered
police station on Lom-
below Eighth, He had
just finished serving a two years’ sen-
tence in the Eastern
the theft of money from an office up-
town.
~The spinning mill of J, Meadow-
eroft & Sons, Emerald and Sergeant
streets, Philadelphia, was burned on
the 23d.
ing was valued at $25,000, and most of
it will prove a loss, The damage to the
building is estimated at $3000,
her
rear of
1 ia
110k,
to the extent of $1200. The total in-
surance is The barn of Geo,
216: OO
10,0 AN
on the 23d, together with 20 cows and
7 horses. loss, $4000; no insurance,
—Wilham E. Nesson, aged 02 years,
attempted to kill his wife, aged 40, u
New Orleans, on the 23d. He fire
her and the bullet passed through her
wrist. Iisthirteen-year-old son rushed
in and caught 3 father’s m, but
second off one « he boy
ar
. pe ¢
shot took iw i
making a probably fatal wound,
busband then placed the muzzle o
revolver in his mouth and blew
his brains, Jealousy was the
He was thwe t married,
leaves ten children, the youngest
3ix months old,
Li
4 f i
10 i §
es
—John Brockington on the 2
srushed to death between two cars
the P’enpa, R. R. Company in the yard
at Camden, NJ. An unknown man was
track on Washington
Twenty-second street, Philadel;
MecGillan, found near by, is supposed to
have belonged to the dead man.
— Robert Fowler, convicted
murder of Miss Lida Burnett,
hanged on the 23d
Kentucky. James Wassen and Joseph
Jackson were hanged on the 23d at
Fort Bmith, Arkansas, for murders
committed in the Indian Territory.
— William Whiteley, Associate Judg
of the Supreme Court, died ou: the:
in Wilmington, Delaware, red
years. He served two terms (
gress just before the war, was a dele
gate to the Democratic National C
vention 1860 and 1876,
Mayor of Wilmington from 1875
1898. Father A. J. Ryan, the ‘“‘poet
priest of the South,” died in Lou
on the 224. He was 46
—Hugh Bailev, aged
been arrested at Kalamazoo, gan.
for attempting to wreck a train on the
Michigan Central Railroad on the 141
inst. He wrote a confession h
crime, saying t ‘*he was
act to redress
suffered from
of
was
of
io
sville
vears of
19 years, has
Michie
ii
¢
Ol
tha
the Michigan
1
of sixty rods of fence.’
--A special train on
lided with a freight train
damaging several others,
named Bradshaw was dange
not fatally injured. The
and other railway employes
severely shaken up,
In December
were
last Horace Dubois
wis struck by a freight train on the
Buffalo. New York and
Railroad, and injured so badly in the
head that he became a lunatis Henry
Dubols, committee, brought suit
falo, for damages, and the jury on the
24th awarded him $10,000,
it Alton, near Bradford, Penna. and
used as sleeping quarters for laborers,
toppled over early on the 24th and
raught fire from a lantern. Six men
were burned to death and three others
»adly injured,
~—Mra. Sterling »ud her daughter
Emma were fatally burned in Chicago
on the 24th, by an explosion of coal oil,
while the elder was filling a lightea
amp, A servant girl named Whalen
also suffered from the inhalation of gas
and smoke. After several hours’ in-
tense suffering all died. :
—On the 24th, a small boy dropped a
lighted cigar stump down the shaft of
the Rush Run Coal Company’s mine,
fifteen miles north of Wheeling, West
Virginia. The mine had been idle for
several weeks and was fall of (ire damp.
In an stant there was a terrible ex-
plosion, flames shot out of the pit and
all the buildings around the mouth of
‘he shaft were destroyed, together with
several hundred feet of trestle work and
A quantity of coal,
St. Vincent de Paul, Quebec, having
by some means obtained possession of
some rifles and revolvers belonging to
the guards, revolted on the 24th, The
warden demanded their surrender, when
the prisoners opened fire on nm avd the
guards, and a desperate fight ensued,
which lasted seme time, The warden
received a bullet in the jaw, another
pierced his wrist, while a third entered
she abdomen. His wounds are very
serious, but hopes are entertained of
his recovery, Chartrand, a guard, was
wounded in the leg, while several
others received wounds more or less
serious, A prisoner named Corriveau
was shot dead, and five other prisoners
were wounded. None of the prisoners
sacaped.
~-Alfred H. Hahn, ex-County Audi.
tor, who recently pleaded gulity to
seven indictments for forgery and lar-
seny, was sentenced in Easton, Penna. ,
on the 24th, to pay $700 fine and the
posts of the prosecution and to serve
our years in jail,
~A3e0rne Grover. and James Hagri.
gan were drowned at Torbay, Nova
Scotia, on the 23d by the upsetting of a
boat,
~The mutilated bodies of a colored
man and a colored woman were dis-
covered by two boys on the 23d in a
hogsheada, which had been left in a
fleld near Clarksville, Tennessee, by
the receding waters of
land river.
— Near Port Monmouth, New Jer-
’
Monroe Smith, being insane, xilled her
gerously, if not mortally, wounded
Two other children es-
critical condition. She had been in the
insane asylum,
The 24th was Arbor Day in Mas.
sachusetts. It was observed in
by the planting of two young American
ernor Robson and Mayor O’Brien, in
the presence of 5000 persons. The ex-
ercises consisted merely in the planting
of the trees, and brief addresses by the
Governor and Mayor.
—The body of a man, supposed to
be that of Ferdinand Oldenburg, was
found floating in the Delaware, off the
Fish House, The body of
Ulysses G. Thompson
was found in the Delaware, at
ng
on the 25th.
f
+ 19
Chest-
24th. He was drowned in November
tence of a gang of
3 18 reported in
an. **Horses,
been stolen
ut few instances
outlaws are
y OX in
6 thieve
Wiscon
and
number
Grant
sattlia
callie,
hogs
Wisconsin
or
4
are creating great
ng women and children to vield
and helping them-
men
by
+ “3 tx fay mila
Wiel demands
' erty
property
See OL
headed
officers are o
— A freigh in on the
Pacific Railroad was thrown
track while rounding a bluff 1
. Kansas, on }
1 Horten, fireman,
le, brakeman, were
1 neer,
£2 03 &
Vas
Missouri
from the
ear Wy-
the ! Ben-
George
1, and
d» jumped
*
whic
train, gverely
The disaster was caused by
lains pulling
taking fish plates off the rails,
fore the di
Faw i
FOWier, eng
Bi
some
+ 1 ‘ 1% 3 x 2 3
spikes out he ties and
fa
OL 5
ister the engineer saw
1 group,
mething
ep bein
thre
BOY.
andi
fry
il in
t hap-
men
tranl
TACK
Lo
? Af ©
the
ac
} 1¢ x vin Fie
all, were lx
#
'
ot
wae
i two dwellin
rit ti
ii QUring ue
n from
Jersey, says the Cor
sider 1t necessary to hold an inquest
the case of the child killed by
insane mother, Mrs. Smith, nea
Monmonth, on 234. The
¥ improving,
poison, is s
recovery 1s
Asbury Ls
mer does not
}
5
$
L
aren
TR
Xa wil ii
her
—A telegram from (ruaymas, Mexic
“Geronimo’s band acked ranches
att
small
tue
persons
at Casilla, a
station, near Imuris, on
railroad, killing fifteen
A company of soldiers
after them. Two soldiers
The Indians were moving
wers sent
were killed.
sixth.slory window in New York
the 26th. He had been
spondent.
—George E, Grabam, ‘“‘evangelist”
and wife murderer, was forcibly taken
from the jail at Springfield, Missouri,
on the 27th, and lynched by an armed
mob,
horses from a widow recently, were
caught and lynched by Vigilahts in
Carroll county, Arkansas,
-"Three wen got on an Illinois Cen.
tral passenger train at Cairo on the
25th, and robbed several of the passen-
gers. Two of the fellows were caught
and identified. Itis reported that one
of the passengers was shot. The Ore.
gon House, a frame structure, in Butte,
Montaoa, was destroyed on the 25th,
by an incendiary fire.
on
SiC
boarders were severely injured.
hundred dollars were stolen from
trunk by the supposed incendiary.
~-Mrs. James Monroe Smith,
un
who
’
took poison near Port
morning of the 27th, The children
are still hiving, and may tecover, ex-
cept Rufus, the son, whose death is
momentarily expected,
-A man about 50 years of age,
giving the name of John Young, was
found on the 26th in Wells Valley,
near MeCounnellsburg, Penna., *‘mana-
cled and wounded.” He refased to
answer any questions, and was lodged
in the Fulton county jail,
County Treasurer Ho'lingsworth,
at Vincennes, Indiana, has been com
mitted to jail in default of bail for
embezzlenent. He is “‘short’’ about
$80,000.
~At Bijou Basin, Colorado, on ‘the
23d, while Mrs, M, V. Sides was dress-
ing her babe, she asked Edward
Mackay, a friend who was visiting ber,
for the loan of a pecketknife. He un-
buckled his cartridge belt to get at his
pocket, when his revolver dropped
to the floor snd went off, and the bullet
justod through the woman's heart,
filling her instantly,
~David BR. Leedom, Assessor of New-
ton Township, Bucks county, Tenna.,
died on the 26th. At the same time
{ his brother-in-law, I’. C. Kelly, Asses-
{ sor of the borough' **was taken violent-
ly insane from worrying over the duties
tax law,’
—ly
of rabies, ran through Pullman, near
{ Chicago, on the 27th, and bit two boys
and a policeman before he was killed,
| He also bit two other dogs, who were
{ killed, On the 24th the animal bit an-
other boy in Wildwood, Money is
being subscribed to send the bitten boys
| to Paris,
Memphis
have
—A telegram {rom
that only meagre details
received the break in the leveo
of Austin, Mississippi, The water in
the bottoms is now within two teet of
the track of the Louisville, New
{ Orleans and Texas Railroad, Officials
fear that the break will cause a suspen-
gion of travel over that line within the
next two days. The country that will
be overflowed 1s one of the most
productive in the Mississippi Valley.
Planters in the lowlands will, it is
fearad, lose much of their stock by
drowning. Steamboat men report
“oceans of water” in the neighborhood
of Helena and as far north as Com-
merce, Mississippi.
-—A Chicago and Alton
{train was stoned by some
{at Lemont, llhnois, on the
says
e
Oi
passenger
villains
27th,
| train was smashed, but no Was
{ injured beyond slight bruises and cuts
from broken glass,
One
—Merudy Jones, “anotorious negro,’
who entered the room of two young
| women near Auburn,
the & and tried to chloroform
vas | from mob on
the 27th d sl s hie was
A. Jd.
nstrated
relnol
:
officers by a
10 dead, whi
lynching.
who
mob, was shot and severely
Gooch,
f with the
wounae
(3) ‘
3.
—Azeronimo’s Indians have reap-
| peared near Calabarses, Arizona, and
| ten persons are reported to have been
| killed on ranches near that place. It
is sald that over thirty persons have
been led near Casita,
| Mexico, sent from
| both sides the
| BAvages,
ki ranches
Troops ha
of the
on
ve been
border after
—At Erie, Penna., on the §
Epbraim Lawson, before
shopping, lot h
The
he ch
others
ked her three
house can
tldren was
were
‘ 1 firetmne
Tal Lremen
ght
burn
fatally
suffered sey
By the
¢ in Tol
were smashed
ruined, and
hutters
gardens
killed,
-~A
E.
01
Nan wi
inane, o
od tald (3
pringaeiad, Uhl
AT
y, 18 said to
| victimized several firms in Philadelphia
recently, out of goods valued in the
aggregate at $1150. The man ol
# a ter oat
Aine
4 ¢ 4 «or 3 ath 4 +
the goods by piausibie stories,
jo :
| Co.. of 8
ave
~{seneral miles left Wilcox, Arizona
, for Chittenden, to conduct
campaign against In-
dians,. The Adjutant General at Wash-
ington, on 20th, received the
the 204
} oy ’ in " . 3 al Afi1 :
lowing telegram General Miles:
yn the 25th
$1 wad 11
the hostile
from
“The Apaches, in small numbers, have
in the country east and adjacent to the
Sonora Railroad, from 30 to 150 miles
i south of boundary, and to-day (April
27) kil man north of the line
near Calabassas, Arizona. Our
jand thirty men Mexican troops,
under Major Reis, have been in active
pursuit, both crossing the line and fol-
lowing raiding parties.”
~Forty Indians on the 20th attacked
| Richardson & Gormley’s ranch, twenty
miles southwest of Pantuno, Arizona,
and killed eight persons.
1 :
led one +
of
at Manchester, Tennessee, on the 26th,
iis not dead, as at first reported.
{ Though his condition is critical, it 1s
{ thought he has a chance of recovery,
In Duval counfy, Texas, last Monday
night, Deputy Sheriffs Coy and Ben-
ham killed two Mexican horse thieves
who were resisting arrest. This makes
five thieves Killed within ten days, At
the same time the deputies were kill-
ing the Mexicans on the 26th, Mexican
| vigilants were hunting for Coy in the
northern jy art of the county.
~The National Iron Bank of Potts.
| town, Pa., was on the 20th authorized
{to begin business with a capital of
i $200,000.
~A telegram from Rawlesburg,
West Virginia, says: “A mysterious
| and fatal disease has broken out in this
piace and physicians are powerless so
| far to save the lives of any attacked.
The victims are first seized with a se-
vere palin in the heal and are corpses
within twelve hours, After death the
bodies become spotted,
~~Two hundred deaths from yellow
fever were reported in” Rio Janeiro
from January 2d to February 18th.
~The river at Helena, Arkansas, on
the 20th, was 48 feet above low water
mark. It is reporied that two colored
men have been lynched near Friars
Point, Mississippi, for cutting the le-
vees,
Tel ms from New Orleans re.
port washouts on the Illinois Central,
the Northeastern, the Louisville, New
Orleans and ‘Texas, the Natchez,
Jackson and Columbus, and the Vicks-
burg and Meridian Railroads, impe-
ding the movement of trains,
~The Dank of Marietta, Ohio,
made an assignment on the 20th In
consequence of unfortunate real estate
| transactions, The deposits amount
to $100,000, which, it is thought, will
be pald in full.
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
BENATE.
——————————————
In the U,
| credentials of Washington C,
| thorne, appointed U, 8. Senator from
| Tennessee to fill the vacancy caused by
Mr. Jackson's resignation, were pres
| sented and Mr, Whitthorne sworn in.
{ Mr. Blair spoke at length in support of
| his proposed constitutional amendment
| prohibiting the manufacture or sale of
{ alcoholic liquors as beverages. The
| Inter-State Commerce bill was then
| taken up and debated by Messrs, Van
| Wyck and Stanford. Adjourned,
In the U
the Clerk of the Ohio House of Repre-
sentatives transmitting a transcript of
testimony taken by a committee of that
House and the report of the same come.
{of that House in connection with the
election of Hon. Henry B. Payne as
| United States Senator. After some
| remarks by Mr. Payne, in emphatic
denial of the charges, the matter was
{ referred to the Committee on Privi-
{leges and Elections. The bill appro-
priating $300,000 for the extension of
| the Executive Mansion was passed.
The Inter-State Commerce bill
i considered, pending which the Senate
and, when
ed, adjourned,
| went into executive session,
| the doors were reopen
In the U. ont Mr.
Morgan, by the direction of t
nittee on Foreign Relations, moved
bill to idemnify the (
{ Tor losses sustained by the riot at
Springs, Wyoming. Mr, Plumb urged
the prior claim to consideration of the
Post-office appropriation bill. The lat-
Simrad, :
5. Benate he 28th,
in the
€ Up sit
| How the Indians Decorated Them
selves for Battie-—~A Romantic
i Locality.
1 ———————
f ;
| romantic localities
i £8 8
vandal, civilization,
One of the most
which that great
the great State of Ohlo, lies along the
precipitous banks of Paint Creek and
Rocky Fork, about four miles from
Bainbridge, and near the dividing line
between Ross and Fayette counties,
Lofty hills, which the inhabitants of
the country dub mountains in their lo-
cal pride, rise proudly from the plains,
The celebrated Rocky Fork caves
the
tract crowds of tourists and sight-zeers
in the Paint
| “Paint,” as it is familiarly called, flows
| eycomb one of lurgest hills, at-
samimer, Ceeek, or
{| mantic and beautiful scenery in Ohio.
| In spring the sun shines in golden aplen-
{ dor on the forest-covered summits of
| the great hillsand on t
of “Paint” in autumn it
| verts the great forests into gorgeous
| variegated pyramids, and gives the for-
est depths the appearance of cathedral
aisles, through which the sunlight falls
| Minged with the scarlet and
ibid
plendor of the leaves.
Creek; con-
Fori
A few farm-houses, the Rocky
what is
{ Hotel, and a po form
1 x i ate gyi % a9 willae
| known in postal guides as the village of
*Paint.,” The vill
¢ of Paint fr
Gb q
fice
o ¢
“ :
o and creek en
ym the
laid aside, to enable Mr. Mitchell
address the Senate on a memorial
mitted the New York
Episcopal Conference, asking
tion for the Chinese in the
{ States, Mr, Mitchell recited the state-
of the memorial referred
which charged among things,
that Chinese subjects had
death in Oregon and the property of
{ Chinese subjects destroyed. He dened
any such thing had happened in Ore-
i gon, and he attributed the
hensions the subject t«
resentations of a certain newspaper ed-
itor in that
“disgruntled po
» bill was resumed,
the Senate went
sion, and hour
Lo
Lael
baw
wy ”
protec-
nt
nen
SLCHI
other
y Lh
y
Oil wid
»
i
iti
ill
ian.” The
Pending
into exec-
an afterwards
. 8, Senate on ti
vy Claiums'’
ling of 93 of it
The Post
+11 + 3
i WAS Gis
than
iit
Aske
vestigation of the accor a
Raliroads bill providing
for the payment » debts of those
roads, Messrs . of Ohio, and
| Cowles, of Ne i objected,
and resol
Bills were introduced by Mr. Springer,
of lllinois, to establish a Depariment
tof Labor, and to create a board for
arbitrat of controversies be-
tween labor and capital; and by Mr
Warner, of Ohio, regulate
cilic
thn
fan
the i051
to
River and
in Commities
of arbitration.” The
bor bili was resumed
{ the Whole,
{ the House adiourned
of
In the House on the 27th, the bill to
prevent aliens frora acquiring titles to
{or owning lands within the United
| States was reported adversely from the
| Judiciary Committee,
i and copyrights; from the Committee on
Military Affairs, authorizing the Pres-
nt
i
| ide
{ campaigns; from the Committee
of the proceeds of the sale of the pub-
lic lands and of all fees received at
general and district land ofices for ed-
ucational purposes; from the Commit-
tee on Ways and Means, to reduce the
number of internal revenue officers,
and to provide a better and more eco-
nomical administration of the internal
revenue laws, The River and Harbor
bill was discussed, pending which the
House adjourned.
In the House on the 28th, Mr.
Hatch, from the Committes on Agri.
culture, reported a bill defining butter
and imposing a tax upon and regulating
the manufacture, sale, exportation and
importation of oleomargarine. A bill
was passed changing the name of the
port of Lamberton to the port of Tren-
ton, in New Jersey. The River and
Harbor bill was considered in Commit-
tea of the Whole, pending which the
House adjourned,
In the House on the 20th, Mr. Lan-
ham, of Texas, from the Committee on
Coinage, reported a ll for the retire-
ment and recoinage of the trade dollars.
The bill for the appointment of a com-
mission of three to investigate the
truth of the alleged discovery of the
specific causes of yellow fever and of
preventing that disease by inoculation,
and to obtain all information possible
44 to the cause and prevention of that
disease, was considered in Committes
of the Whole. Pending action the com-
mittee rose and the bill resumed ita
place on the calendar, The River and
Harbor bill was resumed in Committee
of the Whole and considered until ad.
Jjournment.
A I MIMI 15s lob
A dinner lubricates business,
Without hearts there is no home,
ope. He has been Postmaster of Paint
fice since the war, and in the lit.
ery which he keeps in
the post-office he lives a placid
| service policy of Pr
seems to have cast
Mr. Hope,
§ - yf
lito
a] £
17osL-0
{ tle of
any
ai il
160
{ tion wi
wp
ile, asi
its
i dent Clevelan:
wolecting wing over and
little probabil
r at Paint.
ner of a little carpenter shop
Mr. Ho
}
3 HAS one
rt
§ On
D
& ever seen.
231
were gathere
E and ow
it, and are
i} 18 o5
the moth
Vie THELN00!
3) promine
mong the weapons ana t
The paint-stons
ig. and three incl
VOB ( of
place {or a string
sinew, by which it
belt by
was this hatchet
Mr. Hope pickix
“Do 3
{ he remarked, *
I will show you.’
He picked up a small saucer
out of granite, and rudely fash
the principle of an India
He filled the hollow of the saucer
water and then rubbed the
wn
3 attached to his
warriors, “What
for?” 1 asked
ig up one of the painted
il that a hatchet?”
‘look here a minute
he Indian
used
| stones, ou ca
and
ana
ioned on
ink saucer.
with
*‘hatchet.’’
a cal
in it as he would have done & of
In a few minutes he
had a teaspoonful of brilliant vernul-
| lion paint. Applying some of it to the
back of his band in stripes it proved to
a brilliant wvermillion dye,
{ bright enough to send the most dudical
Indian beau into raptures.
**This,” said Mr. Hope noting my
look of amazement, is an Indian paint
stone, "It was found in this country,
and is a remarkably fine specimen.
The Indians wera accustomed to tie the
paint stones to thetr belts by means of
gs, and always carried them to bat-
The wode of manufacturing them
watler-color paint.
flesh
| be
thon
tie.
was quite remarkable,
hunted up springs which contained ox
ide of fron. The iron in such springs
always floats on the top in the form of
a scum. This they would patiently
skim off the surface with a rude spoon,
used for the purpose. When they had
collected a sufficient amount of **skim-
added certain other substances, and
then moulded it into the hatchet shape
left by the lodians,
employed in doing the moulding is not
definitely known,
able for the amount of iron scum they
yielded, and this region was a favorite
resort for the Indians to make paint.
stones. This one gives a bright ver-
milion tint, but there are others which
give a bright yellow or a rich purple
tint. With these colors the Indian
braves could get themselves up in su.
perb style, They would rab the paint.
stone in water, in this stone saucer, and
then apply the stripes to their skin, di.
rectly, with the stone, The color
which it yields does not rub off, but re.
mains on the skin a long time. The
exact receipt which the Indians em-
ployed in Ing the paint-stones will
never bo Kiewn, but the principle of all
the coloring matter Is the oxide of
iron, This paint scum can often be
seen on the springs and streams in this
vicinity now, but alas! the children of
A ———
the forest, whose eyes it gladdened, are
gone forever,”
Mr, Hope's collection als
Indian arrow-heads, stone
| axes, pestles, mortars, and other Indian
antiquities,
Foraker was
raiged not many miles from Pant, and
Governor
Mr. Hope says that young Foraker has
| often sat on his counter when a boy and
drummed with his heels, in blissful ig=
norance that he would called
| upon to govern the great
ever be
State
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Ignorance of law excuses no one,
il
Economy is itself a great income,
How much the
the bride,
wile is dearer
We can have many wives,
one mother,
but
A sanctified heart is be
| Yer tongue,
De ever gentle with the cl
Fie
has given you.
ter than a sil-
(rod
Bpare when you are young and spend
| when you are old
He is a good man indeed who does
| all the good he talks of,
A man without dees
| Baud
1 Can never be
to belong to himself,
is possible for a man to
Tees
BO i
mind and know
GESLTOYR ONG 8
) nerves
to one human
The man who mounts
is invariably the one wh
pity when he falls,
3 good will
must not be surpri
him on the way.
Talents are best nurtured in
character is best formed in
lows of the world.
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iness of his wife;
naalf ag tha SHIT
» himself as wilt Al L
er all, the happi-
pom pon
ol always proportionate to
wuld be consulted be-
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{men
nd act afterwards as
There are treasures laid
heart--treasures of charity
perance and sobarness
a man takes with him
when he leaves this world.
Knowledge cannot be ac
it pain and application. It is trouble-
. and like deep digging for pur
walters; but, when you once come
er ¥ 1
+i how g SH RPL nd “Ye
the spring, they rise up and meet y«
80TH
A man seldom finds out that the
ble is not true until he discovers
his course of Life is condemned by
After that the Bible becomes a book
that will not bear the tests of the sc!
tific method.
The mind has a certain vegelalive
power, which cannot be wholly idle. If
it is not lald out and cultivated into a
{ beautiful garden, it will of itself shoot
up weeds or flowers of a wild growth
Wiity sayings are as easily lost as the
pearls slipping off a broken string; but
a word of kindn«ss is seldom spoken in
vifin. It isa seed which, even when
| dropped by chance, springs up a flower,
The happiness of your life depends
upon the quality of your thoughts;
| therefore guard accordingly, and take
| care that you entertain no notions un-
! suitable to virtue, and unreasonable to
| nature.
It is with nationsas with individuals,
| Those who know the least of others
| think the highest of themselves, for the
| whole ramily of pride and ignorance are
incestuous and eventually beget! each
| other,
Action hangs, as it were, **dissolved”’
in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is
| the shadows and precipitates itself there
| from. The kind of speech in a man
| betokens the kind of action you will get
from him,
Mind what you run after. Never be
| contented with a bubble that will burst,
nor with a firework that will end in
smoke and darkness, Gel that whicl
is worth keeping, and that you can keep.
No flower can blow in Paradise that
is not transplanted from Gethsemane; nc
one can taste of the fruit of the Tree of
Life that has not tasted of the fruit of
the Tree of Calvary.
Meanness and conceit are frequently
combined in the same character; for he
who to obtain transient applause can be
indifferent to truth and his own digni-
ty, will be as little scrupulous about
them if, subserviently, he can improve
his condition mn the world.
This seems to me & great truth, mn
any exile, or chaos whatsoever,
that sorrow was not given to us for
sorrows sake, but always, and .
bly, as a lesson to us, which ‘we
are to learn somewhat and which, the
somewhat once learned, ceases to be
HOTTOW.
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