The POTTER JOURNAL
AND
KTE WS ITEM.
COUDERSPORT. PA.. Aug. 20.1813
Tepublioan Ticket.
STATE TREASURER.
R. \V. MACKEY, of Pittsburgh.
JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT.
HON*. ISAAC G. GORDON,
of Jefferson County.
Repfe-fntaire Delegate.
C C COUNFoRTH. of MeXean County.
Senatorial Ik legate.
HUGH YOUNG, of Tioga County.
Ojontn Committee.
DAN BAKER, Chairman,
J M HAMILTON, Secretary,
G V Colvin C G Cashing
11L Nichols J M Kilbourne
R K Young
Vigilance Committees.
AX>ott—ChAs Meisner, Jos Schwartzenbach and
Chas Henschel , :
AUegany— David L Raymond, A G Presho and ;
W R Gardner ~ . T T
Bingham— l B Can-enter, A H Cobb and L J j
Thompson 1
Clara —J L Allen. Win Graves and W A Cole :
ChV'l' r<}e:rt—> F Hamilton. W X Jones and J
C Davidson „ . tnr ,
E.dalia- I-ewis A Glace. C Stearns and .T D Earl
Oene>ee— J C Cavanaugh. Win Baker and Josiah
Webster _ 1
Harrison — J I. Tlaynes, A A Swetland and W :
W Lawrence _ _
Hector— D W Havens, John Skutt and < yrus j
Sunderlin
Hebron— Wm Greenman, L M Coy and Geo Y> ,
Stillman , , „ . .
Homer— Levi S Quimby, Jacob Feet and V II :
Keatin"— GC Lewis, Henry Harris and Iliram -
BrM ges !
lencisrilie—f E Baker, Henry C Hosley and O R
Basse tt
Osvcayo—A S Lyman, J V Brown and W m L es
sendt-n * „ „
Pike —M Protity. SII Martin and i-vim 1 Brown !
Pleasant VaVey —Ernest N\ riglit, Lewis Lyman
and JK F Judkins ... , T , „ !
Porta<ie —Chas Voung, Clias Austin and Dan 1
Everett ... „ .
Jtoulet —M V Larrabee, Wm Tlazen and Chas
Barr . , r _
Sharon— N Parnienter, A A Newton and J S
Pearsoll „ _,
Steward*on —H Andresen, James Barton and Eu
Sum Rennells, James Reed and J L
Peirce , _ ,
Sweden—V. L White, Edwin Lyman and Joseph
Butler
Sylvania— Dutton Stiles, A R Jordan and G C
Rees , _ .
Ulysses —A F Raymond, J M Benton and B Jay
Gushing " t .
Branch— E Crippen, S W Conable and O
Wetmore
Wharton— l L Barclay, A R Burlingaine and
Sliafer Logue
Republican County Convention.
The Republicans of Potter County are request
ed to meet at their usual place of holding their j
General Election, on Tuesday, September 2,1573. |
Between tlie hours of 4 and ij p. in., to elect Dele
gates to represent tliem in County Convention to
l>e held at the Borough of Coudersport on Thurs
day, the 4th day of September next, at 2 o'clock,
p. hi., to put in nomination candidates to he vot
ed for at the October election, and to transact
suen other business as may come before the Con
vention.
The Vigilance Committees of the several town
ships ami boroughs are requested to give notice ;
of the time and place of holding the primary |
meetings and to attend them to organize and act |
as Boards of Election. The number of Delegates i
to l>e elected from the several townships and Ixv
roughs areas follows: Harrison6; Hebron and
Sharon, each 5; Bingham, Couderspm t and l lys
ses, each 4: Allegany, Kulalia, Genesee, Hector,
l.ewisville. Oswayo and Uoulet, each 3: Abbott,
Clara, Homer, Jackson, Keating, Pike, Pleasant
Valley. Portage, Stewardsoii, Summit, Sweden,
Kylvaida, West Branch and Wharton, each 2.
Announcements.
Er>. JOURNAL & ITEM.— Please announce the
nameol It. 1.. White* of Sweden township, as
a candidate for the office of County Commission
er—subject to the decision of Republican County
Convention.
Kt>. JOURNAL ft ITEM.— Please announce the
name of A. A. Swetland, of Harrison town
ship, as a candidate for County Cominisrioncr,
subject to the decision of the Republican County
Convention. liyu AJL.
THE way to break up rings, and
take the complete control of the se
lection of candidates, is for the peo
ple to attend the primary meetings,
and select for delegates such men as
they would confide in to atteiul to
other important business.
Attend faithfully to the primary
meetings, and all the others will be
well taken care ofyneglect them, and
you have no right to expect the ac
tion of the County Convention will
suit you.
♦ft is the faithful performance of
little duties, that marks the useful
ness of men and carries the world
forward.
The do-nothings arc usually grum
blers— grumbling being the only
thing they think it wortli while to
do. j
THE Republican State Convention
which met at Harrisburg on Thurs
day* of last week, was composed of
the very ablest and best men within
the limits of the Commonwealth.
We give elsewhere the result of their
assembling and an editorial of the
Philadelphia Press heartily endors
ing the ticket put in nomination, and
the resolutions adopted.
The I'ress , as most of our readers
know, made a malignant and inexcu
sable fight against the ticket nomi
nated last year. It is matter for
great rejoicing that we are to have
union and harmony in the present
contest. Republican principles and
the Republican party live in the
hearts of the people and mean union,
justice, prosperity.
WHEN the Constitutional Con
vention met last fall, people very
generally seemed to have an idea
that its work would be to revise the
old constitution rather than to form
an entirely new one. Whether or
not this would have been wiser than
the course they have pursued we are
not prepared to say, but if they were
influenced by the petitions, memori
als and other papers that were poured
in upon them during the early days
of the Convention, the wonder is not
that a new constitution of somewhat
superfluous length is being formed,
but that they have not loose material
enough laid away to form sixteen
more ol the same length.
"We have been looking through fhe
first volume of the debates of the
Convention, and the number and
character of the documents to which
we have referred make it more amus
ing reading than a book ot Mark
Twain's. Everything that could be
a subject of legislation is brought to
their notice and they are earnestly
prayed to fix them all up in the new
Constitution. On the 14th day ot
the Convention, the woman suffra
gists aie in with their paper. Short
ly after, we find the Citizens, Muni
ciple Reform Association of Philadel
phia presenting a long memorial in
cluding six clauses of Constitution
readv prepared, which cover three
closely printed pages of the vol
ume of debates, and so it goes on
day after day. One man got excited
by the doings of some enterprising
reporter of the press, and in a few
curt words asks the Convention to
pass a law prohibiting papers from
publishing the private bequests of
wills, unless by the consent ot the
! parties interested. Further along on
the 23d of January some association
l of mechanics petition to have the
' trades unions prevented from inter
fering about the number of appren
tices in any art, trade or mystery,
j They are going to have so much of
i the labor difficulty forever put at
; rest.
The right of petition is a sacred
privilege of American citizenship,
but its exercise sometimes makes us
think the theory of Darwin is correct
-what the members of the Convention
thought on this subject does not ap
pear. Their work as it is published
we think might be somewhat con
densed and trimmed of considerable
detail, and we hope to see something
of the kind done, but after reading
the debates we find ourselves admir
ing the Convention for producing so
brief and concise an instrument as it
now appears.
AUGUST hasgotachill at its heart,
has lost the light from its eye; has
only an occasional sinile which ends
in tears. In short August is not
near so August as we could wish.
Dark Days.
Is that a "local" subject? If so, so
much the worse for the locality, for
really last week seemed like a length
ened eclipse. Out of doors, away
from buildings and trees, one could
1 see to read or work, but anywhere
i that the least shadow fell all was
dim, dull, obscure—is there any
other word belonging to it? And
Monday of this week is like unto it.
Republican State Convention,
i he duly chosen delegates of the
Republican party of Pennsylvania
assembled in State Convention at
Ilarrisburg on Wednesday the 13th
1 inst.
This County had the honor of fur
nishing the permanent President, in
the person of one of our ablest men,
the HON. A. G. OLMSTED.
We take from the Philadelphia
Press the following account of his
introduction into the position of pre
siding officer;
Gen. Campbell and Rnsell Errett. by
apjointment, conducted to the chair the
president-elect, who was cordially wel
comed. and addressed the Convention.
His brief remarks were enthusiastically
applauded. He said:
Gentlemen of the Convention: I thank
you for the honor you have conferred
upon me in making me your presiding
officer on tliis occasion. Perhaps estab
lished custom requires that in entering
upon its duties I should discuss at some
leng' h the issues involved in the coming
contest. If so, then we will depart from
common usage for once. I will simply
remark, then, that I trust the action of
this Convention will be harmonious. A
full, free and uninterrupted opportuni
ty will l>e accorded to every delegate
to present whatever views he may enter
tain of candidates or public policy.
When all has been said and all lias been
done, the majority must govern, and as
earnest Republicans, as Republicans be
cause we believe in the policy and mea
sures of the Republican party, let us ac
quiesce in the verdict —whatever it may
be. -
I need not reiterate the history of the
Republican party, it has saved the
country from its deepest disgrace and
from all its foes. It lias written its prin
ciples upon the Constitution and the
laws of the country. It has stamped
tliein in the hearts of the American
l>eople—yea, in the very soil of the con
tinent—and it will continue to govern
the country it lias saved, although some
wearied by the march may have fallen
by the wayside.
On the first ballot for State Treas
urer the vote stood for
R. W. Mackey, 115 votes
Samuel Henry, 18 "
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Mackey's nomination was boister
ously applauded.
.Mac has made a good ollicer and
nearly everybody is in favor of his
re-election.
On the first ballot for a candidate
for Judge of the Supreme Court the
vote stood for
Hon. E. M. Paxson, 38 votes
" Wm. Butler, 42 "
" I. G. Gordon, 40 "
On the eleventh ballot Isaac G.
Gordon, of Jefferson County, re
ceived 77 votes and was declared
nominated. After which the follow
ing exhaustive and unexceptionable
PLATFORM
was adopted:
We, Republicans of Pennsylvania, in
convention assembled, renew our ex
pression of confidence in and devotion
to the principles of Republicanism, and
declare:
Ist. That we heartily endorse and re
adopt the Republican National and State
platforms of 1572.
2d. That the National administration
commands our continued confidence,
and is entitled, by its promotion of the
best interests and prosperity of the na
tion, to the earnest support of the people.
3d. That the administration of Gover
nor Hartrauft calls for our warmest ap
probation. During the short time he
has been in the Executive department
he has established a Suite policy which
has justly endeared him to the people of
this Commonwealth and lias amply just
ified the confidence we have placed in
him.
4th. That while earnestly in favor of
constitutional reform, and of such a re
vision of our State constitution as will
make it an effective instrument in pre
venting and punishing the corrupt abus
es that have crept in under the present
system, we demand emphatically and es-
IK'ciallv that, whatever is done or left
undone, the main purpose; for which the
Constitutional Convention was called
—the absolute prevention of special le
gislation—shall be so placed before the
people as to secure their separate and
decisive expression thereon.
sth. That the reduction of the State
debt from $41,000,000 to $26,000,000, the
repeal of all State taxes on real estate,
the establishment of schools for the sup
lort of soldiers' orphans, the mainte
nance of our excellent and prosperous
system of common schools and the es
tablishment of the policy of paying off
our debt at the rate of $2,000,000 a year,
together with the generally flourishing
condition of our prosperous old Com
monwealth, are evidences that the Re
publicans, during their twelve years'con
trol in Pennsylvania, have faithfully ad
ministered her affairs and the reins of
government may lie safely left in their
hands.
(Ith. That there should be rigid econo
my in the State and National adminis
trations, and the taxes should be reduced
in both JIS rapidly sis is consistent with
good management, the maintenance of
the public credit and certain extinguish
ment of the State and National debts.
7th. That the public lands belong to
the ]>eople and should VKJ sacredly re
served for homes for actual settlers and
we pronounce against all further grants
of these lands to corporations.
Bth. That adequate provision should
be made by law for tire protection of
persons employed in mining and other
hazardous forms of labor.
9th. That retrenchment is required
to lighten the burden of taxation, and
to continue the reduction of the public
debt, an increase of salaries is unwise,
and we condemn, without reserve, vot
ing for or receiving increased pay for
services already rendered, whether in
State or Nation, and demand that the
provisions of the late act of Congress,
by which the salaries were increased,
should promptly and unconditionally be
repealed.
10th. That we heartily denounce cor
ruption wherever found and are sincere
ly desirous for honest economy and po
litical purity in all ollicial administra
tions. To secure this is the'duty of
every citizen, and to this end every good
man should feel bound not only to par
ticipate in politics but to labor actively
to see that none but good men secure
party appointments or nominations.
11th. That the practice of loading the
appropriation bill, essential to the suit
port of the Government, with objection
able legislation in the shape of amend
ments, towards the close of the session,
is a prolific source of abuse and a fraud
upon the people, and its reform is ur
gently demanded.
12th. That, as the country and home
industry have both uniformly prospered
under a tariff so arranged as to afford
both revenue and protection, the pres
ent tariff should be left undisturbed,
and as all tariffs are levied primari
ly for revenue, it would be a poor gov
ernment indeed which could not af
ford to arrange its details so as to en
courage the growth of home manufac
tures and the creation of a remunera
tive home market for all the products
of our soil.
13th. That order and security in the
States lately in rebellion must come
through the stern enforcement of laws
enacted to protect life, liberty and the
freedom of thought, and cannot l>c se
cured by rendering these just and nec
essary laws inoperative through Execu
tive clemency to unrepentant assassins
now undergoing punishment in pursu
ance of law.
14th. That as during the time the
Republican party has been in power it
has had to confront graver dillieulties
and more new and perplexing questions
of government than ever were presented
to any other party to solve, and has
solved them so judiciously and wisely
that the country endorses its decisions
and accepts the work, it is the only or
ganization competent to so meet the
grave issues that are now constantly
arising as to secure the ju3t rights of
the {icople.
lotli. That we sympathize with every
movement to secure for agriculture and
labor, their due inthience, interest and
rights, and the Republican party will
be their ally in every just effort to at
tain their ends.
THE CONVENTION.
.
The Republican State Convention 1
* # I
met at Ilarrisburg yesterday, with a ,
full representation of every county, j
The proceedings were animated, but
orderly, and at the close there was
entire harmony and good feeling be
tween the partisans of the successful
and defeated candidates. As had
been anticipated for months previous
ly, Mr. R. W. Mackey was nominat
ed for the State Treasurership, an
office he has held four terms by Leg
islative election. The Supreme J udge
ship was the only place for which
there was a struggle. The rival as
pirants were a trio of distinguished
and able jurists, the selection of any
one of whom would have been accep
table to the party at large. The
nomination fell upon the Hon. Isaac
Gordon, of Jefferson, formerly the
presiding judge of the Venango dis
trict, and a gentleman of rare legal
attainments and of the purest char
acter. llis competitors, Judges I'ax
! son, of Philadelphia, and Butler, of
Chester, are men of equal ability
and integrity, but the western part
of the State was permitted to carry
off the prize. He will have no firm
er supporters than those two gentle
men and their loyal adherents in the
convention.
The loyal platform adopted will
I meet with the unqualified approval
oi every Republican in the State.
We give it our entire sanction. The
resolutions, while dignified and mod
erate, are fully abreast of the times,
1 and meet every new issue promptly
and candidly. This part of the work
;of the convention could not have
i been better done. It is seldom that
I such a body is so outspoken in its
utterances, and at the same time so
judicious in its language. The reso
, lutions embody a progressive and re
| form policy worthy of a great party,
1 proud of its mission, and able to
j prove its claims to popular confidence
| by its record. Differences about men
1 are natural, but harmony in principle
is the evidence of wholesome and
successful administration.— Ph iladel
: ph ia Press.
Means to Ends.
Much of our time has run to waste,
much determined, faithful effort has
been fruitless from the days of Simple
Simon unto these present, for lack
of finding the proper means to the
ends we desire; we were listening
to-day to a discussion of the difficul
ties encountered by those who pro
duce the necessaries of life, in win
ning the substantial rewards that
ought to belong to them and of the
Granges and other combinations to
resist the injurious requirements of
those who live and work and act be
tween the two kindred classes of pro
ducers and consumers. Every one
admitted that there was great wrong
somewhere, and every one doubted
whether any means yet known could
set things right, and the only con
clusion was that every kind of busi
ness should be carried on together
so that they could consume each
other's products and there need be no
carrying away. But this seems hard
ly in accordance with nature, for one
part of the county has adaptation for
one branch of industry and one for
another and there seems to be need of
wise, well-arranged, cheap currents of
transfer. Pocs it not seem plain that
government should see that the ways
of communication should be open
and cheap.
These things remind us of the
; many little gleams of brightness that
; arc llceting about in the papers—
things which for a moment give eom
! fort and encouragement to feeble
1 ones looking for straws to keep
themselves afloat with on the current
'of life. One tells of the profit of
accruing from keeping bees, a good,
easy and valuable business for a
woman or a ieeble man and very re
munerative. Yes, but is there sale
for the wax and the honey ? I f smart
enterprising farmers within thirty
miles of a city can get but twenty
five cents per pound for butter which
brings in the city forty cents, how can
people in the far interioi hope to sell
effectually what they produce. There
are so many who buy and sell, so
many who live only by transferring
and who must get rich. Then there
is a story of a widow who made a
good business of making raspberry
jam which she sold in a neighboring
city. Yet wc are told by people who
are familiar with business that it is
cheaper to buy jams and jellies made
in great establishments in those same
cities than it is to make them at
home.
Perhaps it is well to be prevented
by wise friends from trying any of
these schemes. There are many of
them whose delusive brightness is
set before us, but many are in such
earnest need of occupation by \\ hich
a living can be obtained, in spite of
feeble health or care of children or
invalids, that every mean must be
tried; meanwhile if any one does
succeed, his example is a beacon
light that should be made to shine
I so that all can see.
"ROUGHING it? I know what that
is. I roughed it up among the Adi
rondacks. Why, we were three days
that we did not see a newspaper nor
get a letter from anybody!"
INVALID.
In the bright summer days when
the world is all alive with growth
and work and enjoyment, comes the
true burden of sickness. In the
autumn when Nature herself seems
sick, when leaves fade and flowers
are cut eft* by icy winds, when storms
rage and the beauty of the summer
time has passed away, it seems a
litter time to be ill, to cower in close
rooms away from the air and the
sunlight. Pain is just as bad then,
perhaps generally worse; but it
seems so in keeping with everything
else that we almost expect to be ill
and to sec others so. Then in the
early spring when everything is but
just trying to grow; when the soft
airs often change to fine gusts, and
even the fair sunshine looks delicate
and fragile, one can hardly look for
robust, bounding health. We can
only hope it may come with the ro
bust weather.
But when that comes and fever
seizes us, and we burn and rave and
groan through the heats of the day
with a heat greater than the day's,
or when a chronic ailment gets no
better, and we are held prisoners
alike at noon tide or night time; or
a wasting debility re ts upon us,
loosening our hands from all the
world's activities, our minds from its
companionship, our heart and hope
from its sympathies, there is then a
feeling of incongruity as well as
pain; a sense of being more than
usually ajar, that increases all our
suffering. Philip Slingsbv said "It
is perhaps too much to ask that any
heart should go scatheless to the"
grave, but in my unworthy petitions
I always supplicate that my heart
may be broken about Christmas. I.
know an anodyne of that season.''
So, we, if permitted to choose when
our trouble should come, our helpless
trouble, would hope it might not lie
in the summer.
PEHFIELP, Clearfield Co.. Pa., Avn. P. 1573.
ED. JOURNAL: Your paper is very
welcome in its weekly visits, for we
look with interest to the local news
from the County where over seven
! teen years of my life were spent.
' My beloved mother lies buried in
,
! the cemetery below Coudersport.
Many very dear personal friends
still live in your County, many have
died before and since I left, and oth
ers have gone to other places. My
; pleasant labors in tiie Coudersport
; Sunday School in 1854-55 are never
to be forgotten, with their bright
' and friendly associations.
The delightful christian fellowship
formed at Raymond's Corners is
treasured as among the dearest of
my life. How many of these dear
ones Have gone to their reward—l
°
need not mention them—most of
your Potter County readers know
the Preslios, Rontons and good Col.
Whipple.
We are permitted to be instrumen
tal in building up a Presbyterian So
ciety and Church in this wilderness
region. At our Fair last Christmas
we received material aid through a
I friend in Coudersport and we would
i be very glad to receive some articles
for our coming Fair, Jan. 1, IST4.
Have we not friends indifferent parts
of the County who can send us a
; lew articles that we can sell. A
J lamp mat, a pair of socks, a good
shirt, a pair of pulse-warmers, a pair
of woolen leggins—any useful or fan
cy article. Should there be any who
will aid lis in this way, or by cash
gift, they may be sent to Miss C. A.
Metzger, of Coudersport. Every
dollar we raise goes to pay for a
church bell or for furnishing the
church inside. Pried blackberries
would find a ready sale. A little
from a good many persons would ag
gregate a good deal for us.
Our R. R. is in running order,
with a daily train twenty miles from
Driftwood, and from the west it is
four miles past Rcynoldsville and
will be to the tunnel in two weeks.
An engine will be run through, and
track-laying will continue from the
west down to the big cut at Weed
ville by the time that is through, and
we expect the road to be oi>on by
Jan. 1, 1874, L. BIRD.
HAMMEIISLET FORK, PA., Any. 9,1573.
ED. JOURNAL—I saw in your pa
per an article on snake-killing that
is nothing to the way they do things j
down in Clinton. Kib. Nelson and
Ed. Fish, with others, went down
the creek one night last week eeling.'
and during the night they went to
raise their out-lines, when a few rods
from the lamp Mr. Snake sung out.
They whipped him to death in his
lair. On going a few steps further
another one gave alarm, which meas
! ured four feet, and also the third one
before reaching the creek. They
caught thirty eels, three white chubs,
and killed three snakes in one night.
M. A. NELSON.
P. S. If you choose, insert this, if
not, light your cigar.
[We beg to le excused not only
from lighting but having a cigar. If
that were to be the penalty for re
jecting a contribution, we would
, print almost anything.— En.]
i
For the Journal & Item.
"When I was a child I thought as
! a child, I understood as a child, but
when I became a man I put away
childish tilings." Did I? Let me
see. A good deal of childishness
1 clings to most men. very few put
it away, very few but would be bet
j ter if the} - put away less, or at least
retained more of thought of. and
sympathy with the trials and ditfi
eulties that crowd upon and beset the
little ones among whom we all stood
but a little time ago.
So little a time and yet we forget
the keen feelings, the joys, the grief,
the sting of wrong at unmerited re
buke or check: the jealous loving
and the nervous excitability that he
long to so many of the little ones,
i and so we:f away lit di and strength.
A loving little heart may be a very
restless and turbulent one: a very
loving mother or father may speak
thoughtless, harsh words that chill
and pervert the best tendencies, the
finest qualities, and send the blood
back upon the earnest little heart,
in away that, oft repeated, weakens
the fountains of health—and ex
hausts what strength there is.
We know that for ourselves, through
the mind and heart the body is af
fected, with women and children the
affections rule the life; yet we for
get this We give bitter medicine to
cure what gentle kindness would
have prevented. We work ourselves
into a state of exhaustion with busi
ness or house keeping cares, 'the
needed providing and caretaking of
the little ones, and in our weariness
we grow impatient and rough. Child
ren are of course all the more restless
and troublesome.
:
I remember, for one, being an ex
ceedingly disagreeable child, suffer
ing as such children must, innumer
able crosses and restraints, and hav
ing an Ishmacl feeling towards every
body. After some years it came to
me that 1 ought to stop teasing to go
somewhere or do something all the
time. J set myself to look for pleas
ure at home, to find some little treat
as often as possible, to keep my
thoughts busy. One day it was to
to hold the horse and let it feed in
the front yard. Another to go to
tlie orchard for the first picking of
apples. Almost every day there was
something that brightened my first
waking, and cheered every hour of
"doing chores." I was very fortu
nate, too, for the tilings came. If
the pony's grazing had been forgot
ten or the privilege of holding him
been given to another or some new
resolution taken about pies that day,
it would have been a grievous disap
pointment, ridiculously so in older
eyes; I should have fretted perhaps,
and been scolded, then "answered
back" and been threatened with pun
ishment—a threat being always
worse to me than any other punish
ment. Thus 1 should have lost the
great effort 1 was making. Too of
ten have I seen this done—this bit
ter discouragement, when a child
was trying hard against a besetting
sin. It is strange that we who find
besetting sins so troublesome to
our strongest days should not be
more mindful of those who are just
beginning to learn the great lesson
of life.
J]veil now, with all my garnered
memories, and crowned with gray
hair, few are the days that I do not
make the burdens of the little ones
more hard to bear, or chafe or fret
them into some naughtiness by care
less word or thoughtless act. So
long it takes to learn.
A good mother said to me once.
"We are too apt to reprove a child for
whatever gives s tr
thinking whether thh„
itself. ' s: '
Brethren and sisters',
be more just to dear 1-"
who are given to us to p.
train.
■ ——.
For the Jo,
SELFISHNESS is a lw avs ;
—well, to say the least."i t J
sidered a virtue.
A man or wo*nan who i
things from selfish m '
considered a good nu- K ;.
ciety.
Yet, Mr. Editor,! am*,
that nearly all the sem U; ,
either appeal to our f nr 'i
ishness.
For instance a sermon-,
either Heaven or hell Co
son who dies and then t<\
! we must do to in- saved.
Now, Mr. Editor. I t
i person who does these th
j purpose of being saved. i>
by which he will not b-.
I do not think Christ wj;
to him who would a.
they were not afraid of \\ t
do I think He will taker
who come from the sdlis!.-
saving themselves, not
becomes of the res' oftl
I heard this question
a pulpit not long ego.
"What is yonr great -
: in this world?" and tl
wered in this manner:
faction of knowing that*
! are recorded in Heaven -
will IK; saved."
Now I do not b( lievet:
j lieve that a Christian's -
' joyment in this life is i:
, without thinking whet
go to Heaven for doin? -
I do not believe self lon
[ get any person to Ifeav.r.
person must l ive I'hrk
neighbor as himself. Itg.
WE agree with our i 6.
proposition hut want t
. words about the selfi-:
I course only by being savei
j sins, among which on,-. j[
; greatest, is selfishness, cc'.:
to the state last spoken d.
When Chicago was burnt
we have thought it set.'.-:
man to do his utmost tosat
house ?
In a railroad disaster u
are mangled and crushed,
be christian for one to!
die because he must gets
before he could help otho
II you say to a iuan"l
that, it is poison." is lie ■
train, or "Do not go :
swim, or do not invest
that business for it ii'
is he selfish if he wisely::
advice?
It seems to u- that tin
selfish which seeks ono
at the expense of another
; which puts in ap< -'
and benefit the world.
CCtiDEBSPSf
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i U ililil Jj jj iJUJI
J ANNOUNCEMENT FOK 1 -
OF 1-73 4.
| The Directors, ha vin* -'"
I CLAVA A. SIX •- s v
: male College, wltli v - f .
er (i 1 the Intern
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successful teacher- < -';
fip-l in calttr.g the no '' : •
to the - <>t ih> -
FALL TERM COMMENCE* " I
WIN!EK I
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TUITION, pc 0 |
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INTERMEDIATE. • I
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\ '• . K
B
prepare themsi HE
ers who wish to post up
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D. C. LAHUABEK.
Secretary.
August 6, 1873-tf
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j ornamdj
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